In a sad confirmation of patronage in the ruling party, the Zanu PF provincial committee, Jappy Jaboon, has announced that the party is taking back a citrus farm given to former Minister of State for Masvingo, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti because he has been expelled from the party.
Addressing a Mwenezi inter-district meeting at Rutenga on Thursday last week, Masvingo political commissar and MP for Bikita East, Jaboon said the party is going to take from Bhasikiti the citrus farm in Mwenezi since he no longer belongs to Zanu PF.
Bhasikiti however, dismissed the utterances as wishful thinking adding that land reform was not based on political inclinations. He said Bhasikiti should not continue occupying the farm following his public attacks on the ruling party that he no longer belongs to Zanu PF hence he should not benefit from its programmes.
“As Zanu PF Masvingo province we are going to take that citrus farm from Bhasikiti. He no longer belongs to the party so why should he continue to benefit from its programmes. Relevant procedures are being taken so that the farm will be allocated to small-scale farmers so that many people will benefit from it.
“Very soon we will announce a date for all the people of Mwenezi who did not have land to occupy the farm especially you Zanu PF officials and party members” said Jaboon.
Bhasikiti said that the farm was so productive that no person with a sound mind can talk about grabbing it from him.
“That is wishful thinking and those people have been saying that for the past three years. Land reform is a government programme regardless of political affiliations. Many people with divergent political views have benefitted from this programme including those from MDC. If someone wants my farm he may have to convince the Minister of Lands so that he will cancel my offer letter if the farm is not productive but that is not it” said Bhasikiti.
Bhasikiti also insisted that he was still a Zanu PF member since he has received no communication on his expulsion. He said he was elected on a solid popular vote which is difficult to challenge.
“What I know is I am yet to be informed about my expulsion. I was elected on a 99,9% popular vote. It cannot be overturned overnight. During central committee election they sent soldiers to intimidate people but I was elected and this time I will trash their candidate come elections. People want to see me as their MP until 2018,” said Bhasikiti. -state media

Former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa says the way President Robert Mugabe had failed to recognise the late Amos Midzi as a national hero showed that the ruling party had now morphed into an “undemocratic animal” that was controlled by one man — the long-ruling nonagenarian.
A former minister and diplomat, Midzi, died on Tuesday last week in a suspected suicide and was buried at the Glen Forest Cemetery in Harare, with Mugabe and the ruling party flatly refusing to accord him hero status, not even at district level — because he was linked to former Vice President Joice Mujuru.
Sources who spoke to the Daily News at the weekend revealed that Midzi had died “a very bitter man” and had been unable to take his “ruthless rejection by a party he worked so hard for” on untested charges of being part of a so-called “putschist cabal” linked to Mujuru that was allegedly plotting to oust and kill Mugabe.
So controversial were the circumstances that led to Midzi’s death that many in the warring ruling party have raised serious questions about how exactly he met his fate, in addition to re-igniting raging national debate about who qualifies to be a national hero in the country.
Mutasa, a former politburo member who faces the same inglorious fate that Midzi had to endure until his death despite his long service to the divided ruling party, told the Daily News yesterday that it was clear that Mugabe and the post-congress Zanu PF were determined to deny many deserving Zimbabweans the status of national heroes — just because these people had dared to challenge the party or were wrongly suspected of plotting against Mugabe.
“It now appears as if anyone who is not in good books with the post-congress Zanu PF will not be recognised. Even people like me who have worked for Zanu since its inception are going to be ignored. Zanu PF ought not to be selfish as they are doing now and should recognise anyone deserving to be a hero,” Mutasa said.
By making this call, Mutasa joins opposition parties, including the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC, who have long lost faith in the partisan way used to select national heroes — who now derisively call the National Heroes Acre “Gushungo Heroes Acre”.
On his part, Mugabe has urged those who question the ruling party’s partisan role in determining who becomes a national hero to find “their own mountain” and bury their dead there.
Asked whether Zanu PF’s criteria when bestowing hero status was holistic given his inside knowledge Mutasa, a former influential politburo member and close confidante to Mugabe, said “things (the selection) should be simple and straightforward”.
“Our sympathy goes to the Midzi family and we sympathise with his daughter and we support her and what she said about her father being a hero,” he said.
Probed further by the Daily News if Midzi, who was once linked to the Zanu PF vigilante militia group called Chipangano that terrorised opposition party supporters in the Harare high density suburb of Mbare ahead of the 2013 polls, qualified to be a hero, Mutasa said he had “the attributes that eclipsed” those of some who were buried at the Heroes Acre.
“There should have been some recognition of what he did for Zanu. At least he should have been given a provincial hero status because he was the Harare chairperson and thus automatically had the credentials to be a provincial hero.
“The work which he did for Harare province should have been recognised by Zanu PF. What is beyond doubt is that Midzi was indeed a national hero. The fact that he was suspended is neither here nor there. He did a lot for the party,” Mutasa said.
Midzi’s death came at a time that Zanu PF is being disembowelled by deadly factional and succession wars. It further exposed the deep fissures in the ruling party as his funeral was characterised by clashes between the two distinct and bitterly-opposed Zanu PF formations that now obtain since late last year — with most liberation struggle stalwarts now operating as the “original” Zanu PF.
Mutasa said the seemingly unstoppable fights in Zanu PF explained in part why Midzi was totally ignored by the warring ruling party as a hero.
“The people of Harare province were very happy with what Midzi did for the party.
“They should have worked hard to ensure that he was declared a hero, but the supposed chairperson (now expelled Godwills Masimirembwa) could not do anything because he appears to be in trouble himself,” he said.
Quizzed on whether only people with connections to Zanu PF were supposed to be declared heroes, Mutasa said “even vendors who are soldiering on” deserve to be recognised as heroes.
“All sorts of people need to be recognised if they did something outstanding for the country. Unfortunately, this has been personalised and Midzi’s death shows how democracy has died in Zanu PF,” Mutasa said.-Daily News

STV|A former university lecturer who founded his own church and sexually abused members has avoided jail after a sheriff said he had “already suffered a spectacular fall from grace”.
Walter Masocha, who called himself “The Prophet”, was made subject to a community payback order with the condition that he performs 250 hours unpaid work.
The 51-year-old was also placed on supervision and the sex offenders register for 12 months.
The “Archbishop” of the Stirling-based Agape for All Nations Church, who put his hand down the trousers of a schoolgirl saying he was trying to remove demons, was assessed by social workers as at “moderate risk” of re-offending.
Masocha, who also groped a young deaconess while he was supposed to be praying for a problem she had with her stomach, was told by Sheriff Kenneth McGowan his conduct must have left his victims “hurt and bewildered”.
The sheriff said: “The evidence was that you touched each of the complainers inappropriately on several occasions. At the time they were both members of a church of which you were leader.
“You held a position of trust which you abused, and a further aggravating factor in relation to one of the victims is her relatively young age.
“Dealing with the question of harm, the complainers must have been left hurt and bewildered by your conduct, at the time it happened and thereafter.”
Sheriff McGowan said the law required courts only to impose custodial sentences when no other disposal was appropriate.
He said: “There are many cases where the gravity of the offences are such that a custodial sentence is inevitable.
“Without in any way seeking to downplay the severity of the offences in this case, my view is that this is not the position here.
“The criminal justice social work report has assessed you as suitable for a community-based disposal, and in addition you have already suffered a spectacular fall from grace.”
The sheriff added Masocha was otherwise of good character, saying “It is very clear from references submitted on your behalf that you have carried out charitable and other works and are respected for that.”
Masocha stood head bowed in the dock at Falkirk Sheriff Court as the sheriff spoke. On the public benches his wife Judith, labelled The Prophetess within the church.
The man, who used to teach at Stirling University, appeared for sentence after being found guilty of sexually assaulting the deaconess and sexually touching the schoolgirl after a six day trial in April.
Jurors, who took less than half an hour to reach their verdicts, had heard the schoolgirl aged 15 was left in tears after Masocha “pinged” her knicker-elastic and pinched her bottom claiming she had demons in her pants.
The deaconess, a 32-year-old mother-of-four, was also told The Prophet had been “trying to remove ‘something’ from her genitals”.
Both were targeted between April 2012 and January 2014 at Masocha’s £500,000 seven-bedroom mansion, Coseyneuk House, near Stirling, where the Zimbabwe-born churchman received a steady stream of followers.
During the trial the schoolgirl now 16, said she regarded Masocha as her “spiritual father”, and like many people in the church called him “Dad”.
She said in late 2013 she was with other girls in an upstairs games room when Masocha came in and waved her over.
She said: “He placed his hand round my lower back, and moved his hand down until he got to my underwear, and he sort of pinged my underwear.
“He repeatedly pinged my underwear, ran his hand down my bottom, and grabbed and pinched my bottom.”
The Stirlingshire secondary school pupil said she felt violated and later asked Masocha why he had done it. He replied he had seen “demons and things that shouldn’t be there” in her pants and he was clearing them away.
She broke into tears because she thought she had been bad without realising. Mascocha said he would pray to remove the “demons” and left the room.
In another incident, when she was 13 or 14 , she said Masocha had been sitting down at his home, very close to her, advising her about school when he suddenly said, “You’ll always be mine”, and kissed her on the lips.
She said at the time she was happy, because members of the church had been taught anything they received from Masocha was a blessing from God, but now she felt disgusted.
The deaconess said Masocha had hugged her “very intimately”, caressing her back and kissing her round the neck, and saying “receive my love”.
On another occasion said she had once gone to his office for prayer with a stomach complaint.
She said: “He said he was going to pray it away. He touched my tummy, then his hand went down my body, onto my private parts.
“It was like he was feeling me. I was so shocked. At that time I saw him as somebody who could never do any wrong, because that was what he used to teach us. He used to teach us his hugs were anointed.”
She told her husband, a devoted member of the church, from whom she has since separated, and he said: “The Prophet is seeing something in your genitals that needs to be removed, so he was removing that.”
The woman, a trained nurse, later fled her matrimonial home with her children, and spoke about what had happened to her brother, and others.
She said: “Suddenly, my eyes were opened.”
She began an online blog to expose the activities of the church, which she called “a cult”.
In other incidents, she described how as part of her involvement with the church, she had to undergo an all-night “deliverance” after her husband told her she had to be delivered from demons.
Shortly before she left the organisation for good, church members called an ambulance to a service she was attending in England and tried to get her sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
Paramedics declined to act, concluding the call had been an “act of public humiliation”.
Defence advocate John Scullion QC said Masocha had since resigned from “active participation in the church” and members of the congregation were “no longer welcomed” at Cosyneuk House, which had reverted to the role of a family home.
Outside court, Cindy Martin, a former pastor at Agape, hit out at the fact Masocha was not jailed.
She said: “It’s like a slap in the face for female members of the church.”
She also claimed Masocha was still active in the church and had been at a church event in St Andrews, Fife, only on Sunday “lapping up adulation”. -STV

The Zimbabwe Republic Police has announced blanket action against calls for an independent investigation into the death of former Cabinet Minister and ZANU PF Harare Chair Amos Midzi saying there is no need as they are “convinced” of the findings made to date.
Police were on Tuesday morning winding off what they claimed was a probe into the death of former Zanu-PF Harare provincial chairman and Cabinet Minister Amos Midzi, who was found dead in his car at his farm in Beatrice last Tuesday.
A whistleblower has said Mr Midzi was assassinated and analysts say if their claims were false leaving suicide as the conclusion, still the evidence of mental torture on Midzi, a loyal Grace Mugabe supporter, would point to an assassination by inducing the act.  They wrote on the day Midzi died saying: Amos Midzi wasn’t a saint but neither did he kill himself out, a quick google of “Umbrella death” will confirm your worst fears. Though it wasn’t an umbrella literally used on Midzi’s death our intelligence has been for a long time acquiring silent killing methods from the Israelis and of interest Ricin a poisonous substance topped the list of our research, this agent kills quickly when injected in one’s body and toxicology tests will take a long time to detect especially in Zimbabwe were we don’t have proper lab facilities. But why would they use that on Midzi? Prior to his suspension a few weeks ago he had blown the lid on the real diamond looters and vendors cash scandal and Grace Mugabe’s name featured so much on his dossier armed with tangible evidence Midzi was courting foreign media Daily Mail UK, Mail & Guardian SA mistake he made was dealing with Savanhu who in turn found an opportunity to cleanse himself sold out the whole plot to Mashayamombe and Omega Hungwe, Cleveria Chizema and they had a round table with Pupurai Togarepi. Martin Mukatyei(you once wrote about him on Chindori Chininga death) That’s when the military intel took over the issue because of their interests in the diamond sector and the damming info that was about to be unleashed they just resolved to silence him. His suspension from Zanu PF was a well calculated move to make it seem as had become depressed and commit suicide.
But the Police say there was nothing sinister on their findings and a “post-mortem conducted last Wednesday on the deceased’s body revealed that he died of poisoning”. They said no foul play was suspected and Midzi’s case would be treated like any sudden death.
“We are in the process of concluding the case and the matter will be treated just like any sudden death case since no foul play is suspected,” a senior police officer said.
The matter is being handled by detectives from the CID Law and Order Section based at Marondera Police Station.
Midzi’s post-mortem was carried out by a team of three doctors who concluded that the death was due to market pulmonary oedema due to poisoning.
In a statement last week, police chief spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba said further samples were taken for toxicology tests.
Police recovered a one-litre bottle of poisonous methamidophos and sleeping tablets from Midzi’s vehicle, raising fears that he could have committed suicide.
A cup containing a bluish liquid was also recovered from the car, a Ford Everest registration number ACY 3329, grey in colour, which had all doors locked.
Midzi was buried on Saturday at Glen Forest Memorial Park.(State Media/Additional Reporting)

