By Gift Ostallos Siziba
In Buhera President Nelson Chamisa dispatched a delegation led by Mufakose MP Hon Susan Matsunga to deliver christmas goodies for Gogo Tsvangirai in Humanikwa village.
You know fellow Citizens that it’s a season.l or giving and we remember those whom we have travelled this journey with.
Merry Christmas from us to you with love and solidarity always!
Deep in Rural Vungu we extend a hand with Christmas hampers from President Chamisa.
We conversed with women, the elderly and the deserving in this part of rural Midlands to extent our gesture.
From us in CCC with love and solidarity Always.- Gift Ostallos Siziba
Business Correspondent| Three Wingers Enterprises is planning to introduce training and empowerment lessons for miners.
The company says miners are losing thousands of dollars due to lack of proper knowledge in the field.
According to the company, artisanal miners need to equipped with essential knowledge as well.
See statement below:
In response to high rise in people investing in mining losing thousands of dollars because of lack of knowledge and experience in the difference between Artisanal mining we are in process of developing any institution that will address that .
By 1 giving theory to specific small scale Mining areas.
2 give practical lessons on scale Mining
3 give small scale Mining management especially finance management.
4 Teach to raise funds and identify all key finance leakage points.
5 introduce you to mining compliance
6 train you in different mining environments and familiarize with small scale Mining agreements and loopholes firsthand and many more.
How
By providing accommodation inside a mine
Giving out theory lectures and practical lessons.
Introduce you to key players in the industry.
Later on plans
To establish fund in partnership with banks for students who concentrate and spend time at the mine to guarantee for loan.
To establish an online assistance through our digital network.
N.B for existence mines cyanide process assistance is taking shape from building tanks up to first elution for those with dump .
For more information
Call /WhatsApp 0774028830 for more
Facebook: Gold Mining Consultancy Zimbabwe
Website: https://www.threewingersenterprises.com
Deep in Rural Vungu we extend a hand with Christmas hampers from President Chamisa.
We conversed with women, the elderly and the deserving in this part of rural Midlands to extent our gesture.
From us in CCC with love and solidarity Always.- Gift Ostallos Siziba
By James Gwati- The death toll Boksburg gas tanker explosion has risen to 18, eight of the deceased being nurses.
The tanker driver has since been arrested and charged with culpable homicide and negligence, among several other offences.
Newzroom Afrika reports Tuesday that 18 people have died as a result of the accident. The news channels said eight of them are nurses who were on duty at OR Tambo Memorial Hospital.
The explosion happened Saturday morning on Hospital Road, a few metres from OR Tambo Memorial Hospital.
The truck is reported to belong to LP Gas.
The fire from the explosion also destroyed the OR Tambo Hospital.
The tanker drove into a low-lying bridge resulting in the accident.
Videos and photos shared on social media show bodies lying on the ground and severely burnt people trying to get medical help.
https://twitter.com/TheCitizen_News/status/1606535591163740160
By-The leader of the MDC, Douglas Mwonzora, said that he would rule Zimbabwe better than it is in the hands of Zanu PF.
He also said he was prepared to perform more than any other party if elected in the next year’s election.
In his Christmas Day message, Mwonzora, who is yet to contest in any election since taking over leadership of MDC from Thokozani Khupe at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, said:
I know that there are many of us who are stressed regarding what to spend on Christmas because the money and resources are not there.
Please take heart in the fact that the new government led by the MDC is coming.
It is a social-democratic government that is going to bring prosperity and end the suffering of Zimbabweans, and peace for the people of Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe is currently experiencing a high rate of inflation, exchange rate volatility, the erosion of salaries for those with jobs and a high rate of unemployment.
Mwonzora was recently elected uncontested to represent the MDC at next year’s elections.
He will likely face CCC president Nelson Chamisa and ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa in the race for the highest political office in the land. | NewZimbabwe.com
By-Gweru district has recorded a high number of condom distribution, the National Aids Council has announced.
NAC said Gweru District received over 600 000 condoms for both females and males from January to date.
Three hundred eighty-eight thousand thirty condoms were distributed during the same period in 2021.
Petros Mazengwa, who is Gweru District HIV and Aids co-ordinator at the National Aids Council (NAC) told the Chronicle that this is mainly attributed to the role played by Condom Champions (CC) who are supporting the distribution of condoms. Said Mazengwa:
Gweru district has recorded a surge in condom use after over 600 000 condoms both female and male were distributed from January to date. Condoms distributed are 581 709 males and 24 716 females.
A total 388 030 condoms were distributed last year in the district meaning we have a surge in condom distribution this year.
He said the CC volunteers are based in the wards and are involved in condom distribution, monitoring and information dissemination on “combination HIV prevention”. Said Mazengwa:
The district currently has 19 Condom Champions covering all wards. The Condom Champions also support other combination prevention programs by way of creating demand for services like HIV testing services (HTS), voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC), prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), cancer screening and others.
He said condoms are usually distributed at hotspots like beer outlets, clubs and other public drinking facilities as well as at universities and colleges.
When used correctly and consistently, condoms are a reliable method of preventing pregnancy and protecting both partners from sexually transmitted infections (STIs). | Chronicle
By- Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has opened up on the assassination of national hero and Zimbabwe National Liberation Army (ZANLA) commander Josiah Magama Tongogara.
Tongogara died in a suspicious accident on the eve of independence.
Chiwenga opened up while addressing relatives, friends, colleagues and senior Government officials who had converged at the National Heroes Acre to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of Tongogara’s death. Said Chiwenga:
To be where we are today it is because of that intelligent and brilliant commander, he foresaw things that we did not see ourselves at that time, that yes we are fighting but one day we will be free.
He was very aware that he would not see the new Zimbabwe, that he would not see independent Zimbabwe.
He would always say well let us fight, the day l go is the day you are going to be free.
We don’t know why, because he had a prophetic mind. It was unfortunate that he died on that fateful day.
Tongogara was born on 4 February 1938 in Shurugwi and died on Boxing Day in 1979 in a vehicle accident in Mozambique, soon after the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement. | The Herald
By- A women’s political rights lobby grouping, the Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE), is challenging the Customs and Excise Act which prohibits the importation of sex toys (dildos), saying the law violates women’s rights to pleasure.
WALPE executive director Sitabile Dewa lodged a court application challenging the legality of Section 47(1) b of the Customs and Excise Act which criminalises the importation of goods regarded as indecent.
In a statement, WALPE said the law is archaic and infringes on women’s rights to sexual pleasure. Part of the statement reads:
WALPE executive director Dewa is approaching the courts to challenge Section 47(1)b of the Customs and Excise Act which prohibits the importation of any goods which are indecent, obscene, or objectionable.
She is arguing that the law is draconian, and archaic and infringes on women’s rights to sexual pleasure, right to choice and association.
Dewa is being represented by human rights lawyer Jeremiah Bamu of Mbidzo Muchadehama and Makoni Legal Practitioners.
The law was used to convict a Harare resident, Ayanda Muponda, who sold dildos.
In the age of high- tech innovation that we now live in, many have come to associate innovation and creativity with technological advances – new and improved products and processes, faster devices that can do more, and sleek interfaces that elevate user experiences.
It is however rare to come across a company that takes the principles of innovation and creativity beyond product and process design and into marketing and CSR. From its inception the Econet brand has always been associated with a pioneering mindset.
As the country’s leading telecommunications, media, and technology company, Econet Wireless has been at the forefront of developing numerous innovations designed to meet the needs of their individual and corporate customers.
From mobile wallets to ride-hailing apps, they are almost always first on the market with technology-enhanced products.
This culture of innovation goes beyond product design, and permeates the very ethos of the company, as seen in its cutting edge marketing and social responsibility campaigns.
Over the past twenty years, the company has supported innovative social impact programmes in education, public health and youth leadership.
The culture of creativity is evident in this year’s IKhisimusi Sifikile promotion, where the brand has masterfully collaborated with popular artist Jah Prayzah in a remake of the Christmas anthem originally sung by legendary Paul Matavire.
In a move that could be described as a stroke of genius, the Econet leadership team has also built a CSR component into the promotion, ensuring that the Christmas spirit goes beyond meeting the needs of their own customers and into the broader community.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, many underprivileged groups and individuals have continued to suffer the consequences, with reduced donations coming in as they fall further down the list of priorities for hard-pressed corporates and families.
The Econet promotion aims to promote generosity by triggering the implementation of initiatives with positive sustainable impact.
It reminds consumers that the festive season is as much about giving as it is about receiving and enables interactive engagement with customers.
It is no wonder that the company scooped three coveted awards at the year’s Marketers Association of Zimbabwe (MAZ) Superbrand Awards.
These were Overall MAZ Superbrand of the Year, Best Superbrand in the Telecommunication sector and Best Superbrand in the Business-to-Consumer category.
Running under the theme: Brand Relevance and Dominance in the Age of the customer, the awards aimed to recognise brands that demonstrate continuous innovation and creativity, and the iKIhisimusi Sifikile promotion is just one example of how Econet leads in this area.
Where an annual promotion could become dull and repetitive, the Econet team has risen to the challenge, adding higher stakes, more strategic collaboration and border community care to their annual end of year campaign, demonstrating its commitment to innovation and creativity.
– Ends
” My nephew is the one involved in this accident,” explains a mourning Sydney Mugadza over the Beatrice road accident that killed 2 people (pic).
He explains over the circumstances saying,
” I think he was sleeping because he was coming from a funeral and transporting a mother from the airport, when he rammed straight into this bus at Beatrice road,” he adds.
He continues hinting that two people died: “a brother in law and my nephew perished,” he says.
By Dr Masimba Mavaza | In the first dispensation Zimbabwe got alienated from its social circles and found itself with fewer and fewer people to turn to. Imagine realising one day that all your friends and family have gone from your life. Loneliness can be cruel, and it affected millions of people living in Zimbabwe.
The second dispensation had a complete change of focus without changing principles. The President Emmerson Mnangagwa took a path which made Zimbabwe an enemy of none and a friend to all.
This kickstarted the reengagement program. Re-engagement is making life less lonely for millions of Zimbabwean people every year. The nation confirms that reengagement activities are making them happier and more able to trust others. As a nation we now have hope that lives will be impacted positively. Through his wisdom MNANGAGWA has opened doors which were shut for a long time.
The international engagements Zimbabwe participated in gave people a new life,regular afternoons of conversation and laughter with friends of all ages.
“Something to look forward to each month has been made real by the reengagement project.
Zimbabwe has managed stay connected to the outside world.
”Before this, Zimbabwe used to be so lonely surviving on straw.
In 2022 alone Zimbabwe participated in the Cop26 where the president visited Scotland after a long time in the deep freezer of isolation. The same year the president attended Belgium and Switzerland Davos.
Having realised that ED Mnangagwa is serious the
Joe Biden administration invited Zimbabwe to the Africa summit to chat a new path forward with Zimbabwe after almost two decades of sanctions against the late President Robert Mugabe and the whole nation.
The US government sent out formal invitations for its 13 – 15 December US-Africa Leaders. Only governments that don’t have diplomatic relations with the US (Eritrea, Western Sahara) or have been suspended by the African Union (Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Sudan) weren’t invited.
In a marked departure from President Barack Obama’s original 2014 summit, the Biden team asked the government of Zimbabwe to join as the US is getting satisfied by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s flawless leadership. This marked a great international victory a score which is sweeter than honey. Any way Zimbabwe is full of honey and milk. Zimbabwe which is not desperate had to send Ambassador Fredric Shava who is the minister of Foreign Affairs as president Mnangagwa remains under US sanctions, accused of undermining democratic processes in the country despite playing a great role in conserving democracy in Zimbabwe.
Biden’s goal, a National Security Council spokesperson says, was to host a “broadly inclusive summit.” Which obviously exposed their double standards.
Because Zimbabwe is not out to make enemies the president allowed comrade Shava to represent Zimbabwe.
“There are countries across the continent [which] […] struggle and are challenged on the democracy and governance side,” Dana Banks, the White House point person for the summit, tells The Africa Report. “But it’s important to have those conversations, right? You have to be able to talk about your concerns … That is the mature engagement that we are seeking with our African partners.”
The summit which is held yearly saw most African leaders calling for the removal of sanctions.
Zimbabwe’s government welcomed the invitation as a chance to repair ties with Washington a goal which MNANGAGWA has achieved at a speed of light.
“We are in continuous re-engagement with the United States and any other Western country,” Livit Mugejo, a spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs and international trade, said. So the invitation of Zimbabwe to attend the [US-Africa] summit provided another opportunity for the government to continue with its re-engagement efforts.
To see the clear results of Mnangagwa’s re engagement effort Zimbabwe was invited to the United States-Africa summit despite being on US sanctions for 20 years, because Washington recognised that zimbabwe will shape the future of the world and also because the United States is losing out to China diplomatically it can not do without Zimbabwe and Africa. Washington said in its strategy paper toward Sub-Saharan Africa, published in August: “Sub-Saharan Africa is critical to advancing our global priorities. It has one of the world’s fastest growing populations, largest free trade areas, most diverse ecosystems, and one of the largest regional voting groups in the United Nations (UN).”
While Africa remains the poorest continent, the US says: “It is impossible to meet this era’s defining challenges without African contributions and leadership.
