A feared Zanu PF hooligan is destroying the environment through illegal mining activities in Kwekwe.
Energy Dhala Ncube is untouchable, according to sources in Kwekwe.
CCC youth taskforce spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has pointed out that Dhala is part of Zanu PF thugs who fund acts of terror in Midlands Province.
Chuma wrote on Twitter:
“ZANU PF thug, Energy “Dhala” Ncube carved in a house in Silver Oaks thr mining activities.
Despite efforts by CCC MP, @JudithTobaiwa2 to have Dhala stopped, the police failed to act.
Dhala is part of Kwekwe gold mafia that sponsor terror against opposition in Midlands.”
It’s been a record 350 days since Hon @JobSikhala1 was detained.
He’s a political prisoner who’s being persecuted for representing Moreblessing Ali who was murdered for her politics. Bail is a constitutional right. We demand his release. #FreeWiwa- CCC
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has set the 23rd August 2023 as the day for general elections in Zimbabwe.
In Proclamation 4 of 2023, President ED Mnangagwa has also set the 2nd October 2023 as the date for a run–off for the election of the office of the President if such a poll becomes necessary in terms of Section 38(1)(a)(iii) of the Electoral Act.
President ED Mnangagwa has also set the 3rd August 2023 as the day in which Provincial Assemblies of Chiefs shall meet to elect members of the Chiefs Council for the purposes of Section 120(1)(b) and (c) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, as read with Section 38(3) of the Electoral Act Ch 2:13 and Section 35 of the Traditional Leaders Act Ch 29:17
Like every business mining has its key factors that can make it do extremely well or fail .
Most miners think a good sample will make them succeed unfortunately a good sample is not sustainable unless you know the importance of the following factors in the mining sector. If you master them day by day you will blossom even in dark days and enjoy glory days to the fullest.
Enjoy the ride . Three pillars of wholesome mining in order 1 strategic management 2 Debt 3 the boss ” gold panner ” tsheketsha korokoza
1 strategic management The mine manager is key to function his impact is so crucial such his complete absence can be measured by a lot of red flags like low output ; loss of equipment; no records ; lack of proper compliance and production that cannot be measured let alone be sustainable. Before you appoint a manager know your weakness and hire someone who will compliment your weakness. Secondly create a management team that involves you and him stop cellphone management of any kind . Cellphones are good for reports and analysis only . To your team third person in form of someone who compliments his weak ; it can be a blaster or cyanide plant manager depending on which area your manager is good at .
First attribute of your manager should be administration before anything then followed by one of the two pillars of mining leaching and mining. The security guard is not part of management must not be at whatever costs .
Your relatives ( including your wife and kids ) should get a job somewhere else or be prepared to take instructions from a management team never to directly report to you no matter what. Don’t discuss mining issues with them listen to their opinions silently unless if they qualify then appoint them . Paid management team and all your employees well and fire them for underperformance never rehire someone fired by management team . Debt .
Debt is a cancer affecting the whole world unfortunately in artisanal mining Debt is what Cellphone lines are to econet , Lithium is to Tesla car , imagine if econet will stop selling lines without coming up with an alternative. Most of mining services are paying after work completion which is root causes of all Debts you hear about in mining stories. First artisanal miners use cheapest means to reap gold Most cases they don’t have transport and milling means this leads to smart loans by service providers then all problems begin here .
On top of that all services are available on short term based loan usually supported by black market indirectly which explains why black market cannot disappear overnight.
Since gold is not guaranteed failure to pay these loans forces credit to accumulate to so high levels such that its not surprising to find a mine owner or even worker owing 20 000usd or more ranging from diesel credit, stampmill credit, explosives credit ; rental and electricity credit for domestic purposes or many more . Inorder to survive you have to acquire debt management skills that are not only superb but partnered with discipline. When you decide to invest in a mine a guy with more debt is the perfect partner depending on your analysis because of few factors. If he/she has more it means his mine has a huge potential just mismanagement who can borrow someone with no means to pay .
Number two you use his/ her debt as insurance through what l call debt purchase ” . This desires caution carefully study and implementation. You take his debt but still keep it in his name negotiate for payment plan where possible complete erasing of some of them ( that’s possible ) then use his debt to double you investment on him takes years repairing his debt yet already making profits on it . Let’s miner F owes EMA 3000usd for bills and tickets ; 1500usd ministry of mines tickets; 2000usd stamp mill and 4500usd for car loan and family expenses to make 11 000usd yet you want to invest 25 000usd in his mine you just raise 14 000usd buy his 11 000usd debt ask for payment from ministry of mines and EMA then ask to pay half for stampmill debt or complete erasure then negotiate for transfer of registration first things first then you are in the game .Debt purchase is easier route into a full operational mine . Sometimes you buy personal debt only but be cautious. Will cover debt in a separate post . 3 The boss “tsheketsha; korokoza “ We have a saying ” impara ngelikatsheketsha ” . This means every goldminer has a dry spell or good spell . This means no matter how cautious you are the dry spell will hit you very hard . When supporting this guys financial remember this all the time support them based on performance in areas Iike 1 transparency; consistency, accountability more than the sample. Don’t support them when they are doing well by buying cars and houses at that point they don’t need your help they simply want to use you . Treat them as Kings all the time but don’t borrow them money like you are mother Theresa support them don’t spoiler them hunger and suffering is the manager of “the boss ” the rest is cost . Respect them their dirty is the business part personally any clean person in the mining sector Most probably is a scammmer l don’t trust such lots of them proved to me beyond doubt .
NB for debt purchase model inbox or even debt purchase itself.
A feared Zanu PF hooligan is destroying the environment through illegal mining activities in Kwekwe.
Energy Dhala Ncube is untouchable, according to sources in Kwekwe.
CCC youth taskforce spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has pointed out that Dhala is part of Zanu PF thugs who fund acts of terror in Midlands Province.
Chuma wrote on Twitter:
“ZANU PF thug, Energy “Dhala” Ncube carved in a house in Silver Oaks thr mining activities.
Despite efforts by CCC MP, @JudithTobaiwa2 to have Dhala stopped, the police failed to act.
Dhala is part of Kwekwe gold mafia that sponsor terror against opposition in Midlands.”
Tinashe Sambiri|Citizens will not boycott the coming polls.
This was said by CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa.
The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa has set August 23 as the date of elections, ending months of speculation.
Speaking in Kuwadzana on Monday, President Chamisa said :
“2023 is a year we will end hunger, anger.Everyone is hungry in Zimbabwe.Everyone is angry in Zimbabwe.
We want a transparent voters roll before polls.We will reject a shoddy and dubious voters roll.All the same we will not boycott polls, how can we abandon our own process ?
We know FAZ is intimidating citizens in rural areas. FAZ sinister operations must stop with immediate effect.”
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has set the 23rd August 2023 as the day for general elections in Zimbabwe.
In Proclamation 4 of 2023, President ED Mnangagwa has also set the 2nd October 2023 as the date for a run–off for the election of the office of the President if such a poll becomes necessary in terms of Section 38(1)(a)(iii) of the Electoral Act.
President ED Mnangagwa has also set the 3rd August 2023 as the day in which Provincial Assemblies of Chiefs shall meet to elect members of the Chiefs Council for the purposes of Section 120(1)(b) and (c) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, as read with Section 38(3) of the Electoral Act Ch 2:13 and Section 35 of the Traditional Leaders Act Ch 29:17
Zimbabwean socialite Mai Titi, whose real name is Felistas Murata, has accused her ex-husband Tinashe Maphosa and her former friend of leaking her nudes.
In an interview with Chronicle, Mai Titi said she had no doubt that her ex-husband, (name supplied) and her former friend, (name supplied) were responsible for the leak.
She said she has since notified authorities in Zimbabwe and the United States of America of the cyber-bullying and revenge porn violation.
Revenge porn is revealing or sexually explicit images or videos of a person posted on the internet, typically by a former sexual partner, without the consent of the subject and in order to cause them distress or embarrassment.
Mai Titi’s former husband is reportedly based in the United States of America and was allegedly the one who sent the pictures and video to the comedian’s friend.
“The only person who had my nudes is my ex-husband who gave them to (name supplied).
“I’ve already reported them both in the countries they live in and here in Zimbabwe.
“I don’t have any relationship with her (former friend). I don’t know what she is fighting.
“Revenge (from ex-husband) because he knows he is never going to step in Zimbabwe due to the money he stole and I put him on the wanted list,” said Mai Titi.
The pictures, which show Mai Titi completely naked appear to have been shot off a video call.
Former African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General, Ace Magashule, has been found “guilty of misconduct” for failing to apologise to party president Cyril Ramaphosa and structures, for “unilaterally suspending” Ramaphosa in 2021.
Magashule has 7 days to justify why he should not be “expelled”.
By A Correspondent| Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is greatly concerned by the government’s decision to release some inmates, who include convicted sexual offenders, from the country’s prisons under a presidential amnesty declared recently by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
On 12 May 2023, President Mnangagwa gazetted Clemency Order No. 1 of 2023, where he exercised his prerogative of mercy to release some offenders from some jails located across the country in a move hailed by Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services as aimed at reducing the prison population.
The Clemency Order gave amnesty to different categories of prisoners throughout Zimbabwe.
Section 12(d) of the Clemency Order provides that some prisoners were to be excluded from the proposed general amnesty, including any inmate convicted of committing any specified offence.
Section 13(c) of the Clemency Order provides that for the purpose of the amnesty: “specified offence” includes rape or any sexual offence.
However, in some sections of the same ‘Clemency Order’ President Mnangagwa’s Clemency Order provided exceptions, where inmates convicted of crimes that include rape and sexual offences would be granted amnesty.
Such exceptions included inmates aged 60 years old and above who would have effectively served one-tenth of their sentence to be released on amnesty.
ZLHR is shocked and disheartened that the release of sexual offenders significantly lowered the seriousness of sexual offences, considering that some of the sexual offenders were released having just served a tenth of their sentences.
Some of the sexual offenders being released after only serving prison terms of less than one year were quoted telling journalists during interviews that they had raped children as young as nine years old.
It is abhorrent that most of these inmates were released into the same communities, where they committed the crimes and where their victims still reside. These offenders have a high propensity to re-offend, and the consequences will be catastrophic for individual victims, the victims’ families and the community.
ZLHR also notes that according to Zimbabwe Republic Police, there has been an increase in domestic violence cases which has seen the law enforcement agency recording a spike in the number of murder cases throughout the country and yet authorities have the audacity to release some dangerous offenders from prison.
While the Constitution provides that the President exercises the power of mercy under section 112, section 90(2)(c) of the Constitution provides amongst the duties of the President that he/she must ensure the protection of the fundamental human rights and freedoms and the rule of law.
Among the fundamental rights that the President must protect is that every child in Zimbabwe must be protected from economic and sexual exploitation or any form of abuse.
The Constitution also provides that the child’s best interests is paramount in every matter concerning the child. The best interest of the child principle is also well articulated in the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the United Nations Convention on Children’s Rights. Zimbabwe has voluntarily ratified these human rights instruments and has obligations to fully implement. The decision to release child rapists is an affront to the protection of a girl child and to the best interest of the child principle.
The powers of clemency by the President and government are not exercised in isolation but are exercised with due regard to other duties imposed on the President by the Constitution, and these duties place an obligation on the President to protect fundamental human rights.
As such, releasing inmates convicted of child sexual offences offends the Constitution.
Over the years, ZLHR has been advocating for respect and protection of the rights of girls and women and has lauded the government for reforming laws on child marriages and consent.
However, all the progress made in advancing, protecting and safeguarding the rights of girls is eroded when decisions that seek to harm the girl child are made in haste without consideration of other constitutional imperatives.
In light of the current process to reform the law on sexual offences and calls to impose mandatory minimum sentence on rape, the decision to grant amnesty to sexual offenders is very retrogressive and an abomination.
Therefore, ZLHR calls upon President Mnangagwa and the government to carefully consider the decision to release child sexual offenders from prison, protect victims of rape and sexual assault and ensure that in matters relating to children, the best interests of the children concerned are always paramount. Victims of rape and communities should be protected from perpetrators through offenders serving their full-term sentences.
Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa has said the continued delay by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to announce the election date clearly indicates that he is scared of losing the plebiscite.
Speaking yesterday immediately after checking for his name in the voters roll in Kuwadzana 2, Harare, Chamisa said his party was ready to roll over Mnangagwa, whom he accused of grabbing power through a 2017 military-assisted coup, and later rigging the 2018 poll.
He described Mnangagwa’s rule since 2017 as characterised by darkness and unhappiness.
“Mr Mnangagwa obviously has a problem with his legal team which is not advising him properly. I’m not sure if he has a date. I suspect that he is scared of this election. The truth of the matter is that the people of Zimbabwe know what they want, and there is going to be change in this country, he will try to manipulate, but the people of Zimbabwe will not allow it, we will not allow it because he has to follow the Constitution and it says it (election) has to be in August, but now the days are limited and we know that it has to be mid-or end of August so that we start planning,” Chamisa said.
Last week, Mnangagwa said he would announce the election date on Monday, but has gone mum over the issue with his spokesperson George Charamba telling State media on Monday that “the date would be announced in due course”.
Information deputy minister Kindness Paradza yesterday rubbished Chamisa’s claims saying Mnangagwa had no reason to be scared of elections.
“The President has never been scared of any election; this is why we are prepared as the ruling party. So far we have done away with the primaries and we have equipped our members for parliamentary candidates to make sure that we campaign vigorously and win resoundingly in these coming elections,” Paradza said.
“The President is within his constitutional boundaries in terms of announcing the election date which he is going to announce any day. His administration has done so well in the past five years such that he has nothing to worry about.”
Turning to the issue of whether or not CCC will boycott the upcoming elections, Chamisa said: “We will not boycott ourselves, we are the elections.”
“Our institutions such as Zec (Zimbabwe Electoral Commission) must be able to be accountable to the people of Zimbabwe because all authority is derived from the people. I am happy that people are coming to check their names, but the only concern is that Mr Mnangagwa continues to duck and dive on election date.
“People have to plan, and those in the diaspora have to come back, while international investors have to plan around the election date. We also have to plan. We are not asdisorganised as Mr Mnangagwa. We want these dates known ahead of time, and it’s an issue that we continue to raise.”
Chamisa said the Constitution must be amended to ensure that people know the date, month and time for elections in advance so that they are able to plan ahead.
“We also have a problem with the voters roll itself, and our perennial challenge is that the voters roll must be a voters roll that people agree on and agree to. The voters roll must be audited, analysable, searchable and of course signed off by various political players and various stakeholders. Any voters roll that is not credible will not be acceptable. Zec must be ready, as it seems that they are not ready especially looking at the voters roll and that it is shambolic. This must be resolved urgently,” he said.
The CCC leader said his party had approached Zec to seek recourse, but was told that the electoral body would respond to their concerns in writing.
“Citizens have a right to recourse,” he said. “The voters roll must be known by all that are participating, and why would Zec want to change what people have indicated as their places or polling stations of voting? If we are to have a credible voters roll, people should be able to know where they will be voting.”
He also said electoral reforms were critical to ensuring an undisputed election outcome.
“People are being persecuted by Zanu-PF structures, by a shadowy and a spooky organisation called Faz (Forever Associates Zimbabwe) — that is worrisome. We want the government to come out in the open to say what this organisation called Faz is. We have the CIO, we know it, we have the army, we know the police and they have constitutional roles to make sure there is law and order in this country, but this Faz is an animal that is a big problem.”
Chamisa described Faz as a goblin tormenting people in rural areas, adding that Mnangagwa must be accountable for the illegally bringing in Faz.
“As a political party we will take all legal measures necessary to bring Faz to account,” he said.
Exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has urged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to redo the voters roll inspection exercise.
The exercise was previously scheduled for May 27-31, but extended to 1 June after a slow start due to logistical challenges.
Speaking in a Twitter space, Moyo said it was wrong and unfair for the electoral body to give voters only five days to inspect the list considering the process had a false start.
“The idea that ZEC extended to the 1st of June does not make any sense because at-least two or three days have already been lost totally so ZEC should not pretend that some good things have been happening up to this point but there is need for more time for those good things to continue happening.
“The exercise has had a false start which has compromised it. It does not require in my humble opinion an extension, it requires a redo.
“Now that everyone is alert, understands the importance of this, no one will die if ZEC says we are starting the voter inspection exercise afresh from the 1st of June to the 6th of June, nobody will die, it will be a good public service,” Moyo said.
Moyo added: “It’s unfair and wrong for ZEC to allocate 5 days for this formal inspection process because ZEC knows that its delimitation exercise changed rapidly and dramatically in some cases the constituency and ward boundaries.
“The delimitation exercise has consequences on the boundaries which affect the polling stations and ZEC should have been alive to those consequences and not only given enough time but also alerted and advised people.”
Many prospective voters complained of a number of anomalies like their names missing from the voters roll and others displaced from their wards or residence.
By A Correspondent| Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is greatly concerned by the government’s decision to release some inmates, who include convicted sexual offenders, from the country’s prisons under a presidential amnesty declared recently by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
On 12 May 2023, President Mnangagwa gazetted Clemency Order No. 1 of 2023, where he exercised his prerogative of mercy to release some offenders from some jails located across the country in a move hailed by Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services as aimed at reducing the prison population.
The Clemency Order gave amnesty to different categories of prisoners throughout Zimbabwe.
Section 12(d) of the Clemency Order provides that some prisoners were to be excluded from the proposed general amnesty, including any inmate convicted of committing any specified offence.
Section 13(c) of the Clemency Order provides that for the purpose of the amnesty: “specified offence” includes rape or any sexual offence.
However, in some sections of the same ‘Clemency Order’ President Mnangagwa’s Clemency Order provided exceptions, where inmates convicted of crimes that include rape and sexual offences would be granted amnesty.
Such exceptions included inmates aged 60 years old and above who would have effectively served one-tenth of their sentence to be released on amnesty.
ZLHR is shocked and disheartened that the release of sexual offenders significantly lowered the seriousness of sexual offences, considering that some of the sexual offenders were released having just served a tenth of their sentences.
Some of the sexual offenders being released after only serving prison terms of less than one year were quoted telling journalists during interviews that they had raped children as young as nine years old.
