A record 28 CIO bodyguards have been suspended from work over Mugabe’s embarrassing fall last Wednesday.
Sources within the intelligence organisation reveal that the security men are being probed for either causing or at the least allowing Mr Mugabe to fall on himself.
The guards could even be charged for allowing the incident to occur, another source said.
“They could be charged for remaining immobilised as His Excellency tripped and fell …” they said.
The full list of names of the suspended could not be ascertained at the time of writing.
Mugabe after returning from Ethiopia on Wednesday fell after descending a staircase just after addressing people at the Harare International Airport. He had been addressing people bussed in from Harare’s High Density surbubs brought in to welcome and celebrate his elevation at the African Union summit.
The incident has seen several people blamed for it including expelled Vice President Joice Mujuru’s faction the State Media claimed supplied the carpet on which Mugabe landed his feet on Wednesday. READ MORE – Mujuru Faction Caused Airport Fall – Herald Editor

What a wonderful wedding in Rusape – people are now using donkeys and carts as a source of wedding transport.

Presidential heir apparent Emmerson Mnangagwa’s faction has muted a record three criminal charges against ousted Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa, which may land Mutasa in prison in a matter of days.
The dramatic bill of charges include allegations that Mutasa,a Mujuru ally, looted $200,000 from a community project in Manicaland. He is also accused of dishing out farms to said “girlfriends”. It was claimed that one of the charges has been in the courts since 2004, but beyond a verbal claim by a ZANU PF militant, there was no evidence presented of supporting court papers to validate those claims. The below was the article by the Jonathan Moyo run State Media:

Disgraced former Presidential Affairs Minister Didymus Mutasa allegedly looted development funds and assets of two schools in Nyanga, and converted the money to personal use.
The case is before the courts and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has opened its own investigations.
Nyafaru primary and secondary schools were constructed after independence on land President Mugabe gave the Tangwena people in appreciation for their help when he crossed into Mozambique in 1975 to prosecute the liberation struggle.
Mutasa is the director of Nyafaru Development Company (NDC) which oversees the running of the schools.
He and NDC chair Pearson Kasu allegedly grabbed four vehicles, including an ambulance, donated to the community.
Mutasa, it is alleged, also took at least 400 head of cattle from the Tangwena people and has over the years tried to take over their land.
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora said: “The matter is before the courts. We cannot, at the moment, give the exact amounts that are alleged to have been looted. However, a report will be complete in the coming week.”
Nyafaru Secondary School Development Committee legal representative Mr Amon Toto said the case has been in the courts since 2004.
He alleges that Mutasa interfered with the school’s financial administration and took money for personal expenses.
In papers filed at the High Court, the school development committee wants Mutasa and his company barred from interfering further.
NDC, the Ministry of Education and Mutasa are respondents.
The papers read, in part, “On the other hand, the first respondent (NDC) through its officials have done everything in their power to derail development of the school including vandalising the school property through the thugs that they have been sponsoring.
“Establishing a bar selling alcohol within the premises of the school. In one instance, 72 window panes were broken by one of the agents of the officials of the first respondent.
“Despite the resolution of September 16, 2004, the first and third (Mutasa) respondents have been trying to disturb the smooth operations of the two schools in various ways.”
SDC chair Mr Nhamo Nyagondora said Mutasa and Kasu allegedly took 20 percent of school funds intermittently.
“We have since dragged Cde Mutasa to the courts so that NDC will be excluded from handling the schools’ affairs.
‘‘Cde Mutasa and his company are failing to explain to us the whereabouts of a tractor, an ambulance, two Land-Rovers and a five-tonne truck.
“He is also failing to account for the 400 cattle.
‘‘We are urging the relevant authorities to intervene so that Cde Mutasa is removed from being part of the Tangwena community. We have since told education officers that were dispatched from Harare how the NDC management was siphoning school funds for their personal use. We have failed to construct two classrooms as a result of this interference.”
Manicaland Provincial Affairs Minister Mandi Chimene said: “We have met representatives from the Tangwena community who alleged that Cde Mutasa and his team were taking school funds for their personal use.
“Our office is going to visit the Nyafaru community and carry out an audit with the aid of education officers so that we establish the exact amount of money that is alleged to have been looted by the parties involved.”

The risk of President Robert Mugabe’s flights being compromised  by an unexpected plane accident has risen to more than 85%.
An aviation-watch consortium has drawn up statistics showing a sharp ascending rise in plane crash risk to levels worse than 65 years ago in 1950 when aviation technology was still primitive.
This has become so especially for those who fly across Asian skies where President Mugabe frequents for medical treatment.
“Aircraft passing through Asian airspace must take utmost precaution as the risk has risen to 90%”, said David Cohen, of the AVS organisation.

The highest ever number of fatalities was in 1972. In 1950 the number was lower than 700, but in 2014, it went past the 50 marker.
 
Cohen however added that the risk is now high for flights to Asian countries like Malaysia and Singapore where President Mugabe flies, “Pilots should research well every time before taking into the skies for the number of danger spots in the oceanic territories has risen.”

[codepeople-html5-media-player id=1] Zanu PF youths yesterday staged a demonstration at the Mbudzi roundabout in Harare after a party supporter was allegedly killed by a kombi crew on Wednesday.
Blaring car horns, the supporters invaded the roundabout singing revolutionary songs and threatening kombis.
Godwin Gomwe, Zanu PF Harare youth chair, said kombi crews should treat passengers with respect.
“Kombi crews should know that they are ferrying passengers and not sacks of maize,” Gomwe fumed.
“So they must respect passengers and treat them in a dignified manner because they are the source of their income.
“What happened is a tragedy and as a party, we lost a dedicated cadre.”
Zanu PF Harare youth league vice chair Edson Takataka blamed the police for kombis’ wayward behaviour.
“This must come to an end,” he said. “We are not just talking about our deceased cadre only, but all those who have suffered at the hands of these reckless and careless people.
“Police should do their work and enforce the law. We are having all these problems because our law enforcement agencies are sleeping on duty.”
Tapiwa Chibvunza, Zanu PF secretary for administration for Ushewokunze district, was allegedly killed on Wednesday by a kombi driver and a conductor. He was travelling from Harare International Airport to Hopley.
The kombi had been hired to ferry Zanu PF supporters to the airport to welcome President Robert Mugabe and on their way back to Hopley, a dispute between Zanu PF supporters and the kombi crew erupted.
This led to the kombi crew allegedly fatally beating Chibvunza with an iron bar.

Controversial ZANU PF legislator Temba Mliswa abused President Robert Mugabe’s name to illegally grab businessman Paul Westwood’s  company. Westwood today writes to President Mugabe reminding him to take action on Mliswa for this.
 
 – His Excellency President Mugabe; Take Action On Temba Mliswa – 
This is very important as Temba Mliswa wrongfully and illegally seized my company on December 18 2009 claiming he had “authorisation” from his Excellency.
I know this is not true and you DO NOT like people using your name in vain for self gain.
My MP wrote to you and I humbly ask for your divine intervention Gushungo. Zimbabwe needs FDI and what happened to me was wrong, immoral, and illegal. My partner was a Pastor from the church and his wife was running the finance department. I called for a forensic audit which is why Temba Peter Mliswa was called in. They claim a “Banda Trust” was formed, but as of February 2010 no “Banda Trust” ever existed! Mliswa threatened to rape my wife and kidnap my 2 boys (who are Catholic) and threatened me with death.
Minister Didymus Mutasa has distanced himself from his own nephew as he knows the type of character he is. The whole world know my story.
I know you DO NOT stand for corruption and illegal activities so I humbly ask and pray I receive compensation from Temba Mliswa.
My company was Zimbabwe’s Number One Choice in manufacturing and Mliswa destroyed it over night. Some workers had been there from the time of it’s inception in the 90’s. New potential investors want to believe the same thing will not happen to them so Temba Mliswa must be held accountable for his own actions for what he did. This is not about race, or the West but about an investment which I made in good faith in Zimbabwe and created employment only to lose the entire lot to Temba’s personal greed.
I sincerely ask that as a man of God and President your wisdom and knowledge is applied here and hope and pray you help my family and I.
Paul Westwood

AILING President Robert Mugabe can be removed from power quietly anytime from now after it emerged parliamentarians have super powers to vote to unseat him. This emerged as appetite grew from within ZANU PF to give him a rest and avoid any further abuse of Zimbabwe’s liberation icon.
Not only can parliament do this but any Zimbabwean citizen can approach the High Court who can session even at the weekend to rule on Mugabe’s capacity to lead the country.
This came as opposition MPs began warming up to possible unity with disgruntled Zanu PF MPs in a move aimed at impeaching President Robert Mugabe who they argue is now incapacitated and unable to continue at the helm given his advanced age and ill-health.
The move, according to MPs interviewed yesterday, was now necessary particularly coming after Mugabe fell at Harare International Airport upon arrival from Addis Ababa where he was made Africa Union chairman.
MDC Renewal Team spokesperson Jacob Mafume said it was now the duty of current MPs to consider the move and ensure Mugabe is “saved” from the “abuse” by Zanu PF for wanting to keep him in power at that age.“I do believe we have maintained that State House is not an old people’s home and we should find other places to accommodate him and if Parliament is toothless in that regard, someone can approach the High Court to seek that Mugabe be checked medically if he is still fit to be on the job,” Mafume said.
“We see now there has been lapse in concentration on his part and we should understand that old age is illness humanity can’t cure.”Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya said given immediate past experiences where Mugabe’s lapse in concentration has been exposed, this could be the time for Parliament to act.Chikwinya’s argument was raised from three separate instances where the President showed signs of old age and lapse in concentration observers attributed to old age.
The first one was when Mugabe said Tsvangirai won the 2008 elections by 73% while addressing war veterans in Harare during the December Zanu PF congress.He also chanted “pasi neZanu PF” during the Zanu congress just after revealing that the First Lady Grace, was now controlling him even at home.
The debate was also ignited earlier this year with fears expressed by Mashonaland Central Zanu PF chairman Dickson Mafios whosaid that all MPs aligned to fired former Vice-President Mujuru should be recalled from Parliament amid fears they would gang up with opposition counterparts to impeach Mugabe.
“There are also rumours that they want to impeach President Mugabe if they unite with the MDC-T. So, right now we are not sure if their allegiance is towards the President and how loyal they are to government,” he said.The MDC-T has 91 seats in House of Assembly and Senate while Zanu PF has 234. But Zanu PF fears that more than 100 of its PF MPs were aligned to Mujuru and could form an alliance with MDC formations. Newsday/additional reporting.

A man was attacked by a leopard and escaped with severe injuries while he was searching for donkeys in a bushy area. Gift Moyo,24 from Dombodema area in Bulilima said the animal surprisingly pounced on him from a tree on Wednesday at around 7AM.
His seven dogs came to his rescue as they fought and drove the leopard away before the big spotted cat could cause more damage. Moyo was alone in the forest and was left bleeding from his wounds,but he managed to walk back home resting several times on the way.
He described how the animal scratched him with its paws on the head and then sunk its teeth into his left arm.
Moyo said despite the agonizing pain, he held onto the leopard’s paw and grabbed its ear in a bid to stop the vicious animal.
“I left home on Wednesday morning and headed for Sibantubanye Farm which is about 10 kilometres away in search of my donkeys.
Along the way, my seven dogs which were ahead of me started barking and growling. When Icaught up with them I could not see anything as the path was clear,” said Moyo.
He continued with his journey and after walking a few metres he heard a tree branch snap above his head.
Moyo said he then heard a growl and he was searching for the source of the strange sound, the leopard jumped to the ground.
“I was shocked and before I could recover, the leopard jumped onto my head and scratched me,grabbed me by the left arm and I fell down. The animal maintained its grip,” said Moyo.
He said he held onto the leopard’s ear and left paw as the animal continued to growl while trying to reach for his neck.
Moyo said his dogs rushed to his help and attacked the animal which quickly fled from the scene.
He said he remained on the ground for a couple of minutes as he was bleeding.
“I was in much pain but I knew that I had to get up and go back home. I staggered towards a nearby stream and washed some of the blood off my body to avoid attracting other wild animals.
I struggled to get home because I had to walk about 10 kilometres. On the way, I would stop to rest under tree shades occasionally because of the pain,” said Moyo.
Moyo was rushed to Dombodema Clinic where his wounds were sutured,and he said his two fingers were still numb as a result of the attack.
The village head, Bowel Sibanda said incidents of animal attacks on humans were not common in the area but there were isolated cases of attacks on livestock.
“People are still shocked by the incident but we hope that we will not experience a similar case again. We have advised people to exercise caution while travelling through bushy areas,” Sibanda said.

Things seens to be falling apart for ZIFA president Cuthbert Dube who suffered yet another humiliation yesterday when his personal property worth about US$281 000 was attached over a debt in which he offered himself as guarantor in a matter where the association owes Pandhari Lodge hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The country’s under-fire football controlling body enjoyed the hospitality and services at Pandhari Lodge in Harare between February 2 and September 30, 2013, but did not settle the debt.
Dube then undertook to settle the debt, hence his citation in court proceedings as a defendant.
The Sheriff of Zimbabwe, Mcdoff Madhega, yesterday morning stormed Dube’s double-storey Groombridge mansion with a fleet of trucks to ferry movable property, but removal was temporarily halted after the ZIFA president’s lawyers sought extension of repayment period by 10 days.
There was drama at Number 7 Crighton Road, in Groombridge, as the security guards at Dube’s mansion house locked up the gate to bar the Sheriff from entering the premises.
Madhega’s team then parked a seven-tonne truck in front of the gate to make sure no vehicles or any other property would be moved out of the premises.
The Sheriff called a locksmith to assist his team to forcibly break into the yard but a woman, believed to be Dube’s wife, arrived with the news of the lawyers’ request.
Madhega and his two officers entered the premises to meet Dube who had locked himself inside to prevent the removal of the property. They spent more than an hour inside the premises before coming out to call off the mission.
The property attached include five vehicles:
Toyota Land Cruiser (AAD 1368)
Land Rover Discovery (AAQ 3270)
Mercedes Benz S600 (ACO 0649)
Mercedes Benz ML (AAC 1979)
Mini Cooper (ACM 2807)
The sheriff also attached household property including:
5 x refrigerators
5 x plasma television sets
6x sets of leather sofas
1x black massaging chair
kitchen tables and chairs
dish washers
microwaves and many others
The property was attached on the strength of a court order issued by Justice Lavender Makoni on January 21 this year.
The order reads:
“It is ordered that the application for summary judgment be and is hereby granted. The respondents (ZIFA and Dr Dube) shall pay to the applicant (Pandhari Lodge), jointly or severally the one paying the other, to be absolved the sum of US$268 435,57 together with interest at the prescribed rate of 5 percent per annum from the date of summons (October 24, 2013) to the date of full and final payment . . .”
The Herald had sight of a copy of the letter from Scanlen and Holderness that sought the postponement of the removal of property.
The lawyers stated that Dube had negotiated with Pandhari Lodge for an extension of the period in which money should be raised to clear the debt.
“The debtor has negotiated for a longer period of payment with the creditor.
“Accordingly, we have instructions to request that you (sheriff) postpone removal of the goods attached for a period of 10 days to enable the debtor to settle, failing which you may proceed with removal,” reads part of the letter.
ZIFA chief executive, Jonathan Mashingaidze, also appeared at Dube’s house yesterday in a Nissan Bluebird Sylphy, but refused to talk to the media.
Dube, through his security team, also refused to entertain the journalists preferring to talk on the phone but he was unreachable.
The ZIFA president has come under increasing pressure, in recent weeks, to quit with a number of stakeholders concerned that the game has not gained in value since he took over as the leader of domestic football.
This week, former Premier Soccer League chairman, Tapiwa Matangaidze, who is now the MP (Zanu-PF) for Shurugwi South constituency, issued a chilling warning that there was a danger ZIFA could be liquidated. He was also very critical of the way Dube has been running domestic football for the past five years.
“The media has been at pains chronicling ZIFA and Cuthbert Dube’s recorded failure in running our football,” Matangaidze wrote in a piece published in The Herald.
“The football people which Dube is quoted as choosing to call ‘people of the streets’, have in unison called for his graceful resignation.
“What is not in dispute, and can never be, is that — under his stewardship — Zimbabwean football has sunk to an all-time low.
“Do I hear somebody saying ‘Thank you but no thank you to Mr Dube?’
“The so-called ‘people from the street’ hope that one day sanity will prevail and ZIFA will turn a new leaf.
“ZIFA, with a debt overhang of $6 million, is insolvent. Recently we have read of attempts to spin the figure to US$4 million. Regardless, the Association is insolvent.
ZIFA’s continued financial transactions with other organisations, and companies in this country, clearly exposes those firms and entities.
However,should one,two or several of ZIFA’s creditos call for its liquidation,and the appointmentof a judicial manager in the interim,surely this can never be misconstrued to be government intervention.
ZIFA’s creditors have a right at law to be protected by the country’s judiciary system.
The creditors gave a service to ZIFA in good faith and in a normal business transaction. The creditors have a right to be paid. Our laws, just like laws in other countries, are very clear on creditor/debtor relationships.
As things stand, ZIFA simply has no capacity to pay off its debts.”
Matangaidze said time was running out for ZIFA.
“If ZIFA has well-wishers, locally and internationally, Mr Dube included, who can settle the debts, then by all means, let it be done quickly, failing which I humbly submit the following for the football community’s debate:
(a) That at least one of ZIFA’s creditors petition the courts for its compulsory liquidation and the appointment of a Judicial Manager
(b) The Judicial Manager, so appointed, should engage FIFA in pursuing options to fund and reconstruct ZIFA
(c) That ZIFA Board members and Councillors be appraised of the implications of specification with regards to the people at the helm of liquidated organisations.”
Interestingly, ZIFA have more than $700 000, which could not be accounted for by their auditors, a sensitive subject that remains a huge talking point, despite Mashingaidze’s spirited attempts for the case to die a natural death.
THE ZIFA Assembly took their board to task over the audit report which unearthed financial irregularities of about $1 million.
The audit showed that in the financial year ending December 2013, total liabilities exceeded assets by $4 792 748.
It was, however, the $744 635 which the auditors noted was unaccounted for in the 2011 report which sparked a lot of concern among the councillors.
Expenditure, without supporting documentation, was unearthed.
“Included in the consolidated financial statements are direct match expenses amounting to $1 291 636 and we were not able to obtain appropriate and sufficient supporting documentation or confirmations from third parties,” reads the statement from the auditors.
“We were not able to obtain appropriate audit evidence in relation to the association’s recorded accounts payables amounting to $744 635 of the $781 588 recorded in the consolidated financial statements, over which there was no system of internal control on which we could rely for the purpose of audit.” -herald