On its strategy towards Africa, Washington says: “This strategy reframes the region’s importance to US national security interests. In November 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed that ‘Africa will shape the future—and not just the future of the African people but of the world’.”
However some Zimbabwe critics in Congress however aren’t pleased. These are the people who have been fed with lies by the Zimbabwean own opposition. Because of these people our efforts to turnaround our fortunes as a country is being slowed down.
African leaders descending on Washington, D.C. for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, was a key moment for the United States to try to reset its relationship with African countries. It was not a one sided affair. The question as heads of state, business leaders, and civil society experts gather is whether the event can deliver on its myriad objectives, from addressing food security to expanding trade. It was a summit which was approached on fifty fifty basis.
There was a comprehensive look at the relationship of Africa and America. It was indeed a two sided affair.
The long gap since the last summit in 2014, along with the tense relationship between the U.S. and Zimbabwe and the US and the continent during former President Donald Trump’s administration — during which he infamously called African nations “shithole countries” — placed extra pressure on the meeting.
After not having an Africa policy during the Trump years, the fact that there was the strategic document that came out in the summer and now this summit, that was a positive step.
There is an expectation that in order to demonstrate a real shift in U.S. policy and attitudes, the summit in future needs to go beyond pageantry, canned speeches, and a parade of symbolic announcements which will be followed by real action.
Zimbabwe needs America to deliver concrete policies, agreements, and business deals. Zimbabwe is open for
Business and will not be willing to waste time on things which are not profitable to us. So Zimbabwe took the summit seriously. President MNANGAGWA does not need just a photo op, but an opportunity to engage on a shared vision, with those who believe in the new dispensation.
The summit came at a fraught time for the continent. Countries are dealing with a deluge of shocks: lingering economic effects of the pandemic, historic high inflation, a mounting debt crisis, rising fuel and food prices, and devastating natural disasters connected to climate change. These have not spared Zimbabwe so we groan under the evil force of these things.
Zimbabwe has been accused of the abysmal human rights, corruption, and democracy breaches. None of these has never been proved.
In a contradicting move
Ahead of the summit, the US Treasury Department lifted sanctions on 11 Zimbabwean officials.
The number of countries which came together to fight on Zimbabwean side was encouraging. Ra Maphosa of South Africa has been lobbying for Zimbabwe to be invited to the summit, and his efforts were rewarded. Ramaphosa also reportedly pressed Biden to lift sanctions a request which we all wait to see. Because of Zimbabwe’s re engagement program the US and other Western powers have long been under pressure from Southern African nations to amend their policy toward Harare.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has repeatedly called for the removal of international sanctions on Zimbabwe, arguing that they harm the country’s economy and that of the entire region. The 16-member group has declared 25 October as ‘Anti-Sanctions Day’ in solidarity with Harare.
President Mnangagwa’s effort has helped. As we move to the 2023 elections we must look at the achievements achieved by the president and by ZANU PF.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on Human Rights, Alena Douhan, likewise denounced the humanitarian impact of the decades-old sanctions after visiting Zimbabwe last year.
Back in Zimbabwe ED is moving on building the country brick by brick. He needs one more term to complete the work he has started. The country is built by its owners.
By James Gwati- The ruling Zanu PF party is pressing for the arrest of CCC Harare councillors on crafted allegations of land corruption.
Pushing for the arrests of Chamisa aides is the Secretary for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Harare Metropolitan Province Tafadzwa Muguti.
Zanu PF appointed Muguti to spy on the CCC-dominated Harare city council.
Muguti announced on Christmas day that the arrests of several CCC councillors were imminent.
He said:
We have been witnessing massive land sales even in wetlands. When I engaged the Mayor [Jacob Mafume] he also expressed concern.
We will get to the bottom of this and find out who did what and when. I can promise that we will deal decisively with all those who cut corners to enrich themselves.
We will not leave any stone unturned as we seek the truth. The level of corruption in the [Harare City Council] has reached exhaustion and disgusting levels.
The land is easily sold off, including wetlands with no change of use. Heads will roll that I can promise.
Last week the state media also hinted at the imminent arrests.
The Herald said that CCC and MDC Alliance councillors, working in cahoots with top council officials, were buying commercial and industrial stands for as little as US$60 and reselling them at more than US$120 000.
A Changu Logistics bus engine failed as it climbed the steep slope at Save River Bridge. The driver lost control of the bus as it descended back into the river in reverse.
4 people were critically injured after they jumped through emergency windows, writes @NicksonMpofu
By James Gwati- Police in South Africa have arrested and charged the gas tanker driver that exploded in Boksburg, Gauteng.
The 32 years old South African driver was arrested while in hospital, receiving treatment for the burns from the explosion.
He has been charged with culpable homicide and negligence, among several other offences.
So far, 15 people have died as a result of the accident.
The explosion happened Saturday morning on Hospital Road, a few metres from OR Tambo Memorial Hospital.
The truck is reported to belong to LP Gas.
The fire from the explosion also destroyed the OR Tambo Hospital.
The tanker drove into a low-lying bridge resulting in the accident.
Videos and photos shared on social media show bodies lying on the ground and severely burnt people trying to get medical help.
https://twitter.com/TheCitizen_News/status/1606535591163740160
Opposition MDC president Douglas Mwonzora has promised to fix all problems being faced by Zimbabweans who are currently struggling to make ends meet in this festive season and beyond when he eventually takes over next year.
Mwonzora, who is yet to run in any election since taking over leadership of MDC from Thokozani Khupe, said Zimbabweans should expect prosperity next year.
“I know that there are many of us who are stressed regards what to spend on Christmas, because the money and resources are not there,” said Mwonzora.
“Please take heart in the fact that the new government led by the MDC is coming. It is social-democratic government that is going to bring prosperity and end suffering of Zimbabweans, peace for the people of Zimbabwe.”
A high unemployment rate, poor working conditions and low salaries have resigned Zimbabweans to a subdued festive season.
Mwonzora was recently elected uncontested to represent the MDC at next year’s polls.
He will stand against rival Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa and Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa, who are the main contenders.
-NewZimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Chairperson Priscilla Chigumba has today submitted the PRELIMINARY DELIMITATION REPORT to President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House, Harare.
The preliminary delimitation report has angered pro-ruling party groups including MenBeliED, Councillors4ED and many others who have demanded that it be disregarded over what they said was lack of consultation by ZEC.
By James Gwati- Zanu PF is pushing for the arrest of CCC Harare councillors on allegations of land corruption.
Pushing the arrest of Chamisa aides is the Secretary for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Harare Metropolitan Province Tafadzwa Muguti.
Zanu PF appointed Muguti to oversee the affairs of the City, dominated by CCC councillors.
He announced on Christmas day that the arrest of CCC councillors was imminent.
He said:
We have been witnessing massive land sales even in wetlands. When I engaged the Mayor [Jacob Mafume] he also expressed concern.
We will get to the bottom of this and find out who did what and when. I can promise that we will deal decisively with all those who cut corners to enrich themselves.
We will not leave any stone unturned as we seek the truth. The level of corruption in the [Harare City Council] has reached exhaustion and disgusting levels.
The land is easily sold off, including wetlands with no change of use. Heads will roll that I can promise.
Last week the state media also hinted at the imminent arrests.
The Herald said that CCC and MDC Alliance councillors, working in cahoots with top council officials, were buying commercial and industrial stands for as little as US$60 and reselling them at more than US$120 000.
By- The death toll for the weekend gas tanker explosion in Boksburg, Gauteng, has risen to 15.
The explosion happened on Hospital Road, a few metres from OR Tambo Memorial Hospital.
The truck is reported to belong to LP Gas.
The OR Tambo Hospital is on fire, with patients scrambling to safety.
Three or four cars are also said to have been involved in the accident.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the tanker drove into a low-lying bridge.
Videos and photos shared on social media show bodies lying on the ground and severely burnt people trying to get medical help.
https://twitter.com/TheCitizen_News/status/1606535591163740160
By-Some workers at the Chinese-owned Hualin Investments (Pvt) Limited mine in Pumula North, Bulawayo, are reportedly sleeping in dog kennels due to a shortage of accommodation.
This was revealed by a study on the mine conducted by the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Peter Nkala.
The research was titled “Quarrying my doorstep: The case of one company in Ward 17, Bulawayo Metropolitan Province”.
Nkala presented his findings at a Policy Brief hosted by the Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe (PPRZ) last Thursday. He said:
Some of the concerns raised are that blasting is affecting the houses and other infrastructure in the area.
There is damage to the roads in the area as 21-tonne trucks coming to collect the quarry are damaging roads.
Employment of outsiders who are actually desperate that they accept living in dog kennels.
… People are working long hours and are underpaid. Dust from the quarry is affecting people as well as flora and fauna.
There are unfulfilled promises by the investor such as donating Jojo tanks.
The company drilled a borehole to meet their water requirements but it is said they will not share the water with the community, which is not good neighbourliness.
After the presentations, participants queried how Hualin was allowed to operate without considering the effects of its activities on the environment.
Ward 17 councillor, Sikhululekile Moyo, who was also present at the policy brief, said Hualin applied to operate as was given a licence by the Ministry of Mines. | CITE
By Jane Mlambo| Opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa has remembered Gogo Tsvangirai with christmas goodies, delivered by Mufakose MP Hon Susan Matsunga in Humanikwa village, Buhera.
By Daniel Molokele| I first met Job Sikhala in 1996 at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ).
This was the year that he was admitted as a first year undergraduate student at what was then the most prestigious institution for higher learning in Zimbabwe.
When Sikhala arrived at the UZ, I was already one of the prominent student leaders there.
I was elected in November 1995 as the Secretary General of the 1995-96 UZSRC; after having been admitted as a student at the Faculty of Law in March 1995.
Within weeks of his arrival at the UZ, people started talking about Sikhala all across the UZ.
He had a very remarkable personality.
Firstly, he was a very tall person and his height enabled him to stand out in any crowd.
Secondly, he had a very loud mouth and always spoke animatedly and in a hyperbolic manner.
Thirdly, Sikhala was a very highly opinionated person. He enjoyed participating in all available public political discussions and debates and made sure that his strong views were heard very loud and clear.
But it was after April 1996 when I became the Acting President of the UZ students union that I started working closely with Sikhala.
This is because when I set up my own Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) he was one of the prominent first year students who actively participated in its meetings and activities.
It was the very same RCC that featured the likes of the late Learnmore Jongwe who was not yet in the SRC at that time and Nixon Mao Nyikadzino who later became the Commander of the RCC.
Later that year, our SRC organised some protests against the delays in the disbursement of government grants for students.
It was these public demonstrations that gave Sikhala his first public platform to become well known at the UZ. Other prominent RCC members like Jongwe and Nyikadzino also used the same demonstrations to grow their political profiles.
Then in November 1996, the elections for the 1996-97 UZ SRC were held. Both Sikhala and Jongwe actively campaigned and won. Sikhala was elected as the new Secretary for Publicity and Information while Jongwe was elected as the new President. I was also elected as the new Vice President of the same SRC.
It was this very same UZ SRC that was actively involved in the launch of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) in 1997
Furthermore, it was also this particular UZ SRC that actually hosted the inaugural Congress for the revived ZINASU that was held at the end of February 1997.
At the end of that Congress, elections were held for the national students’ leadership. This led to all three of us being elected to similar positions under ZINASU. Jongwe was elected as the President, I was alected as his Vice President while Sikhala was also elected as the Spokesperson for the 1997-99 ZINASU executive.
At the end of our term as the 1996-97 UZ SRC, Sikhala then contested for the Presidency of the 1997-98 UZ SRC. Unfortunately, he lost to Gabriel Marechera Shumba and Nixon Mao Nyikadzino who were elected as the President and Vice President, respectively.
However, Sikhala soon showed his political resilience by being elected as a member of the faculty based Students Representative Assembly (SRA) for that same year.
Then in April 1998, Sikhala was one of the prominent student leaders that orchestrated for a premature end for the term of office for the Shumba led SRC.
Soon after, some by-elections were held. Sikhala was one of the student leaders that actively persuaded me to step out of my retirement from campus politics and return as the President of the 1998-99 UZ SRC. Tafadzwa Musekiwa was elected as my Vice President while Sikhala surprised all and sundry by bouncing back into limelight as the new Secretary General.
It was during the 1998-99 UZ SRC that the political bond of brotherhood between Sikhala and myself was developed.
During that year we worked very closely as student leaders. In particular, we organised one of the most famous student demonstrations in the entire history of the UZ in June 1998. Unfortunately, the then Chancellor Robert Mugabe panicked and decided to close the UZ for almost a year.
It was also during the same period of the lengthy closure of the UZ that Sikhala and I grew even closer as political brothers. In particular, our political brotherhood was further strengthened when we managed to travel together to attend an internatnalton conference at the Makerere University in Uganda in August 1998.
During early 1999, Sikhala and I were also among the student leaders that were at the forefront during the process that led to the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) later that year. In particular, Sikhala and I co-authored a position paper that focused on why the student movement of Zimbabwe was strongly supportive of the formation of a new political party founded on the backbone of the labour movement of Zimbabwe.
But as fate would have it, later in 1999, Sikhala and I had a very big disagreement about our role in the 2000 parliamentary elections.
I chose to avoid joining parliament until later on. I then focused on legal practice at Bulawayo while Sikhala chose to go to Parliament in 2000.