It is abhorrent that most of these inmates were released into the same communities, where they committed the crimes and where their victims still reside. These offenders have a high propensity to re-offend, and the consequences will be catastrophic for individual victims, the victims’ families and the community.
ZLHR also notes that according to Zimbabwe Republic Police, there has been an increase in domestic violence cases which has seen the law enforcement agency recording a spike in the number of murder cases throughout the country and yet authorities have the audacity to release some dangerous offenders from prison.
While the Constitution provides that the President exercises the power of mercy under section 112, section 90(2)(c) of the Constitution provides amongst the duties of the President that he/she must ensure the protection of the fundamental human rights and freedoms and the rule of law.
Among the fundamental rights that the President must protect is that every child in Zimbabwe must be protected from economic and sexual exploitation or any form of abuse.
The Constitution also provides that the child’s best interests is paramount in every matter concerning the child. The best interest of the child principle is also well articulated in the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the United Nations Convention on Children’s Rights. Zimbabwe has voluntarily ratified these human rights instruments and has obligations to fully implement. The decision to release child rapists is an affront to the protection of a girl child and to the best interest of the child principle.
The powers of clemency by the President and government are not exercised in isolation but are exercised with due regard to other duties imposed on the President by the Constitution, and these duties place an obligation on the President to protect fundamental human rights.
As such, releasing inmates convicted of child sexual offences offends the Constitution.
Over the years, ZLHR has been advocating for respect and protection of the rights of girls and women and has lauded the government for reforming laws on child marriages and consent.
However, all the progress made in advancing, protecting and safeguarding the rights of girls is eroded when decisions that seek to harm the girl child are made in haste without consideration of other constitutional imperatives.
In light of the current process to reform the law on sexual offences and calls to impose mandatory minimum sentence on rape, the decision to grant amnesty to sexual offenders is very retrogressive and an abomination.
Therefore, ZLHR calls upon President Mnangagwa and the government to carefully consider the decision to release child sexual offenders from prison, protect victims of rape and sexual assault and ensure that in matters relating to children, the best interests of the children concerned are always paramount. Victims of rape and communities should be protected from perpetrators through offenders serving their full-term sentences.
By-Comedian and socialite Mai Titi, has said that her former husband leaked her nudes, which went viral yesterday on her social media platforms.
Felistas Murata, said she was confident that was a violation and an act of “revenge” by her ex-husband, (name supplied) and her former friend, (name supplied).
Mai TT said she has since notified authorities in Zimbabwe and the United States of America of the cyber-bullying and revenge porn violation, as her ex-husband is reportedly in the US. In an interview with Chronicle Showbiz, Mai TT said her former friend was given the nudes by her ex-husband and the two connived for the pictures and video to leak. “The only person who had my nudes is my ex-husband who gave them to (name supplied). I’ve already reported them both in the countries they live in and here in Zimbabwe,” said Mai TT. She said her ex-husband was driven by revenge and had no idea what her former friend’s interest was in leaking the nudes. “I don’t have any relationship with her (former friend). I don’t know what she is fighting. Revenge (from ex-husband) because he knows he is never going to step in Zimbabwe due to the money he stole and I put him on the wanted list,” said Mai TT. The nudes which show Mai TT completely naked seem like they were shot off a video call. When news of the leak surfaced, Mai TT went live on Facebook earlier this morning with fans expecting her to address the nudes, but she instead advertised Father’s Day clothing for a boutique in Harare. At first, she was combative saying people should get views up to 4 000 then she would address them and fans thought she was going to speak about leaked nudes. When the views went to 4 000, Mai TT spoke about the boutique, and at the end of the video, she seemingly made reference to the nudes saying: “Thank you for coming, at least you have seen things about suits and clothing. I don’t have time for silly stories. Life is too short for one to be looking for gossip. We’re looking for money and ways of living. Gossip is for the rich. If you have somebody’s stories, don’t hold them, release them,” she said.
Stakeholders in Masvingo have urged the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to do away with the Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) in the 2023-2030 curriculum.
The parents made the plea during a curriculum review consultation meeting at Better Schools Programmes of Zimbabwe (BSPZ) yesterday. The 2023-2030 curriculum will replace the 2015-2022 curriculum.
Government provincial heads of departments, Masvingo Provincial Education Director (PED) Shylatte Mhike and Director of Communications and Advocacy in the Ministry of Education Taungana Ndoro attended the meeting.
A parent, Joel Sibanda, said CALA only piles more pressure and work on pupils and recommended that the Ministry forgoes CALA in the new curriculum. Under the CALA program, pupils complete practical assignments after classes…Masvingo Mirror
MASVINGO-The late Masvingo transport mogul Joseph Masaire (68), known as Joma, who died on Saturday, was buried at Mangwandi Cemetery yesterday.
He died after a long battle with bone cancer which he was diagnosed with in 2015. His third child, William, confirmed the matter to The Mirror. He said his father died at his Clovelly house at 5: 30 am.
“My father passed away on Saturday at 5:30 am at home in Clovelly, Masvingo. He was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2015, and it spread until it affected his organs,” he said. He also said that his father was hardworking and supported many people and state institutions. Joma was a devout Roman Catholic Church member.
He attended Zhara Secondary School in Sese, Chivi, and afterwards enrolled for a Business Management Diploma at Bulawayo Polytechnic College…Masvingo Mirror
MASVINGO-The late Masvingo transport mogul Joseph Masaire (68), known as Joma, who died on Saturday, was buried at Mangwandi Cemetery yesterday.
He died after a long battle with bone cancer which he was diagnosed with in 2015. His third child, William, confirmed the matter to The Mirror. He said his father died at his Clovelly house at 5: 30 am.
“My father passed away on Saturday at 5:30 am at home in Clovelly, Masvingo. He was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2015, and it spread until it affected his organs,” he said. He also said that his father was hardworking and supported many people and state institutions. Joma was a devout Roman Catholic Church member.
He attended Zhara Secondary School in Sese, Chivi, and afterwards enrolled for a Business Management Diploma at Bulawayo Polytechnic College…Masvingo Mirror
A Beitbridge man is in custody after stabbing his ex-wife’s boyfriend for playing with his child.
It is not clear whether he has proof that the child is his; in Zimbabwe 70% of men who visits Mugabe for paternity tests are not the biological fathers. Wellman Ncube (22) of Chief Sitaudze is likely to spend some years in jail if convicted.
Outcry As Masvingo Resident Minister’s wife Euphrasia Muvengwa Chadzamira is part of ZEC inspection team
CCC’s Tachiona Mharadza Chiminya demands her to resign from ZEC because she is an interested person.
29 May 2023
Wezhira Munya
Masvingo Resident Minister Ezra Chadzamira’s wife , Euphrasia Muvengwa is currently working at ZEC as a voter inspection officer.
She has been deployed at Gatshime Hall, ward 5, Mashava.
She also works as teacher at Gathsmine primary school in Mashava.
Mashava area is in Masvingo West, where Masvingo Residents Minister Ezra Chadzamira is contesting as Zanu PF Member of Parliament.
Former Masvingo West Member of Parliament Tachiona Mharadza Chiminya, who is a CCC nominated senator said “Chadzamira’s wife must resign from ZEC because her husband is a contestant in the forthcoming harmonized elections. She may remove CCC members from the voters’ roll.”
Resident Minister Chadzamira is been accused of rigging Zanu PF primary elections.
In Masvingo, FAZ members are also camping at ZEC Voter registration offices, taking details of voters.
FAZ is an organization that was responsible for conducting Zanu PF primary elections.
Chiminya demands that, FAZ must vacate all ZEC voter inspection offices with immediate effect.
Also, nominated CCC Masvingo West member of parliament candidate, Mr Pedzisai Chifamba Gasva said, “The presence of Chadzamira’s wife at ZEC Voter inspection venue has caused serious outcry among CCC members. Chadzamira’s wife and FAZ members must not be allowed to be part of ZEC’s Voter inspection process. They are conflicted members as they support Chadzamira who is Zanu PF candidate.”
The authorities will always be prepared to put measures in place to protect the transacting public, but currency manipulators and economic saboteurs will be lurking around looking for opportunities and loopholes to unjustly profit, said Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube last night.
He was speaking following the Cabinet meeting yesterday and shortly after the Treasury announced a number of interventions on Monday to maintain macroeconomic stability and preserve the purchasing power of the Zimbabwean currency.
Prof. Ncube responded to inquiries about why the government doesn’t enact more stringent laws or establish regulatory frameworks that completely shield the currency and economy once and for all, saying authorities understand that there will always be gaps in the system but that they will constantly be looking for ways to close them.
Political and economic observers have raised concerns about the timing of the ongoing assault on the Zimbabwean dollar.
Commentators claim that in an effort to startle the people ahead of this year’s general elections, regime change agents are using the Zimbabwe dollar as a tool to thwart infrastructure improvements and other economic triumphs that the government has recorded under President Mnangagwa.
“ . . . currency manipulators tend to work against Government policy (and) macro-economic policy ronouncements, this is true,” said Prof Ncube.
“That’s what they do. They always try to find loopholes to make sure that they can profit from any situation. Unfortunately, this is what we have to deal with as policy makers; we always try to respond.
“We have responded to those who have been found to be manipulating currency such as, for example, the Financial Intelligence Unit have frozen their accounts,” he said.
“If you look at the supply chain for most products . . . you then get the aggregators who then buy products from the producers and then on-sell to retailers.
“For most products retailers don’t buy directly from producers, they are middlemen. So we discovered that they were doing some currency manipulation working against Government policy and we froze their accounts. We have since recommended the Ministry of Industry and Commerce suspend their trading licenses.
“Maybe we should go further and say that retailers should now source their products directly from the manufacturers and not via these aggregators.
“We have had situations where we have shut down accounts for various other speculators and manipulators and we will continue to do so,” said Prof Ncube.
“One thing we are trying to tackle is this issue of money supply growth.”
On another note, acting Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, and Minister of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services Dr Jenfan Muswere said Cabinet considered and approved the National Migration Policy for Zimbabwe.
The policy aims to strengthen legal and institutional frameworks to derive maximum benefit from migration as well as aiding the socio-economic support systems of migrants and society.
It will develop a labour migration information system that will gather reliable and accurate data on labour migrants abroad by gender, profession, duration of stay, wages and salaries and working conditions.
It also aimed at including diasporans in the process of national development by developing a national migrant remittances framework and strengthening the capacity of Zimbabwe diplomatic missions to promote tourism.
“Cabinet noted that discrimination, xenophobia and racism are increasingly becoming issues of great concern to both sending, transit and receiving countries,” said Minister Muswere.
“Zimbabwe has already promulgated the Prevention of Discrimination Act which prohibits and criminalises discrimination.
“Therefore combating discrimination, xenophobia and racism is an essential element of a comprehensive national migration policy,” said Minister Muswere.
Tinashe Sambiri|The CCC youth taskforce has vowed to protect citizens victory in the coming polls.
CCC youth taskforce spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has slammed ZEC for ” going to bed with Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa.”
Writing on Twitter, Chuma said ZEC’s shenanigans have been exposed.
“We will never allow a sham election where Mnangagwa goes to bed with ZEC and be declared a winner.
It can’t! It’s unacceptable! We will take him head on! Protection of the vote starts now!”
We will never allow a sham election where Mnangagwa goes to bed with ZEC and be declared a winner. It can't! It's unacceptable! We will take him head on! Protection of the vote starts now! #REAPpic.twitter.com/jvqF698reF
— Stephen Sarkozy Chuma ?? (@chumasteve) May 29, 2023
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said that it is carrying out its duties autonomously and is confident in conducting fair elections since it has no fear of or preference for any political party. The panel advised political participants to concentrate on depolarizing the election atmosphere rather than dramatising and sensationalising electoral processes to sow fear and despair before elections scheduled for August.
In order to allow the public to audit its procedures, ZEC claimed it opened the voter list for scrutiny. It also promised to address any potential anomalies.
During the voters roll check, opposition lawmakers claimed that their names were not on the list, but after further discussion with ZEC, they discovered that their names were in fact on the list.
Professor Welshman Ncube, a key member of the Citizen Coalition of Change (CCC), was one of the lawmakers who swiftly tweeted that their names weren’t on the voter list.
However, he received assistance and was informed of the precise polling place where his name would be cast upon visiting ZEC’s provincial offices.
voter education and voter information, it makes sure that those who are not ZEC, who are allowed by the law, civil society organisations, faith based organisations and other organisations, cannot go to the field without ZEC having approved their materials to make sure that their material is not biased and they are actually neutral.”
Mr Silaigwana said with regards to its operations there is no need for the public to make unfounded claims on how it prepares for polls.
“There is no need to over-dramatize some of these things and also sensationalise elections in our country. We all have the responsibility to build this country, we all need this stability and there is no need to be saying things that don’t exist. ZEC is truly independent,” said Mr Silaigwana.
He said political parties should work towards depolarising the election environment.
Mr Silaigwana said if the political landscape is not conducive some special interests’ groups may be forced not to participate in the polls.
“There is no need to cause alarm in our electoral processes. It is not necessary for alarmists to cause despondency in an election. Elections must be held in a peaceful environment. Elections belong to the ordinary people and the ordinary people must be protected by an environment,” said Mr Silaigwana
“We appeal to the political actors to create a conducive and peaceful environment so that our elections must be held where everyone wants to participate. If that does not happen people with disabilities, pregnant women and the old may not participate in the elections because they might think that the elections may become violent.”
He said the commission is ready to hold this year’s harmonised elections and is confident that Government will finance the holding of the polls
After investigating the anomalies reported to us regarding the voters’ roll inspection process, we have made some preliminary findings, which include the following:
1️⃣The process appears to be polling station-based.
2️⃣If one goes to the wrong polling station, their name will not be on the voter’s roll.
3️⃣It is imperative that ZEC updates citizens on new polling stations and changes to avoid confusion.
4️⃣Urgent updates are necessary for the USSD system (#265) to reflect delimitation changes, transfers, and details for new voters.
5️⃣Physical inspection of the voters’ roll is more reliable as the electronic system is outdated.
6️⃣It seems as if the process is designed to frustrate citizens; however, it is crucial for citizens to take all necessary steps to inspect the roll before the deadline of May 31st, 2023.
7️⃣We expect better from ZEC.
8️⃣We are demanding that ZEC releases the electronic voters’ roll and conducts an independent audit of the same.
Washington Arubi is expected to remain in the South African Premier Soccer League after he reportedly joined a new club.
The Zimbabwean goalkeeper will not renew his contract with Marumo Gallants, who were relegated from the top-flight league upon the conclusion of the 2022/23 season. The deal is set to expire at the end of next month.
According to FarPost.co.za, Arubi has agreed to move to Sekhukhune United on a free transfer.
He is said to have signed a one-year contract with Babina Noko, who will be playing in the CAF Confederation Cup Cup next season.
“He (Arubi) has signed a one-year deal with Sekhukhune United. It appears they want to strengthen their goalkeeping department for the CAF Confederation Cup,” a source told the publication
Meanwhile, the 37-year-old Arubi has played 180 games in the DStv Premiership since arriving in South Africa in 2012.
He has also played for University of Pretoria, Black Aces, Stellenbosch FC, SuperSport United and Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila.- Soccer24 News
Marvelous Nakamba has talked about his future as his loan deal at Luton Town will officially end on June 30.
Nakamba joined the EPL-bound club on a six-month contract from Aston Villa.
The Zimbabwean midfielder used the loan spell in the Championship to rediscover his form after spending the first half of the just ended campaign frozen out at Villa.
The 29-year-old Warriors international quickly became a key player in the Luton squad and won the club’s Player of the Month for March, while also pushing his side to EPL promotion.
Speaking to Birmingham Mail newspaper, Nakamba said he is still waiting for communication from his parent club.
“I’ve not had any discussions with Unai yet,” he told the publication. “Villa have only just had their last game, and I have only just finished my season here.
“Only God knows the future, hopefully it’s for the best. I still have a contract there, I will just see.
“Now is the time to celebrate (Luton’s promotion) +, but I will wait for the phone call, or an email, from my agent or from Aston Villa.
“Wherever I am next season, God only knows, but I will just keep doing my best.”
Meanwhile, reports last week suggested that the Warriors international, along with other players, who left on loan in January, will be moved permanently at the end of the season.- Soccer24 News
By A Correspondent | Contrary to denials, another farm sold off by UK based businesswoman Sithule Tshuma under the guise of empowering diasporan women is a confirmed government gazetted 99-year leased land property.
The then minister of State for State Security, Lands And Land Reform, Didymus Mutasa Monday morning confirmed to ZimEye that Tshuma’s Qoki Investment business has been misleading investors by selling farmland under the promise that they have hopes in later privatising the farm land, as he added to president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s announcement that “it is unlawful in Zimbabwe to buy agricultural land…”
A govt gazetted dated 2 June 2006 (pictured) designates Deeds Of Transfer 1096/89, Lot 2 A Lower Nondwene, measuring 204,381 4 hectares, state land.
How Qoki collapsed following its Manchester feminise Lee by its UK solicitor Julian Condliffe. Audios are of 1st Sithule Tshuma, and her male friend Jimmy Chasafaew.
“I can’t own a farm whether it was given by govt or I bought it, it is now titled (State land).”
The comments come at a time when Sithule Tshuma has been claiming that she did not purchase any state land for the female investors.
A Beitbridge man is in custody after stabbing his ex-wife’s boyfriend for playing with his child.
It is not clear whether he has proof that the child is his; in Zimbabwe 70% of men who visits Mugabe for paternity tests are not the biological fathers. Wellman Ncube (22) of Chief Sitaudze is likely to spend some years in jail if convicted.
Stakeholders in Masvingo have urged the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to do away with the Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) in the 2023-2030 curriculum.
The parents made the plea during a curriculum review consultation meeting at Better Schools Programmes of Zimbabwe (BSPZ) yesterday. The 2023-2030 curriculum will replace the 2015-2022 curriculum.
Government provincial heads of departments, Masvingo Provincial Education Director (PED) Shylatte Mhike and Director of Communications and Advocacy in the Ministry of Education Taungana Ndoro attended the meeting.