A top US Congressman has dropped a bombshell account outlining future US-Zimbabwe relations. In what is a sure disappointment to 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe currently begging for the lifting of US sanctions, Rep. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J trailed Zimbabwe’s history for over 120 years since British explorer Cecil John Rhodes’ times, concluding ominously at the end that Mugabe and his leadership are at a dead no-return end.
The narrative reveals that US relations have a hope only after the current crop of resented leaders under the 91-year-old leader are gone. The US government which played a key role in bringing down the racist Rhodesian government, has been influential in fighting for Zimbabwe’s democratisation.
Below was his speech addressed to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives:
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, Zimbabwe is a country the size of the state of Montana, with a population of nearly 14 million people. However, its mineral wealth gives it an outsized importance. The southern African nation is the world’s third largest source of platinum group metals and has significant reserves of nickel, gold, chromium and dozens of other metals and minerals. Significant diamond reserves were discovered in 2006. Currently, about 40 percent of the country’s foreign exchange is earned from the export of these metals and minerals.
It was the abundance of such mineral resources, and their exploitation, which has driven the relationship between the West and Zimbabwe. Since its colonization by Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa Company in 1889 on behalf of Great Britain, the area once known as Southern Rhodesia has experienced a tumultuous history.
The white minority gained self-governance in 1922, and a 1930 Land Apportionment Act restricted black access to land, making many Africans laborers and not land owners. In 1964, the white minority government unsuccessfully sought independence from Great Britain, and then unilaterally declared independence a year later under white rule. This move sparked international outrage and economic sanctions, and that regime was never widely recognized by the international community, though the support of white-ruled South Africa enabled the government to limp along.
Meanwhile, black opposition to minority rule, which began in the 1930s, erupted into a guerilla war in 1972. Attempts to end the conflict diplomatically failed until the 1979 talks brokered by Great Britain resulted in British-supervised independence elections. The winner of those elections was Robert Mugabe, leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union, or ZANU, who at age 91 continues to rule this country, in large part through intimidation and manipulation of elections.
As a hero of the independence and majority rule movements, Mugabe has enjoyed the support of many other African leaders, who have considered him an honored elder and have generally declined to join in international efforts to sanction his government. This has placed the United States in an awkward position, with limited African support for political and economic reforms in Zimbabwe.
Although many observers have credited the Mugabe government with productive management until fairly recent years, there were political problems from the beginning of his rule.
For example, Mugabe fired fellow independence leader Joshua Nkomo in 1982 and then launched a campaign to suppress what his government called a rebellion by pro-Nkomo forces. The Mugabe regime has been accused of killing thousands of ethnic Ndebele citizens over the next few years to end the supposed rebellion, assisted by military advisors from East Germany and North Korea.
Once one of the leading industrial nations in Africa, Zimbabwe began a long economic downward spiral in the late 1990s. Squatters, with the support of the Zimbabwe government, seized white farms they claimed had been stolen by white settlers in the past. Despite government assurances, these farms were not transferred to black farm workers, but rather to cronies of the Mugabe government who lacked agricultural experience. Both whites and blacks in Zimbabwe acknowledged that the land policies had been unfair, but the manner of addressing this problem led to serious economic problems for the country.
Agricultural production fell, and the manufacturing sector, heavily tied to agriculture, also diminished. Efforts to squeeze currency for shrinking national reserves from businesses, coupled with the disastrous requirement that businesses use the fictitious exchange rate, caused retailers to lose money with each sale. The effort to close the many vendors who supplied tourists with souvenirs and citizens with necessary household items was yet another milestone in Zimbabwe’s economic collapse. By 2006, year-on-year inflation exceeded 1,000 percent. Devaluation of the currency and the subsequent use of foreign currency are credited with eventually preventing a complete economic collapse.
Zimbabwe and the United States have had a tempestuous relationship since that southern African country emerged from white minority rule. Part of the problem has been resentment by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his closest advisers against the United States for not supporting their liberation movement, the backdrop to which was the geopolitical conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Another part of the problem has been the justifiable public criticism of repressive political policies by the Mugabe government by successive U.S. administrations. Consequently, the minimal communications between our two governments has contributed to suspicions and an inability for U.S. officials to reach out to cooperative Zimbabwe officials.
Successive elections have been the subject of opposition and international criticism for the lack of political space allowed to those who would challenge the ruling ZANU party. Arrests, incarcerations, torture in custody, beatings at public rallies and demonstrations and disappearances of government opponents have denied legitimacy to the Zimbabwe election processes. The country’s commitment to democratic governance has been further placed in question due to a series of repressive laws preventing freedoms of speech, association and movement.
As if the government’s repressive tactics are not troubling enough, political jockeying in Zimbabwe, including the recent dismissal of Vice President Joice Mujuru, places the succession to President Mugabe in doubt, which puts U.S. policy in question. Last week’s hearing examined current U.S. policy toward Zimbabwe and the prospects for an enhanced relationship depending on events that have not yet taken place.
Of course, in foreign policy, one cannot wait until a crisis materializes in order to create a planned response. A leader nearing the century mark, presiding over a fractious political scene in a country that has experienced political and economic turmoil creates a situation in which planning for a positive outcome to regime change must be devised.
Zimbabwe is a country rich in both natural and human potential. Once the resentments of the current old guard have passed and democratic governance can be established, U.S.-Zimbabwe relations can become what they have never been: harmonious and mutually beneficial.

ZimSentinel|Hurungwe West losing candidate, Temba Mliswa has blasted African Union and SADC Chair President Robert Mugabe saying he should observe democracy in his own country first before preaching to African Union.
 
Describing the by –election held on 10 June as not ‘free and fair’. Mliswa lost the seat to a ZANU PF candidate, Keith Guzah who polled 5961 votes against Mliswa’s 4 239.

Addressing journalists at the Media Centre on Monday morning, Mliswa alleged that ZANU PF had intimidated his supporters and many of his supporters had been turned away by officials conducting the poll.
In ward 16, 127 voters were turned away while 51 were assisted in voting. He claimed that over 150 people were assaulted in the run up to the election and during the election.
Mliswa accused the police of folding their arms while ZANU PF supporters perpetrated violence on his supporters. Several cases were reported to the police but the police did not turn up or record any of these cases.
The losing candidate who was reading from a dossier said that given these circumstances it was clear that the election could not be declared free and fair.
However readers online said Mliswa had no right to cry foul given that he had won these elections under the same circumstances in the 201 3 harmonised elections.
“Mliswa won the Hurungwe seat under the same condition. Zvarwadza now?” asked the reader.
Mliswa added that he would be contesting the outcome of the election in court. ‘We will succeed in court because our legal representatives have learnt from their mistakes’ said Mliswa.
He urged other candidates to participate in these elections as it was the only way to gauge if reforms were being effected. Participating would also make the opposition learn from their mistakes he argued.
The recent elections have been dismissed by many civic organisations as a waste of time. Many of the organisations argue that the government has not yet implemented the necessary reforms prescribed by the new constitution to hold free and fair elections.

Asylum seeking singer says I’ve been an MDC member since 1987

Coventry Telegraph |AN ASYLUM seeking singer claims he would face torture and violence if he was sent back to Zimbabwe because of a CD he made criticising President Robert Mugabe.
A tribunal heard Prince Mapetosa Mazwi, who has been living in Coventry, had made a musical CD in the UK country criticising Mugabe’s controversial regime.
His legal adviser, Andrew Nyamayaro, wanted to play the “Voice of Freedom” CD to Immigration and Asylum judge H S Sangha as the drummer sought asylum at an Immigration and Asylum Tribunal in Birmingham.
But Sangha said the courtroom did not have the facilities.
Sangha said: ‘‘We don’t even know if the voice on the CD is that of Mr Mazwi. It could be anyone.”
Nyamayaro said the voice was that of the appellant and that he would be at risk if sent back to Zimbabwe as a result of making the CD.
Mazwi of Stoke Heath, Coventry, said he was a member of the Movement for Democratic Change, which opposed the Government.
He said he had appeared on Twitter denouncing the Zimbabwe Government after making the CD in the UK.
The tribunal was told that Mazwi sang controversial lyrics on the CD apart from playing the drums with his group.
He complained he had been tortured and beaten up by security forces because of his protests shortly before fleeing to the UK.
Mazwi appealed against a Home Office recommendation that his asylum seeking application should be refused after warning that he faced further torture and violence if sent back home.
“After being attacked and tortured in Zimbabwe I went into hiding, staying with friends, before coming to England,” he said. “I moved from place to place in Zimbabwe to avoid detection.”
Mazwi made the CD in 2010. He had been a member of the opposition group since 1987 and said he had attended protest rallies.
John Proctor, representing the Home Office, questioned whether Mazwi would be at risk if he was sent back to Zimbabwe.
“The Home Office previously refused to grant Mazwi asylum which has prompted his appeal today,” said Mr Proctor.
Sangha said he would made a decision at a later date.
President Mugabe is now 91 and has been control of an alleged “violent and tumultuous” regime since 1980 despite unsuccessful attempts to remove him.
Zimbabwe is said to have one of the poorest economic situations in the world.

The crisis ridden Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CIZC) has blamed the protest call for Director McDonald Lewanika’s exit, on Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party.
In a statement, the NGO alleged that Mugabe’s ZANU PF activists were responsible for the protests which began last year over alleged abuse of office and organisation funds.
The NGO’s board said in the broad presser it has since reported the case to the police. The full statement read:
“The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CIZC) Board and the entire membership strongly condemns the unruly behavior by some malcontents, as exhibited, on Friday 12 June 2015.
“These malcontents whom we hugely suspect to be ZANU PF thugs came around 9:30 am. They started knocking the gate violently and directing insults at the outgoing director, Mr. McDonald Lewanika.
“After realizing that no one was responding, they wrote insulting messages on the gate using graffiti. They also threw placards inside the gate denigrating the person of Mr. Lewanika. This followed efforts to open the gate using a metal bars and pliers.These cannibalistic actions instilled fear in all the employees who were present.
“The insults as well robbed Mr. Lewanika of his deserved dignity.
“As the board, we therefore sincerely apologize to Mr.Mr. Lewanika and the entire secretariat. It is our heartfelt belief that the secretariat does not deserve such treatment, in the wake of the tireless efforts they make to raise the flag of Crisis Coalition.
“Imagine, Mr Lewanika has served the organization for more than 8 years. We would like to hasten, to tell our employees that such actions strengthen, rather than weaken them.All the Anti-democracy forces feel threatened by the existence of Crisis Coalition by virtue of its active stance against injustices since its formation. We have since made a report at Highlands Police Station and the investigations to bring these criminals to book are underway.
“The Chairperson, Ms Samukeliso Khumalo is also going to set an investigation committee shortly after her return from South Africa.Meanwhile CIZC will circulate a report on its recent visit to the AU meeting in Sandton; South Africa, last week.CIZC was represented by Incoming Acting Director, Nixon Nyikadzino, Board Chairperson, Samukeliso Khumalo and Mfundo Mlilo, the Spokesperson.
“Please note that the Coalition will not be deterred by any form of disturbances. Issued by Mfundo Mlilo on the 13th of June 2015329 Samora Machel.”

As Zimbabwe faces mass starvation, Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been left with an egg on his face after it emerged he lied when he claimed that no one in the country would starve and that government had purchased enough grain and other foods to feed every person in the country.
 
During bi election campaign rallies early June, Mnangagwa told Zimbabweans the country was well resourced on food aid and that no one would starve.  He even claimed that government had paid every dime needed to cover for a whole year.
 
But he yesterday exposed himself when he admitted at least $300 million is still required to import food due to the poor harvest that was recorded during the 2014-15 season. The government does not have even a fraction of that money, Mnangagwa humiliated himself revealing.
Speaking during the official launch of the Zimbabwe Zero Hunger Strategic Review Report yesterday, Mnangagwa said Government was sourcing the funds from different stakeholders to assist the drought affected areas.
“Approximately $300 million is required to import food to cover the deficit and see us through to the next harvest, hoping that it will be significantly better than the current one,” he said.
“While we need 1,4 million tonnes of maize a year for consumption, our produce for the 2014-15 season has gone down by approximately 49 percent.
“I am therefore calling upon all our partners, from development agencies and the private sector, to assist us in providing the necessary resources to ensure that none of the communities nationwide is exposed to hunger and starvation.”
The Zimbabwe Zero Hunger Strategic Review Plan, which was produced by the World Food Programme, is aimed at reducing food shortages in the country.
The objective of the review report was to establish a comprehensive understanding of the context and status regarding food and nutrition security and facilitate development of a national zero hunger roadmap.
The report reviews relevant statutes, protocols and frameworks at national, regional and global level that underpin Zimbabwe’s response to food and nutrition security.
“I am encouraged by the observation from the review that the country has a conducive policy environment and has put adequate structures to address food and nutrition security,” said the Acting President.
“All we need to do then is follow up with carefully crafted monitoring and evaluation plans to ensure an implementation process that leads to observable results.”
Mnangagwa said the initiative by the World Food Programme was capable of enhancing community resilience through diversified agricultural production.
“The initiative integrates principles of sustainable land management, gender main streaming and food security,” he said.
The launch of the report was running under the theme: “A Zimbabwe free from hunger and malnutrition”.