In this regard, he was actively joined by the late Jongwe and Musekiwa, who were also elected successfully as MPs in the June 2000 elections.
We then drifted apart politically for several years.
Then in 2015, Sikhala visited me at my then home in Parkview at Johannesburg where he made a passionate appeal to me to return to Zimbabwe and actively participate in the national political discourse.
In response, I promised Sikhala that l would definitely consider returning to Zimbabwe but it was just a matter of time
That time eventually came in March 2017 when I was invited to contest as the next member of Parliament for my hometown at the Whange Central constituency.
When that opportunity came, apart from Advocate Nelson Chamisa, Sikhala was one of the first people I consulted about my decision to return to Zimbabwe. He was visibly happy and so excited.
From that time onwards, he actively played a strong part in helping me to set up my campaign. In particular, it was through his active facilitation that in June 2017, I travelled from Joahnensburg to Harare and met some of the most prominent leaders of our democratic movement.
It was Sikhala who set up my first meeting with Advocate Chamisa in Harare. He also accompanied me to meet Advocate Chmaisa at the Advocates Chambers.
It was also during the same meeting that Advocate Chmaisa helped me to set up an appointment with the late legend and icon, Morgan Tsvangirai. It was also Sikhala who accompanied me to my first meeting with Tsvangirai at his home.
As fate would have it, both Sikhala and I managed to contest and win in the July 2018 elections. Since then we have continued to work together as MPs, serving our beloved nation.
What I would like the people of Zimbabwe to know today is that Sikhala is not a criminal.
He is actually a political prisoner or prisoner of political conscience. Sikhala is a victim of political persecution by the abuse of criminal prosecution.
Ever since I first met him at the UZ in 1996, I have grown to know Sikhala as a passionate and patriotic Zimbabwean.
Sikhala really loves his beautiful motherland of Zimbabwe.
Whatever he has experienced since 1996, including the personal horrible torture that he had to endure at the hands of the State security agents in 2003; together with the over sixty arrests he has faced, the underlining point is that he has always been driven by passionate desire to actively serve his people of Zimbabwe.
He has always fought for a new peaceful, prosperous, free and democratic Zimbabwe.
The fact that he was forced to spend his Christmas day today locked inside the Chikurubi maximum security prison has nothing to do with him being a criminal at all.
On the contrary, Sikhala spent his Christmas day behind jail bars today simply due to the fact that he believes that it is his patriotic duty to actively fight for the dawn of a new political era in Zimbabwe.
Sikhala strongly believes that the fact that he spent his Christmas day in prison today will only serve to reinforce the fact that the people of Zimbabwe are not yet truly free.
There is still no political freedom in Zimbabwe today.
It is not yet UHURU!
Sikhala believes that his incarceration at the Chikurubi prison is actually a strong symbol of the fact that Zimbabwe remains largely a political prison.
The people of Zimbabwe are not yet truly free.
They are still struggling daily under the heavy chains of the political bondage imposed upon them by the increasingly intolerant and dictatorial Zanu-PF regime.
As long as Zimbabwe continues to have political prisoners like Sikhala, then its people are still yet to become truly free.
It is still not yet UHURU in Zimbabwe.
By James Gwati- The country has lost one of the finest and young judges, justice Elija Makomo.
Makomo died at the Avenues clinic this morning after a short illness.
He was 44.
Sunday, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) said it had lost a valuable asset in a statement announcing his death.
” The Judicial Service Commissioners; the Judge President of the High Court; Judges and Magistrates; the Secretary of the Judicial Service Commission; and all members of the Judicial Service would like to express deepest condolences to the Makomo family on the passing on of the Honourable Justice Elijah Makomo at the Avenues Clinic in Harare on Sunday, 25 December 2022.
Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Mrs Ansicaria Makomo and children. May the Lord comfort them during this difficult time,” said JSC.
Makomo joined the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs as a Magistrate in 2005 after a brief stint in the police force.
He rose through the ranks in the Magistracy and was promoted to Deputy Chief Magistrate in 2018.
He was the Registrar of the High Court from 2012 to 2013 and became the Chief Registrar of the Superior Courts, following in 2019.
In 2020, Makomo was appointed the JSC Head of Policy and Legal Services.
In 2021, he became a Judge of the High Court of Zimbabwe.
Justice Makomo studied Law at the University of South Africa.
He also had a Master of Law in Corporate Law and Masters in Business Administration.
Mourners are gathered at number 323 off Biston Road New Grange Harare.
Funeral arrangements will be announced in due course.
By- Chang Champion-in-chief and opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa has sent food packages to the Nyatsime 16 and jailed party’s deputy chair Job Sikhala’s family.
Gift “Ostallos” Siziba, the party’s deputy spokesperson, said on Friday that the food hampers were proceeds of the 2022 Presidential Charity dinner.
He posted on Twitter:
Today President Chamisa handed over food hampers to the less privileged, people living with disabilities, and the elderly.
These are the proceeds of the 2022 Presidential Charity dinner held last week.
The Presidency does this as a gesture of love and solidarity.
… Today President @nelsonchamisa sent Christmas hampers to Hon Job Sikhala family and the Nyatsime 16.
We spent our day with these progressive Citizens as part of our practice of solidarity.
Thank you, Zimbabwe for the love and support. One day we shall be free. Together we can!
Chamisa also confirmed the development via his Twitter account. He wrote:
Christmas time is about loving, giving and sharing. We had such a special and wonderful time today as we distributed hampers to the elderly and deserving in society.
By- The opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa has handed out food packages to the jailed Zengeza West Job Sikhala’s family.
Chamisa also did the same to the “Nyatsime 16”.
Gift “Ostallos” Siziba, the party’s deputy spokesperson, said the food hampers were proceeds of the 2022 Presidential Charity dinner.
He posted on Twitter:
Today President Chamisa handed over food hampers to the less privileged, people living with disabilities, and the elderly.
These are the proceeds of the 2022 Presidential Charity dinner held last week.
The Presidency does this as a gesture of love and solidarity.
… Today President @nelsonchamisa sent Christmas hampers to Hon Job Sikhala family and the Nyatsime 16.
We spent our day with these progressive Citizens as part of our practice of solidarity.
Thank you, Zimbabwe for the love and support. One day we shall be free. Together we can!
Chamisa also confirmed the development via his Twitter account. He wrote:
Christmas time is about loving, giving and sharing. We had such a special and wonderful time today as we distributed hampers to the elderly and deserving in society.
Govt spokesman Ndabaningi Mangwana during the week described controversial socialite as a Visionary who has insight, and below was a poll reacting to his opinion.
By-Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has taken over from President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has gone on annual leave.
Chiwenga will be the acting President until the end of January when Mnangagwa returns.
The state media cited Acting Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Mr George Charamba.
He is quoted as saying:
Just to inform the nation that His Excellency, President Mnangagwa started his by annual leave yesterday the 23rd of December which will run until the end of January, he has no intention of leaving the country he will spend his entire leave in the country, most probably between the capital and his farm. You know he’s a big farmer, he is behind the agriculture transformation that he has always called for, and he decided to lead by example. And my hunch is that he will be tending to his crops as well as his animals. Vice President Chiwenga will be the Acting President for the entire period the President is on leave.
The President traditionally takes his annual leave in January.
Unlike his predecessor, the late Robert Mugabe who would fly to the Far East during his annual vacations, Mnangagwa has previously spent month-long vacations in the country.
Govt has promised to house 2,000 state employees by April next year.
The govt says a housing boom is expected in the country which will see an initial 2 000 civil servants getting houses in a pilot project that has already started in Bulawayo with the recipients expected to move into their houses in April next year.
The project is set to spread to Harare and Marondera once the pilot project has been completed with more units being constructed for the Government workers.
The initiative will go a long way in addressing the national housing backlog that is currently pegged at just over two million.
Providing decent accommodation for workers and citizens is one of the top priority areas for the Second Republic which targets to provide 1,2 million housing units by 2030 to clear the 1,5 million housing backlog countrywide.
Emmerson Mnangagwa launched the Zimbabwe National Human Settlement Policy in September last year and the Ministry of National Housing is operationalising the policy in partnership with the private sector in line with Vision 2030 and National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1).
Delivering affordable and quality settlements in urban and rural areas is one of the Government’s core targets to improve access to affordable and quality housing and social amenities under the economic blueprint.
The Government is working on various housing schemes for its workers with flats planned at health institutions, amid plans to have onsite accommodation at all places of work.
Most of the works is in partnership with the private sector, and Shelter Afrique, a pan-African housing development financier that provides housing solutions in the continent recently extended a US$25 million sovereign credit facility towards the construction of 3 000 housing units countrywide, with at least 300 units expected for each of the 10 provinces.
In the Bulawayo civil servants’ housing scheme, over 2 000 Government workers from the city are set to get houses at Emthunzini suburb which is being administered by Hawkflight Construction and another developer who will build houses in the Rangemore area.
The Bulawayo scheme was initiated by Zanu-PF provincial chairperson, Jabulani Sibanda, who was, however not reachable when contacted for comment.
Hawkflight’s legal and operations manager, Mr Martin Moyo yesterday revealed that after the completion of the pilot project in Bulawayo they will move to Harare then Marondera.
“This is a facility which as a company we have been doing for some time but this time around the Government is taking a lead role where it has been noted that there is a need to empower our civil servants by giving them their own houses.
“What will happen is that those interested will pay an administration fee of US$250 then they will get a complete house, either a two or four roomed and then they will pay monthly rentals of US$158 or US$198 respectively, for the next 25 years,” said Mr Moyo.
He said as a company that is into property construction they had seen it fit to come up with the scheme so as to play their role in the development of the nation.
“The Bulawayo project is a pilot programme to the nationwide venture where we will move to Harare then Marondera, where civil servants will be given the houses of their choice. This is the little we can do towards the Second Republic’s goal of leaving no one and no place behind,” said Mr Moyo.
Meanwhile, the Government is also working on modalities to facilitate a housing scheme for journalists in the country with plans already underway to build 1 000 flats as part of the first phase.
Land would also be availed to journalists to start projects.
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Deputy Minister Kindness Paradza made the revelations at the recent Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) retreat in Victoria Falls saying providing accommodation for journalists is one of the strategies the Ministry will implement with the aim of improving conditions of service for members of the Fourth Estate.
Deputy Minister Paradza said the scheme came through engagements with the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) and a private developer has already been identified with modalities being worked out.
“What we have done as a Ministry is that after the ZUJ leadership came to see us with the Minister (Monica Mutsvangwa) they talked about lack of accommodation for their members and also land in terms of farms and plots.
“The Minister assigned me to go and find out whether we can have investors who are willing to assist in this regard and so we have identified one developer who we are working with right now. The developer has sent in the proposal and the Minister is dealing with that,” said Deputy Minister Paradza.
He said engagements are underway as he had been assigned to spearhead the process.
“So this land developer has the capacity to build for now, 1 000 flats for journalists who will have to pay say 10 percent deposit and thereafter pay just a minimum for a period of time. So we are working on that and the flats will be everywhere in all provinces.
The idea is to engage local authorities to set up land for these developers,” he said.
ZUJ secretary-general Perfect Hlongwane said the engagements are part of efforts to address the welfare of journalists.
He said ZUJ has about 1 500 members across the country and is on a mobilisation and recruitment drive to grow numbers.
“It’s a fact that a scheme is being worked on to ensure that our journalists are home owners which is something that we set out to do from the onset.
We have been engaging and we continue to do so with the public and private sectors for this and we are happy that the Ministry gave us an ear and have so far identified a land developer who we shall let people know of in due course when we are done with the preliminary process,” said Hlongwane.-state media
At least 20 000 travellers crossed from South Africa into Zimbabwe at the Beitbridge Border Post in Musina, Limpopo, from the 23rd to the 24th of December, the Border Management Authority (BMA) has said.
Different from the past years, travellers were not spending nights in the queue before being processed.
BMA commissioner Mike Masiapato says the Beitbridge Border Post is experiencing a high number of people crossing than other ports of entry. He said:
Inside the port, all the process is up and running in terms of the ICT or the computers.
We always have challenges where during load shedding the system is always going down.
This time we make sure that we have experts on the ground, so the capacity is here, additional capacity.
I can indicate that the average we are able to process over a period is about 15 000.
Last, we have processed over 14 000 and up to this point, we processed over 8 000 trucks. We processed about 600 in a 24-hour basis.
People who were crossing to the Zimbabwean side at Beitbridge Border Post from South Africa commended border officials for improving services. One of the travellers said:
The service at the border, I just arrived now but it’s moving. I hope we are going to reach home in time.
Me, I would clap for immigration because there are no queues. These guys are well-organised. It is moving 100%; I give them a clap.
However, traffic was heavily congested on the N1 road between Musina, a town in South Africa, and the border post. | SABC News
Close to 300 000 people have come home for the festive season, a figure significantly higher than last year’s inbound travellers, when the Government introduced stringent Covid-19 measures to curb a fourth wave of the pandemic then.
Statistics from the Immigration Department show that 281 715 people entered the country between December 1 and 21, while 219 902 exited through official ports over the same period.
The country’s busiest port of entry, Beitbridge Border Post, had cleared 177 106 inbound travellers by last Wednesday, while an additional 126 569 were given clearance to exit.
