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.

Zanu-PF’s Mashonaland East bigwgs, Sydney Sekeramayi and David Parirenyatw earlier accused of supporting Joice Mujuru were saved from expulsion Tuesday through Robert Mugabe’s mercy yesterday.
Robert Mugabe moved to allow the two to be re-elected into the Central Committee in fresh polls held in districts in the province.
Other provincial heavyweights Paddy Zhanda, Jerry Gotora, Newton Kachepa and Eric Navaya also emerged victors in their respective districts with Joel Biggie Matiza the only big shot who failed to make it.
Although the state media reported claiming that Zanu-PF ordered fresh elections in the province following concerns that the list submitted to the 6th National People’s Congress last week did not reflect the wishes of the people, close sources to the developments said Mugabe himself had intervened to restore “Sekeramayi’s dignity”.
One source who cannot be named because of his own accusations of being linked to the disgraced businessman Ray Kaukonde told this reporter, “if it was not for President Mugabe Sekeramayi would be on the street right now.” They added saying the reason was because Sekeramayi had apologised to Mugabe for his links with Kaukonde.
“But it was good for Comrade Sekeramayi to apologise,” the source said.
The recent development could see Sekeramayi retaining his ministerial post despite earlier threats to relinquish him of it.
In Goromonzi, Zhanda, Gorden Mujahwe and Felix Zhangazha won the elections while in Seke, Blanco Matsangura, Tabeth Murwira and Joseph Mubaiwa made it. In Murehwa, Parirenyatwa, Stanley Jakopo and Lilian Zemura made it into the Central Committee with Matiza losing out. The ZANU PF Central Committee members elected in Mutoko are Japhet Chinake, Annah Kadiki and Ordo Nyakudanga while Mudzi had Kachepa, Navaya and Christopher Musa.
Meanwhile Sekeramayi has thanked party officials for standing by him.
“The will of the people has prevailed. I thank you for heeding the call by President Mugabe that fresh elections be held and indeed they have been done in a peaceful environment. To those who lost, we are one and let us work together for the development of the province and the party at large.”
 

BOTSWANA police are investigating an incident in which 13 children without travel documents were found on a minibus in the country.
The children, aged three to 13, were believed to be Zimbabwean, said spokesperson Near Bagal on Tuesday.
The children were found on Monday morning during a police operation in Francistown and two men were held for questioning.
The minibus was travelling from Masunga village to Francistown.
Police and immigration officials had engaged with their Zimbabwean counterparts to identify the parents of the children, Bagal said.
 

Gokwe Nemangwe community have been left in a state of shock after news broke forth of a woman who was forced to make love to her dead husband (necrophilia) before burial as per the deceased’s demand, was found now pregnant.
This came to light at the weekend pending DNA tests, after the sisters of the late Nemangwe man announced to their close relatives on discovery of the unusual situation that has left villagers tongue tied. The woman identified as Sarah Simirayi, of Svisvi village under chief Nemangwe, left her husband for a heavy truck driver sometime two years ago, and returned when her boyfriend ditched her for another new lover.
Sarah who has been away for a couple of years, returned only to find her 68 year old husband stressed from her departure, and died a few weeks of her return.
The late husband Nunurayi Musamo, who was also a former soldier, in the Rhodesian army left a note that he wanted read at his funeral, and that letter contained a message that he died of missing his beloved wife and also that he would need to make love to her before burial.
The shocking message was delivered to Sarah who tried to resist, but later accepted the most difficult task.
This reporter managed to interview Sarah who preferred not to be pictured, and she said, “I went to a pharmacy at the town centre and bought some pregnancy test materials, which tested positive thereby confirming I am pregnant. I am yet to go for scanning so that I will be in a position to know if the baby is a boy or a girl.”
A source close to the family claims that the husband’s manhood was in full erection, after they opened the coffin and Sarah removed her underwear, before going on top of the corpse to insert the late husband’s manhood, in the view of the late husband’s two sisters, who were ululating, as a gesture of appeasing the spirit of the late Musamo.
Asked how she felt after the said “sexual encounter” with her dead husband on the fateful day, Simirayi told ZimEye, “I felt the sperms moving in my body as if my late husband did when he was still alive. I think I also need to consult prophets and traditional healers; I am now confused as to what will happen to this pregnancy,” she said.
A source who refused to be named added voice claiming to ZimEye that the dead man ejaculated, soon after the penetration, and the erection disappeared, leading to the body viewing and subsequent burial of the man.
This reporter visited the Svisvi village head and he admitted receiving that information, but opted to down play it. “This is a purely private issue that traditional leaders cannot dwell upon. People have their own cultures and values and that must be respected,” he said before ordering this journalist not to take any photos of him, if he wanted to come back for more stories next time.
When ZimEye visited the two families, Musamo and Simirayi, they were engaged in serious talks on the future of Sarah. They also promised to come back with a comment as soon as they finalise the required cultural ceremonies.
This reporter has made a strict request to the family so that DNA tests can be conducted as soon as the baby has been born in order to confirm the veracity of the pregnancy claim.

The High Court ruling on whether The Sunday Mail Editor Edmund Kudzayi and his brother Philip accused of being the main characters behind the shadowy Facebook blog Baba Jukwa should remain on remand or not, has been deferred again to today (Wednesday)
Reasons given were that the presiding magistrate was said to be attending to other business.
The brothers have submitted their application for refusal of further remand arguing that their right to trial within a reasonable time should not be trampled on citing several reasons one of them being the long delay in finalsing so called extra-territorial investigations amid revelations Investigating Officer Crispen Makedenge did not at all travel to the United States as before claimed, (Click here here to READ MORE-Baba Jukwa Case: Makedenge Denied US Visa)

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It is exactly 20hours before the exact moment Robert Mugabe should splash out his grand decision on who is going to be the second most powerful person in this former British colony.
Investors, local Zimbabweans and the international community are all waiting having strained their patience for more than 14 years to date on who is to take over the reins of power soon after Mugabe has breathed his last. This is vital to know now that Joice Mujuru has been kicked out.
Wednesday afternoon could have surprises although the bulk of commentators say the man who announces that he is “As Soft As Cotton Wool” , Emmerson Mnangagwa will be made First Vice President. If he does make it, it will be against First Lady Grace Mugabe’s latest wishes, unless she changes her mind to believe in Mnangagwa’s softness, (READ MORE).

If Mnangagwa does make it however, this will be Mugabe’s own experiment using the man he feared most. It will mean that Mugabe has agreed on Ngwena’s claims that Robert Mugabe is so popular between heaven and earth that God Almighty The Creator Himself also wears the Gushungo Regalia. (READ MORE)

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has fired his deputy Joice Mujuru, days after she lost her post in the ruling party, offficials said.
Mugabe sacked Mujuru on Tuesday and was expected to name a new cabinet, officials cited by the Reuters news agency said.
Eight other ministers are reported to have been given the sack along woth Mujuru according to the Jonathan Moyo controlled State Media.
They includeWebster Shamu (Minister of ICT, Postal and Courier
Services), Simbarashe Mudarikwa (Minister of State for
Mashonaland East Province), Francis Nhema (Minister
of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment), Olivia Muchena (Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology
Development), Nicholas Goche (Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare), Didymus Mutasa
(Minister of Presidential Affairs), Dzikamai Mavhaire (Minister of Energy and Power Development) and
Munacho Mutezo (Deputy Minister of Energy and Power
Development).
The sources, who declined to be named because they are not authorised to speak to the news media, said Mujuru had received her dismissal letter on Monday night after weeks of accusations that she had led a “treacherous cabal” to try to unseat Mugabe.
Al Jazeera Haru Mutasa, reporting from the capital Harare, said Mugabe “says he has evidence that Mujuru met with US officials, and in this meeting they plotted a plan to try and remove” him from office.
“Supporters of ZANU-PF are concerned that there could be a split [in the party]. They know that Mujuru has been a member of the party for many years – even before independence from British rule in 1980,” said our correspondent.
“She does have a following – a lot of women supporters thought that she would perhaps be the first woman president of Zimbabwe one day, should Mugabe step down.”
‘Smear campaign’
Mujuru on Tuesday blamed “a well-orchestrated smear campaign and gross abuse of state apparatus” that led to the loss of her ruling party post and shook Zimbabwean politics, the AFP news agency reported.
Mujuru, who once looked likely to succeed long-ruling Mugabe, has been accused of plotting to assassinate the 90-year-old and removed from the ruling ZANU-PF party’s central committee.
She said she was being victimised after exposing infiltrators conspiring to destroy the party, which has ruled the country since independence in 1980.
“I have become the fly in the web of lies whose final objective is the destruction of ZANU-PF and what it stands for and ultimately the present government,” Mujuru said in a statement.
“A vociferous attempt has been made to portray me as ‘a traitor’, ‘murderer’ and ‘sellout’, yet no iota of evidence has been produced to give credence to the allegations.”
ZANU-PF held an elective congress last week which endorsed Mugabe as president and his wife Grace as head of the women’s wing.
Source: ZimEye, Al Jazeera and agencies

President Robert much awaited cabinet reshuffle has begun with him hunting down two ministers (said to be Joice Mujuru allies) and seeking their  immediate arrest.
 