A BULAWAYO man broke into a house in Nkulumane suburb and demanded to know a woman’s HIV status before wearing a condom and raping her, a court has heard.
Talent Chakanyuka, 35, allegedly threatened to kill the victim, 21, if she resisted or told anyone afterwards. He went on to raid groceries from the house. Chakanyuka appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Sibongile Msipa-Marondedze charged with unlawful entry, theft and rape.
He was remanded in custody to June 25 before being advised to apply for bail at the High court. “You’re advised to apply for bail at the High court because this court doesn’t have the power to grant you bail,” said Msipa-Marondedze.
Prosecuting Mufaro Mageza, said on June 8 this year at around 9PM, the woman locked the doors, windows and switched off the lights before retiring to bed.
“At around 3AM Chakanyuka cut the burglar bars to gain entry through a window. The complainant woke up to find him standing over her, holding a knife and a torch,” said Mageza.
The prosecutor said the victim told Chakanyuka she was HIV positive.
Mageza said Chakanyuka told the woman that he could not have sexual intercourse with an HIV infected woman. The court heard that Chakanyuka reached for a condom that was in his pocket, put it on and raped the woman once.
He threatened the woman with death if she screamed, said Mageza. He said Chakanyuka then robbed the woman of R100 and asked her why she stayed alone. “He went to the kitchen where he stole groceries that included flour, body lotion and macaroni,” said Mageza.
He told the court that the next day the victim was walking in her neighbourhood with her cousin when she saw Chakanyuka at his house. She reported the matter at Nkulumane Police Station leading to Chakanyuka’s arrest.- Chronicle

Shrewd Central Intelligence, security Agents and personal aides to President Robert Mugabe are murdering the Head of State. The officers who are on full payroll have subjected the elderly statesman to abusive pressure beyond any human being can bear, experts charge citing latest disturbing footage from Mugabe’s AU Summit in South Africa where the 91 year old was filmed struggling to lift one leg over a single step.
Although President Mugabe recently complained of struggles with his health in particular his sleep routine, aides have watched him physically deteriorate but still pushing him forward.  “All those security guys are doing this for their selfish benefit knowing Gushungo will be gone very soon, and pushing him to the limits only serves them to sustain their cash pots,” commented political analyst Herbert Juma. He spoke over a  recent medical paper combining results of different studies over the last 50 years, which has found that spending too long at work resulted in a 40 to 80 percent greater chance of heart disease compared to an eight hour work day.
“Under these conditions President Mugabe will be dead in 3 months’ time,” he added.
The latest findings discovered by scientists at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health support results from a 2011 survey that revealed that doing more than 11 hours of work a day raised heart disease risks by 67 percent. Lead researcher Dr. Marianna Virtanen and her team gathered data from 12 different studies going back to 1958, when researchers first suggested that working long hours could be linked to poor heart health. In total, the studies involved more than 22,000 participants, from Britain, the USA, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands.

In a stunning revelation likely to stump the enemies of ex-Vice President Joice Mujuru, the executor of her late husband Solomon Mujuru’s estate says it is in debt to the tune of $2 million-plus.
This also comes amid reports that the ex-liberation fighter’s family has not been involved in the administration of the estate and in a development, which also dampens claims that the popular politician had a multi-billion dollar fortune.
According to an interim report by the estate’s executor Stern Mufara, Mujuru’s “most prized asset” was his Hogerty Hill matrimonial home — worth $350 000 — and which he shared with his widow Joice, the former Zanu PF and national vice president.
“I advise that we are attending to evaluations. I shall soon be meeting to discuss the affairs of this estate with a view to file the first interim administration and distribution account,” the Nyika, Kanengoni & Partners (NKP) staffer wrote to the High Court master on June 12.
Apart from the Borrowdale property, Mujuru’s other listed assets include interests in publicly-traded and private companies as well as immovable properties in, and around the capital worth an estimated $1,5 to $2 million.
While the report lists a parcel of one million African Sun shares, a paltry 22 in Merzig Enterprises, 391 Ruwa Golf Resort Holdings shares, 4 430 in Zimbabwe Motor Assemblers and Distributors, and shares in Oriel Pharmacy, some of his immovable assets were given as a Marondera house valued at $100 000, a Bindura stand worth $80 000, livestock and farm equipment at Ruzambo Farm, which is yet to be valued.
“My second report, and hopefully my last, will deal with the remainder of the property after compilation of the inventory viz-a-viz the movable property at Ruzambu… and Rylance,” Mufara said.
Mujuru’s holdings also included a stand in Shamva, Warren Park and a flat at the rundown Gail Court in Harare’s Samora Machel Avenue. In the meantime, Mufara’s listings also include a 100 percent share in Kalmic Investments, Kumirinje Farms, Rylance, Kuphikile Resources (Kuphikile) and Thurlow & Company (Thurlow), although the latter two have long ceased to operate.
While Kuphikile — a 50 percent joint venture with Tirivanhu Mudariki — was a minority shareholder in liquidated River Ranch Mines, Thurlow was a retail operator, which was closed in the 80s. And with Ruzambu registered under Joice’s name in terms of its 99 year lease, and claims against the estate — from Agribank, Hanagwe (Private) Limited and others — mounting, it is likely that the Beatrice farm will also be inherited by the former VP and just as it cannot form part of the estate.
Like the Mashonaland East farm, most of the property — about 50 percent of the estate — will be taken by the beleaguered widow, as this is in accordance with the marriage law. Under Zimbabwean laws, heroes are also exempt from paying tax, so the debt-ridden estate is safe from that front.
While a Ruwa joint Plaka Tarven had been listed among Mujuru’s assets, it turns out that it was jointly run by Zimbabwe Prison Services boss Paradzai Zimondi under a lease.
Amid suggestions that the liberation struggle stalwart had amassed a multi-billion dollar fortune in the region of $9 to $25 billion, the current findings — if not numbers — have shown that the late General was a man of modest means.
Like Mujuru himself, the handling of his estate has been marked by serious controversy around the number of likely beneficiaries — given his alleged brood — and the choice of executors, especially given that NKP’s forerunner George Chikumbirike & Associates used to do some work for one of Zanu PF’s top leaders.
While the anti-Joice Mujuru lobby was hoping to use the issue of Solomon Mujuru’s estate to galvanise the view that the Mujurus were corrupt, Mufara’s report has stumped many as the figures are diametrically at odds with the loose talk within the ruling party. daily news

The Sudanese President, General Omar al Bashir, who was in South Africa attending the 25th African Union summit escaped police arrest by a whisker managing to secretly lift off into the air for his country in the wee hours of Monday morning.
General Bashir’s arrival in South Africa on Friday opened a police case after him with calls for his immediate arrest and handing over to the International Criminal Court for his various crimes against humanity.
South Africa is a signatory of the ICC.
His spokesperson, Hussein Kashumi, confirmed that Bashir left Monday morning.
South African authorities have said Bashir is a guest of the African Union, whose stance against the ICC is well known.
Robert Mugabe has through the AU repeatedly labeled the ICC as racist and anti-African. He said the continental body will not cooperate with the ICC.
The ruling by a South African judge, Hans Fabricuis had been made that Bashir should not leave the country until a hearing to determine his fate has been held.
There was confusion Monday morning with some reports suggesting that General al Bashir had already left South Africa, while others said he was still around.
 
The State Media claimed Monday that any attempt to arrest al Bashir could have turned at South Africa’s image on the African scene, especially after it voted together with Nigeria and Gabon for the Security Council to intervene in Libya. The decision saw the invasion of that country and the subsequent death of Col Muammar Gaddafi.

VIDEO: Expelled former Hurungwe West MP Themba Mliswa fights back on his enemies today Monday. The live address begins at 11.00am Harare time.

Newsday|POLICE detectives investigating the Air Zimbabwe $10 million fleet insurance fraud have reportedly roped in the airline’s jailed former executive Grace Pfumbidzayi and senior official Maxwell Madziwa to turn them into State witnesses to testify against Transport ministry secretary Munesu Munodawafa.
Munodawafa is currently on $1 000 bail following his arrest in April after he was linked to the alleged scam.
Sources close to the matter confirmed that Pfumbidzai (former AirZim legal secretary) and Madziwa (former human resources manager) were called in by the Serious Frauds Squad for interviews in the last couple of weeks. Pfumbidzai, who is serving a seven-year jail sentence at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, was summoned to assist police with investigations.
“The calling of Pfumbidzai by Serious Frauds Squad is in connection with the investigation of Munodawafa and they are hoping to bring her as a witness in the matter,” the source said.
Pfumbidzai’s lawyer Andrew Muvirimi was not immediately available for comment. Muvirimi is still trying to get his client out on bail pending appeal against both conviction and sentence at the High Court.
Madziwa who is alleged to be part of the top brass that was involved in signing some of the payments to Navistar Insurance was also summoned to give a statement and possible appearance in court as a witness.
Madziwa’s lawyer Donald Sibanda told NewsDay his client had attended a meeting at the Serious Frauds Squad offices, but declined to speak in detail on the matter. National police spokesman Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba could not be reached for comment yesterday.-Newsday

Abducted civic rights activist Itai Dzamara’s brother Patson has opened fire on all church pastors saying they are out for riches.
Soon attracting a backlash from Christians left right and centre, he said this as he complained that pastors he invited to the weekend Dzamara prayer meeting were out just to make money using his brother’s name. He named for instance one specific pastor he had deployed to organise police clearance for the Saturday function.
He wrote, “as far as my knowledge is concerned, The Pastors Fellowship of Zimbabwe representing the church was invited to the table but it appears as if they are seeking to posit that the prayer initiative was their brainchild.
“That is not correct. Through the help of well wishers in the civic society, as a family we have been hosting prayer meetings for Itai Dzamara on a monthly basis since his disappearance and that is public knowledge.
“Its unfortunate and curious that of all the prayer meetings we have hosted as a family, The Pastors Fellowship of Zimbabwe never showed up. Neither were they a part of the process. In fact most church leaders never came through to pray with us because they are afraid to be marked by the authorities and eventually missing out on what they love the most, richies.”
His comments drew an artillery from furious Zimbabweans some who began challenging his educational credentials being the doctorate he displays as “Dr.”
Wrote news columnist Ndaba Nhuku, “this should be worrying. Maybe Patson Dzamara needs to find a neutral family spokesperson who will handle these concerns to avoid creating enemies. I see statements like this presenting future problems. Parson needs to not be reminded that many political players have been taking advantage of Itai’s case; and he never issued a statement against them. Something is amiss here. We also don’t see the explanation on how these guys were financially going to benefit from this prayer. It seems something is not in order.”
Another Zimbo Denzel Nkhata weighed in saying “I once read somewhere pakanzi Dr Patson Dzamara.. but I now wonder…is this guy a doctor?#
“Minus the boring vain repetitions in his statement , a doctor cannot lack fore sight to such an extent neither can he be so dumb as to claim to be issuing such rubbish on behalf of the whole Dzamara family.”
One networker named as “Sacha Forest” also poured her fury saying, “Patson ane mawara, speedy mupfana uyu, accusing all and sundry, haasiriye here who was attending leadership conferences with the likes of Kasukuwere and Chiyangwa, takamubvunza kuti ndeipi ? he mouthed off, hezvoka.”

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe laid into Nigerian and South Africa saying Africa would never agree to them getting permanent seats on the UN Security Council.
This Mugabe said was because they had both voted for UN Security Council Resolution 1973 in 2011, which authorised military action against the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. They had betrayed the continent which could never trust them, sources reported him as saying.
Mugabe intervened in a meeting of the so-called “Committee of 10” at the summit on Saturday which was discussing possible amendments to the “Ezulwini Consensus” which stated Africa’s position on reform of the UN Security Council.
The 2005 Ezulwini Consensus was that Africa should demand at least two permanent and five non-permanent seats on the council as part of the protracted, wider reform to make it more representative of the world.
The consensus also demanded that the two permanent seats should come with the same veto powers as were enjoyed by the five current permanent members, the US, UK, China, Russia and France.
This demand for vetoes had effectively stymied Africa’s chances of reforming the council. And so the South African government was calling for Africa to adopt a more flexible approach by dropping the veto demand.
This was what the so-called G4 group of nations – Germany, Japan, India and Brazil – who were also seeking permanent seats on the council had done, as a tactical manoeuvre to try to diminish resistance to their bid.
Last year South African President Jacob Zuma said: “Africa needs to compromise – not reiterate fixed positions as it has done for the past nine years.”
And he organised a retreat of African Foreign Ministers in February 2014 to review the Ezulwini Consensus.
South Africa also intended to raise it in the Committee of 10 meeting here on Saturday. The Committee of 10 was appointed by the AU many years ago to pursue the UN Security Council reform.
But one regional official who was in the meeting said he believed that Mugabe’s attack on South Africa and Nigeria had seriously damaged South Africa’s case for reviewing the Ezulwini Consensus.
The official said Mugabe had not mentioned the two countries by name. But it was clear to all in the room who he was referring to as he referred to African governments who had been on the UN Security Council when Resolution 1973 on Libya was adopted in 2011.
South Africa and Nigeria were both on the council at the time, occupying two of the ten, non-permanent, two-year seats. South Africa’s vote for Resolution 1973 was highly controversial even within South Africa. But the South African government justified it on the grounds that a foreign military intervention was necessary to prevent Gaddafi’s forces slaughtering his opponents in their Benghazi stronghold, as he threatened to do.
Pretoria later condemned the Nato-led military coalition for going beyond the mandate which was to protect civilians, by helping rebels overthrow Gaddafi.
But South Africa suspects that countries like Zimbabwe are avoiding review of the Ezulwini Consensus and insisting on a hardline, maximalist position on UN Security Council reform because they don’t want bigger African countries like South Africa and Nigeria to get permanent seats on the council.-IOL

–Mnangagwa family speaks out–
Close family members in Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s family unit intentionally leaked embarrassing video footage of the 12 year old UK based grandson who is filmed cursing his mother, ZimEye.com can reveal.
ZimEye is reliably told of the whole plot against the boy’s mother which continued at the weekend as the several family members suddenly became increasing friendly in the last few days .
The development comes after the two week fiasco after the video of the lad hurling unprintable insults at his mother, many say show an extremely difficult family environ.
“There are two people we know of a certain did this,” a family senior told ZimEye.com.
“It is very unfair and really shocking that someone would do such a thing. The boy has a health condition, an illness and this is well known to family members,” the elderly woman who cannot be named said.
ZimEye.com in the upcoming days pursues to reveal and expose the names of the two who have violated the family and ubuntu ethics by causing the lad to come under vicious ridicule and abuse from the public.