Over the same period, the department cleared 26 484 inbound travellers and 24 312 exiting travellers at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.
The department is projecting that Beitbridge will handle an average 12 674 people entering the country every day over the Christmas holidays, while about 7 600 will exit through the port daily.
Entry into the country for the Christmas holidays dropped to record lows last year, as the country battled a raging 4th wave of the coronavirus pandemic, with border authorities clearing an average of 2 000 travellers a day, down from the pre-Covid-19 highs of 15 000.
Ahead of the festive season last year, the Government introduced mandatory Covid-19 PCR test requirements for all returning citizens, coupled with a 10-day quarantine for those who tested positive for the virus.
The authorities have, over the course of this year, progressively scaled down entry restrictions, with inbound travellers now only required to produce either a valid Covid-19 vaccination certificate or a negative PCR test result.
Chief immigration officer Mrs Respect Gono told The Sunday Mail that the number of travellers will triple as the holiday season progresses.
“We have been clearing an average of 1 481 per day at Forbes, 1 704 at Chirundu, 1 000 at Nyamapanda and 1 996 at Plumtree since the beginning of the peak period,” she said.
“We are anticipating a surge as more people come into the country and some going out for the festive holiday.
“From December 15, movement was projected to triple for major borders like Beitbridge, Chirundu, Robert Gabriel Mugabe Airport, Plumtree and Victoria Falls.”
To speed up the clearing processes at the ports of entry, Mrs Gono said the department will open up additional serving points.
“In order to de-congest our ports of entry, we are beefing up manpower through suspension of all forms of leave, opening of additional service points, engaging with local and inter-border stakeholders to have a coordinated service delivery and facilitate smooth and effective passage of all travellers,” said Mrs Gono.
She said modernisation of Beitbridge Border Post has eased movement of traffic.
“On Beitbridge, the structure of the recently modernised border is a major tool to de-congest traffic as it is premised on the separation of traffic.
“The border has three different terminals – the commercial terminal, bus terminal and pedestrian terminal.
“Separation of traffic de-congests and eases movement.”
She said robust measures were put in place to mitigate smuggling of goods and undocumented people.
“Since the beginning of this month we have arrested 3 304 border jumpers.
“Border line patrols with other border security agencies, inland patrols and roadblocks with police and military personnel have already been initiated.
“We have increased spot checks and motor traffic searches, screening of vehicles and buses on entry and exit sides and prosecution of smugglers and those assisting illegal movement,” she said.
Movement of people into the country was depressed over the last two years owing to Covid-19 containment protocols, which have since been eased.-state media
Jailed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Job Sikhala’s 16 children are struggling to make ends meet and having to survive on well-wishers, his son, Job Jnr has revealed.
Job Jnr, who was speaking on South African broadcaster SABC News, blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ‘military’ regime for his father’s continued incarceration, adding that they could still not believe he was now clocking six months at Chikurubi.
Sikhala was arrested in June on charges of inciting public violence and obstructing the course of justice. He has, over the past months, been denied bail over 10 times, while all his other co-accused have been granted.
“It is difficult for us to accept that we do not have our father, we cannot believe that he has been incarcerated by this military regime for over 190 days now. It is hard for us to accept this kind of cruelty,” said Job Jnr.
“It has been hard on us because Sikhala has 16 children who need to be fed, who need school fees and other expenses. We are surviving on well-wishers who have been giving us money and fuel coupons to visit him because we cannot afford.”
Sikhala, who is Zengeza West member of parliament (MP), has accused Zanu PF of keeping him in jail for his political influence could result in its loss at next year’s elections.
Speaking from Chikurubi Prison, where he is being held among some of Zimbabwe’s dangerous criminals, Sikhala said he had already prepared himself for a long stay.
“Zanu PF is afraid of releasing me. They know doing that before next year’s elections will definitely cement their loss at the polls. They know my capacity,” said Sikhala.
“There should not be any doubt or fear for me here, I am comfortable with them keeping me here. It gives me more time to teach comrades being kept here about the Zimbabwean situation.
“I have prepared myself for a long stay and am ready to stay until the cows come home. This is just an attempt to delay the inevitable, a Zanu PF loss. I am willing to be here until the end.”
Sikhala, whose umpteenth bail application was reserved last week, will most likely spend Christmas in jail.
His next court appearance is set for December 29.
A PRIMARY school teacher is on the run after allegedly m0lesting pupils and taking “photo shoots” of the abuse.
Peter Mugomesi from Mugwira Primary School in the Manoti area, Gokwe South district in Midlands Province disappeared when pictures of his ƨəxcapades leaked and went viral.
Evil teacher Peter Mugomesi from Mugwira Primary School abus!ng a primary school girl
The teacher can be seen f0ndl!ng a girl’s brəasts in one of the pictures while in another, the minor is sitting on his lap.
It could not be ascertained if the pictures were taken in a classroom at the school or some other place.
A source from the school who declined to be named said Mugomesi always looked at school children “with the hungry eyes of a predator.”
“I always felt he looked at the children strangely. After hearing the about the accusations, in retrospect, I think he looked at them with the hungry eyes of a predator. It is possible he abused many children and I hope they will have the courage to make police reports,” said the source.
Midlands Provincial Education Director in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Jameson Machimbira said the Government would take action against Mugomesi.
“This is highly criminal. The case is under investigation and I am waiting for the report.”
“The adult in the picture is confirmed to be a teacher at Mugwira Primary School in Manoti area, Gokwe South district. The adult in the picture is confirmed to be a teacher at the school attended by the learner in the picture,” said Machimbira.
He said there were two issues that were being investigated.
“There are two issues here, one is a criminal offence while the other is a professional offence (conduct). Police are hunting for the teacher. Of course as the ministry we will charge the teacher and ensure that the minor is adequately supported,” said the provincial education director.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko also confirmed the matter.
“It is confirmed and investigations are underway. Details handisati ndave nawo (I still don’t have the details) with regards to the matter,” he said.
Ƨəxual abuse of pupils within the school context involves teachers having ƨəx with pupils, having l0ve affairs with pupils, imprəg_nating them, f0ndl!ng their brəasts and butt0cks or other pr!vatə parts.
— BMetro
Acting President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has consoled the family of the late Brigadier-General Fakazi Mleya following the death of his son, Mr Khupo Mleya, who was gunned down by yet to be identified assailants in the United States on Friday.
The Acting President worked with the late national hero Brigadier-General Mleya, who passed away in 2007, and yesterday joined mourners to console the Mleya family following the unfortunate shooting in Lincoln in Nebraska that claimed the life of the 38-year-old.
Mr Khupo Mleya is survived by a wife and a 12-year-old daughter.
The motive of the shooting is still unknown, but reports from the US say Lincoln Police have launched a manhunt for the gunman.
“I was saddened when I received the message of his death from (ZANU PF) Vice President Mohadi. He was a child whom I knew very well when he was growing up.
“It is barely two months since we last talked of him. I asked Vice President Mohadi and he told me they are out of the country and I told him that they should come back home.
“Now, we hear of this very sad incident. To the family, I want you to be strong in this difficult time and what we now need is to ensure his remains are brought back home for a decent burial,” said the Acting President.
The Mleya family spokesperson, Mr Gino Malapela, said: “Khupo was on his way back from work going home in the early hours of the morning.
“Unfortunately, his car was shot at several times, and then got involved in an accident.
“The first responders who visited the scene tried to revive him, but he had already passed away.”- state media
A PRIMARY school teacher is on the run after allegedly m0lesting pupils and taking “photo shoots” of the abuse.
Peter Mugomesi from Mugwira Primary School in the Manoti area, Gokwe South district in Midlands Province disappeared when pictures of his ƨəxcapades leaked and went viral.
Evil teacher Peter Mugomesi from Mugwira Primary School abus!ng a primary school girl
The teacher can be seen f0ndl!ng a girl’s brəasts in one of the pictures while in another, the minor is sitting on his lap.
It could not be ascertained if the pictures were taken in a classroom at the school or some other place.
A source from the school who declined to be named said Mugomesi always looked at school children “with the hungry eyes of a predator.”
“I always felt he looked at the children strangely. After hearing the about the accusations, in retrospect, I think he looked at them with the hungry eyes of a predator. It is possible he abused many children and I hope they will have the courage to make police reports,” said the source.
Midlands Provincial Education Director in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Jameson Machimbira said the Government would take action against Mugomesi.
“This is highly criminal. The case is under investigation and I am waiting for the report.”
“The adult in the picture is confirmed to be a teacher at Mugwira Primary School in Manoti area, Gokwe South district. The adult in the picture is confirmed to be a teacher at the school attended by the learner in the picture,” said Machimbira.
He said there were two issues that were being investigated.
“There are two issues here, one is a criminal offence while the other is a professional offence (conduct). Police are hunting for the teacher. Of course as the ministry we will charge the teacher and ensure that the minor is adequately supported,” said the provincial education director.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko also confirmed the matter.
“It is confirmed and investigations are underway. Details handisati ndave nawo (I still don’t have the details) with regards to the matter,” he said.
Ƨəxual abuse of pupils within the school context involves teachers having ƨəx with pupils, having l0ve affairs with pupils, imprəg_nating them, f0ndl!ng their brəasts and butt0cks or other pr!vatə parts.
— BMetro
Serving the people requires authenticity and genuineness.
It is a platform for those driven by burning desire for Change.
With a full understanding that it is possible and doable.
That we have an appointment with the future and we have to make it.
President Chamisa has demonstrated beyond doubt that he has the heart to serve, the readiness to deliver and we are humbled to serve the Presidency.
Our job is to keep the nation and the word informed.
We do that with humility, dignity and to the best of our abilities.
We have keep moving and to keep the focus.
Together!
“KE December” festive, but ladies you may consider cutting down your alcohol intake for fear of becoming victims of drink-spiking.
In a harrowing case, two teenage girls from Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo reportedly passed out and were robbed of their “virtue” after they attended a party where their alcohol was spiked with an unknown substance.
The two teenagers who were ƨəxually attacked while completely wasted reportedly stayed alone and it emerged they were constantly being abused for food and other petty stuff like beer.
The incident was confirmed by Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube.
He advised parents and guardians not to let their children live alone as this exposes them to many risks.
“We would like to warn parents and guardians against letting their children stay alone while they pursue money in the diaspora, this scenario poses risk to children,” he warned.
According to a source close to the investigations the two minor girls on Saturday last week attended a party in Matshobane suburb where they were drinking beer.
It is reported that as they were boozing they did not know that it was spiked with an unknown substance and after a few minutes they felt drowsy and were taken to one of the bedrooms.
“While they were sleeping two men ƨəxually attacked them and they woke up to the ordeal but they could not do anything as the two men threatened to stab them,” said the source.
When they had fully recovered, the rapə victims reported the incident to the police.
The source close to investigations said police received a tip-off that the two victims have been subjected to ƨəxual attacks since March this year.
“Police from Victim Friendly Unit are investigating the case of ƨəxual abuse and it is understood the two minors have been ƨəxually abused for food and other petty things,” said the source.
— BMetro
“KE December” festive, but ladies you may consider cutting down your alcohol intake for fear of becoming victims of drink-spiking.
In a harrowing case, two teenage girls from Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo reportedly passed out and were robbed of their “virtue” after they attended a party where their alcohol was spiked with an unknown substance.
The two teenagers who were ƨəxually attacked while completely wasted reportedly stayed alone and it emerged they were constantly being abused for food and other petty stuff like beer.
The incident was confirmed by Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube.
He advised parents and guardians not to let their children live alone as this exposes them to many risks.
“We would like to warn parents and guardians against letting their children stay alone while they pursue money in the diaspora, this scenario poses risk to children,” he warned.
According to a source close to the investigations the two minor girls on Saturday last week attended a party in Matshobane suburb where they were drinking beer.
It is reported that as they were boozing they did not know that it was spiked with an unknown substance and after a few minutes they felt drowsy and were taken to one of the bedrooms.
“While they were sleeping two men ƨəxually attacked them and they woke up to the ordeal but they could not do anything as the two men threatened to stab them,” said the source.
When they had fully recovered, the rapə victims reported the incident to the police.
The source close to investigations said police received a tip-off that the two victims have been subjected to ƨəxual attacks since March this year.
“Police from Victim Friendly Unit are investigating the case of ƨəxual abuse and it is understood the two minors have been ƨəxually abused for food and other petty things,” said the source.
— BMetro
By James Gwati-CCC deputy chairman, Job Sikhala has missed this year’s Christmas.
The Zengeza West Member of Parliament is spending the Christmas holiday in prison after his arrest in June on trumped-up charges of inciting violence.
His son, Job Sikhala (Jnr), has described his father’s prolonged detention as “cruelty”
He made the remarks while speaking on South African broadcaster SABC News.
The police arrested Sikhala in June on charges of inciting public violence, which erupted during the funeral wake of his deceased client and opposition party member, Moreblessing Ali.
Ali was was killed by a known Zanu PF activist Pius Mukandi.
Job Jnr said:
It is difficult for us to accept that we do not have our father, we cannot believe that he has been incarcerated by this military regime for over 190 days now. It is hard for us to accept this kind of cruelty.
It has been hard on us because Sikhala has 16 children who need to be fed, who need school fees and other expenses. We are surviving on well-wishers who have been giving us money and fuel coupons to visit him because we cannot afford.