A parent, Joel Sibanda, said CALA only piles more pressure and work on pupils and recommended that the Ministry forgoes CALA in the new curriculum. Under the CALA program, pupils complete practical assignments after classes…Masvingo Mirror
By-One of G40 kingpins, Zanu PF central committee member, and Mutare businessman Esau Mupfumi reportedly lost US$52 000 to armed robbers at his Gold Class garage in Mutare city on Sunday night.
The aspiring Mutare Central parliamentary candidate in the upcoming polls confirmed Monday’s robbery.
He, however, could not give finer details of the matter saying police details were still attending to the scene. “Yes there was an armed robbery yesterday at night at my Gold Class garage and I lost US$52 000. Investigations are on-going. I cannot comment any further as detectives are still investigating the matter,” Mupfumi said. Manicaland police spokesperson Inspector Nobert Muzondo also confirmed the armed robbery. “Mupfumi was robbed, but I don’t have full details now as police detectives are still attending to the scene,” Muzondo said. Mupfumi is into passenger transport business apart from being a politician. Cases of armed robbery have been on the increase in the country and this has been blamed on unemployment amid a poorly-performing economy. Mushikashika (pirate taxis) transport operators have also been accused of being used by armed robbers to steal from unsuspecting hikers.
By-The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has said that it would investigate the circumstances leading to the missing from voters’ roll of some opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) party members.
His comes after CCC Monday wrote to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) requesting a thorough investigation into anomalies found in the voters’ roll during the ongoing voters’ roll inspection exercise.
Voters across the country including sitting members of Parliament from the opposition say their names are missing from the voters’ roll.
Some of the registered voters whose names are missing from the voters’ roll voted in the March 2022 by-elections.
In a letter dated 29 May, addressed to ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba, CCC secretary for elections Ian Makone demanded investigations into the matter. Makone wrote:
We have noted serious anomalies in the voters’ roll that has been laid out for inspection by the public.
For example, in Ward 25 in the Gokwe Nembudziya constituency — all surnames starting from A to Mu are missing from the ward voters’ roll.
Registered voters who have been appearing on the biometric voters roll online inspection platform are suddenly missing their names from the current online platforms and the voters roll under inspection seems not to be synchronised with the new delimitation boundaries.
Resultantly, prospective voters have been displaced from their wards of residence.
Speaking to a local private daily Election Resource Centre (ERC) programmes manager Solomon Bobosibunu said:
Two people who spoke to me from Buhera Central had their names transferred to centres that are 23km and 65km away.
The voters’ roll has been tampered with and cannot, therefore, be trusted to deliver a credible election in its current rushed format.
A credible voters’ roll is just but one of the critical components of ballot eligibility.
If its integrity is highly compromised like what we are seeing now, then the election is better off shelved.
It has remained a secret to the rest of Zimbabweans and its rotten state is now smelling.
Zimbabweans must decide if they want to continue with Zec’s dark and underhand dealings.
Contacted for comment by NewsDay, ZEC chief elections Officer Utoile Silaigwana said:
What I want you to understand is that the purpose of the inspection of the voters’ roll is to check if ever there are mistakes in terms of names etc, then if there is a query then that query should be registered so that it can be corrected.
In a related development, Presidential spokesperson George Charamba said that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to proclaim the election date in due course.
Stade media reports over the weekend had indicated that Mnangagwa would proclaim the election date on either Sunday or Monday but this did not happen.
By-Social media sensation Mai Tt (real name Felistas Murata) had social media on overdrive this morning after her nudes leaked and she is confident that the violation was an act of “revenge” by her ex-husband, (name supplied) and her former friend, (name supplied).
Mai TT said she has since notified authorities in Zimbabwe and the United States of America of the cyber-bullying and revenge porn violation, as her ex-husband is reportedly in the US. In an interview with Chronicle Showbiz, Mai TT said her former friend was given the nudes by her ex-husband and the two connived for the pictures and video to leak. “The only person who had my nudes is my ex-husband who gave them to (name supplied). I’ve already reported them both in the countries they live in and here in Zimbabwe,” said Mai TT. She said her ex-husband was driven by revenge and had no idea what her former friend’s interest was in leaking the nudes. “I don’t have any relationship with her (former friend). I don’t know what she is fighting. Revenge (from ex-husband) because he knows he is never going to step in Zimbabwe due to the money he stole and I put him on the wanted list,” said Mai TT. The nudes which show Mai TT completely naked seem like they were shot off a video call. When news of the leak surfaced, Mai TT went live on Facebook earlier this morning with fans expecting her to address the nudes, but she instead advertised Father’s Day clothing for a boutique in Harare. At first, she was combative saying people should get views up to 4 000 then she would address them and fans thought she was going to speak about leaked nudes. When the views went to 4 000, Mai TT spoke about the boutique, and at the end of the video, she seemingly made reference to the nudes saying: “Thank you for coming, at least you have seen things about suits and clothing. I don’t have time for silly stories. Life is too short for one to be looking for gossip. We’re looking for money and ways of living. Gossip is for the rich. If you have somebody’s stories, don’t hold them, release them,” she said.
By-The opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) party has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) requesting a thorough investigation into anomalies found in the voters’ roll during the ongoing voters’ roll inspection exercise.
Voters across the country, including sitting members of Parliament from the opposition, say their names are missing from the voters’ roll.
Some of the registered voters whose names are missing from the voters’ roll voted in the March 2022 by-elections.
In a letter dated 29 May, addressed to ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba, CCC secretary for elections Ian Makone demanded investigations into the matter. Makone wrote:
We have noted serious anomalies in the voters’ roll that has been laid out for inspection by the public.
For example, in Ward 25 in the Gokwe Nembudziya constituency — all surnames starting from A to Mu are missing from the ward voters’ roll.
Registered voters who have been appearing on the biometric voters roll online inspection platform are suddenly missing their names from the current online platforms and the voters roll under inspection seems not to be synchronised with the new delimitation boundaries.
Resultantly, prospective voters have been displaced from their wards of residence.
Speaking to a local private daily Election Resource Centre (ERC) programmes manager Solomon Bobosibunu said:
Two people who spoke to me from Buhera Central had their names transferred to centres that are 23km and 65km away.
The voters’ roll has been tampered with and cannot, therefore, be trusted to deliver a credible election in its current rushed format.
A credible voters’ roll is just but one of the critical components of ballot eligibility.
If its integrity is highly compromised like what we are seeing now, then the election is better off shelved.
It has remained a secret to the rest of Zimbabweans and its rotten state is now smelling.
Zimbabweans must decide if they want to continue with Zec’s dark and underhand dealings.
Contacted for comment by NewsDay, ZEC chief elections Officer Utoile Silaigwana said:
What I want you to understand is that the purpose of the inspection of the voters’ roll is to check if ever there are mistakes in terms of names etc, then if there is a query then that query should be registered so that it can be corrected.
In a related development, Presidential spokesperson George Charamba said that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to proclaim the election date in due course.
Stade media reports over the weekend had indicated that Mnangagwa would proclaim the election date on either Sunday or Monday but this did not happen.
By- In a desperate bid to curb high inflation and ever-increasing prices of goods and services, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has announced additional measures to stabilize the country’s economy and the depreciating Zimbabwe dollar.
In a statement Monday, Ncube said the additional measures include increasing the retention of domestic foreign currency sales to 100%, lifting all restrictions on the importation of basic goods, promoting the use of domestic currency, and introducing a system to manage the traceability of gold.
Ncube added that the Government will also assume all foreign currency debts from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, create a debt redemption fund, and tighten monetary policy to reduce bank lending and money creation.
Additionally, the Government will continue to review civil servant salaries and allowances in line with these developments and policy measures. He added that the Government remains committed to maintaining macroeconomic stability, preserving the purchasing power of the Zimbabwe dollar, and restoring trust and confidence in the economy. We present the statement below:
STATEMENT ON POLICY MEASURES TO STABILISE THE ECONOMY
Introduction
1. Under the National Development Strategy 1, Government has made considerable progress in fostering domestic macroeconomic stability by implementing a broad range of fiscal and monetary stabilisation measures.
2. In order to continue on the macroeconomic stabilisation front, Government on the 21 of May 2023, introduced the following additional measures to curb the further depreciation of the local currency and increases in prices marked in domestic currency:
• Increasing the retention on domestic foreign currency sales to 100%- This has resulted in domestic businesses accessing more foreign currency from the market and this potentially translating into additional US dollar deposits in the banking system;
• Adoption of all external loans by Treasury- This process is well under way and will result in all external liabilities being funded transparently through the National Budget;
• Increasing Consumers’ Access to Basic Commodities- Lifting all restrictions on importation of basic goods which has promoted competition thereby resulting in a reduction in prices; and
• Promotion of use of domestic currency by Government Agencies which is expected to further increase the demand for the local currency.
Following on the decision for adoption by Treasury, conferring full responsibility on it, of repaying all foreign currency denominated loans contracted through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Government announces supportive measures as follows:
Government will implement the following measures as from 01 June 2023:
• Treasury will now fund the Zimbabwe Dollar component of the 25% foreign currency surrendered by exporters, in order to eliminate the creation of additional money supply. The foreign currency collected from the 25% that is surrendered, will now be collected by Treasury and utilised in servicing the foreign currency loans assumed from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. Banks will no longer withhold any foreign currency surrendered by exporters, and all the liabilities to the banks will be settled through Treasury.
• Introduce a 1% tax on all foreign payments.
• Maintain the USD Cash withdrawal tax at 2%.
• Through Fidelity Gold Refinery, introduce a system to manage traceability of gold from its origin, both commercial and small scale, in line with international standards.
• All excise duty on fuel will now be paid for in foreign currency.
3. In order to encourage banking of foreign currency, which is mainly in the informal sector, while promoting use of the local currency Government will:
• Reduce the local interbank foreign transactions IMT tax to 1% ;
• Reduce the POS IMT tax in foreign currency to 1%;
• Promotion of use of the domestic currency:
i. All Government Agencies including Parastatals will substantially now collect their fees in local currency;
ii. Payments to ZESA by non-exporters will be made in the local currency; and
ii. All Customs Duty to be payable in local currency, with the exception of designated or luxury goods. and where the importer opts to pay in foreign currency.
4. Treasury will assume all foreign currency debts from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on 01 June 2023.
5. Government shall create a debt redemption fund to service other external liabilities in line with the arrears clearance program. These will be funded through new levies and other resource mobilisation initiatives.
Other Supportive Policy Measures for Immediate Implementation
6. The above will be supported by the following policy measures:
• All export proceeds that remain unutilised after 90 days will be liquidated onto the interbank market.
• The weekly auction will be limited to a maximum of US$5 million. • As from 1 June 2023, winning bids at the auction will be paid within 24 hours of award.
• All public foreign currency debts will be contracted by Government and will be the responsibility of Treasury.
• There will be tightening of monetary policy in order to reduce lending and hence money creation by banks.
• All manufacturers selling general goods, such as cement, milk, soft drinks, etc for the export market, will now be required to charge VAT, which is refundable by ZIMRA after exporting.
7. Government will continue to sterilise excess liquidity already injected into the economy through issuance of Treasury bills, whilst the Reserve Bank will also continue to sterilise through appropriate monetary policy tools.
8. With regards to externalisation of funds and transfer pricing, Government will strengthen surveillance and monitoring, complemented by a robust foreign currency payment system and information sharing system between financial institutions and ZIMRA.
9. Government will continue to review Civil Servants salaries and allowances in line with the above developments and policy measures, including increasing the threshold of the local currency IMT tax.
Conclusion
The assumption of the external obligations by Treasury and implementation of non-inflationary financing of the liabilities, coupled by sourcing of additional resources. will go a long way in reducing money supply growth and its impact on exchange rate depreciation and price increases.
Government remains firmly committed to the maintenance of macro-economic stability, the preservation of the purchasing power of the Zimbabwe dollar and the restoration of trust and confidence in the economy.
Marvelous Nakamba has talked about his future as his loan deal at Luton Town will officially end on June 30.
Nakamba joined the EPL-bound club on a six-month contract from Aston Villa.
The Zimbabwean midfielder used the loan spell in the Championship to rediscover his form after spending the first half of the just ended campaign frozen out at Villa.
The 29-year-old Warriors international quickly became a key player in the Luton squad and won the club’s Player of the Month for March, while also pushing his side to EPL promotion.
Speaking to Birmingham Mail newspaper, Nakamba said he is still waiting for communication from his parent club.
“I’ve not had any discussions with Unai yet,” he told the publication. “Villa have only just had their last game, and I have only just finished my season here.
“Only God knows the future, hopefully it’s for the best. I still have a contract there, I will just see.
“Now is the time to celebrate (Luton’s promotion) +, but I will wait for the phone call, or an email, from my agent or from Aston Villa.
“Wherever I am next season, God only knows, but I will just keep doing my best.”
Meanwhile, reports last week suggested that the Warriors international, along with other players, who left on loan in January, will be moved permanently at the end of the season.- Soccer24 News
Washington Arubi is expected to remain in the South African Premier Soccer League after he reportedly joined a new club.
The Zimbabwean goalkeeper will not renew his contract with Marumo Gallants, who were relegated from the top-flight league upon the conclusion of the 2022/23 season. The deal is set to expire at the end of next month.
According to FarPost.co.za, Arubi has agreed to move to Sekhukhune United on a free transfer.
He is said to have signed a one-year contract with Babina Noko, who will be playing in the CAF Confederation Cup Cup next season.
“He (Arubi) has signed a one-year deal with Sekhukhune United. It appears they want to strengthen their goalkeeping department for the CAF Confederation Cup,” a source told the publication
Meanwhile, the 37-year-old Arubi has played 180 games in the DStv Premiership since arriving in South Africa in 2012.
He has also played for University of Pretoria, Black Aces, Stellenbosch FC, SuperSport United and Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila.- Soccer24 News
Outcry As Masvingo Resident Minister’s wife Euphrasia Muvengwa Chadzamira is part of ZEC inspection team
CCC’s Tachiona Mharadza Chiminya demands her to resign from ZEC because she is an interested person.
29 May 2023
Wezhira Munya
Masvingo Resident Minister Ezra Chadzamira’s wife , Euphrasia Muvengwa is currently working at ZEC as a voter inspection officer.
She has been deployed at Gatshime Hall, ward 5, Mashava.
She also works as teacher at Gathsmine primary school in Mashava.
Mashava area is in Masvingo West, where Masvingo Residents Minister Ezra Chadzamira is contesting as Zanu PF Member of Parliament.
Former Masvingo West Member of Parliament Tachiona Mharadza Chiminya, who is a CCC nominated senator said “Chadzamira’s wife must resign from ZEC because her husband is a contestant in the forthcoming harmonized elections. She may remove CCC members from the voters’ roll.”
Resident Minister Chadzamira is been accused of rigging Zanu PF primary elections.
In Masvingo, FAZ members are also camping at ZEC Voter registration offices, taking details of voters.
FAZ is an organization that was responsible for conducting Zanu PF primary elections.
Chiminya demands that, FAZ must vacate all ZEC voter inspection offices with immediate effect.
Also, nominated CCC Masvingo West member of parliament candidate, Mr Pedzisai Chifamba Gasva said, “The presence of Chadzamira’s wife at ZEC Voter inspection venue has caused serious outcry among CCC members. Chadzamira’s wife and FAZ members must not be allowed to be part of ZEC’s Voter inspection process. They are conflicted members as they support Chadzamira who is Zanu PF candidate.”
Tinashe Sambiri|The CCC youth taskforce has vowed to protect citizens victory in the coming polls.
CCC youth taskforce spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has slammed ZEC for ” going to bed with Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa.”
Writing on Twitter, Chuma said ZEC’s shenanigans have been exposed.
“We will never allow a sham election where Mnangagwa goes to bed with ZEC and be declared a winner.
It can’t! It’s unacceptable! We will take him head on! Protection of the vote starts now!”
We will never allow a sham election where Mnangagwa goes to bed with ZEC and be declared a winner. It can't! It's unacceptable! We will take him head on! Protection of the vote starts now! #REAPpic.twitter.com/jvqF698reF
— Stephen Sarkozy Chuma ?? (@chumasteve) May 29, 2023
After investigating the anomalies reported to us regarding the voters’ roll inspection process, we have made some preliminary findings, which include the following:
1️⃣The process appears to be polling station-based.
2️⃣If one goes to the wrong polling station, their name will not be on the voter’s roll.
3️⃣It is imperative that ZEC updates citizens on new polling stations and changes to avoid confusion.
4️⃣Urgent updates are necessary for the USSD system (#265) to reflect delimitation changes, transfers, and details for new voters.
5️⃣Physical inspection of the voters’ roll is more reliable as the electronic system is outdated.
6️⃣It seems as if the process is designed to frustrate citizens; however, it is crucial for citizens to take all necessary steps to inspect the roll before the deadline of May 31st, 2023.
7️⃣We expect better from ZEC.
8️⃣We are demanding that ZEC releases the electronic voters’ roll and conducts an independent audit of the same.
Asthma is a major noncommunicable disease (NCD), affecting both children and adults, and is the most common chronic disease among children.
Inflammation and narrowing of the small airways in the lungs cause asthma symptoms, which can be any combination of cough, wheeze, shortness of breath and chest tightness. Asthma affected an estimated 262 million people in 2019 (1) and caused 455 000 deaths.
Inhaled medication can control asthma symptoms and allow people with asthma to lead a normal, active life. Avoiding asthma triggers can also help to reduce asthma symptoms. Most asthma-related deaths occur in low- and lower-middle-income countries, where under-diagnosis and under-treatment is a challenge.
WHO is committed to improving the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of asthma to reduce the global burden of NCDs and make progress towards universal health coverage.
Overview Asthma is a chronic lung disease affecting people of all ages. It is caused by inflammation and muscle tightening around the airways, which makes it harder to breathe.
Symptoms can include coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and chest tightness. These symptoms can be mild or severe and can come and go over time.
Although asthma can be a serious condition, it can be managed with the right treatment. People with symptoms of asthma should speak to a health professional.