London (ZimEye) Zimbabwean ex-servicemen have been left out of the roll of honour and the United Kingdom government should honour Rhodesian/Zimbabwean army heroes in the same way they do mainland ex- servicemen, a petition on the UK government website reads.
The petition has been crafted by Zimbabweans living in the United Kingdom who protest that the UK government has stopped recognising the sacrifice and courage that Rhodesian/Zimbabwean service men of all races have made on behalf of Great Britain since the Second World War.
This petition comes in time with the annual remembrance ceremonies annually officiated by the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

The Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe VMCZ has lunched prestigious professional Journalism awards which is aimed at motivating ethical reporting .
The two awards namely “The Story of The Year” and “Most Professional Media House” will be held every November starting this year. 
VMCZ board member Chris Chinaka at the event held in Harare last week to  announce the development said they want to improve the deteriorating reportage the country is experiencing hence the  introduction of the award. 
“There is a very serious violation of ethics now, and there is no questions about that .I think we all need serious introspection as journalists. To have a frank discussion about the state of our profession and this part of this discussion which must lead to recognizing where we have done well,”said Chinaka. 
Chinaka acknowledged that profession of journalism had  been eroded by both political and businesses interests and challenged the public to advocate for media freedom. 
“Journalists serve the public and it is the responsibility of the public to cry out loud and demand that politicians and business people must not interfere with the profession of journalism. Journalists should be independent and should not be told what to or what not to report on by anyone,”he said. 
VMCZ said  winners of the prestigious award will pocket no less than $1000 in cash. 
A team of seasoned journalists according to VMCZ will be selected to adjudicate over stories which would have been produced from January to October submitted by either individual journalists or their editors for the completion.

The brave Nigerian journalist who stood out to grill Robert Mugabe on his departure date, has been reportedly harassed out of work.
After a string of attacks from Mugabe’s ZANU PF party on the journo’s media house SaharaTV, Adeola Fayehun is now off the screens, a development which has seen the Jonathan Moyo controlled State Media writing in celebratory mode.

State Media Report| There is a feast of humble pie at Sahara Reporters, with the biggest portion reserved for Adeola Fayehun who has apologised to President Mugabe for her “awful” and “disrespectful” behaviour.
The behaviour in question relates to how she bypassed security and tried to heckle President Mugabe at the recent inauguration of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.
The local private media ran screaming headlines celebrating Fayehun’s antics even as sober minds pointed out how unprofessional it was.
Fayehun’s many critics also questioned the security arrangements that allowed a reporter from a media house senior Nigerian military officers have called a supporter of Boko Haram terror to get so close to a Head of State and Government and the African Union Chair.
Now her programme, “Keeping it Real” has been pulled off air and she is apologising profusely to President Mugabe.
In her “interview”, she shouted there was no democracy in Zimbabwe and that “President Mugabe” should step down, notwithstanding the fact that the AU and Sadc Chair resoundingly won a national election as recently as 2013.
President Mugabe maintained his dignity and ignored her.
And last Wednesday, Fayehun said: “I think you have heard of what happened between me and Mr Mugabe, an encounter that has led to the end of my career . . . I completely agree with you guys that asking (President) Mugabe when he would step down was awful, it was awful, it was disrespectful of me . . .
“Which is why this will be my very last episode of ‘Keeping it Real’. I figured it is better to end the show myself.
“It has been real and I have tried for at least three years to keep it real until what happened with (President) Mugabe and for the sake of peace so that there won’t be any more fights . . .”
In an earlier show on Sahara FM Radio titled “With the Humble Prince”, Fayehun said: “I wasn’t making fun saying he (President Mugabe) is too old. I really apologise for my comments.”
Efforts to get a comment from Fayehun were unsuccessful last night, and Sahara Reporters news editor Declan Galvin said: “We cannot provide you with her contact details, it is against our company policy. I cannot confirm on that (that her programme has been taken off air); you can go on her social media platform or website to see what is going on.”
Fayehun’s Facebook page was filled with posts questioning the move to terminate the show, while a web page on her programme had Fayehun confirming its end.
A fortnight ago, Media, Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo likened her unprofessional conduct to Boko Haram, in reference to the terror group that has wreaked havoc in Nigeria and neighbouring countries for several years now.
On his Twitter account, the minister asked; “Of course those are human beings, but are they journalists or Boko Haram? How do you know those were journalists, especially since they did not behave as such?”
Tellingly, last December, the Nigerian Army accused Sharara Reporters of being a propaganda arm of Boko Haram.
The then Nigerian Army public relations director, Brigadier-General Olajide Laleye said: “It is noteworthy but sad and unfortunate that Sahara Reporters has committed itself to support for terrorism and fighting Nigeria, its people, its military and particularly the Nigerian Army.”
And in the aftermath of Fayehun’s disgraceful show at President Buhari’s inauguration, Zimbabwe’s private media went into overdrive, lionising behaviour that the reporter herself has admitted was “awful”and “disrespectful”.
NewZimbabwe.com said “Mugabe humiliated in Nigeria”, while NewsDay claimed “Mugabe suffers humiliation in Nigeria”.
Daily News, which like NewsDay is a rabid advocate of anything anti-President Mugabe to the point of publishing several notable inaccuracies to further its crusade, was not to be left out as the private media tried to claim the continent was turning against Zimbabwe’s leader.
However, the massive backlash in Nigeria and across Africa to Fayehun’s behaviour has given the lie to those claims.
The question that remains is: will the media houses that celebrated this “awful”and “disrespectful”behaviour take their places at the table and join Fayehun in eating humble pie?

A STUDENT teacher with a local college earned himself a 20-day jail term after he shoplifted a collection of perfumes from Mutare Spar Supermarket.
Leeroy Banda (22) was convicted on his own guilty plea to the charges of theft he was facing. Presiding was Mr Langton Mukwengi, while Mr Shepherd Chavarika prosecuted. He was ordered to pay $20 fine or risk a 20-day jail term.
Banda was nabbed by Mutare Spar’s security personnel after he had tried to leave the shop with unpaid for toiletries which included Intessa Perfume, Adidas Perfume, Adidas Roll-on and a 20s Dunhill cigarettes packet.
Said Mr Chavarika: “All the stolen items were recovered by the security personnel from his bag before he left the shop. He admitted to having had stolen the items which led to his arrest.”
Asked if he was a smoker since he had stolen a packet of cigarettes, Banda said he wanted to sell the cigarettes.
“I wanted to sell the cigarettes and use the money for food at college since campus life is hard these days Your Worship.” However, he said the perfume was for personal use.
“I wanted to use the Adidas collection myself and give the Intessa perfume to my girlfriend,” he said. Banda begged for leniency from the court by stating that he was only a college student who had made a great mistake by shoplifting. -Manica Post

President Robert Mugabe’s Second Wife, Grace yesterday bunked former cabinet minister and legislator for Epworth constituency, Amos Midzi’s burial.
Midzi who died on Tuesday this week also had her husband’s government hand him an ordinary civilian burial which was at Glen Forest Cemetery in Harare Saturday afternoon.
Midzi was one of the few loyal ZANU PF officials who faithfully tirelessly followed through Mrs Mugabe during her meet the people rallies in the run up to the Mujuru purgings. PIC:

Hundreds of people thronged the cemetery to bid farewell to the late Midzi, a former cabinet minister, diplomat, Member of Parliament and provincial leader.
Relatives, friends and workmates described the late Midzi as a humble and loving figure who dedicated his life to the people of Zimbabwe.

The Minister of State for Harare Metropolitan province, Miriam Chikukwa the most senior official to attend the burial pleaded with delegates saying people should not take advantage of Midzi’s death to divide Zanu PF.
It was claimed through the State Media that Mugabe had “honoured Midzi” by conferring on him a state assisted funeral.
The government claims the late former Zanu PF Harare provincial chairman died of marked pulmonary oedema due to poisoning but loopholes in the investigation have pointed to a cover up for murder and the various substances seen at the site are said to be cheap elements concealing the crime.
This was revealed by results of a post mortem performed by three independent doctors as part of investigations into Midzi’s death.
He is survived by his wife Alice and three children.

A large rock(asteroid) fell from heaven and violently targeted Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office building going straight for his desk, a senior government official revealed. It broke through the roof nearly killing his secretary as it landed on Mnangagwa’s desk ” according to the official report.

Six (6) months after a cyanide attack, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office has also remained a hot spot for his staff who complain of deadly demons in there… …CONTINUE READING… :

VOA|Zanu PF candidates who won in Zimbabwe’s 16 constituencies contested in the just-ended parliamentary by-elections say they are still celebrating their victory and are ready to deliver what they promised the electorate.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tsvangirai, which boycotted the elections, has dismissed the Zanu PF victory, citing a low voter turn-out, while some independent candidates like Temba Mliswa, who lost the Hurungwe West election, blame Zanu PF for intimidating voters.
Maideyi Mpala, who is the new Member of Parliament for Lobengula constituency in Bulawayo, told VOA Studio 7 she excited about the win and ready to serve her community.
Some opposition parties and election observers say the parliamentary were marred by lack of transparency and voter intimidation.
Results announced Thursday by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission indicated that President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party won all the seats in rural areas and cities, which had since 1999, been under the control of former Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s MDC.
Tsvangirai’s party and other MDC formations, citing lack of electoral reforms, boycotted the by-elections meant to fill seats left vacant following the recalling of some MDC Renewal Team lawmakers.
Zanu PF was pitted against small parties that got few votes in each constituency, leaving some of them crying foul.
President Mugabe’s Zanu PF party has been in power since independence from British rule in 1980.
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Zimbabwe  – 2
Malawi         -1
THE ZIMBABWE warriors team has thumbed Malawi on their grounds.
Zimbabwe romped to victory Saturday afternoon scoring a thunderous 2-1 against the Nyasa dwellers.
Even though the boys came by a broken bus, their misfortune could not stop them from exhibiting their might as the “Original Core Rhodesians”, as the two countries were once before The Rhodesia and Nyasaland Federation.
Below was a part report by Nyasa Times:

Live updates from Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre: Malawi v Zimbabwe in the 2017 Afcon qualifier.

– referee Christopher Nde blows his whistle for full-time break. Full-time score: Malawi 1-2 Zimbabwe
– 90+1′ Substitution for Malawi: Phiri comes on for Nyirenda
– 4 minutes of added time to be played
– 89′ Substitution for Zimbabwe: Mahachi makes way for Eric Chipeta
– 87′ Malajila tries a bicycle kick, but it goes narrowly wide of goals
– 83′ GOAAAL! Khama Billiat put Zimbabwe in the lead with a wonderful strike
– 81′ Mhone tries another shot, but it goes wide of goals
– 79′ Zimbabwe appeal for a goal after a mistake from the goalkeeper, but the referee gives a free kick against them instead
– 77′ Nyondo’s header goes wide of goals
– 75′ another free kick for Zimbabwe and Billiat hits the side-netting from it
– 74′ free kick for Zimbabwe
– 72′ Substitution for Malawi: Esau Kanyenda comes on for Mkanda
– 70′ Substitution for Malawi: Lanjesi makes way for Malata
– 68′ Substitution for Zimbabwe: Musona makes way for Marvelous
– 65′ Mkuruva does well again to parry Mhone’s shot for a corner kick
– 61′ Mhone’s long range shot goes wide of goals
– 58′ Mkuruva is down again, needing medical attention
– 56′ free kick for Malawi
– 50′ free kick for Zimbabwe, but Malawi clear their lines
– 48′ Musona’s shot is deflected away. That was a good chance for Zimbabwe
– Malawi get the second half underway
– referee Christopher Nde blows his whistle for the half-time break. Half-time score: Malawi 1-1 Zimbabwe
– 44′ Mkuruva is down injured, needing medical treatment
– 43′ another corner kick for Malawi and it leads to another
– 41′ Mkuruva pulls off another good save to deny Nyondo. Corner kick for Malawi
– 39′ Mkuruva does well to parry Mhone’s header away for a corner kick
– 37′ free kick for Malawi and a yellow card for Pfumbidzai
– 35′ Kamwendo is booked for kicking the ball before the referee could blow his whistle
– 34′ free kick for Malawi in a good scoring position
– 31′ Kayira’s shot goes wide of goals
– 26′ free kick for Malawi in a good scoring position
– 24′ GOAAAL! Banda equalises for Malawi with a powerful drive!
– 23′ GOAAAL! Malajila pounce on a loose ball at the back and put Zimbabwe in the lead!
– 16′ free kick for Malawi and is headed wide by Nyirenda
– 14′ corner kick for Malawi, but Malawi clear their lines
– 13′ Mhone tries a long range shot and it goes narrowly wide of goals
– 12′ another free kick for Zimbabwe
– 8′ free kick for Zimbabwe
– 5′ free kick for Malawi
– 3′ chance for Zimbabwe, but Malajila fails to connect well with the ball
– 2′ another corner kick, but Malawi clear their lines
– 2′ free kick for Zimbabwe and it leads to a corner kick
– Zimbabwe get the game underway. They are playing from left to right, while Malawi play from right to left
– kickoff
Starting XI
Malawi: McDonald Harawa, Francis Mlimbika, John Lanjesi, Harry Nyirenda, Micium Mhone, Zicco Mkanda, Joseph Kamwendo, Chimango Kayira, Limbikani Mzava, John Banda, Atusaye Nyondo.
Zimbabwe: Tatenda Mkuruva, Blessing Moyo, Patson Jaure, Justin Jangano, Ronald Pfumbidzai, Danny Phiri, Willard Katsande, Khama Billiat, Kudakwashe Mahachi, Knowledge Musona, Cuthbert Malajila.
 

Over 20 bonafide members of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition have stormed the organizations head office in Harare demanding the immediate departure of Mcdonald Lewanika from leading the civil society movement.
 
