Harare preacher Uebert (Madzanire) Angel has been struck by brain cancer, this reporter is reliably told.
Prophet Angel as he is popularly known is currently battling a cancerous brain tumour, senior church sources confirmed Wednesday.

The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) has rejected the new Higher Education minister Oppah Muchinguri, saying she is not qualified to hold that post.
The development follows an uproar on Muchinguri’s qualifications after it was revealed she obtained a dodgy masters degree from the University of Zimbabwe whose lecturers have admitted to assisting ZANU PF politicians graduate with flying colours.
Makomborero Haruzivishe, the Zinasu spokesperson, told the Daily News that the appointment of Muchinguri to replace Olivia Muchena, who was sacked last week, was a retrogressive step.
“As Zinasu, we mourn the appointment of Oppah Muchinguri as the minister of Higher Education,” he said.
“This dubious appointment literally highlights the burial of higher educational system whose massacre we witnessed with pain a few months ago with the equally dubious distribution of dubious doctorates.”
Haruzivishe further accused the government of deliberately running down universities and colleges.
“As Zinasu, we are strongly against the current trend of perpetuation of mediocrity which is resulting in the depreciation of our educational standards in Zimbabwe. “This perpetuation has been embodied in the doctoring of doctorates for academically shy political individuals and now the appointment of Muchinguri who neither  knows the basic concepts of appreciating modern day academic and educational systems nor can help pioneer the development of our higher educational system to spearhead socio-economic revival,” Haruzivishe said.
Although Muchinguri does not hold a doctorate, she holds a masters degree from the University of Zimbabwe.
Haruzivishe said government is not committed to improving the standards of education and welfare of students.
“As Zinasu, we have now come to terms with the fact that our government is totally not committed to our welfare and as such is doing all it can to sabotage us,” he said.
“The appointment of Muchinguri to the post of minister of Higher Education should not have been treated as just a mere seat filling exercise for our universities.
“It requires a real academic with the requisite acumen to revolutionise our educational system and spearhead its growth for the sustainable development of the Republic of Zimbabwe. Thus an academic is required not a baby sitter.”
The Zinasu spokesperson said the students’ body is holding a meeting this week to chart a way forward following the appointment of Muchinguri.
“We denounce this irresponsible appointment in the strongest possible terms and we are to hold our general council meeting this week to come up with a clear way-forward to make our government wake up from this deep slumber they are in and view academics and education with a more responsible eye,” he said. – Daily News/Additional Reporting

DEVELOPMENTS ON THE DREADED FORMER CIO Boss Nicholas Goche, who was booted out of ZANU PF authority last week, have seen the whole Mashonaland Central grind to a halt in fear, shock  and uncertainty.
Goche’s farm soon went under an invasion by Mnangagwa supporters two weeks ago before being shoved away by Korekore youths allegedly hired by Goche.
The youths were reportedly paid in kind for their standing to defend Goche with the latter dolling out a bag of top dressing fertilizer to each person.
Mr Goche was reported ill and bedridden from the time of the last Politburo meeting before the ZANU PF congress.
Meanwhile Goche’s right hand man, a certain Muchemwa whose car was impounded by rogue youth during nominations for the Central Committee in Bindura, was seen moving around in Goche’s ‘white landcruiser with named district chairpersons. …More to follow….
 

THE MDC-T-dominated Harare City Council has set itself on a collision course with the Zanu PF government after proposing to name a new suburb in Budiriro, Harare, and some of the capital’s roads after liberation war heroes and democracy campaigners among them the late Retired General Solomon Mujuru and the late MDC-T spokesperson Learnmore Jongwe.

THE government is set to spend almost $9 million on traditional chiefs’ cars after a parliamentary committee recommended that each of them receive $35 000 instead of $18 000 to buy vehicles.
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Local Government recommended that traditional chiefs be allocated $35 000 each to procure vehicles of their choice, as their terms of office were much longer than those of legislators.
Committee chairperson, Irene Zindi, on Tuesday told Parliament that the committee heard that $18 000 was not enough, as it could only buy single cab trucks instead of the twin cabs chiefs desired.
According to a parliamentary record, while debating the 2015 national budget debate in the National Assembly, Zindi said the committee was of the conviction that since the tenure of chiefs is longer than that of parliamentarians, they should be given the $35 000 and pay over a longer period.
“Furthermore, the officials informed your committee that chiefs could only get vehicle loans up to $18 000 instead of $35 000 based on their current allowances,” Zindi said.
“With $18 000, they can only buy single cab trucks rather than the twin cabs they desire. Your committee was of the conviction that since the tenure of chiefs is longer than that of parliamentarians, they should be given the $35 000 and pay over a longer period. On the same note, chiefs also felt that it was high time that their allowances were reviewed.”
During the chiefs’ annual conference in Gweru recently, President Robert Mugabe told them they could get any car they wanted and the government would bankroll the purchases.
If the government approves this, it will further raise questions on where its priorities lie, as for example, the authorities only spent $205 000 on schools last year and $180 000 on HIV and Aids awareness programmes.
In 2012 the more than 250 traditional leaders made shock demands to be given diplomatic passports and guns for personal security.
The chiefs, who are paid $300 in monthly allowances and drive government-issued cars, stand accused by Mugabe’s opponents of dabbling in politics. – SouthernEye

A MAN from Changwa Area in Plumtree allegedly killed his employer over an unknown dispute before committing suicide three days ago.
Matabeleland South Acting police Spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nkosilathi Sibanda confirmed the incident.
“The incident happened around 10pm on December 15 at the Osabeni Area in Plumtree,” he said.
Sibanda identified the deceased as Loveness Moyo (34), while the alleged assailant was identified as Derick Ncube (36).
“Ncube was employed by Moyo as a domestic worker and was residing with her,” he said. “At around 10pm Ncube armed himself with an axe and went to Moyo’s room where he found her asleep with her daughters aged 14, five and a six-month-old baby.”
Sibanda said Ncube struck Moyo on the face several times before turning to the 14-year-old daughter.
“Ncube struck the 14-year-old twice on the forehead and in the right arm before he hanged himself with a rope in his hut,” Sibanda said. “At around 7am on Tuesday the five-year-old daughter woke up and discovered her mother and her sister lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
“She took his six-month-old sibling and went to her aunt Bekezela Moyo, who mobilised her neighbours and went to Moyo’s homestead, where they found them lying in a pool of blood.”
Sibanda said when the neighbour went to the homestead they found the 14-year-old lying on the floor unconscious with deep wounds on the forehead.
“The 14-year-old was rushed to United Bulawayo Hospitals and her condition is very critical,” he narrated.
The bodies of the two deceased were taken to Plumtree hospital for a post mortem, Sibanda said.
He said they were still investigating the case and advised people to involve third parties in solving their disputes. – SouthernEye

Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa came under fire from legislators yesterday when he revealed he dished out a whopping 309Million to the Ministry of Defence in his 2015 budget allocation announcement.
There was chaos in parly yesterday when MDC legislators took control of the house as they demanded that Chinamasa goes back to the drawing board.
While the house was in Committee stage debating funds allocated to the various ministries by Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa, MDC-T legislators stormed into Chinamasa’s face protesting that why is that Education adn Health put together are far below Defence at a time when the countrb is not at war.
Chinamasa in his budget shoved to the Ministry of Defence US$309 105 000 in the 2015.
“We are not in a war. Our defence budget is too big. Some of the money should have been allocated to the ministries of education and health,” said Mr Thamsanqa Mahlangu MDC-T representative for Nkulumane.
He was immediately supported by other legislators among them Mr Innocent Gonese (MDC-T Chief Whip), Mr Settlement Chikwinya (MDC -T).
In his debate, Muderedzwa, however, defended the allocation saying it was actually low considering the military needs. This raised the ire of the MDC formations with Bulawayo East legislator Ms Dorcas Sibanda (MDC-T) raising a point of order that Muderedzwa had used unparliamentary language.
However, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Mabel Chinomona, overruled the objection.
This resulted in chaotic scenes as the MDC formations legislators led by Mr Chikwinya attempted to leave the House.
They were encouraged to leave by the zanu-pf legislators who resorted to shouting, “Go! Go!”
The MDC legislators then broke into song for a few minutes before order was eventually restored and debate continued.
In his response Minister Chinamasa, refuted the allegations that the defence budget was too high saying he had actually left out most of the military requirements.
“I have cut to the bone on the defence budget where I have not provided for purchase of new equipment. In fact, what cost more is not paying salaries but equipment.
“There is no uniformed forces in the whole world which don’t recruit on a planned basis otherwise you will have an army of old people which can’t go to the front.
“An army which doesn’t train becomes even a danger to itself and I haven’t provided for training in the Budget because when they train, they use live ammunition and real guns,” Minister Chinamasa said.
Turning to the other issues Minister Chinamasa reiterated that the fiscal space was tight resulting in low allocations to all ministries.
Meanwhile, the National Assembly adopted the various appropriations to the various ministries as contained in the Estimates of Expenditure while the Finance Bill that will effect the various policy measures announced in the Budget was referred to the Parliamentary Legal Committee yesterday.
Debate on the Budget resumes today.

The investigation against Harare preacher Walter Magaya in which he stands accused of sending his girlfriend Chipo Chakanyuka ‘to be slaughtered in a Botswana jail’ has taken a twist with a group of respected lawyers across the border vowing to investigate to the last drop of evidence after Magaya begged investigating journalists for mercy saying “please forgive me.”
The legal experts have voiced they will soon come out into the public as soon they have concluded their inquiries in what they suspect was a botched assassination plot involving Tswana assailants, something which the Girl Child Network has also chipped in wanting to hear into it.
Walter Magaya was in September fingered by independent witnesses and the Chakanyuka family after their kin Chipo, Magaya’s former girlfriend as per submissions, died while on church duty having been arrested following accusations she was in possession of diamonds in what was claimed to be suicide using a doek, but Chipo’s corpse was found having no neck marks whatsoever to prove the hanging theory.
The latest police documents availed, show that police have found out the so called diamonds were actually fake stones and the automatic assumptions are now that they had been planted in order to incriminate the late Chipo Chakanyuka.
With the fake diamonds however were also 18 grams of gold Chipo was said to have been found in possession of. But a close Chakanyuka relative has made submissions that before death Chipo who was not even a gold trader being the PHD church’s Chief Usher, had told her cousin via phone from jail in Botswana that she suspects a named PHD church staffer, was responsible for planting the gold into her bag before she left Harare for Botswana.
Another topical issue at the height of investigations is the head-cloth (doek) alleged to have been used by Chipo to commit suicide. Chipo’s mother was denied access to this cloth and she was eventually forced to leave Botswana without it having yet demanding it be availed so that she is satisfied that suicide was committed by her daughter. Botswana prison officials have confirmed that they do not allow arrested suspects to enter the cells with such items like doeks, scarfes, belts, and they are further given prison clothes even while they are on remand.
The highly suspicious circumstances have attracted criticism from the Zimbabwe Girl Child Network organisation as pressure mounts on Magaya to speak out on what truly happened. Commented Girl Child Network boss, Betty Makoni, “on moral and ethical grounds we are hoping Prophet Magaya tells the world what happened to this young woman. Botswana is a country with a trusted police and we await the full story.
People with information on what happened to the deceased are asked to contact the organisation via Whatsapp number +447951522790. Said Makoni,
“Our group of women call upon anyone with information on Chipo to send to WhatsApp +447951522790. Meanwhile we appeal to everybody to donate to Chipo’s children as one of the children is a baby. This case points to organised murder and so we are hoping more people will send us information in confidence. Be rest assured your name will be kept secret,” said Makoni.
 
Begging for mercy
Mr Magaya in response to the probe is on record admitting to a local daily that he paid $6,000 towards her funeral costs.
“Why do you hate me, you The Zimbabwe Mail why do you hate me, yes I know that you hate me, every journalist in the country does not hate me but you the Zimbabwe Mail you hate me. I know that you are being used by someone and I know you will hate me to the last bone of your life. I know you are Pharisees and Sadducees.  I can’t have an affair with someone and do miracles that I do.  I know I am not a God of man but I am a man of God. I can’t do a sin and perform those miracles. I helped Chipo change her life; she was a stripper in beer halls and I helped her change her life. I have a video of her mother saying at the grave site that her daughter was into gold smuggling.
“If I have done anything wrong for you vanhu ve Zimbabwe Mail please forgive me,” an emotionally charged Magaya said surrounded by his security guards, Pastor Max and Nyangoni at their Waterfalls church.
“I paid more than $6000 towards Chipo’s funeral,” he said.
Asked to comment on her daughter being a stripper, Tambudzayi hit back: “My daughter was never a stripper; he should name the beer hall where he saw her and say what he was doing there himself. He must know that he will never get away with this. He is just trying to get defence on his side, but there is God in heaven and he will never get away with it.”
According to the aunt, Chipo went to Botswana with some church members on September 19, to buy church uniforms under the leadership of a certain Mai Nyangoni.