Sikhala, who is also caused of obstructing the course of justice, claims his imprisonment is politically motivated adding that the ruling party is afraid his political influence could result in its loss at next year’s elections. He spoke from Chikurubi Prison:
I have prepared myself for a long stay and am ready to stay until the cows come home. This is just an attempt to delay the inevitable, a Zanu PF loss. I am willing to be here until the end.
Sikhala will most likely spend Christmas in jail.
His next court appearance is set for December 29.
FIFA have announced the winner of the 2022 FIFA World Cup goal of the tournament.
The competition was held in Qatar from November 20 to December 18.
Football fans across the world took part in the poll and Richarlison’s stunning bicycle kick against Serbia in their opening group stage match received most votes.
The Brazil forward’s stunning strike came in the 73rd minute of the game.
The goal beat the likes of Brazilian team-mate Neymar and Kylian Mbappe to the award. – Soccer24 Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has handed over power to his deputy Constantino Chiwenga.
Chiwenga has taken over Mnangagwa’s position in an acting capacity as the President commences his annual leave.
Mnangagwa will be back to work at the end of January.
Chiwenga, who doubles as the Minister of Health and Child Care, will enjoy Mnangagwa’s post for the entire period the President will be on leave.
The state media cited Acting Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Mr George Charamba.
He is quoted as saying:
Just to inform the nation that His Excellency, President Mnangagwa started his by annual leave yesterday the 23rd of December which will run until the end of January, he has no intention of leaving the country he will spend his entire leave in the country, most probably between the capital and his farm. You know he’s a big farmer, he is behind the agriculture transformation that he has always called for, and he decided to lead by example. And my hunch is that he will be tending to his crops as well as his animals. Vice President Chiwenga will be the Acting President for the entire period the President is on leave.
The President traditionally takes his annual leave in January.
Unlike his predecessor, the late Robert Mugabe who would fly to the Far East during his annual vacations, Mnangagwa has previously spent month-long vacations in the country.
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has commenced his annual leave after a busy year that saw his government implementing various developmental programmes.
The man who is known for leading from the front and popularising the Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo/ Ilizwe lakhiwa ngabanikazi balo mantra is taking a rest and will resume his duties next year to continue with his development programmes.
Acting Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Mr George Charamba confirmed the development to ZBC News.
“Just to inform the nation that His Excellency, President Mnangagwa started his by annual leave yesterday the 23rd of December which will run until the end of January, he has no intention of leaving the country he will spend his entire leave in the country, most probably between the capital and his farm. You know he’s a big farmer, he is behind the agriculture transformation that he has always called for, and he decided to lead by example. And my hunch is that he will be tending to his crops as well as his animals. Vice President Chiwenga will be the Acting President for the entire period the President is on leave,” he said.
2022 saw a number of major milestones for the country under the leadership of President Mnangagwa.
In the mining sector, new entities like Sabi Star mine in Buhera and the Manhize Steel plant in the Midlands Province were officially commissioned.
Sabi Star lithium mine is expected to generate one billion United States dollars annually.
The Manhize steel plant which was officially commissioned by President Mnangagwa in the first week of October will be producing steel to meet the local requirements as well as supply the international markets.
Still on mining, in November the President also commissioned a central shaft at blanket mine which will see increased gold production.
The Beitbridge – Harare highway, also recorded significant progress with local companies who were contracted to carry out the construction, being commended for their workmanship.
The agriculture sector also recorded positives with the country producing wheat enough to last the country for 13 months.
2022 was also a year in which President Mnangagwa hammered on the crucial role that the young generation should play in economic development.
Through education 5.0 model, the young minds continue to come up with innovations that answer to the needs of industry.
As 2023 beckons, the country is expected to record more positives on the economic front.
Zimbabweans will head to the elections in 2023 and President Mnangagwa has emphasised that violence will not be tolerated, calling for peace during and after the electons.- ZBC
Tinashe Sambiri| President Nelson Chamisa on Friday distributed food hampers to the elderly and the less privileged.
In a statement the Citizens Coalition for Change leader said:
“CHRISTMAS TIME is about loving, giving and sharing.
We had such a special and wonderful time today as we distributed hampers to the elderly and deserving in society.
Let love lead! Show and share love! The future is exciting! #Godisinit.”
CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba wrote on Facebook:
Today President Chamisa handed over food hampers to the the less privileged, people with disabilities and the elderly.
These are proceeds of the 2022 Presidential Charity dinner which was held last week.
The Presidency does this as a gesture of love and solidarity.
It’s a season of giving and we do our best to play our part.
We thank every Citizen, the business community and compatriots in diaspora who made this possible.
Thank you Zimbabwe thank fellow countrymen.
Together!
By Dr Masimba Mavaza | President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dropped in a mix of characters to be Zanu-PF politburo members along with other senior party members.
The party held its congress in October this year and President Mnangagwa was declared the presidential candidate in the upcoming 2023 elections. He delayed the appointment of full PB members to this week.
After securing the top position, Mnangagwa promised to fill in the remaining PB positions and indeed he has done it today.
The Politburo is the second most powerful organ of the party before the Central Committee.
The Politburo has seen the former G40 cadres and the Ngwena team coming together with the gamatox to make an election winning recipe.
A war time Politburo is indeed a mixture of crocodile G40 a sprinkle of gamatox mixed with one or two useless cadres cemented by generals and commanders to come up with a victory meal in 2023.
In politics there is a popular discourse called a horseshoe theory asserts that the extreme left and the extreme right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together. The unlikely components are always mixed to form a strong solution.
The wisdom of President Mnangagwa shows that the extreme left and the extreme right are closer to each other than either is to the political center. So they will work together to achieve a goal without giving the centre any headache.
Despite the sharp differences which emerged earlier culminating to the coming of the new dispensation everything pointed to a number of perceived similarities between extremes and allege that both have the same aim but different ways of achieving it.
With CCC losing its support base observers of Zimbabwe politics are predicting a more factitious opposition in 2023 which will give ZANU PF a cutting edge.
This new political reality is now beginning to take shape with the appointment to the Politiburo of those who had interest on the party but different approach.
Chamisa just months into his CCC is now scrambling to get support and dispatching his leadership out of the country to fund raise and gunner support.
The president appointed Obert Mpofu who returned the Secretary for Administration,
Deputy for Administration Retired General Mike Nyambuya, Secretary for Finance Patrick Chinamasa, Deputy Secretary for Finance Mthuli Ncube, Secretary for Commissariat Mike Bimha and Deputy Secretary for Commissariat, Webster Shamu.
Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Trade Simbarashe Mbengegwi, Deputy Foreign Affairs and International Trade Abedingo Ncube,
Secretary for Security Matuke, Deputy Secretary for Security Tendai Chirau, Secretary for Transport July Moyo and Deputy Secretary for Transport James Makamba
Secretary Legal Affairs Jacob F. Mudenda, Deputy Secretary Legal Affairs Advocate Fortune Chasi,
Secretary for Information and Publicity Christopher Mutsvangwa, Deputy Secretary for Information and Publicity Chido Sanyatwa, Secretary for Health and Child Welfare and Elderly Douglas Mombeshora, Deputy Secretary for Health and Child Welfare and Elderly Irene Zindi, Secretary for Lands Musanhi and Deputy Secretary for Lands Mike Madiro.
Secretary for Environment and Tourism Auxillia Mnangagwa, Deputy Secretary for Environment and Tourism Joshua Sacco, Secretary for Ideology Charles Tavengwa, Deputy Secretary for Ideology, Rebbeca Fanuel, Secretary for Science and Technology Ziyambi Ziyambi, Deputy Secretary for Science and Technology Nicholas.
Secretary Economic Development Stembiso Nyoni, Deputy Secretary Economic Development Otilia Maluleke,
Secretary for Labour and Empowerment Richard Ndhlovu,
Deputy Secretary for Labour and Empowerment Jeniffer Mhlanga,
Secretary for Mines Paul Mangwana and Deputy Secretary for Mines Eliphas Tshuma.
Secretary for Local Government Super Mandiwanzira, Deputy Secretary for Local Government Monica Mavhunga
Secretary for Economic Affairs A. Rugeje, Deputy Secretary for Economic Affairs Andy Mhlanga, Secretary for Disabilities Malinga, Deputy Secretary for Disabilities Elina Shirichena.
Secretary for Women Affairs Mable Chinomona, Deputy Secretary for Women Affairs Judith Ncube, Secretary for Youth Affairs Tino Machakaire, Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs John Paradza, Secretary for War Veterans Affairs Douglas Mahiya, Deputy Secretary for War Veterans Affairs, Headman Moyo, Secretary for Business Development Eliphas Mashava and Deputy Secretary for Business Development Esther Nyati.
Joram Gumbo was appointed as Secretary for Implementation and Monitoring.
The president has managed to unite his party towards the best interest of the country. This a declaration of unity by cde Mnangagwa and a clear purpose and intent to win the 2023 elections.
In one of my personal meetings with the President ED he said” I work with some people I don’t like but as long as they can contribute to to the best interest of the country and party we bury our hatchets and move together for the best interest of the party and country. “ Now in this mixed bag the president has brought his enemies on the table because he knows that without unity, we can not achieve and we can not effectively perform for our country.
The president is leading by example. He is living no one behind in this great journey of nation rebuilding. Charity begins at home so unity begins in ZANU PF. What the president has done is showing the world that we are people and a party which rises to the occasion.
The wisdom of the president has put the opposition in disarray, with the key ingredients in one pot the opposition constipated with menu ZANU PF. Elections are won through structured organization and unity. ZANU PF has shown the world that we can agree to disagree and move on.
The gnashing of teeth within Zanu PF amid the impending announcement of a new Politburo has now come to an end The new Politburo has ushered fresh blood and relegate the old guard to the peripheries and a lot of surprise inclusion where some were given positions where their experience in that field in below zero.
The Politburo was dissolved during congress. President Emmerson Mnangagwa replaced the Politburo with people from all walks of life and all warring camps within ZANU PF.
Fresh faces, as well as returnees, to the powerful Politburo are A WAR CABINET designed to fight the opposition and its handlers.
President Mnangagwa has kept the list a closely guarded secret until this week. The president has brought changes to his inner circle in a power preservation matrix, which has resulted in retiring of some of his contemporaries, and replacing them with ‘Young Turks and experts.
“In whatever portfolios the party assigns us in the future, let us maintain the momentum we have demonstrated to date, while at the same time providing appropriate guidance to the lower structures of the party,” said the president. “No matter our portfolios in the future, let us remain unflinching and consistent as loyal, patriotic and committed members of Zanu PF emboldened by the fact that in our party, leaders at every level are servants of the people, as such the most important position in Zanu PF is to be a card-carrying member.
“The enthusiasm which was shown across the party amply demonstrates that Zanu PF is alive and remains the only true defender of that we fought for.” Said the president addressing a previous PB.
In the new PB president Mnangagwa has balanced loyalty and competence ahead of the 2023 elections.
Presiding over a rapidly sanction ravaged Nation, Mnangagwa has grasped the political realities of our time. Relying on constitutional doctrines to close the widening rift over the way forward of Zimbabwe he has understood that the enemies of the nation are the divided nationalities of the same nation.
What is left now is to win the elections as a united front.
The Politburo is a mirror which reflects the whole party. It extents its hands of welcome to all Zimbabweans who wish to be builders building the nation brick by brick.
If Zimbabwe wants a united nation, it must vote for a united party.
Tinashe Sambiri| President Nelson Chamisa on Friday distributed food hampers to the elderly and the less privileged.
In a statement the Citizens Coalition for Change leader said:
“CHRISTMAS TIME is about loving, giving and sharing.
We had such a special and wonderful time today as we distributed hampers to the elderly and deserving in society.
Let love lead! Show and share love! The future is exciting! #Godisinit.”
CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba wrote on Facebook:
Today President Chamisa handed over food hampers to the the less privileged, people with disabilities and the elderly.
These are proceeds of the 2022 Presidential Charity dinner which was held last week.
The Presidency does this as a gesture of love and solidarity.
It’s a season of giving and we do our best to play our part.
We thank every Citizen, the business community and compatriots in diaspora who made this possible.
Thank you Zimbabwe thank fellow countrymen.
Together!
Today President Nelson Chamisa sent Christmas hampers to Hon Job Sikhal family and the Nyatsime 16.
We spent our day with these progresisge Citizens as part of our gesture of solidarity and love.
The President appreciates the effort of everh Citizen who has stood in solidarity with our compatriots who are are unjustly treated.
Thank you Zimbabwe, thank you for the love.
Together we can!
By- Ten people have been reported dead, with several critically injured, in a massive explosion in Boksburg, Gauteng, on Saturday morning after a gas truck reportedly was involved in an accident.
The explosion happened on Hospital Road, a few metres from OR Tambo Memorial Hospital.
The truck is reported to belong to LP Gas.
The OR Tambo Hospital is on fire, with patients scrambling to safety.
Three or four cars are also said to have been involved in the accident.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the tanker drove into a low-lying bridge.
Videos and photos shared on social media show bodies lying on the ground and severely burnt people trying to get medical help.
-The Citizen
By Farai D Hove | A gas tanker has exploded in Boksburg, near Johannesburg killing many people and leaving others injured on Saturday morning.