Energy Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire and his deputy Eng Munacho Mutezo were last night fired from office. They were served with their expulsion letters in an operation that had State House staff work overtime to ensure the two are sent home.
Following their ouster, the Jonathan Moyo controlled State Media announced that they should be arrested for abuse of office and corruption. While the charges were not independently verified, there was wide speculation that Mavhaire is being persecuted for criticising Billy Rautenbach’s ethanol project which was corruptly launched with the help of several ZANU PF gurus without due process, operational and environmental impact assessment.
 
Meanwhile Mavhaire who is known for being the first ZANU PF politician to boldly call for Mugabe’s retirement in the late 90s, was alleged to have been a key Mujuru ally seeking to elevate the latter to the Presidency. Analysts say it is Mr Mugabe himself who wants Mavhaire arrested. More to follow…

NINE people were seriously injured when a kombi they were travelling in veered off the road after being hit by a Toyota Ipsum on its left side along Old Esigodini Road adjacent to Ilanda suburb on Sunday.
The accident happened at around 6pm, with the injured passengers immediately being ferried to nearby United Bulawayo Hospitals.
The kombi was ferrying people from the city centre to Manningdale when the Toyota Ipsum that was exiting the Infectious Disease Hospital at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) reportedly failed to give way.
The driver of the kombi fled the scene after realising that his passengers were badly hurt, an issue that made most eyewitnesses suspect that he was either under the influence of alcohol or unlicensed.
Efforts to get a comment from the police were fruitless as the Bulawayo spokesperson referred questions to Harare, while his counterparts in Harare referred questions back to Bulawayo.
Eye witnesses and a passenger told the Southern Eye that the kombi driver was speeding and the Ipsum driver failed to give way to the traffic coming from his right, leading to the accident.
“The Ipsum driver is lucky not to be hurt because he was wearing his seatbelt, he was wrong in not giving way and so was the kombi driver in speeding,” a local vendor known as MaNcube said.
“We hope no one dies from injuries sustained from this accident.”
A passenger, Themba Maphosa, said he was lucky not to be injured as he was sitting in the back seat.
The kombi was badly damaged. – SouthernEye

Presidential aspirant Emmerson Mnangagwa who is hoping to be appointed Vice President tomorrow, says that God Almighty wears a hat with the Gushungo(Robert Mugabe) label on it.
In an address to mourners at a funeral caught on motion video, Mnangagwa who is the murdered Josiah Tongogara’s brother in law, said that God Almighty was once spotted wearing a hat with the Gushungo label on it while talking to the Devil. VIDEO:

PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE HONOURABLE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE, AND MEMBER OF THE RULING PARTY, ZANU PF – HONOURABLE DR. JOICE TEURAI ROPA MUJURU, TO THE CITIZEN’S OF ZIMBABWE.
Dear Comrades, friends, fellow citizens and countrymen:
I am grateful to the Lord that I am able to address you once again, despite the ever present but still unlawful threats against my person. The State Media, has continued to publish malicious untruths about me in the run up to, and after the 6th Congress of the ruling Zanu PF party.
Having listened intently to the numerous unfounded allegations levelled against me, I feel compelled to correct these unsubstantiated statements, misconceptions, lies being communicated to His Excellency The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Comrade R G Mugabe, and the general public.
Alleged Treasonous Conduct:
As a law abiding citizen of Zimbabwe, I abhor the very notion that an elected President or Government of the day can be removed from office through wrongful or unlawful means.
The allegations that I, alone, or (together with various distinguished Comrades) have sought to or attempted to remove His Excellency R G Mugabe from office are ridiculous.
Earlier this year, in Chinhoyi, I had occasion to state publicly that the Zanu PF Party had been infiltrated by a group of persons with nefarious intent, whose objective is to destroy the Party from within. As a result of my objections to this agenda, I have become the fly in a web of lies whose final objective is the destruction of Zanu PF and what it stands for and ultimately the present Government of H.E R G Mugabe.
A vociferous attempt has been made to portray me as “a traitor”, “murderer ” and “sell out”, yet not a single iota of evidence has been produced to give credence to the allegations.
Alleged practice of “witchcraft”:
Were it not that the allegations of the practice of “witch craft “have been made in relation to a very serious matter, I would not have been concerned. Suffice to say that I am and have always been a God-fearing person and would not and have not resorted to witchraft to advance my political career. Support comes from the people,  it cannot be divined under cover of darkness.
Association with the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe:
I was invited to be Patron of the ApostolicChristian Council of Zimbabwe, which represents at least 700 apostolic Christian churches in Zimbabwe, as long ago as January 2011. This was with the full consent and blessing of His Excellency. I have since then, with the full knowledge of the Head of State, attended numerous church gatherings, as Patron and also as Vice President. There has never been any clandestine or unlawful gatherings that I have been a part off.
Alleged incompetence and ineptitude
In my position of Vice President , I had numerous responsibilities including mid-last year, the duty to campaign (amongst others) for the Party in the national elections. I personally held and attended 43 campaign rallies all over Zimbabwe in a three week period, often at great personal expense, and happily losing 4kgs in that period! The result of the 2013 elections has been recorded in history, and I believe I played my part in the outcome.
Having been Vice President for the past 10 years, I am perplexed that allegations of ineptitude only arose a few weeks before Congress.
The position of women in Zimbabwean Society
I believe that I have advanced national causes as Vice President, and especially issues that affect the family, women, youth and children – successfully. We the women of Zimbabwe are legally, and constitutionally – equal citizens to men, we should not be derided or treated as second class citizens in our society which is supposed to be modern and progressive.
Threats against my life and person
Towards the 6th Zanu PF Congress, the forces at work in the Party realized that I was not and would not resign any of my public or party positions on flimsy or contrived grounds. Therefore, their strategy moved from being one of persistent denigration and defamation in the national state media and newspapers, to one of direct threats against my person and life.
My agents were wrongfully and unlawfully prevented from submitting my nomination papers for the Congress and subsequently the state media and newspapers advised me that my life and person was at risk if I attended the Congress. In the interests of public order, and given that this unprecedented “screening”of delegates was unchallenged by the Party Leadership, I decided to stay away from the inevitable public humiliation as was meted out to other unfortunate members of the Party . I made my fears known to the Party Leadership. It was important to maintain the dignity of the office of the Vice President even in the face of such unwarranted violence by a section the party membership.
Simplicity- thy name is Teurai
Fellow Zimbabweans, I regret that I must accept, one of the allegations. I am a simple village girl from Dotito. I went to join the liberation war at the age of 18 years and when I first became a cabinet minister in 1980 I could hardly speak, read or write English! Through encouragement from His Excellency, I went to night school and over the years have systematically and diligently improved myself academically (just as many of you have done over the years) culminating in the recent doctorate degree from the University of Zimbabwe.
There are a few practical truths that I must share, which I appreciate all the time.
Zimbabweans are crying out for solutions to the simple problems we have:

• how to put food on the table, how to obtain healthcare,
• sending our children to school
• providing transport for them and restoring the transport infrastructure,
• keeping our cities clean,
• and restoring electricity to all urban households together with clean running water.
• It is these simple problems that I have dedicated my life and career to and will continue to pursue.