In the second season finale of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Africa Investigates, Emmanuel Mutaizibwa leads a team of reporters who go undercover inside Uganda’s court system to reveal the price of justice, exposing a chain of corruption that is rotting the country’s judiciary to its core.
Although the Global Corruption Perception Index ranks Uganda at 142nd out of 170 countries, the country’s law courts used to be seen as free from graft. However, a recent report from the country’s Anti Corruption Coalition has confirmed an increasingly widespread view – that corruption has seeped into one of the most sacred institutions of the land.
In the documentary, the investigation begins in Kasangati, a suburban town just north of the capital city, Kampala. The Magistrate’s Court in Kasangati plays a central role in the town, but Emmanuel and his team discover that it’s as much a place for buying and selling as the town’s market.
Emmanuel meets a number of litigants who claim that court officials had swindled money out of them. The only way to substantiate these claims is for Emmanuel to take the plunge and dive into this murky court system.
Posing as litigants and armed with undercover cameras, Emmanuel’s team climb a hierarchy of corruption, where they are forced to use bribe money to navigate past officials at every step.
Money is demanded from the very first instance of reporting a crime and the practice reaches shocking heights within the court itself, from the police up to a senior magistrate.
Emmanuel then confronts Uganda’s anti-corruption authorities with the video evidence.
“Judicial corruption eats away at the fabric of society,” says Al Jazeera English’s executive producer Diarmuid Jeffreys.”
“If police and court officials can be bought off, then how can they ever be trusted?  That’s why this story is so important,” he added.

Emmanuel’s remarkable investigation was given extra weight by ordinary citizen activists; hard-working Ugandans determined to hold the corrupt to account and protect the principle that justice should be fair,  impartial and honest.

Uganda: Watch  Temples of Injustice, the fifth and final episode of the second season here on Zimeye.

An abusive man poured paraffin on the entire house, his wife Kudakwashe Masharu and two children, in a bid to set them ablaze following a misunderstanding, the Harare Civil Court heard. Masharu claimed at the court that her husband Robert Chapita was in the habit of assaulting her with an iron bar. She was seeking a protection order against Chapita whom she accused of breaching her peace.
“He once poured paraffin on the entire house, me and the children before trying to set us ablaze,” she said. Masharu told magistrate Mrs Babra Masinire that Chapita was in the habit of verbally and physically abusing her with an iron bar in front of their children.
“My husband is violent towards me at all times,” she said.
“He embarrasses me in front of our children and this is now affecting their performance at school.” Masharu said she was now living in fear of losing her life because of Chapita’s violent behaviour.
“I want this honourable court to bar him from verbally and physically abusing me because he is making my life horrible,” she said. Chapita failed to show up at the court.
Mrs Masinire granted the protection order in default which barred Chapita from verbally or physically abusing Masharu.
She also ordered Chapita to keep peace towards Masharu at all times. -State Media

Zimbabwe’s ambassadors have not been paid for more than 20 months, Morgan Tsvangirai’s party has said in a development that has left the community shell-shocked and with the MDC leader describing it as an embarrassment.
Tsvangirai in his special Christmas message said diplomatic missions across the world are also at pains financially failing to pay rent and could be evicted anytime soon.
Said Tsvangirai,  “to cap our embarrassment, we have just been told our diplomats have not been paid for over 20 months and our diplomatic missions risk being ejected from properties we occupy in foreign capitals around the world.
“We have failed to pay our annual subscriptions to the African Union as well as our SADC mandatory pledges, even though President Mugabe is at the helm of both institutions. Our current sad reality is worlds apart from the make-believe world depicted in ZimAsset, a Zanu PF policy programme that has failed to assume any life outside the neatly packed blueprints in government offices.
“The ambitious programme had promised the creation of  2,2 million jobs, the construction of 250 000 low-income homes, a growth rate of nine percent per annum, 310 public schools and 300 more clinics up to 2018.
“But there has been a huge chasm between that dream and the sad reality. There has been no statecraft in the cockpit of State and the mediocrity in the corridors of government is alarming, even by Zanu PF’s usual poor standards.
“Last-week’s so-called cabinet reshuffle failed to inspire any confidence in the nation as it was simply a shuffling of the chairs in the Titanic. The ‘new’ brooms are the same ‘old’ characters who have failed to deliver over the years.
“Mugabe has lived true to the adage that there is always so much deadwood in a Zanu PF Cabinet that one can make an ark”

DOCTORS File Urgent Chamber High Court Application to reverse Salary Cuts
 
Zimbabwe’s doctors are in the next few hours taking government to court over random salary cuts amounting to $529,36 their employer recently enforced the medical experts have described as “Satanic.” The development now causing employee disaffection could see patients across the country being put at risk.
In a statement the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association announced it will “tomorrow morning file an urgent chamber High Court application to challenge the decision by the Ministry of Health and Child Care to deduct an alarming total of $529,36 from the salaries of all doctors who are accused of participating in a legal industrial action.
“The ZHDA through its lawyers as represented by Mr Emmanuel Samuntombe will challenge the illegal salary deductions as they have been done outside the confines of the law, have not been done procedurally as per the requirements of our current labour laws and are also an infringement of the right to industrial action as stipulated in section 65 and 76 of the new constitution of Zimbabwe.
“The application will immediately seek to bar the paymaster from effecting the intended salary deductions before the next revised salary date. This decision has been made after an urgent meeting held between the ZHDA leadership and their legal practitioners this afternoon.
“In a document availed to doctors at Paridenyatwa hospital since morning today the Public Service commission as directed by the Ministry of Health and Child Care doctors will have their salaries for December and January be deducted by an average of $264,48 each month to a whooping total of $529,36.
 
“This satanic move is intended to be implemented in the background of doctors earning around $283 as basic salary and some meagre allowances. The ZHDA is shocked that within the top echelons of the Ministry of Health and Child Care they are individuals who continue to habour nefarious ,retrogressive and dangerous intentions to set doctors into engaging into a collision course with the government , their patients and even their morality.
“This is evidenced by the recent utterances made by Dr Paul Chimedza in the private media recently where he described doctors as drunkards and chain smokers. The ZHDA maintains it’s position that it will not fall into the trap being set by Dr Paul Chimedza and his inner cabal meant to anger, incite and frustrate young doctors who are currently playing a pivotal role in the provision of health care to all government hospitals in Zimbabwe , into a rebellious lot who daily strike against government ineffectiveness and mediocre decision making.
 
“The ZHDA and it’s members will never be intimidated or unnecessarily be coerced by the deputy Minister’s remarks and of-course his recent docking of salaries so that it loses track of what the government is set to deliver beginning January 2015. This gross negligence being exhibited by the Ministry of Health and Child Care has never been witnessed since time immemorial or rather it is the most illogical decision made by a government official since the pre historic era.
 
“It is shocking that a Ministry led by seemingly learned officials illegally decides to punish its employees even without subjecting them to a hearing or any formal charge and conviction.
 
“The ZHDA will relentlessly fight this injustice and insanity as it falls short of the existing legal statutes that govern the relationship between employees and their employers. Meanwhile our members will deliberate today on whether or not they will afford to come to work,or if they come to work at what level of effort will they be dispensing their responsibilities.
 
“It is very clear that from this provocation passive resistance which protects our members from the venom of the embattled deputy Minister and his cabal will be instituted.
“This shall greatly compromise the quality of health services to innocent patients , and our hardworking tax payers. Finally we urgently call upon the portfolio committee on health, the cabinet and the acting President to immediately rein in on the Ministry of Health so as to stop this unprecedented on-slaught on the moral and finances of doctors in Zimbabwe.
“This definitely will open flood gates of lawsuits by doctors individually, as an association or by different interest groups .”

In a bizarre sequel of events in the western town of Chinhoyi, mythical mermaid creatures in the Hunyani river which stretches from Mozambique to President Robert Mugabe’s homestead in Zvimba, are reportedly cited regularly coming out of the water attacking and killing every man who lingers around the river.
The incidents widely speculated in the Chinhoyi area, have seen at least three men being taken into the waters shortly before each person returns as a dead corpse, reports which the Department of National Parks however rule out declaring instead that the attacking animals are crocodiles. But traditional community leaders have maintained the creatures are actually mermaids and this is further evidenced in that they are “only attacking men” and no woman has ever been taken into the murky waters to date. A classical case cited is that of Mavambo leader Liberty Mukwakwami whose body returned after four whole days and without a single mark of a crocodile bite[READ MORE-Click Here ].
The Hunyani river said to be home to numerous so called ‘mermaids’, stretches into Zimbabwe from Mozambique then rising northwest of Marondera and flowing westward past Harare to Robert Mugabe’s homestead in Kutama, Zvimba. From Kutama, it then turns north past Chinhoyi and cuts through the Rukowakuona Mountains to the Lowveld later crossing the Mozambique border at Hunyani.
 
“Seyiko vari varume vega varikungotorwa pese pese vachitsakatika, pindurayika nhayi?,” a highly spirited woman who lives in the nearby block of houses around the Biri dam told ZimEye. 

She said there is “a female mermaid in the Biri dam”, and another one which lives in the main Hunyani river.
“She (the said mermaid) is angry for some reason and is taking revenge on men,” she said.
She added, “many women roam around the river and I myself pass through it every day and yet none of all attacks ever get women. Look at how Liberty Mukwakwami came back a dead man last week with no crocodile bite on his body [READ MORE–Bloody Crocodile which killed MKD Leader Was Actually a Human Being – Evidence],” she said.
“Many women here have their fields stretching to the river bank and so why have these crocodiles not attacked a single woman to date,” she said.
A study of the area by ZimEye has revealed however that the rising number of attacks on men can only be of crocodiles. This was found to be a reliable conclusion to the crisis as two white farmers previously involved in crocodile farming were chased away during ZANU PF’s chaotic land reform program, and the new owners who were ignorant, recklessly caused the animals previously domiciled within the confines of the farm, to escape into the Hunyani river, creating the present crisis.
ZimEye also found out that many are engaged in fishing activities with full body up the waist in the water, becoming easy prey for the crocodiles.

Zimbabwe’s Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set on a mission to pull MDC supporters into his ZANU PF party, something which is his number one priority in order to restore the economy now that he is in the presidium, it has emerged.
Mnangagwa who has previously threatened to beat up all opposition part members deemed to have sold the country out, announced Tuesday he desires to pull over urban voters who are ‘genetically’ of the opposition.
He made the announcement to journalists saying with the ZANU PF congress now behind, the Zanu PF government is now faced with the challenge of putting food on the table and uplifting the standards of living of the ordinary people. Mnangagwa told the State Media ZANU PF’s economic development programme, ZIMASSET, provides the answer to various economic challenges bedevilling the country. He however vocally admitted that “the major task on the political front is that of mobilising” and winning the urban voters who in the last election remained under the influence of the opposition.
But his invitations are likely to go unnoticed as opposition members said they dread his having threatened to punish all who have been deemed to have sold out. “Wese anotengesa nyika ngaarobwe,” Mnangagwa loudly vocalised at a funeral last year.
The newly elevated Vice President has served the Zimbabwe government in various capacities since independence and was the Minister of Justice and Legal and Parliamentary Affairs before ascending to the vice presidency. He has to date continued to hold the Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs portfolio.

The road accident that nearly claimed the life of newly appointed Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko was caused by a pot that  fell from the moving vehicle carrying wedding utensils, it has been revealed as the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) said the driver of a truck that was involved in an accident with has been charged for negligence.
The charge follows police investigations on the accident involving  Mphoko’s vehicle and another motorist that occurred on Saturday along Enterprise Road near the Forestry Commission in Harare.
Police Spokesperson, Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba described as inaccurate, some media reports that the incident was stage-managed.
“After investigations, the attending officer concluded that the Toyota Hiace truck driver had failed to secure his load, remained in a dangerous position and drove without due care and attention. Drivers are warned not to immediately stop in the middle of the road if they encounter unforeseen situations. We encourage the media to report objectively after sourcing for facts on accidents especially those involving senior government officials,” she said.
On Sunday, Vice President Mphoko ruled out foul play, describing the accident as genuine.
He said the driver of a truck applied emergency brakes after dropping something, and this is what led to the accident.
“The truck was carrying wedding material, and after dropping what looked like a pot, passengers seated at the back of the truck then hit the roof signalling the driver to stop,” said Mphoko.
The accident comes barely two months after another Vice President,  Emmerson Mnangagwa’s vehicle was involved in an accident with a staff bus belonging to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals along Herbert Chitepo road in Harare.
 