Impact Asthma is often under-diagnosed and under-treated, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
People with under-treated asthma can suffer sleep disturbance, tiredness during the day, and poor concentration. Asthma sufferers and their families may miss school and work, with financial impact on the family and wider community. If symptoms are severe, people with asthma may need to receive emergency health care and they may be admitted to hospital for treatment and monitoring. In the most severe cases, asthma can lead to death.
Symptoms Symptoms of asthma can vary from person to person. Symptoms sometimes get significantly worse. This is known as an asthma attack. Symptoms are often worse at night or during exercise.
Common symptoms of asthma include:
a persistent cough, especially at night wheezing when exhaling and sometimes when inhaling shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, sometimes even when resting chest tightness, making it difficult to breathe deeply.
Some people will have worse symptoms when they have a cold or during changes in the weather. Other triggers can include dust, smoke, fumes, grass and tree pollen, animal fur and feathers, strong soaps and perfume.
Symptoms can be caused by other conditions as well. People with symptoms should talk to a healthcare provider.
Causes Many factors have been linked to an increased risk of developing asthma, although it is often difficult to find a single, direct cause.
Asthma is more likely if other family members also have asthma – particularly a close relative, such as a parent or sibling. Asthma is more likely in people who have other allergic conditions, such as eczema and rhinitis (hay fever).
Urbanization is associated with increased asthma prevalence, probably due to multiple lifestyle factors.
Events in early life affect the developing lungs and can increase the risk of asthma. These include low birth weight, prematurity, exposure to tobacco smoke and other sources of air pollution, as well as viral respiratory infections. Exposure to a range of environmental allergens and irritants are also thought to increase the risk of asthma, including indoor and outdoor air pollution, house dust mites, moulds, and occupational exposure to chemicals, fumes or dust. Children and adults who are overweight or obese are at a greater risk of asthma. Treatment Asthma cannot be cured but there are several treatments available. The most common treatment is to use an inhaler, which delivers medication directly to the lungs.
Inhalers can help control the disease and enable people with asthma to enjoy a normal, active life.
There are two main types of inhaler:
bronchodilators (such as salbutamol), that open the air passages and relieve symptoms; and steroids (such as beclometasone) that reduce inflammation in the air passages, which improves asthma symptoms and reduces the risk of severe asthma attacks and death. People with asthma may need to use their inhaler every day. Their treatment will depend on the frequency of symptoms and the types of inhalers available.
Using an inhaler can be difficult, especially for children and during emergency situations. Using a spacer device makes it easier to use an aerosol inhaler. This helps the medicine to reach the lungs more easily. A spacer is a plastic container with a mouthpiece or mask at one end and a hole for the inhaler in the other. A homemade spacer, made from a 500ml plastic bottle, can be as effective as commercially manufactured spacers.
Access to inhalers is a problem in many countries. In 2021, bronchodilators were available in public primary health care facilities in half of low- and low-middle income countries, and steroid inhalers available in one third.
It is also important to raise community awareness to reduce the myths and stigma associated with asthma in some settings.
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Like every business mining has its key factors that can make it do extremely well or fail .
Most miners think a good sample will make them succeed unfortunately a good sample is not sustainable unless you know the importance of the following factors in the mining sector. If you master them day by day you will blossom even in dark days and enjoy glory days to the fullest.
Enjoy the ride . Three pillars of wholesome mining in order 1 strategic management 2 Debt 3 the boss ” gold panner ” tsheketsha korokoza
1 strategic management The mine manager is key to function his impact is so crucial such his complete absence can be measured by a lot of red flags like low output ; loss of equipment; no records ; lack of proper compliance and production that cannot be measured let alone be sustainable. Before you appoint a manager know your weakness and hire someone who will compliment your weakness. Secondly create a management team that involves you and him stop cellphone management of any kind . Cellphones are good for reports and analysis only . To your team third person in form of someone who compliments his weak ; it can be a blaster or cyanide plant manager depending on which area your manager is good at .
First attribute of your manager should be administration before anything then followed by one of the two pillars of mining leaching and mining. The security guard is not part of management must not be at whatever costs .
Your relatives ( including your wife and kids ) should get a job somewhere else or be prepared to take instructions from a management team never to directly report to you no matter what. Don’t discuss mining issues with them listen to their opinions silently unless if they qualify then appoint them . Paid management team and all your employees well and fire them for underperformance never rehire someone fired by management team . Debt .
Debt is a cancer affecting the whole world unfortunately in artisanal mining Debt is what Cellphone lines are to econet , Lithium is to Tesla car , imagine if econet will stop selling lines without coming up with an alternative. Most of mining services are paying after work completion which is root causes of all Debts you hear about in mining stories. First artisanal miners use cheapest means to reap gold Most cases they don’t have transport and milling means this leads to smart loans by service providers then all problems begin here .
On top of that all services are available on short term based loan usually supported by black market indirectly which explains why black market cannot disappear overnight.
Since gold is not guaranteed failure to pay these loans forces credit to accumulate to so high levels such that its not surprising to find a mine owner or even worker owing 20 000usd or more ranging from diesel credit, stampmill credit, explosives credit ; rental and electricity credit for domestic purposes or many more . Inorder to survive you have to acquire debt management skills that are not only superb but partnered with discipline. When you decide to invest in a mine a guy with more debt is the perfect partner depending on your analysis because of few factors. If he/she has more it means his mine has a huge potential just mismanagement who can borrow someone with no means to pay .
Number two you use his/ her debt as insurance through what l call debt purchase ” . This desires caution carefully study and implementation. You take his debt but still keep it in his name negotiate for payment plan where possible complete erasing of some of them ( that’s possible ) then use his debt to double you investment on him takes years repairing his debt yet already making profits on it . Let’s miner F owes EMA 3000usd for bills and tickets ; 1500usd ministry of mines tickets; 2000usd stamp mill and 4500usd for car loan and family expenses to make 11 000usd yet you want to invest 25 000usd in his mine you just raise 14 000usd buy his 11 000usd debt ask for payment from ministry of mines and EMA then ask to pay half for stampmill debt or complete erasure then negotiate for transfer of registration first things first then you are in the game .Debt purchase is easier route into a full operational mine . Sometimes you buy personal debt only but be cautious. Will cover debt in a separate post . 3 The boss “tsheketsha; korokoza “ We have a saying ” impara ngelikatsheketsha ” . This means every goldminer has a dry spell or good spell . This means no matter how cautious you are the dry spell will hit you very hard . When supporting this guys financial remember this all the time support them based on performance in areas Iike 1 transparency; consistency, accountability more than the sample. Don’t support them when they are doing well by buying cars and houses at that point they don’t need your help they simply want to use you . Treat them as Kings all the time but don’t borrow them money like you are mother Theresa support them don’t spoiler them hunger and suffering is the manager of “the boss ” the rest is cost . Respect them their dirty is the business part personally any clean person in the mining sector Most probably is a scammmer l don’t trust such lots of them proved to me beyond doubt .
NB for debt purchase model inbox or even debt purchase itself.
Tinashe Sambiri|The CCC youth taskforce has vowed to protect citizens victory in the coming polls.
CCC youth taskforce spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has slammed ZEC for ” going to bed with Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa.”
Writing on Twitter, Chuma said ZEC’s shenanigans have been exposed.
“We will never allow a sham election where Mnangagwa goes to bed with ZEC and be declared a winner.
It can’t! It’s unacceptable! We will take him head on! Protection of the vote starts now!”
We will never allow a sham election where Mnangagwa goes to bed with ZEC and be declared a winner. It can't! It's unacceptable! We will take him head on! Protection of the vote starts now! #REAPpic.twitter.com/jvqF698reF
— Stephen Sarkozy Chuma ?? (@chumasteve) May 29, 2023
Outcry As Masvingo Resident Minister’s wife Euphrasia Muvengwa Chadzamira is part of ZEC inspection team
CCC’s Tachiona Mharadza Chiminya demands her to resign from ZEC because she is an interested person.
29 May 2023
Wezhira Munya
Masvingo Resident Minister Ezra Chadzamira’s wife , Euphrasia Muvengwa is currently working at ZEC as a voter inspection officer.
She has been deployed at Gatshime Hall, ward 5, Mashava.
She also works as teacher at Gathsmine primary school in Mashava.
Mashava area is in Masvingo West, where Masvingo Residents Minister Ezra Chadzamira is contesting as Zanu PF Member of Parliament.
Former Masvingo West Member of Parliament Tachiona Mharadza Chiminya, who is a CCC nominated senator said “Chadzamira’s wife must resign from ZEC because her husband is a contestant in the forthcoming harmonized elections. She may remove CCC members from the voters’ roll.”
Resident Minister Chadzamira is been accused of rigging Zanu PF primary elections.
In Masvingo, FAZ members are also camping at ZEC Voter registration offices, taking details of voters.
FAZ is an organization that was responsible for conducting Zanu PF primary elections.
Chiminya demands that, FAZ must vacate all ZEC voter inspection offices with immediate effect.
Also, nominated CCC Masvingo West member of parliament candidate, Mr Pedzisai Chifamba Gasva said, “The presence of Chadzamira’s wife at ZEC Voter inspection venue has caused serious outcry among CCC members. Chadzamira’s wife and FAZ members must not be allowed to be part of ZEC’s Voter inspection process. They are conflicted members as they support Chadzamira who is Zanu PF candidate.”
Scribes at Trevor Ncube’s newspaper group, AMH, have declared incapacitating according to the below statement by the Zimbabwe Union Of Journalists.-
STATEMENT: Reference is made to the above subject matter that journalists at Alpha Media Holdings, the biggest private media house in the country, have always shown a strong urge to execute their duties, as portrayed by their continued willingness to work and produce stories and content for the three publications — NewsDay, Zimbabwe Independent and The Standard — and digital platform.
In the past, even during the peak of the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic, we have gone the extra mile of going out of our way to make sure we produce content.
In that vein, we would like to highlight that our salaries have been heavily eroded by the ever-rising inflation, yet we are expected to continue producing content for the three publications and digital platforms.
That the salaries have been heavily eroded, we are finding it extremely difficult to afford to put decent meals on our tables, clothe ourselves and our families, pay for our rentals, worse even come to work on a daily basis. We are requesting that salaries be pegged in United States dollars or the equivalent on our contracts indexed to the official bank rate.
That we are failing to get transport on time to take us to diaries means we will fail to get the stories our readers would want to read.
That we are short-staffed undermines the quality of our work and it would be noble if management beefs up staff in the newsroom.
Being short-staffed meaning long working hours for staff that is already there, hence fatigue has creeped in, but we have always strived to come to work and produce tomorrow’s newspaper. In all that, one journalist is expected to write across all three publications, which is against their contracts.
All the above-mentioned challenges affect the quality of our work, yet we strive every day to reach international standards and be the “pinnacle of journalism” in the country.
Hence, we write to you expressing that we are heavily incapacitated to discharge our duties as Alpha Media Holdings journalists.
We also write to inform you that going forward, we will not be able to discharge our duties starting tomorrow May 30, 2023.
Yours faithfully
The Finance Minister is now acting less of a technocrat and more like a politician.
By Leonard Koni
People had long believed that Ncube would revive Zimbabwe’s struggling economy, but he has sadly turned into a full-fledged Zanu PF politician and has abjectly failed to do so while still claiming to be an expert in economics.
Mthuli Ncube
This is the issue when people start following the Zanu PF hegemony and bootlicking, as reason begins to flee from them.
Mthuli Ncube has earned the title of political macho man and now spends most of his time campaigning and concentrating on winning a seat in parliament rather than addressing the country’s economic problems.
The nation is in the throes of an economic catastrophe, so forcing businesses to accept local currency while avoiding and purposefully ignoring the country’s economic fundamentals would not help the situation.
Entering a store, Ncube removed a sign that read “$USD only.” This type of political stance and grandstanding is brutal and akin to thuggish behaviour. Where does the Minister receive the authority to enact pricing changes?
Ncube must have the fortitude to inquire as to why companies are abandoning the local currency, which has long since lost any value.
Although all of the country’s fuel suppliers only accept payments in US dollars, they have never experienced this kind of nonsense.
Mthuli Ncube’s delusions will not budge the market, which is highly unyielding.
Price restraints are being gradually reinstated. The so-called second republic is nothing more than a sham that is a copy of Mugabe’s government. It’s amazing how quickly the nation is being forced to return to its original settings.
This Finance Minister has turned to hit-and-run economic initiatives, managed by command strategies adapted from the Shake Shake Building next to Rainbow Towers, in an effort to propel the country forward despite his inability to present a clear-cut economic plan.
This command economy will not function in any way. The country will be sucked into a severe black market as the period of price control returns with a bang. Mthuli is completely unaware of the underlying issues the company is having. He is now a law unto himself; taking down posters in a grocery store would not solve the issue; rather, it would make it worse.
Why does the government not charge anything for passports? Additionally, toll gates need payment in foreign currency. Seriously, all transactions within the borders of Zimbabwe should be made in ZWL or local money. It should also be against the law to transact in any foreign money.
At this point, the Finance Minister is acting unmanly. It’s unfortunate that Mthuli and his superiors are out of touch with current economic conditions. They are employing outdated military and guerrilla strategies that have essentially wrecked the country’s economy. Zimbabweans need to prepare for severe shortages. There won’t likely be any more items on the shelf that behave in this manner.
The finest present he can give Zimbabweans after his failed monetary strategy is to retire and call it a day.
By A Correspondent| Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa is basking in glory after US President Joe Biden hailed his company Africa Data Centre for its work to ensure no African is left behind in the digital technology revolution.
Posting on LinkedIn, Masiyiwa said;
I’m pleased to share with you the news that President Joe Biden of the USA gave our company, Africa Data Centres (ADC) a BIG #ShoutOut during the meeting of the G7 leaders at the weekend! https://lnkd.in/e38cf_nB
In the Communique on initiatives to support infrastructure development in Africa and globally, President Biden mentioned work by our ADC to build a massive hyper scale data centre in the centre of Accra, Ghana, funded by the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. Ghana’s President H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo also gave ADC a #ShoutOut.
Our shared vision and mission is to work to ensure no African is left behind in the digital technology revolution — sparking new innovations, business opportunities, and more equitable prosperity across the continent.
By A Correspondent| The ongoing Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) voters roll inspection exercise has exposed major anomalies, with many people, including prominent opposition politicians, unable to locate their names on the roll.
The exercise started on Saturday and ends tomorrow.
Several opposition leaders, including Bulawayo Central proportional representation Member of Parliament Jasmine Toffa (CCC), had their names missing on the voters roll.
Toffa told NewsDay that she was surprised that her name had been removed from the voters roll.
“Two weeks ago, I dialled *264# to check my name and it reflected. I took a screenshot and kept it. Yesterday I decided to check again and I saw that my name was no longer there. I went to do a physical check and my name was not there. I found a number of people queuing there who had the same challenges. Zec officials said they are facing technical difficulties, and I don’t understand how something that is on the computer does not print out on a hard copy,” Toffa said.
She said another Bulawayo proportional representation legislator Nicola Watson’s name was also missing.
“Bulawayo councillor Edwin Ndlovu’s name was also missing. This is unacceptable as the magnitude of error is extremely high. Most people don’t even know where to check their names,” she said.
An opposition CCC member in Victoria Falls, Ephias Mambume said he registered and voted in 2018, but yesterday he could not find his name on the voters roll.
“I am aware that this is not an isolated case, this is scientific rigging in process,” Mambume told NewsDay.
A Bulawayo resident, who preferred anonymity said he found out that he was suddenly transferred from Nketa constituency to Nkulumane, which is a different ward.
Journalist Zenzele Ndebele also said he could not locate his name.
“I have checked my name and can confirm that it is not on the voters roll. And the four guys who came when I was there were also not on the voters roll,” Ndebele tweeted.
In a letter dated May 29, addressed to Zec chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba, CCC secretary for elections Ian Makone demanded thorough investigations into the matter and to ensure that all eligible voters names reflect on the voters’ roll to enable them to vote in the August polls.
“We have noted serious anomalies in the voters roll that has been laid out for inspection by the public,” Makone said.
He said the main issues arising from the preliminary reports include missing names of prospective voters, some of whom voted in the 2018 elections, and others as recent as the March 2022 by-elections.
“For example, ward 25 in Gokwe Nembudziya constituency — all surnames starting from A to Mu are missing from the ward voters roll. Registered voters who have been appearing on the biometric voters roll online inspection platform are suddenly missing their names from the current online platforms and the voters roll under inspection seems not to be synchronised with the new delimitation boundaries. Resultantly, prospective voters have been displaced from their wards of residence,” Makone said.
Election Resource Centre (ERC) programmes manager Solomon Bobosibunu said: “Two people who spoke to me from Buhera Central had their names transferred to centres that are 23km and 65km away. The voters roll has been tampered with and cannot, therefore, be trusted to deliver a credible election in its current rushed format. A credible voters roll is just but one of the critical components of ballot eligibility. If its integrity is highly compromised like what we are seeing now, then the election is better off shelved.”
Bobosibunu said there should be no compromise on the voters roll.
“It has remained a secret to the rest of Zimbabweans and its rotten state is now smelling. Zimbabweans must decide if they want to continue with Zec’s dark and underhand dealings,” he said.
Contacted for comment, Zec chief elections Officer Utoile Silaigwana said: “What I want you to understand is that the purpose of the inspection of the voters roll is to check if ever there are mistakes in terms of names etc, then if there is a query then that query should be registered so that it can be corrected.”
By A Correspondent| Four University of Zimbabwe students were remanded in custody on May 30, 2023, after they were arrested for protesting the continued incarceration of Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala.
The students, Emmanuel Sitima, Comfort Ncekuyenkosi Mpofu, Tawanda Benjamin Watadza, and Lionel Andrew Madamombe, were appearing before Harare magistrate Learnmore Mapiye facing a charge of defacing buildings in Harare by writing messages demanding Sikhala’s release.
They were being represented by human rights lawyer Darlington Marange.
Allegations are that on May 15, 2023, the quartet was among 30 youths who took part in a protest holding placards, some inscribed #FreeWiwa, #FreeJacob and #BlackMonday.
The State alleges that the youths were singing and denouncing the Zanu-PF government, accusing it of persecuting the opposition politician. They are accused of defacing the Parliament, High Court, Trinity Methodist Church and Constitutional Court buildings in central Harare.