Zimbabwe School Examinations Council November 2014 Ordinary Level results are out,and the pass rate risen by more than 10 percent to 30,85 percent as compared to 2013 overall percentage which was 20,72.
Zimsec director Mr Esau Nhandara said in a statement yesterday that the results have been dispatched to the examination council’s regional offices and candidates should start collecting them on Monday.
“I would like to extend my gratitude to the examiners and all the Zimsec staff members who worked tirelessly throughout the setting, managing and marking processes to the point where we now have analyses and results to give to the nation,” he said.
Mr Nhandara pointed out tha the leakage in the Mathematics and English papers had no impact in influencing the pass rate in the two papers if their pass rate is compared to last year.
“Zimsec is pleased to note the seemingly low impact the leakages of the Mathematics and English papers has had on the candidates’ overall pass rate. It is notable that the performance of candidates in the papers that were re-sat was comparable to the November 2013 results.”
Mr Nhandara said there was an increase in the number of candidates who sat for the November 2014 examinations compared to the previous year.
“The total number of candidates examined in the November 2014 ‘O’ Level examination session was 316 003. Of these, 86 308 were female school candidates and 77 545 were female private candidates. The total number of male school candidates was 99 999 and 52 151 were male private candidates.”
Mr Nhandara said the performance of school candidates was better compared to private candidates.
An analysis of the results shows that boys performed better than girls in the examinations.
“The performance of male school candidates (27,23 percent) in the examinations was better than that of female school candidates (18,76 percent),” Mr Nhandara said.
“This is consistent with the 2013 results which showed that male candidates (27,41 percent) out-performed female school candidates (18,51 percent).”
High pass rates were recorded in Literature in English (82,54 percent), Physics (89,08 percent) , Statistics (77,96 percent), Additional Mathematics (calculator version) (79,62 percnet), Home Management (82,46 percent) and Computer Studies (78,43 percent). -herald

A single mother from Gokwe who threw her year-old daughter into a deep well to please her lover who had promised to marry her, has been sentenced to 21years in prison by the High Court.Talent Bango, 23, of Horomba Village, Chief Njelele, Gokwe South, threw her infant Tanaka Simbaza into a deep well on August 24, in 2013 and she drowned.
The toddler’s body was found floating in the well four days later. Justice Lawrence Kamocha of the Bulawayo High Court, sitting on circuit in Gweru, found Bango who was pregnant from her lover when she committed the crime, guilty of murder with actual intent.
He sentenced her to 21 years in prison.
State prosecutor, Tafadzwa Mupariwa, in aggravation said Bango had committed the crime to please her boyfriend who had promised to marry her if she got rid of her two children.
It was the State case that on the day in question, Bango took her daughter to the well and threw her inside and went back home as if nothing had happened.
When asked by fellow villagers where her baby was, Bango lied that she had been taken by some relatives to Kadoma. However, four days later, the body of baby Simbaza was found floating in the well and a report was made to the police leading to Bango’s arrest.
The toddler’s body was retrieved and taken for post-mortem whose results indicated that she had died from asphyxia and bronchoaspiration due to drowning.
In another case, Justice Kamocha sentenced a 42-year-old Mberengwa man to 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of a lesser charge of culpable homicide. Todzai Murindi Moyo of Mbulawa village, Chief Mahlebadza, Mberengwa was convicted of causing the death of his cousin, Avis Zivevekwa, 55, on June 4, 2008.
Justice Kamocha described Moyo as a lucky man since his matter was classified between murder with constructive intent and culpable homicide. “You are lucky that the State agreed to a lesser charge of culpable homicide. Your matter is on the border between constructive intent and culpable homicide,” he said.
It was the State case that on June 4, 2008, Moyo struck Zivevekwa once on the head and once on the arm with a log after accusing him of having an affair with his wife.
Zivevekwa was conveyed to Mavorovondo clinic before he was referred to Harare Hospital where he died on June 14. chronicle

First Lady, Grace Mugabe’s appendectomy operation in Singapore last month did not go well, resulting in her alleged admittance into intensive care, as doctors are now reportedly battling to save her life, a report by a UK based website says.
The West Midlands based ‘Telescope News’ tabloid claims according to it’s ‘findings, Mrs Mugabe could also be suffering from septicemia, as her real medical problems remain a mystery.
 
Singapore based sources said: “there is not much information here either, but what we have heard is that Mugabe’s wife was admitted into ICU in January, and she is in a critical condition.”
 
“Furthermore, grapevine has it that she is suffering from septicemia, or blood poisoning.”
 
The source remained unverified at the time of writing.
Meanwhile another report states the contrary, that Mrs Mugabe is not suffering from any disease at all, but went low after being involved in a bitter altercation with her husband over her husband’s alleged ex- lover Oppah Muchinguri whose daughter Mugabe has mysteriously added to his will. While particular report could not be verified, it could be ascertained that Mugabe sometime in the 1980s made a mysterious donation to Mrs Muchinguri in the form of a gigantic house in the posh Mt Pleasant area. The donation was made via a sale for a paltry $1 which was advertised in the Herald newspaper.

PUPILS at Baobab Primary School in Victoria Falls were on Tuesday treated to free drama after the school head, Grace Ndlovu, was allegedly involved in a fistfight with a male teacher on the school grounds for reasons which could not be ascertained yesterday.
The drama started unfolding at around 10am when the school head, Grace — wife of former Victoria Falls town council chamber secretary Phillip Ndlovu — picked up a quarrel with a Grade Three teacher only identified as Chakazero.
After some moments of shouting and arguing, the row degenerated into a fistfight in the presence of other school teachers.
“It happened so fast and pupils were peeping through the windows,” one of the teachers revealed.
“They had to be restrained by Mr Sibanda, who teaches Grade Sevens after they had exchanged some blows.
“The school head is said to be rough to members of staff.
“They always complain about her conduct, as she is said to be a bully and short-tempered.”
The source said after the pair had been restrained from pummelling each other further, Ndlovu retreated to her office, while Chakazero left the school premises for an unknown destination.
Chakazero reported for duty the following day, but yesterday it was reported that the headmistress did not show up.
Efforts to get a comment from the two were fruitless.
This is not the first time that the school head has been involved in a fistfight as she was in March 2014 arraigned before the courts for allegedly assaulting her husband’s lover, Sithembile Ncube.
The two had exchanged harsh words and Grace struck Ncube twice on the head with a fist.
Her husband restrained them.-SouthernEye

Another Toyota Granvia Commuter omnibus belonging to a cop has crashed in Gwanda killing one person on the spot while injuring several others.
The omnibus traveling from Bulawayo to Gwanda with 11 passengers on board, burst a rear tyre a few meters from Mtshabezi turn off on the Bulawayo Gwanda Highway 25 kilometers from Gwanda town. According to witnesses the vehicle burst the left rear tyre and overturned landing on its left side about 150 meters away from the point where the tyre burst.
One person who was seated on the front passenger seat was thrown out of the vehicle as it overturned hit the hard surface outside head first and died on the spot. The other passengers who were in the vehicle survived the accident with minor injuries and were rushed to near by Gwanda Hospital. According to hospital authorities most of them were treated for minor injuries and discharged while a few were still under going trauma therapy.
One of the survivors of the accident blamed the tyre burst on the high temperatures in the area during the day. The survivor refused to be drawn to a conclusion that the driver was over speeding which some witnesses claimed to have been the case. According to the survivor the driver was driving at a fairly comfortable speed all the way from Bulawayo but was unfortunate to fail to control the vehicle after the tyre burst.
“I don’t want to unnecessarily put the blame on the driver, he tried the best he could to control the vehicle after the tyre burst but failed. He was not at all speeding as he was already slowing down to drop off some people at Mtshabezi turn off bus stop,” he said.
The Toyota Granvia vehicle continues to be involved in a number of fatal accidents on the country’s roads mainly due to tyre bursts and high speed. Several times the government has threatened to remove the vehicle from the roads as a public transport vehicle but nothing concrete has ever come out of it.
Information supplied by some sources also indicates that the vehicle belonged to a senior police officer in Gwanda and was in the habit of not adhering to rules at the taxi ranks as it was often seen loading passengers from unauthorised pick up points. The sources claim that the tyre burst may have been caused by the fact that the vehicle was never stopping to rest and join the que like all other vehicles but would jostle to make quick trips back to make more money. The government has in the meantime banned police officers from owning public transport vehicles to curb corruption on the roads.

Six (6) people including the driver were confirmed dead on the spot when a Commuter Omni-bus (Kombi) they were travelling in -burst its rear tyre and rolled several times before it landed by its roof.
More than 10 survivors including a Police Constable- whose left arm was viciously amputated, were badly injured and were taken to a nearby rural health centre – Kondo Clinic.

The accident occurred Thursday afternoon at around 12:30pm along the Checheche – Tanganda road near Middle Sabi. The road is tarred but just like all other roads country wide. It is littered with numerous making driving very difficult. This coupled with a scotching sun and blistering heat being experienced in this part of the country, could have contributed much to the tyre burst.
We also heard that the driver was speeding and most of these ex-Japanese cars are known for being poorly serviced.

A Bikita woman who was desperate to get money to go and look for a job in South Africa, has been arrested after she allegedly allowed her boyfriend to have sex with her and her five-year-old daughter in turns.
Nyaradzo Maungwa (29) of Duma Suburb, Nyika Growth Point allegedly watched her daughter crying out in pain as her boyfriend only identified as Spencer raped her after the two had just also had sex.Maungwa was arrested by Police details at Nyika Growth Point on Saturday.
She appeared before Bikita Resident Magistrate Bishard Chineka and was remanded out of custody to allow Police to find the alleged rapist.She would be called to court by way of summons.
Maungwa wanted to travel to South Africa but had no money. She approached Spencer seeking bus fare. Spencer promised to give her the money on condition that they slept together.
The two agreed and sometime in October last year, Spencer came to Maungwa’s home and the two had sex. Spencer was not satisfied to the extent that he paid little money to Maungwa. Maungwa complained that the money was not enough for the trip and Spencer then suggested that he could pay more on condition he was allowed to have sex with Maungwa’s five-year-old daughter.
Maungwa agreed and summoned her daughter who was then raped by Spencer while she watched. Maungwa ignored the daughter’s pleas as she suffered pain. She was then given the money and went to South Africa.The matter came to light after the child told neighbours about the rape. The neighbours then told teachers at the school where the child was in grade zero. School authorities then took the matter to the Department of Social Welfare who later made a police report.
Maungwa was told by her brother that Police had opened a docket on the matter and it was then that she came and tried to take her daughter back to South Africa in a bid to conceal the crime but was arrested soon after arrival. mirror

At least five people died on the spot while other passengers were injured this afternoon when a commuter omnibus burst a rear tyre and overturned twice along the Tanganda-Ngundu highway.
The injured were rushed to Chipinge District Hospital. The number of the injured could, however, not be established. According to eye witnesses, the driver was speeding resulting in loss of control when the car burst its rear tyre. Police are investigating the cause if the accident. More details to follow… – Chronicle

Mugabe to go East for another op
President Robert Mugabe’s prostate cancer reportedly needs constant attention and he is likely to return to Singapore for follow-up treatment in February.
Sources from his office who declined to be named said Mugabe was advised to return for the operation by his foreign doctors. When he returned from the Far East after more than a month away, Mugabe told supporters at the Harare International Airport that his wife Grace had undergone an appendicitis operation and had remained behind to recuperate.
“It is true that the First Lady underwent an operation but information we have received shows that it was not as big as the president claimed. Instead, it is him who had a major operation for prostate cancer and he is supposed to go back to Singapore.
“He is likely to go back very soon and the First Lady had to remain behind so that it would look as though President Mugabe would be going there to check on her. She could have returned to Zimbabwe with him if she wanted because her own condition is not that serious,” said one of the sources. Mugabe will turn 91 on February 21 and is already displaying signs of advanced age as his speech has become slurred and confused, he suffers loss of memory and has difficulty in maintaining balance. Last year, he made several verbal slips, among them remarking that Morgan Tsvangirai had won the 2008 elections by 74 percent, denouncing his own party and telling former Zambian leader Kenneth Kaunda that he was ruling under duress.
His personal aides are on high alert whenever he appears in public, moving swiftly towards him whenever he shows signs of losing balance.
The sources said the president was receiving combined therapy that included radiation, chemotherapy and surgery. “We hear that the prostate cancer is spreading to other parts of the body and his doctors say that cannot be stopped but remedied through constant treatment. Some local and foreign doctors also attend to him here (in Zimbabwe) frequently.
“The treatment includes routines that strengthen his bladder so that he can control the passage of urine. The president is suffering from back-aches and cannot sit in an upright position for long. He is always shifting in his chair,” said another source.
George Charamba, Mugabe’s personal spokesperson and permanent secretary in the information ministry, has dismissed reports that Mugabe underwent a major operation while on annual holiday in the Far East. – The Zimbabwean

The executor of the late Vice-President John Landa Nkomo’s estate has appealed against the attachment of the deceased’s bus to settle wages arrears at Astra Building Company, which the politician owned.
Christopher Dube-Banda, a legal representative, who is the executor of the estate, filed the appeal at the Bulawayo High Court recently.
The matter is yet to be set down for hearing. Sometime in December 2013, the Messenger of Court served a writ of execution, seized and attached a Mercedes Benz bus which was in the possession of Astra Building Centre.
This was in accordance with an arbitral award obtained in November 2013 for the payment by Nkomo’s Astra Building Centre of salary arrears.
Dube-Banda, the executor, however, holds that the property seized belongs to the estate of the late vice-president and not to Astra Building Centre.
In the notice of appeal, the executor notes that the court erred by holding that the late Nkomo was the managing director of the Astra Building Centre without evidence.
“The court a quo erred by holding that relevant documentary evidence demonstrates that the vehicle in question belongs to Astra Building Centre when the best evidence placed before court in form of the vehicle registration book shows that the vehicle is registered in the name of the late John Landa Nkomo,” stated the notice.
The salary dispute dates back as far as 2012, when there were reports that Nkomo’s Nathi Investments Group of companies had failed to pay workers, with some owed in excess of five months’ salary.
Nathi Investments Group that comprised of Astra Building Centre, Downtown Spar and Daguiar Tyres, all in Bulawayo and Kirton Farms, was owned and chaired by the late vice-president.
The group reportedly had over 180 workers. Prominent lawyer, Samuel Mulaudzi is representing the disgruntled workers. Zimbabwe Mail

Tormented villagers in Zimbabwe’s southern province of Masvingo are succumbing to death owing to the fatalness of scorpion stings and an outbreak of diarrhea and malaria, it has emerged.
In February last year, the government displaced 20 000 villagers who used to reside in Tokwe Mukorsi and moved them to arid land at Chingwizi transit camp, due to massive floods, which critics and experts say could have been avoided.
 