A month after he was ousted from the organisation, the man is said to be still “ruling” the organisation.

ZimEye.com arrived at number 329 Samora Machel and witnessed the group trying to gain entry.
Holding placards some of them inscribed “Time up for Mcdonald”, Mcdonald Zimbavha” and Mcdonald Chienda”, the protesters said they were expressing their disgruntlement over Lewanika’s mal-administration.
Leader of the demonstrators George Makoni from Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition affiliate said they are disturbed by the continued existence of Lewanika at the organization.
“He was supposed to have left the organization on 31 December last year but up to now he continues to be here,” said Makoni.
“He is abusing the resources of the organization without the approval of the board which did not renew his contract and that is our major concern.
“We want to lead by example. He is tarnishing the image of the civil society which is at the front condemning corruption and bad governance by doing the same things we accuse government of doing.
Problems in the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition began last October when the organization was audited by external auditors who revealed massive corruption and misappropriation of donor funds.
The scandals left the board of directors divided resulting in their failure to renew Lewanika’s contract which expired in December of that year.
Owing to mounting pressure Lewanika last month wrote a resignation letter to the “board” informing them that he was “soon” going to leave the organization.
Both acting Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition board chairperson Samukeliso Khumalo and her spokesperson Mfundo Mlilo could not be reached for comment as they were said to attending a business meeting in South Africa.

Six (6) months after a cyanide attack, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office has remained a hot spot for his staff who complain of deadly demons in there one of which once “caused a large rock to fall from heaven through the roof and onto Mnangagwa’s desk” according to an official report.

Mnangagwa’s Personal Secretarial department headed by Mrs Catherine Magaya who was attacked by a cyanide-like substance in her boss’ office just after the ZANU PF congress in December, has remained in turmoil resulting in Mrs Magaya receiving extended leave days.

She has revealed of mysterious deadly demonic attacks in the work environment one of which nearly killed her way before the cyanide attack an incident not yet commented of by the VP Mnangagwa who has threatened people saying that there is no life outside ZANU PF.

Mrs Magaya said she has had many bizarre encounters inside her boss’ office one in which a large rock fell from the roof and almost killed her.

“Just a few weeks ago, a rock fell from nowhere to land on chef’s desk, missing my head by just an inch,” she said in December last year.

Magaya quoted by the State Media said there was another incident when she twisted her neck after going into a trance “soon after opening Cde Mnangagwa’s office.”

Commented outspoken MDC-T cadre Job Sikhala, “Of bizarre happenings and mysterious twisting of necks and stones falling from nowhere. If you ask our elders and traditionalists they will tell you that there is a spiritual anger from someone murdered who will give you hell lot if sleepless nights and torment you until confession. My suspicion is that necks are being twisted by Gen Solomon Mujuru and is throwing stones from nowhere.”

Reuters|ON online auction site eBay, a 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note is a collector’s item fetching up to $35, a small fortune compared with the 40 U.S. cents on offer from the central bank as it seeks to officially bury the worthless currency.
The unloved Zimbabwean dollar, ravaged by hyperinflation that peaked at 500 billion percent in 2008, ceased to be legal tender on Friday as the country switches fully to the U.S. dollar.
The central bank says citizens have until September to exchange their remaining quadrillions of local dollars for a few greenbacks.
But economists say 90 percent of the economy has been based on the U.S. dollar since 2009, so few people are expected to make a beeline to banks to cash in old notes – especially as they could get a far better deal elsewhere.
“I think this is a waste of time. I would rather sell the money to tourists,” said Shadreck Gutuza, a former currency trader who now buys and sells used cars from Japan.
“Most people either burned that money or dumped it,” he told Reuters.
On eBay a seller was offering a hundred 50 trillion Zimbabwean dollar notes for $1,000.
Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation was considered by the International Monetary Fund as the worst for any country not at war, and the 100 trillion dollar Zimbabwean dollar note was the single largest known note to be printed by any central bank.
Tourists are known to pay up to $20 for a single note in the resort town of Victoria Falls.
“I buy a 100 trillion note for $10 if they are many, but they have to be clean,” said an Indian trader who sells fabrics in downtown Harare.
The government has set aside $20 million to mop up Zimbabwean dollar notes and to compensate customers who had local currency bank balances before March 31, 2009.
Bank accounts with balances of up to 175 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars – that’s 175,000,000,000,000,000 – will be paid $5. Those with higher balances will get a rate of $1 to 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars.

A SUSPECTED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) official has allegedly invaded a horticulture farm near Goromonzi, threatening jobs of more than 150 workers.
Report by Newsday |Thimoty Muyambo allegedly turned up at Little Flower Farm on Sunday and told workers that he had taken over the property from the white commercial farmer.
Muyambo’s intrusion brought business at the farm to a halt, with flowers and peas destined for export now beginning to go bad.
Little Flower Farm managing director Mathew Hopgood confirmed the development, but refused to shed more light.
However, sources said the farm was invaded despite assurance from Provincial Affairs minister Biggie Matiza that it would not happen.
According to the sources, a group of 12 men in four vehicles along with the police escorted Muyambo who claimed ownership of the property.
The group immediately changed locks on the gate and ordered employees to stop working before occupying the office block.
“The gang blockaded the private residence of Hopgood. This residence is not part of the farm. It’s a separate residential dwelling,” one of the sources said.
“Hopgood has not been at the farm since then for fear of his life. Export of flowers and peas has stopped and Muyambo has employed guards to man the farm.”
The farm exports 180 boxes of flowers weekly and close to two tonnes of peas.
Muyambo, who was in the company of one Mbano, who invaded a nearby farm around 2002, allegedly told the farm workers that anyone who did not want to work for him should leave.
The farm, originally 526,81 hectares in size, has been divided several times following a consent order from the courts.
About 35,31 hectares are now occupied by James Chiyangwa, 31,89 hectares by one R Kituli, while Tendai Bonga took over 39,87ha.
Part of the farm is also believed to now belong to the local MP Petronella Kagonye’s father, and production at the plots held by the indigenous farmers has been very low.
Hopgood said he was given a letter from the Ministry of Lands advising him to wind up farming operations by April 26.
However, he was told to continue with his operations after Matiza’s intervention.
Hopgood was told an offer letter in his name would be processed and he should continue producing export crops. He said the farm employed 97 people on a permanent basis, 50 seasonal employees and about 225 people depend on it.
“We have not seen any official offer letters issued by Ministry of Lands, nor have we had a letter of acquisition from the ministry,” Hopgood said yesterday.
“The business was left with 35 hectares of land prior to notification to wind up farming. The forceful occupation places the entire business in jeopardy.”
Some workers who spoke to NewsDay on condition of anonymity said they were now unsure of their future.
Muyambo could not be reached for comment yesterday.

A HARARE man who sent nude pictures of his married lover to the woman’s husband as part of a plan to end the marriage has been fined $100 by a Bulawayo magistrate.
Kudakwashe Muregedze, 35, a truck driver, sent nude pictures of Fortunate Kuguyo to Artwel Kandiero through WhatsApp. He told the court that Kuguyo was his lover.
Muregedze, who was convicted of sending pornographic material, knew that Kuguyo was married.
He said Kuguyo had told him she was no longer interested in her husband and wanted out of the marriage.
The two then hatched a plan to take nude pictures of Kuguyo and send them to Kandiero as a way of frustrating the husband, the court heard. Muregedze was convicted on his own plea of guilty to sending pornographic material in the form of photos through the phone by Bulawayo magistrate, Marilyne Mutshina on Thursday.
He was fined $100 or three months imprisonment.
Prosecuting, Kudakwashe Jaravaza said on May 31 at around 10PM, Kandiero was coming from the city centre when he received nude pictures of his wife, Kuguyo on his phone.
He told the court that the nude pictures were sent using Muregedze’s Econet line.The court heard that when Kandiero got to his place of residence, he found his wife at home.
“Kandiero questioned his wife about the pictures but she denied ever knowing Muregedze,” said Jaravaza. He told the court that Kandiero decided to file a report against Muregedze leading to his arrest.

The Warriors have entered Malawi after a gruelling journey through the old Rhodesian trail-path.
The Warriors never had any immigration problems as claimed on social networks ZIFA’s information department told ZimEye.com.
Claims had been that the warriors’ coach bus was held up at the Mozambican border after some players arrived with no passports. “It is not true they are already in Malawi,” ZIFA’s Spokesperson Xolisani Gwesela told ZimEye.com
State Media journo Robson Sharuko also reported that they were being escorted by police into Blantyre at the time of writing.
They are scheduled to play Malawi Saturday at 4pm. ALSO READ -Warriors Bus Breaks Down On Way to Malawi 

More heads are set to roll in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF as its ambitious Young Turks who are known as the Generation 40 (G40) group — of which the party’s national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere is said to be a leading member — embarks on a fresh wave of purges targeted at their party foes.
Already, the axe has fallen on the party’s acting Harare provincial chairperson Godwills Masimirembwa, while a former close ally of First Lady Grace Mugabe — the notorious Godwin Gomwe — is almost down and out after he was arrested recently on corruption charges.
Masimirembwa only took office a few months ago, after the late substantive provincial leader, Amos Midzi — who died in controversial circumstances earlier this week — was purged from the party on suspicions that he supported former Vice President Joice Mujuru who stood accused last year of plotting to oust and kill Mugabe.
But at the core of the fresh onslaught is the restless G40, a composition of younger politicians with little or no liberation war credentials, which is already planning for life after 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe.
Party insiders told the Daily News last night that the latest wave of purges was directed at dozens of party leaders at district, provincial and national levels across the country, most of whom are deemed to be either pro-Mujuru or “too independent-minded” like Masimirembwa which renders them “problematic” when the party chooses its next leader in the event that Mugabe vacates office.
Under Zanu PF’s amended constitution, party members will vote for Mugabe’s successor through a secret ballot and the G40 stands accused of using the former liberation movement’s current restructuring exercise to purge its detractors and install its members in strategic positions.
“There is chaos in the party at the moment as the G40 is running amok, purging anyone who is seen to be not supportive of their objectives, and the senior party leadership looks powerless to stop them at the moment,” a Harare province official said.
The official claimed that Kasukuwere, buttressed by the powers bestowed on him as the party’s political commissar last year, had “caught other factional leaders in Zanu PF such as (Vice President Emmerson) Mnangagwa flat-footed and is swinging the axe in “ruthless fashion”.
Speaking last month, Kasukuwere vowed to descend on his detractors in the party after Masimirembwa and his executive unsuccessfully tried to put spanners in his mission in Harare East where the ruling party was fielding two candidates, Mavis Gumbo and Terence Mukupe in this week’s by-elections — with the combative Cabinet minister successfully backing the latter candidate.
“I want to appeal to Harare province that those criminals amongst us, we are going to deal with them. It doesn’t matter who you are and who you know or what. This matter of stealing from the people we no longer want it. You make our slogans and steal.
“It cannot be tolerated anymore,” Kasukuwere thundered ominously in apparent reference to Gomwe who has since been arrested.
Another well-placed source who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said Masimirembwa and Gomwe had allegedly been forced to form an alliance after they realised that “they had a common enemy in Kasukuwere and the G40”.
“They had to be purged. There was no way out. On top of that, they tried to create confusion over the Harare East issue which was clear as the sky,” the source seen as close to Kasukuwere said.
Acie Lumumba, an apparent Kasukuwere ally and who has been fingered as one of the main actors in the latest wave of purges in Harare, said yesterday that the ongoing expulsions and demotions were above board.
Lumumba has been moving around with Kasukuwere. “It is very clear who carried out the purges. One thing you can trust of Zanu PF is that it has a functioning system. Gomwe was removed by the youth league and likewise Masimirembwa by the provincial executive.
“It’s not who played what role to remove them but it’s what they did to be removed. Gomwe wore shoes that his small feet could never fit. He abused and misused the First Family’s name and broke the trust of the youths.
“On the other hand, Masimirembwa was just the simple case of the lights being on but there was no one at home. The man just never had it together from the day he entered that office and his executive got fed up and got rid of him.
“The reason why people saw a lot of me is that we had elections in Harare and my role was to support the party and the victory we have attained,” Lumumba said.
The post-congress Zanu PF is currently divided into two major camps, one allegedly led by Mnangagwa and the other by Kasukuwere — with both heavyweights allegedly tussling for “the ultimate throne” after Mugabe.
Another source sympathetic to Kasukuwere said it made “a lot of sense for the young generation to take control”.
“It is important to fuse fresh blood into the structures. Not all positions will go to the young generation but look you can’t ignore youths. There is nothing wrong with young people taking leadership positions at cell, branch, ward or district levels.”
Kasukuwere, who is also sometimes referred to as Obama by other Young Turks, in apparent reference to Barack Obama who defied all odds to become the first black president of the United States, is said to harbour ambitions for higher office — a move that has put him in the firing line of senior colleagues.
Members of the G40 and its alleged think-tank, the Gang of Four, that once also allegedly included Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao, Information minister Jonathan Moyo and Higher Education minister Oppah Muchinguri worked with Grace to mastermind the toppling of Mujuru from power, as they saw the popular widow of liberation war icon General Solomon Mujuru as a stumbling block to their ambitions.
But no sooner had Mujuru fallen than Zanu PF split into two distinct and bitterly-opposed formations — with one initially led by Mnangagwa but also fragmenting, and the other by disaffected liberation struggle stalwarts who now operate as the “original” Zanu PF that uses the slogan “People First”.
The ambitious Young Turks have apparently roped in co-Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko to counter Mnangagwa, in a bid to advance their ambitions.
One of the party insiders told the Daily News last month that the Young Turks had realised that “they needed more ammunition to thwart Ngwena (Mnangagwa)”, hence the incorporation of Mphoko in their alleged plot.
With Mugabe now old and frail, in addition to being seized with regional matters as chairperson of both Sadc and the African Union — his two deputies, Mphoko and Mnangagwa, have been slugging it out of late, battling for supremacy. -Daily News

AFP|ZANU PF won all 16 seats in parliamentary by-elections, state media announced Thursday, after the main opposition boycotted the vote over allegations of a rigged electoral roll. [ALSO READ – Tsvangirai Donates 14 Seats ]
 
President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF extended its grip on power after being unopposed in several constituencies or facing little-known independents and minor opposition parties.
The constituencies voting on Wednesday included seats in Harare and Bulawayo that had been held by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) since 2000.
The MDC formations pulled out of the election alleging intimidation of supporters, media bias and being denied access to the electoral roll, which they claimed was stuffed with names of deceased voters.
“The ruling Zanu PF romped to victory after sweeping all the 16 contested constituencies in yesterday’s by-elections,” the ZBC radio reported.
The elections were held after the MDC-T fired 14 lawmakers who formed a splinter party, and two other MPs were expelled from Zanu PF for being aligned to former vice-president Joice Mujuru.
Mujuru was sacked by Mugabe in December after she was accused of plotting to unseat him.
Elections in Zimbabwe are usually a one-horse race for Zanu PF, which has ruled since the country gained independence from Britain in 1980.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai had urged his supporters to spoil their ballot papers.