The Zimbabwe Republic Police says more victims of the botched inputs deal which sucked in a local private company, Lasch Investments, and some senior Zanu PF officials continue to file police reports.
Police chief spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba said out of the 115 complainants who have been interviewed by the police, none of them received fertilisers or seed from Lasch Investments.
Senior Assistant Commissioner Charamba revealed that farmers lost their hard earned cash of up to US$5 000 for some farmers as those who wanted more inputs were paying more.
In Mashonaland Central province, some farmers are reported to have deposited various amounts in an account belonging to Lasch Investments at a bank in Bindura and these farmers have proof of such payments.
The police have appealed to all farmers who have been duped to enter into such a deal to report to the nearest police station.
Meanwhile, the Lasch inputs saga continues with political undertones being down-played by directors of the company which prejudiced thousands of farmers across the country.
It has emerged that among the beneficiaries of the controversial inputs scheme were Zanu PF party district chairpersons.
With the recently held congress having courted controversy after the expulsion of a faction which had been heavily involved in vote buying, availing inputs to chairpersons who make up the Zanu PF electoral college could smack of ulterior motives.
Lasch director Tapiwa Zengeya denies this, saying the venture was 60 percent owned by his company with the Zanu PF youth league owning the other 40 percent.
The party youths were brought in to mobilise membership for the scheme.
The duped farmers are now spending hours in the rain and brave wet nights at Zanu PF headquarters hoping they will finally get their inputs.
Several victims have showed journalists receipts validating they have been duped of almost thousands of dollars.
One woman robbed of $2000.00 spoke to the State Media narrating her ordeal almost in tears. She said the amount was to ensure a 20-hectare crop in case she failed to pay back a US$10 000 loan she had been promised but never got.
 
 
 

Gokwe Kudiwa community have been left whispering to each other, after a mother of three who passed on was buried without a nose and an upper lip, following scuffles and disagreements between her husband and in-laws.
According to women who were in the room where the corpse was lying, an animal that looked like a dog entered the thatched hut, and quickly devoured off the nose and upper lip from the dead body before it dashed out, as all women retreated to a corner after failing to identify the atrocious looking mammal.
The shocking incident took place in Kudiwa village of Gokwe South near Hovano, when a woman who came to work in the agro- town 25 years ago, ended up cohabiting with a man of her love and did not bother informing her parents of her whereabouts.
The woman identified as Ruramai Zhou, had been staying with Witmore Mudare of Kudiwa as husband and wife, and their relationship was blessed with three children, one girl and two boys, who are all in secondary school.
According to a close relative of the Mudare family who fought a protracted battle to settle the exasperating scuffle that left the family depleted, their brother was not officially recognised by his in-laws who are all based in Mberengwa. “Witmore has been cohabiting with his lover for more than 20 years and have three children. The woman got ill and died leaving us with no option but to look for her relatives, who rebutted their daughter’s death.”
She further narrated to ZimEye how their horror started, after their visit through friends accompanied by a Police Officer to the woman’s family. “The journey was the one I will never forget and all our family members are still in panic following the refusal by her parents to bury her before a 10 head of cattle was paid,” she said.
According to information made available to ZimEye, after the woman’s sudden death, the family tried in vain to persuade their in-laws who were a hard nut to crack. The family sought the help of the Police who accompanied them to Mberengwa, but the relatives refused forcing them to return to Gokwe to reinforce their pockets and more security for escort.
The Mudare family went back to Mberengwa, this time in the company of two Police Officers, who pleaded with the family to come and have their beloved laid to rest in a decent way. They agreed on condition that their demand of 10 beasts would be paid.
“We had to contribute, and villagers came to our rescue, with some of them donating four beasts, to save us from the marauding in-laws. After days of fundraising, we were allowed to bury the decomposing body. We discovered that she had lost her upper lip and nose,” added Sharai Mhondiwa, a sister to Witmore.
According to the village head representative of Kudiwa, who identified himself as Phineas Mwendamberi, the situation left a stain not to be forgotten. “We will have to gather as a village after the dust settles, to discuss with all young men to have an update on their marriages, as this has taught us many lessons in one month,” he said scratching his forehead.

ZAPU supremo Dumiso Dabengwa is to hold a crucial press conference at 6PM today (Tuesday).
This comes after the recently appointed Vice Pesident Phelekezela Mphoko attacked Dabengwa on the issue of 1987 Unity Accord.
But yesterday Dabengwa and ZAPU high command hit back saying the new VP is a defector, a CIO-agent-cum ambassador who has deliberately chosen to exclude his secret agent back ground in his curriculum Vitae.
Dabengwa is expected to also speak on Zimbabwe’s economic which has hit a brick wall as Zanu PF concentrate on power struggles that have seen VP Joice Mujuru booted out.
“As far as Zipra commanders are concerned, Mphoko joined Zanu when he reneged from joining his contingent when they left Zipra to return to Zambia.”
Dabengwa said it is surprising that Mphoko hides that he was a member of the Central Intelligence Office (CIO) before he became a diplomat and advised him to shut up about Zapu.
“On attainment of independence in 1980, Mphoko was one of the few Zapu cadrés to be inducted into the CIO,” he said, in a statement written jointly with the Zipra high command.
“It may be significant that from the CIO, Mphoko was sent out to the Zimbabwe embassy in Austria.
“For some reason he does not mention this attachment as the beginning of his diplomatic career.
“This precedes his appointment to Russia, Botswana and finally South Africa which are quite publicised.”
More to follow……

A POPULAR MARRIED UNGUZA PASTOR has admitted having a series of intimate sessions with his own teenage niece for a period of over twelve months.
Pastor Lemison Moyo, 33, had sex with his 17 year old niece with his hypnotised wife’s permission for the lengthy period as he bought the victim gifts such as underwear, soap and lotion.
These issues were revealed as Pastor Moyo was yesterday acquitted of rape.
Pastor Moyo, was over the moon when regional Magistrate Chrispen Mberewere said it was clear that he had consensual sex with his 17-year-old Form Three niece on several occasions and that at law he could not be charged.
Moyo’s niece reported four rape incidents but when Moyo was giving his evidence in chief, he told the court that he could not count the times he had unprotected sex using different sex styles with his niece, a daughter to his wife’s sister.
“Though it is clear that you had consensual sex with your niece that does not mean it is morally acceptable. You claim to be a married pastor the main reason that made you confess your sexual escapades with your niece was you realised you were losing members. We expect a lot from you and Biblically, you must be having sex with your wife,” he said.
Magistrate Mberewere said Moyo who maintained that he was in love with his niece throughout his trial was a free man.
“As her guardian, morally you may be guilty of bedding a relative but we cannot criminalise that as she consented all the way. What Moyo did is shameful because it has been clearly been proven that you were sexually active with her. However, the court finds you not guilty of rape.”
An ecstatic Moyo left the court smiling and was joined by his wife and friends in celebrating his freedom. Moyo confided in a prophet from another church about the year-long sexual encounter, then the woman decided to report the matter to the police, leading to his arrest.
Testifying during the trial, the niece stated that she was still a virgin when Moyo started having sex with her from December 2012 to December 2013.
“My uncle used to rape me after discussing with his wife and they would assault me for no reason,” she said. “I finally got fed up and wrote my maternal aunt a letter narrating my ordeal and notifying her that l was contemplating suicide. She fetched me from Moyo’s house and took me to her friend who is a prophet and l gathered strength to tell the prophet everything that had happened.”
The girl said Moyo used to buy her gifts like underwear, soap and lotion and her aunt, who is married to Moyo, was aware of everything. “I was so scared and then l failed to tell anyone of the abuse because Moyo would threaten me.” State Media/Additional Reporting

Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has had her political fate sealed with ZANU PF announcing it was invoking a shady section of the yet untapped New Constitution which means she lost her seat upon assuming the Vice Presidency in September last year.
This was so despite the fact that the New Constitution does not in any way restrict a sitting Vice President from returning to her constituency upon loosing her Vice Presidency. The development however led to the Herald’s editor throwing a celebratory article against Mujuru’s reputation.

The article read in full : It never rains, but pours for beleaguered former Vice President Joice Mujuru who yesterday was quoted in some sections of the media saying she had accepted her dismissal from the Vice Presidency of Zanu-PF and the nation, and would soldier on as a card-carrying member and National Assembly member for Mt Darwin West. Unbeknown to her, she lost her Mt Darwin West Parliamentary seat 15 months ago, on September 11, when she assumed the Office of Vice President of Zimbabwe.
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Section 129 (1) (c) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 20) Act of 2013 that deals with the tenure of seat of a Member of Parliament stipulates that, “the seat of a Member of Parliament shall become vacant upon the Member becoming President or Vice President.’’
Former Vice President Mujuru was, thus, going to Parliament as Vice President, not as Member of Parliament since Vice Presidents are not Members of Parliament.
Dr Mujuru was fired from Government, along with eight ministers, on December 9 for behaviour inconsistent with her official responsibilities in the discharge of her duties.

This came in the wake of allegations of high level corruption, bribery, extortion, abuse of office, undermining the authority of, and seeking to depose or assassinate President Mugabe that she faced.
Similarly, Vice President Mnangagwa ceased to be National Assembly Member for Chirumanzu-Zibagwe Constituency last Friday when he — along with VP Phelekezela Mphoko — took his oath of office before President Mugabe at State House in Harare.
Cde Mnangagwa’s National Assembly seat automatically became vacant by operation of the law when he assumed the Office of Vice President of Zimbabwe.
 
At law, Vice Presidents are not Members of Parliament, although they can sit there for debate, be leader of the House conduct business there, but they do not vote.
Similarly, while there has been speculation in some quarters as to what would become of VP Mphoko within 90 days if he did not find a seat, the same constitutional provision that strips VPs of their membership of the legislature means VP Mphoko does not need a seat to sit in the August House or retain his post as Vice President of Zimbabwe.
While National Constitutional Assembly leader Professor Lovemore Madhuku who filed a constitutional Court application challenging the appointment of Vice Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko claimed that they should not be given ministries after VP Mnangagwa retained his Justice, Parliamentary and Legal affairs ministerial portfolio while VP Mphoko assumed the National Healing and Reconciliation portfolio that was previously held by late VP and national hero Cde John Landa, the two can hold such portfolios.
Section 99 of the Constitution stipulates that, ‘’the Vice-Presidents assist the President in the discharge of his or her functions and perform any other functions, including the administration of any ministry, department or Act of Parliament, that the President may assign to them.’’
To compound matters for the beleaguered former VP Mujuru, in terms of Section 103 she cannot be an MP, let alone hold any other form of employment, now that she has been vice president of Zimbabwe.
Section 103 stipulates that, ‘’the President and Vice President, and any former President or Vice-President , must not, directly or indirectly, hold any other public office or be employed by anyone else while they are in office or are receiving a pension from the State as former President or Vice-President, as the case may be.’’
ZEC has, naturally come underfire, for sleeping on the job in failing to call a by-election in Mt Darwin West yet they declared Buhera Sout, which fell vacant following the death of Cde Kumbirai Kangai on August 24 2013.
ZEC chairperson Justice Rita Makaru, refused to comment on the matter yesterday referring all questions to the electoral body’s Acting Chief Elections Officer Mr Utoile Silaigwana.

However, Mr Silaingwana said; “I am sorry I cannot answer those questions off head. Do you mind sending your questions on e-mail so that I respond to you tomorrow?”
In terms of the new Constitution Schedule VI paragraph 14 there is no First or Second Vice President. This is why, in the event of the incapacitation of the President, the VP who acted last continues as acting president.
The issue of First and Second Vice Presidents is in the Running Mate clause Section 92 (2) that says, ‘’ every candidate for election as President must nominate two persons to stand for election jointly with him or her as Vice Presidents, and must designate one of those persons as his or her candidate for first Vice President and the other as his or her candidate for second Vice-President.’’
This section has, however, been put in abeyance till 2013 when it is supposed to come into effect. As such under the current constitution, the two Vice Presidents are at par, and either of them can act at the pleasure of the President.
When the President appointed the two VPs at the extra-ordinary Central Committee meeting last week he said I am appointing one from former Zanu and one from former Zapu in accordance with article 4 of the Unity Accord, he didn’t say first or second Vice President.
According to paragraph 14 (1) (b) of the Sixth Schedule to the new Constitution, ‘’…the President may from time to time nominate one of them to act as President whenever he or she is absent from Zimbabwe or is unable to exercise his or her official functions through illness or any other cause.’’
And where the President dies, resigns or is removed from office, paragraph 14(4) (a) says the Vice President who was last nominated to act acts as President until a new President assumes office.
There have also been reports attributed to the Prosecutor General that the appointments of the two Vice Presidents was done in terms of the old Constitution, the fact is the VPs were appointed in terms of the new Constitution since the Lancaster House Constitution was repealed on August 22, 2013 when President Mugabe was inaugurated, which was the effective date of the new Constitution in its entirety.
The idea that the two VPs were appointed in terms of the old Constitution is thus incorrect.
The PG’s claims have given the likes of National Constitutional Assembly leader Professor Lovemore Madhuku ideas to file an application saying the Constitution says the President must appoint not more than two vice presidents and had delayed in naming the two vice presidents.
Government spokesperson; Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo said it was ironic Prof Madhuku was approaching the court when by virtue of appointing the two VPs, the President had fulfilled Prof Madhuku’s wishes.
‘’Of course we have noted comments from a number of learned people who have commented on their fellow learned person in the name of Prof Madhuku showing how misguided he is but the bottom line is if you give Madhuku the benefit of the doubt and take his argument as correct that there has been a delay or there was a delay in having two because he admits there was no delay in having one, there was a delay in having two. What is the logical implication of that? How do you remedy a delay? You remedy a delay by fulfilling the requirement; you don’t remedy a delay by eliminating the requirement.
‘’If you go to court arguing that there has been a delay in doing something, you will be asking the court to ask for the fulfillment not to go without. So if Madhuku has an argument, his wishes have been fulfilled. And there is no reasonable court which will fail to see that,’’ Prof Moyo said.
The dismissal of former Vice President Mujuru and the appointment by the President of the two new Vice Presidents has been received with a lot of misinformation, disinformation and misrepresentation. And all of them based on either ignorance or misunderstanding of the new Constitution even from scholars of jurisprudence like Prof Madhuku, and former political advisor to MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, UK-based lawyer Mr Alex Magaisa.