Criminal Allegations
I maintain that I am, and remain, a law-abiding citizen who has not been involved in any criminal activity. The reported accusations of criminal conduct are based on the alleged actions of third parties who the state media has tenuously linked to me out of desperation. This approach can only be explained as a well-orchestrated smear campaign, and gross abuse of state apparatus and resources.
Alleged Abuse of Office
As I stated before, I have always utilized my office to faithfully assist His Excellency President R. G Mugabe in driving the social and economic programmes of his Government to successful fruition. At no point have I ever been motivated by self-interest when discharging my public duties.
Alleged Assassination of the President
The most repugnant allegation made recently has been that I sought to assassinate the President. My loyalty to His Excellency and my country Zimbabwe, is unquestionable. I would never be party to such an action or activity, alone or in a group.
Conclusion
In conclusion my fellow citizens, let it be known that I am loyal to the President and faithful to my Party, and its leader, devoted to its aims, obedient to its cause and resolute in my service to Zimbabwe. God bless you all.
DOCTOR JOICE TEURAI ROPA MUJURU

• Mugabe violates constitution to please Grace
• Mnangagwa pushed out at last minute
  
• Only women allowed to control presidium

Zimbabwe’s most powerful woman  Grace Mugabe,  has deleted the name of top presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa in what will likely see the famous blue eyed boy ditched at the 11th hour and miss the door into State House.
Mugabe reportedly refused at the last minute to make presidium and politburo appointments at the congress in line with the stipulated protocol at a time when Mr Mugabe had yet already physically lined up his preferred successor as evidenced by Mnangagwa’s high table seat at the weekend. “Women will rule this country,” said Mrs Mugabe during the days running up to the congress.
Mnangagwa’s team had in the last few months labouriously toiled firing media missiles to disarm the only other rival Joice Mujuru as numerous fake files were compiled just to disgrace and discredit Mujuru. Mnangagwa even went to the point of launching an expensive Gushungo Football Cup which squandered more than $100,000 in Robert Mugabe’s honour hoping to gain the most coveted favour.  But all that work was in vain and Mnangagwa was actually toiling for others,  a top ZANU PF source told this reporter.
Reports at hand revealed on Monday show that if Mugabe goes ahead to appoint Mnangagwa against Grace’s wishes, their bedroom is not going to be a safe place. “Zvinobva zvatooma kana vakadaro,” one of the sources said.
ZimEye can reveal Grace Mugabe has handpicked Senate Supremo Ednar Madzongwe.
It is widely held that the prominent reason why Grace distrusts Mnangagwa is the latter’s bad reputation with women and so she feels she will not be able to control Mnangagwa once her husband dies.
Ednar Madzongwe (pictured) is from Mashonaland West and is said to be a relative of the Mugabe’s who has been close to the Gushungos.

A (US made) DRONE AIRCRAFT fitted with cameras and owned by a tour operator in Victoria Falls has raised the ire of residents and tour operators who fear it is a security risk as its operations are shrouded in mystery.
The drone, known as the quadcopter or quadrotor helicopter, is a multi-rotor craft that is lifted and propelled by four rotors and remote-controlled by a person on the ground.
Residents accuse the operator of spying on them and were no longer free to do their business fearing their images were being captured by the gadget.

To add to the mystery, residents said they had no idea what the videos taken over residential places were being used for.
Reports were that the gadget was also used to fly over the falls, risking accidents, as it could interfere with helicopters from Zimbabwe and Zambia flying over the water falls, a journey known as the Flight of the Angels.
Fears were that the gadget could be used for spying, as it flew over protected areas or poaching, as it could easily be used to spy on wildlife.
Victoria Falls residents’ association chairperson Morgan Gaza Dube said the drone should be stopped from operating until stakeholders agree on its operations.
“It’s really unacceptable for a person to operate such a gadget without telling us what it’s all about,” he said.
“We don’t know the purpose of the filming.
“We feel very insecure because no one has explained to us what it’s all about.
“It’s like walking into someone’s home and filming.”
Dube said authorities should introduce regulations on the use of unmanned aircraft.
“What value is that gadget adding to Victoria Falls?” he asked.
“We feel it should be stopped first and we meet as stakeholders so that we understand its purpose and agree, unlike the current situation where it’s just being flown without our knowledge.”
The owner of the drone could not be reached for comment yesterday. – SouthernEye

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As Zimbabweans were left guessing on who is going to be handed the powerful post of First Vice President in the next 72 Hours, details have emerged from ZANU PF’s inner circles that President Robert Mugabe is bone-scared that his own blue eyed boy Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon turn against his family following his death.
 
Senior sources in the just dissolved Politburo told this reporter the veteran leader could not go ahead to appoint politburo members and senior secretaries of the Presidium on Saturday due to the heavy crisis of decisions he has been caught up with.
 
“We all know Comrade Mnangagwa boasts of being his right hand man since the war but do you realise Mugabe has never raised Mnangagwa beyond the level of Minister since 1980? We shall see what he decides at the end but I have told what we all know hakurarwi vhiki rino (there will be no sleep this week”, said one of the sources.
“Why do you think vaMugabe in 2004 pushed Ngwena aside putting Mujuru into place?,” another source said.
 
Meanwhile there was wide speculation Monday amid wild rumours that Mugabe’s choice is going to end up being Ednar Madzongwe seconded by Simon Khaya Moyo with National Chairman as Jacob Mudenda, and Mnangagwa taking Didymus Mutasa’s job Secretary for Administration. The Secretary for Commissariat would be Oppah Muchinguri according to the fiery rumours.
Political Analyst and Journalist, Methuseli Moyo has voiced saying Mugabe Saturday left people guessing, although for him, the surprise would be if Mugabe did not pick Mnangagwa.
“I think he really needs more time to think seriously,” he said.
“Technically there are two vacancies after the removal of Joice Mujuru, it means that he can choose anyone at his own pleasure.
“The only surprise he can make is not to appoint Emmerson Mnangagwa as one of the vice-presidents.”
After getting the carte blanche to pick his deputies and party chairperson, Mugabe has three vacancies to fill, which could be an indicator on who his preferred successor is.
To add to speculation, at the high table, Mugabe sat with Moyo, House of Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda and his Senate counterpart Edna Madzongwe, raising conjecture that those could be his picks to fill in the vacant posts.
 
Political analyst Qhubani Moyo said he was not expecting any surprises when Mugabe chooses his lieutenants.
“I think there’s a clear indication that he wants to apply his mind in terms of who he’s going to appoint,” he said. “To me it’s not logical that a person who has just been elected immediately jumps to appoint his lieutenants without scrutinising them.”
However, at previous congresses, Mugabe has immediately announced the politburo line-ups, but Moyo advised patience.
“The wait is not long,” he said.
“It’s only four days and I think we need to be patient.”  SouthernEye/ZimEye

Delegates to the Zanu (PF) Sixth National People’s conference left today for their respective destinations but as has become the norm after huge party events, some activists were stranded as they failed to find transport.
When The Zimbabwean visited the venue of the congress, frustrated party activists could be seen milling around waiting in vain for transport to take them home.
One of the activists blamed lack of proper coordination as being behind the chaos that saw people waiting for long hours since the early hours of the morning.
“We were told that transport would come to pick us at six in the morning but up to now, we are still waiting and there has not been any communication as to how we are going to be transported from here,” said a Mutare delegate who identified himself as Samuel Garidzwa.
Other delegates said they were left behind as they had been told buses would come to pick them later in the day yet their fellow delegates were picked early morning.
“When we came to enquire on the transport arrangements, we were told that buses that were supposed to ferry us had already gone and we have been told that other buses are being arranged so we will just wait,” said another delegate from Kwekwe who identified herself as Hazel Chara.
Some of the delegates complained of hunger due to the fact that since people were leaving, efforts were being focused more on transport issues.
“Some of us last had a meal last night and the problem now is that issues of food are no longer being given attention to yet we need to eat,” said Givemore Muredzo from Mutoko.
At the congress venue, workers could be seen pulling down tents while security maintained a heavy presence. – TheZimbabwean

ZANU PF’s outgoing Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa has recovered and exited a South African Hospital, and is now skating over and across the Indian oceans to Asia.
Mr Mutasa emphatically told ZimEye in an exclusive interview he is now well and is today Monday flying out of Africa to India.
“Ndikati zvakanaka,” he said.
Despite his healing, he added that he is flying his wife (who needs crucial attention) to India.
“Tirikuenda navo kuIndia mangwana(today),” he said.
Mr Mutasa was at the just ended ZANU PF Congress mocked by party leader Robert Mugabe who announcing his hospitalisation said he had before he fell ill, been consulting witch doctors to see Mugabe’s downfall. Mugabe claimed that Mutasa was part of people who consulted n’angas and prophets seeking assistance that would see them taking over the leadership of the party.
“They would ask, when will Mugabe die? so that they take over,” said President Mugabe.