Some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in Chingwizi told journalists in Harare on Tuesday at the launch of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that several people including children were dying owing to poisonous scorpions stings.
Apart from the scorpion bites, the IDPs said people were dying from diseases such as malaria and diarrhea.
“The conditions that we are living in are uninhabitable. Hunger and diseases such as malaria and diarrhea and scorpions bites are causing deaths. Please rescue us by taking us out of where we are living,” said Vanisai Muzenda, who recently survived a scorpion bite.
One of the flood victims, Admire Mashenjere told journalists that one of her relatives Susan Chikosi had succumbed to death after suffering a scorpion bite.
Kenneth Hlavano, a retired soldier and a flood victim living in Chingwizi bemoaned poor sanitation facilities and food shortages which have been forcing children to drop out of school.
In its 57 page report entitled Homeless, Landless and Destitute-The Plight of Zimbabwe’s Tokwe-Mukorsi Flood Victims, the HRW held the government accountable for the saddening plight of the flood victims who have not been given alternative land to build houses and grow their crops.
“The Zimbabwean government has stopped at nothing to coerce 20,000 flood victims to accept a resettlement package that provides labor for a government project, but leaves the flood victims utterly destitute,” said Dewa Mavhinga, the southern Africa senior researcher at HRW.
Mavhinga implored the government to immediately give the victims adequate aid without conditions and compensate them fairly for their losses.
In December, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) rescued 26 of the IDPs who were arrested in August and charged with committing public violence. The 26 were acquitted at the close of the State case after undergoing trial for allegedly assaulting police officers during a protest staged last August at the transit camp against the relocation of medical facilities.
Only four out of 30 villagers who were arrested and tortured by the police were found guilty of committing public violence. However, their lawyers from ZLHR have appealed against both conviction and the harsh sentence which the country’s leading defence group has described as a “shocker”. – RadioVop

Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police leave Gampu Primary School with the body of the child who was struck by lightning at the school premises in Bulawayo yesterday (Picture by Obey Sibanda)
Oswell Moyo and Marvelous Moyo
A GRADE 6 pupil died yesterday after being struck by lightning while walking to a dustbin within the school grounds.
Tragic Sandra Netsanza, 11, who had just helped clean up a classroom at Gampu Primary School in Bulawayo’s Mpopoma suburb, was carrying a dust pan heading to a waste bin with classmates when lightning struck at around 1PM, witnesses said.
A teacher, who was among the first people to find young Sandra’s body, told The Chronicle: “It was around 1PM after the lunch bell had rung. Sandra and her classmates had been sweeping their class and they were going to dispose of the rubbish.
“It was drizzling at the time after heavy rains earlier. Suddenly, we were jolted by screams and we rushed to find Sandra already dead, apparently struck by lightning. Her mates that she was walking with were spared though.
“It was slightly strange really, because there is a tall tree just metres from where she fell. Were we not taught that lightning strikes the tallest object? It’s sad really, many thought it was African science (witchcraft).”
When our news crew arrived at the school shortly after 4PM, Sandra’s distraught schoolmates were struggling to comprehend what had just happened, dozens of parents rushed to the school to pick up their children.
Her relatives, who are members of a church sect known as Vapostori, had also arrived. Emotions ran high as they manhandled a news crew from another newspaper and threatened our photographer. Dressed in their white gowns, they also threatened witnesses from talking to journalists.
Police took more than three hours to arrive at the school, finally removing Sandra’s body from the scene after 5PM. By then, a large crowd had gathered.
Her body was placed in a silver metallic coffin which was loaded onto the back of an open-top police truck.
On Monday, six children and an adult were killed when lightning struck two huts in Mugwinyi Village in Bikita.
The dead have been identified as Marian Nebvuma, 32, Fadzai Chenjerai, 11, Gloria Chenjerai, 5, Odrey Masunda, 4, Esther Muchakagara, 5, Claudia Mugwinyi, 4 and Crywind Mugwinyi, 6.
Meanwhile, a Grade 6 pupil at Marvel Primary School pupil in Filabusi collapsed during an athletics practise session and later died after efforts to revive her failed.
The 12-year-old girl, identified as Mercy Chizema, collapsed in the school’s sports field on Monday at around 2.30PM.
A teacher said: “After running for a distance of about 400m, she fell to the ground. The training teacher attended to her and later called other teachers to the scene.
“Everyone thought she had fainted. Efforts were made to resuscitate her but to no avail. She was quickly rushed to Filabusi District Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival,” said the source.
Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson Inspector Philisani Ndebele said: “We received a report of a female juvenile who collapsed at the school grounds and was certified dead upon arrival at the hospital. No foul play is suspected.” – SouthernEye

The murder trial of the spouse of 41-year-old mum of two Emily Munemo slain in cold blood last week Friday, has seen the deceased’s spouse Shonhiwa Gibson Mazikana being remanded in custody.
Mazikana appeared in court at 10 am Wednesday accused of stabbing Emily to death in her house in London. He is accused of killing the mum-of-two, Emily Munemo, in Collingwood Road on Friday (January 30).
Munemo was found with stab wounds at around 11am. Paramedics were unable to save the 41-year-old’s life and she died at 12.22pm.
Th accused appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, charged with murder, where his case was sent to the Old Bailey.
His brother, a 35-year-old, was detained by police at the weekend after Gibson went missing.
Mazikana, of Reid Close,Hayes, is now due to appear at the central criminal court for a bail hearing on February 18.

Barely a week after his ambulance dash to an undisclosed medical facility before flying out to the AU summit, Zimbabwe’s nonagenarian President Robert Mugabe collapsed this afternoon upon arrival from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
Previous leaks of diplomatic cables have alleged Mugabe survives on artificial boosters and pills to keep him upright are administered to add a facial resonance to his outlook. The medication is allegedly treatment for an advanced form of cancer.
‎Journalists who witnessed the fall were immediately besieged by Mugabe’s security forces who ordered them to delete the pictures and footage.
‎Terrified journos who spoke on condition of anonymity described a disturbing scene as they underwent interrogation at airport
‎Many journalists deleted the footage of the fall of the nonagenarian Head of state on pain of death. However , in what must be frightfully humiliating for Mugabe’s security apparatus, a brave journalist managed to whatsapp the pictures before deleting them.
‎ZANU PF bigwigs who witnessed the fall did not make any attempt to break Mugabe’s fall. Instead security personnel swiftly picked up the temporarily invalid Mugabe and rushed him into his armoured Mercedes ZIM1which was about five paces from the staircase.

 

Adding insult to minor injury, the pictures of a falling Mugabe have been widely circulated ‎internationally.
‎Mugabe’s fall created a major stir in social media networks with one commentator tweeting “Gushaz bites the dust!”
His spokesperson George Charamba refused to comment when we contacted him for comment.
But on its Twitter portal, ZANU(PF) wrote “Please don’t allow rumours and lies, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe did not fall. He was doing a bounce like the kids do,”
The fall comes after fractious negotiations with the African Union saw Mugabe appointed chair of the body with many member states vetoing ‎his appointment on the grounds of his physical capacity.

AFP – PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE ,90, fell down a staircase on Wednesday as he walked off a podium after addressing supporters at Harare International Airport, an AFP corrrespondent said.
He had just returned from Ethiopia where he took over the rotating chairmanship of the African Union.
Africa’s oldest leader, who turns 91 later this month, had concluded his homecoming speech when he tumbled to his knees on a short flight of stairs in an incident witnessed by journalists and hundreds of supporters.
He was quickly helped up by aides and walked to a waiting car.
Mugabe took over the post of African Union chair on Friday, replacing Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
The former liberation war hero is Africa’s third-longest serving leader.

As Zanu PF’s gladiatorial factional and succession wars continue to fester, party structures in President Robert Mugabe’s Zvimba home area have made sensational claims that newly-appointed secretary for administration Ignatius Chombo is among the people allegedly plotting to oust the long-ruling nonagenarian from power.
As a result, they want Mugabe to fire the Local Government minister forthwith, as they claim that Chombo is a key member of the hounded party faction allegedly led by former vice president Joice Mujuru.
The damning allegations are contained in a letter that is in possession of the Daily News, that was addressed to quarrelsome First Lady Grace Mugabe and former Zanu PF Women’s League boss Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri ahead of Zanu PF’s damp squib “elective” congress that was held in Harare in early December last year.
Although the Zvimba party members were emphatic in their claims that Chombo worked hand in glove with the decapitated Mujuru faction, no action has been taken against the controversial minister — who has since been elevated by Mugabe to the influential party position of secretary for administration.
But the public surfacing of the letter could set the cat among the pigeons, particularly given the growing talk that Zanu PF’s hardliners who worked together to decimate the Mujuru camp are now wrangling furiously among themselves, primarily for the spoils of their bloody victory.
The letter was undersigned by Zvimba District members of the party’s youth and women’s league structures, and alleged that Chombo only ditched the Mujuru team at the 11th hour after he saw that the faction would be annihilated ahead of the disputed congress.
“We are happy and were happy when we found out that Amai Dr Grace Mugabe is revealing all the culprits who are corrupt, anti-the-First Family and bhora musango (vote against Mugabe) faction.
“We believe our member of Parliament (MP) Ignatius Chombo imbwa nyoro chaiyo. Vanoruma vachifuridzira (Chombo pretends to be nice but is dangerous),” reads part of the letter.
“We salute you for taking the bull by the horns, by exposing all those who are linked to bhora musango, corruption, the assassination (sic) of our President. We are registering our support for the good work you are doing by exposing all the culprits associated with bhora musango,” it added.
The Zvimba supporters who want Chombo out went on to list other former top heavyweights — most of whom have since been purged from the ruling party — as co-conspirators in the anti-Mugabe plot.
“We believe that honourable Ignatius Chombo is very much linked with corruption, with those planning to assassinate the President and bhora musango teams,” their letter added.
Efforts to contact Chombo yesterday to solicit his comment were not successful, while Muchinguri’s phone was picked up by a person who only identified herself as her secretary and who promised to call back, but to no avail.
Similar efforts to talk to party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo did not bear fruit.
Among the allegations that they made, the Zvimba party structures also claimed that Chombo had invited Mujuru to a rally in the constituency in the run-up to the country’s disputed 2013 elections.
“During the 2013 campaigns he (Chombo) had two rallies in our constituency which he invited Joice Mujuru, Simon Khaya Moyo, Walter Chidakwa, Dzikamai Mavhaire.
“How can he be separated or distanced from the (ex) VP Mujuru faction?
“As if this was not enough, he invited the same at Yomba Mafuta and Simon Khaya Moyo was the guest speaker,” their letter went on.
According to the aggrieved party supporters, former war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda also actively campaigned for Chombo in the run-up to the disputed elections.
“Some of our comrades in Zvimba namely Sigudu, Makusha and Mai Mutyavaviri from Katawa District, were beaten during the 2013 campaign because they were found putting on regalia with the President on it (sic), the news got into (Chombo’s) ears but he never sympathised with them.
“This is anti-First Family at its best.
“Constitutionally, we voted him out during the primary 2013 elections, but because of his association with Zanu PF chairperson Simon Khaya Moyo and political commissar Webster Shamu, he was declared the winner,” claims the letter.
“We are women and youth league members of Zvimba District and would like to seek clarification on how our MP is not linked (ostensibly to Mujuru). We are against those teams 100 percent hence we need him also cleared if he is clean.
“Of late, after the exposure of these corrupt (sic), the bhora musango and the assassins, Hon. Ignatius Chombo has crossed the floor unnoticed,” It added.
Chombo is viewed as a controversial Zanu PF heavyweight who rose from humble beginnings in the 1990s to become one of the wealthiest and biggest land owners in the country, after being appointed to the post of minister of Local Government.
Court records during his high profile divorce case showed that Chombo owns land and houses in many towns of Zimbabwe.
Analysts said yesterday that the letter could open a can of worms and shake Zanu PF to its core as any allegation that any of the party’s members are anti-Mugabe and Grace is career limiting. – DailyNews

Two people died after they were denied treatment at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare on Sunday.
The two’s health deteriorated while attending a church service at the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries led by Walter Magaya, and were first rushed to West End hospital but were referred to Parirenyatwa hospital where authorities refused to admit them.
West End hospital authorities said the two, a 45-year old male who was diabetic and a 17-year old girl who was asthmatic, could not be admitted at the hospital, which they say was already full when they arrived.
“The 120-bed hospital was full but the staff managed to stabilise the patients and offered emergency care before transferring them to Parirenyatwa hospital,” said Dr Margret Maulana, the West End hospital Chief Executive.
Authorities at Parirenyatwa hospital however refused to admit the two patients, claiming that the hospital’s policy does not allow them to take patients referred from elsewhere. 
Head Accidents and Emergency Unit at Parirenyatwa hospital, Dr Monika Schlaak admitted that the hospital is sometimes forced to turn away patients due to capacity challenges.
The hospital’s Casualty Department has a memo dated 26th January 2015 clearly instructing staff members not to accept patients from private hospitals and Harare Central hospital. 
The memo also further instructs that all patients who choose Parirenyatwa hospital as their first point of care must be assisted even when beds are not available.
Meanwhile, the attitudes of staff members towards patients at public hospitals, as witnessed by the shuttling of the two patients between Parirenyatwa and West End hospitals, have raised an outcry while private hospitals have been accused of milking patients before dumping them at government hospitals once their coffers dry up.
Experts say there is need for a rethink on Zimbabwe’s health delivery system.
A hospital is expected to be a place of peace and serenity, but many a patient dread paying a visit at a public hospital some of them which have become notorious for harassing patients or neglecting them till they die.
Some people in urban areas prefer to go to mission hospitals in the rural areas where they testify they are treated with dignity. 
But what is it that mission hospitals are doing that public health institutions are failing?
For experts, the current situation where tertiary referral institutions such as Parirenyatwa, United Bulawayo Hospitals, Mpilo and Harare Central hospitals cater for the bulk of the population is unsustainable and needs a relook. 
“Polyclinics must be upgraded to hospital status to lessen the burden on public health institutions,” said Itai Rusike, the Director of the Community Working Group on Health.
“The government must closely monitor and regulate private health institutions as some are profiteering and dumping patients on public hospitals once they exhaust their money,” said Dr Vivek Solanki, the Director at Borrowdale Trauma Centre.
As Zimbabwe’s population continues growing, experts believe government should embark on a more robust initiative to ensure the emergence of more public hospitals, and polyclinics staffed by adequate personnel.
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The below is are full face pictures of one of the two CIO agents burnt to death in a fake accident in Chiredzi on Friday night. The two’s BMW which hit a small tree, was not only burnt beyond recognition, but was ripped apart in ways only synonymous with bomb explosions – READ MORE- WARNING: Horror as Young CIOs Are Burnt Beyond Recognition in Fake Accident