A ZVISHAVANE man walked in on his 60-year-old wife having sex with a 15-year-old boy on their matrimonial bed, leaving their marriage of 31 years on the rocks.
The incident which left villagers of Chimurenga-Chrome Dry in Neta tongue-tied happened on Saturday at around 9PM. Villagers said the lovebirds had been having sex behind the man’s back for “a long time.”
Sakhele Khumalo, 63, told the the state media he is sending his wife Elizabeth Khumalo packing. He said he never wanted to hear his wife’s name mentioned in his presence as she had exposed him to the ultimate humiliation by engaging in extra-marital sex with a boy young enough to be her grandson.
Elizabeth denied she was caught with the boy (name withheld because of age), and said she would only leave her husband if they shared their property.
“Elizabeth has done the worst thing imaginable. She has committed adultery with a boy the age of her grandson. I can’t take her back, she has to leave my home and the property she’s demanding will only be moved from my home over my dead body,” fumed Khumalo.
Villagers narrated how all hell broke loose on Saturday when Khumalo got a tip-off about the affair.
They said he was not on duty at his workplace but pretended to Elizabeth that he was going to work at night.
“He left home around 7PM, boarded a lift towards work before disembarking after some distance. He went to a relative’s homestead only to go home around 9PM. Upon arrival, he peeped through the window and was taken aback by Elizabeth who was screaming like a teenage girl with sexual excitement. An emotionally charged Khumalo then quietly locked the door from outside with steel wire before rushing to inform his relatives who had long known about Elizabeth’s mischief,” said a villager.
Khumalo and his relatives were treated to “pornography” as the two nude lovers were still caressing each on his bed, when the relatives smashed the door. “On realising that they had been caught, the two bolted out of the rooms naked while holding their clothes before disappearing into the darkness. Up to today, no-one knows where the boy is,” said the villager.
Elizabeth flatly denied the affair but confirmed that she had marital problems with her husband.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m a God-fearing woman who wouldn’t dare do such a degrading thing in society. While I can confirm that we’ve marital problems with my husband, what people are saying is a lie. We’ve problems like any other family and our issue is being handled by the police as Khumalo is refusing to release my property,” said Elizabeth.
A villager, who identified himself as Michael Ndlovu, told the state media the teen had been having an affair with the granny behind Khumalo’s back for a “long time.”
“The affair between Elizabeth and the boy had become the talk of the village. Khumalo used to regard the boy as his son who does piece jobs in the village. He never thought he could be a rival suitor,” said Ndlovu.

One of Zimbabwe’s renowned historians and educationist, Dr PhathisaNyathi, has vowed to write history that includes Gukurahundi as it is known, rather than distorting the truth out of fear.
He was addressing guests at a recent talk –show which was organised by Her Zimbabwe, an organisation headed by FungaiMachirori, who is daughter to one of Zimbabwe’s best female journalists and former Chronicle editor, Edna.
“History must not be distorted because of the writer who would want to be self-censored for fear. If one cannot write the truth about the Zimbabwean history, then he or she must just desist from doing so, because only the truth is needed for tomorrow’s generation,” said Nyathi. [continue reading…]

The former secondary school teacher and headmaster spoke hard on people who pretend to be historians, but behind writing half-baked information that will further misinform the next generation.
Several speakers who were at the Bulawayo club for the event, expressed fear on telling the truth about Gukurahundi which was the worst nightmare for the people of Matabeleland, because this is when thousands of Ndebeles were slaughtered  in the name of restoring order in Zimbabwe.
Former Minister of the defunct Ministry of National Healing, David Mzila-Ndlovu, was has been quoted in the media expressing that his mother was killed during the Gukurahundi era. He revealed that his mother was tied onto a vehicle and dragged leading to her murder by the fifth brigade in the mid-80s.
Nyathi also told the Matabeleland youths  present at the talk-show, to stand up for the truth, and also to be brave if they want to achieve their goals. “You must stand up and rise to the truth, don’t be self-censored, because you will compromise the truth,” added Nyathi.
Raisdan Baya, an artiste and novelist, also appealed to the youths to be united and also to be bold on everything they want to do in life. His sentiments were also echoed by Soneni Gwizi, a disabled broadcaster and activist, who strongly discouraged fear and lack of confidence among the new generation.

At a time when the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) is struggling to pay its own workers , the parastatal has splashed thousands on media-‘flowers’ splashed on First Lady Grace Mugabe, attracting criticism even from people such as ZANU PF prolific activist Fidelis Fengu.
 
ZESA paid for advertorial flowers in the public media congratulating First Lady Grace Mugabe for her appointment as Zanu PF secretary for Women’s League.
 
The move has caused outrage as analysts said Zesa was a public institution and it was not right for them to spend public money for partisan political party interests.
 
Following the appointment of Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Ambassador to South Africa Phelekezela Mphoko as first and second Vice-Presidents respectively, new 10 ministers and Grace as secretary for Women’s League by President Robert Mugabe, Zesa has placed several advertisements on the public media, congratulating them for their appointments.
 
Youth empowerment activist, who is also a Zanu PF member, Fidelis Fengu said he believed that ZESA is an institution meant to serve the wishes of the people and should not be spending money on politics.
 
“Zesa should not spend any money on the politics of the nation,” he said.
 
“They should stick to their core business.
“They have no business trying to please politicians.
“Yes, the First Lady was chosen by the people, but the same people expect ZESA to deliver on its mandate, even the First Lady wants the people to be happy, so if Zesa spends money on politics even the First Lady won’t be happy.”
Human rights and governance expert, Dewa Mavhinga said Zesa’s “sycophantic congratulations” to the Vice-Presidents and Grace showed just how partisan and politicised State institutions have become.
“In a properly functioning democracy, heads of state institutions like Zesa should not be boot-licking politicians to keep their posts, they should simply deliver professional services like reliable electricity to Zimbabweans,” he said.
“Unfortunately, in Zimbabwe, state institutions compete to align themselves with Zanu PF in order to survive — all professionalism is gone.”
Western region chairman of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Reason Ngwenya described the adverts as an abuse of public funds.
“As a public institution it is no doubt that the money they use to place those advertisements in the media are from us,” he said.
Women of Zimbabwe Arise leader, Jennifer Williams also said the abuse of the public funds from Zesa started at the time when the ministers ordered the channelling of funds from the parastatal to fund the First Lady’s campaigns.
“It is grossly irresponsible for Zesa to channel funds to political activities,” she said.
“It is not corporate responsibility as this is happening at a time when there is rampant load shedding, some institutions like schools are not electrified yet Zesa priorities funding Zanu PF programmes.”
Zesa is already in the eye of a storm, as some within Zanu PF have claimed that money was taken from the parastatal to fund fired Vice President Joice Mujuru’s campaigns.
The parastatal’s congratulatory messages may be seen as a face-saver from the parastatal, as former Minister of Energy Dzikamai Mavhaire and his deputy Munacho Mutezo were fired for allegedly siphoning money from Zesa to fund Mujuru’s so called factional activities.
Efforts to get a comment from Zesa failed yesterday, as officials’ phones went unanswered. – Newsday/Additional Reporting

In a bizarre situation that may force Chief Njelele to call for another traditional Indaba to look into a witchcraft quagmire that has rocked his homeland of Gokwe, a man in his late 60s demanded the life of a snake which was killed by Nyaradza township residents in the agro-town last week.
The snake which was causing unrest for the residents of the mentioned suburb, was entering houses of the residents and eating their foodstuffs at night. According to Ms Sibongile Gwabe, “the snake would open basins and feed itself from our left over meals. I saw the reptile with my own eyes eating from our dish at midnight while sitting on its tail, and I was at a loss of words,” she said shaking her head.
The neighbours organised and set a trap for the troublesome reptile and surrounded it, after they sprayed paraffin on all possible ways out. The residents then hit the snake with logs before taking it outside for view by the anxious crowd, who have estimated it to be close to two metres long.
Gwabe alerted her neighbours who thronged the place in droves as they also had seen the reptile in their houses before. The fellow citizen then teamed up and killed it before burning the reptile in paraffin and plastic papers fire.
“The snake started rising in the flame, (somewhat) threatening to free itself, but we were prepared to deal with it severely, because we wanted to have peace,” said another resident who identified herself as Mai Rudo.
As if it was not enough, in the early hours of the morrow day, an old man of about 68 years visited all the neighbours who gathered to kill the reptile and threatened with death if they don’t bring life to the snake they killed the previous night.
Nyaradza Township is a middle suburb in Gokwe town, with a population of a little over 3000 people. They reported the man to their residents’ chairperson, who alerted the police. The Gokwe Police referred the issue to Chief Njelele, as they said it was was more to do with cultural repercussions, carrying no criminal element in it.
Asked to comment, Chief Misheck Njelele blamed all witchcraft issues in his area on gluttony and egocentricity. “I will have to meet with my colleagues this time to clear off all evil doers from Gokwe. We have been tarnished enough and we have had enough of these issues,” he said angrily.
Last time an owl picked a male matured dog in broad day light during a traditional meeting that was called by chief Njelele to deal with witchcraft issues, and he had to call for an urgent meeting concerning the issue.
Gokwe has in recent years been awash with witchcraft scandals that left property investors with numerous questions on whether to build or not.

ZANU PF’s expelled Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa is consulting on options of getting political protection from India where he is domiciled at present.
ZimEye caught up with Mr Mutasa on Monday morning who spoke on his wife’s condition and replied back on the foreign protection issue. Mutasa who revealed he is seeking the assistance of foreign governments to deal with Mugabe, emotionally and abruptly fired back when further drilled in particular on his hopes of getting political asylum as speculated at the weekend. “I do not speak to the press (about that),” he said.
Mutasa however revealed his latest protest and attempt to get sympathy of foreign governments as he declared that Robert Mugabe is breaching the country’s laws. “The current Zanu-PF constitution which was adopted at the 6th congress swings all votes to the president alone and violates the supreme law of the country. It is therefore null and void,” he said.
The final outcome of Mutasa’s latest consultations were not clear at the time of writing as he refused to answer back any further.
Mutasa earlier in the year infamously earned the title “Gamatox” when he fired apparent threats to annihilate people considered a national nuisance by him. He was heavily criticised by First Lady Grace Mugabe in her whirlwind rallies as she taunted: “Pansi leGamatox!,” shortly before being sacked by the party for good.

ZANU PF politburo members at the weekend torched storm when they likened Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to God. During a party hosted by Mnangagwa at his rural home in Zvishavane, Mnangagwa was showered with the praises as he was also referred to as “a crocodile that could have struck in 1980 but did not as it does not hunt but waits for its time.” [ALSO READ – Mnangagwa Says God Wears Gushungo Label Clothes]
News readers reacted in anger learning of the development with some crying blasphemy.” ZPF is inviting a serious judgment upon themselves. This is blasphemy of the highest order,” wrote one infuriated reader.
Report by The Standard| Choruses of praise-singing and idolising shifted from President Robert Mugabe and the First Lady to new first VP Emmerson Mnangagwa who yesterday hosted a huge party at his Zvishavane home to celebrate his elevation to the new position.
Dozens of politburo and central committee members and senior military officers attended the party during which officials lined up to sing praises to Mnangagwa who is odds on favourite to succeed President Mugabe.
Masvingo political supremo and Psychomotor minister Josiah Hungwe likened Mnangagwa to Jesus Christ, referring to him as the “Son of Man.”
Asked to introduce Mnangagwa, Hungwe went into overdrive, showering Mnangagwa with colourful adjectives and likening him to “The Holy Son of Man”. He said his rise was planned by God.