Former Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chair Ray Kaukonde has fled to South Africa after being linked to a plot to topple President Mugabe and replace him with Vice-President Joice Mujuru.President Mugabe yesterday revealed: “We hear Kaukonde is now in South Africa. That is why he is not here.”
Kaukonde is believed to be the main financier of the Mujuru faction. His centrality to the plot to unseat President Mugabe was first publicly revealed by First Lady and Zanu-PF Women’s League boss Grace Mugabe, who also accused him of prodding former Politburo member Dr Simba Makoni to rebel and form an opposition party.
He — together with VP Mujuru and former secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa — did not attend the 6th Zanu-PF Congress that ended in Harare.
Mugabe has refused to accept results of Mash East central committee elections saying it contained people linked to Kaukonde. Some Mashonaland East delegates were heard whispering that Sydney Sekeramayi and Simbaneuta Mudarikwa were among the “bad apples that spoiled the basket”.
A larger group went on to denounce those presented to the President. President Mugabe said: “You are the only province that has raised this concern. But these are the people you gave us. We now hear that tadzorera vanhu vaKaukonde.
“If you say they did not come from you, who then elected them? We will do as you wish by making sure new elections are held. We will send representatives to assist you in this matter.”
Mujuru had toyed with the idea of showing up at the National Heroes Acre where former ambassador, Kotsho Dube was buried. But in the end she chickened out. –  ZBC

One ex-church member has narrated the family’s ordeal saying : “this is very serious, can you believe this couple was happily married before they started going to Agape. It was the husband’s brother Joseph Chiriseri who introduced the couple to Pastor Walter Masocha and in no time the marriage collapsed”, one of my close sources told me yesterday. Tichakunda Chiriseri, under the guidance and instruction of Walter Masocha left his young wife Farai after he was told she was demon possessed and committed himself fully to Agape Church. It makes me sick and angry, because the exact same thing happened to me. Chiriseri was then arranged Attache Caroline Chiwara by Walter Masocha. He would drive to church conferences with Caroline Chiwara, leaving Farai at home alone with the children. This must have drove the poor mother to this drastic measures knowing her husband had been given another woman by Walter Masocha.”

Zimbabwe’s new Vice President taking over outgoing VP Joice Mujuru is being announced within the next 90 Hours as Robert Mugabe appoints a new Zanu-PF Politburo that will not feature several heavyweights who according to the ZANU PF media “have relegated themselves to political oblivion by seeking the First Secretary’s ouster.”
Mugabe yesterday(Saturday) said he is announcing his cream-choices by Wednesday. In the mean time, the cornered Joice Mujuru remains Vice President even though she is now out of the party’s top leadership.
STATE MEDIA REPORT:
The changes could be a precursor to a Cabinet shake-up that will reflect the fall-out from the attempt to push out – and possibly assassinate – the President just a year after he resoundingly won a national five-year mandate to lead the nation.
Major casualties in both the party and State executives are likely to be Vice-President Joice Mujuru, Presidential Affairs Minister Didymus Mutasa; his Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare counterpart Nicholas Goche; ICT Minister Webster Shamu and several others.
Ministers Francis Nhema, Olivia Muchena, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, Flora Bhuka and Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, Tendai Savanhu too, face uncertain futures.
Senior Government officials, such as permanent secretaries and directors, who were implicated in the faction-related mess could also be put out to grass. The President – who was unanimously re-elected by zanu-PF’s 6th National People’s Congress yesterday — said he needed a little more time to weigh who in the new Central Committee was fit for the Politburo.
Newly-empowered by constitutional amendments that allow him to appoint all Politburo members so as to ensure there is only one centre of power in the ruling party, President Mugabe said he would unveil his core team this week.
Section 40 of Zanu-PF’s amended constitution empowers the First Secretary and President to — during the sitting of Congress — appoint Politburo members from the newly-elected Central Committee.
Outgoing secretary for legal affairs Cde Emerson Mnangagwa said President Mugabe was within his constitutional rights to make his appointments later this week.
He said Section 37 of Zanu-PF’s constitution (Powers and Functions of the Central Committee) allowed the President to announce a new Politburo when the Central Committee met as it is the highest organ of the party in between congresses and acts on behalf of congress when it is not in session.
“That is the provision we have used,” said Cde Mnangagwa. “In terms of the Unity Agreement, it gives the President the power to appoint the two Vice-Presidents. Only today did we have the election of the Central Committee this afternoon.
“It is from the Central Committee membership that the President must now select a team for the two Vice Presidents, national chairperson and heads of department who will constitute the Politburo. So, he needs time to go through the names and select a team for that purpose.
“He is doing so under the provision that when Congress is not sitting, the Central Committee takes that responsibility. So Central Committee will meet on Wednesday or Thursday next week. That is when he is going to announce to the Central Committee what he has not announced here because the constitution so provides.”
With the President understood to be keen to ensure his Politburo dovetails seamlessly with State functions, sources say any changes to the party team will reflect on the Cabinet.
The sources, however, were hesitant to say when the Cabinet reshuffle was likely.
The President yesterday said: “We will set up the Politburo (this) week.
“Hatingambozviiti mawuro ano. Mazita acho handisati ndamboona kuti province iyi yatipa vanhu vakadii, ndavanani vatingatore kuisa muPolitburo. So, I don’t want to rush it. So, be patient.
“But mid-next week, by Wednesday or Thursday, we will make an announcement. We will let you know because we cannot go far . . . We will have to choose the two Vice-Presidents, the chairman and secretary veSecretariat; basa ranga richiitwa naVaMutasa . . .
“But we will do a reshuffle. There will disappointment, but we will try to be as objective as possible and we will try to avoid zvemafactions and vamwe vakanga vachishanda mumafactions.”
Expectations were high yesterday that President Mugabe would name his two deputies and the party National Chair, but as indicated by The Sunday Mail last week, he chose to take his time and not succumb to populist pressures.
Senior officials linked with the top jobs after the Presidency are those of Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, Ambassador Phelekezela Mphoko, National Assembly Speaker Cde Jacob Mudenda and Senate President Edna Madzongwe.
Some senior Zanu-PF members who had been frozen out due to factionalism — such as Cdes July Moyo (Midlands) and Mike Madiro (Manicaland) — bounced back into the Central Committee yesterday.
President Mugabe also appointed Cdes Supa Mandiwanzira, Pupurai Togarepi, Walter Mzembi, Aguy Georgias, Mudhomeni Chivere, Absolom Sikhosana, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Josephine Gandiya, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu and Charles Tawenga into the Central Commitee under the quota of Presidential appointees. sunday mail

Walter Mzembi, the Zimbabwe Minister of Tourism was left with no option

Amid the ongoing unsubstantiated allegations of a potential assassination of President Mugabe by members of his own party and cabinet, President Robert Mugabe has moved a step further and beefed up his personal security.
Mnangagwa has been asked to take over Mugabe’s security. In allegations that have bemused Zimbabweans and beggared belief, Mugabe has claimed that vice president Joice Mujuru and her allies were trying to assassinate him if plans to force him out of office at this week’s Zanu PF congress failed.
And developments over the last four days indicate that Mugabe and those around him have been paying particular attention to his security. The 90-year-old leader is already one of the best protected leaders in the world, travelling with a cavalcade of anything up to 40 vehicles but the security measures have clearly been ramped up following the assassination claims with the phalanx of bodyguards travelling with him much bigger. At Zanu PF’s last politburo meeting on Tuesday, Mugabe did not allow members of the committee, many of them cabinet ministers, to attend with their mobile phones.”We were told to leave our mobile phones at the reception,” said a politburo member. The following day Mugabe addressed the ruling party’s central committee members where the same security measures were enforced.
Before the veteran leader arrived at the party headquarters where the meeting was held, the complex was subjected to a thorough search by security details with sniffer dogs. And, a few minutes before Mugabe entered, Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa carried out a final security check of the entire conference centre. Mugabe was accompanied by more than 15 close personal security details into the venue. Members of the gun-totting presidential guard, who are normally left outside buildings, were this time allowed both inside and outside the venue.
Meanwhile, during the official opening of the Zanu PF congress Thursday, a huge security detail littered the whole conference venue. Central Intelligence (CIO) boss Happyton Bonyongwe was the first to conduct a thorough sweep of the high table with delegates already packing the hall. A few minutes later, Mnangagwa repeated the security check.”Mnangagwa has taken over the security of Mugabe,” said a government official.

A slip of the tongue or is it not rather an eternal slip of the mind?  – there was shock on Saturday when President Robert Mugabe denounced his own party ZANU PF saying Pasi Ne ZANU PF. The utterances were confirmed by Herald Editor Caesar Zvayi  who defended saying, it is  “a slip of the tongue, very normal.”
“But he actually stood up and (deliberately) fired the slogan,” one Zimbo told ZimEye.
Mugabe who is just a few years from reaching 100 years of age, was addressing his party’s congress on Saturday when both his tongue and mind warped before the whole world in the speech which was largely to do with Joice Mujuru’s alleged insurrection coupled with nostalgic attacks on long gone Rhodesia.