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A window from Beitbridge has opened up about her hellish existence since Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi made moves to take over her land.
Soforia Ndou thought her world had come crashing down when her husband died, but it was only the beginning of her worst nightmare as the Mohadi family eyed her land.
Ndou, whose husband James Muleya — a war veteran — died in 2005, last week told Southern Eye that her life had become unbearable because of the Mohadis.
“I am living in hell because of Mohadi,” she said, tearfully.
“When my husband was still alive I didn’t have all these problems.
“They only started when he died in 2005. I think the minister saw that I could not stand up to him since I am now a widow.”
Ndou said she has lost two beasts to Mohadi after his workers allegedly rounded them together with his, which he had let into her plot.
“I can’t track them to his plot because it’s a no-go area for us,” she said.
“His workers rounded up two of my cattle when they were taking back his cattle to his farm.
“All efforts to get them have been fruitless.”
Ndou could not hold back her tears as she felt there was nothing she could do since Mohadi is a powerful man.
Ndou said Mohadi had built a structure on his land, extending into her plot and had not removed his fence around her plot despite being ordered to do so by the High Court in Bulawayo.
Mohadi has for years been embroiled in a battle with farmers at Jopembe block, who accuse him of trying to grab their land forcefully.
Villagers claim Mohadi wants to allocate the land to his son, Campbell (Jr).
Contacted for comment, Mohadi said he did not share a boundary with Ndou.
“I don’t have a boundary with her (Ndou), but my son Campbell (Jr) is the one who was given land adjacent to hers,” he said.
“The dispute over that land has been ongoing as Ndou failed to develop her land.”
The minister accused the woman and other villagers of trying to tarnish his image because he was a prominent person.
“It could be that maybe my fence is broken and the cattle stray into my farm, but there is no way I can take her cattle because I have almost 800 cattle,” he said.
“I will check with my manager on what’s happening at the plot.”
Ndou’s lamentations come barely a week after complaints came from another villager, MacMillan Mbedzi, son of a war veteran — Given Mbedzi — who Mohadi is trying to evict.
The Mbedzis said Mohadi built a house on their plot next to where they wanted to build their own and the house has since been roofed.
The Mohadis’ actions were in direct defiance of a High Court order issued three years ago, compelling them to remove a security fence they erected around the villagers’ plots.
They were ordered not to interfere with the villagers’ operations.
This was after four villagers — Mbedzi, Ndou, Aifheli Nare and Kumbirai Ncube — won a High Court case against the Mohadis over ownership of the land.
Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Lawrence Kamocha in February 2012 ordered Mohadi, his wife Tambudzani, son Campbell and two of their farm employees to remove the illegal fence from the disputed land with immediate effect and at their own expense.
But the Zanu PF minister’s family defied the order, while police, who fall under Mohadi’s ministry, declined to accompany the Deputy Sheriff to pull down the fence.-southern eye

Six children and an adult were killed when lightning struck two huts on Monday afternoon in Bikita. The incident occurred at Mugwinyi Village under Chief Mazungunye.
The deceased have been identified as Marian Nebvuma (32), Fadzai Chenjerai (11), Gloria Chenjerai (5), Odrey Masunda (4), Esther Muchakagara (5), Claudia Mugwinyi (4) and Crywind Mugwinyi (6).
Chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba yesterday confirmed the incident.
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirms the death of seven people after being struck by a bolt of lightning at Mugwinyi Village, Chief Mazungunye area, Bikita.
“Circumstances are that February 2, 2015 at about 4:30pm, Marian Nebvuma (32) was in her thatched bedroom hut while all the other deceased were in a thatched kitchen hut.
“A bolt of lightning suddenly struck the bedroom and kitchen huts at Nebvuma’s homestead. All the occupants in the two huts died on the spot,” she said.
Snr Asst Comm Charamba said the bodies of the deceased were taken to Silveira Mission Mortuary.
Meanwhile, police in Harare yesterday said they had located the person who was reportedly missing and no major incidents were recorded following the floods caused by heavy rains that pounded Harare on Sunday.
Police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba yesterday said they identified the driver as Nichodimus Ndlovu (51) of number 17815 Stoneridge in Harare.
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police would like to advice that the owner of the Toyota Corolla Reg ACK5001 was located,” she said.
“Ndlovu was driving his car along Heaney Road when he noticed that his car was being swept away by the floods.”
In an interview during a Joint Operation Command (JOC) tour of some of the areas that were flooded in the city, the Officer Commanding Harare province Senior Assistant Commissioner Shadreck Mubaiwa, urged people to avoid crossing flooded rivers and bridges. “So far we have accounted for all the persons that had been reported to be missing and there is no loss of life. We want to urge people not to cross flooded rivers as they risk their lives,” he said.
He said they had noted that some of the motorists were not patient during the heavy rains on Sunday since they attempted to drive through some of the flooded roads and bridges.
Snr Asst Comm Mubaiwa, who was accompanied by members from the JOC and Minister of State for Harare Provincial Affairs Miriam Chikukwa, visited areas in Cold Comfort and Mabelreign.
Chikukwa said she had noted that some of the people in Cold Comfort were allocated stands by the Harare City Council on wetlands.
“I would like to urge the Harare City Council officials to ensure that before they allocate stands to people they should do thorough checks. We cannot stop the rains but at least we should have preventive measures,” she said. She said some of the people living in the area were allocated stands by the city council while others were given by housing cooperatives. Chikukwa urged people to avoid stream bank cultivation.
On Sunday, one person reportedly went missing along Bulawayo Road near Cold Comfort while several others were rescued from inside and on top of their vehicles following floods caused by heavy rains that pounded the capital.
Other people were marooned at different points and were forced to wait for many hours for the water to subside.
Several houses in Mabelreign, Ashdown Park, Westlea and Tynwald were also affected by rising water levels while several people were rescued.-herald

A Bulawayo Judge has been caught up in a bizarre incident after he stood up to defend a cult leader in a full-page newspaper advert. Bulawayo Labour Court Judge Mercy Moya-Matshanga, in the advert, claimed Reverend Tititi Moyo – believed to be a prophet by followers – was a “true man of God” as she fought newspaper claims that he was a “Satanist”.
Justice Moya-Matshanga – once criticised by Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku for lacking a basic understanding of court procedures – sought to “set the record straight” about what she claimed were malicious falsehoods being peddled about Rev Moyo.
The judge went on to sign off as “The Honourable Mercy Moya-Matshanga (Mrs) – Judge of the Labour Court of Zimbabwe”. Her husband, Michael Moya-Matshanga, appended his signature below hers, saying, ‘I agree’.
“Just as his master Jesus was persecuted, the right reverend and prophet was also accused of falsehoods and has been arrested before. I have known him for 30 years now. He has preached this message without fear despite treachery, persecutions, trials and tribulations,” the judge said in an advert placed in the Southern Eye.
Justice Matshanga described how she and her husband had witnessed “heavenly healing powers” through Rev Moyo, adding that the prophet baptised the Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
“The VP was drenched in water upon conclusion of the baptism while the prophet was completely dry. On being asked by the VP why he was dry, the prophet told him that it was the VP who was being baptised not him,” she stated.
But some lawyers and a fellow judge yesterday said Justice Matshanga had tried to use her position as a judge of the Labour Court to import importance to her statement.
One lawyer, who cannot be named for professional reasons, said last night: “There’s nothing wrong with the article because that’s what she believes, but there’s everything wrong with the signing.
“It’s totally unethical and unprofessional for her to include her designation because it has nothing to do with the article.
“One would think the letter has been written on behalf of the Labour Court. It also gives an impression that people are being forced to believe in this so-called prophet because he has managed to convince influential people such as judges.”
The lawyer added that such kind of behaviour was unacceptable in a democratic society.
“Judges who are well-mannered, sufficiently trained and ethical don’t do such things. It’s unacceptable in a democratic society that we’re living in.
“We can’t allow people to take advantage of their respected offices to mislead the society. The co-signing with her husband makes it worse because it’s as if it’s a judgement on appeal.”
A High Court judge, also speaking on condition he was not named, yesterday said Justice Matshanga’s conduct amounted to a “sackable offence”.
“She is brazenly abusing her position as a judge to legitimise her faith conviction. The law, like science, deals in facts not make-believe sentimentalities. What she’s doing here is very clear, it’s a deliberate attempt to put a legitimising stamp on this ‘prophet’. She is a religious zealot, not a judge. This is a sackable offence,” the judge said.
Another veteran lawyer, however, watered down the allegations and said there was nothing wrong with Justice Matshanga’s letter because it does not compromise the discharge of her duties. “Judges are only not allowed to join political parties because they might not be impartial when conducting their duties, but they’re free to join churches of their choice,” he said.
“If the letter is clear that she’s representing herself and members of the church, there’s nothing wrong. The fact that she’s a judge doesn’t count.”
Justice Matshanga, who is not new to controvesy, was dressed down during interviews for Supreme Court promotion in July last year by Chief Justice Chidyausiku for failing to distinguish between a “court application” and a “court action”.
Chidyausiku said: “How do you expect to scrutinise judgements from experienced High Court judges if you don’t know elementary things such as rules of that court?
“Do you think you’re qualified to be a Supreme Court judge? Who do you expect to teach you?”
In a “court application”, there is no material dispute of fact and judges deliver verdicts based on papers brought to court, while in a “court action” there is material dispute of facts and witnesses can be brought and a litigant is allowed to bring further evidence.-chronicle

Pumula South’s Zvita Zvezwi Church service has been turned into a bloody battle field, as three senior church women fought for the Bishop’s manhood. The two exchanged blows as they were accusing each other of ‘taking my man’.
The Bishop is a polygamist with two wives already, but is still going after new women who he targets and is said to “never miss”.
The development has seen many speak who include senior elder Makuchete speaking as the church Bishop and pastor’s reputation was left to burn.
Some of them even openly vocalised that the women are after the “pastor’s manhood.”
According to the Bishop’s second wife, who was at the church service, the three were secretly going out with the church founder, without the knowledge of other congregants who had a torrid time in trying to settle the battle that went into the late hours of the church service.
“Inzwa zvako mwanangu, usanditora pikicha, nokuti ndiri kuda kukutaurira zvese. Zvakare ndinokumbirawo usanyora mazita edu nokuti sangano redu ringafa. Chihure chawanda mumachechi, zvokuti zvinoshamisa. Vakadzi ava imhunza musha chaidzo. Kurwira here murume wangu ini ndiripo.- Please don’t photograph me, as I am going to tell you everything. I also beg you my son not to mention our names as this will destroy our church, as you know adultery is now rife in a number of churches. I am hurt that these two fellow church members are fighting for my husband during my presence,” she complained.
The two senior elders who were at the scene, and identified themselves as Elder Makuchete and Elder Donga, told ZimEye.com that the two women were exposing their illicit love affair with the Bishop, who begged to remain anonymous. “It’s true that they slept with our Bishop with the intention of becoming part of his family. It is unfortunate that they were not formerly introduced to each other, as this was still in the process,” said Elder Donga.
His sentiments concurred with those of another Elder Makuchete, who appeared dejected and uninterested by the incident that exposed the church to the press. “I think you have been coming across these stories my son, please do not over mention this in your paper, because one day it will be in your church as well. This is true that our fellow congregants fought in the name of love, mentioning the Bishop’s manhood,” he said.
Efforts to get comment from the Bishop were fruitless, as he was said to be unprepared to talk to the press by the time of publishing and was said to be locked in a meeting with his family members.

AP| THE European Union is easing its travel ban on Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, while he serves as chairman of the African Union for the next year.
EU spokesperson Catherine Ray said Tuesday (Feb 3) that the “ban will be lifted when he is traveling under his African Union chairmanship capacity”.
The EU imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe in 2002 over abuses linked to national elections, banning travel in Europe and freezing the assets of dozens of officials and business representatives.
The measures have been gradually lifted in recent years to encourage reform but the 90-year-old Zimbabwean leader and his wife Grace remain on the EU blacklist.
The role of rotating AU chairman is largely ceremonial. AP

A PLUMTREE magistrate yesterday warned and discharged a 19-year-old teenager who fondled his Form Three girlfriend that he had to wait until he was married in order to have sexual intercourse.
Armstrong Majazi of Osabeni, Mangwe district, kissed and fondled the pupil while they were on their way from church. The girl told her mother who called in the police.
“As you can see, this girl is still young, that’s why after fondling her and kissing her she went on to tell her mother. If she was mature enough, she would’ve kept what you had done a secret,” Gideon Ruvetsa told Majazi.
“I suggest that you wait for her to mature first and then you can start fondling her. It’s obvious that after fondling you might do other things that mature lovers do and you’ll have to wait for that.”
Majazi had pleaded guilty to fondling a young person. He told the court that he saw no problem with his actions as they were in love. He also said the 15-year-old girl appeared pleased by his actions as she looked excited each time he held her.
Prosecuting, Clemence Shawarira said on January 25, Majazi and the girl bumped into her mother, Janet Hadebe, 48. The girl fled.
Shawarira said Hadebe later questioned her daughter on her relationship with Majazi and she confessed that he was her boyfriend. She also opened up on the kissing and fondling.
Police were called.

Updated: CIO Agents finally buried at Warren Hills cemetery on Monday afternoon.
Two young members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organization were on Friday burnt beyond recognition after the vehicle they were traveling in was involved in suspicious accident that has left tongues wagging along the Chiredzi-Ngundu road.

The two who were in their early 30s, Tawedzengwa Shumba, and his colleague only identified as ” Zipra” were heading to Chiredzi when they met their fate.

 
CIO official sources claim that they were visiting ‘their farm’ when the so called accident occurred.
They were driving Shumba’s blue BMW vehicle which was not only burnt beyond recognition but the vehicle’s body also severally ripped apart in ways systematic with a bomb explosion.
Chikara and Shumba used to spend idle time at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services’ Mashonaland East province head offices bar situated at the civil court (corner 4th street and Kwame Nkuruma).
One of Chikara’s friends who declined to be named told ZimEye.com that the two departed Harare Friday afternoon to Chiredzi.
“I saw them the very day and they told me that they were heading to their farm in Chiredzi. They were supposed to return the following day because Chikara had left his wife in hospital where she was in labour,” said the friend.
He continued, “I was surprised by the sad news that they had died and I am as told that Chikara’s wife  gave  birth to a baby girl on that fateful evening ”.
Due to the nature their bodies were burnt up, the official cause of the accident had not been established at the time of writing and it is believed that the two could have been killed while on an assignment for no reason beyond mere rivalry. Sources within the organisation have told ZimEye the notorious organisation eliminates anyone suspected of leaking information to the public.
“It’s possible that something  could have happened because from all the years I did not  hear Shumba and Zipra talking about farming and it only emerged that day that they had gone to their farm,” added the friend.
Zipra was known for being vocal at the bar and was also a strong international soccer fan. Chikara on the other hand displayed a critiquing personality in the media because of his journalistic background. He was trained as a journalist at Harare Polytechnic while at the same time working in the CIO. Speculation has been rife that he was targeted by work rivals.
He used to spend time arguing with journalists on various topics at the bar.
The two were buried at Warren Hills cemetary yesterday afternoon.