A Harare ZRP police officer who took a service pistol and last month allegedly went on a robbery spree, is in court for crime which he connived with two other accomplices.
Mr Kudakwashe Godini (28) hatched a plan with Nicholas Zvirevo (27) and Witness Chako (39) to rob Harare residents and were stopped during their first raid in the city, according to state papers for the charges currently on trial by Harare magistrate Mr Milton Serima.
Godini booked a pistol at Kuwadzana Police Station which he used to commit the offence.
The State, led by Mr Sebastian Mutizirwa, opposed bail on the basis that the trio was facing a Third Schedule offence. Mr Serima remanded them in custody to December 29 this year.
He advised them to apply for bail at the High Court.
It is the State’s case that on November 14, the three proceeded to Simon Mazorodze flyover armed with a pistol. Pursuant to their plan, they attempted to raid the complainant who was walking along the flyover where Godini pointed a gun at him.
The gang ordered him to lie down or risk being shot.
In a movie style raid, the complainant jumped from the flyover and landed on top of a vehicle, which was passing by under the footbridge, before they could rob him.
The complainant reported the matter to the police, leading to the arrest of Zvirevo, who then implicated the other two. – State Media

Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has torn into ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa who he calls an architect of ZANU-ZAPU unity from as early as 1972, as he said the latter should be the last person to seek to revive ZAPU.
Speaking at the weekend, VP Mphoko poured cold water on Dabengwa weakening  the latter’s efforts to recover properties seized by Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF during the infamous Gukurahundi massacres in which 22,000 Ndebeles were killed.
Mphoko’s statement comes as Dabengwa announced his party has managed to compile all assets seized by Mugabe and is finalising court procedures for their ultimate reclamation.   “We have come up with an inventory in order to reclaim our property…Our legal team is currently making consultations on the quickest possible methods of recovering the properties,” Dabengwa said last month.
But the VP, a ZIPRA war veteran who was Dabengwa’s junior, described Dabengwa’s work as futile and of void any legal standing. He said the Unity Accord (of 1987) signed between Robert Mugabe and the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo is fully in force 42 years after it was envisioned and 27 years after it was signed.
“It is surprising that Dabengwa claims to be reviving Zapu because he was a pivotal player in the unity between Zapu and Zanu as early as 1972,” he said.
He continued, “We were together in Mbeya and as chairman of the revolutionary council he was the one responsible for sending myself and Lookout Masuku to go and talk to the Zanu leadership about the need for unity. The unity which was later sanctified by the Unity Accord of 1987 has its roots during the struggle and Dabengwa is aware of that,” Mphoko added.

Harare – Former Zimbabwe presidential minister Didymus Mutasa has called on President Jacob Zuma to alert other southern African governments about the ruling Zanu-PF’s congress last week in which he said he and vice-president Joice Mujuru were sacked from their posts undemocratically.
“We refuse to be chucked out of Zanu-PF which some of us have been in for 57 years,” Mutasa said on Saturday from India, where his wife is having medical treatment.
“We fought for ‘one man, one vote’ majority rule, which is not provided for in the current Zanu-PF constitution adopted at the 6th congress,” Mutasa said. “It gives all votes to the president alone and violates the supreme law of the country. It is therefore null and void, all that transpired at the 6th congress.”
He added: “We call on Zanu-PF to work as it was before the 6th congress which was itself unlawful,” Mutasa said. He was referring to the fact that loyalists of President Robert Mugabe and opponents of Mujuru had unilaterally changed the procedures for electing top party officials just before the congress.
Where before the top officials had always been elected by delegates at the congress, this year the party’s constitution was changed to give Mugabe the sole power.
“We appeal to SADC to adopt our position,” Mutasa said on Saturday, referring to the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the southern African inter-governmental body of which both South Africa and Zimbabwe are members.
He also appealed “to Zimbabweans to remain peaceful as we strive for the democracy that we fought for”. South Africa, on behalf of SADC, mediated the regional efforts to resolve Zimbabwe’s political crisis which came to a head in the 2008 elections when the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat Zanu-PF and Mugabe but were never allowed to assume power.
Then President Thabo Mbeki mediated negotiations among Zanu-PF and the two MDC parties for a power-sharing government which ostensibly ran Zimbabwe from 2009 until elections last year, although Zanu-PF never really relinquished control.
Zuma took over from Mbeki and mediated negotiations among the three Zimbabwe parties to try to secure a level political playing field for the 2013 elections but never really succeeded as they were held under conditions highly favourable to Zanu-PF.
Mugabe and Zanu-PF won by a landslide.
Mutasa was in charge of the vast Central Intelligence Organisation and reported directly to Mugabe as its unaudited funds come from the presidential budget.
A columnist in a privately owned Harare newspaper on Friday described Mutasa, one of Mugabe’s most loyal insiders, as one of the main “grovellers” in the cabinet prior to his dismissal last Tuesday.
Mutasa , from the eastern Manicaland province, was often accused by human rights groups and local opposition supporters of organising violence against them since the MDC emerged late 1999.
Mutasa, who has grabbed several farms from white farmers near Rusape since 2000, has allowed one evicted white farmer to grow tobacco for him on the farm Coldstream.
A Zimbabwe columnist, known as Muckraker, had little sympathy for the plight of Mujuru and her supporters. “Why didn’t Mujuru stand firm (against) violence in the ruling party… and why wouldn’t she realise Zimbabweans wanted clean water, electricity and decent life while she was on the gravy train?” he asked on Friday.
Independent Foreign Service

Warning -Images are of a disturbing nature.IN PICTURES – MKD National Secretary Liberty Mukwakwami who police claim was killed by a crocodile last Saturday. FULL STORY –

IN PICTURES – MKD National Secretary Liberty Mukwakwami who police claim was killed by a crocodile last Saturday. FULL STORY

POLICE in Mwenezi are hunting for a 26-year-old man, the second in three months, who was caught red-handed engaging in sex with a neighbour’s donkey.
The incident happened midday on November 30 when Tasisine Musara of Village Two, Petronella Farm, Chief Chitanda, Mwenezi was caught red handed sexually abusing a heavily pregnant donkey.
Musara was found by Silos Mvuta, a fellow villager.
Noticing that he had been caught, Musara took to his heels and Mvuta went to report the case to the police.
Masvingo police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa said police are on the lookout for Musara after he disappeared from the area soon after being caught red-handed in the act of bestiality.
“We have launched a man hunt for the man, since the day he was caught engaging in sex with the female donkey he has never been seen in the area again.
Assistant Inspector Dhewa said provision of the Criminal Law Codification Act Section 9:74 make it an offence for anyone to engage in sex with an animal. . State Media

An A Level female teacher at Gwindingwi High in Bikita ran through the streets naked last week when she was allegedly caught red-handed making love to a married teacher in the same school.
Vimbai Sithole was allegedly caught making love to Admore Mhere by his wife. Sithole sneaked out of the house naked and ran through the streets with Mhere’s wife in hot pursuit.
Mhere is a senior teacher in the same school.
Mhere refused to comment and referred all the questions to the District Education Officer (DEO), Lawrence Jenjedza.
“Talk to the District Education Officer, I am not allowed to speak to the Press,” said Mhere.
Jenjedza confirmed the incident but said investigations were still going on.
“Yes, I received such a report but I can not divulge further information” said Jenjedza.
Sources said Mhere and Sithole who are both teachers at Gwindingwi High and are neighbours in Duma Residential Suburb at Nyika had a relationship and they used Mhere’s homestead in Chikwadzi Village under Chief Marozva as their love nest.
Mhere’s wife got a tip off and set up a trap before pouncing on them while they were having it on the matrimonial bed. Sithole managed to sneak out of the house and ran naked for about two kilometres.
The irate wife tried to chase her but was outpaced leaving her with no choice but to approach the district education offices, where she launched her complaint to Jenjedza. mirror

A report by the State Media which says that expelled ZANU PF members allegedly aligned to former Vice President Joice Mujuru, have turned on each other, is a desperate hoax by the Jonathan Moyo controlled broadsheet, analysts have revealed.
A report in the Sunday Mail claimed stating “Senior Government and Zanu-PF officials who were booted out of office in recent months for their parts in a plot to unseat President Mugabe have turned against each other, trading accusations on who is to blame for their demise.”
The report which speaks of the sacking of Mujuru, seven ministers and a deputy minister, is nothing more than base speculation, political analyst Gracian Ncube said of the news article which claims certain individuals are back-biting each other in a desperate effort to save their skins and prove that they succumbed to “peer pressure”.
But the Sunday Mail journalists do not quote anyone else apart from faceless sources only stating they “understand” that, former Energy and Power Development Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire and his Deputy Engineer Munacho Mutezo are no longer in good books, Mr Ncube said
He continued, “surely to think that a learned journalist sat down to write a 1000-word article based on mere “understanding,” which is clear speculation and without for once consulting the very source they allege did these things can only show a political journalist out to achieve an agenda ,” said Ncube.
“Within the whole report, you can see sophisticated mash-meshing of details bent on one thing, to create a factual precedent that will be grounds for pursuing what they started at the first, which is to prove that Joice Mujuru was planning to assassinate Mugabe,” he added.

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he will not seek to punish so called Joice Mujuru supporters and haters who “attempted to assassinate” him last Wednesday. He signaled he will neither revenge on his rival for the Presidency Joice Mujuru the state media alleges was trying to assassinate President Robert Mugabe.
Mnangagwa saying his escape from the Wednesday (last week) morning cyanide attack meant God still wanted him alive, repeatedly emphasised that he will pursue forgiveness and unity, in a speech analysts charge that it was just a borrowed sermon of Bishop Andrew Wutaunashe of the Family Of God church who is currently advising him.
“We dislodged the British who were oppressing us and this was achieved in 1980. Since then, we have been a sovereign state. We have been advocating unity. We want people to love and protect each other,” he told the State Media.
He continued, “the fact that I have received some threats on my life has nothing to do with our focus to unite our people, protect each citizen’s life.
“The sense of revenge is satanic. What happened does not affect bold people like us. The fact that I did not die means that it was not my time to die. When God’s time comes, no man born of a woman shall escape.”
On Tuesday night, intruders sneaked into Mnangagwa’s offices at Zanu-PF headquarters in Harare and sprinkled a poison on the floor and furniture.
His secretary,  Catherine Magaya, who was the first to enter the room on Wednesday morning, collapsed instantly upon inhaling the powder.

She is admitted at Harare’s West End Hospital.
Two other people – a driver,  Dzingai Mutasa, and a member of the President’s Office – were also admitted after inhaling the substance.
Magaya has said she has witnessed several bizarre occurrences in her boss’s office prior to Zanu-PF’s 6th National People’s Congress.
She recounted how a rock fell “from nowhere, landing on shef’s (chief’s) desk” and missed her head by just an inch.
Magaya also related another incident in which she twisted her neck while in what she described as a trance after opening VP Mnangagwa’s office door.
Police are investigating the poisoning case.
He was addressing State Media journalists at Queen of Peace Psychiatric and Rehabilitation Centre in Gweru.
 
 
Borrowed Speech   
Meanwhile analysts charged against Mnangagwa saying he is a very vengeful man who was merely reciting a speech of his spiritual advisor Bishop Andrew Wutaunashe.
“He is just reciting what he has been told by pastor Wutaunashe,” said the South Africa based Stanca Dhliwayo.
“I have attended Wutaunashe’s church services and anyone in the church will tell you those are the Prophet’s words,” he added.

Newly-appointed Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday escaped unharmed after his official Mercedes-Benz crashed into a truck on a section of Harare’s Enterprise Road.
The accident occurred after the driver of a T35 truck carrying wedding materials stopped abruptly in front of VP Mphoko’s motorcade.
A passenger in the truck was the only one hurt, sustaining injuries whose extent could not be immediately established.
National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba last night said the VP was quickly whisked away from the accident scene.
“I can confirm that Vice-President Mphoko was today (yesterday) involved in an accident along Enterprise Road, in the area close to the Forestry Commission. He escaped unhurt but his vehicle was damaged.
“A T35 truck which was carrying wedding material made a sudden stop on the road. Two vehicles, which were part of the Vice-President’s convoy and which were travelling in front of the Vice-President’s vehicle, successfully managed to swerve to the other side to avoid the T35.
“However, the Vice-President’s driver was unable to avoid the truck and rammed into the back of the T35, resulting in both vehicles being damaged. The Vice-President left the scene of the accident unharmed. Only one passenger who was in the T35 truck sustained injuries.”
VP Mphoko was sworn in by President Mugabe in Harare on Friday, alongside VP Emmerson Mnanganwa and seven new ministers and one deputy minister.
The accident brings into question the safety of VIPs.
In October, VP Mnangagwa, who was solely Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister at the time, escaped death by a whisker after the Mercedes-Benz he was driving was involved in an accident with a vehicle owned by Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare.
Witnesses said he was driving due east along Herbert Chitepo Avenue when the a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction made a sudden turn and encroached into the right lane, colliding with VP Mnangagwa’s car.
Both right-side doors of his vehicle were extensively damaged while the other vehicle had minor frontal damage.

ALSO READ: Vice President Mphoko Lucky Escape from Car Accident  | State Media Version:
A disturbing rumour gripped social networks Saturday evening claiming that Zimbabwe’s new 2^nd Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has been involved in a car accident.
Details were sketchy at the time of writing with claims that the Vice President escaped the damaged vehicle unhurt. It is his wife who has had to be rushed to the hospital, the report claimed.
UPDATED: Vice President Mphoko Lucky Escape from Car Accident  | State Media Version:
 
Telephone calls to ZANU PF Information and Publicity Secretary Simon Khaya-Moyo were failing at the time of writing.
The rumour did not state the location of the accident.
The rumours were flamed up due to the usual nature of death through accidents of high profile politicians in the country. Several officials have died in mysterious circumstances in recent years the latest being that of former Deputy Minister of Mines,  Edward Chindori Chininga; and another being that of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in October which some ZANU PF officials claim was meant to hurt the new VP.
The development comes shortly after Mphoko’s colleague Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa survived a cyanide poison attack on his offices which nearly slew three staff members.