The development comes as a London prophet predicted that Mugabe’s life is ending in a few months’ time, READ MORE – LIVE VIDEO: Meet the Prophet Who Says Mugabe Is Dying and Opposition Party Is Now Set to Rule Zimbabwe .
People listening to the President’s address via Jonathan Moyo’s broadcaster ZBC complained they heard Mr Mugabe clearly sloganearing “Pasi neZANU PF.’ Journalists were however at odds attempting to defend the President with some saying the transmission was not audible enough to confirm he did say that. The majority of journalists however concurred that the 2018 President candidate committed the mortal exhibition of his fast waning interllect during his Congress speech on Saturday afternoon.
 

President Robert Mugabe has wished the ill Zanu PF Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa a speedy recovery, but has insisted that he did wrong in siding with the embattled Vice President Joice Mujuru, who wanted to topple him as president.
Speaking at the Zanu PF National People’s Congress today, Mugabe revealed that Mutasa, who skipped the congress, is hospitalised in South Africa, wondering whether the illness was due to shock after the coup plot was exposed.
He also revealed that Mutasa’s wife is also ill, but said he wished the family well.
“I spoke to Mutasa over the phone this morning and he said he is better, but his wife requires more medical attention. They indicated that they might go to India for further treatment,” said Mugabe.
The President said it was unfortunate that Mutasa was part of the VP Mujuru faction that sought to unseat him.
He said the faction even consulted n’angas and prophets to seek assistance that would see them taking over the leadership of the party.
“They would ask, when will Mugabe die? so that they take over,” said President Mugabe.
Mugabe called on party cadres to be principled and remain united for the ruling party to lead in the revival of the country’s economy and shame western detractors who have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe

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News readers are invited to join in the video interview of the London based preacher, Prophet Austin Moses who says Mugabe’s sudden exit is imminent and now time-bound.
Moses is the first preacher to indicate an exit date for the entire Mugabe Dynasty which development will usher in a new era in the former British colony, according to him.
In June Moses foretold of Zimbabwe declaring that “a big tree is falling with its branches.”
He is credited for several accurate predictions including one on the Ukrainian crisis where he has since been given a VIP invitation in recognition of his utterances.
Moses will be interviewed via video on Saturday afternoon (5.00PM Zim time). Readers are invited to fire their questions to the Prophet. Questions may be sent from the comments area, through the Twitter account@ZimEye and or to the Whatsapp number +447426863301

17:41 Now its time for the announcement of Youth central committee members. Among them is Kudzai Chipanga, Tongai Kasukuwere, Mpehlabayo Malinga and Annastacia Ndlovu. S.K. Moyo requests Chipanga to lead the youths to shake hands with President Mugabe.

17:39 He tells new central committee members to shake hands with President Mugabe.

17:35 S.K Moyo now announcing Women Central Committee Members and among them is Eunice Sandi Moyo, Chinamona Mahofa

17:15 Dr Mugabe pays tribute to the Youth League. She ends her address with ‘Pasi NeGamatox’ slogan and adds, STOP IT! She takes the MIC to join the POLICE BAND as delegates chant YES, YES, YES.

17:08 First Lady turns to her prepared speech and pays tribute to Muchinguri and describes her as a true REVOLUTIONARY. She thanks the people for backing her nomination and commits to working for the people. She outlines her plans to support women and to fight factionalism.

17:03 Dr Mugabe accused VP Mujuru of being the architect of Bhora Musango in 2008. ‘I liken those who were part of BHORA MUSANGO to zvituta. Mai Mujuru started a fight with me by telling people to embarrass me. We knew her shenanigans from way back thus we were exposing her but there is worseto expose.’

16:58 She tells delegates that Amai Sally Mugabe was also once a Secretary for Women’s League but when she (Dr Mugabe) was nominated, VP Mujuru went berserk. She said, Pembe yapihwa benzi meaning that she regarded me as a fool. I blew the whistle on her. I warned her but she did not take heed. War credentials on their own do not allow to divide the party and be so corrupt. – Dr Mugabe.

16:52 President asks First Lady to stand and he endorses her as Secretary for Women’s League. First Ladies prepares to make her maiden speech.

16:49 S.K Moyo tell delegates that his powers have been dissolved and is only now only doing a special caretaker chairman. He asks President to endorse to the First Lady.

16:46 President ends his address and informs delegates to prepare for Central Committee announcement.

16:40 President dissolves the Central Committee. ‘All those who had powers in the central no longer have any powers. Those who will be selected should be deserving.

16:36 Obama has been a failure in terms of what Africa expects. America wants to teach us democracy but there are more blacks in their jails than in their Universities. As for Britain, we taught them democracy but the want to keep me and my wife on sanctions.

16:33 People here are a calculating people. They joined us in the struggle to defeat the enemy. The number of people who died is thousands. Ian Smith would send his bombs. In Chimoio alone we had two camps that were bombed. Innocent people died.

16:27 Mujuru should have come for elections. Mujuru was free to come for the congress. We never blocked her. She is at her home as we speak. Let us be peaceful people. – President Mugabe.

16:20 President Mugabe has told delegates that Muchinguri is one of the women who approached him and called for the elevation of VP Mujuru. However, Mujuru became too hungry for power and would consult n’angas seeking to land the top post. She became too close to erstwhile enermies who colonised us, he said.

16:13 Dr Joshua Nkomo said unity begins with me, with you and with all of us. Let us practice this. We must love each other. Hatidi huipi. We people act contrary to rules of the party in order to assume power, we say NO. We fought Ian Smith and even exhumations continue till today. George Rutanhire took Joice to war when she was a young woman. Joice met Mujuru. Mujuru aiva nevakasikana vakawanda. Joice would complain about this. Zvevakadzi izvi ndizvo zvaive zvake. – President Mugabe.

16:09 Listen to the people when they sing and say their choice. I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you. I know I am not greater than people. As a leader, I am your servant. I can only lead the struggle. ZimAsset will give you better lives but you should be educated. – President Mugabe.

16:02 We must treasure and take care of Zimbabwe. We must give a fortress against our enemy. We treasure this home because yesterday they came from Britain and made us subjects. The British taught us religion. Together we have to protect this land so that it does not become a colony again. – President Mugabe.

15:56 We all come from the people. It is the people of Zimbabwe that must guide us as leaders. We should know what their likes are and what we can do as their leaders to raise their standards of living. Zimbabwe is just one, bound together by the fact of being Zimbabwean. – President Mugabe.

15:53 President Mugabe takes to the podium and thanks the people for voting for him. The crowd shouts we love you and The President reciprocates.

15:50 S.K. Moyo asks President to dissolve the Central Committee

15:48 The positions held by individuals in Zanu PF belong to the people. All the positions are now open. Whatever position you held, if you did not perfom well, do some introspection and if you did well, you will enter the kingdom, says S.K. Moyo.

15:44 Tumultous atmosphere as President Mugabe is emphatically endorsed as President and First Secretary of Zanu PF. S.K. Moyo calls eccentric delegates to order saying he has an important announcement before announcing that the endorsement is revolutionary.

13:52: Obert mpofu booed while presenting on committee on transport, addressing on the state of the country’s roads
13:10: Jacob Mudenda annonces the endorsement of president mugabe the 2018 presidential candidate. His wife, Grace was also confirmed as leader of the Womens League.
Mudenda spoke of an alleged Mujuru plot to remove Robert Mugabe from power. He said, “sadly, however, towards the end of this review period, particularly in the year leading to this 6th national people’s congress, the party unearthed and thwarted a plot which had external underpinnings, to remove the President and first secretary of the party unconstitutionally, before or during the congress,” Mudenda said.
“This plot involved some among us, under the leadership of then Vice-President Joice Teurai Ropa Mujuru and her cabal of senior politburo members, who had been enticed by the Americans and some Europeans with promises that they would pour billions of dollars into Zimbabwe once they succeeded in allying with the opposition formations to oust Zanu PF and its iconic President and first secretary from power.”
Mudenda added saying that the same people mentioned in the whistleblower website Wikileaks as working with with the “enemy” were the same people who were plotting dubious means of ousting Mugabe.
“They instead deepened their plotting, captured party and State structures through imposition, vote-buying, patronage, corruption and all sorts of treacherous intrigue to appoint where they felt sufficiently ready to oust the President, even threatening to assassinate him,” he alleged.
“They orchestrated sham primary elections ahead of the 2013 harmonised polls resulting in their domination of both the House of Assembly and the Senate and consequently, Cabinet,” Mudenda said.
“Thanks to the revelations made by the First Lady Amai Doctor Grace Mugabe, a whirlwind was unleashed which swept away the conspirators. The challenge that the party faces now, going forward from this congress, is to orient all its organs, members and functionaries in government back to its ideology and policies.”
“The failure of the party to fund its programmes sufficiently from the centre talks very strongly of the need for the party to urgently address this problem,” he said.
“Quite commonly during this review period, the funding of all commissariat programmes was left to the whims and caprices of community leaders and opinion makers who were moneyed.
“Those who repent and are remorseful must not be persecuted, but we must embrace and gently mentor them back into rectitude.”
13:06 : The program starts.
13:03: President Mugabe arrives
12:59: He says there were lots of consultations going
12:55: Simon Khaya Moyo appologises for the delays in starting the programme.
12:11: The party’s thematic committee has endorsed Robert Mugabe to be the presidential candidate for 2018 elections this morning.
 