The former Roman Catholic priest who was recently ordered to pay $80 maintenance for a child he sired while still serving, also sired two other children with his wife’s sister during the same period.
Roman Catholic church priests pledge to celibacy, but it emerged at the Harare Civil Court last week that not only did Mathew Jonga, who was based in Guruve, break the cardinal rule by marrying, he went on to sire two children with his wife’s sister.
Jonga was recently ordered to pay $80 per month for the upkeep of a child he had with wife Emma Mutaka. It was revealed that Jonga sired two other children with Mutaka’s sister Trinity (54) after he went to court applying for custody of the seven-year daughter he had with Mutaka.
“I came to know that Jonga was in love with my elder sister Trinity only last week after I caught him in her house,” said Mutaka. She told magistrate Ms Ruth Kamangira that Jonga secretly sired two children with Trinity and they were now living as husband and wife.
“My sister is an evil person,” said Mutaka. “How could she sleep with my husband and have children behind my back?” Mutaka said Trinity had been avoiding her over the past years because she was sleeping with Jonga.
She said Jonga was applying for custody of their child to shield himself from paying maintenance. In his application, Jonga accused Mutaka of being a bad mother, saying she was disturbing the child’s education.
“She is not a good mother to take care of the minor child because she is in the habit of taking her away from school and insulting her with vulgar words,” he said. Jonga accused Mutaka of being in the habit of threatening to commit suicide, but Ms Kamangira dismissed his application due to lack of merit.
“The court is of the view that the applicant is trying to run away from paying maintenance for his child,” she said. Ms Kamangira said Mutaka was a good and hard working mother considering that she was the one who had been taking care of the child since birth.
“As a hair dresser, she managed to take care of the child while you were still serving as a priest, which clearly indicates that she is a good mother and is able to take proper care of the child,” she said. herald

Former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman and Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa appeared in court yesterday facing charges of theft after several types of rifles were found at his farm.
Mliswa will know if he will be granted bail today after his application could not be concluded yesterday. Mliswa, who was arrested on Saturday, appeared before Chinhoyi magistrate Mr Ignatius Mugova facing theft charges under Section 113 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.
Prosecutor Mr Herald Matura preferred theft charges against Mliswa involving eight different rifles found at his farm.
The schedule of firearms presented to the court showed that there was a 303 rifle, Patrone .22 rifle, Kal .22 I.F.B rifle, BSA 7.57mm rifle, K217.62mm rifle, .458 Witworth Express rifle, Vanguard 12 Bore shotgun and a 12 Bore double barrel shotgun.
Mr Matura said Mliswa stole the eight firearms from Summerhill Farm in Mhangura belonging to then owner Mr Myles Walter Hall sometime in 2007.
He allegedly stashed the firearms in a trench at his disused Spring Farm fowl run. Mr Matura opposed bail on the grounds that Mliswa could interfere with witnesses since one of them was his worker at the farm.
He said the police needed to recover five other firearms at Mliswa’s farm, while time was needed to send the recovered firearms to the Ballistics Unit for testing to see if they had not been used to commit a crime.
Mliswa’s lawyer Mr Musindo Hungwe, assisted by Mr Charles Chinyama, rubbished the State’s claims, saying his client was not being charged under the Firearms Act, but was up for theft.
“The case is manifestly weak as the arms in question were recovered,” he said. “So, which other firearms is the State talking about when it is clear that the other firearms are registered in the accused’s name?”
Mr Musindo said there was nothing in the State’s papers to show how the crime was committed, while also dismissing the case for not having a complainant.
“The State is crying more than the bereaved because there is nowhere we see Mr Myles Hall reporting to the police,” he said.
Mr Musindo said with property worth a net value of US$3,5 million, among other valuables, and being a legislator, Mliswa was not a flight risk who should be released on bail under conditions set by the court.
After the defence submissions, the State called investigating officer Detective Sergeant Masimba Mputa to give reasons why Mliswa should not be granted bail. Magistrate Mr Mugova remanded the matter to today on the grounds the courts were closing for the day. Herald

Tomato canning equipment and other machinery sourced by the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo soon after independence is lying idle at the ARDA Balu estate in Umguza.
This was exposed when Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko visited the estate over the weekend and came face to face with the Agriculture And Rural Development Authority (ARDA)’s incompetency.
Balu estate, owned by ARDA is in a state of dilapidation with the state of the art equipment sourced by the late Dr Nkomo decomposing.
It is also not clear what happened to the over 500 dairy cows that were at the estate.
He described the state of affairs at the estate as tantamount to sabotaging the land reform programme and questioned the ARDA board and management’s commitment to duty.
The equipment includes storage tanks, piping material, farming equipment such as tractors and combine harvesters.
Dr Nkomo`s vision was to have local farmers grow tomatoes and have them canned at the estate.
So sorry was the situation at the estate that not even a single manager was at hand to give answers.
Efforts to get a comment from ARDA board chairman were fruitless as his mobile phone went unanswered before it became unreachable.

Two men who were travelling to Chiredzi along the Ngundu-Chiredzi road were burnt beyond recognition when their vehicle veered off the road and hit a tree before catching fire on Friday PICTURES:…

London – Investigations into the death of mother of two, the late Emily Munemo who was found stabbed on Saturday morning, have taken a twist with relatives of her estranged husband invoking the ghost of the late MDC-T Spokesman Learnmore Jongwe.
ZimEye.com held exclusive interviews with relatives on Sunday night into the wee hours of Monday morning as kins told this publication this is “a classical tragedy” that should be judged moderately as they suggested that hubby Gibson Mazikana should be forgiven for allegedly bludgeoning his wife to death.
They invoked the name and spirit of the late Learnmore Jongwe saying the murder of Ms Munemo should “be viewed under the prism of the Jongwe case”. Learnmore Jongwe, the outspoken MDC-T Spokesman, killed his wife with a kitchen knife later claiming that he had discovered her engaging in an illicit affair. He died in prison while awaiting trial a death relatives say was caused by Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party officials they claim poisoned him to death.

Vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s wife Auxillia has been exposed as a key member of Robert Mugabe’s dreaded secret police, the CIO, sent by the dictator to monitor her husband.
High-level sources told Now Daily that Auxillia Mnangagwa was deployed by Mugabe to monitor Mnangagwa at a time when the former state security minister was thought to pose a threat to the dictator. She remained in the shadows until Mnangagwa’s ‘real’ wife, national hero Josiah Tongogara’s sister, died recently.
Sources confirmed that as recently as 2013, Auxillia Mnangagwa was passing damaging information about her husband to Mugabe.
“Ngwena doesnt trust Auxillia and she only became visible after his first wife died. He knows she is a plant and her job is to pass information about him to Gushungo’s people. We know that she is the one who told him about Ngwena’s many girlfriends and children. Gushungo used the information to discredit Ngwena as a womaniser before the 2013 elections,” said a Mnangagwa family source.
A Herald interview published Saturday pointedly made no reference to when Auxillia Mnangagwa had married the vice president or how many children they had. However, she claimed to have joined the CIO in 1992 when Mnangagwa was its de facto head. She said she got an elite post disguised as a ‘security officer’ at the Sheraton hotel, now Rainbow Towers. She claims to have resigned in 1997. However, former state security minister Sidney Sekeramayi revealed recently that CIO spooks served the organisation for life and were not allowed to resign. Auxillia Mnangagwa was deployed to the University of Zimbabwe but fled the institution at the height of student unrest in 1999 after her cover was blown. She claims there was ‘political instability’ then. She then went underground in Switzerland. – Now Daily

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has over the past few weeks been “visiting” suburbs in Harare where Zanu PF is known to be perpetrating violence in what analysts say could be a bid to reinvent himself.
Since losing the election to President Robert Mugabe, all has not been well for MDC-T with the party facing the second split in 10 years after former secretary-general Tendai Biti and deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma left to form their own party.
In three of his visits, in Budiriro, Hopley Farm and Epworth, Tsvangirai has proved that he still has the support of the people despite losing to Zanu PF’s Mugabe in the last election that he claims were rigged.
On all these visits, Tsvangirai exposed the amount of fear caused by Zanu PF in suburbs.
The MDC-T leader also came face-to-face with the poverty the people are grappling with. In Epworth, he expressed shock at the huge number of young people that came to attend his rallies during working hours when they should be at work.
“The question that I ask is: What is this whole group of people doing here on a weekday when you are supposed to be at work?” Tsvangirai asked rhetorically.
His message remained the same, however, throughout most of his visits, that Mugabe’s time to rule Zimbabwe was over and that he must now go.
“Zanu PF has failed. We now need a new direction that comes with the MDC programme,” Tsvangirai said.
In Budiriro, Tsvangirai attracted huge followers who chanted his name as he toured the markets past a Zanu PF terror base where he was verbally abused by Zanu PF youths.
From there, he went to Hopley Farm, a disorderly settlement on the southern periphery of Harare.
There, he questioned medical staff at a local clinic over allegations that they discriminated against known MDC-T supporters.
His latest visit was in Epworth where he addressed party supporters whom he urged to remain strong and continue working for change, which he said was definitely coming and in a peaceful manner.
Tsvangirai’s tours have, however, sparked debate over their usefulness, given that he had lost a lot of political mileage since his defeat in polls by Mugabe in the 2013 elections.
Political analyst Takura Zhangazha said that like any politician, Tsvangirai was right to engage the poor people who were in the majority, but said it was not enough to engage in “meet the people tours” without a clear message and plan.
The Standard

MDC-T Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora, who is facing a theft of trust property charge involving $15 000 has been set for March 3 this year.
Mwonzora is jointly accused with his legal partner Joseph Terera (44). The prosecutor Mr Sebastian Mutizirwa alleged that in 2012, Mr Justin Matenda, who is a project manager at a local mining firm, obtained a $200 000 loan from Ecobank that was supposed to be repaid within one year.
Matenda failed to pay back the money, resulting in him being sued by Ecobank in July 2014. The court was told that an agreement was signed between Ecobank and Mr Matenda under which the latter would pay $15 000 a month for 12 months.
Mr Matenda was represented by Tendai Toto from Mwonzora and Associates law firm, in which Terera is a partner. Toto allegedly told Mr Matenda that all payments were to be done through the law firm’s Barclays Bank account.
On August 5, Mr Matenda deposited an initial $15 000 into that account, which had Terera and Mwonzora as signatories. The court heard that Mr Matenda continued to receive letters from Ecobank indicating that they had not received the money as per their agreement.
Investigations revealed that the money had allegedly been withdrawn by Terera and Mwonzora, who converted it to their own use.

Former Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman and Hurungwe West legislator, Temba Mliswa has been arrested for illegal possession of fire arms.
Mliswa was picked up by police at his Karoi farm homestead and is said to have been arrested for possessing six unregistered fire arms, according to the State Media.
Police spokesperson, Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed the arrest.
He has against his name charges of illegally grabbing businessman Paul Westwood’s motor vehicle business under the pretence of indigenisation.
During Grace Mugabe’s meet the people campaigns last year, Mliswa stood out against the First Family as he defended expelled War veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda.
Mliswa was at the time of writing still detained at the Chinhoyi Central Police Station.

A GWANDA woman has been granted a peace order against her husband’s pregnant lover who is a traditional healer and has been harassing her.
Margaret Chihono of Zindere Resettlement in Gwanda District told magistrate Mr Arafat Kozanai that her husband’s lover, Fungai Mhuri, was disturbing peace at her homestead.
The court heard that Mhuri, who has been staying at Chihono’s homestead since February last year, had been impregnated by her client, Peter Chihono.
“I’m legally married to Peter but now he is engaged in an adulterous relationship with the respondent (Mhuri). I no longer have peace at my homestead and I am living in fear because of death threats I get from my husband and her lover despite that I am always unwell.
“I want Mhuri out of my homestead because she is causing me great distress. She insults me even in the presence of my husband but he does nothing to stop her. I have been degraded as a wife,” said Chihono.
However, Mhuri denied threatening or insulting Chihono. She said her stay at the homestead and relationship with Chihono’s husband, Peter, had been done with the applicant’s blessings.
“When I came to their homestead, the applicant was ill, she could not do any work and I am the one who was helping her out. She is the one who even told me that her husband, Peter, had failed to satisfy her sexual needs.
“We then agreed that I engage in a sexual relationship with her husband. I did not know that the two are legally married,” Mhuri said.
Mr Kozanai said Mhuri should never insult or threaten Chihono. Mhuri was also ordered to vacate Chihono’s homestead.
Chihono was also granted a protection order against her abusive husband who also threatened to kill her.
She said Peter had on several occasions threatened to stab her to death with a spear, allegations which he dismissed as false. sunday news

Zimbabwe has become divided on corporal punishment with many teachers ruling it it out as Satanic and a practice that creates a culture of violence in the community.
But other parents and educationists say the recent ban on corporal punishment exposes children to unbecoming behaviour as they ride on the legal cover.

Report by the Standard
Recently, High Court judge, Justice Esther Muremba ruled that it was unconstitutional, and therefore illegal, to use corporal punishment on children. She was making reference to a case of a 15-year-old boy who had been found guilty of sexually molesting a 14-year-old female neighbour and had been sentenced to canning.
Justice Muremba ruled that the new constitution had no room for the “cruel” act which has been described by international humanitarian organisations as barbaric and ancient.
But educationists and some parents feel that the law took away from them the ability to shape their children into good responsible citizens.
“This is so wrong. Even the Bible says ‘spare the rod and you spoil the child’,” said Belinda Musa from Belvedere.
Although all of her children are grown up, Musa says she always used the rod if it was necessary and she is quite happy with what became of her children.
“Dialogue is for a certain age group but when they are too young the rod will fix it and as they grow up they will learn the dos and don’ts,” she said.
A vendor along Seke Road in Harare said if teachers could no longer discipline children, performance grades would slump.
“Our children need that kind of correction and if teachers are not permitted to use a bit of force, the children will not work hard,” she said.
An exploratory study of corporal punishment by Teachers in Zimbabwean Schools titled Issues and Challenges and written by Almon Shumba, Amasa Philip Ndofirepi, and Martin Musengi, says teachers play an important role as educators and disciplinarians.
“To assume their responsibilities, teachers sometimes resort to the use of physical punishment,” the authors observed.
This however is in sharp contrast with international laws on child protection, posing a great challenge to teachers.
Legal expert Alex Magaisa said Zimbabwe was signatory to most of the international laws that do not allow corporal punishment.
“In the old constitution corporal punishment was allowed as an exception but did not have the same protection that is offered by the new provision in the new constitution which is now an absolute right,” he said.
Teachers’ unions are however divided on the ruling with some advocating for the ban while others want it rescinded.
Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association chief executive officer Sifiso Ndlovu said corporal punishment perpetuated a culture of violence.
He called on teachers to instead resort to alternative disciplinary measures which were not degrading.
However, the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called for the revoking of the law.
In a petition to President Robert Mugabe, PTUZ secretary general Raymond Majongwe charged that “outright removal of corporal punishment from schools will definitely turn them into jungles”.
“We don’t support the battering of learners but we’re saying keeping corporal punishment hanging in schools, at times without even applying it, has helped to maintain some measure of discipline,” part of the letter read.
The use of physical punishment to chastise wayward children is mostly used by those parents who subscribed to the notion that the act would mould the young men and women into better citizens.
Section 53 of the constitution however states that, “no person may be subjected to physical or psychological torture or to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment”.
Section 86 (3)(c) states that no law may limit the following rights enshrined in this chapter and no person may violate them, the right not to be tortured or subjected to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment. – Standard

Business almost came to a standstill at Mutoko Growth Point as venders jostled to witness a council grader which moved to demolish an “illegal structure.”
This happened late afternoon Friday. (continue reading)
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The structure(building), which is near completion used to serve Mutoko bus terminus as the councils public toilets.
Former senator Jacob and a Mr Mushonga, a politician as well are said to have entered into a fraudulent deal with officials of Mutoko Rural District Council to turn the disused toilet building into “corner shops” at a time the community or terminus does not have proper public toilets. It was during the intervention of the council’s Chief Security Officer a Mr Ganyiwa, that the grader’s operator drove away from the crowd.
Mutoko RDC executive has been mostly criticised for maladministration, haphazard stand allocation and poor service delivery at the expense of rate payers.
The building was finally razed to the ground at around 1500hrs Saturday (pic).