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has called on the nations of African to stop recognizing the International Criminal Court in The Hague, citing a bias against the continent’s leaders.
According to Reuters, Museveni told a Kenyan audience, speaking in Swahili, “I will bring a motion to the African Union’s next session. I want all of us to get out of that court of the West. Let them [Westerners] stay with their court.”
The Ugandan leader was speaking in Kenya at a ceremony marking the 51st anniversary of the country’s independence from British rule, attended by the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. In 2012, the ICC charged Kenyatta with five counts of crimes against humanity which he allegedly committed during 2008 post-election violence in Kenya. On December 5 the ICC announced the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.
Reuters reports that Kenyatta declared at the ceremony, “I ask you all to join me in supporting my deputy and his co-accused, as they also await their overdue vindication.” Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto and another man, radio presenter Joshua Arap Sang, are still facing charges at The Hague. All three men were summoned to appear before the court in 2011, and charges followed in 2012.
The ICC in its statement complained of non-cooperation from the Kenyan government with the prosecution’s investigations into the case against Kenyatta, saying that “this failure has reached the threshold of non-compliance,” with the Rome Statute, the treaty upon which the ICC was established.
“Cunningly, they are putting Deputy President Ruto, someone who has been elected by Kenyans, in front of the court there in Europe,” said Museveni. “They have turned it into a vessel for oppressing Africa again so I’m done with that court. I won’t work with them again,” he declared.
The African Union is next set to meet in January in Addis Ababa for its 20th ordinary session. In October 2013 it held an extraordinary session with the framework “Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal Court.” The assembly requested the deferment of indictments against the Kenyan President and Vice President, and also the arrest warrant issued in 2009 for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes perpetrated during the conflict in Darfur, which began in 2003.
The assembly also declared that no serving AU head of state should be required to appear before the ICC, and that the AU is in the process of expanding its Court of Justice and Human Rights to try international crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Africa. Sputnicnews/Reuters

Chinhoyi – A family of five escaped death through the needle-eye when their  house was burnt to near-ashes Saturday morning almost killing the 2 year old toddler who started it.

The accident happened in Brundish, Chinhoyi in a cabin house occupied by a woman and her four kids.
The fire was triggered when one of the children, a two year old, unattended, took hold of match sticks and set alight his doll’s feathers. He then threw the doll onto the bed instantly setting alight the blankets.
In a short time, the whole house was lit, and the family escaped death by a whisker. PICTURES:

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has chosen ‘returnee’ Job Sikhala for his party’s National Executive.
Tsvangirai announced Sikhala alongside 14 other people seconded for the national executive.
The whole 15 lot have been listed as:
1. Mr Gideon Shoko
2. Hon Sibusisiwe Masara
3. Hon Sithembile Mhlotshwa
4. Hon Eddie Cross
5. Hon Sesil Zvidzai
6. Ms Memory Mbondia
7. Hon Murisi Zvizvai
8. Hon Nelson Chamisa
9. Hon Elias Mudzuri
10. Mr Clifford Hlatshwayo
11. Mr Jameson Timba
12. Mr Webba Chinyadza
13. Mr Job Sikhala
14. Ben Chiondengwa
15. Mr Denis Mudzingwa
The party also announced that ten of the party’s 12 provinces nominated three people each into the national executive and the following people were deployed by the provinces into the executive:
1. Manicaland Province
Mr Giles Mutsekwa, Mr Valentine Tinodyanawo Ziswa, Hon Fanny Chirisa
2. Harare Province
Mr Morgan Femai, Hon Costa Machingauta, Ms Revai Muguti
3. Chitungwiza Province
Senator James Makore, Mr F. G Mhashu
4. Masvingo Province
Mr Takanai Mureyi, Mr Misheck Marava, Mrs Muchirairwa Mugididho
5. Mashonaland East Province
Mr Masimba Ruzvidzo, Mr Tapfumaneyi Muzoda, Mrs Tracey Mutinhiri
6. Mashonaland West
Mr Silas Matamisa, Mr John Houghton, Hon C. Chinanzvavana
7. Midlands South
Hon Amos Chibaya, Hon Emma Muzondiwa, Hon Lilian Timveous
8. Bulawayo Province
Hon Agnes Mloyi, Mr Mpungwana, Hon Spiwe Banda
9. Matebeleland North Province
Mr Aggrippa Sithole, Hon Joel Gabhuza, Ms Sibongile Bhebhe
10. Matebeleland South
Mr Bheki Sibanda, Ms Sipho Dubvane
The following portfolio secretaries were also appointed by the President in line with the party Constitution:
1. Secretary for Economic Affairs – Webba Chinyadza
2. Secretary for National Security – Giles Mutsekwa
3. Secretary for Local Government – Eddie Cross
4. Secretary for Education Sports & Arts Culture – Fidelis Mhashu
5. Secretary for Labour and Social Security – Gideon Shoko
6. Secretary for Health and Child Welfare – Dr Henry Madzorera
7. Secretary for Agriculture Lands & Water Development – Valentine Ziswa
8. Secretary for Justice Legal & Constitutional & Parliamentary Affairs – Jessie Manjome
9. Secretary for ICT Science & Technology Development – Khaliphani Phugeni
10. Secretary for Elections – Murisi Zvizvai
11. Secretary for Industry Commerce & Trade – Jameson Timba
12. Secretary for International Cooperation – Elias Mudzuri
13. Secretary for National Healing, Reconciliation & Integration – Concilia Chinanzvavana
14. Secretary for Transport and Logistics – Beki Sibanda
15. Secretary for Domestic (Home) Affairs – Lillian Acropol
16. Secretary for Party Business Investment & Projects – Bernard Chiondegwa
17. Secretary for Tourism, National Resource and Environment – Sithembile Mhlotshwa
18. Secretary for Mines & Mineral Development – Joel Gabhuza
19. Secretary for People with Disabilities & Special Needs – Denis Mudzingwa
20. Secretary for Presidential Affairs – Sessel Zvidzai
21. Secretary for Policy Coordination – Nelson Chamisa
PARLIAMENTARY SPOKESPERSONS
1. National Security – Hon Gift Chimanikire
2. Economic Affairs – Hon. Tapiwa Mashakada
3. Health – Hon. Dr Ruth Labode
4. Elections – Hon. Murisi Zvizvai
5. Gender – Hon. Spiwe Muchenje – Banda
6. Legal Issues – Hon. Jessie Majome
7. Science and ICT – Hon. Nelson Chamisa
8. Youth – Hon. Costa Machingauta
9. Transport – Hon. Elias Mudzuri
10. Labour and Social Security – Hon. Pauline Mpariwa
The party’s organs are now fully constituted and the party is ready to execute its historical mandate to bring change and democracy in the country, the party statement further read.
It continued: “Council noted the crisis facing the people of Zimbabwe and reaffirmed that the crisis stems from the crisis of legitimacy arising from the stolen election of July, 2013. With a fractured party in government whose top priority is an unending circus of succession battles, the plight of the ordinary Zimbabwean will worsen with Zanu PF in the seat of government. There is no respite for ordinary Zimbabweans if the crisis of legitimacy, which is at the centre of the national challenges, is not immediately addressed.
Only a fresh election, council noted, will put in place a legitimate government able to transact the affairs of the State and to bring back lost confidence in the economy.
With a successful congress now behind us, the party is now concentrating on uniting the people, stabilizing the party and putting in place strategies to ensure that we win the next election.
We are definitely poised to win the next election, whenever they are going to be held.”

Meat galore in Chipinge as these boys catch some yellow frogs in water dams/ ponts after rains. This is very good meat for Chipinge locals.
The boy in the first picture with a red top is from Chibuwe growth point and attend Mutovhoti Primary School…

Expelled Vice President Joice Mujuru has denied that she is under house arrest.
Speaking from her residence in Chisipite, Harare, she said news wire reports that she had been placed under house arrest were “mere rumours”.
“I was at the farm now, who is peddling those rumours?” she asked the Daily News in a terse message yesterday.
Reports suggested that Mujuru, who was booted out of the presidium by President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday after being accused of attempting to remove her 90-year-old boss from power through unconstitutional means, had been placed under deadly surveillance.
She was sacked together with eight Cabinet ministers.
They were also accused of being corrupt and fanning factionalism within Zanu PF.
Mujuru staunchly denied the accusations.
She has since been replaced by ex-Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took oath of office yesterday.
Following her dismissal, she told Studio 7: “You know some people say politics is a dirty game, this time in Zanu PF it has become dirtier. I have no capacity of doing those things. There is no way, and nobody has ever even suggested to me that these things that you are trying to do VP are wrong.
“It’s politicking; these are some of the things that were started towards congress. We were some of us, especially I, not given a chance to explain even to discuss some of these things,”she said. – DailyNews

One of the Presidential secretaries who suffered a cyanide attack on Wednesday, has been discharged from hospital.
The secretary only known as “Fadzai” was Friday discharged from West Hospital where she was hospitalised following the spraying of the deadly posion in Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office shortly before he was sworn in as Robert Mugabe perceived “successor” and Deputy.
It was not possible to access medical records at the time of writing, but there was wide speculation that she was fit to go home at the time of her release. The sending home of the woman identified by the State Media as a member of the Central Intelligence Organisation, brings the number of discharges to two after a male driver of the Vice President, another casualty, was declared fit and well after treatment. Mr Mnangagwa’s own secretary Catherine Magaya remains at the institution.

Threats Are Normal.
Meanwhile Minister Mnangagwa has responded stating he is unfazed by the incident saying that death threats are a part of his life. “Threats to my life are normal. I have had these throughout my 52 years of political life; so it has become part of my life,” he told the US-based VOA Studio 7 radio station.

Mudzi – ZANU PF’s 60 Year Old Youth Leader was nearly given a bashing as farmers countrywide since Thursday went into a rage against the ruling party ZANU PF “for defrauding them of of their hard earned cash which they paid for the Goverment Inputs Loan Scheme, which the farmers are yet to receive.
There was chaos all over the country yesterday as ZANU PF officials were caught between the eyes failing to explain the causes of the ‘despicable’ chaos and as distraught farmers demanded answers.
The scheme, which was a joint venture between Lasch Enterprises and the ZANU PF Youth League, has manifested an outcry in for instance the Mudzi district. Details obtained from Chimukoko village reveals that $2 was paid to AREX, $36 administration fee and $30 insurance fee, which guarantees a 25kg of maize seed, 8x50kgs of Compound D and 6x50kgs of top dressing fertiliser, which accumulates to $68. Chimukoko alone, which has three wards, paid $6000 which was deposited into a CBZ Bank account.
There are over twenty wards in Mudzi district which culculates to about $40,000 that was swindled from ordinary people in Mudzi. “The rains have fallen in most parts of the country, and yet we are still hoping for the inputs to come. Right now I don’t have any grain to plant, and I wish I would have kept my money and buy the little inputs with that money. Rains have come, and I need to plant but the government is cross legged.” said an irate Chimukoko villager.
In Harare, Central Committee member Absolom Sikhosana was on Thursday detained overnight by angry farmers, while national director for youth affairs Tapiwa Zengeya was force-marched from the Willowvale industrial area to the party’s headquarters as farmers demonstrated against a company jointly-owned by Zanu-PF youth wing and Lasch Investment for failing to deliver inputs.
Over 15 000 farmers might have been duped of varying amounts of money they contributed to the company with the promise that they would get farming inputs this season. Sikhosana confirmed spending the whole night on Thursday detained by farmers at Cold Storage Company, before Zengeya was detained after coming to rescue his colleague.
Said Sikhosana: “I was detained by farmers on Thursday night after I had gone to explain the situation. Farmers said I was supposed to spend the night under harsh conditions so that I could understand their plight. When I tried to drive away, the farmers mobbed my car and blocked me until 4am,” he said.
“We cannot pay back farmers their money. The project relies on membership subscriptions and have since been exhausted. All along the management was trying to get support but it has not materialised. The scheme is unable to provide inputs because it has run out of money,” he said.
Police Spokesperson Charity Charamba yesterday confirmed that the farmers reported a fraud case, while Sikhosana reported a kidnapping case.

A BULAWAYO WOMAN DIED on the spot while 13 other people including two juveniles were injured when a Toyota Granvia driven by an unlicensed driver burst a tyre and rolled several times.
Survivors said the driver, Reason Moyo, was speeding while fleeing police and Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) roadblocks.
A police source confirmed the incident which occurred near Marula Business Centre along the Bulawayo-Plumtree Highway around 6PM on Thursday. Ellen Ndlovu, 41, of Cowdray Park suburb, sustained severe head and body injuries which resulted in her death.