“CIO” OFFICERS TO APPEAR IN COURT FOR KIDNAPPING.
Four fake CIO officers who were really just prison officers stationed at Mutoko Prison were caught in the act having abducted a DJ and barman and brutally assaulting them in the way, ZimEye.com can reveal.
 
The officers were yesterday seen running around seeking lawyers after their case of kidnapping and heavily assaulting two employees of Mutoko’s Madzeka Night Club a few days before was seen heading for a criminal court hearing.
 
The four officers George Chigwena, Martin Muchena, Kapere and Chitumbura at the weekend on Saturday 5 June descended at Madzeka Night Club before dawn and abducted Night Club resident DJ Lovemore Kamuzangaza and barman Bismarck Chipangura before taking them to an unknown place where they brutally tortured them before handing them to the police for charges of having assaulted their fellow officer one Takawira.
 
Police at Mutoko reacted with fury and arrested the quad gang.
 
Efforts by some Prison senior bosses to “save” the accused four from prosecution failed.
 
It is believed Mutoko ZRP are turning a blind eye to “save” the four accused because a month ago a senior prison officer attempted to armtwist the cops to twist a case into their favour.
 
The officers complained to their Dispo “for not pursuing” a case in which another officer a, one Mutukwa broke his leg in a scuffle at a local bottle store. Although Mutukwa, who spent almost a month recovering in hospital is widely believed to have been wrong, a senior officer at Mutoko, who is also known for unscrupulous behaviour, went on to try and force the prosecutors at Magistrate court and the police to suit the case into their favour.
 
The four officers have since been “temporarily” released from work so that they find time to engage lawyers before appearing in court.
 
The case has gathered heat since protracted efforts to engage the two Madzeka Night Club employees to withdraw the case proved fruitless yesterday.
According to a medical affidavit, one of the assaulted Lovemore Kamuzanganga’s ear drum was damaged.

A taxi driver from Plumtree allegedly kidnapped three girls aged, 13 and 15, took them to a nightclub where he spent several hours with them fondling their private parts interchangeably.
Honest Ndlovu, 33, who alleged that the 13-year-old girl was his girlfriend, offered the three girls a lift from their rural home in Ngwanyana on Tuesday morning to a nearby clinic in Madabe, Mangwe. The two other girls are both aged 15.
Ndlovu was supposed to appear in court yesterday facing indecent assault and kidnapping charges but the prosecution returned the docket to the police for further investigations. He is now expected to appear in court on June 17 by way of summons.
The three girls, who are cousins, are primary school dropouts. Ndlovu, who is married, reportedly offered the girls a lift back to their homestead a few hours later and instead proceeded with them to Plumtree where he took them to Dumms Palace Nightclub.
He allegedly fondled the three girls while he was with them in his car without their consent.
The owner of the nightclub informed a police officer around 1AM on the following day after realising that the man was in the company of young children.
The mother of one of the victims who stays in Gassavu area in Plumtree said the girls alleged that Ndlovu drove them to Plumtree without their consent.
“One of the girls is my child and the other two are my nieces. I stay in Plumtree and my child stays with her aunt who is the mother of the youngest girl at our rural home. The other girl’s mother works in Botswana.
“I was shocked to get a call from the police on Wednesday morning telling me that my daughter and nieces were found at a nightclub with a grown man,’’ said the woman.
She said the youngest girl dropped out of school while she was in Grade 4 and the other two dropped out in Grade 7 as the family was facing financial challenges.
The woman said the three girls first told the police that Ndlovu was their uncle and that he was taking them to visit their sick grandmother.
She said the girls later revealed that the man had taken them without their consent and that he had fondled their breasts, private parts and thighs.
“I wasn’t aware that the children were missing from home. I don’t know what they were doing with a man far older than them. The man is married, to make matters worse.
“When I asked why they were going to the clinic in the first place they said my sister had advised them to go for an HIV test,” said the woman as she sobbed.
An aunt of the girls who stays in Solwezi said her younger sister who was staying with the children was unable to monitor them effectively as she was ill.

The Renewal Team has blasted Robert Mugabe telling him to slow down on his international trips as they are embarrassing the nation.
The party’s National Chirman Sam Siphepha Nkomo said the two regional bodies SADC and the African Union should reduce the 91-year-old politician’s engagements to enable him attend to domestic problems.
“We note with concern the continued economic downturn, failure by the government to provide social protection to the drought-stricken parts of our country, harassment of the informal traders, fiscal indiscipline through Mugabe’s ceaseless international trips as well as the embarrassment the country gets as Mugabe continues to sleep in front of international cameras in Sadc, AU and UN functions,” Nkomo said.
“We call upon the AU and Sadc leaders to spare Zimbabwe this humiliation by asking Mugabe to slow down to save these institutions from the embarrassment.”
The comments came as pro ZANU PF analysts defended Mugabe’s trips as they said the perception has been built by the Daily News paper. Wrote one Suitable Kajau, “The editorial comment for the Dailynews of June 9, 2015 headlined ‘Time for Mugabe to rest’ is a typical example of yellow journalism which subscribes to sensationalism as its life-line of survival. What has the president done wrongly to warrant a suggestion by this paper for the president to relinquish power?
“The Dailynews is guilty of lying by omission. They accuse President Robert Mugabe of all the economic problems bedeviling the country without looking at the matter objectively that the western backed economic sanctions have caused havoc to our well-being as a nation. Otherwise the president is working flat-out to keep Zimbabwe afloat in the face of spanners thrown into his work by the nation’s adversaries.
“The impetus of sanctions is hinged on illegal regime change agenda by our erstwhile enemies. President Mugabe remains the people’s darling in Zimbabwe in spite of the insatiable desire to unduly discredit him. This explains why he garnered 63% of the latest presidential polls held on July 31, 2013. He is not only popular at home, but across the continent as he is a crowned SADC and AU Chairperson.”

You are a dead man (or woman) as soon as you walk out on Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.
Addressing a small crowd in Hurungwe, Mnangagwa warned saying people risked losing their lives the moment they decide to leave the party. His words appeared badly out of taste as they came within twenty four(24) hours of the death former ZANU PF Harare Province Chair Amos Midzi who died of circumstances still being investigated by police.
Mnangagwa was addressing people at the National Fire Week launch in Nyamakate, Hurungwe.
He said some party cadres were failing to discern the political wind blowing in the country ending up being axed from Mugabe’s party.
“We see, but cannot see well, and hear yet cannot hear well,” he said.
He continued, “there is no life that can be obtained if you are not with those who are ruling the country.
“Once you get out of Zanu-PF, your life starts deteriorating and becomes shrivelled like a leaf. Do not seek unhappiness in life, but go with the winning team.”

It was convincingly clear Mnangagwa was referring to numerous stalwarts purged by the party(including those who lost their lives) and in this area, former Mashonaland West provincial chairman Temba Mliswa who was defeated by Zanu-PF candidate Keith Guzah in the just ended Hurungwe West by-election.
Guzah garnered 5 961 votes against Mliswa’s 4 239 votes.

ANALYSIS|After shooting out to numerous destinations far and wide while rarely habiting his own country, his next expedition could be the moon and perhaps heaven? – the ever airborne “air-stronaut” President Robert Mugabe jetted back into Zimbabwe Thursday morning from his visit to Egypt where he chaired an expert commerce summit for the entire continent. Mugabe whose country has neither trading capacity nor a functional economy, was heading the tripartite Free Trade Area comprising of Comesa, SADC and the East Africa Community.
The man who in meetings is either sleeping or fuming about America and Britain and his ‘popular’ land reform program topic, has squandered over $10million dollars on jet fuel alone since January 2015.
Commented Patrick Guramatunhu: “The most critical component that we need to consider is the fact that, he is the busiest personality on the continent at the moment. He is endowed with overwhelming state matters for the whole of Africa,” Suitable Kajau wrote on ZimEye.com yesterday. Busy doing what?
So what “state matters for the whole of Africa” did he help resolve on his Nigeria trip? He refused to answer even one of the many pertinent questions put to him about free and fair elections and tyrants who not only rig elections but want to stay over and beyond the maximum number of terms.
Burundi is on fire right now because the incumbent president is refusing to go, although he has already served the maximum two terms stipulated in the constitution. President Mugabe rigged the July 2013 Zimbabwe elections to stay in power. He has been in power for 35 years now and all he has to show for it is a nation whose economy is in ruins and whose people have been traumatized after decades of brutal oppression.
Of course these are important issues for Africa, the people of Burundi and in that part of the world deserve peace particularly after they have been through these last two decades. Zimbabwe’s economic and political chaos has caused untold suffering to millions of Zimbabweans and is destabilizing the whole region.

How can Mugabe be overwhelmed by matter concerning Africa and yet fail to answer even one question on the matters overwhelming Africa? After failing to answer even one question the next minute Mugabe is snoring like a pig! No wonder Zimbabwe is in deep s***t, no wonder SADC and Africa are in deep trouble; they have a megalomaniac who craves for power but only to sleep on the throne!
Sahara TV journalists have done an excellent job of exposing President Mugabe for the corrupt, vote rigging tyrant he is. On his way from Egypt, not that he did anything else other than doze off, can President Mugabe come back via Nigeria?

President Robert Mugabe and his politburo have humiliated the late Cabinet Minister Amos Midzi in his death.
The politburo on Wednesday dishonoured Midzi for hero status.
Ambassador Midzi who Tuesday died in a mysterious incident the police claims points to suicide, will be buried at the Warren Hills instead of the heroes acre preserved for outstanding patriots who have served before and after the 1970s liberation struggle.
Several people have been controversially buried at the shrine as those most deserving are excluded. These are ZIPRA veterans the likes of Lookout Masuku and Wilfort Lizart Sibanda who were buried in Bulawayo because the politburo took so long to decide their status.
But the politburo has honoured unknowns the likes of Mugabe’s sister, Sabina
who in 2010 was declared a national heroine without much debate hours soon after her death, yet the same party has in some cases taken ages to decide on some people with impeccable war credentials.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC says there has to be serious review of the way ZANU PF confers hero status.

A 47-YEAR old Harare accountant raped his two teenage daughters and infected them with a sexually transmitted infection.
The man appeared before Harare regional magistrate Mr Adonia Masawi yesterday charged with two counts of rape. He allegedly threatened to send the daughters, aged 13 and 15, to the rural areas if they reported the abuse to anyone.
Mr Masawi remanded the man in custody to June 15 for trial. Prosecutor Mr Liberty Gono alleged that the man entered the teenagers’ bedroom on December 23 last year.
He is alleged to have lifted his 13-year old daughter to another room where he raped her.
The man threatened the daughter with unspecified action if she revealed the abuse.
The same night, he allegedly summoned his 15-year old daughter to his bedroom.
He raped the minor.
After committing the offence, he threatened to stop paying the girl’s fees if she reported him to anyone. He also threatened to take the daughters to the rural areas. One of the girls reported the abuse to her teacher.
She was taken to Childline where she further divulged the abuse. The man was arrested.
A medical affidavit showed the minors contracted an STI.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police says former Zanu-PF Harare provincial chairman and Cabinet Minister Amos Midzi’s died due to poisoning.
A post-mortem conducted yesterday on Midzi’s body, which was recovered from his car at his farm in Beatrice on Tuesday, “reveale”d that he died of poisoning, the police said in a statement to the State Media.
The post-mortem was carried out by a team of three doctors. In the statement, police chief spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba said further samples were taken for toxicology tests.
“A post-mortem was conducted on Midzi’s body yesterday,” she said. “Three doctors concluded that the death was due to market pulmonary oedema due to poisoning and some further samples have been taken for toxicology and we are waiting for the results.”
Police recovered a one-litre bottle of poisonous methamidophos and sleeping tablets from Midzi’s vehicle, raising fears that he could have committed suicide. A cup containing a bluish liquid was also recovered from the car, a Ford Everest registration number ACY 3329, grey in colour, which had all doors locked.
Midzi will be buried on Saturday at Glen Forest Memorial Park.