The incident happened at corner Hospital Rd and Railway St.
According to a statement from Emer-G-Med Kyle van Reenen, Emer-G-Med paramedics and multiple emergency service agencies are currently in attendance at the scene.
At the time of writing at least eight people had been reported killed, and several others injured, and these include at least 6 firefighters.
A tanker carrying LPG gas cylinders had driven into a low-lying bridge where at least four other vehicles were involved in the accident.
Structural damage has been reported at Tambo Memorial Hospital due to the explosion.
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By The Citizen- Several people have died in a massive explosion in Boksburg, Gauteng, on Saturday morning after a gas truck reportedly was involved in an accident.
The explosion happened on Hospital Road, a few metres from OR Tambo Memorial Hospital.
The truck is reported to belong to LP Gas.
The OR Tambo Hospital is on fire, with patients scrambling to safety.
Three or four cars are also said to have been involved in the accident.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the tanker drove into a low-lying bridge.
Videos and photos shared on social media show bodies lying on the ground and severely burnt people trying to get medical help.
-The Citizen
By-The President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, has d the Death Penalty and the Criminal Defamation of the President provisions in the Penal Code.
The two penalties have been in Zambian laws since the pre-independence era.
The president’s office confirmed the development in a statement seen by Pindula News.
Hichilema also posted on Friday saying he kept the promise to abolish the laws that inhibit democracy. He said:
Today we assented to Penal Code (Amendment) Bill number 25 of 2022, abolishing the death penalty in #Zambia & the offence of Criminal Defamation of the President.Promised to amend laws that inhibit democracy, human rights, good governance & basic freedoms.
The death penalty was a mandatory sentence for people convicted of capital offences while Defamation of the President had seen many people sentenced to jail terms for insulting the President using various platforms.
There have been reports that more people have been arrested and jailed for defamation of the president in Hichilema’s first year than were under six years of Lungu.
In September this year, Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa, a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Zambia, said on average, a Zambian is jailed every month for insulting President Hichilema.
He said all these arrests and jailings of Hichilema’s critics were happening because the legal architecture that enabled the authoritarian tendencies of Lungu and previous leaders remained unchanged under Hichilema.
There are some who believe the death penalty is appropriate for some crimes. One commentator suggested that it wouldn’t be fair for “convicted murderers to serve out the rest of their life at the expense of taxpayers is human rights? What about the human rights of the victims and their families?”
Proponents of the abolishment of the death penalty argue that many people are wrongfully convicted and it sometimes takes years to prove one’s innocence and it would be unfair to be found innocent when one has been killed already.
By- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Generation 40 (G40) members into the Zanu PF politburo.
He Zanu PF leader is, however, keeping the usual tired horses close to him in an apparent political balancing act that betrays a leader keen on stifling factionalism and the dreaded “bhora musango” as he seeks re-election as state president next year.
G40 was a Zanu PF faction which fiercely resisted Mnangagwa’s ascendancy to both party and national presidency.
The once influential group, fronted by exiled former cabinet ministers Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Patrick Zhuwao and Walter Mzembi, was virtually disarmed when Mnangagwa muscled his way to the top job in a shock November 2017 military assisted coup that ousted the country’s founding leader President Robert Mugabe.
Webster Shamu, Super Mandiwanzira, and Douglas Mombeshora are some of the politicians with links to G40 who took up posts within the elite Zanu PF policy making committee.
Shamu, once a fanatical Mugabe ally and former party commissar, was widely regarded as Mashonaland West’s godfather prior to the coup.
He reportedly called for a bhora Musango in 2018 after being fired as Mashonaland West provincial affairs minister on suspicion of being a G40 loyalist.
Bhora musango, a Shona expression whose direct translation is “boot the ball off the field of play”, was coined during the height of Zanu PF factional wars when the party faithful was called to reject Mugabe as party presidential candidate while being encouraged to vote party MPs instead.
Mnangagwa appointed Shamu as deputy secretary of the commissariat after the politician had endured four years in the political wilderness.
Mandiwanzira was also appointed secretary for local government, while Douglas Mombeshora was drafted in as secretary for health and child welfare.
Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa announced last month that exiled G40 kingpins – Moyo and Zhuwao – were welcome back to the party after the duo issued a public apology for endorsing the opposition after Mugabe’s ouster.
Mnangagwa also kept the majority of the Zanu PF old guard, which consisted of a group of politicians who formed Mugabe’s inner circle prior to the coup.
Obert Mpofu, a onetime Mugabe bootlicker, was reappointed secretary for administration, while finance minister Mthuli Ncube made his debut appointment as the deputy secretary for finance, deputising Patrick Chinamasa.
Mutsvangwa was also retained as secretary for information and publicity, deputised by Chido Sanyatwa, while Paul Mangwana, who was previously the secretary of legal affairs, was reshuffled as secretary of mines, with the current speaker of parliament, Jacob Mudenda, taking over his previous post.
Mnangagwa also appointed his wife Auxillia Mnangagwa as secretary for environment and tourism.
There was no sign of Sydney Sekeramayi in the newly announced politburo with signs the wily leader was still upset over the former defence minister becoming a Mugabe choice for the country’s top job.
Mugabe announced in interviews with the media after his ouster that he intended to announce the veteran politician as his successor.
-Kukurigo
By The Citizen- Several people have died in a massive explosion in Boksburg, Gauteng, on Saturday morning after a gas truck reportedly was involved in an accident.
The explosion happened on Hospital Road, a few metres from OR Tambo Memorial Hospital.
The truck is reported to belong to LP Gas.
The OR Tambo Hospital is on fire, with patients scrambling to safety.
Three or four cars are also said to have been involved in the accident.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the tanker drove into a low-lying bridge.
Videos and photos shared on social media show bodies lying on the ground and severely burnt people trying to get medical help.
-The Citizen
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday delivered grocery hampers to senior citizens in Harare.
According to CCC Deputy Spokesperson Ostallos Siziba, the hampers were purchased from money raised at the 2022 Presidential Charity Diner.
Below are pictures of the colorful event.
Teacher unions have urged the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) to protect the credibility of school examinations in the country following reports that 588 people were arrested over examination paper leaks.
Some of the teachers’ unions suggested that the 2022 examinations should be nullified.This affected Ordinary and Advanced Level 2022 Zimsec examinations.
Zimbabwe Teachers Association secretary-general Goodwill Taderera said the leaks resulted in local examinations losing credibility.
-Newsday
South Africa-based Zimbabwean businessman, Frank Buyanga Sadiqi, is set to spend this year’s Christmas festivities in jail after he was denied bail by a South African court this Friday.
Buyanga was seeking bail on charges of contravention of the Immigration Act and possession of fraudulent South African documents.He will be back in court on February 7, 2023, NewsDay reported.
Early this month, South Africa’s Randburg Magistrate Court granted Frank Buyanga R150 000 bail, but Buyanga remained behind bars on fresh charges.
Buyanga was arrested last month following an Interpol warrant of arrest issued by Zimbabwe.
The warrant of arrest was controversially cancelled by Harare Magistrate Judith Taruvinga before the High Court reinstated it.
The South African court granted him bail on the reason that the Interpol warrant was still in effect.
But Buyanga’s joy was short-lived after it emerged fresh charges had been noted with another magistrate.
The 43-year-old was arrested in South Africa on 10 November 2022 on charges of kidnapping his son in Harare in 2020 and on charges of immigration law violations, forgery and contempt of court.
Buyanga, who is involved in a legal battle over the custody of his minor son with ex-girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa, claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family are involved in his legal woes.
He argues there is no merit in this matter that warrants his arrest and detention to the extent that the State is justified in opposing bail.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Generation 40 (G40) members into the Zanu PF politburo while keeping the usual tired horses close to him in an apparent political balancing act that betrays a leader keen on stifling factionalism and the dreaded “bhora musango” as he seeks re-election as state president next year.
G40 was a Zanu PF faction which fiercely resisted Mnangagwa’s ascendancy to both party and national presidency.
The once influential group, fronted by exiled former cabinet ministers Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Patrick Zhuwao and Walter Mzembi, was virtually disarmed when Mnangagwa muscled his way to the top job in a shock November 2017 military assisted coup that ousted the country’s founding leader President Robert Mugabe.
Webster Shamu, Super Mandiwanzira, and Douglas Mombeshora are some of the politicians with links to G40 who took up posts within the elite Zanu PF policy making committee.
Shamu, once a fanatical Mugabe ally and former party commissar, was widely regarded as Mashonaland West’s godfather prior to the coup.
He reportedly called for a bhora Musango in 2018 after being fired as Mashonaland West provincial affairs minister on suspicion of being a G40 loyalist.
Bhora musango, a Shona expression whose direct translation is “boot the ball off the field of play”, was coined during the height of Zanu PF factional wars when the party faithful was called to reject Mugabe as party presidential candidate while being encouraged to vote party MPs instead.
Mnangagwa appointed Shamu as deputy secretary of the commissariat after the politician had endured four years in the political wilderness.
Mandiwanzira was also appointed secretary for local government, while Douglas Mombeshora was drafted in as secretary for health and child welfare.
Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa announced last month that exiled G40 kingpins – Moyo and Zhuwao – were welcome back to the party after the duo issued a public apology for endorsing the opposition after Mugabe’s ouster.
Mnangagwa also kept the majority of the Zanu PF old guard, which consisted of a group of politicians who formed Mugabe’s inner circle prior to the coup.
Obert Mpofu, a onetime Mugabe bootlicker, was reappointed secretary for administration, while finance minister Mthuli Ncube made his debut appointment as the deputy secretary for finance, deputising Patrick Chinamasa.
Mutsvangwa was also retained as secretary for information and publicity, deputised by Chido Sanyatwa, while Paul Mangwana, who was previously the secretary of legal affairs, was reshuffled as secretary of mines, with the current speaker of parliament, Jacob Mudenda, taking over his previous post.
Mnangagwa also appointed his wife Auxillia Mnangagwa as secretary for environment and tourism.
There was no sign of Sydney Sekeramayi in the newly announced politburo with signs the wily leader was still upset over the former defence minister becoming a Mugabe choice for the country’s top job.
Mugabe announced in interviews with the media after his ouster that he intended to announce the veteran politician as his successor.
-Kukurigo
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has accused Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa of feigning concern about national unity.
President Chamisa also paid tribute to the fallen heroes of the liberation struggle.
“Today on National Unity Day, we recommit ourselves to building a new, great, united Zimbabwe.
Thank you fellow Zimbabweans for the journey this far.
United together we shall rebuild our country,” CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba said on Thursday.
Also watch President Chamisa Unity Day Message…
There is hope for democratic changes in 2023; pray for wisdom to finally see the futility of participating in flawed elections
By Wilbert Mukori | As 2022 draws to a close and 2023 dawns, I am hopeful this will be the dawn of real change and not just another the false dawn.
Let’s face it, Zimbabwe has blundered from pillar to post these last 42 years, forever sinking deeper and deeper into this economic mess and political paralysis of our own making. The proverbial quote of hope and encouragement “the darkest hour cometh before dawn” has lost meaning because we have had one false dawn after another.
The nation’s hope for freedom, liberty and human dignity which the 1980 independence was supposed to bring was a great disappointment. Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies, the nation’s liberation war heroes, wanted to secure absolute power for themselves and did not care they were riding roughshod over the people denying them their freedoms, human rights and dignity.
Zanu PF rigged the nation’s first elections in 1980; the people were told in no uncertain terms that if the party did not win the bush war would continue. The people voted to end the war. Three years later, in 1983, Zanu PF launched the Gukurahundi Massacre, the darkest period in the country’s history, whose primary purpose was to force PF Zapu, to join Zanu PF to create a de facto one-party state. Mugabe got his wish in with the signing of the Zanu PF and PF Zapu Unity Accord in December 1987.
Zanu PF has imposed the de facto one-party dictatorship under the pretext the multiparty democracy and free and fair elections were a threat to peace and unity. And so the nation has been stuck for 42 years and counting with this corrupt, tyrannical Zanu PF government that has rigged elections to stay in power.
The country used to pride itself as the breadbasket of the region because it produced enough food to not only feed its people but with surplus to feed millions of others. The country’s agricultural sector collapsed with the seizure of white owned farms to give to Zanu PF ruling elite, most. And ever since, the nation has relied on food aid; we had become so impoverish we could not even pay for it.
Zimbabwe such good soil and favourable weather conditions someone once said, “you can plant a broomstick and harvest fruit!” Yet we are starving in the Garden of Eden. A damning testimonial to the country’s failed leadership.
Four decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have left the country’s economy in ruins. Unemployment has soared to 80% plus, basic services such as education and health care have all but collapsed and 50% of the people now live in abject poverty.
Talk of the darkest hour, the nation is in the middle of the worst power cuts. The 6 hours plus per day ZESA loadshedding of the last decade have now been extended to 18 hours plus.
The second false dawn came with the election of Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends. The people have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders on the understanding the party would implement the required democratic reforms to restore the individual freedoms and rights and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. Alas! MDC has failed to implement even one reform in 22 years including 5 in the GNU.
Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the trappings of high office and the rest, as one would say, is history.
Indeed, MDC leaders not only sold-out by failing to implement even one reform these last 22 years but worse still, ever since the GNU debacle they have participated in flawed and illegal elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy in return for a few gravy train seats.