The State prosecutor failed to show up in court, and the magistrate remanded the students in custody to June 1.
The students’ arrest has sparked outrage from human rights groups, who have accused the government of using repressive tactics to silence dissent.
By A Correspondent| Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa is basking in glory after US President Joe Biden hailed his company Africa Data Centre for its work to ensure no African is left behind in the digital technology revolution.
Speaking at the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) Meeting on Saturday, President Biden detailed how Africa Data Centre’s work is helping to increase access to cloud-based technologies, bring down the cost of internet, and make the continent a more competitive destination for industry.
“Africa Data Centre is working to ensure no African is left behind in the digital technology revolution,” President Biden said. “Their work is helping to connect people, businesses, and governments across the continent, and it is helping to drive economic growth and development.”
Africa Data Centre is a leading provider of data center services in Africa. The company has data centers in 13 countries across the continent, and it is planning to expand to more countries in the coming years.
Masiyiwa, who is the founder and chairman of Africa Data Centre, said he was “humbled” by President Biden’s praise.
“I am humbled by President Biden’s recognition of our work,” Masiyiwa said. “We are committed to working with governments and businesses across Africa to ensure that everyone has access to the benefits of the digital economy.”
Africa Data Centre’s work is helping to bridge the digital divide in Africa. The company’s data centers are helping to make cloud-based technologies more accessible to businesses and governments across the continent. This is helping to drive economic growth and development in Africa.
President Biden’s praise for Africa Data Centre is a significant endorsement of the company’s work. It is a sign that the United States government is committed to supporting the digital transformation of Africa.
According to The Southern Eye, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members in Binga South have accused Chief Sinamagonde of threatening them with unspecified action if they attend meetings convened by the opposition party’s parliamentary candidate Fanuel Cumanzala.
However, the traditional leader has denied the allegations.
It seems that tension between Zanu-PF and opposition CCC members in the province appears to be rising as the country heads for the polls.
Some villagers are facing challenges with Sinamagonde who was installed by Zanu-PF against the people’s will in early March 2023. People are being intimidated by this chief who collaborates with some village heads. He is currently targeting CCC supporters.
CCC member Enock Mugande Nakaluba of ward 4 said Chief Sinamagonde was organising Zanu-PF party meetings which are attended by village heads and their secretaries.
“He has told village heads to make sure that their subjects join party cells. The community has been told that there will be machines monitoring voters, and that anyone who will not vote for Zanu-PF will be detected by those machines,” Mugande said.
By-Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dragged his feet on the proclamation of the national elections date.
Mnangagwa had Saturday promised to announce the date on Sunday.
But his spin doctor, George Charamba, Monday said the polls holding date would be announced soon.
“The election proclamation is going to be announced in due course. That is all I can say at the moment,” said Mr Charamba. The country is headed for harmonised elections to elect the President, MPs and councillors. The ruling party Zanu PF has already held primaries to elect candidates for the elections while the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) which has announced that it’s not holding primaries, is yet to complete its nomination process despite starting the exercise nearly two months ago. President Mnangagwa has called on Zimbabweans to refrain from engaging in violence before, during and after the harmonised elections. -Herald
By-The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni, has approved a new anti-homosexuality legislation.
President Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law after parliament watered it down.
It is still among the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world.
Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda but now anyone convicted faces life imprisonment.
The legislation imposes the death penalty for so-called aggravated cases, which include having gay sex with someone below the age of 18 or where someone is infected with a life-long illness including HIV.
In a joint statement, three of the world’s leading health campaign groups – the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar), UNAids and the Global Fund – said they were deeply concerned about the “harmful impact” of the legislation.
“Uganda’s progress on its HIV response is now in grave jeopardy,” the statement said.
“The stigma and discrimination associated with the passage of the Act has already led to reduced access to prevention as well as treatment services,” it added.
The legislation has also been condemned by Ugandan campaign groups, which have instituted court action to annul the legislation on the grounds that it is discriminatory and it violates the rights of LGBTQ+ people.
A similar law was struck down by Uganda’s constitutional court in 2014.
Ugandan rights activist Clare Byarugaba said it was “a very dark and sad day” for the LGBTQ+ community, and all Ugandans, Reuters news agency reported.
“The Ugandan president has today legalised state-sponsored homophobia and transphobia,” the activist added.
Parliamentary speaker Anita Among welcomed Mr Museveni’s decision to sign the bill into law, saying it will “protect the sanctity of the family”.
“We have stood strong to defend the culture, values and aspirations of our people,” she added in a statement posted to Twitter.
The bill’s sponsor, lawmaker Asuman Basalirwa, told reporters that the US had cancelled a visa issued to the speaker, making her the first official to face punitive action over the new law.
The US embassy in Uganda has not yet commented.
The bill was passed in parliament earlier this month, with only one MP opposing it.
The US has previously warned Uganda of possible economic “repercussions” if the legislation came into force.
The US is a major trading partner of Uganda. The East African nation benefits from the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which gives it easier access to lucrative US markets.
The US, UNAids and The Global Fund have also played a major role in backing Uganda’s long-standing efforts to curb HIV/Aids.
By 2021, 89% of people living with HIV in Uganda knew their status, more than 92% of them were receiving antiretroviral therapy, and 95% of those on treatment were virally suppressed, they said in their statement.
“Together as one, we call for the Act to be reconsidered so that Uganda may continue on its path to ensure equitable access to health services and end Aids as a public health threat by 2030,” the statement said.
Residents of Harare’s high-density suburb of Hopley have received a shot in the arm through the Health Ambassadors for Economic Development medical outreach programme.
For the residents, both the elderly and the young, the gesture is more than welcome as many had ailments that needed attention.
“I have had stomach cramps for months, but was procrastinating on coming to the hospital but when I heard there was an outreach I had to come here,” said a beneficiary.
Another said, “My grandson injured his leg and I thought it was just a sprain, but when the leg started swelling I panicked and came here only to be told everyone is being done for free.”
“I am grateful to the President for this initiative of availing free medical services. Hopley faces many challenges but we are grateful,” added another.- ZBC News
By- Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is cracking down on retail outlets and businesses working with illegal money changers.
Mthuli said his targets were responsible for fuelling price increases.
He said the government would blacklist and fine companies and withdraw licences if necessary.
During an impromptu tour of Bulawayo’s central business district, Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube, expressed concern over rising living costs and “unjustifiable” price hikes of basic commodities.
He accused big businesses and retailers of collaborating with illegal money changers and called for ethical business practices to be reinstated. Addressing a manager at a Supermarket located on Fort Street, Prof Ncube said:
We want to send a message to your bosses. We are saying that they must stop these price hikes, which are totally unjustifiable. I am saying this because the next time we ask you to close and withdraw your licence, you will be out of a job and so will a lot of other people. Then the Government will be blamed for shutting down businesses when this is the only way because their behaviour is not proper.
Have you heard of the word schadenfreude? It is a German word that means taking delight from the misery of others. In English, they call it epicaricacy. That is what you’re practising. It is not good.
In an interview with The Sunday Mail after the tour, the Minister stated that the government will soon clamp down on businesses that work with illegal money changers.
Ncube expressed concern over the rising cost of living and unjustifiable price increases, blaming big businesses and retailers for conniving with foreign currency traders.
The Minister warned that any shop refusing domestic currency and only accepting US dollars would have its license withdrawn.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has launched a manhunt for a killer husband who allegedly brutally murdered his wife Rita Rore in Mt Hampden this Sunday.
In a statement released by ZRP this Sunday the murder occurred at Flame Flora Farm, Mt Hampden, in which Rore died after being struck with a hoe on the head by her husband, Alexander Gezi, aged 53.
The suspect had accused the victim of infidelity.
Rore’s death comes at a time when murder cases surge countrywide.-ZBC News
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has launched a manhunt for a killer husband who allegedly brutally murdered his wife Rita Rore in Mt Hampden this Sunday.
In a statement released by ZRP this Sunday the murder occurred at Flame Flora Farm, Mt Hampden, in which Rore died after being struck with a hoe on the head by her husband, Alexander Gezi, aged 53.
The suspect had accused the victim of infidelity.
Rore’s death comes at a time when murder cases surge countrywide.-ZBC News
The 2022/23 UEFA Champions League season will conclude at Istanbul’s Atatürk Olympic Stadium on Saturday 10 June 2023. The final will kick off at 21:00 CET (22:00 local time).
Where is the 2023 Champions League final? Built to support Türkiye’s bid to stage the 2008 Olympic Games, the Atatürk Olympic Stadium opened in 2002 and is home to the Turkish national team. Situated in the Başakşehir area of the city, west of the Bosphorus, it boasts a seated capacity of over 75,000.
This is the second major UEFA competition final to be staged at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium, with Liverpool having beaten AC Milan on penalties in the same venue in the final of the 2004/05 Champions League. The Reds triumphed despite trailing 3-0 at half-time, the ‘Miracle of Istanbul’ regarded as one of the most sensational comebacks in European football history.
Who is playing in the Champions League final? Manchester City and Inter will meet in the final for the first time. City booked their final spot at the expense of holders Real Madrid, while the Nerazzurri progressed as a result of a a 3-0 aggregate defeat of city rivals AC Milan in the semi-finals.- UEFA
Marvelous Nakamba was involved in his final game for Luton Town on Saturday before his loan deal expires in June.
The midfielder took part in the Championship play-off final against Coventry City at Wembley Stadium in London.
He played the entire match and converted a kick in the penalty shootout to help Luton win the match and earn promotion to the English Premier League.
Teammate and fellow countryman Admiral Muskwe didn’t play in the game due to an injury.
Bournemouth’s Jordan Zemura was not able to properly bid his farewell to the club at the Cherries’ final game of the season against Everton on Sunday.
The defender was last included in the squad in late March after failing to respond to the offer of a new deal.
The decision to be excluded from the team was made by the club’s hierarchy.
The Warriors international will join Serie A club Udinese ahead of the next season.
Marshall Munetsi was given the armband in the absence of Yunis Abdelhamid and captained the Stade de Reims side that lost 3-0 to Lyon in the French Ligue 1 on Saturday night.
The Zimbabwean midfielder capped his weekend with the Citizen Player Trophy at the 2022/23 French National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) awards.
Munetsi was presented with the gong in recognition for his commitment to his charity initiatives in Zimbabwe through his foundation.
In China, Nyasha Mushekwi scored in his third successive game for Zhejiang.
The Zimbabwean striker also assisted the team’s opening goal in the 3-2 win against Beijing Guoan.
He now has five goals in ten games.
Knowledge Musona was on target for his Al Taai side versus Al Wehda in the Saudi Pro League.
However, the skipper’s 11th minute goal was not enough to avoid a 2-1 loss for his team.
Terrence Dzvukamanja was also on the score-sheet over the weekend after netting the winning goal to help Orlando Pirates to a 2-1 victory in the Nedbank Cup final against Sekhukhune United.
Real Mallorca forward Tinotenda Kadewere was an unused substitute in the 3-0 La Liga loss to Barcelona.- Soccer24 News
By A Correspondent | Former Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri’s appeal challenging the confiscation of properties he acquired while leading the police force was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Augustine Chihuri in his glory years
In his chambers, Justice George Chiweshe denied the State’s request to change the appeal’s grounds, citing the State’s lack of chances of success.
The High Court ruling made by Justice Pisirayi Kwenda earlier in the year was maintained by a full bench last year, which included Justice Susan Mavangira sitting alongside Justice Lavender Makoni and Justice Joseph Musakwa.
This puts an end to the protracted conflict between the State and the former Police Commissioner General.
Attorney Addington Chinake represented Chihuri, and Chief Law Officer Chris Mutangadura, head of the assets forfeiture unit, represented the State.
Struggling Harare giants Dynamos’ woes continue, after they surrendered a first half lead to eventually lose 1-2 to Ngezi Platinum Stars in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match played at the Baobab Stadium today.
Herbert Maruwa’s charges headed into the clash on the back of a four-game winless run, which saw them fail to score in over six hours of football.
DeMbare nearly took the lead in the third minute when Nyasha Chintuli went past his marker on the right flank and released Authur Musiyiwa, whose weak shot at goal was easily collected by Nelson Chadya —in goal for Ngezi.
Nigel Mukumbe nearly fired Ngezi ahead a minute later, when his curling effort was well-saved by Dynamos goalkeeper Taimon Mvula.
Makumbe tried his luck from outside the box in the 19th minute but skied his effort way over the crossbar.
Dynamos were awarded a free kick on the edge of the box five minutes after, when Gareth Madhake fouled Tendai Matindife and Issa Sadiki curled in a beautiful delivery in the box, which was missed by Donald Mudadi at full stretch.
Dynamos attempted to break on the counter in the 35th minute, when Chintuli released Matindife, who went down in the box but was booked by the referee for similation.
DeMbare finally broke the deadlock a minute before the half time break when Donald Mudadi’s well-taken strike found the top corner, for Dynamos’ first goal at the Baobab since 2017.
Chadya almost gifted Dynamos the second goal when he intially failed to collect Elvis Moyo’s corner kick but recovered well to avert danger.
Mudadi’s goal was the difference between the two sides at the half time interval.
Madamburo came back for the second half determined to level matters and did so four minutes after the restart when Takunda Benhura headed home Polite Moyo’s corner kick.
Benhura almost turned it around for Ngezi in the 53rd minute but his snap shot missed the target by inches.
Dynamos made a double substitution in the 56th minute when Denver Mukamba and Junior Makunike came in for Matindife and Musiyiwa.
Madamburo were smelling blood and almost took the lead in the 58th minute, when Valentine Kadonzvo beat two defenders in the box, unleashed a scorcher, which crashed against the underside of the crossbar.
Takesure Chiragwi made a double substitution in the 70th minute when he brought on Qadr Amin and Claude Mapoka for Murasiranwa and Walter Vuwa.
The change paid dividends, as Amin completed the turnaround for Ngezi in the 75th minute when his cross somehow beat a badly-positioned Taimon Mvula.
Mvula, who was having bad day in goal, fumbled a corner kick from Amin with six minutes of regulation time left, but recovered well to collect before Kadonzvo pounced.
Dynamos almost restored parity in the 85th minute when Ilunga found Mukamba in the box, and the latter’s shot was tipped over the bar by Chadya.
Madamburo held on and returned to winning ways after last week’s defeat to Chicken Inn. Dynamos suffered a title race blow following a 1-0 loss to Ngezi Platinum Stars in Sunday’s Castle Lager Premiership Matchday 28 encounter played at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. The result put the Glamour Boys eleven points behind log leaders FC Platinum, with just six rounds to play in…Soccer24 News
A Harare man has appeared in court after fooling the public into believing he was Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s assistant.
When Loyd Mutotote appeared before Harare magistrate Mr. Dennis Mangosi, he was charged with impersonation and physical abuse.
The Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) general employee Mutotote pretended to be an intelligence detail from February to May of this year by claiming to be Vice President Chiwenga’s brother and working in his office as a close aide who attends to the VP’s official and personal events.
The prosecution’s argument is that he reportedly beat his wife with open hands all over her body and brandished a gun at her head on an unspecified day.
Instead of yesterday as had been originally indicated in the media, Emmerson Mnangagwa is anticipated to announce the election date in due course. In a brief interview with the state media last night, Mr. George Charamba, the presidential spokesperson, said this.
“The election proclamation is going to be announced in due course. That is all I can say at the moment,” said Mr Charamba. The president, members of parliament, and council members will be chosen in a coordinated election process.
CALL TO DUTY: To ensure a fair democratic process during the upcoming election, President @nelsonchamisa has appealed to citizens to inspect the voters’ roll.
The inspection period continues today, and it will last until May 31st, 2023.
Residents of Harare’s high-density suburb of Hopley have received a shot in the arm through the Health Ambassadors for Economic Development medical outreach programme.
For the residents, both the elderly and the young, the gesture is more than welcome as many had ailments that needed attention.
“I have had stomach cramps for months, but was procrastinating on coming to the hospital but when I heard there was an outreach I had to come here,” said a beneficiary.
Another said, “My grandson injured his leg and I thought it was just a sprain, but when the leg started swelling I panicked and came here only to be told everyone is being done for free.”
“I am grateful to the President for this initiative of availing free medical services. Hopley faces many challenges but we are grateful,” added another.- ZBC News
By-The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni, has approved a new anti-homosexuality legislation.
President Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law after parliament watered it down.
It is still among the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world.
Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda but now anyone convicted faces life imprisonment.
The legislation imposes the death penalty for so-called aggravated cases, which include having gay sex with someone below the age of 18 or where someone is infected with a life-long illness including HIV.
In a joint statement, three of the world’s leading health campaign groups – the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar), UNAids and the Global Fund – said they were deeply concerned about the “harmful impact” of the legislation.
“Uganda’s progress on its HIV response is now in grave jeopardy,” the statement said.
“The stigma and discrimination associated with the passage of the Act has already led to reduced access to prevention as well as treatment services,” it added.
The legislation has also been condemned by Ugandan campaign groups, which have instituted court action to annul the legislation on the grounds that it is discriminatory and it violates the rights of LGBTQ+ people.
A similar law was struck down by Uganda’s constitutional court in 2014.
Ugandan rights activist Clare Byarugaba said it was “a very dark and sad day” for the LGBTQ+ community, and all Ugandans, Reuters news agency reported.
“The Ugandan president has today legalised state-sponsored homophobia and transphobia,” the activist added.
Parliamentary speaker Anita Among welcomed Mr Museveni’s decision to sign the bill into law, saying it will “protect the sanctity of the family”.
“We have stood strong to defend the culture, values and aspirations of our people,” she added in a statement posted to Twitter.
The bill’s sponsor, lawmaker Asuman Basalirwa, told reporters that the US had cancelled a visa issued to the speaker, making her the first official to face punitive action over the new law.
The US embassy in Uganda has not yet commented.
The bill was passed in parliament earlier this month, with only one MP opposing it.
The US has previously warned Uganda of possible economic “repercussions” if the legislation came into force.
The US is a major trading partner of Uganda. The East African nation benefits from the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which gives it easier access to lucrative US markets.
The US, UNAids and The Global Fund have also played a major role in backing Uganda’s long-standing efforts to curb HIV/Aids.