– HURUNGWE WEST –
HURUNGWE WEST RESULTS
FINAL TOTAL
Mliswa – 4255
Guzha – 5997
 

FULL SUMMARY:

The Pumula Constituency went to
Zanu-PF’s Godfrey Malaba who got 2
477. The candidate with the second
highest number of votes was
Bathandi Mpofu of Zapu who got
777.
In the Lobengula Constituency Maidei
Mpala of Zanu-PF garnered 1 976
votes. Casper Sibanda of Zapu had
492.
Thandoyenkosi Mlilo of Zanu-PF won
the Luveve seat by 1765 votes. Amon
Nyamabvi Dube had 562 votes.
The Pelandaba-Mpopoma
Constituency was also won by a
Zanu-PF candidate, Joseph Chuma
who was favoured by 2050 voters.
In Makokoba Zanu-PF’s Tshinga
Dube romped to victory polling 3182
votes . Toan Dhlodhlo (Independent)
76, Sibangilizwe Msipa (Independent)
473, Jonathan Ndlovu (Independent)
352 , Mable Ngwenya (NCA) 19 ,
Sehlelo Nkomo (Transform
Zimbabwe) 38 , Peter Wilson (MKD)
80 while 66 ballots were rejected.
In Dzivarasekwa Omega Hungwe
(Zanu-PF) got 3 116 , Cosmas
Benjamin (PDZ) 38, Ngonidzashe
Chandiwana (TZ) 178, Happison
Chikova (ADP) 44, Tonderai
Karimakwenda (Independent) 239,
Washington Measure (DARE) 16,
Enock Mafigu (MKD) 31, Peter
Mukuchamano (NCA) 28, Saul Tore
(Independent) 253. There were 138
rejected votes.
In Hurungwe West, Keith Guzah of
Zanu-PF has won by 5 961 votes
against Temba Mliswa’s
(Independent) 4 239.
In Kuwadzana Betty Nhambu of
Zanu-PF got 3 480, Ephraim Muza
(DARE) 38, Peter Svinurai (Free Zim
Congress) 142, Grant Tabvurei (NCA)
46, Michael Mandikonza (Freedom
Front Party) 10, Joelson Mugari
(African Democratic Part) 29, Endai
Mugomeza (Independent) 222, Simon
Musandu (Transform Zimbabwe) 26,
Boniface Gwishiri (Independent) 113,
Joseph Chimbawanga (Progressive
Democrats of Zimbabwe) 30,
Gemellah Chuma (PIMZ) 41 and
Milton Mukuwa (Mavambo Kusile
Dawn) 32.
In Headlands, Zanu-PF’s Chingosho
had 11 104 votes against his rivals,
Mr David Mukunda of the NCA (117
votes) and an independent candidate,
Mr Albert Mukaratirwa who had 897
votes.
Zanu PF’s Esau Fungai Mupfumi
romped to victory in the
Dangamvura-Chikanga constituency
by-election after amassing 6 376
votes ahead of Mr Chengetai Richard
Kadzere (Independent), who polled 1
092 votes. Mr Kuziva Maundike
(Independent) had 707 votes while
Pfugamai Mawire got 254 votes. Mr
James Mundenda (Independent)
garnered 144 votes. Mr Ruramayi
Musiiwa (NCA) got 1 003 votes while
Mr Piwai Gashirai (Freedom Party)
had 125 votes. Maxwell Teedzai of
Transform Zimbabwe party amassed
32 votes.
In Makokoba Tshinga Dube got 1667
votes . Joan Dlodlo 31. Sibangilizwe
Msipa 265. Jonathan Ndlovu 164 and
Marbel Ngwenya 2.
In Tsholotsho North Professor
Jonathan Moyo got 11695 votes .
Busani Ncube 91 and Getrude
Sibanda 38.
Tsholotsho North constituency
returns to Zanu-PF after 20 years.
The seat was last held by Cain
Mathema before it was split into two
constituencies – Tsholotsho North
and South.
The seat fell vacant following the
expulsion of Roselyn Nkomo from
parliament by MDC T
Prof Moyo said on Twitter: “I want to
thank President Mugabe, our two
Vice Presidents, the NPC, party
colleagues, my family, twimbos and
above all Tsholotsho North voters for
the landslide!”
In Kambuzuma Zanu-PF’s Tinashe
Maduza got 2 712 , Rungerai Tapoka
(Freedom Front Party) 14, Obey
Chiwara,(Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn)
50, Nyasha Solomon Makwati
(Progressive Democrats of
Zimbabwe) 231, John Elfigio
Muzhazhe (Transform Zimbabwe)
31, Tapera David Mabuwa
(independent) 51, Pedzisayi Nheta
(independent) 158, Taungana
Madhino (independent) 65, Tendai
Morris Makoni (independent) 153.
Maduza said “I thank the electorate
for their support.
It is now time to get down to
business, empowering the youths and
women through various projects. The
people have suffered for long at the
hands of the opposition and now it is
time for them to have tangible
results.”
Zanu-PF PF’s Terence Mukupe has
won the Harare East parliamentary
by-election with a massive 4 605 out
of the total 5 618 votes cast.
Mukupe beat Mr Dore Dale of
Transform Zimbabwe who got 681
votes followed by Mr Kuveya Farai
(Independent) who polled 135 votes
and Mr Misheck Zacharia Mushawatu
who got 115 votes. The total number
of rejected votes 115.
Harare East Constituency Election
Officer Mr Stewart Zvavambira said:
“I being the constituency elections
officer for the Harare East
Constituency, do hereby declare that I
have, in accordance with Electoral Act
(Chapter 2:13), and the regulations
made there under, asserted the
results of the poll for the said
constituency? and that I therefore
declare the said Mukupe Terence of
ZANU PF this day to be duly elected
Member of Parliament for the Harare
East Constituency.”
The constituency had three wards. In
ward 8 Mr Dale of Transform
Zimbabwe polled 83 votes, Mr
Kuveya 22 votes, Mukupe 525, Dale of
Transform Zimbabwe polled 83 votes,
Mr Kuveya 22 votes, while Mr
Mushavatu had 24 with 9 spoiled
ballot papers.
In ward 9, Mukupe had 3 295 votes
followed by Mr Dale (83), Mushawatu
(42) and Kuveya (22) with 97 spoiled
ballot papers. In ward 46 Mukupe had
785 votes, Dale (208), Kuveya (20)
and Mushwatu (17) with 9 ballot
papers being rejected.
Psychology Maziwisa has been
declared winner for the Highfield West
Constituency with 2 254 votes.
Independent candidate Emmanuel
Dzumbunu 230 votes. Kudakwashe
Makuwe (TZ) polled 146 votes. Brian
Shamu (Dare) 56 votes. Pswarayi
Tashinga (independent) 52 votes.
Kudzai Saruwaka (Mavambo) 48
votes. Onita Muchena (PMZ) 29
votes. Godfrey Jena (PDZ) 27 votes.
Shadreck Nyanganya (FFP) 10 votes.
Rejected votes – 65.
In Mbizo Constituency Zanu PF
retained

LATEST ELECTION RESULTS: Mliswa Now Shadowed, So Far –

 LATEST ELECTION RESULTS: Mliswa Now Shadowed, So Far –

BI-ELECTION RESULTS :
UPDATE: 2100Hrs (Harare  Time)
HURUNGWE WEST-
MADZUDZO:
Mliswa – 155
Guzah – 281
 
NYAODZA:
Mliswa – 58
Guzah – 80
 
MAGORORO
Mliswa – 38
Guzah – 136
Spoilt – 3
 
CHIEDZA
Mliswa – 57
Guzah – 75
 
KANYATHI
Mliswa – 48
Guzah – 150
Spoilt – 3
 
CHITIMBE
Mliswa – 330
Guzah – 127
 
CHINGURUNGURU
Mliswa – 236
Guzah – 45

LATEST ELECTION RESULTS: Mliswa Now Shadowed, So Far…

As the bi-elections come to a near close, ZimEye.com is getting reports that Local Government and National Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo has dispatched a battalion of soldiers to polling stations in places such as Hurungwe West so to intimidate voters.Chombo has already appeared in video footage threatening to imprison anyone who supports non- ZANU PF candidates the likes of expelled legislator Temba Mliswa.
At the time of writing however, no army officers were visible at the stations.
Meanwhile, reports were submitted that there is massive vote rigging in other stations in particular Kambuzuma, Harare. Below was a message submittted by anews reader: “Serious rigging in Kambuzuma 3. Zupco buses offloading in the industry area, now people flooded the section five polling station two boxes full already. Imagine vendors all over the polling area, Kasukuwere present, and people reporting to someone after voting.”
More to follow…

The Gwanda Residents Association notes with great concern unprecedented moves by the Municipality of Gwanda to roll out the prepaid water meters project regardless of the resistance from the residents of Gwanda and that of other urban centres throughout country.
The Residents Association is particularly disturbed that council is going ahead with this move despite several requests from the association and other stakeholders for engagement on this matter before implementation or non implementation of the program.
It is an open matter that the issue of the legality and or constitutionality of the prepaid water meters is a matter certainly bound to be decided in the country’s highest court the Constitutional Court and so can not at this stage be implemented as it will be a mere waste of time and resources.
Several urban centres some of a bigger influence than Gwanda, have held huge demonstrations against the moves by their councils to install the prepaid water meters and the councils have since shelved the programs and opened up for dialogue with all stake holders.
Parliamentarians have tabled the matter in the august house for debate and so leaves it evident that the matter is under going serious considerations at different levels.
We are therefore shocked and disturbed as residents of Gwanda how or who our council presumes itself to be to consider itself better positioned and more capable to go on and implement this program in solitude against such odds.
We take this move by our local authority as a direct disregard of the coexistence of council and its stakeholders in the administration and development of the town.
We also view this move as a direct provocation of us as interested parties who have actually gone further and raised concerns to council on the matter and can therefore not take such provocation hands down.
We are aware of the unfortunate survey which council is said to have done amongst the residents to determine if the residents are for or against the meters.
This survey by council was also very unprecedented as it was very fraudulent and inconsiderate for council to put residents through an uninformed decision making process more so on a matter of basic constitutional human right consideration.
It is therefore with regret that we note that council celebrates what they call a majority of residents who opted for the meters on the basis of this fraudulent survey.
Council chooses to ignore an evident fact that when residents claim to favour the prepaid water meters to get rid of the terrible water billings, the residents are in fact sending a no confidence message to council and favouring the prepaid meters simply as a means of getting rid of council more than anything else.
As residents representation we stand by our demands that council comes for an open dialogue with us and other stakeholders on this matter and allow due processes currently underway in the higher offices to go through before they can seriously consider unrolling the program.
We by means of this statement, like to categorically reiterate to council that as the Residents Association and indeed residents, shall not sit back and watch while they engage in this move without due consultation, consideration and consensus from all involved and interested in the matter.
The calmness and willingness to dialogue exhibited by the residents of Gwanda must never be taken as a conclusion that the residents here are any different from those of other centres in the country and so can be manipulated willy nilly and wantonly.
We would like to remind our authorities that we are also equal citizens of this country with rights and privileges as with all other citizens of Zimbabwe and so very capable and ready to resist any moves that infringe on our constitutional rights by any legal moves within our hands to demand to be respected and appreciated as we are accorded rights and services due to us.
Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo Spokesperson Gwanda Residents Association.

ZANU PF Harare Province Chairman Goodwills Masimirembwa has been axed, ZimEye.com can reveal.
Masimirembwa was booted from his position following a vote of no confidence passed Wednesday afternoon by over 100 party members.
It was not clear at the time of writing if the resolution will be upheld by the Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere. Reports suggested that Harare MP Shadreck Mashayamombe is eyeing the post and allegations were raised that he may have created the circumstances for Masimirembwa’s booting.
Masimirembwa was accused of being complicit in the corruption at the ZANU PF run Nehanda Housing Cooperative which saw bigwigs milk millions from home-seekers – [READ MORE Masimirembwa Stringed in $3Million Scandal at Nehanda Housing CooperativeMasimirembwa Stringed in $3Million Scandal at Nehanda Housing Cooperative.]
More to follow…

Chombo Sends Army to Frighten Voters | BI-ELECTION UPDATE  
RESULTS :
Results so far:
HURUNGWE WEST-
MADZUDZO:
Mliswa – 155
Guzah – 281
 
NYAODZA:
Mliswa – 58
Guzha – 80
 
MAGORORO
Mliswa – 38
Guzha – 136
Spoilt – 3
 
CHIEDZA
Mliswa – 57
Guzha – 75
 
KANYATHI
Mliswa – 48
Guzha – 150
Spoilt – 3
 
CHITIMBE
Mliswa – 330
Guzha – 127
 
CHINGURUNGURU
Mliswa – 236
Guzha – 45

Highfield West

The parliamentary by elections are being held in 16 constituencies left vacant following the recall of 21 legislators by Zanu PF and the MDC-T.

At least 102 candidates successfully filed their nomination papers to contest in the 16 constituencies in different parts of the country.

By-elections which began early today in the country’s six provinces have generated widespread interest with observers from the European Union and the United States seen at some polling stations in Glen View and Highfield suburbs.

Voting in the by elections which began early today is flowing smoothly at some schools which were temporarily closed to pave way for voting.
Among those who cast their votes are Highfield West aspiring candidate Psychology Maziwisa.

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Hurungwe West:
1. Murapa – one Sabhuku was arrested attempting to force people to write their names down when they vote.
2. Another Sabhuku was removed from the polling station for attempting to do the same.
3. A suspicious man was sighted loitering in the polling station and was not removed despite complaints from the polling agents.
4. The ZANU PF Chairman for Murapa assaulted a youth accusing him of supporting Temba Mliswa.
5. The ZANU PF Youth Chairperson for Murapa was witnessed harassing voters outside the polling station.
MASHUMA
1. People in possession of voters’ slips and observed to have been bussed in from Magunje were fortunately turned away as their names did not appear on the voters’ roll
NYAODZA
1. Members of Temba Mliswa’s team were attacked and assaulted by a team in support of Keith Guzha.
2. ZANU PF members have been sighted loitering in a car of registration number ACY3338 and are seemingly targeting the Independent Candidate’s Chief Polling Agent..the authorities have been alerted.
NYADARA
1. By 11am a total of 93 people were turned away on the basis that their names do not appear on the voters roll despite their insistence that they checked their names beforehand. This figure is alarmingly high and strangely suspicious.
2. ZANU PF agents present are writing down the names of the voters thereby compromising secrecy
3. Of the 12 so far assisted voters only 1 came with someone from home all the other 11 were assisted on site

Marondera

Jerold Sasa, Mashonaland East Bureau

Voters are queuing at Nehumba Primary School where voting began early in the morning. By 8am 42 people had cast their vote. There are more than 150 people forming two queues here, one for men and the other for women. Presiding officer Mr Beaven Nhakura said the process is going on well. Local observers from Zimrights and the Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network had visited the polling station by 7:30am. One observer from the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace is camped at the station.