 

THE future of some of the services chiefs hangs in the balance, as their contracts have not yet been extended by President Robert Mugabe, it has emerged.
Most of the service chiefs had their contracts unilaterally extended for a two-year period in 2012 by Mugabe during the tenure of the unity government.
Sources said contracts of Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Constantine Chiwenga, Zimbabwe National Army commander Lieutenant General Philip Valerio Sibanda, Air Marshal Perrance Shiri and the Commissioner-General of Prisons Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi, as well as Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri were about to expire.
The sources said Chihuri and Central Intelligence Officer boss Happyton Bonyongwe’s contracts were unlikely to be extended largely due to the current factional fights in Zanu PF.
The extension was not without controversy when the then Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his deputy Arthur Mutambara demanded that they be involved in extending Chihuri’s contract, as his stay was dividing the coalition government.
Contacted for comment, police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba professed ignorance about the extension.
“I don’t know about the contract or its extension,” she said.
“This is a personal contract which is private. However, I will ask him and come back to you.
“What is your interest in Commissioner-General Chihuri’s contract, as if he is the only service chief?”
Sources said decorated army chief of staff Lieutenant-General Trust Mugoba was tipped to take over from Chihuri.
The extension of the contracts for service chiefs was said to be dependent on factionalism playing out within Zanu PF.
First Lady Grace Mugabe may have let the cat out of the bag when she castigated the police for not taking action on Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s alleged corruption at one of her countrywide rallies.
Reports say Chihuri’s contract has been extended 14 times since he was first appointed as police boss in 1994.
His first contract expired in 1997.
Contacted for comment, Presidential spokesperson George Charamba was not sure if the service chief’s contracts had been extended.
But he said there was nothing to worry about, as any extension would be done in line with the laws of the country.
“If it has not been gazetted then it has not been extended,” he said.
“As we speak I’m not sure . . . you should not get worried, everything is under control.” – SouthernEye

A Zimbabwean five year old boy was yesterday morning stabbed to death at his home in Scotland in an incident that has seen the toddler’s mother arrested at the scene.
ZimEye.com can exclusively reveal the lad found in Clackmannanshire yesterday is a Zimbabwean boy killed in an incident that has seen his mother being the sole suspect in the case.
Police have said they are not looking for any other suspect other than the mother.
ZimEye.com is reliably told the woman whose surname is “Chiriseri” has been a member of Walter Masocha’s AGAPE church.
Several streets had to be cordoned off by police when law enforcement agents were called to the flat in Alva, Clackmannanshire on Friday. The full details of how the stabbing occurred were still being investigated by cops at the time of writing but ZimEye has been told they have now reached an advanced stage in their vital evidence gathering.
Chief Inspector Stephen Sneddon said: “On arrival, police officers found the child with a significant injury to his body and he was later pronounced dead at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
 
“Inquiries into the full circumstances surrounding this incident are ongoing and a woman is currently detained in connection with the investigation.
“We are not currently looking for anyone else and I want to reassure the local community that there is no risk to them.
 
“Police officers will be carrying out various inquiries in the area and I would ask the public to continue to give us the full support they have shown so far, to allow us to conclude these investigations as soon as possible and allow the area to return to normal.
 
“This is a quiet area and I would emphasise that this is a very unusual incident which poses no risk to others.”

Grace Mugabe’s anti Mujuru campaign reached a climax when yesterday she deployed a Ndebele speaking guru to pump up her message to Vice President Joice Mujuru that the latter must go, and “there is no point of return.”
Mrs Mugabe has before revealed already that she speaks in tongues when sending strong messages to people. “Whenever I speak to you, you may not understand me, because I speak in mighty tongues”.
The development comes after analysts revealed it will be difficult for Mugabe to remove Joice from office even though he has removed her from the party. The constitution restricts Mugabe, analysts claim. One guru said:
“(1) The Senate and the National Assembly, by a joint resolution passed by at least one-half of their total membership, may resolve that the question whether or not the President or a Vice-President should be removed from office for—
(a) serious misconduct;
(b) failure to obey, uphold or defend this Constitution;
(c) wilful violation of this Constitution; or
(d) inability to perform the functions of the office because of physical or mental incapacity;
should be investigated in terms of this section.
(2) Upon the passing of a resolution in terms of subsection (1), the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders must appoint a joint committee of the Senate and the National Assembly consisting of nine members reflecting the political composition of Parliament, to investigate the removal from office of the President or Vice-President, as the case may be.
(3) If—
(a) the joint committee appointed in terms of subsection (2) recommends the removal from office of the President or Vice-President; and
(b) the Senate and the National Assembly, by a joint resolution passed by at least two-thirds of their total membership, resolve that the President or Vice-President, as the case may be, should be removed from office;
the President or Vice-President thereupon ceases to hold office.”
Yesterday Grace Mugabe’s campaign team deployed the dreaded youth leader Absalom Sikhosana aside her century-old husband struggling to speak, to reinforce her message using a ancient Ndebele dialect at the ZANU PF Congress. (See video)
A linguist commented that what Grace is doing is utilising a multi-pronged cluster of threatening phrases and other vocalisations to disable Mujuru’s confidence among her followers countrywide.
VIDEO:

President Robert Mugabe nearly broke down in front of the congress crowd yesterday, Zimbabweans watching the head of state have voiced saying.
While addressing the delegation multitude, the President spoke with a jerky and staggering slurred speech inconsistent with his performance. Several words and phrases were crunched up as Mr Mugabe failed to construct audible and convincing statements in his delivery.
Mugabe’s performance has given rise to speculation that he is suffering from the effects of what may have been a stroke. According to medical experts, victims of stroke exhibit, the following signs,
Difficulty putting sentences together

• Getting speech sounds mixed up
• Problems understanding spoken words
• Problems with reading
• Difficulty writing and spelling
• You might have problems following a conversation
• Reading might be difficult to follow

These problems are called Dysphasia. Another problem can be caused by weak muscles in the face and throat. This might cause some of the following problems:

• Slurred or jerky speech
• Speech fading away
• Quiet or weak voice

The Zanu PF First Secretary and President, Cde Robert Mugabe, says political leaders are elected for the benefit of the nation and not to personally benefit from the country’s resources.
Addressing delegates at the 6th Zanu PF National People’s Congress today, President Mugabe said those in government are given positions to upgrade the livelihood of the country’s citizens.
He said once evidence has been fully gathered, all who have flouted the country’s laws regardless of their political position will be tried according to the provisions of Zimbabwe’s constitution.
He said whoever is fingered in corrupt activities whether they are a minister, deputy minister or a civil servant will lose their position.
Regarding Vice President Joice Mujuru, who did not attend the Congress’ official opening together with Cde Didymus Mutasa and Cde Nicholas Goche, Cde Mugabe said she was appointed as a figure to represent the empowerment of women.
He said he was however disappointed to learn that she was working against the progress of the country by being corrupt and planning to assassinate him.
President Mugabe also thanked Zanu PF members for weeding out retrogressive elements in the party.
Notice: ZBC Tv to broadcast the proceedings of the 6th Zanu PF Congress at 9PM tonight.