By 2021, 89% of people living with HIV in Uganda knew their status, more than 92% of them were receiving antiretroviral therapy, and 95% of those on treatment were virally suppressed, they said in their statement.
“Together as one, we call for the Act to be reconsidered so that Uganda may continue on its path to ensure equitable access to health services and end Aids as a public health threat by 2030,” the statement said.
By- Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is cracking down on retail outlets and businesses working with illegal money changers.
Mthuli said his targets were responsible for fuelling price increases.
He said the government would blacklist and fine companies and withdraw licences if necessary.
During an impromptu tour of Bulawayo’s central business district, Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube, expressed concern over rising living costs and “unjustifiable” price hikes of basic commodities.
He accused big businesses and retailers of collaborating with illegal money changers and called for ethical business practices to be reinstated. Addressing a manager at a Supermarket located on Fort Street, Prof Ncube said:
We want to send a message to your bosses. We are saying that they must stop these price hikes, which are totally unjustifiable. I am saying this because the next time we ask you to close and withdraw your licence, you will be out of a job and so will a lot of other people. Then the Government will be blamed for shutting down businesses when this is the only way because their behaviour is not proper.
Have you heard of the word schadenfreude? It is a German word that means taking delight from the misery of others. In English, they call it epicaricacy. That is what you’re practising. It is not good.
In an interview with The Sunday Mail after the tour, the Minister stated that the government will soon clamp down on businesses that work with illegal money changers.
Ncube expressed concern over the rising cost of living and unjustifiable price increases, blaming big businesses and retailers for conniving with foreign currency traders.
The Minister warned that any shop refusing domestic currency and only accepting US dollars would have its license withdrawn.
By- A Mbare-based catholic priest, Emmanuel Gurumombe, has reported his nephew, Stephen Kimbini, to the police for extortion after he threatened to release pictures of him in compromising homosexual positions.
Gurumombe is of St Peter’s Church Mbare.
Kimbini allegedly told Gurumombe that police in Nyabira had concocted pictures of them in homosexual positions, and demanded money to prevent their release on social media.
Gurumombe paid Kimbini US$40 000 on various occasions between June last year and this month. Allegations are that in June last year, Kimbini set a plot in motion to extort his uncle and told him about the alleged police threats. Kimbini told the priest that he was passing on the money to the cops. Gurumombe delivered the money to his nephew through one David Maloya. When Kimbini demanded US$1 500 from Gurumombe threatening to sell the pictures to social media bloggers on Friday last week, Gurumombe reported him to the police. A trap was set and Gurumombe phoned Maloya, who came with Kimbini, and he was arrested. Kimbini is facing extortion charges.
By-CCC deputy President Welshman Ncube, has reported that his name is missing from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s voters’ roll.
In a Twitter post seen by Pindula News, Ncube said he said visited multiple inspection centers within his ward and found that his name did not appear on any of them. Hillside Primary School referred him to Windsor Park and the Provincial office for further checks. He posted:
This morning I went to the other inspection centres within ward 4 in the neighbourhood of my residence to check if my name had been moved to those polling stations. My name didn’t appear at any of them. Hillside Primary School referred me to Windsor Park, the Provincial office.
The voters’ roll inspection exercise took off on Saturday allowing the electorate to check if their names were in the roll ahead of this year’s harmonised elections scheduled for August.
Prospective voters need to complete and submit a voter registration form with the necessary documentation to the ZEC. The documentation usually required may include a national ID or passport, proof of residence and proof of citizenship. Once the application is processed and approved, their name will be added to the voters’ roll, and they will be eligible to vote in the upcoming elections.
Government critics have alleged that ZEC plans to use the flawed voters’ roll to manipulate election results in favour of the ruling party, ZANU PF. The voters’ roll has been a contentious issue in Zimbabwean politics, with concerns raised about its accuracy, completeness, and transparency.
Some opposition parties and civil society groups have accused the ZEC of deliberately excluding eligible voters from the roll while allowing ineligible voters to register or keeping dead people known as “ghost voters” in the roll. The flawed voters’ roll has raised fears of possible election rigging, particularly since elections in Zimbabwe have been marred by allegations of irregularities and manipulation in the past.
The ZEC has denied these allegations and has insisted that the voters’ roll is still being processed, therefore some details may be missing.
As last week 24th May marked one year since the murder of CCC activist, Moreblessing Ali, her family told ZimEye, in the face of govt pressure, she will not be buried until her lawyer Job Sikhala is released. (Below is the investigation that led to her remains’ discovery)
By ZimEye Correspondent | 6 JUN 2022 The sun is shining bright, though temperatures are winter low, and we are on a long search for Moreblessing Ali, a 46y old CCC party activist who was kidnapped on 24th May 2022 after 8pm by named ZANU PF activists in the Nyatsime area.
The incident according witnesses, happened at the Chibhanguza Night Club, where Moreblessing Ali was assaulted and then dragged into the nearby bush. She is missing for nearly 2 weeks to date.
By this time, ZANU PF Spokesperson Simba Chisango has claimed to ZimEye saying he ‘knows’ that Moreblessing Ali us alive:
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https://youtu.be/Dl3CRy444Fs
As a ZANU PF leader, what have you done?, asks Simba Chikanza – "I know that this person is alive, there is information….," says ZANU PF leaderhttps://t.co/UTAeiCRM27
Upon entering the Nyatsime area, the atmosphere changes. The air is thick full of fear, people are barely talking especially with strangers, and rarely walking around as usual. We pass through Chibhanguza Night Club on the way to ZANU PF Chairperson Simba Chisango’s home.
Getting into the street, ZimEye notices several children being chased off and being threatened with violence, an incident so frightening that we can’t film it. “Where are you going?- Murikuenda kupiko?,” a group of emotionally charged unidentified men ask them before picking up stones to assault the vulnerable minors so to ward them off Chisango’s house. What is inside this shackhouse that is so protected and even harmless kids should not see?
Talking to several people, the conclusion is- tension and angers are rising over Moreblessing Ali’s forced disappearance.
There are two vehicles, a green Toyota Altezza, and a dark grey Nissan Xtrail (3 police officers, one of them one holding an AK rifle). We manage to get at least number plates of the Toyota Altezza: AEH8372. The Nissan Xtrail belongs to a uniformed police officer. Even though we fail to get finer details, it is visually clear that the several men inside the vehicles are closely guarding Mr Simba Chisango.
When he walks around, he moves with a vigilante of predominantly youths, numbering more than 10.
His property (drone video), at the left side, has a combined red and green roof.
Drone footage at the property Moreblessing couldeasily be housed, shows Chisango’s home as a quiet, red and green-mix roofing, surrounded by other squatter houses, with no numbers as they are an informal settlement granted by the ruling ZANU PF. VIDEO LOADING BELOW
Drone footage captures people walking around, but due to the security fears, movements are so minimal, you can easily count the number of people pacing around. We spot just 20 people walking slowly in a large area of more than 800 houses, built without planning permission but under a ZANU PF program lyrically termed in a party song: ZANU PF yakasimba kumaSero- (ZANU PF is strong from cell level.), and this is a Build up to the 2023 election as people are parcelled non regulated land which they will lose if they vote for the opposition.
In the small cachement area where Simba Chisango lives, we see during the period, no one daring to transverse or even encroach his gateway. Is this a coincidence, or this is the work of State agents?
Later on, we spot two vehicles, the Toyota Altezza and a Nissan Xtrail, full of men we obtain, are protecting Simba Chisango.
Our international news desk team calls Mr Simba Chisango once again, this time via phone. The phone is picked up by a woman who says she is his wife. He briefly answers, before putting the phone down after realising he is talking to the media, somewhat avoiding his previous contradictory statements in the 20 min interview on 30 May 2022 (VIDEO BELOW), when he said he only got to know of Moreblessing Ali’s disappearance in social media, but would in less than 2 minutes, shift to the opposite as he began sahing that he first obtained information on Moreblessing Ali’s disappearance right on the ground at Chibhanguza (not from social media as earlier said).
Where is Moreblessing Ali?, he was asked, to which he said, “I am only hearing about this story on social media, you hear?”
“I am just hearing it on social media, come to area and investigate if you want us to agree. Isn’t it?”
The conversation continues as follows-
So, you are telling me you don’t know anything about Moreblessing Ali?
“Me?, she is someone I know- Moreblessing Ali who works in Chitungwiza, in Unit B, she is someone I knew, and is now staying in Nyatsime.”
Why are you using past tense?
“I am meaning where she was staying in Unit B. I was staying in H. Right, from there, she was staying there, until she started living here in Nyatsime, that’s what I know, such that, the information you are asking me about I heard it at the Chibhanguza area, that’s where I hear some commotion happened there, this and that happened, that’s what I heard.”
So you, what have you done, as a ZANU PF leader in the area, so that Moreblessing is found?
“I think we even did some investigations with police, we got into the area, this and that, but, aaah, I know that the person is alive. Isn’t it? Are you hearing?”
“There is no way she would just disappear, the information which I hear, that the people she clashed with, one of them sped off while holding a catapult, after a gun had been pulled out. This is the information, the other one I actually got it today (sic). I am struggling to establish what really happened.”
After this, Simba Chisango names the man now implicated in a police report, and acknowledges that Pius Jamba (the man accused of assaulting Moreblessing Ali and dragging her into the nearby bush, is his cousin.
“Listen Comrade, let me explain to you what’s making my name to come out… there is a young man by name, Pius Jamba, he is the son from my mother’s side, but when people see him, they say he is a Chisango. Right so, from that word, the Chisango who is being talked about is me, a senior in the ZANU PF party, people will be saying he is Chisango’s young brother…”
Chisango is then asked: since your relative is involved in kidnapping Moreblessing, what can you do today for us to find Moreblessing? He replies:
“Now, me now, that question you’re asking me on what to do to find Moreblesssing; I don’t have any reply, because I am just another person confused on this person who is said to be missing.
The young man himself is missing, Moreblessing is missing, the other young man from Mbuya Mhatsva is also missing. If it had been that there is at least one person who is visible, we would then ask that person where the others are,” he says.
But then this young man is your family, so what can you do Mr Chisango?
“Yes, that’s what I am saying I won’t deny him, one can’t reject their relative because they have committed a crime; if he is my relative he will meet his own stories. Do you hear me well, Comrade?”
To this, Simba Chikanza demands what Chisango will do to find Moreblessing, and the conversation continues for the remaining, over 14 minutes.
The police, having been previously quiet for over 5 days, suddenly, soon after this interview, produce a report that agrees with everything Chisango has said in the interview; but the ZRP report which states that the ZANU PF official, Chisango is not involved, fails to mention that the accused is Jamba’s cousin.
The police report also claims Moreblessing (46) was kidnapped following a love affair scuffle with a Pius Jamba who is the age of her own son (25). Moreblessing Ali’s family dismisses the report as “ridiculous.” How could Moreblessing date someone as young as her first born son?, her brother Washington says to ZimEye.
Zengeza MP Job Sikhala also tells ZimEye in an interview, “this Simba Chisango, his brother and their group are known for running terror operations in the whole area.”
A day later, an anonymous message is delivered at Zengeza MP, Job Sikhala’s doorstep, on a piece of paper which says that Chisango is clearly involved in the abduction. It states in Shona as follows:
“-Vakamutsakatisa mukadzi uyu [THEY MADE THIS WOMAN DISAPPEAR] -Vanhu vacho vanoti Chisango, brother yake, mukadzi wake, Liberty Mondiwa nevamwe vacho [PEOPLE INVOLVED ARE CHISANGO, HIS BROTHER, HIS WIFE, LIBERTY MONDIWA AND OTHERS] -Munhu uyu vaimupomera mhosva ye kuti mutsigiri we CCC [THEY WERE BLAMING HER FOR BEING A CCC ACTIVIST] -Zvinhu izvi zvinoratidza kuti Chibhanguza urimo munyaya. [THIS SHOWS THAT CHIBANGUZA IS INVOLVED] -Ini ndakarowa mwedzi wapera wa April ndichipomerwa mhosva yokutsigira CCC [I WAS ASSAULTED LAST WEEK FOR SUPPORTING CCC] -Ndapona mupaburi retsono. Ndine mazino matatu ari kuzungunuka.
[I SURVIVED BY A WHISKER, 3 OF MY TEETH ARE CRACKLING]
-Mapurisa yeku Beatrice akauya nezuro kuzotora nyaya.” [BEATRICE POLICE CAME YESTERDAY TO INVESTIGATE]”
Contacted on the Monday 6th June 2022, a woman believed to be Chisango’s wife who picks up the phone, emotionally screams out, asking: “Who are you and what do you want? Why do you keep calling this phone?” VIDEO LOADING BELOW…
Opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa’s CCC party has produced a report saying: ‘the Police has revealed that the chief suspect, Pius Jamba, is also on the run for other criminal offences. According to information in the possession of the CCC investigation team, Jambo is allegedly facing charges of murder and fraud. Today, further investigations have revealed that chief suspect, Jambo, is in hiding in Hurungwe.
A team has been dispatched to conduct a further search for him there while the investigation into the whereabouts of Moreblessing Ali continue.’
On the 6th June 2022, ZimEye’s Simba Chikanza telephones Mr. Simba Chisango and reiterates the message to him:
Morning Mr Chisango… I’m sure you’re already aware you’re under 24/7 surveillance over the kidnapping of Moreblessing Ali. You’re already aware this is an international criminal prosecution case now, meaning you will be arrested in several countries upon arriving in nations such as Zambia, South Africa,UK, Australia, US, and others. You have an opportunity to talk to me and clear up the huge discrepancies in what you said in the interview.
Simba Chikanza.
THE SEARCH FOR MOREBLESSSING ALI CONTINUES.- ZimEye
By-Former Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri has won the Supreme Court appeal contesting forfeiture of his properties acquired over his 25-year tenure at the helm of the Police. Justice George Chiweshe sitting in chambers, dismissed an application by the State to amend grounds of appeal citing no prospects of success on the appeal by the State. Last year a full bench comprising Justice Susan Mavangira sitting with Justice Lavender Makoni and Justice Joseph Musakwa upheld the High Court decision made by Justice Pisirayi Kwenda earlier that year. This brings to finality the long-standing battle between the former Police Commissioner General and the State. Lawyer Addington Chinake represented Chihuri, while the head of assets forfeiture unit chief law officer Chris Mutangadura represented the State. -Herald
Marvelous Nakamba was involved in his final game for Luton Town on Saturday before his loan deal expires in June.
The midfielder took part in the Championship play-off final against Coventry City at Wembley Stadium in London.
He played the entire match and converted a kick in the penalty shootout to help Luton win the match and earn promotion to the English Premier League.
Teammate and fellow countryman Admiral Muskwe didn’t play in the game due to an injury.
Bournemouth’s Jordan Zemura was not able to properly bid his farewell to the club at the Cherries’ final game of the season against Everton on Sunday.
The defender was last included in the squad in late March after failing to respond to the offer of a new deal.
The decision to be excluded from the team was made by the club’s hierarchy.
The Warriors international will join Serie A club Udinese ahead of the next season.
Marshall Munetsi was given the armband in the absence of Yunis Abdelhamid and captained the Stade de Reims side that lost 3-0 to Lyon in the French Ligue 1 on Saturday night.
The Zimbabwean midfielder capped his weekend with the Citizen Player Trophy at the 2022/23 French National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) awards.
Munetsi was presented with the gong in recognition for his commitment to his charity initiatives in Zimbabwe through his foundation.
In China, Nyasha Mushekwi scored in his third successive game for Zhejiang.
The Zimbabwean striker also assisted the team’s opening goal in the 3-2 win against Beijing Guoan.
He now has five goals in ten games.
Knowledge Musona was on target for his Al Taai side versus Al Wehda in the Saudi Pro League.
However, the skipper’s 11th minute goal was not enough to avoid a 2-1 loss for his team.
Terrence Dzvukamanja was also on the score-sheet over the weekend after netting the winning goal to help Orlando Pirates to a 2-1 victory in the Nedbank Cup final against Sekhukhune United.
Real Mallorca forward Tinotenda Kadewere was an unused substitute in the 3-0 La Liga loss to Barcelona.- Soccer24 News
Struggling Harare giants Dynamos’ woes continue, after they surrendered a first half lead to eventually lose 1-2 to Ngezi Platinum Stars in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match played at the Baobab Stadium today.
Herbert Maruwa’s charges headed into the clash on the back of a four-game winless run, which saw them fail to score in over six hours of football.
DeMbare nearly took the lead in the third minute when Nyasha Chintuli went past his marker on the right flank and released Authur Musiyiwa, whose weak shot at goal was easily collected by Nelson Chadya —in goal for Ngezi.
Nigel Mukumbe nearly fired Ngezi ahead a minute later, when his curling effort was well-saved by Dynamos goalkeeper Taimon Mvula.
Makumbe tried his luck from outside the box in the 19th minute but skied his effort way over the crossbar.
Dynamos were awarded a free kick on the edge of the box five minutes after, when Gareth Madhake fouled Tendai Matindife and Issa Sadiki curled in a beautiful delivery in the box, which was missed by Donald Mudadi at full stretch.
Dynamos attempted to break on the counter in the 35th minute, when Chintuli released Matindife, who went down in the box but was booked by the referee for similation.
DeMbare finally broke the deadlock a minute before the half time break when Donald Mudadi’s well-taken strike found the top corner, for Dynamos’ first goal at the Baobab since 2017.
Chadya almost gifted Dynamos the second goal when he intially failed to collect Elvis Moyo’s corner kick but recovered well to avert danger.
Mudadi’s goal was the difference between the two sides at the half time interval.
Madamburo came back for the second half determined to level matters and did so four minutes after the restart when Takunda Benhura headed home Polite Moyo’s corner kick.
Benhura almost turned it around for Ngezi in the 53rd minute but his snap shot missed the target by inches.
Dynamos made a double substitution in the 56th minute when Denver Mukamba and Junior Makunike came in for Matindife and Musiyiwa.
Madamburo were smelling blood and almost took the lead in the 58th minute, when Valentine Kadonzvo beat two defenders in the box, unleashed a scorcher, which crashed against the underside of the crossbar.