Sacked Joice Mujuru should now concentrate on farming rather than joining other political forces, the Buhera South MP and war veteran Joseph Chinotimba has said.
“We know that Cde Mujuru is a serious farmer and she should concentrate on farming. She should not make the mistake of joining forces with oppositional forces as this will be her political downfall,” he said.
“But if she decides to be big-headed, she will fall in the same pit with some leaders we know who are wallowing in the political wilderness Allegations being levelled against Mujuru and her colleagues are very embarrassing and they should not waste their time trying to lie to the world that they are being set-up by their political enemies. If they are innocent they should prove themselves,” said Chinotimba.
Mujuru has said she is staying within the ruling party. The Zimbabwean

A ZANU PF Councillor’s close nephew has become the latest fatality after being struck by a notorious crocodile in Chinhoyi.
Councillor Makhaki Muriravanhu’s kin was yesterday attacked by the crocodile believed to be the same which struck an MKD leader at the weekend, and he was killed on the spot, according to witnesses.
The incident occured at Biri Dam on the out skirts of Chinhoyi.
Details of how the incident occured were sketchy at the time of writing and the man’s full name was yet to be released by police.
Reports however indicate that the man was fishing at the dam-side when the fateful incident occured.
The development follows the killing of Mavambo Kusile Dawn National Secreteray for Mobilisation Liberty Mukwakwami who was slain last Saturday while going for prayers as claimed by witnesses (CLICK HERE TO READ MORE)

Plans by Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC party to impeach Robert Mugabe for his firing of Joice Mujuru and replacing with Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko are utter nonsense, Constitutional Law expert Lovemore Madhuku has said.
“There is no chance for impeachment. The impeachment thing is nonsense… it doesen’t make sense,” said Madhuku.
He continued, “an impeachment is just a question of numbers in parliament. The MDC-T party don’t even have the minimum number required to have the matter discussed,” he added.
 
The MDC-T party’s spokesman, Obert Gutu, told a local daily that Mugabe has through the Mujuru expulsion violated the Constitution and because of that he can and should be impeached. He cannot violate the supreme law of the land.
“By firing Mujuru the way he did, Mugabe has violated the Constitution, as a president and his deputy can only be fired in accordance with the Constitution.
“Those are good grounds for impeaching the president. So we dismiss the purported dismissal of Mujuru as a non-event,” Gutu said.
Although analysts said yesterday that the prospects were slim for the MDC to successfully impeach Mugabe, as the party had minority seats in Parliament, the main opposition still believes that it could succeed in its mission, particularly taking into account the current disquiet in the ruling party — caused by the ongoing brutal purges of members perceived to be loyal to Mujuru.
Legal experts also say Mugabe can be impeached if the MDC can prove that he has wilfully violated the Constitution or is incapable of holding office due to physical or other incapacity.
But in order to have the necessary two-thirds vote needed to achieve such a move, the MDC would need the support of disaffected Zanu PF MPs.

ZimEye herewith exclusively reveals that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s secretaries were indeed attacked at the government presidential offices as reported Wednesday despite the Government’s bungling with investigations and reports on the incident(READ MORE- Cyanide Poison Attack on Mnangagwa, By Robert Mugabe) resulting in only the President knowing about the accident way before any journalist (including State journos) had. In the first picture is the first secretary who works in the President’s office only identified as “Fadzai” who was still hospitalised at the time of writing as prayers were being called upon for her speedy recovery. Fadzai is a traditional member of Ezekiel Guti’s ZAOGA church. The second is Mnangagwa’s usual secretary, Catherine Magaya who is also at West End Hospital. ZimEye.com will keep our valued readers informed as events unravel. PICTURES:

FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru, despite being sacked from government on Monday evening, will continue living off taxpayers as the Constitution says she will draw a pension equivalent to her monthly salary as long as she lives.
This is the first time Zimbabwe has had a living former vice-president as the others — Joshua and John Nkomo, Simon Muzenda and Joseph Msika — all died in office.
Section 102 of the Constitution on remuneration of president and vice-presidents states: “A person who has ceased to be president or vice-president is entitled to receive — (a) a pension equivalent to the salary of a sitting president or vice-president, as the case may be; and (b) such allowances and other benefits as may be prescribed under an Act of Parliament”.
However, according to Section 103, a former president or vice-president cannot “directly or indirectly hold any other public office or be employed by anyone else while he or she is in office or is receiving a pension from the State as former president or vice-president, as the case may be”.
Analysts yesterday said although Mujuru may remain with some of her trimmings, her sacking meant the taxpayer would have to fork more for public officials, as President Robert Mugabe is now expected to appoint his deputies.
United Kingdom-based social scientist Admore Tshuma said Mujuru’s dismissal meant more misery for taxpayers.
“This is because taxpayers will unknowingly foot the bill of maintaining Mujuru’s private and civilian life, according to the Constitution,” he said.
Tshuma said the country was finding it increasingly difficult to foot the bill of public officials, considering that 80% of the budget was for consumption not productive purposes.
Political analyst Godwin Phiri said the money she would get could not compensate for the loss of power and influence.
“She really doesn’t need the money, she has plenty of it. It is the vice-presidency and a chance to become president that she needs the most.” – SouthernEye

A Gokwe man in his 60s, and from Mbumbusi area, boasts of transporting mbanje to several towns for sell using a sophisticated method of stuffing it in goats’ intestines.
The old man who identified himself to ZimEye.com as Fanasi Ncube, boasted of having educated his children from trading in the illegal weed, and that he has been forced to improvise his own way of evading police by poverty.
Asked how he managed to avoid police road blocks, the old man said, “I did not really avoid road blocks. I would pass through the police officers, with my weeds inside goat’s intestines and then pack them on arrival to town,” said Ncube.
This reporter asked Ncube to enlighten them on how he evaded arrest, and he said, “I would lock about 10 goats in the small house and starve them for a few days, giving them only water. The idea was to clear their intestines before I start feeding them with my special weed young man. Do you know the special weed I am talking about here? It’s mbanje. I would then see to it that the goats’ stomachs are now empty. I then start feeding them with the weed and in a few minutes load the goats into the car which I will be ferrying the small beasts to town for my serious business.
On arrival to town, I usually favoured Bulawayo since the place is close to Botswana, where mbanje is on demand. I would then gather all the waste produced by goats while travelling. This waste is the best grade of the weed and we would then pack them in small 2 kg papers before transporting them to neighbouring countries for business.
For the goats, we would sell them after 10 days and after making sure that all our mbanje is out of their intestines. We would also slaughter them for celebrating our police breakthrough young man, ” narrated Ncube.
The old man further mocked this journalist for “too much of following the law”, which he said will lead many to die in poverty.
Asked to comment on the old man’s bragging, Gokwe Police told ZimEye.com that they do not comment on hearsay. “We don’t comment on speculative issues, we are a professional organisation.”
However, sources close to the police who cannot be named for reprisals, confirmed that they have at one time intercepted near-similar mbanje trade activities after a tipoff, but cases of Ncube’s trickery appear too high for cops at present.

PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE yesterday added scorn to his name by appointing uneducated former ZANU PF Women’s League leader Oppah Muchinguri to head the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development.
Oppah Muchinguri last month caused embarrassment for the First Family when she confidently and elaborately vocalised that Robert Mugabe marked his wife’s PhD thesis in what academics charge is further reflective of her limited intellect and shocking ignorance of academic procedures. Sources say her shocking intellectual poverty shows she is “a Grade7 Drop-Out” who has only built a reputation using ‘cheap’ political muscle. A sitting University of Zimbabwe lecturer has revealed that the institution regularly artificially graduates “important people” like Muchinguri and Grace Mugabe.
Besides releasing a long list of new ministers(listed below) , Mugabe has revealed his appointment of Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko as Vice Presidents of the Republic of Zimbabwe
This portfolio was held by the late Vice President and national hero John Landa Nkomo.
In terms of Section 104 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, Amendment Number 20 of 2013, that deals with the appointment of ministers and deputy ministers, Dr Sibanda said President Mugabe also appointed the following eight Ministers and two Deputies.
The newly-appointed Zanu-PF national spokesperson and former Senior Minister of State in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, was appointed to the new portfolio of Minister of Economic Planning.
The Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Services is now under Prisca Mupfumira, who replaced Nicholas Goche who was sacked for his involvement in the plot to assassinate the President and replace him with ousted VP Mujuru.
Oppah Muchinguri; who was Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development; has been assigned to the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, taking over from Dr Olivia Muchena who was fired for performance below the expected standard.
She was also part of the Mujuru cabal.
An appointment for the Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development will be made later.
Former Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Samuel Udenge was appointed Minister of Energy and Power Development, replacing Dzikamai Mavhaire, who is also linked to the sacked VP Mujuru’s cabal.
Udenge will be deputised by Tsitsi Muzenda.
Manicaland Minister of State Christopher Mushohwe was moved to the Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment, replacing Francis Nhema, who is also linked to the former VP Mujuru’s faction.
Mandi Chimene — Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association spokesperson — takes over from Mushohwe as the Minister of State for Manicaland Province, while former Deputy Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Joel Biggie Matiza is now the new Minister of State for Mashonaland East Province, replacing the ousted Simbaneuta Mudarikwa.
Former Deputy Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Supa Mandiwanzira was promoted to head the Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Courier Services that was under the fired Webster Shamu.
Monica Mutsvangwa, replaces Mandiwanzira as Deputy Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa was promoted to lead the newly-created Ministry of Welfare Services for the War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees and Restrictees.
Said Dr Sibanda: “Please note that the newly appointed Vice Presidents, together with the following Ministers and Deputy Ministers are invited to the State House for the swearing in ceremony on Friday (today), 12th December 2014 at 1000 hours.”
They are; Mupfumira, Udenge, Mushohwe, Mandiwanzira, Chimene, Matiza, Muzenda, and Christopher and Monica Mutsvangwa.
The President fired the following ministers and a deputy for their conduct and performance which failed to meet expected standards: VP Mujuru, Minister of Presidential Affairs Dydimus Mutasa, Shamu, Nhema, Muchena, Mavhaire, Goche, Mudarikwa and Deputy Minister of Energy and Power Development Munacho Mutezo.
 
List of new VPs and Ministers
Name and Portfolio
E Mnangagwa: Vice President
P Mphoko: Vice President
P Mupfumira: Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Services
O Muchinguri: Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development
S Udenge: Minister of Energy and Power Development
C Mushohwe: Minister of Youth Development, Indegenisation and Economic Empowerment
S Mandiwanzira: Minister of Information, Communication Technology and Courier Services
C Mutsvangwa: Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees and Restrictees
C Chimene: Minister of State for Manicaland Province
B Matiza: Minister of State for Mashonaland East Province
Tsitsi Muzenda: Deputy Minister of Energy and Power Development
M Mutsvangwa: Deputy Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services

President Robert Mugabe is trouble for breaching the constitution by his firing Joice Mujuru and appointing two Vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko.
Mugabe has been slapped with a lawsuit filed by Constitutional Law expert Lovemore Madhuku who is challenging the appointments of the installing of Mnangagwa and Mphoko. According to the law there should only be one Vice President under the current circumstances.
Madhuku told ZimEye.com Thursday evening, he is confident despite the late hour. “Its not late because he only announced them yesterday, we only knew that there are two Vice Presidents yesterday and there is no way you can have a hearing between now and tomorrow,” he said,
He continued, “the importance of the lawsuit is that even if he goes ahead with the installation of the Vice Presidents,…if the court rules that it was unlawful to make the appointments of two people instead of one, then they will nullify them. He will have to make a choice of which one he picks for the Vice Presidency,” he said.
“We will file tomorrow morning,” he added.
In the application Madhuku is suing Robert Mugabe as the first respondent, former justice minister Mnangagwa (second respondent), Mphoko (third respondent).
Madhuku argues that “The basis of the application is that the 1st Respondent is likely to infringe two fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe, 2013 namely (a) the right to equality before the law and equal protection and benefit of the law protected by section 56(1) and (b) the right to administrative justice protected by section 68.”
“Yesterday, the nation had three major political developments. The first was the dismissal of the former Vice-President, Honourable Joice Teurai Ropa Mujuru. She was dismissed by the 1st Respondent. The second was the appointment of the 2nd and 3rd Respondents as Vice-Presidents of Zanu(PF). The third was an announcement that the 1st Respondent intends to swear the 2nd and 3rd Respondents into office as Vice-Presidents of the country. The latter ceremony appears scheduled for tomorrow (12 December 2014),” reads his opposing affidavit.
He clarified, “the option of the President to appoint one or two Vice Presidents is only exercised soon after the President is sworn into office. Once the President has decided to appoint one vice President, he cannot change his mind and have two Vice Presidents during the same term of office. The President cannot replace Vice President Mujuru by two Vice Presidents. This is what paragraph 14, sub-paragraph 2 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution says. In specific terms, it says:
“Without delay the person elected as President in any election referred to in subparagraph(1) must appoint not more than two Vice-Presidents, who hold office at his or her pleasure”.