A mentally challenged Gutu woman reportedly ate “a man alive” as has beeen said after axing him to death before turning onto his wreathing corpse yesterday.
The occured yesterday morning when Esthar Katandawa (27) disarmed the man who had an axe on his shoulders, struck him on the head before eating his flesh, police confirmed.
Katandwa the official police statement said met the now-deceased Simon Muzenda (29) at around 9am in Mupandawana Village, in headman Gadzingo’s area.
Acting Masvingo provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa confirmed the incident, saying Katandawa has since been arrested and was in police custody.
“We have indeed heard about the incident and we can confirm that the accused, who is mentally challenged, has
since been arrested and is in custody,” he said.
He said Katandawa met the deceased in the same village in the morning and disarmed him of the axe, before chasing after him and turning the axe on him.
“The now-deceased was limping as his leg was aching,” Dhewa said.
“After the axe was taken away from him, he tried to flee, but could not go further as he could not run due to his leg that was troubling him.
“Unfortunately, he was struck with the axe and died on the spot.
“The accused then started eating his flesh.”
Other villagers who were passing by are said to have heard his cries, before they apprehended Katandawa and made a police report, leading to her arrest – SouthernEye

State Media updates

15:25 Foreign sister organisations have finished delivering their solidarity messages and delegates break for lunch. Local sister organisations will deliver their messages tomorrow, Zanu PF National Chairman has announced.
15:18 December 12 Movement Solidarity message: They congratulate the endorsement of the First Lady to lead the Women’s League and say they will always be with Zimbabwe as they have continued since 1972. They declare that Zimbabwe will never be a colony again and is a country for Zimbabweans.
15:01 Cuba Communist Party: The Cuban people convey solidarity message on the occasion of the congress adding that the two countries share the same challenges of sanctions imposed by the West and its allies.
14:57 Sudan says Zimbabwe will always prosper under the leadership of Presdient Mugabe.
14:53 South Sudan Liberation Movement solidarity message: The president congratulates Zanu PF for the 6th National People Congress. African liberation movements supported our leader and it is through this solidarity that South Sudan got independence in July 2011. We are truly grateful for that.
14:45 DPRD official from Democratic Republic of Congo solidarity message. The official says the DPRD appreciates the honour and privilege of being invited to the congress. This indication is a strong signal of the strong ties that exist between Zimbabwe and DPRD as well as Zanu PF and DPRD. We take this opportunity presented to us by the congress to congratulate the people of Zimbabwe and especially president Mugabe for unity. The ideological line of Zanu PF encourages nations to be masters of their own destiny. Thanks ZANU PF for the invitation.
14:35 Nangolo Mbumba, Swapo Secretary General conveys SWAPO solidarity message – “We are aware of deliberate and well orchestrated events meant to destabilise cohesion among revolutionary parties in the region. There is therefore need for sister parties to close ranks and thwart the obnoxious move. SWAPO salutes Zanu PF and wishes the party well and does not doubt that after the congress, the party will emerge stronger and forge ahead in pursuit of the implementation of ZimAsset. ‘Pamberi neZanu PF, Phambili leZanu PF,” as he wraps his message.
14:29 He tells delegates that the ANC shares deep links with Zanu PF and were together in the trenches fighting colonial masters. He adds that the ANC wishes ZANU PF wisdom to take the country forward and stimulate economic growth and success.
14:26 The National Chairman now invites Dr Zweli Mkhize, the treasurer general of ANC Africa to give his party’s solidarity message
14:20 National Chairman informs delegates that the venue, Harare Civic Grounds has been renamed Robert Mugabe Grounds and four roads have been renamed Dr Grace Mugabe, Dr Simon Vengesai Muzenda, Dr Joshua Muqabuko Nkomo and ZimAsset respectively. He also expressed gratitude for the food (rice, mealie-meal, beef and sausages donated by the first family to the congress.
14:07 Zanu PF delegates break into song and dance as they belt popular rendition, “Musaputse Sungano”. President Mugabe, Dr Grace Mugabe, Cde Edna Madzongwe and Professor Moyo are dancing as well.
14:04 Cde Mudenda calls upon the Chairman of Bulawayo Province to move the motion to take note of the Key Note Address and accept the report presented by President and First Secretary of Zanu PF. The Acting Chairman of Midlands Province seconds the motion.
13:58 He praises President Mugabe for teaching them good leadership that they should be honest and truthful leaders who have unity of purpose through self introspection. He assures the President that God will fight his battles and wishes the first family long life. “Long Live President Mugabe, Long Live Mother of the Nation, Dr Mugabe,” he says.
13:55 Congress delegates break into song and dance as President Mugabe leaves the podium to take up his seat. Cde Jacob Mudenda now addressing the gathering and chants ‘DOWN WITH REBELS.’
13:53 He hands over the Central Committee report to delegates before thanking attendees for coming. “Pamberi nekubatana, Phambili lokubambana, Phambana lokubamba,” he says raising his fist and firmly waving it to mark the end of his speech.
13:58 He praises President Mugabe for teaching them good leadership that they should be honest and truthful leaders who have unity of purpose through self introspection. He assures the President that God will fight his battles and wishes the first family long life. “Long Live President Mugabe, Long Live Mother of the Nation, Dr Mugabe,” he says.
13:55 Cde Jacob Mudenda takes to the podium and shouts – “ DOWN WITH REBELS!”
13:50 He said 2013 elections were people driven which is why no one among leadership should claim it. “It belongs to you, the people. Which is why you used your powers to clean up the party. Today we are here to look at ourselves and the policies that we should follow, ZimAsset kupedza hurombo, dams, irrigation and things like that. This congress is about celebrating victory.”
13:47 President Mugabe says some had lost hope that the party will rise and did not want to go for elections. Some had deserted the posts the party had assigned them. Some had formed alliances with MDC formations to topple the government with the help of western nations. He also castigated the dirty team that wantonly betrayed the ideals of Zanu-PF.
13:45 He thanks foreign delegates for coming to support Zanu-PF, a party that emerged victorious in the 2013 elections.
13:40 Zanu-PF had to endure the inclusive government because it had performed dismally in the 2008 elections – President Mugabe.
13:35 “Those who are corrupt will be prosecuted if the allegations are proven and all government officials involved in any corrupt dealings will have their employment terminated,” – President Mugabe.
13:30 He says, “Tinotenda kuti tiritose asi zvakanaka kuti vatadzi ava takavabata tisati tasvika patiri. Zvinhu izvi zvagara zvichiitika mumusangano asi tinozvitadza. Tinokutendai nekubatana kwamakaita, makarasa marara aya.”
13:25 President Mugabe thanks party leadership and supporters for unity of purpose and working together to flush out people who were bent on betraying the ideals of the struggle.
13:20 “This is how thieves behave,” President Mugabe on VP Mujuru and her cabal of thieves who boycotted Congress. He gives anecdote of a stranded couple which they accommodated overnight but stole his mother and sister’s clothing and left early morning in a huff.
13: 15 “Over the years we thought we were working together with her, but alas, behind our backs she was plotting my downfall. We carried investigations and noted it was a clique that involved provincial chairpersons and ministers. Information started trickling in from provinces that a plot to topple the President was on the cards,” – President Mugabe
13:07 “The party saw it fit in 2004 to include women within the top leadership, resulting in the appointment of VP Mujuru” – President Mugabe.
13:05 The past leadership failed to fulfill the aspirations of the people due to a myriad of problems which included a cabal within the leadership which wanted to remove me from power – President Mugabe
13:02 President Mugabe commends war veterans for uniting Zanu-PF and castigates those who wanted to change the party leadership and topple him from power
12:58 President Mugabe takes to the podium at the invitation of SK Moyo
12:53 ”A revolution does not succeed on the basis of the weakness of the opposition but the successful implementation of its programmes” – SK Moyo
12:50 Zanu-PF grew stronger during my chairmanship. Factionalism is a dangerous virus – SK Moyo
12:45 SK Moyo is delivering his welcome address.

State Media updates

 12:10 Zanu PF National Chairman has announced the beginning of the proceedings at officially convenes the sitting of the Congress in terms of Article 5, Section 22 of the Zanu PF Constitution. He has announced that in terms Article 9, Section 44 (1) of the constitution, he will chair the plenary.
11:50 Bishop Manhanga delivers the opening prayer.
11:20 President Mugabe has arrived at the venue but is yet to enter the marque. He is reported to be in a briefing party leadership. Vice President Joice Mujuru is has not arrived.
10:50: Zanu PF National Chairman, Cde S.K. Moyo making last minute arrangements to the high table in anticipation of the president’s imminent arrival. Chief of Dr Munyaradzi Kajese making last minute inspection of the higher table.

10:30: An army of local and foreign journalists present here at the Zanu PF National People’s Congress venue. This is testament to the massive interest the event has has garnered.

10:27: Cabinet Ministers and Politburo Members Dr Olivia Muchena, Dr David Parirenyatwa and Cde Sydney Sekeramai have arrived at the venue.
10:21: All Women’s League provincial chairpersons have been summoned outside the marque by out going secretary for women affairs, Cde Oppah Muchinguri for a quick briefing.
10:04: Security is tight in and around the venue with scores of police, military, intelligence officers and party youths maintaining order and keeping the peace.

The Congress Venue has been renamed Robert Mugabe Square
09:43: ZANU PF headquarters is a hive of activity with last minute preparations underway. Scores of Zanu PF supporters are camped outside the party headquarters as they wait for the mop up accreditation to commence. Among those try to beat the last minute accreditation is former Zimbabwean Ambassador to South Africa and Russia, Cde Phelekezela Mphoko.
 