Takesure Chiragwi made a double substitution in the 70th minute when he brought on Qadr Amin and Claude Mapoka for Murasiranwa and Walter Vuwa.
The change paid dividends, as Amin completed the turnaround for Ngezi in the 75th minute when his cross somehow beat a badly-positioned Taimon Mvula.
Mvula, who was having bad day in goal, fumbled a corner kick from Amin with six minutes of regulation time left, but recovered well to collect before Kadonzvo pounced.
Dynamos almost restored parity in the 85th minute when Ilunga found Mukamba in the box, and the latter’s shot was tipped over the bar by Chadya.
Madamburo held on and returned to winning ways after last week’s defeat to Chicken Inn. Dynamos suffered a title race blow following a 1-0 loss to Ngezi Platinum Stars in Sunday’s Castle Lager Premiership Matchday 28 encounter played at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. The result put the Glamour Boys eleven points behind log leaders FC Platinum, with just six rounds to play in…Soccer24 News
By Farai D Hove | The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has deleted names of suspected CCC (Citizens Coalition For Change) members from the voters’ roll, updated complaints indicate.
The development is revealed in a report ZEC is still to comment on filed by the CCC.
The latest twist comes as the commission’s chairperson Priscilla Chigumba told journalists that she has no desire to suit her department to people’s expectations due to what she termed legislative constraints.
The CCC report states in part:
The above subject matter refers; As the Citizens Coalition for Change. we have noted serious anotnalies in the voters roll that has been laid out for inspection by the public. A reflective sample across all the ten (101 Provinces in the country have indicated numerous errors of commission and omission which indicate deviations from the Constitutional standards of a credible voters’ roll.
The main issues arising front the preliminary reports received include the following: 1. Missing names of prospective voters some of which had voted in 2018 and some as recent as Me Marsh 2022 by elections. for example, Ward 25 in Gokwe Nembudssyn Constituency —all surnames shining from A.Mo are missing Irian the Ward Voters…
2. Registered voters that had bem appearing on the BVR online inspection platform are suddenly missing their names from the current online platforms and the voters roll under inspection.
3. The voters roll under inspection seems not to be synchronized with the new delimitation boundaries. Resultantly, prospective voters have been displaced from their wards of residence.
Asthma is a major noncommunicable disease (NCD), affecting both children and adults, and is the most common chronic disease among children.
Inflammation and narrowing of the small airways in the lungs cause asthma symptoms, which can be any combination of cough, wheeze, shortness of breath and chest tightness. Asthma affected an estimated 262 million people in 2019 (1) and caused 455 000 deaths.
Inhaled medication can control asthma symptoms and allow people with asthma to lead a normal, active life. Avoiding asthma triggers can also help to reduce asthma symptoms. Most asthma-related deaths occur in low- and lower-middle-income countries, where under-diagnosis and under-treatment is a challenge.
WHO is committed to improving the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of asthma to reduce the global burden of NCDs and make progress towards universal health coverage.
Overview Asthma is a chronic lung disease affecting people of all ages. It is caused by inflammation and muscle tightening around the airways, which makes it harder to breathe.
Symptoms can include coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and chest tightness. These symptoms can be mild or severe and can come and go over time.
Although asthma can be a serious condition, it can be managed with the right treatment. People with symptoms of asthma should speak to a health professional.
Impact Asthma is often under-diagnosed and under-treated, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
People with under-treated asthma can suffer sleep disturbance, tiredness during the day, and poor concentration. Asthma sufferers and their families may miss school and work, with financial impact on the family and wider community. If symptoms are severe, people with asthma may need to receive emergency health care and they may be admitted to hospital for treatment and monitoring. In the most severe cases, asthma can lead to death.
Symptoms Symptoms of asthma can vary from person to person. Symptoms sometimes get significantly worse. This is known as an asthma attack. Symptoms are often worse at night or during exercise.
Common symptoms of asthma include:
a persistent cough, especially at night wheezing when exhaling and sometimes when inhaling shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, sometimes even when resting chest tightness, making it difficult to breathe deeply.
Some people will have worse symptoms when they have a cold or during changes in the weather. Other triggers can include dust, smoke, fumes, grass and tree pollen, animal fur and feathers, strong soaps and perfume.
Symptoms can be caused by other conditions as well. People with symptoms should talk to a healthcare provider.
Causes Many factors have been linked to an increased risk of developing asthma, although it is often difficult to find a single, direct cause.
Asthma is more likely if other family members also have asthma – particularly a close relative, such as a parent or sibling. Asthma is more likely in people who have other allergic conditions, such as eczema and rhinitis (hay fever).
Urbanization is associated with increased asthma prevalence, probably due to multiple lifestyle factors.
Events in early life affect the developing lungs and can increase the risk of asthma. These include low birth weight, prematurity, exposure to tobacco smoke and other sources of air pollution, as well as viral respiratory infections. Exposure to a range of environmental allergens and irritants are also thought to increase the risk of asthma, including indoor and outdoor air pollution, house dust mites, moulds, and occupational exposure to chemicals, fumes or dust. Children and adults who are overweight or obese are at a greater risk of asthma. Treatment Asthma cannot be cured but there are several treatments available. The most common treatment is to use an inhaler, which delivers medication directly to the lungs.
Inhalers can help control the disease and enable people with asthma to enjoy a normal, active life.
There are two main types of inhaler:
bronchodilators (such as salbutamol), that open the air passages and relieve symptoms; and steroids (such as beclometasone) that reduce inflammation in the air passages, which improves asthma symptoms and reduces the risk of severe asthma attacks and death. People with asthma may need to use their inhaler every day. Their treatment will depend on the frequency of symptoms and the types of inhalers available.
Using an inhaler can be difficult, especially for children and during emergency situations. Using a spacer device makes it easier to use an aerosol inhaler. This helps the medicine to reach the lungs more easily. A spacer is a plastic container with a mouthpiece or mask at one end and a hole for the inhaler in the other. A homemade spacer, made from a 500ml plastic bottle, can be as effective as commercially manufactured spacers.
Access to inhalers is a problem in many countries. In 2021, bronchodilators were available in public primary health care facilities in half of low- and low-middle income countries, and steroid inhalers available in one third.
It is also important to raise community awareness to reduce the myths and stigma associated with asthma in some settings.
Self-care People with asthma and their families need education to understand more about their asthma. This includes their treatment options, triggers to avoid, and how to manage their symptoms at home.
It is important for people with asthma to know how to increase their treatment when their symptoms are worsening to avoid a serious attack. Healthcare providers may give an asthma action plan to help people with asthma to take greater control of their treatment.
By A Correspondent | Contrary to denials, another farm sold off by UK based businesswoman Sithule Tshuma under the guise of empowering diasporan women is a confirmed government gazetted 99-year leased land property.
The then minister of State for State Security, Lands And Land Reform, Didymus Mutasa Monday morning confirmed to ZimEye that Tshuma’s Qoki Investment business has been misleading investors by selling farmland under the promise that they have hopes in later privatising the farm land, as he added to president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s announcement that “it is unlawful in Zimbabwe to buy agricultural land…”
A govt gazetted dated 2 June 2006 (pictured) designates Deeds Of Transfer 1096/89, Lot 2 A Lower Nondwene, measuring 204,381 4 hectares, state land.
Like every business mining has its key factors that can make it do extremely well or fail .
Most miners think a good sample will make them succeed unfortunately a good sample is not sustainable unless you know the importance of the following factors in the mining sector. If you master them day by day you will blossom even in dark days and enjoy glory days to the fullest.
Enjoy the ride . Three pillars of wholesome mining in order 1 strategic management 2 Debt 3 the boss ” gold panner ” tsheketsha korokoza
1 strategic management The mine manager is key to function his impact is so crucial such his complete absence can be measured by a lot of red flags like low output ; loss of equipment; no records ; lack of proper compliance and production that cannot be measured let alone be sustainable. Before you appoint a manager know your weakness and hire someone who will compliment your weakness. Secondly create a management team that involves you and him stop cellphone management of any kind . Cellphones are good for reports and analysis only . To your team third person in form of someone who compliments his weak ; it can be a blaster or cyanide plant manager depending on which area your manager is good at .
First attribute of your manager should be administration before anything then followed by one of the two pillars of mining leaching and mining. The security guard is not part of management must not be at whatever costs .
Your relatives ( including your wife and kids ) should get a job somewhere else or be prepared to take instructions from a management team never to directly report to you no matter what. Don’t discuss mining issues with them listen to their opinions silently unless if they qualify then appoint them . Paid management team and all your employees well and fire them for underperformance never rehire someone fired by management team . Debt .
Debt is a cancer affecting the whole world unfortunately in artisanal mining Debt is what Cellphone lines are to econet , Lithium is to Tesla car , imagine if econet will stop selling lines without coming up with an alternative. Most of mining services are paying after work completion which is root causes of all Debts you hear about in mining stories. First artisanal miners use cheapest means to reap gold Most cases they don’t have transport and milling means this leads to smart loans by service providers then all problems begin here .
On top of that all services are available on short term based loan usually supported by black market indirectly which explains why black market cannot disappear overnight.
Since gold is not guaranteed failure to pay these loans forces credit to accumulate to so high levels such that its not surprising to find a mine owner or even worker owing 20 000usd or more ranging from diesel credit, stampmill credit, explosives credit ; rental and electricity credit for domestic purposes or many more . Inorder to survive you have to acquire debt management skills that are not only superb but partnered with discipline. When you decide to invest in a mine a guy with more debt is the perfect partner depending on your analysis because of few factors. If he/she has more it means his mine has a huge potential just mismanagement who can borrow someone with no means to pay .
Number two you use his/ her debt as insurance through what l call debt purchase ” . This desires caution carefully study and implementation. You take his debt but still keep it in his name negotiate for payment plan where possible complete erasing of some of them ( that’s possible ) then use his debt to double you investment on him takes years repairing his debt yet already making profits on it . Let’s miner F owes EMA 3000usd for bills and tickets ; 1500usd ministry of mines tickets; 2000usd stamp mill and 4500usd for car loan and family expenses to make 11 000usd yet you want to invest 25 000usd in his mine you just raise 14 000usd buy his 11 000usd debt ask for payment from ministry of mines and EMA then ask to pay half for stampmill debt or complete erasure then negotiate for transfer of registration first things first then you are in the game .Debt purchase is easier route into a full operational mine . Sometimes you buy personal debt only but be cautious. Will cover debt in a separate post . 3 The boss “tsheketsha; korokoza “ We have a saying ” impara ngelikatsheketsha ” . This means every goldminer has a dry spell or good spell . This means no matter how cautious you are the dry spell will hit you very hard . When supporting this guys financial remember this all the time support them based on performance in areas Iike 1 transparency; consistency, accountability more than the sample. Don’t support them when they are doing well by buying cars and houses at that point they don’t need your help they simply want to use you . Treat them as Kings all the time but don’t borrow them money like you are mother Theresa support them don’t spoiler them hunger and suffering is the manager of “the boss ” the rest is cost . Respect them their dirty is the business part personally any clean person in the mining sector Most probably is a scammmer l don’t trust such lots of them proved to me beyond doubt .
NB for debt purchase model inbox or even debt purchase itself.
CALL TO DUTY: To ensure a fair democratic process during the upcoming election, President @nelsonchamisa has appealed to citizens to inspect the voters’ roll.
The inspection period continues today, and it will last until May 31st, 2023.
ZANU PF affiliate, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz) has reportedly hijacked the voters roll inspection exercise by demanding proof of ruling party membership from those trying to check for their names.
Faz is a registered private voluntary organisation which claims to champion “door-to-door intimate voter contact” but reports suggest that it has a close working relationship with members of the central intelligence organisation (CIO).
On its website, Faz says its application to become an associate of Zanu PF was still pending, but the ruling party’s political commissar Mike Bimha told NewsDay yesterday that the group was an affiliate.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) opened its voters roll inspection exercise on Saturday and Faz members were manning several polling stations, mostly in the rural areas which resulted in some voters failing to check for their names.
Inspections were suspended at some centres in Shurugwi after the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) protested the presence of Faz members at the polling stations.
At Sungano Motel polling station in Ward 12, Shurugwi North Constituency, police had to be called to intervene after FAZ members refused to vacate the polling stations.
“We discovered at various centres during our assessment of the inspection exercise that Faz members were giving some orders to the registered voters who had pitched up for inspection,” CCC Shurugwi North Constituency aspiring candidate Bulle Madzitire said.
“They were making inquiries on whether the registered voter was in the Zanu PF cell register or not. Those who knew that they were not in the Zanu PF register left the poling centres before inspecting their names. We reported the matter to the police, who later ordered the Faz members to leave the polling stations. This was the situation at many polling stations in the area.”
“I am not aware of the incident,” Silaigwana said.
“But I guess the police are handling the case if they were notified.”
Bimha also said he was not aware of what Faz was doing.
“I cannot speak on behalf of Faz,” Bimha said.
“They are a Zanu PF affiliate but they have their own leadership.”
However, a Zanu PF internal memo seen by NewsDay shows that the ruling party ordered its grassroots structures to ensure that every member who appeared in the party cell registers was in the voters roll during the inspection exercise.
Faz and Heritage Trust, another Zanu PF-affiliated non-governmental organisation, were roped in as “constituency specialists” to facilitate the inspection.
In a letter dated May 19, 2023 copied to Zanu PF vice-president Kembo Mohadi, chairperson Oppah Muchinguri, secretary for administration Obert Mpofu and spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa, Bimha directed party provincial chairpersons to ensure that all party members who appeared in cell registers, were registered as voters with the help of Faz and Heritage Trust.
Faz and Heritage Trust, which is reportedly linked to the CIO and Military Intelligence Corps, ran the party’s recent primary elections.
“It is very critical that data capture is done diligently for this programme. Constituency experts Faz and the Heritage Trust Constituency co-ordinators will monitor and capture data at each polling station as well as submit daily reports to the command centres,” Bimha wrote in the memo.
The voters roll inspection exercise failed to take off in some areas on Saturday as scheduled after Zec could not avail transport for the exercise.
Former Education minister David Coltart and his wife’s names have disappeared from the voters roll in a move that is likely to put the credibility of the whole 2023 electoral process into doubt.
Posting on Twitter, Coltart who was just coming from a voters roll inspection centre said his name, his wife and youngest daughter were all missing, adding that he has always been voting at the same centre for decades.
“I have just been to the @ZECzim inspection tent at Burnside Garage to check if my name is on the voters roll. It isn’t! I have lived in my current home since 1986 & have been registered at Burnside for decades. I am a citizen & former Cabinet Minister. How can this be?
“My wife and youngest daughter’s names do not appear either. If we have been moved to another polling station we haven’t been advised. But I doubt that is the case because my checks on the national roll through *265# have been unsuccessful. How can we all have been removed?
“Whilst at the inspection center the presiding officer told me that numerous other people can’t find their names. Only 445 are on the Burnside roll – against what should be a figure of 1000. So hundreds have been removed at this polling station.
“The whole process is shambolic and shameful. @ZECzim is exposed as an incompetent, brazenly partisan body. There can be no free, fair or lawful election with this nonsense,” said Coltart.
By A Correspondent| Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa has rallied citizens to inspect their names on the voters roll.
Posting on Twitter, Chamisa said inspecting names on the voters roll is an important process that helps to ensure that the voters roll is not tempered with.
“FELLOW CITIZENS, Voter inspection is the last stage before voting. It is very important to ensure that your name is on the voters’ list. We will not allow any tampering with the voters’ roll. Have you checked if your name is appearing on the voters’ roll? #ThisTime It’s time,” said Chamisa.
Meanwhile, Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to announce the date for the general elections today in a move that will set the election season in motion.
CALL TO DUTY: To ensure a fair democratic process during the upcoming election, President Nelson Chamisa has appealed to citizens to inspect the voters’ roll. The inspection period is set to begin tomorrow, and it will last until May 31st, 2023.- President Chamisa
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ( ZEC) to make the voters roll accessible without restrictions.
ZEC has refused to avail the electronic version of the voters roll.
According to CCC, the voters roll must be accessible prior to proclamation.
Below are highlights from the CCC media briefing on Friday:
CCC PRESSER: during our meeting with the media, our election taskforce team highlighted four important issues that require immediate attention as the country approaches the election. Our call to action includes:
1️⃣Releasing and making the National Voters Roll accessible prior to proclamation 2️⃣Encouraging unregistered citizens to take advantage of the opportunity to register before the closure of the Voters Roll for the 2023 Elections 3️⃣Advising registered citizens to participate fully in Voters Roll Inspection 4️⃣Reiterating our demand for the implementation of electoral reforms and administrative reforms by ZEC.
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ( ZEC) to make the voters roll accessible without restrictions.
ZEC has refused to avail the electronic version of the voters roll.
According to CCC, the voters roll must be accessible prior to proclamation.
Below are highlights from the CCC media briefing on Friday:
CCC PRESSER: during our meeting with the media, our election taskforce team highlighted four important issues that require immediate attention as the country approaches the election. Our call to action includes:
1️⃣Releasing and making the National Voters Roll accessible prior to proclamation 2️⃣Encouraging unregistered citizens to take advantage of the opportunity to register before the closure of the Voters Roll for the 2023 Elections 3️⃣Advising registered citizens to participate fully in Voters Roll Inspection 4️⃣Reiterating our demand for the implementation of electoral reforms and administrative reforms by ZEC.
The Champions League final is set, and it has the feeling of a David vs. Goliath matchup as Premier League powerhouse Manchester City face off against Italian side Inter Milan in Europe’s title bout.
Man City completely smothered defending champions Real Madrid in the second leg of their semifinal, putting forth an absolutely breathless performance to overwhelm the most successful club in the history of the European competition.
Inter, meanwhile, are not considered to be of the same calibre, but are hitting their stride at the right time, rising above cross-town rivals AC Milan in their semifinal to reach this stage.
The Italians will know they’re matched up against the cream of the European crop, sitting third in the Serie A table, not even having yet secured Champions League play next season. There’s a foreboding sense about this match that they will need to produce a masterclass to emerge victorious.
Manchester City are coming off one of the most dominant performances you will ever see in a high-profile match of late-season Champions League caliber.
What Pep Guardiola engineered at the Etihad Stadium on May 17, a humbling of the defending champions, will be remembered for years.