“I would rather sit at home and wait to die in pain from these chronic headaches as I cannot afford medical fees that Mpilo Central Hospital is demanding. I would rather save for a decent burial.”
These are the heart-rending words of 56-year-old Ms Zondie Moyo of Lobengula in Bulawayo who for the past two years has been failing to secure at least $500 that is needed for a CT scan. She has perennial headaches and pus oozes from her nose as the pain intensifies.
Ms Moyo’s problems started in 2013 when she developed a headache and she assumed it would soon fade away. “I started getting serious headaches in 2013 and I dismissed them as just normal headaches but I realised they were getting worse each day. I tried getting tablets for pain but the situation didn’t change,” said Ms Moyo.
“As time moved when the headaches would come they would be accompanied by pus oozing out of my nose and I visited the hospital where I was told to go for an X-ray of the head.”
Ms Moyo then went to Mpilo Central Hospital where she was told she needed to do a CT scan of the head so as to ascertain the cause of the headaches and the pus. She was told that the scan would cost $500.
Ms Moyo told the Sunday News that her condition was tantamount to torture as she could smell rotten meat with every breath.
“Right now the smell inside my mouth and nose is that of rotten meat. I can taste it in my mouth and I always want to vomit because the smell is so awful. It is then accompanied by thick pus that flows out, something inside my head is rotting and I am worried,” she said.
Ms Moyo said one of her neighbours never used to understand her condition until one day she called her to see for herself.
“I asked my neighbour if she was strong enough to take a look at the pus that comes out of my nose and she agreed. After seeing everything she was then convinced that I have a serious problem that needs attention,” she said.
She said people seldom understand when she tells them she has pus oozing out of her nose when she is attacked by a chronic headache. She said it was especially worse when she swallowed the pus that flowed into her throat.
“It is so nauseating when I swallow it. I once decided to start taking umdombo (snuff) so that my nose would run and the pus flows out but this hasn’t worked at all,” she said.
To add on to Ms Moyo’s problems is the fact that no one is employed at her home.
“No one is employed here, some of my children stay here and they do not work so it is difficult to feed them, again my husband died over 20 years ago so no one can assist me. I also stay with my daughter-in-law who has a young baby,” she said.
She said it was very difficult to put food on the table or even purchase medicines. Ms Moyo has over the months been trying to nurse some fruit trees and sell them to eke out a living. She also said she was hoping to get cow hides for resale.
“I asked someone who stays at Fatima Mission to collect some cow hides for me so that I can sell them. I hear the market is there so I am hoping I will get some so that I can feed the family and also buy medicines,” she said.
A part of Ms Moyo femininity has been robbed from her as she cannot do the duties usually performed by a mother.
“I cannot bend on the sink and wash dishes, clothes or even clean the house because my head aches all the time and when I bend it just gets worse. When I do get the strength, I sit on the floor and wash dishes and ask my daughter-in-law to finish off,” she sobbed.
The challenge faced by Ms Moyo is not unique to her alone as thousands of people in the city are failing to access health care due to the unavailability and also high costs of services. Most health services are beyond the reach of the average person, making several people resorting to living with their untreated chronic illnesses.
Services such as kidney dialysis, CT scanning, chemotherapy just to name a few, are very expensive for many people coupled with the fact that a majority of the citizens are not on medical aid meaning that they have to pay cash for services.
In Bulawayo CT scans are available in private practices at high costs with some going for as much $1 000. Many Government hospitals have obsolete machinery that is supposed to service the general public at a subsidised cost.
“Right now I can safely wait for death because I have no clue when I will be able to do a scan to ascertain the problem. I thought I could negotiate for treatment then I pay later but this has failed,” she lamented.
A local doctor said Ms Moyo might have a type of brain tumor that is cancerous and could be rotting from inside, hence the foul smelling pus that comes out of her nose regularly. sunday news

Addis Ababa – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday shrugged off concerns that his appointment as new African Union chair would harm relations between the pan-African bloc and the West.
“What the West will say or do is not my business,” Mugabe told a news conference at the close of two-day African Union summit held in the Ethiopian capital
“My business is to ensure the decisions we take here are implemented. My concern is on uplifting the life of our people, giving them something that will raise their standard of living,” he said.
“For more that 10 years I have been under sanctions, my country has been sanctions. If they want to continue it’s up to them but these sanctions are wrong,” the president said.
“If Europe comes in the spirit to cooperate and not the spirit to control us and control our ways, they will be very welcome,” he added.
Mugabe, Africa’s oldest president at 90, took over the rotating post of African Union chair on Friday, replacing Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
Mugabe, a former liberation war hero who is Africa’s third-longest serving leader, is viewed with deep respect by many on the continent.
But he is also subject to travel bans from both the United States and European Union in protest over political violence and intimidation.
Last year Mugabe boycotted an EU-Africa Summit in Brussels after he was given a rare invitation – but his wife was still denied a visa.
Mugabe also spoke on his attitude towards the empowerment of women.
“We are different,” he told reporters. “There are certain things men can do and that women can’t do. And there are things women can do that men cannot do. You can’t bear babies in your tummy, can you? Even the gay ones cannot.”
“But what we have done in Zimbabwe is that our women can become ministers, judges, farmers, pilots. We have three pilots,” he added.
– AFP

A Mberengwa businessman tried to kill himself after he caught his wife in bed with his girlfriend’s brother.
The businessman reportedly attempted suicide by drinking cyanide. The incident happened last Saturday and the businessman, who later recuperated at Mberengwa Hospital operates at Neta Business Centre.
The heartbroken businessman caught his wife busy between the sheets after a tip off from his girlfriend that his wife was having an extra marital affair with her brother.
After being busted, the wife reportedly showed no signs of remorse when she allegedly begged for another session from her boyfriend in the presence of her husband as punishment for sexually starving her.
The wife accused her husband of disturbing her as she was having the best sex of her life.
“For a two-timing man I think it was a bad turn which deserves another when he found his wife in bed with his girlfriend’s brother. From the look of things, it was the small house who tipped him that his wife was going out with her brother.
“The move was probably meant to have him divorce his wife so that she could move in with him as the two are madly in love. After being tipped of his wife’s illicit relationship he quickly rushed home. Upon arrival he could not believe his eyes when he found the lovebirds busy making love on their matrimonial bed.
“In a bid to probably fix her philandering husband, she asked her boyfriend to have another session in the presence of the businessman claiming that he was sexually starving her. This did not go down well with the businessman who quickly took cyanide in a bid to kill himself,” said a source who chose to remain anonymous.
The source further said after the embarrassing incident, the businessman was no longer a common sight at the business centre as his younger brother was now running the show.
After allegedly messing up her marital bliss, the businessman’s wife is believed to have fled to South Africa. b metro

Harare Times : Former Welshman Ncube led MDC Youth Spokesperson Khumbulani Malinga is one of the MDC members who recently joined ZANU PF. He joined ZANU PF last Sunday at Davies Hall were Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko was addressing party supporters.
The Harare Times had a telephonic interview with Mr Malinga and below is the unedited version of the interview.
HT: Mr Malinga, why did you leave the MDC ?
KM: There are number of reasons that led me to leave the MDC train but i will restrict myself to two.
I left the MDC after realizing that the Party did not fully pursue the fundamentals of democracy that it claimed to pursue. You will reckon for example how cadres were accused tried and sentenced in their absence during the post election witch-hunt. I can cite a lot of examples.
The other reason is that like any other relationship when its irreparable you cant force it.
I realised that the party was reneging from its pursuit of a free and just zimbabwe but was full of pretenders to the throne whose only pre occupation was using the name of the people for self satisfaction and personal aggrandizement.
Q. Why did you join zanu pf?
A. After a close interaction with Cdes in Zanu PF Youth like Cde Leo Nyoni and Bright Matonga I realized that inunu esihlala sisethuselwa ngayo is indeed a fairy tail. I realized that my vision for myself and this country resonate with the aspirations of ZANU PF. I realized that the economic turnaround is at the heart of the party and they have practical solutions that they are progressively implementing.
As a Nationalist myself who wants to have a positive role to play in the development of this country i realized that i am better of in the revolutionary and ruling party than spending my energy away opposing for the sake of opposing as is the nature and culture of MDCs.
Q. People say Dr Qhubani Moyo recruited you to ZANU PF is it true?
A. Hahaha my brother in Ndebele we say lapho okulokufa kulomthakathi (where there is death there is witchcraft). People do not want to accept things as they are they look for conspiracy everywhere.
As i said earlier my close interaction with cdes in ZANU PF and my desire to positively contribute in national development made me to join the Revolutionary and Ruling Party.
May I hasten to say Dr Moyo is a brother to me and an inspiration with the Great works he has done for young people and he is among a few other brothers I consult on a number of social and political direction.
Q. Do you want to contest elections under a ZANU PF Ticket in future?
A. You see my brother what i have learnt in ZANU PF is the cardinal rule of discipline and Cadre deployment.
I will accept any corner that the Party feels i can effectively contribute for the greater good of the Movement and the country.
Q. On a parting shot what are your views on the purging and looming split of ZANU PF
A. The Party has officials mandated to pronounce Party Position.
Q. Thank for your time Cde Malinga
A. Thank you for having me.

Zimbabwe Transport Minister, Obert Mpofu’s multi-million Dollar building at the corner of 4th Avenue and George Silundika street in Bulawayo, has been condemned and ordered to be demolished, as the structure was fast tracked without architectural approval.

Sources close to the Minister’s management at York House, one of his buildings which was acquired through indigenisation program, told ZimEye.com on condition of anonymity that the legislator constructed his building without approval from the local government, and that inspectors from the local authority passed a judgement on demolishing the illegally built structure.
According to sources in the council who also refused to be named, the construction of this structure was done before full inspection. The building was also fast tracked without the approval of the relevant authorities, thereby causing the current deadlock.
Efforts to get comment, from the legislator, who is also the proprietor, were fruitless as he was not picking his mobile. Bulawayo City Council’s Public Relations section that is responsible for clearance on matters to deal with the engineering department kept delaying and referring all questions to the same department.
The three storey building’s progress has since been put to a halt and also awaiting demolishing to reconstruct after necessary inspection will complete. The Ministry of construction and public housing’s official who refused to be named for fear of victimisation, asked this journalist to forward all questions in writing and also to wait for a response.

FORMER Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa has said he is ready to appear before a disciplinary committee set to deal with his case, cheekily equating his impending disciplinary hearing to ones he attended to during the colonial era.
Zanu PF has set up a disciplinary hearing to deal with Mutasa’s open rebellion, but the former Presidential Affairs minister said he remained unfazed.
“I will attend the hearing,” he said.
“I attended many like it under the (former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian) Smith regime.”
Despite the bravado, the committee is made up of people who have openly called for Mutasa’s ouster, among them First Lady Grace Mugabe and political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere.
Mutasa could not be drawn to comment on the composition of the committee, reiterating that he would attend and he was not afraid.
He said he was not aware of warning made against him by National Youth Service graduates popularly known as Border Gezi, who threatened unspecified action against Mutasa for posing a risk to the revolution and to grab farms he reportedly gave to his lovers.
“I have not seen any threats from Border Gezi youths, whatever they are,” Mutasa said.
“I will cross that bridge when I come to it.”
Mutasa was non-committal on when he would launch his much-anticipated court challenge seeking the nullification of Zanu PF’s congress last month.
Despite losing his ministerial post and his lofty Zanu PF position, Mutasa insists he is the bona fide secretary for administration, but President Robert Mugabe has dismissed him as a “stray donkey”.
Mutasa is one of a number of Zanu PF officials who were accused of plotting to kill Mugabe, leading to their ouster from the party and the government.
The former secretary for administration has written to Sadc leaders to intervene in the party’s affairs, a request Mugabe rejected outright.
Former Zanu PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo, however, dismissed the disciplinary committee, describing it as illegal.
“As far as we are concerned and as far as he (Mutasa) is concerned, the so-called team is illegal and he does not recognise the congress that took place in December,” he said.
“His (Mutasa’s) position is very clear that he doesn’t recognise the congress because it was done illegally and there is little they can do.
“That will remain his position until things are rectified.”
Gumbo questioned the composition of the committee, saying it was made up of people who had openly declared war on Mutasa.
“Chinamasa has made his position known on Mutasa and regards him as an enemy,” he said.
“He has his position already.
“There is also Grace Mugabe who is the president’s wife and how can Mutasa be tried by the president’s wife?
“Kasukuwere has made public statements against Mutasa and it doesn’t work.”
Gumbo said they will soon launch the court challenge, although he, like Mutasa, did not reveal when this would be done. – SouthernEye

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s wife was a CIO operative, it has emerged. A State Media report states she worked as a CIO operative from around 1990.
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Zanu-PF candidate for Chirumanzu-Zibagwe Constituency Auxilia Mnangagwa has called for the relaxation of investment laws to allow more Foreign Direct Investment. In an interview, Mnangagwa who is wife to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, said the relaxation of the investment laws was meant to boost investor confidence.
She said there was also need for Government to clarify some indigenisation laws that have been distorted by the country’s detractors.
“Our country is rich in terms of mineral resources and as such we need to ensure that we attract friendly countries to come and invest in the country. They bring machinery and expertise to facilitate beneficiation. Our laws need to be relaxed so that investors understand that our laws don’t undermine their investment,” said Mnangagwa.
She said despite being adversely affected by the illegal sanctions imposed by the West, she managed to set up a community bank to cater for rural women in Chirumanzu-Zibagwe constituency.
Mngangagwa said she was not new in politics as she had worked at grassroots level where she empowered rural communities in Chirumanzu, Gokwe and Silobela.
Born on March 25, 1963 in Mazowe District in Mashonaland Central, Mnangagwa grew up in Chiweshe near Rosa Business Centre where she attained both primary and secondary education.
She later undertook secretarial studies at Silveira House in Chishawasha before joining the Ministry of Manpower and Development then headed by late national hero Edgar Tekere in 1981.
Eleven years later, Mnangagwa joined the then Prime Minister’s office before being seconded to the then Sheraton Hotel as a security officer. In 1997, she resigned from the Central Intelligence Organisation with the intention of going into the tourism sector.
She enrolled at the University of Zimbabwe in 1997 after being accepted to undertake studies in environment and tourism studies but left the institution in 1999 due to political instability. She left the country in order to pursue her studies in Hotel and Tourism Administration in Switzerland where she graduated with a degree in 2001.
Upon her return, she went into the tourism sector as a private player and also worked within the structures of Zanu-PF in Kwekwe in the finance department.
“I have always wanted to play an active role in the politics of my country. You may recall that not so long ago, I submitted my name to represent my party in Mazowe Central where I was born, but was denied the chance when my papers were rejected by the Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central Provincial Coordinating Committee on grounds that I did not understand,” Mnangagwa said.
She said even after that setback, she did not despair but decided to work with her husband with the people of Kwekwe, Zhombe, Silobela and Chirumanzu.
In 2009, she won her way into the party’s Central Committee and again submitted her name last year where she also emerged victorious.
“What has been happening is that I have been working with my husband in Gokwe, Mberengwa and Chirumanzu and we initiated a number of programmes to empower the communities there.
“So my intention is to carry on with these programmes and ensure that I mobilise more votes for Zanu PF.”
She said she was instrumental in the setting up of a community bank in Chirumanzu in 2010 called the Cheese Bank.
Mnangagwa said the party needed to undertake a serious mobilisation exercise to ensure that all potential voters are registered.
She expressed gratitude to Zanu-PF supporters for electing her to represent the party in the Chirumanzu-Zibagwe by-election scheduled for March 27 this year.
President Mugabe recently ordered that new elections be held for Mt Darwin West and Chirimanzu-Zibagwe constituencies after they fell vacant.
The Mt Darwin West Constituency fell vacant following the removal from Government of former Vice President Joice Mujuru, while National Assembly Member for Chirumanzu-Zibagwe Emmerson Mnangagwa was elevated to the position of Vice President of Zimbabwe. herald

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon Friday took a direct swipe at President Robert Mugabe and DRCongo President Joseph Kabila saying they should leave office as their tenure expires.
Speaking at the official launch of the African Union summit where Mugabe was surprisingly announced chairman, Ki Moon urged African leaders to respect term limits and leave office when their time runs out, adding they should also accept defeat in elections.
He said, “I urge leaders who refuse to leave office when their term expires to please listen to the wishes and aspirations of your people….”
He continued saying that Africa needs to do more to rid the continent of the scourge of violence that he says continues to affect women and girls. He emphasised the need for the continent to empower women adding that ignoring women and their rights can only lead to the downfall of a nation.
This month saw the DRC President Joseph Kabila unilaterally seek to impose a draft law that will delay the 2016 presidential election and enable President Kabila to extend his stay in power beyond his current mandate. This also came at a time when his counterpart Mugabe torpedoed his way in his ZANU PF party by altering the constitution and also ousting successor in the wait Joice Mujuru and several officials accused of siding with the latter, a move analysts say is strategic to extend his reign. He is currently involved in a legal wrangle with bigwigs the likes of Didymus Mutasa who are suing him for the said “sham 2014 congress.”