President Robert Mugabe told former Zambian leader Kenneth Kaunda that he was ruling Zimbabwe unwillingly.
This revelation comes amid mounting gaffes that the president, soon to turn 91, has been making.
A contact in Mugabe’s entourage told The Zimbabwean that he made the remark a month ago at the burial of former president Michael Sata in Zambia.
“KK (Kenneth Kaunda) approached him (Mugabe) and jokingly asked if he was still ruling in Zimbabwe. HE (his Excellency) joked back and said he was ruling under duress. Not many seemed to have noticed the joke but one or two heads of state whispered to each other immediately after the president said this,” said the highly-placed source.
“We have also been discussing his statement he made at Sata’s burial. It seems strange that, from nowhere, HE started talking of being forced to rule.
The questions is, by who? Maybe that is how he feels but is not telling anyone. Because of old age, some of these things sometimes get out without him knowing that is what he is saying,” he added.
Zambia has had four presidents since Kaunda was beaten in multiparty polls in 1991, while Mugabe, his contemporary still reigns in Zimbabwe.
Recent reports indicate that Mugabe is now living under the command of his wife, Grace, who reportedly forces him to make certain decisions on government and party business. Party insiders have also revealed that Grace is the one who has been ordering him to fire her political foes.
Over the years, Mugabe is said to have been held hostage by army generals and a powerful clique in his party who do not want him to retire as a way of safeguarding their ill-gotten gains.
Mugabe made another embarrassing gaffe at the recent congress when, addressing delegates towards the end, he denounced his own party inadvertently. He chanted, “Pasi neZanu (PF)—Down with Zanu (PF)!” which is a slogan normally used by political opponents.
The slip happened when Mugabe’s attention was disturbed by the intrusive Grace who had passed him a note urging him to wind up his rambling speech.
He made another embarrassing slip recently when he remarked that Morgan Tsvangirai had won the 2008 election against him by 73 percent. The army generals and war veterans he was addressing quickly corrected him.
In July, Mugabe claimed that results of last year’s general elections were announced on July 31 2013, which in fact was the date the polls were held. He was addressing party supporters at State House where Zanu (PF) was celebrating its controversial landslide victory.
The president also courted controversy during the congress when he accused Joice Mujuru, his former deputy, of trying to assassinate him using black magic, in a development many said showed his growing paranoia.
His personal spokesperson, George Charamba, could not be reached to comment on the gaffes. – The Zimbabwean

There was horror in Chinhoyi at the weekend when a top Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD) party official who is its respected National Secretary for Mobilisation, Liberty Mukwakwami, was attacked by a said ‘huge’ mystery crocodile at the Hunyani river while engaged in a Whatsapp chat on his way for early morning prayers.
Mukwakwami, who is a former Public Services Medical Aid Society worker and had started his own business, was with three other friends at the time of the accident, all heading for early morning prayers just before 7am.
The huge croc which is still at large and is known for notoriety, attacked the father of one while he was reading a Whatsapp message on his cellphone and while standing with his back against the river on Saturday morning, ZimEye.com has been told by eye witnesses.
“His Whatsapp shows that he was last logged in at 6:58am, MKD spokesman Evans Sagonda told ZimEye.com.

President Robert Mugabe has been caught in a storm over sex and gender bias constitutional violations, an abuse following his unilateral appointment of a male dominated presidium.
 
Yesterday Wednesday, Mugabe announced a “Crocodile dominated,” (as it has since been termed), all male presidium, which action violates strict stipulations of the New Constitution, rights’ experts have warned.
 
A day earlier President Mugabe had unprocedurally fired former Vice President Joice Mujuru replacing her with long time loyale Mr. Emmerson Mnangagwa and another man Phelekezela Mphoko. Besides the New Constitution, it has long been Mugabe’s moral stance that at least one person in the Presidium has to be female being also the reason why he in 2004 blocked Mnangagwa saying a woman, Mujuru should be given passage. Until yesterday it was speculated that Senate supremo Ednar Madzongwe would be one of the Vice Presidents which however never occurred.
Top lawyer and legislator for Harare West, Jessie Majome said due to Mugabe’s actions, section 17 of the Constitution has been jeopardised.
“Once a woman is removed it becomes unlikely that she’ll be replaced by another. The gender balance required by section 17 of the Constitution is in jeopardy from lack of political will,” she said.
Girl Child Network founder Betty Makoni weighed in saying the commotion of purgings seen in recent weeks was just an attempt to push out a woman.
“All that drama was trying to push out a powerful woman and put these plus 70 age groups of men. Their generation is not ashamed,” she said.
Meanwhile constitutional experts have voiced that Robert Mugabe violated the constitution by just writing a dismissal letter with uncorroborated allegations.
 
 
 

The trial against the Sunday Mail Editor Edmund Kudzayi and his brother Phillip being charged for being the faceless Baba Jukwa character, is set to last beyond a decade after a Harare magistrate refused to release the pair ruling that they have a potential case for prosecution.
The two appeared in court arguing that the investigating officer Crispen Makedenge could not have traveled to the United States as claimed by the prosecution as being the cause for the current delay to proceed to trial and to keep the two on remand. Investigations by ZimEye have revealed Makedenge did not at all travel to the United States (READ MORE-Baba Jukwa Case: Makedenge Denied US Visa).
Furthermore Magistrate Mr Milton Serima while dismissing the pair’s application for refusal of further remand, failed to prove that Makendege did travel to the US only stating that he believed he was part of a diplomatic delegation assigned to speak with US authorities. Mr Serima said he was convinced that a diplomatic delegation led by chief law officer Mr Tawanda Zvekare from the Prosecutor General’s office met with representatives from the department of justice in the United States of America. “I am convinced that the State is not just sitting on its laurels for it is clear that communication has taken place between the State and the justice department in the USA,” he said.
He continued saying, “while the defence had earlier argued that there was no proof that anyone went to the USA, a letter from the USA department of justice confirmed that State representatives were in that country.
“In the letter, a representative from the USA confirmed that they met with Mr Zvekare and several others and I believe Mr Makedenge was part of the delegation. This allays the applicants’ fears that the State had not been telling the truth,” he said.
Mr Serima also said that the pair’s rights were not being interfered with.
He added, “Also in that letter from USA, Mr Zvekare is indicated to have asked that the matter be dealt with urgently but the department of justice said the request required time and careful analysis.
“These developments buttress the State’s contention that this is a complex matter.
“In the circumstances, I don’t envisage a situation where it can be said that their rights are being interfered with.”
Therefore, the application was dismissed. On Monday this week, the pair, through its lawyer Mr Admire Rubaya made the application arguing that their right to trial within a reasonable time should not be trampled upon.
However, prosecutor Miss Sharon Mashavira opposed the application and urged the court to postpone the matter pending finalisation of extra-territorial investigations, saying the US department of justice and criminal division was yet to assist in the case.
It is the State’s case that sometime in April 2013, Edmund hatched a plan with Philip to overthrow the Government through unconstitutional means.
It is alleged he created a Gmail account, [email protected], using a mobile phone line registered in Philip’s name, but used by Edmund.
The two allegedly formed two separate groups called the Gunda Nleya Brigade and the Zimbabwe Revolutionary Army with the purposes of overthrowing the Government.
Edmund allegedly posted articles on the Baba Jukwa Facebook page, which encouraged rebellion against Government if the July 31 general election “were stolen”.
They are facing charges involving banditry, insurgency and demeaning the office of the President, allegations which they deny.
It is widely believed that the United States government will never collaborate with Zimbabwean law enforcement agencies as this inconsistent with that country’s foreign policy towards Zimbabwe which country remains declared a pariah state. “The only time when the US can collaborate with the Zim government is when there has been a change of regime or at the least the US alters its foreign policy stance against the ZANU PF controlled government and judging by the flow of events that can only be after a decade or even 12 years from now”, said law expert Jameson Nkala.

State Media|Newly-appointed Zanu-PF and the country’s Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will further the ideals of the revolution while remaining loyal to the party and country.

Speaking in an interview after his appointment by President Mugabe at a Zanu-PF Central Committee meeting at Zanu-PF Headquarters yesterday, Mnangagwa said Zanu-PF had rid itself of elements who had become inconsistent.
“I feel humbled that I have been accorded this honour to serve our beloved country Zimbabwe in the capacity of Vice President,” said Mnangagwa. “I have assured the President and I would want to assure the party and its leadership that I will remain loyal and committed to uphold the correct line of the revolution which we have been in for the past 52 years.”
Asked if Zanu-PF had been weakened by the removal of former party second secretary, Joice Mujuru and her cabal who had plotted to remove President Mugabe through unprecedented means including assassination, Mnangagwa said the revolution goes through cycles.
“No the revolution has a way of strengthening itself. It goes into cycles. This is another cycle where it rids itself of elements that have now become inconsistent with the correct line.”

Investors were said to be in fright Wednesday as the ruling party ZANU PF appointed the controversial businessman Obert Mpofu as its new National Secretary for Finance.

The new post might see Mpofu who has not paid his own workers for more than 3 months, becoming Minister of Finance.
Obert Mpofu has a history of controversies with money and rumours have been rife that he has acquired much of his wealth from bribes. When questioned in court recently Mpofu replied saying he is too rich for bribes, “I am too rich for bribes,” he told top lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa.
News readers rushed to the fore to complain on Mpofu’s appointment, “ihis mockery to the whole nation and mockery to the whole world,” one news reader commented Wednesday.
“He now has a chance to do what he wants with both party and national cash,” wrote a Glen View man only identified as Tafadzwa. Other surprise appointments were made on various posts.  (READ MORE)
 

Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has been appointed Zimbabwe’s automatic Vice President during an extra-ordinary Central Committee meeting on Wednesday.
The Second Vice President is Phekezela Mphoko (READ PROFILE).
The Chairman position was left vacant with Mugabe saying it will be rotated.
The latest full list of appointments is as follows:
Party Spokesman – Simon Khaya Moyo
Presidium:
President – Robert Mugabe.
Emmerson Mnangagwa 1st Zanu PFVice President
Phelekezela Mphoko 2nd Vice President
 
New Zanu PF Secretary for Administration – Ignatius Chombo
Secretary for the Commissariat is Cde Saviour Kasukuwere,
Secretary for Finance is Obert Mpofu
External Affairs – Simbabrashe Mumbengegwi
National Security – Kembo Mohadi
Transport and Social Welfare – Oppah Muchinguri
Information and Publicity – SK Moyo
Legal Affairs – Patrick Chinamasa
Implementation Economic Empowerment Policy – Mike Bimha
Production and Labour – Josiah D. Hungwe
Health and Child welfare & the Elderly – Cleveria Chizema
Economic Affairs – Christopher Mushohwe
Women’s Affairs – Dr Grace Mugabe
Youth Affairs – Pupurai Togarepi
Education – Joram McDonald Gumbo
Gender and Culture – Thokozile Mathuthu
Disabled – Joshua Malinga
Land Reform and Resettlement – Cain Mathema
Science and Tech – Jonathan Moyo
Business Dev – Sithembiso Nyoni
Environment and Tourism – Prisca Mupfumira
War Veterans – Sydney Sekeramayi

UPDATED: 16:00Hrs – Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed Zimbabwe’s new Vice President. READ MORE
President Robert Mugabe rushed to hold an urgent Extra-Ordinary Central Committee meeting at the Shake-Shake building Wednesday morning as he began making announcements.
The meeting began at 10am and its end time is not known as Mr Mugabe blows open the lid on his chosen few, his vision for the party, country and the new presidium.
A senior ZANU PF source who cannot be named told this reporter: “vaMugabe will make known everything in this meeting, just wait outside and you will see once we have finished.”
According to the ZANU PF Constitution, Mugabe can only appoint his deputies during a Congress session. But since this meeting is not a Congress sitting, the Central Committee assumes the role of Congress.
It was not possible to obtain  the full list of Mugabe’s new personally handpicked Politburo, those he last week referred to as “The Loyal Ones.” Verified details reveal that his wife Grace last week blocked his choice Emmerson Mnangagwa (READ MORE -BREAKING NEWS:Grace Mugabe Deletes Mnangagwa from Presidential Roll). 
ZimEye is following closely and will inform our valued readers as events unravel.

A 48 year-old security guard at Gutu United Primary School, Constantine Chipira, has appeared at the Gutu Magistrates’ Court facing charges of raping an 8-year-old pupil who is doing grade 1 there.
It is the State’s case that sometime in September at Mpandawana Town, under Chief Gutu, the accused on several occasions raped the complainant whilst on her way from school.
Chipira followed the complainant on her way from school, dragged her into the bush and had sexual intercourse with her, the prosecutor said.. It is said that raping the complainant had become routine to the accused.
Allegations are that Chipira had had sex with the complainant three times on different occasions in September. The matter came to light when the complainant told her mother who then went on to report the case to the Police resulting in the arrest of the accused.
The case was heard by Magistrate Nyasha Vhitorini.