Nobody in the world is in better form than this Premier League outfit, and while Inter have crafted some impressively gritty results in European competition this season, there’s nobody in the world who can match this City side at their best.
This, of course, assumes that City bring their best to Istanbul, where the atmosphere won’t be as favourable as it was in England on Wednesday. Inter, meanwhile, are admittedly in good form too, finally figuring out their inconsistencies domestically as the season comes to a close. Yet it’s quite simply impossible to bet against this Man City juggernaut.
Man City vs Inter Milan betting odds for Champions League final With the Champions League final participants now set, the odds are helpful to see how both the oddsmakers and betting market see this match playing out.
Man City opened as massive favorites, given -250 odds to win the match outright in regulation and -650 to emerge victorious and lift the trophy. This is likely due to the manner in which City not only obliterated Real Madrid in the second leg of their semifinal, but their domestic form as well, en route to a likely Premier League title.
Inter, meanwhile, emerged out of the gates massive underdogs, slotted at +675 to win across 90 minutes and +375 to be named champions.
Odds updated as of Wednesday, May 17, 2023.
Man City win
(regulation) Draw (regulation) Inter win (regulation) Both teams to score Y / N Over / Under 2.5 goals Man City lift trophy Inter lift trophy BetMGM (USA) -250 +380 +675 -110 / -130 -155 / +110 -650 +375 Sports Interaction (Canada) -294 +390 +681 -115 / -137 -161 / +117 — — SkyBet (UK) 4/9 7/2 6/1 5/6, 5/6 4/6, 11/10 1/5 10/3 Neds (Australia) 1.52 4.00 6.40 1.87 / 1.85 1.80 / 1.95 1.22 3.80 Dafabet (India) 1.35 4.90 7.90 1.93 / 1.81 1.66 / 2.22 1.19 4.60
Why Man City will win Champions League title in 2023
Incredible squad depth has led to exceptional health One of the most impressive parts of Man City’s exceptional season has been their overall health. Hardly any key players have struggled with injury this season, and Pep Guardiola’s side is at full strength as the end of the campaign nears, with the exception of defender Nathan Ake, who is recovering from a minor problem.
Rodri has hardly seen a rest this season, playing over 4,000 minutes across all competitions, but the rest of the Man City squad has been given the occasional breather, and the team hasn’t lost a step thanks to its exceptional depth. Guardiola has been able to deploy his preferred starting lineup whenever needed, and yet he can trust those in rotation when there’s room to do so.
The likes of Julian Alvarez and Aymeric Laporte have earned over 2,300 and 1,700 minutes respectively, and even Rico Lewis has played over 1,000 minutes this season. Riyad Mahrez, Phil Foden, and Jack Grealish have all rotated on the wing, and they have all delivered in moments and stretches.
With a powerful squad like Man City able to call upon every single starter at this stage in the season, it will be next to impossible to dethrone the favourites.
Erling Haaland the difference maker against Inter defenders
Erling Haaland was brought to Manchester City to win the Champions League. That much he’s already admitted publicly, and so he will be on task in the UCL final.
While the trio of Francesco Acerbi, Alessandro Bastoni, and Matteo Darmian did well to keep Olivier Giroud off the scoresheet for two legs in the semifinal, they don’t exactly strike fear in the hearts of world-class forwards like Haaland.
The Norwegian failed to find the back of the net against Real Madrid only thanks to Thibaut Courtois’ brilliance, and while Mike Maignan is a top goalkeeper, he will need a man-of-the-match performance just to keep the Man City striker out. That opens things up for the rest of the City goal scorers, of which they have many.
Haaland is eating defenders for lunch in European competition, winning 60 percent of his aerial duels in Champions League play this season. Both Acerbi and Bastoni are proficient in that department, but Haaland has so many ways of beating opponents, it’s hard to see them keeping up.
What Manchester City produced against Real Madrid in the second leg of their semifinal was utterly breathtaking. The City midfield was unbeatable, and their precise pressing kept Real Madrid totally unable to even get a dangerous touch on the ball let alone build forward with any kind of attacking presence.
Bernardo Silva, Kevin De Bruyne, John Stones, Rodri, and Ilkay Gundogan choked Real Madrid completely out of the match, from the opening whistle to the jubilant celebration at the end. Through 15 minutes, Madrid had just 14 total passes, and four Madrid players had yet to complete a single one.
Meanwhile, City used patience and precision to unlock the Madrid back line. Haaland forced two world-class saves out of Courtois before Silva’s double put City in front for good.
The Inter midfield is the strength of their side, but Nicolo Barella, Hakan Calhanoglu, and Henrikh Mkhitarayan won’t be able to breathe if City reproduce this performance. Oh, and if Inter decide to push the ball out wide, they’ll have to deal with Kyle Walker, who just blanketed Vinicius Jr for 180 minutes. – Sporting News
By Lesley Hova | Emmerson Mnangagwa, one of theb 2024l3 presidential candidates, yesterday shamelessly called on Zimbabweans to visit and verify the voters’ roll to make sure their data are accurately recorded. At the moment, the voters’ roll copy had been withheld from the public.
Prior to his anticipated announcement of the election date today, the President made this statement yesterday after verifying his information with his wife, Auxillia Mnangagwa, at Sherwood Primary School in Kwekwe.
“As the 2023 harmonised general elections draw closer, I call upon all voters to inspect the voters roll to ensure that their details are correctly captured,” he wrote on his Twitter handle.
The state media claims that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission on Saturday finally opened the voters’ roll to be used in this year’s harmonised elections for inspection in an exercise that is expected to run until May 31.
Inspections will be carried out at all the 1,159 polling stations, while prospective voters can also check their names using the USSD code *265# if they are Econet or NetOne subscribers and also on the ZEC’s website (www.bvrinspection.zec.org.zw), the announcement said.
On Saturday, ZEC chief elections officer Mr Utloile Silaigwana said the exercise could be extended in some centres.
“Owing to logistical and other unforeseen challenges, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission would like to inform members of the public that some voters’ roll inspection centres may start operating much later than the anticipated time on 27 May 2023. The Commission may consider extending this exercise scheduled to end on 31 May 2023 by a day in affected areas,” he said.
The centres will open between 7 am and 7 pm and people are required to bring a National Identity Card (metal, plastic or waiting pass with the holder’s picture) or a valid Zimbabwean passport.
“The cut-off date for the purposes of producing the voters’ roll for this inspection exercise was 28 April 2023. Those who registered on or before 28 April 2023, are encouraged to inspect the voters roll at their ordinary polling stations which have been designated as inspection centres for purposes of this voters roll inspection exercise. Note, your name will appear only at that inspection centre if that centre is your designated polling station,” Mr Silaigwana said.
He added that anyone with queries should direct them to their respective provincial elections officers or the ZEC’s head office in Harare.
Preparations for the elections are gathering steam with President Mnangagwa on Saturday saying he would today announce the date when they will be held.
ZEC deputy chair Ambassador Rodney Kiwa said voter registration would continue until two days after the proclamation of the poll dates as stipulated.
“Our cut-off date for the purposes of this inspection was on the 28th of April so what it means is the registration continues but not at the inspection centres but will continue at our 68 districts as well as the 10 provincial centres.
“Registration will continue until two days after the proclamation of the election date by the President,” he said.
Ambassador Kiwa said the electoral body was gearing for the successful holding of free, fair and transparent elections.
To this effect, he said, the commission had come up with a roadmap that would be followed once President Mnangagwa proclaims the election date.
“We are very much ready and getting prepared and some of the activities that we are undertaking, for instance, are the procurement of sensitive and non-sensitive materials including pens, indelible ink and so forth as well as ballot papers, we are all geared for that.
“Not only that, we are also training our people, electoral officers so that they are prepared and they know exactly what is expected of them when the President announces the date,” Ambassador Kiwa said.
“In that regard, we have a road map and once the President announces the date we are going to follow and it includes publicity whereby we will be engaging the media through whom we will be informing our public through radio, television, fliers and anything that will help us to reach our people so that they participate in the harmonised elections.”
The 2022/23 UEFA Champions League season will conclude at Istanbul’s Atatürk Olympic Stadium on Saturday 10 June 2023. The final will kick off at 21:00 CET (22:00 local time).
Where is the 2023 Champions League final? Built to support Türkiye’s bid to stage the 2008 Olympic Games, the Atatürk Olympic Stadium opened in 2002 and is home to the Turkish national team. Situated in the Başakşehir area of the city, west of the Bosphorus, it boasts a seated capacity of over 75,000.
This is the second major UEFA competition final to be staged at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium, with Liverpool having beaten AC Milan on penalties in the same venue in the final of the 2004/05 Champions League. The Reds triumphed despite trailing 3-0 at half-time, the ‘Miracle of Istanbul’ regarded as one of the most sensational comebacks in European football history.
Who is playing in the Champions League final? Manchester City and Inter will meet in the final for the first time. City booked their final spot at the expense of holders Real Madrid, while the Nerazzurri progressed as a result of a a 3-0 aggregate defeat of city rivals AC Milan in the semi-finals.- UEFA
By A Correspondent | The local currency will continue to be used, and deliberate measures are being done to raise its value in order to restore consumer purchasing power and support the economic recovery’s momentum, according to Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube. The government has stated that it will not budge from its policy to mainstream the use of the local currency because it has had a favourable effect on the broader economy, despite the most recent wave of speculative parallel market-induced inflationary dynamics and lopsided preference for foreign currency transactions.
According to Professor Mthuli Ncube, extra steps are being made to safeguard and preserve the Zimbabwean currency by getting rid of economic saboteurs.
His remarks come at a time when the local currency has been quickly falling in value against the US dollar, causing considerable consumer outrage and leading to the exclusive demand for payment in foreign currency by many company owners and service providers.
Some retail businesses have set their exchange rates at the unbelievable amount of $1 US, or $5 500, which is far more than the official rate of $1 888.
In an effort to collect foreign currency, a number of businesses, including well-known fast-food restaurants, have unplugged their electronic payment systems.
The inflated rates have also been a result of illegal forex traders employing POS devices for transactions involving big sums of money.
The local currency has aided in increasing economic productivity and the resurgence of some industries, according to Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube, who was speaking to journalists after his Saturday tour of retail establishments and interactions with the general public in Bulawayo.
“The Zimbabwe dollar is our lawful currency, our domestic currency, it is here to stay. It is what has given all these companies the competitiveness. That is why we have 80 percent of the goods being locally produced. This was not the case when the US dollar was the only currency that was circulating,” said Prof Ncube.
“Now we have this currency which has led to a kind of boom in the domestic economy and improved competitiveness and this is all due to the presence of the Zimbabwean dollar. We need it, we need to preserve it and protect it as Government. If we stop using the local currency, it will lead to some companies closing down. Some companies were able to reopen and invest because we introduced the Zim dollar.”
He said the new measures are expected to slow down the skyrocketing prices.
“Surely we will be announcing measures which I cannot mention at the moment this coming week to ensure that we strengthen the domestic currency and reduce the negative impacts that are eroding value for our currency,” said Prof Ncube.
“On 24 May 2025, the FIU froze the bank accounts of four major distributors, namely Saxin Trading, Simrac Enterprises, Brainscope Investments and Munella Enterprises, that have been diverting basic commodities to the informal market while refusing to supply same to established retailers who pay for and sell goods in local currency,” reads the statement.
“The FIU noted that these errant distributors transact almost exclusively in foreign currency cash yet they do not bank the cash as required under the Bank Use Promotion Act. The entities are being penalised and will further be referred to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority for suspected tax evasion.”
It said it has also increased surveillance operations, identifying and taking punitive action against traders engaged in exchange rate manipulation and all other illegal practices.
“Members of the public are urged to report any illegal business practices as described above, to the FIU WhatsApp hotline numbers: 0780 434 475 and 0719 207 310,” it said.- State Media
Marvelous Nakamba led his English club Luton Town to the English Premier League after beating Coventry City 6-5 on penalties in the play off final at Wembley.
The Warriors defensive midfielder played a starring role in the middle of the park and successfully converted his spot kick with Luton Town winning in sudden death penalty shoot out for a return to the top flight after more than 30 years in lower leagues.
Luton Town last played in the top flight in 1992 when they were relegated from the then English First Division that became the Premier League the following season in 1993.
While it was joy for Nakamba who celebrated with a Zimbabwean flag, it was tears for Coventry City the club that Warriors legend Peter Ndlovu played for.
Coventry City were last in the English English Premier League in 2001. The Sky Blues, as Coventry City are affectionately known, signed the then 18-year-old Peter Ndlovu from Highlanders in 1991, with the Bulawayo Bullet as Ndlovu was known in England, going on to become the first African player to play in the English Premier League.
Ndlovu went on to become a legend at Highfield Road, Coventry City’s old home including the honour of scoring a hattrick against Liverpool at Anfield, a record he shares with former Arsenal and Russian international Andrei Arshavin.
Coventry City had finished fifth in the championship to earn a play off spot, while Luton Town finished third.
In top spot were Burnley, while Sheffield United were the runners up, thereby earning automatic promotion to the premiership.
Meanwhile, Nakamba is still an Aston Villa player as his loan spell at Luton Town comes to an end at the end of the season.
It is not clear if Nakamba will continue at Villa, but indications are that Luton Town will sign him permanently from the Villans.- ZBC
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commissioned Mabobolo Primary and Secondary Schools in Binga, while also officiating at a groundbreaking ceremony for a clinic in the same area.
The President had a clear message hinged on the Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo/ Ilizwe Lakhiwa Ngabanikazi Balo mantra he emphasised that Zimbabweans must build their nation, with access to education and health key targets under the Second Republic.
“I said nyika inovakwa nevene vayo [the nation is built by its people]. We want to come to a stage where all clothes are manufactured in Zimbabwe, foods we eat must be produced in Zimbabwe, even the cars we drive. For this to happen, we want our children to study science and agriculture… Our children are very talented, so as government, we provide innovation hubs to transform their dreams into a product or service. We want engineers, we want doctors,” he said.
While the Second Republic has delivered many infrastructure projects in Binga, partnerships with various stakeholders such as the church have been key in delivering health and education institutions such as the Mabobolo schools and many others across the country.
The commissioned projects are being implemented by the Reformed Church of Zimbabwe.
Said president Mnangagwa, “Thank you for partnering government in ensuring that there is development in the country. We are very grateful for churches like RCZ who not only pray for us, but also partner their government in development.”
Meanwhile, President Mnangagwa has revealed that he will proclaim the 2023 general elections on Monday.
“I will make a pronouncement the day after tomorrow, you must go and vote and vote in peace,” he said.
The President’s visit to Binga this Saturday comes on the back of several empowerment and developmental projects in the area that include the construction of roads and the Binga fisheries project.- ZBC News
Two people have died in an accident involving three vehicles in Mutare along the Mutare-Harare highway this Saturday.
Zimbabwe Republic Police spokesperson for Manicaland Province, Inspector Norbert Muzondo confirmed the accident, which happened near the Christmas Pass this morning.
He said the accident happened when a Toyota Hilux truck tried to overtake a Honda Fit vehicle and collided with an oncoming 30-tonne truck before swerving and hitting the Honda Fit vehicle.
The drivers of the Toyota Hilux and Honda Fit died on the spot.- ZBC News
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commissioned Mabobolo Primary and Secondary Schools in Binga, while also officiating at a groundbreaking ceremony for a clinic in the same area.
The President had a clear message hinged on the Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo/ Ilizwe Lakhiwa Ngabanikazi Balo mantra he emphasised that Zimbabweans must build their nation, with access to education and health key targets under the Second Republic.
“I said nyika inovakwa nevene vayo [the nation is built by its people]. We want to come to a stage where all clothes are manufactured in Zimbabwe, foods we eat must be produced in Zimbabwe, even the cars we drive. For this to happen, we want our children to study science and agriculture… Our children are very talented, so as government, we provide innovation hubs to transform their dreams into a product or service. We want engineers, we want doctors,” he said.
While the Second Republic has delivered many infrastructure projects in Binga, partnerships with various stakeholders such as the church have been key in delivering health and education institutions such as the Mabobolo schools and many others across the country.
The commissioned projects are being implemented by the Reformed Church of Zimbabwe.
Said president Mnangagwa, “Thank you for partnering government in ensuring that there is development in the country. We are very grateful for churches like RCZ who not only pray for us, but also partner their government in development.”
Meanwhile, President Mnangagwa has revealed that he will proclaim the 2023 general elections on Monday.
“I will make a pronouncement the day after tomorrow, you must go and vote and vote in peace,” he said.
The President’s visit to Binga this Saturday comes on the back of several empowerment and developmental projects in the area that include the construction of roads and the Binga fisheries project.- ZBC News
Marvelous Nakamba led his English club Luton Town to the English Premier League after beating Coventry City 6-5 on penalties in the play off final at Wembley.
The Warriors defensive midfielder played a starring role in the middle of the park and successfully converted his spot kick with Luton Town winning in sudden death penalty shoot out for a return to the top flight after more than 30 years in lower leagues.
Luton Town last played in the top flight in 1992 when they were relegated from the then English First Division that became the Premier League the following season in 1993.
While it was joy for Nakamba who celebrated with a Zimbabwean flag, it was tears for Coventry City the club that Warriors legend Peter Ndlovu played for.
Coventry City were last in the English English Premier League in 2001. The Sky Blues, as Coventry City are affectionately known, signed the then 18-year-old Peter Ndlovu from Highlanders in 1991, with the Bulawayo Bullet as Ndlovu was known in England, going on to become the first African player to play in the English Premier League.
Ndlovu went on to become a legend at Highfield Road, Coventry City’s old home including the honour of scoring a hattrick against Liverpool at Anfield, a record he shares with former Arsenal and Russian international Andrei Arshavin.
Coventry City had finished fifth in the championship to earn a play off spot, while Luton Town finished third.
In top spot were Burnley, while Sheffield United were the runners up, thereby earning automatic promotion to the premiership.
Meanwhile, Nakamba is still an Aston Villa player as his loan spell at Luton Town comes to an end at the end of the season.
It is not clear if Nakamba will continue at Villa, but indications are that Luton Town will sign him permanently from the Villans.- ZBC