Chinhoyi – There was chaos in Chinhoyi when Riot Police troops stormed into town to quell a protest caused by dodgy Police owned private transport businesses which have robbed kombi operators of their clients.
The kombi drivers launched their strike yesterday threatening to stop operations in protest over the Police Officers’ illegal activities which has disabled the trade as the ZRP officers are thriving utilising ex-Japanese vehicles to transport passengers. School children and workers at Chikonohono were delayed for hours due to the strike.
Police officers who are untouchable have “fattened themselves” of the illegal pickings as they transport people without licences sometimes even operating vehicles without number plates – (PICTURES).
Violence erupted when Kombi drivers and Hwindis began beating up any Kombi operator ignoring the strike action.

Order only resumed after two hours when riot police descended on the area around 9am when they began dispersing the kombi operators.
Commenting on the development, Indigenous Commuter Operators Association of Zimbabwe President Moses Mutyasira voiced concern over the development saying, “ as the Indigenous Commutter Operators Association of Zimbabwe (ICOAZ), we call for order in the transport industry and condemn in the strongest terms the attempts by police officers to push legal kombi operators out of business through their illegal vans which operate without the required papers.

“While we understand the plight of police officers and the widespread hunger caused by the heartless Mugabe regime,we call upon them to comply with the law and leave our legal operators to do their business. Our icoaz team will be visiting Chinhoyi tomorrow to follow up on reports sent to us.

Addis Ababa – Barely 24 hours after stiff resistance from numerous African Presidents(READ MORE –) , Zimbabwe’s Head Of States Robert Mugabe, has been made African Union Chairperson.
This was confirmed Friday morning by officials as Mugabe readied to ascend the podium.
The development will cast a shadow over the Africa’s international relations with the West, critics warned.
Mugabe took over the post an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa as he made a speech on Friday.

Presidential Spokesperson George Chararamba has confirmed Robert Mugabe has been rejected by several African presidents as earlier revealed by ZimEye.com (READ MORE- Sick Mugabe set to be Blocked from taking African Union Top Job.)
In an interview with the State Media, Charamba indicated Zimbabwe is set to be shocked on Friday when the African Union choice for the chairmanship is to be announced. He blamed the development on western sanctions.
Below was Charamba’s interview with Herald Editor, Caesar Zvayi:
Q: What is the relationship between Zimbabwe, in its campaign and the rest of African member states for this post?
A: The logic of chairmanship of the AU is rotational, what is certain is that the chairmanship has to go to Southern Africa, what is uncertain is which country in Southern Africa is going to take it. What we are fighting for is to make sure that Zimbabwe becomes that country which takes that chairmanship.
So really in terms of regions, the whole campaign was to try and make sure that there is consensus that ecowas endorses us, the East African Community endorses us, sadc endorses us — as indeed it has done — as and then of course the Maghreb region also does the same.
Really given the nature and character of the President I do not see him wanting to be a controversial chairman, in the sense of being a chairman who chairs by minority or by a slim majority. He wants to build that consensual position which, therefore, makes his chairmanship not just solid but also enough to generate a certain momentum which makes it continental, that is basically the intention.
You want to bear in mind that the President has for a long time been complaining about the trajectory of the AU. He thinks that for a long time we have been kowtowing to western interests, he thinks we have been trying as it were bending our policies so as to win the goodwill of the West
He thinks we have not been recognising that by virtue of commanding, maybe three quarters of the world resources that is clout enough, that gives us tremendous leverage in our interaction with the West. What the President visualises is a leadership that recognises the strategic advantage of Africa and then translates that strategic advantage into a leadership bid on the global stage.
So that is basically the change that you will see when the President takes over or if the President takes over, which we hope he will.
Q: We are reliably informed that western countries are trying to shoot down on the basis that Zimbabwe is on sanctions?
A: That exactly is my problem with the West; they don’t interrogate the sense behind the sanctions. They move instead from unilateral sanctions as a fact to trying to make it a precondition for election and I think Africa is understanding enough to know that you can’t start from the premise of an illegality, which is what the sanctions are, we will start from the premise of the leadership that Africa requires to tackle those problems including the sanctions on Zimbabwe. These are not UN sanctions, so no one in the west can have the moral status of starting an argument on sanctions as if the sanctions are legitimate in the first place. But you and me must know that we must always budget for that opposition from the West.
Q: What have we done to counter the western moves?
A: We have done that already, this is why we are optimistic of the result. As before in SADCC they were trying to oppose us and we trounced them, and hey we feel pity for them, they are destined for grief in this matter.
Q: Turning to the ADB, we understand we have some of them in the delegation?
A: Zimbabwe has produced a candidate for sadc and please get me right, this is not a Zimbabwean candidate only, this is a sadc candidate, and essentially what we are trying to do is to provide leadership to that critical bank on the African continent.
We are a member, we have been contributing diligently and we have also drawn from the resources of ADB, and it is only natural that when an opportunity presents itself, we go for it, and we have a well experienced candidate, 36 years of banking experience.
And I hear he also taught the current governor of the Reserve Bank, and he is not just a competent banker, he is also a producer of bankers.
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A-33-YEAR-OLD MDC-T activist has been fined US$200 by a Beitbridge magistrate for smuggling a fire arm from South Africa.
Togarepi Zivanayi Mhetu of Harare was arrested on Wednesday aboard a First Class bus travelling from Johannesburg.
Mhetu is the MDC-T youth wing secretary for projects, labour and development in Harare Province.
He pleaded guilty of violating a section of the Customs and Excise Act before Beitbridge resident magistrate Miss Gloria Takundwa.
Mhetu would be jailed for a month if he fails to pay the fine.
The prosecutor Mr Jabulani Mberesi told the court that Mhetu visited South Africa through Beitbridge Border Post on January 26 and did not declare the firearm he was carrying.
He said Mhetu returned on January 28 aboard a First Class bus heading to Harare.
Mhetu had bought equipment for resale in Harare.
He went through all the immigration and customs formalities, but did not declare the Galesi pistol which was in one of his bags.
The fire arm, which was loaded with eight rounds of ammunition was discovered during a routine search of luggage by detectives from the Border Control Unit, resulting in his arrest.
Further searches led to the discovery of a photocopy of the fire arm certificate number 867620A, which expires on August 1, 2017.
It emerged during interrogations that he did not declare the weapon when he visited South Africa.

Gwanda town is engulfed in a wave of confusion as a mentally ill women living on the streets of the town for the last two years has fallen pregnant.
The mentally challenged woman “staying” on the pavement in front of now closed Gwanda Branch of Minister Obert Mpofu owned Allied Bank, is at an advanced staged of pregnancy which could be in its 7th or 8th month, leaving the community confused as to who would have fathered the woman’s baby. The woman known to the Gwanda Community as MaSibanda, has been spending her days and nights in the public area around the bank which has a busy filling station, a public bar which closes very late and a 24 hour restaurant.
When Zimeye News crew approached MaSibanda who speaks with a heavy Zulu accent to enquire about her pregnancy, the somewhat very kind and polite woman could only smile and say she was impregnated by her “sweetheart”. Asked who the “sweetheart” was the woman only laughed and told the news crew that “he will be back shortly he has gone to buy food and beer at the tavern”.
Trying to pursue the matter further, the news crew interviewed the bank’s security personnel who guard the bank on a 24 hour basis and are positioned hardly 10 meters away from where MaSibanda “lives”. The officer on duty would not cooperate with the news crew telling the crew to get away claiming that the news crew was accusing them of “sleeping with a mad woman.” When the crew persisted, the security guard threatened to beat up the reporter if he continued asking him what he called “stupid questions.’
In snap interviews of members of the public passing around the area, the people interviewed expressed anger at the man who may have made the woman pregnant calling on the police to follow up the matter as anyone who may have had sexual intercourse with the woman is tantamount to have raped the woman. Several of those interviewed queried how the woman would have been raped in full view of the security details who spend 24 hours a few meters away from the woman.
“My brother, ask the security guys at the bank they know better about that woman than all of us here,” said a young man drinking beer at the near by pub. “There is no way anyone would have slept with that woman and the security fail to see it she is always there next to them,” added the young man.
Asked for a comment a lady who trades airtime along the same corridor where MaSibanda “stays” said that she was also shocked when she realised that the woman was pregnant and described it as being barbaric of the man who may have slept with the woman.
“We have been with this lady here for more than two years now she is a very kind woman, never violent and always tries to clean herself and her surrounding. I suspect someone took advantage of her being kind yet vulnerable and slept with her. Its very bad for men to do this. I wish the person responsible could be arrested for this barbaric act,” she said.
Another vendor who also operates from the same street vividly threw the blame on people drinking beer at the near by pub. The vendor who claims to be at the corridors for about 14 hours a day said that she always see men from the bar serving the woman food and drink and says the woman frequently walks from her area to the pub to beg for food and drink and that’s where she may have been taken advantage of according to her.
“I am 100% sure she was impregnated by the merciless drunkards from the pub. I have seen a lot of them give her beer and food especially at night and I am confident they may have slept with her in her drunken state,” she said before also calling on the police to investigate the matter.
No comment could immediately be obtained from the police in Gwanda or the department of Social Welfare on how the woman would be assisted. Zimeye will keep a close eye on the matter.

Villagers at Garanyemba Village in Gwanda have expressed concern at the mess made by police officers manning a nearby permanent road block at a bus stop in the area after the cops were caught numerous times relieving themselves in the open thickets.
In a complaint made available to ZimEye, the villagers complained bitterly on the way their surrounding has been smeared with human waste and other waste by the police officers. According to the villagers, members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police have been manning a road block on the spot for the last five years on a daily basis from 6am to 6pm but no ablution facilities are provided at the road block spot.
The villagers claim that police use the near by bushy area as their toilet to an extent that the area is now heavily infested with human waste. The villagers complain more so because the area where the police relieve themselves is around a path that their children use going to school.
Taken to the scene of the allegations the news crew discovered a huge manifestation of human waste, empty cans and lots of plastic paper left around the roadblock site. What shocked the reporter worse was that amongst the waste disposed of in open were used sanitary pads a serious health risk.
Interviewed for comments, the villagers all expressed a disappointment that the police use the spot as a permanent road block site and not bother to erect even temporary toilet structures. The villagers raised serious health concerns particularly for their children who use the area all the time. They also expressed concern on their livestock particularly their goats which have died after consuming some of the waste particularly the plastic matter.
Efforts were made to enquire on the allegations from the police in Guyu where the said officers are based. The junior officers spoken to refused to comment referring the reporter to Gwanda District police information department as they were not allowed to comment.

A Baba Jukwa style mole has emerged on social networking website Facebook sensationally announcing that President Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace is not ill at all as earlier claimed by her husband, but is only hibernating from an altercation with her husband over his affair with the late Josiah Tongogara’s girlfriend, Higher Education Minister Oppah Muchinguri.
It is claimed that Mugabe has placed Muchinguri’s daughter as an heir to his estate.
When President Mugabe returned from his annual Asian holiday, he said Grace had been struck by appendicitis and was receiving treatment there. But the whistleblower only identified as “Zimbabweans for Prosperity”, said Grace actually refused to return as a reaction to her husband’s decision to include Oppah Muchinguri’s daughter on his will.
“Grace Mugabe is breathing fire. She is in the Far East not because of an operation . Hell no. She refused to come back until Bob (Robert Mugabe) sorts out this issue with his ‘**ch’. There was war between Grace and Robert. The cause of the war is Oppah,” Zimbabwe for Prosperity said on Facebook.
They further went on to say the protest forced Muchinguri to hurriedly announce last week that she was married to Bishop Anthony Kashiri as to pacify the raging First Lady.
They said being married would not stop Mugabe from having Muchinguri in the same way this was allegedly done when she was married to former husband Tapiwa Rushesha, who has since fled Zimbabwe after dumping her.
“So now she (Muchinguri) has to pretend she is not interested in Robert. She has to go to another man but does it change anything?” Zimbabweans for Prosperity said. During divorce proceedings in court, Rushesha gave adultery with Mugabe as the main reason for leaving Muchinguri. He told the court: “Mugabe often sent his bodyguards to pick up my wife for ‘meetings’ in the middle of the night.”
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They call him “Bishop” Antony Kashiri, the new boyfriend (manfriend is the right word here since he is not a boy) of Oppah Muchinguri. The media says “they met in church”. We can imagine what happened on that fateful day. As is the norm, all ZANU(PF) mafia leaders who attend church services are given “high table” seats. So Oppah must have been seated in front, with her mini-skirt on, no bhurugwa in and the “Bishop” could only read from Exodus Chapter 3 verse 6! We have had stories, a lot of them of these “men of clothe”. Actually from today we will call them “men of lust” because they like them women dont they. One Magaya had to bribe a husband to a wife that he (Magaya) spent 3 nights with “receiving holly water”. God of the skies!
So Oppah Muchinguri wants to be “married”. She says dont call me Muchinguri no more for I have a darling. Wow. But then this “Bishop” must have all the power to pray for Oppah’s sins to be forgiven. For she is the one who finished off Josiah Tongogara in the same way Elliot Manyika was finished off after that “accident”. The same way that Edward Chindori Chininga was finished off after the “accident”. We know who did dont we? So the God of Antony Shiri must be different from the God we know, for He would not forgive Satan , never. We wait for the wedding. But then Zimbabweans should be wondering why now. Why is Oppah so desperate to be “married” now. Well, its the whole Mnangagwa matrix. The mafia operates with partners. We know of no mafia who was/is a single. They have to have partners but its more to it. Grace! Hear from us Zimbabweans For Prosperity. Grace is breathing fire, moto chaiwao. She is in “far east” not because of an operation. Hell no. She refused to come back until Bob sorts this issue with his “bitch”. There was war between Grace and Robert. The cause of the war is Oppah. So now she has to pretend she is not interested in Robert. She has to go to another man, but does it change anything? This is what her former husband Tapiwa Rushesha said in court at their divorce “Mugabe often sent his bodyguards to pick up my wife for “meetings” in the middle of the night”. Apart from that Simon Chimbetu was in love with her. She denies, “People say I dated Chimbetu, but where would I have seen him he was not on my level?” Wow, so the Bishop is at your “level” Oppah? And what about the earrings that Matibili bought for you which caused you to fight with Grace at the airport. Is Matibili your “level”? And why are you so desperate to force Matibili to include your child on his will which caused all this fight in the “far east”? A fight between Grace and someone in a hospital bed. Asijiki!