DAY 3 – ZANU PF NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS

13:40: President Mugabe has just entered the hall and the meeting is supposed kick off anytime from now
13:32: Cde Simbarashe Mbengegwi has just arrived.
13:28: Dr Timoth Stamps has arrived and proceeded into the hall.
13:24: ‪ Cde Patrick Chinamasa has also arrived. Delegates are just moving in and out of the hall and some are standing outside.
13:11: Professor Jonathan Moyo and Cde Savior Kasukuwere have just arrived. They went straight into the hall.
13:07: Cde SK Moyo and Cde Mnangagwa have just entered the hall. The environment is calm here and the meeting has not started. President Mugabe is still in the main building.
13:01: Cde Cephas Msipa, Cde Jacob Mudenda and Cde Goodwills Masimirembwa have also arrived.
12:25: Dr David Parirenyatwa, Cde Olivia Muchena and Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa have arrived at Zanu PF Headquarters for the Central Committee meeting.
12:15: Central Committee members are now entering the hall to take their positions but Cde Mnangagwa has moved out of the hall and proceeded into the main building. Cde Ignatius Chombo has also arrived. The meeting has not started and some members of the Central Committee are still arriving.

12:07: Cde Sydney Sekeramai has just arrived here at Zanu PF Headquarters. Cde Mnangagwa too has just arrived and went straight inside the hall where the meeting is taking place
11:45: Zanu PF delegates are now standing outside the hall to welcome the President who just arrived but went through the basement.
11:44 The vehicle, Zim1 has just arrived the President, Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe has arrived at Zanu PF Headquarters for the Central Committee meeting.

DAY 2 ZANU PF NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS

1702: The First Lady’s meeting ends, she refuses to be interviewed
1628: The First Lady is still in the closed door meeting
1628: Harare provincial affairs minister Miriam Chikukwa sneaks out using another entyrance avoiding youths who have been denouncing her through a song . . . “Chikukwa chera mwena nguva yakwana”
1605: Scores of Zanu PF youths are outside singing songs denouncing the kingpins of the plot to topple President Mugabe namely VP Mujuru, Cdes Webster Shamu and Didymus Mutasa.
1546: The First Lady is done and currently in a closed door meeting with the party leadership as journalists wait outside hoping to get an interview with her.

1509: The First Lady has arrived at the congress venue and is now being taken around.
1423: Cdes Saviour Kasukuwere, Jonathan Moyo, Patrick Zhuwawo and Patrick Chinamasa have arrived.
1412: Also present is Zanu PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo, national commissar Webster Shamu, deputy health minister Dr Paul Chimedza and NetOne general manager Reward Kangai.

1408: The team that accompanied her during her “Meet the people tour” are already here. These are Cdes Oppah Muchinguri, Shuvai Mahofa, Sarah Mahoka and Eunice Sandi Moyo.
1406: The First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe is expected to arrive at for her scheduled tour at the congress venue any minute from now.

Zanu -PF has remained committed to the economic empowerment of indigenous Zimbabweans
1255: Delegate accreditation is still on going at the Zanu PF Headquarters in Harare while the Politburo meeting is about to start.

Kwekwe Central MP Masango Matambanadzo (Blackman) who boasts of being a Grade 2 Drop-Out, is to be booted from both the party and Parliament over his violent public behaviour.
HON MP Matambanadzo in response to the reports has said he is only being persecuted because of his “sharp brains.” Mr Matambanadzo faces the axe after ZANU PF’s Midlands executive met to execute their resolve on him which is that he goes under the current purge of Mujuru supporters underway.
Senior Central Committee Douglas Tapfuma in a statement said the provincial executive has ruled to commence the process soon after congress which ends at the weekend.
“The province has been concerned by the behaviour of Hon Matambanadzo, who has been involved in various violent confrontations with senior members of the party and even the Mayor of Kwekwe (Matenda Madzoke). He has caused serious embarrassment to Zanu PF and we have just had enough,” Tapfuma said.
 
Matambanadzo faces charges of beating up fellow party legislator Owen Ncube (Gokwe-Kana MP) who is also the provincial secretary for security in Amaveni, the matter which is still pending at the courts.
Tapfuma also accused the controversial MP of boycotting party meetings and rallies held in the province.
“We don’t know if he is still a party member because he is not working with us, he has never visited the Kwekwe party office since he was elected and he is running a dubious $1 a day programme which as a party we have distanced ourselves from,” he said.
Tapfuma said soon after congress, the provincial executive will urgently submit its recommendations to the party’s national disciplinary committee to have Matambanadzo expelled from the party.
“We do not have the power to expel him from the party, but we can only recommend that he should be expelled and once that happens he will be recalled,” he said.
Matambanadzo on record says that he is being persecuted because of his “sharp brains”. “I might be a Grade 2 dropout, but I have sharp brains which have seen me helping people and that is the reason why some people from my own party hate me and are doing everything to pull me down,” he recently told flea market vendors in Kwekwe.

President Robert Mugabe’s attacks on Vice President Joice Mujuru boiled up on Wednesday with him viciously attacking his inlaws’ country Ghana.
Mugabe said Ghana is still the same undeveloped state it was when he met his wife Sally in the 1960s.
“I have been to Ghana 1958 to 1960 and when you look at them now and compare their present situation to that that existed in the 1960s, no change.
“There might be more people yes, there may be one road from the airport which has been well done yekungoti vanhu vanosvika munyika imomo vafunge kuti nyika yakwirira,” he said.
Mugabe took a swiped at Ebola ravaged West and North Africa where the countries were predominantly colonised by France showed that Europe did not have Africa’s interests at heart.
“That’s about all, no change. There are still areas were not all children go to school, nyika dzakakura. Woti why? Because they have remained under the control of countries like France, European countries like that,” he said.
He said most French colonies had remained dependent on their former colonisers due to the agreements they signed when they attained independence and had no control over their natural resources.
“So those countries are not free. What is now very important but an absolutely discouraging development is that the leaders we get now are not of the same calibre as vana (Kwame) Nkrumah, vana Seko Toure, vana Modibo Keita, vana (Abdel) Nasser, no. They are all yes leaders because they expect help, money from European countries,” he said.

ZANU PF’s suspended chairman Rugare Gumbo has been given the boot by the ZANU PF Congress currently underway in Harare.
The decision will mean Gumbo’s earlier 5 year suspension is now superseded by the expulsion.
Sitting in the Central Committee, members voiced they were collectively excommunicating Mr Gumbo forever. A source told this reporter following the decision, “We will deal in this way (navo vose) with all who work to destroy the party. Hakuna kwavanosvika vese ava vana Jabu navana Joram – They will not get anywhere,” he said. It was confirmed by spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo who said, “suspended spokesperson, Cde Rugare Gumbo has been expelled from the party by the central committee.”

Mr Gumbo was expelled following his recent criticism of President Robert Mugabe in which he announced that ZANU PF is facing a leadership crisis, making reference to his boss Mugabe.
“We have a serious leadership crisis and the whole world is aware of that. We have a leadership that is disjointed, a leadership that has no focus on how to resolve major issues. We have a leadership that is power-hungry and will do anything to subvert the will of the people,” Gumbo said.
“They want to remain leaders forever at the expense of the suffering majority. It is an unfocused leadership that is concerned with its own interests, not addressing the concerns of the people.”
Gumbo, a prominent veteran of the liberation struggle, said Mugabe (almost 91) has virtually lost control of the party as he has allowed power-hungry opportunists to push for illegal party constitutional amendments and purges to accommodate themselves.
“Mugabe has lost direction and he is being used by power hungry people. He has practically lost control of the party. He should not have allowed the First Lady to attack long-time comrades like that; and that on its own shows he is no longer in control. He has no vision. You cannot bulldoze amendments to the constitution so that it fits into what opportunists want.
“He has to respect the constitution. How can a leader who is in charge allow illegal purges of elected provincial executives like that. It means he is detached from the people. He is not the one controlling those provinces anymore and this should ring a bell that it’s time for change of leadership.”
Before his suspension Gumbo demanded that congress must resolve the succession issue
 

As Vice President Joice Mujuru was found missing at the central committee meeting Wednesday afternoon , President Robert Mugabe opened the meeting announcing that Mujuru has been traveling to prophets seeking supernatural assistance to remove him from power.
During the central committee meeting, Mugabe claimed Mujuru and her clique “went to prophets and n’angas seeking to oust him.”
Because our journalists were barred from taking in their phone devices, it was not possible to print his full speech in good time at the time of writing.
Delegates to ZANU PFs National Congress were still being accredited at the time of writing.
Meanwhile Mrs Mujuru’s whereabouts were not known at the time of writing with reports that she is suffering from depression at her home.
UPDATED AT 5.30pm