Only the Zanu PF candidate has an agent, while the other 2 are not represented.

Villagers from Ward 34, villages 18, 19 and 20 have complained that their poling station is too far, with some travelling 14km to vote. Some spent an hour waiting for well-wishers to take them to the polling station. The elderly said they cannot walk the long distance and appealed to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to provide polling stations close to their homes.

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Dangamvura-Chikanga, Mutare

Spren Mutiwi, Manicaland Bureau

Voting in the Dangamvura-Chikanga by election started well on time. By 7 am, all the 39 polling stations had opened to allow the electorate to exercise their democratic right to vote.

There was however a low turn out in most of the polling stations with virtually no activity at some polling stations serve for the polling officers who were just seated as they waited for people to come in.

A sizeable queue was observed in Ward 7 at TNT and Ward 15 at Federation Tent.

_________________________________________________________________________________________Tsholotsho North

Sijabuliso Ndlovu, Matebeleland North

29 people had cast their votes by 0830hrs and three were assisted.

Professor Jonathan Moyo cast his vote at 8am at Mlevu Primary polling station.

Ten were assisted to vote due to illiteracy, poor eyesight and blindness.

53 people had cast their vote by 9am at Manjelengwa polling station.

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Hurungwe West

Regis Mhako, Mashonaland West Bureau

Voting started at 7am in the Hurungwe West by-election.

Mashonaland West Acting Provincial Elections Officer Austin Ndlovu said communication challenges are being faced in the constituency which is dominantly rural with poor information communication technology infrastructure.
Mr Ndlovu said they got feedback from 29 of the 35 polling station, but was having problems getting feedback from other six constituencies.

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Kuwadzana constituency

-Voting in Kuwadzana has started off on a low note.

At Kuwadzana 7A primary school by 10 o’clock 104 voters had cast their ballot.

20 were turned away whilst one person was assisted to vote.

Presiding officer is Joseph Tsiga.

At Kuwadzana 6A and 7A there were no queues.

For many residents it’s business as usual.

 
Hurungwe West:
1335: Update from Kajekache 13:26:
Voted so far – 293
Turned away – 85
Assisted – 56
1315: So far 100 people have voted in Nyaodza where Temba Mliswa’a team were assaulted. ZANU PF members have been seen loitering in a car of registration number ACY3338 and are seemingly targeting the Independent Candidate’s Chief Polling Agent…..the authorities have been alerted and we will monitor the situation…
 

VOA|A United States panel on Africa has been told of China building a military base in eastern Zimbabwe, raising alarm in Washington which is increasingly worried about Beijing’s growing influence in Africa.

The issue came up for discussion last week during a hearing on Zimbabwe by the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations.

California Congresswoman Karen Bass sought clarification on the issue from U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Dr. Shannon Smith, who had just returned from a visit in Harare.

“In recent years Zimbabwe has strengthened trade and military ties with China, including the construction of a Chinese military base in eastern Zimbabwe.”

“What if any, if you could speak to that, I think there are obviously security implications for the United States. What do we know about that development?” Bass asked.

Dr. Smith did not provide a direct answer, only commenting that ties between China and Zimbabwe had deepened over the years.

“The countries clearly enjoy a close relationship; China is active in much of Africa as you’ve seen in many places I know,” Smith responded, adding that the Chinese investments were mainly in mining.

Congresswoman Bass pressed further, asking who was being employed at the said camp – Chinese nationals or Zimbabweans – to which Dr. Smith said, “I couldn’t tell you.”

Studio 7 could not independently establish the existence of any such base and its purposes.

Zimbabwe National Army spokesman Colonel Overson Mugwisi could not comment, repeatedly telling VOA Studio 7 he was waiting for an appropriate response from his bosses.

Chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Chris Smith took aim at Beijing, saying its influence in the world was bad for democracy.

“Human rights don’t matter in China; they violate human rights with impunity against their own people. So they’re more than able and willing to help a dictatorship or authoritarian rulers use a bad governance model of secret police… use of torture,” Smith told Studio 7.

“They are doing it in South America, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia; there is a very dangerous trend underway in the World, including in Africa and this is at a time when more African countries are matriculating into more robust democracies.”

China is escalating its influence across the globe, making huge infrastructural investments and building alliances with nations normally condemned by the U.S. for poor human rights records.-VOA

Mwenezi East National Assembly member Mr Kudakwashe Bhasikiti has taken President Mugabe and ZANU PF to court challenging his expulsion from the revolutionary party.
Mr Bhasikiti, an erstwhile ruling party Politburo member and Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs, was fired alongside several others on May 21 this year for alleged involvement in a plot to topple President Mugabe.
Through his lawyers, Tendai Biti Law Chambers, Mr Bhasikiti filed a review application at the High Court arguing that due process was never followed in his dismissal from the party and that the decision be nullified.
President Mugabe and zanu-pf are listed as first and second respondents in the court application.
Mr Bhasikiti, in his founding affidavit, argued that his constitutional rights were infringed and that the decision should be nullified.
“The decision to expel me, taken by the second respondent in a meeting chaired by the first respondent, is null and void. For starters, I was never subjected to the benefit of due process,” Mr Bhasikiti said.
“I was not charged of any offence and have not received any notice of any charge against me. I have not appeared before any disciplinary hearing, I have not given my side of the story. I do not even know why I have been expelled,” reads the affidavit.
Mr Bhasikiti said he had a right to be given reasons for the expulsion.
He argued that the Politburo that fired him had no authority to make such a decision.
“I was expelled by the Politburo… It does not have any powers of expulsion. Thus the decision to expel me is grossly irregular in that the Politburo that expelled me does not have such powers in terms of the respondent’s (Zanu-PF) constitution,” he said.
Bhasikiti said the Administration of Justice Act was breached because he was not given adequate notice of the nature of the charges, reasonable opportunity to make representations and adequate notice of right of review or appeal.
He further argued that all the Politburo members who decided his case were biased.
“I also wish to bring it to the court’s attention that all the members of the Politburo were grossly biased against myself and could not have sat in my matter,” he said.
“The challenge with the second respondent is that since August 2014, the party has been on an onslaught against those perceived to be in sympathy with the former Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru. I have also been included in this category,” he said.
Bhasikiti argued that his right to due process and protection of the law enshrined under Section 56 (1) of the Constitution was violated.
To that end, Bhasikiti is seeking a declaration that his rights were violated.
He also argued that his right to administrative justice under Section 68 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe was also breached.
Bhasikiti said Zanu-PF even failed to follow its own constitution in expelling him.
He said his perceived alignment to Dr Mujuru also caused his expulsion from Government where he was Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister.
President Mugabe and Zanu-PF are yet to respond to the court application.

Unconfirmed reports reaching ZimEye.com say Zanu PF Councillor for Ward 23 in Zaka West, Mr Rangwani has died in a suspected murder case.
Mr Rangwani is believed to have been aligned to Joice Mujuru faction although belonging top the Gamatox faction.
The news of the death of councillor Rangwani was announced through social media platforms just as Zimbabweans were seized with the death of another Mujuru ally, Amos Midzi who was found dead in his car at a farm he owns just outside Harare.
It was not possible to confirmation from ZANU PF spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo as his phones were ringing without being answered.
Mujuru allies are being purged from the structures of Zanu Pf as factionalism rips apart the revolutionary movement.
ZAKA was a political violence hot spot in the 2008 presidential election re-run.
Moro details to follow….

The police attending to the death of former ZANU PF Harare chief, Amos Midzi have announced that they have found the car keys, close to one (1) litre of a poisonous liquid, and a pack of blue pills said to be “viagra” inside the vehicle. ALSO READ -SHOCK PICTURES: Amos Midzi’s Dead Body Car At The Scene
The deceased’s brother, Stanley, confirmed the police “find” as he read out the packet stating the blue pills found in the car were purchased on the 29th of May.
The body was found at the back-seat with his legs stretched in-between the front seats where gear lever is positioned. The police said they also found $282 which notes were in different pockets of his trousers.
ALSO READ -Amos Midzi Sudden Mysterious Death. 
There were no injuries on the body, while a 1 litre container of a poisonous liquid named methanadophos, some Dormicum Midazolam tablets, and a cup containing a bluish liquid were found in the car.
Commenting on the development ZimEye.com News Analyst Ndaba Nhuku said there was still something sinister to the whole plot because if it was suicide the car keys would not have been found under the foot mat.
“President Mugabe once said Harare is the capital city of gossip. Maybe he was right. So you now saying Midzi has these blue Viagra tablets and was out on an unused road to see a small house who turns out to have been a fatal honeytrap leaving him lifeless with keys under the mat?,” questioned Nhuku.
Mourners are currently gathered at the family house – 857 Nursery Road, Mount Pleasant.

Hurungwe West independent candidate for the tomorrow’s -elections Themba Mliswa is going to contest in the election despite losing the court challenge in which he wanted the polls to be postponed.
Mliswa today (Tuesday) had approached the Electoral Court seeking the postponement of tomorrow’s by-election because of violence which ZANU (PF) was perpetrating on his supporters.
But Justice Tendai Uchena dismissed his application citing a short period in which it was filed.
Justice Uchena said the application should have given the respondents at least 10 days for them to respond.
But Mliswa had given them (respondents) only three days.
In his application Mliswa cited Keith Guzah ZANU (PF) aspiring candidate, Ignatius Chombo the Secretary for Administration for ZANU (PF) and five traditional leaders. Recorded video and audio footage reveal the violent plot spearheaded by Minister Chombo.
In an interview after the court case hearing Musindo Dunira Hungwe who was representing Mliswa said Mliswa was not withdrawing from the polls.
“It’s a political question to answer which needs the real politician to attend to but as far as I know my client he is not such kind who retreats,” said the lawyer.
Asked if he was happy with the ruling, Hungwe said he had mixed feelings.
“I can say that I have mixed emotions over the ruling, firstly I am saddened by the fact that the main relief we were seeking before the court did not come our way and in effect the election will proceed in spite of our queries and complaints.
“But in the main we are happy that this case while it might not bring happiness to my client or relief to my client it has helped in a way to shape the jurisprudence of our law in relation to electoral matters. There were quite a number of grey areas. In particular we now know that the electoral court has jurisdiction to handle such matters which is quite different from the position that had been previously held by the very same court in terms of the jurisdiction”, he commented.

Below is what a sample of Zimbabwean news readers said following the sudden death of ZANU PF former kingmaker Amos Midzi who was found dead in his car Tuesday morning:
 
Trey Makhaza: Amos Midzi was responsible for the deaths and terror in Epworth and Hatfield in June 2008.He was also the godfather of Mbare terror group, Chipangano alongside Tendai Savanhu. So you can understand why we are not mourning. He was on a confidential list of perpetrators of crimes against humanity and a target of future justice.
 
Patrick Guramatunhu: I remember the photo of Midzi’s humiliation at the Grace Mugabe rally last year! He who sups with the devil must have a long spoon; it seems Midzi’s spoon was not long enough!
 
Revesayi Makubalo: Gamba ranyarara zvaro MaComrades. I am in pain. Just wondering whether he killed himself or by the enemy? Power is worth more than life?? Are we really a Christian country?!!!! Haaaa this is not fair. Today its him who is next?
 

Below are pictures from the scene where ZANU PF’s former Harare supremo and also Zimbabwe’s Energy Minister’s dead body was found.
Ambassador Midzi was found dead Tuesday morning in the vehicle driven outside his farm into an isolated grassy thicket. The car keys were not inside. [ALSO READ]

Police and security agents have said the causes of his death are suicide. But with the car keys missing from the vehicle among other inconsistencies, Zimbabweans rushed to conclude that he was murdered at a time when he was booted from ZANU PF leadership an accused of causing ZANU PF defeat in urban areas during the 2013 elections. Mnangagwa faction members charged at him for allegedly siding with ousted Vice President Joyce Mujuru. READ MORE – Amos Midzi Sudden Mysterious Death 

Zanu PF former Harare kingmaker ambassador and alleged Mujuru aide Amos Midzi has been found dead on the outskirts of his Marirangwe farm .
ZimEye.com is reliably told of intelligence sources Mr Midzi’s was found a dead man in his car in what is suspected to be a hit job by intelligence agents. While the sources said his death was a suspected suicide case, eyebrows were raised after they also confirmed that his car keys were missing.  SEE PICTURES–SHOCK PICTURES: Amos Midzi’s Dead Body Car At The Scene
ZimEye.com can confirm Midzi’s car keys were found missing in the vehicle. Police later announced that they found them under Mr Midzi’s foot mat.
The body was found at the back-seat with his legs stretched in-between the front seats where gear lever is positioned. The police said they also found $282 which notes were in different pockets of his trousers.
 
There were no injuries on the body, while a 1 litre container of a poisonous liquid named methanadophos, some Dormicum Midazolam tablets, and a cup containing a bluish liquid were found in the car.


Midzi was last year expelled from his powerful position of provincial Chairperson after he was accused of fanning factionalism in Harare. He was one of the absentees at the official opening of the emotive 2014 Zanu (PF) congress.
Mystery hang ups
ZimEye.com also found that senior ZANU PF gurus were refusing to speak on Midzi’s death further sparking rumours that there was an underhand in Midzi’s fate. More to follow ….