Zanu PF is set to rig the 2023 elections and by the same token CCC (rebranded MDC) will participate to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Where is the light at the end of this dark tunnel, you might well ask! Well bear with me.
It has been variously said that Reinhold Neibuhr himself denied writing it, and credited Friedrich Oetinger, an 18th century theologian, with its authorship; or that it was actually written in 500 A.D. by a philosopher named Boethius who was martyred for the Christian Faith.
Both of these theories have since been discredited, and it does now appear that the Theologian Reinhold Neibuhr was the actual author (he also did in fact claim credit for it). Niebuhr was a major influence on the German Pastor and Nazi resister, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr
It took the people of Zimbabwe nearly 20 years before they finally accepted the political reality that Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies were corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs; even when presented with the mountain of Gukurahundi Massacre evidence. The people have been equally slow in accepting MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent even with the evidence the party has failed to implement even one reform in 22 years, 5 of which in the GNU.
Still, 10 years since the end of the GNU, there is growing evidence to show the penny has finally dropped, people are now questioning Chamisa and company’s greed and incompetence in failing to implement reforms. And question the sheer futility participating in elections so flawed there is no a verified voters’ roll, Zanu PF is denying 3 million or 37% of the potential voters, etc.
So, it took 20 years for Zimbabweans to finally accept the Zanu PF liberation war heroes were in fact corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and ruthless thugs. It has taken another 22 years for the people to accept that the MDC leaders they elected to implement the democratic reforms to end the Zanu PF dictatorships are themselves corrupt and incompetent.
The ideal solution for Zimbabwe is to implement the reforms before holding the elections. It is unrealistic to implement reforms now before the July 2023 elections; there is no time. We cannot get Zanu PF, as the government of the day, to postpone the elections. Even if we did; to what end and purpose since we will never get Zanu PF to implement the reforms too. Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office.
Zimbabwe is at a T junction we must now choose to participate, hoping against reason, that CCC’s “Winning In Rigged Elections (WIRE) strategies will finally deliver a different result that 42 years of rigged elections have failed to deliver. If the strategies fail again, it will be too late to denounce the process and challenge the legitimacy of the winner! We have travelled down this route, and will be insane to do yet again, especially after 42 years of rigged elections.
The alternative is to demand reforms and free and fair elections as the only basis for elections. WIRE is an oxymoron granting Zanu PF carte blanche powers to rig elections whilst denying the people their inalienable right to free and fair elections.
We cannot stop Zanu PF going ahead with these flawed and illegal 2023 elections nor can we stop CCC participating.
However, what we can and must do is to discourage as many Zimbabweans as possible from participating; the rural voters usually subjected to Zanu PF coercive measures leaving them with no choice but to participate. have no choice in the matter as they are coerced. And, most important of all, we must remind everyone, especially SADC, of just how flawed and illegal the electoral process is and the absurdity of granting the victor of such a process political legitimacy.
We have failed to get the democratic reforms implemented before the 2023 elections are held, we must now do the next best thing – ensure that vote rigging Zanu PF does not get legitimacy and thus get away with the rigging yet again.
In 2023 pray, God grant Zimbabweans the wisdom to finally see the futility of participating in flawed elections, so flawed there is not even something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, only to give Zanu PF legitimacy and to perpetuate their own suffering! – SOURCE: zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa has gone on leave, leaving his deputy Constantino Chiwenga in charge of the nation.
The vacation started on Thursday and Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga will be the Acting President until the end of the President’s rest which is scheduled to run until the end of January.
The Presidency confirmed the development saying: “His Excellency the President has started his leave which runs on until the end of January,” said the Presidential spokesperson and Acting Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Mr George Charamba.
“He has no intention of leaving the country during the duration of his leave. Vice President Chiwenga is the Acting President for the duration of His Excellency’s leave.”
The President takes leave of duty after an eventful year in which he led from the front in the implementation of several Government programmes meant to improve people’s lives.
On the economic front, the President commissioned several projects which are expected to drive and anchor the attainment of an upper middle income economy by 2030.
In mining, the President presided over the opening of several mines as well as commissioning expansion projects for some existing mines.
In agriculture, he continued his push for climate proofed agriculture, mechanisation of farmers as well as championing rural industrialisation.
Government continued to push for the improvement of the tourism the sector in its quest to achieve a US$5 billion economy.
In the health sector, government continued improvement of health services in the country’s quest to achieve universal health coverage.
These programmes are a key facet of envisaged rapid economic growth to an upper middle-income economy by 2030. -state media
Serving the people requires authenticity and genuineness.
It is a platform for those driven by burning desire for Change.
With a full understanding that it is possible and doable.
That we have an appointment with the future and we have to make it.
President Chamisa has demonstrated beyond doubt that he has the heart to serve, the readiness to deliver and we are humbled to serve the Presidency.
Our job is to keep the nation and the word informed.
We do that with humility, dignity and to the best of our abilities.
We have keep moving and to keep the focus.
Together!
Gift Ostallos Siziba
ZESA Says Country Getting Full Electricity During Christmas |
— ZimEye (@ZimEye) December 24, 2022
More lights will be on over Christmas as power supplies have improved significantly, with load-shedding reduced after Zesa Holdings managed to buy an additional 150MW from Electricidade de Moçambique, taking imports from that supplier up to 200MW, and complete repairs on Hwange Units 5 and 6, the larger of the old units.
In a statement, Zesa’s stakeholder relations said customers will not experience, during the festive period, the aggressive load curtailment they have been experiencing in the past few weeks after output at Kariba South was cut sharply to run-of-river after stored flood waters were exhausted, faults at Hwange Thermal meant only two units of the six units were running, and a general shortage of regional capacity made imports difficult.
“This development follows weeks of depressed generation attributed to the dropping water levels at Lake Kariba which necessitated the directive to reduce power generation at Kariba South Power Station by the Zambezi River Authority,” said Zesa.
“Moreover, the incessant breakdown of the aged Hwange Power Station equipment saw the station operating with two units during the period. The current power generation challenges affecting the region affected electricity trading on the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) market, further reducing import arrangements in the face of exponential demand for power in the country.
“Our engineers and technicians have been working frantically to ensure increased power generation. Consequently, we have increased generation at the Hwange Power Station by getting the broken down units back up, resulting in 5 of the 6 being currently operational which has increased supply to the national grid.”
Along with the rise in local generation and the increased imports from Mozambique, following the Government making the required foreign currency available, there is an expected cut in demand with a swathe of business on its annual maintenance shut-down and reduced demand in other sectors.
“In the past weeks, we have been extensively engaging with various stakeholders so as to implement critical measures to alleviate the power deficit challenges,” said Zesa, noting that the deficit was common to most SADC countries. But there was extra capacity in Mozambique which Zesa has managed to tap.
“We have successfully managed to secure the injection of additional imports from other SAPP members to support supply until the Kariba reservoir recovers in the first quarter of next year.
“We would like to express our profound gratitude for the support and commitment we got from the Government to mobilise the much needed foreign currency.”
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube told Parliament last week he had made US$34 million available to boost and pay for needed imports.
Zesa has also been working with its largest customers, those who pay for their maximum power demand rather than buy units of energy as domestic and other businesses do. This allows these customers, mainly the largest mines and some of the largest industries, to import directly.
So Zesa worked with them to intensely facilitate the establishment of an Intensive Energy User Group (IEUG) with to guarantee supplies to maximum demand customers and ease pressure on the grid, said the statement.
Besides importing directly, Zesa said these customers could support the development of independent power producers in Zimbabwe by signing supply agreements directly with them. For both the direct imports by very large users and those buying directly from the independents, Zesa just provides the grid to bring the power from the supplier to teh customer.
The first meeting of this IEUG of major users was held on March 29 this year and there have been engagement meetings in Zambia and Mozambique since then.
“We are now pushing that we move faster on this initiative as it is in line with global developments where the private sector is involved more and more in developing and securing power supplies.
“As a sign of progression and commitment, during the current crisis some of the members of this group offered to resource the utility with advance payments of their electricity usage bills to enable us to meet our power import obligations, and to date one such transaction has already been implemented.”
The next main step is to bring the pair of new generating units at Hwange Extension on line, with their extra 600MW. Tests at Hwange 7 should soon be complete, to be followed soon after by Hwange 8, and senior Zesa staff have joined other technical staff and the resident power station staff and are staying at Hwange over the festive season to keep the commissioning momentum going.
“The two units were originally expected to supply the grid from early this year. But the delays caused by Covid-19 derailed the completion. But “commissioning preparations are well on course”, Zesa said.—- Herald
A 21-year-old Karoi man died yesterday after he was struck with a log on the head following a misunderstanding over US$2 during a beer drinking spree at a business centre in the area.
The man, Norman Chikoka, died after being admitted at Karoi Hospital and police have since arrested the suspect, Bonwell Mereki (24).
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has since expressed concern over an increase in murder cases countrywide.
“Police in Karoi are investigating a case of murder in which the victim Norman Chikoka aged 21 died on December 20, 2022 upon admission at Karoi Hospital after being struck with a log on the head by the suspect, Bonwell Mereki aged 24 following an argument over US$2, during a beer drinking spree at Gindikindi Business Centre, Kazangarare.
“The suspect was arrested,” he said.
Meanwhile, police in Tengwe in Hurungwe District, Mashonaland West are investigating a murder case in which Tavengwa Madziyadondo (32) died after being struck with a log on the head by Ronias Chirovapasi (32) following an argument on Sunday at Nyamhishi Village during a memorial service.
The suspect is still on the run.
In Chegutu, police are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of a 44-year-old man whose body was found at Jamaica Farm with a missing palm and blood clots on the mouth and nose last Friday.
The victim had not returned home after going for fishing, prompting his wife and church members to search for him.
— Herald
A 21-year-old Karoi man died yesterday after he was struck with a log on the head following a misunderstanding over US$2 during a beer drinking spree at a business centre in the area.
The man, Norman Chikoka, died after being admitted at Karoi Hospital and police have since arrested the suspect, Bonwell Mereki (24).
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has since expressed concern over an increase in murder cases countrywide.
“Police in Karoi are investigating a case of murder in which the victim Norman Chikoka aged 21 died on December 20, 2022 upon admission at Karoi Hospital after being struck with a log on the head by the suspect, Bonwell Mereki aged 24 following an argument over US$2, during a beer drinking spree at Gindikindi Business Centre, Kazangarare.
“The suspect was arrested,” he said.
Meanwhile, police in Tengwe in Hurungwe District, Mashonaland West are investigating a murder case in which Tavengwa Madziyadondo (32) died after being struck with a log on the head by Ronias Chirovapasi (32) following an argument on Sunday at Nyamhishi Village during a memorial service.
The suspect is still on the run.
In Chegutu, police are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of a 44-year-old man whose body was found at Jamaica Farm with a missing palm and blood clots on the mouth and nose last Friday.
The victim had not returned home after going for fishing, prompting his wife and church members to search for him.
— Herald
Until the day we wake up, the whole family including cats donkeys, and dogs are being smuģgled into Parliament and government buildings, writes commentator Mai Anesu
By-Police in Bulawayo broke a march by local pressure group Ibhetshu Likazulu commemorating the people who the government killed during operation Gukurahundi.
According to media reports from Bulawayo, three activists were arrested during the foiled commemorations.
The three are:
i). Ibhetshu LikaZulu’s vice chairperson, Thamsanqa Ncube
ii). Ibhetshu LikaZulu member, Melusi ‘Coltart’ Nyathi, and
iii). Samukeliso Tshuma, leader of The Girls Table organisation.
Narrating the incident Thursday, Ibhetshu Likazulu secretary-general Mbuso Fuzwayo said some passers-by were also harassed by police during the incident. Fuzwayo said:
As an organisation, we were intending to march in memory of those who survived and those who were killed, raped but the government of Zimbabwe through the Zimbabwe Republic Police stopped us and sadly a lot of people who were passing by and those within the vicinity of the Joshua Nkomo statue were harassed.
The pressure group has, in the years, timed its Gukurahundi commemorations for Unity Day, celebrated every December 22.
Unity Day was declared when the late Nkomo and late President Robert Mugabe’s rival parties merged in what ended the Gukurahundi massacres waged by the country’s security forces against civilians who were presumed to be sympathetic to Nkomo’s PF Zapu.
Gukurahundi, as it is commonly known, was an operation that was allegedly carried out by Mugabe’s government to track down former ZIPRA combatants who deserted Zimbabwe’s integrated military with weapons in protest over lack of equal treatment with those who waged the war under Mugabe’s ZANLA.
It is estimated that 20 000 civilians died at the hands of the Zimbabwe military during the dark period.
By-Parirenyatwa Group of Hospital has dismissed a social media story claiming that a female patient died at the health institution after doctors mistakenly cut her intestines.
Social media reports suggested that the woman was operated on at Parirenyatwa but the institution says she came after an operation had been performed at a private institution in Harare.
In a statement seen by Pindula News, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals said the woman died while health caregivers were trying to save her life. Reads the statement:
We have taken note of an article by Zimnews titled “Woman dies after Pari Doctors mistakenly cut intestines during C-Section“.