Addis Ababa: Plans to install President Robert Mugabe as the African Union chairperson hit a brick wall Thursday after his appointment was blocked due to ill health, ZimEye.com can reveal.
An extraordinary meeting held on in the Ethiopian capital by African heads of State put pressure against Mugabe’s appointment when questions were raised on his ability to represent Africa due to failing health. Continue reading below…
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Although proposals were made stating that sanctions against Mugabe in person would compromise Africa’s relations with the West, it emerged that the real issue of concern was poor health and failing capacity attributed to old age. His memory problems, and a failing temperament were also cited as cause for concern. This became obvious when the issue of travelling to Europe or the United States was raised with concerns over those nations’ sanctions. Although Mugabe’s negotiators at the meeting intimated that this [sanctions] would not be a problem because he [Mugabe] would be travelling on official business as he has always done standing in for Zimbabwe.
High level sources inside the meeting told ZimEye.com, “The President was told he will be a hindrance to Africa’s international image and its negotiation power with the rest of the world.”
“For progress a deputy chair can easily take the job,” other heads of State proposed.
Meanwhile Mugabe’s team coming out of the meeting, began crying foul claiming that the Western governments are pressurising the African states against Mugabe ascention.

Bulawayo — THE wives of Zimbabwe’s recently-installed Vice Presidents have been accused of replicating the First Lady for their appetite for lavish lifestyles at the expense of the bankrupt nation.
First Lady, Grace Mugabe, is unpopular among many in the country for leading an extravagant standard of living including what are said to be expensive shopping trips overseas.
It has emerged the wife of Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, Laurinda, and Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s wife, Auxilia, are also aiming for such standards amid the country experiencing financial problems.
Mrs Mphoko is said to have recently rejected the US$3 million house which government offered her husband after he assumed office.She is reportedly scouting for a multi-million-dollar upmarket house in Harare’s leafy suburbs.
Mphoko was initially scheduled to move into a government house left vacant by the late Vice-President, Joseph Msika, in Mandara, but his wife allegedly vehemently refused, saying she wanted “a house of their own.”
The sources said Mphoko’s wife went around shopping in Glen Lorne, Borrowdale Brooke and Ballantyne Park, but was not pleased by some of the properties on offer.
She reportedly rejected one in Glen Lorne that was going for $1,5 million, a $3million one in Ballantyne Park as well as a $2 million property.
Mphoko has not yet commented on the allegations.
Mrs Mnangagwa is also on record telling the Bulawayo High Court that her reputation was worth $10 million because, among other things, she is a wife to a career minister.
This is in a lawsuit in which she is suing Zanu PF Midlands chairperson and Provincial Affairs minister Jasion Machaya, former spy Douglas Kanengoni and Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti for defamation.
Political parties and commentators hit out at the women’s lavish lifestyles.
MDC Renewal spokesperson, Jacob Mafume, said they were worsening the downfall of Zimbabwe.
“We already have one wife in the name of Grace whose appetite the nation cannot feed,” said Mafume.
“Now it appears we will have three of them. One wonders whether there will be anything left in this country once they are done with primitive accumulation of wealth.”
MDC led by Welshman Ncube’s Secretary for International and External Relations, Kurauone Chiwayi said Mphoko’s wife might be “too excited” with husband’s surprise appointment to the position of Vice President.
“It shows the kind of leaders Zanu PF has,” said Chiwayi.
“President Mugabe’s party is made up of irresponsible and greedy vultures and hyenas. Government has been failing to honour its obligations due to strained resources. Mphoko’s wife demands if that is what she is doing are quite astonishing to all Zimbabweans,” he said.
Former Bulilima East MDC-T MP Norman Mpofu, also lashed at Mphoko.
“Her rejection of the house should be viewed in context with what leadership means in Zimbabwe,” said Mpofu.
“While in a normal democratic set up leaders are supposed to be servants of the people and be humble as a way of being attractive to the electorate, in our situation leaders do not care as the opinion of the electorate is of no consequence since they have other ways of getting into power,” Mpofu added. caj newsafrica

Shurugwi – The investigation into the death of a gold dealer Shurugwi police earlier claimed was an armed robber could see the cops behind bars after they dodged answers before an inquest.
The judicial inquest has unearthed a can of worms that may see two police officers expelled after they gave conflicting evidence in court.
During the hearing, magistrate Tendai Madanhire grilled Shurugwi police station officer in charge, Inspector Regiment Ndlovu, on why a proper search was not conducted on the deceased when he was arrested in connection with a crime that involved use of a firearm.
“It is clear that if the police’s argument of suicide is to be believed, then there was a serious aspect of negligence because every suspect should be thoroughly searched upon arrest especially if it is in connection with an armed robbery case,” said the magistrate.
In response, Ndlovu who has served the force for 22 years, agreed but insisted the deceased took his own life. His subordinate, detective Shepherd Mazhindu, dodged giving direct answers when asked by prosecutor Andrew Marimo if he thought it was possible that a person handcuffed could take a hidden gun from his body, shoot himself in the mouth but die while still holding it.
“I put it to you that if a person shoots themselves, there should be some action which makes the gun to fall away. How is it that the deceased died while still holding it?” the prosecutor asked.
Madanhire blasted the cops saying a police station ought to be a place known for its safety. “Don’t fear anyone. You should emulate me because I only fear God, not a mortal,” said the magistrate.
The inquest was postponed to 11 February when the state will invite a ballistics expert to give evidence. Last year the deceased’s family demanded answers about the death of their son, ruling out the possibility he committed suicide.
 
ZimEye has exclusively revealed that the dead man police officers claimed committed suicide, after smuggling a gun into the police station, was actually a close friend of the same police officers and real circumstances surrounding his death are not as previously reported.
Mr Simbarashe Muchengeti’s body was photographed handcuffed in a pool of blood last year in March with a gun at his side an incident police officers claimed was a suicide. Officers claimed that he had been on a wanted list for multiple robberies at Ngundu business centre.
But investigations here have revealed that Muchengeti was actually a close friend to the same police officers who presided over his sudden death. Close witnesses here have revealed that contrary to claims that he was on the run, Muchengeti actually regularly frequented the police canteen where though an outsider, he was given preferential access. This reporter was also shown Muchengeti’s house which is a few metres across the road from the police station.
“He was known very well at the police canteen were he frequented being friends of almost all police officers,” the source said. They added that if he was a robber, then the officers were clear accomplices.

There is an increase in lightning strikes in Tsholotsho district where three people have been killed, including 18 herd of cattle and six goats since the beginning of the rainy season. Tsholotsho District administrator Nosizi Dube pointed out that lightning has become a cause for concern while speaking about the district’s flood and disaster preparedness yesterday.
“As Tsholotsho district we are ready based on last year’s experience. We have launched a disaster preparedness plan and we trained all wards on all disasters that might befall them. Recently we faced a disaster when 11 people died in Botswana and we managed to bury them last week.” Dube said.
Normally,this district is prone to floods but at the moment there is no immediate danger to this regard but instead, the district had recorded a high rise in lightning incidents.
“The first incident was in Ntulula area in Ward 3 where a bolt of lightning struck a kitchen hut, threw out two children and killed their parents,” narrated Dube.
The two children, aged nine and three, were thrown out and watched helplessly as their parents were burnt to ashes.
Their parents’s ashes Nkulumo Ndebele and his wife Junior Sibanda were buried in a grave on the spot of the incident.
Another incident took place in Ward 19, where an old woman was burnt to death after being struck by a bolt of lightning while in her hut.In the same surprising way her grand children were thrown out and therefore survived the strike.
Lightning also struck seven head of cattle, six goats, and two brothers lost 11 beasts which they had earmarked for a cattle breeding project in Jimila area
In the latest incident that occurred last Saturday a woman lost around $30,000 in cash and property worth thousands of dollars when lightning struck her homestead and reduced the house to ashes.
“We do not know how to assist people who would have lost property and beasts in such incidents,” Dube said.
So far the district civil protection unit chairperson Dube, said they have launched a safety programme in most schools and were working hard to spread it to all parts of the district.

MDC-RENEWAL secretary-general Tendai Biti yesterday called on citizens to confront Zanu PF by challenging its rule, but fell short of calling for overt protests against the ruling party.
In a statement, Biti said Zanu PF had failed and the party should resign, urging Zimbabweans to confront what he described as the party’s dictatorship.
“Zanu PF is not interested in dialogue and in respecting the citizen, therefore, it is up to the people to use their constitutional rights and confront Zanu PF,” he said.
“Section 67 of the Constitution bestows full political rights to every citizen of Zimbabwe. More importantly, Section 59 of the same Constitution bestows on every Zimbabwean the right to demonstrate and petition peacefully.”
Biti’s long-time ally-turned-foe MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai spent the better part of last year threatening protests against Zanu PF, but these never materialised.
The former Finance minister said 18 months after elections it had become clear that Zanu PF had no plan for the economy, as the country was mired in a serious structural crisis.
“It is now 18 months after the July (2013) elections and it is clearly beyond any reasonable doubt that the State is mired in a serious structural crisis reproduced in various forms, including economic collapse, acerbic succession battles, weak and absent leadership,” he said.
Biti said the 35 years of independence had been a trail of dashed hopes, dreams delayed, false starts and missed opportunities for citizens.
“The last 35 years have seen the collapse, demise and destruction of anything functional in this country and this is all reflective of the DNA of Zanu PF defined by one thing alone, destruction and cannibalisation,” he said. Biti said they were concerned about the economy which continued to deteriorate.
“The post-GNU (Government of National Unity) economy can only be described as the new failure, a defining period capitalised by incompetence, corruption, deflation, dishonesty and stagnant growth,” he said.
“The GDP (gross domestic product) growth rate has plummeted to levels below 4% in both 2013 and 2014 from a high point of 12% growth in 2011 and 10,7% in 2012.”
Biti said the growth rate under the new government was indicative of a shrinking economy.
“The failure by the government to pay civil servants’ bonuses in 2014 is an unprecedented act of incompetence and heartlessness,” he said.
“The bonus in a status quo situation of low disposable economy represents a saving to the government employee.”
Biti described the tinkering with the Indigenisation and Empowerment Act through the 2015 Finance Act as both a sham and a comedy.
“A country that asks each potential investor to deal with the relevant ministry is simply decentralising corruption and incompetence,” he said.
“There is no defined criterion and standard system, which each of the ministries will apply, resulting in greater confusion, arbitrage, distortion and corruption.”
Biti said the State was no longer able to meet its normal obligations of social service delivery.
“There are no drugs in clinics and hospitals and in places like Cowdray Park, Dulibadzimu, Mbare, Hatcliffe, Sakubva, Bobo and Dzivarasekwa Extension, Zimbabweans are living in squalor with no water or ablution facilities,” he added.-SouthernEye

UPDATED: 29th January 2015 – the MDC Renewal Team Rally has been postponed indefinitely, according to a press statement by chairperson Lovemore Mazivisa.

MDC Renewal Secretary General and top Zim barrister, Tendai Biti flies to the United Kingdom for a star rally on Saturday.
The large function will be held just outside London in the UK’s most Afro-populated town of Luton on the 31st January.
Accompanying Biti is Renewal Boss, Sekai Holland who will present her first maiden speech to diasporans. Also present will be former Tsvangirai aide Gorden Moyo.
The function begins at 2PM at the Lewesey Community Centre, LU4 OSW.
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A 23-year-old policeman from the Police Protection Unit allegedly raped a mentally-challenged woman in the Avenues area whom he had “arrested” for loitering.
Bornwell Mudunda, who was donning his police uniform, allegedly raped the woman in his car as a way of facilitating her release. According to the State, the incident occurred outside a night club in that area.
Mudunda of 9803 Kuwadzana 3, Harare, yesterday appeared before magistrate Milton Serima charged with rape. He was remanded to February 24 on $50 bail with the State’s consent.
The prosecutor Miss Sharon Mashavira, alleged that on January 25 this year, the victim was approached by Mudunda’s accomplice (name not supplied) at Tipperary Night Club, the court heard.
It is the State’s case that Mudunda’s accomplice grabbed the victim’s handbag and started demanding his $1 back, which he had initially paid for her to enter the club. He started walking back to a parked car while still holding the victim’s bag and the woman followed him.
When they got to the car park, the court heard that the man ordered the victim to get inside the car and she complied. When the complainant got into the car, she then saw Mudunda who was wearing his police regalia sitting in the car.
Mudunda reportedly locked the vehicle and told the woman that she was under arrest.
He allegedly advised the woman that they were going to have sexual intercourse as a way of facilitating her release.
According to the State the woman refused and Mudunda is said to have raped her.
After the act, Mudunda allegedly ordered the woman to disembark from the vehicle.-State Media
She then rushed back into the club and informed her friend who assisted her in reporting the matter to the police.

A 25-year-old self-styled Chiredzi prophet will spend the next 15 years in jail for raping a pregnant woman after lying to her that she had objects in her womanhood that could kill the baby or her during delivery.Thomas Muzira of Village 9, Triangle, pleaded not guilty to a charge of rape when he appeared before Masvingo senior regional magistrate Judith Zuyu on Friday, but was convicted due to overwhelming evidence against him.
The magistrate sentenced him to 18 years in jail, three years of which were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour. Magistrate Zuyu said Muzira put God’s name in disrepute by pretending to be a prophet when he was a criminal.
The man escaped to South Africa after committing the crime in 2010 and was arrested in December last year when he decided to come back home.
“You were on the run and you thought you will never be arrested. You deserve a stiffer penalty because the police had a torrid time looking for you yet you had skipped the border to South Africa. How could you rape an innocent pregnant woman through lying that you’re a prophet? You should rot in jail so that those who use God’s name to commit crime can also learn,” said Zuyu.
Prosecuting, Mukai Mutumhe said Muzira inserted his fingers into his victim’s womanhood as part of the “healing” session.
“On December 15, 2010, the woman visited Muzira where she was told she would die during delivery if she did not seek treatment. The woman was accompanied by her husband and other relatives but Muzira did not do anything on the day. He asked the woman to return the following day for treatment,” said Mutumhe.
Two days later, the woman returned and found Muzira alone. He took her into his room and ordered her to lie facing upwards, before inserting his finger into her womanhood.
“Muzira removed some objects after which he told the woman that there were still some bigger objects inside. He then ordered her to stand up and lean forward while holding a stool with both hands so that he could detect and remove bigger objects inserted by the enemies,” added the prosecutor.
When the woman leaned forward, Muzira lifted the woman’s dress to waist level before raping her once. “When the woman felt that Muzira had inserted his manhood, she tried to get off his grip but he held her tightly until he finished. After the incident, the woman went home and informed her husband after which a formal report was made to Triangle police. Muzira fled to neighbouring South Africa after committing the crime where he stayed for nearly five years but was arrested on his return in December last year, following a tip off,” said Mutumhe.
Muzira claimed he was in love with the woman and she framed him after her husband discovered about their relationship. Chronicle