We would like to put the record straight that this patient was not operated on at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals but at one of the private healthcare facilities. Apparently, most of the private medical facilities have no Intensive Care or High Dependency Units (ICU and HDU) so the patient was referred to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals’ Intensive Care Unit for further management.
Our Doctors tried their best to salvage the situation but, unfortunately, the patient could not make it. We would want to assure members of the public that as a government health institution our focus is to save life and Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals remains the preferred referral centre for such critical patients.
The hospital’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Aspect Maunganidze, told The Herald that the patient died while being prepared for corrective surgery.
By-Nkanyiso Primary School head has been arrested for stealing school porridge.
A police report says the headmistress, Bellah Moyo, was arrested by Tsholotsho police. Reads the statement issued by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP):
Police in Tsholotsho have arrested Kelvin Ncube (26) and Bellah Moyo (58) in connection with a case of theft which occurred between August and 29 November 2022 at Nkanyiso Primary School, where 40 reams of bond paper, 23 X 50kg cement and 20 X 50 kg porridge were stolen.
On 17/12/22, Police arrested Kelvin Ncube after receiving information that he was linked to the case. Kevin Moyo implicated the headmistress of the school, Bellah Moyo, leading to her arrest on 20/12/22.
In October this year, another school head, Calister Tarisai Matsitsiro (58) was arrested for allegedly stealing the Rugare Primary School’s timber and asbestos sheets.
Investigations established that she planned to use the asbestos and timber to build a fowl run at her residence.
By Showbiz Reporter | Angry people who never said a thing when Sylvia Maphosa was shot dead in 1st Street, and were neither bothered when 50 women were raped by ED’s men in Jan 2019, or when Mai Titi hired bouncers to go assault Kristel, surname withheld, (the Marlborough businesswoman) and to butcher Sean Delroy, are the ones right now demanding that journalists mustn’t investigate Felistas Murata. VIDEOS- LOADING BELOW…
Brazil still top the FIFA rankings, despite their quarter final exit in the just concluded 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The South Americans, who were pre-tournament favorites heading into the 22nd edition of the global showpiece in Qatar, were knocked by Croatia in the last eight.
On the Coca Cola FIFA rankings released by the world football governing body today, Tite’s men are still on top, with recently-crowned world champions Argentina now in second.
“The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ has just crowned a new champion in Argentina (2nd, plus 1), but that has not stopped Brazil (1st, -) staying out front in the last FIFA/Cola-Cola World Ranking of the year. A Seleção hold a narrow lead over La Albiceleste, who would have jumped ahead of their neighbours and rivals had they beaten France (3rd, plus 1) in last Sunday’s World Cup final in normal or extra time,” reads a statement by FIFA.
“Unlucky losers, Les Bleus may have lost their world crown but they are back in the top three. Dropping out of it are Belgium (4th, minus 2), after they failed to reach the knockout phase at Qatar 2022. England (5th, -) complete the top five.
“On the back of their respective runs to the last four of the World Cup, Croatia (7th, plus 5) and Morocco (11th, plus 11) have both made spectacular jumps up the Ranking. The Atlas Lions are the year’s highest climbers in fact, having collected no fewer than 142 points over the last 12 months.
“Similarly, Australia (27th, plus 11) and Cameroon (33rd, plus 10) have World Cup performances to thank for their climbs of 11 and 10 places respectively, while Saudi Arabia (49th, plus 2), who beat Argentina in the group phase in Qatar move into the top 50, as do Burkina Faso (50th, plus 4).
“In total, seven teams have risen by more than ten places in the Ranking since December 2021: Gambia (126th, plus 24), Morocco (11th, plus 17), Costa Rica (32nd, plus 17), Cameroon (33rd, plus 17), Equatorial Guinea (98th, plus 16), Indonesia (151st, plus 13) and Cuba (168th, plus 11).
“The next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be published on 6 April 2023.”- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Former Chelsea manager Avram Grant has been appointed as the new head coach of the Zambia senior men’s national soccer team.
The 67-year old, who is not new to African football having coached the Black Stars of Ghana, has been tasked with reviving Chipolopolo, who have been on a downward spiral having failed to qualify for the last three AFCON finals.
He has signed a 2-year deal.
Grant’s immediate task is to ensure the 2012 AFCON winners book a place at the next edition of the continental showpiece.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
This Biblical advice was at play when a 63-year-old Bulawayo man was hospitalised after a mob set upon him with punches and kicks for allegedly failing to repay a debt.
According to Figton Madlala Mguni’s relatives, he borrowed US$25 from Godknows Chirovera (25) and he failed to pay it back.
It is reported that while Chirovera was waiting for a friend at Corner 3rd Avenue and Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street on Monday afternoon, he bumped into Figton.
“Chirovera started demanding his money from him but Figton arrogantly told him, straight to his face that he didn’t have it. That did not go down well with Chirovera who started pushing Figton and punched him in the face before he kicked him all over the body,” said the source.
A mob joined in and also kicked the elderly man all over the body, leaving him unconscious.
It could not be established what induced the crowd to gang up against the old man.
The family member said a Good Samaritan rushed Figton to Mpilo Central Hospital for medical attention where he is said to be in critical condition.
The incident was reported to the police leading to Chirovera’s arrest.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident and warned members of the public against resorting to violence to solve misunderstandings.
“We would like to strongly discourage members of the public from resorting to violence whenever they have disputes.
“They should engage their friends, police’s Victim Friendly Unit or a pastor rather than turning to violence because it might lead to unnecessary loss of life,” he said.
— BMetro
Serving the people requires authenticity and genuineness.
It is a platform for those driven by burning desire for Change.
With a full understanding that it is possible and doable.
That we have an appointment with the future and we have to make it.
President Chamisa has demonstrated beyond doubt that he has the heart to serve, the readiness to deliver and we are humbled to serve the Presidency.
Our job is to keep the nation and the word informed.
We do that with humility, dignity and to the best of our abilities.
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Business Correspondent| Three Wingers Enterprises is planning to introduce training and empowerment lessons for miners.
The company says miners are losing thousands of dollars due to lack of proper knowledge in the field.
According to the company, artisanal miners need to equipped with essential knowledge as well.
See statement below:
In response to high rise in people investing in mining losing thousands of dollars because of lack of knowledge and experience in the difference between Artisanal mining we are in process of developing any institution that will address that .
By 1 giving theory to specific small scale Mining areas.
2 give practical lessons on scale Mining
3 give small scale Mining management especially finance management.
4 Teach to raise funds and identify all key finance leakage points.
5 introduce you to mining compliance
6 train you in different mining environments and familiarize with small scale Mining agreements and loopholes firsthand and many more.
How
By providing accommodation inside a mine
Giving out theory lectures and practical lessons.
Introduce you to key players in the industry.
Later on plans
To establish fund in partnership with banks for students who concentrate and spend time at the mine to guarantee for loan.
To establish an online assistance through our digital network.
N.B for existence mines cyanide process assistance is taking shape from building tanks up to first elution for those with dump .
For more information
Call /WhatsApp 0774028830 for more
Facebook: Gold Mining Consultancy Zimbabwe
Website: https://www.threewingersenterprises.com
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has accused Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa of feigning concern about national unity.
President Chamisa also paid tribute to the fallen heroes of the liberation struggle.
“Today on National Unity Day, we recommit ourselves to building a new, great, united Zimbabwe.
Thank you fellow Zimbabweans for the journey this far.
United together we shall rebuild our country,” CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba said on Thursday.
Also watch President Chamisa Unity Day Message…
A Manyame Park man was bashed by Johanne Masowe church members after they found him having sex with a woman later proven to be his brother-in-law’s wife at their shrine.
Tanaka Musengeyi aged 30, lured his brother-in-law Solomon Chawira’s wife, only identified as Nyasha aged 19, to a bushy area where they were caught by Sowe reJerusalem members having sex.
This obviously did not sit well with the church members who in turn battered the two for defiling their place of worship.
A video was recorded by a passer-by of the bashing and posted on social media.
Nyasha confirmed the incident, saying Tanaka had been proposing to her whenever he visited them.
“We were bashed by three men after they caught us,” said Nyasha.
“Tanaka murume we wehanzvadzi yemurume wangu, mukuwasha.”
-Byo24
Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu
Deputy for Administration General Nyambuya
Secretary for Finance Chinamasa
Deputy Secretary for Finance Mthuli Ncube
Secretary for Commissariat Mike Bimha
Deputy Secretary for Commisariat Webster Shamu
Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Trade Simbarashe Mbengegwi
Deputy Foreign Affairs and International Trade Abedingo Ncube
Secretary for Security Matuke
Deputy Secretary for Security Tendai Chirau
Secretary for Transport July Moyo
Deputy Secretary for Transport James Makamba
Secretary Legal Affairs Jacob F. Mudenda
Deputy Secretary Legal Affairs Advocate Fortune Chasi
Secretary for Information and Publicity Christopher Mutsvangwa
Deputy Secretary for Information and Publicity Chido Sanyatwa
Secretary for Health and Child Welfare and Elderly Douglas Mombeshora
Deputy Secretary for Health and Child Welfare and Elderly Irene Zindi
Police yesterday disrupted Gukurahundi commemorations in Bulawayo and arrested some of the participants.
‘This speaks volumes on the insincerity of the govt on the issue of national healing and reconciliation,’ writes Crisis Coalition For Zimbabwe
By- Members of the Johanne Masowe church have beaten up a Manyame man after founding him having s*x with a woman at their shrine.
The woman was later proved to be the man’s his brother-in-law’s wife.
Tanaka Musengeyi aged 30, lured his brother-in-law Solomon Chawira’s wife, only identified as Nyasha aged 19, to a bushy area where they were caught by Sowe reJerusalem members having sex.
This did not sit well with the church members who in turn assaulted the two for defiling their place of worship, H-Metro reported.
A passerby recorded a video of the church members assaulting the two and posted it on social media.
Nyasha confirmed the incident, saying Tanaka had been proposing to her whenever he visited them.
We were bashed by three men after they caught us.
Tanaka murume we wehanzvadzi yemurume wangu, mukuwasha.
According to religious beliefs, adultery is considered a sin, however, in the eyes of the law, it is a breach of contract.
It is considered an infringement or damage to a marriage, however, it is not a crime. It is not possible to be arrested for committing adultery, however, one can claim damages from a third party who has caused harm to a marriage by intentionally interfering in the marital relationship.
By-A Masvingo-based bishop has escaped with money he duped over 30 people in a bogus cannabis farming deal.
Bishop Trust Sangweni of the Evangelical Apostolic Christian Mission Church formed a cannabis farming group, which should have been operational by now.
One of the bishop’s victims, Peki Wushe, told H-Metro that the bishop had disappeared to South Africa.
“I was recommended to join the group, called Archmedicinal Private Limited, by a friend who once attended his church in December 2021.
“Upon joining, we were required to pay US$250 to cater for paperwork and errands.
“He would often come to Harare claiming he wanted to fix the group’s paperwork, and we would pay logistics fees for all his trips,” she said.
Wushe said he would tell them the money required was to pay for environmental impact assessment, Environmental Management Agency, land and the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency.
“I paid close to US$1 600. He is a sweet talker, and no one thought we would be scammed until today.
“At one time, we sponsored his trip to Cape Town as he convinced us that he was looking for investors.
“In July this year, he said the investors were in Zimbabwe and he needed more money to finish paperwork so that we would not look confused,” she said.
Wushe said she became suspicious when she returned to Zimbabwe from Dubai in August and the bishop failed to present evidence that there was some progress.
“He had promised to hold the ground breaking ceremony in September, and we prepared our outfits for the day.
“He assured us that everything was in order and unresolved matters were being worked on.
“Those who asked a lot of questions about the project were called hypocrites. In October, the group went silent,” she said.
Wushe said she decided to check with the authorities.
“I found out that the company was indeed registered in July this year.
“He was in the board of directors, together with his wife Silibaziso Zhou and Nyika Sangweni, his brother.
“I went to the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement and they told me that they were not aware of the group.
“When I informed other members of the group, he fled to South Africa,” she said.
Another group member, who requested anonymity, said they were fooled into believing he was genuine.
“No one thought he would rob us of our money since he is a bishop.
“We also contributed together with some of his church members, and thought we had managed to grab a life changing deal,” he said.
H-Metro spoke to Bishop Sangweni’s wife, Silibaziso, who distanced herself from the farming group.
“Sangweni went to South Africa last month. People are always coming to me claiming that they were duped by my husband.
“I do not know why they are bothering me. I knew there was a cannabis group he talked about, but I did not know I was one of the directors.
“Mufonerei iye panumber yake. I can send you his WhatsApp number; he has been communicating with some members of the group,” she said
However, efforts to reach Bishop Sangweni were fruitless.
The matter has been reported to the police under case number IR 101503. H Metro
By- Kenyans are bitter about the newly elected president, William Ruto’s failure to turn the economy around.
The people of Kenya said Ruto’s first 100 days in office have been tough and different from what they expected.
Ruto won the contested August 9 elections.
After his election, he cast himself as a champion for the downtrodden, vowing to create jobs and tackle a cost-of-living crisis that has left many Kenyans struggling to put food on the table.
Kenyan shop attendant Winnie Wanjiru Mwaura was brimming with hope when she signed up to be an election agent for William Ruto during the August 9 polls and was elated when he became president.
But barely 100 days after the rags-to-riches businessman took office on September 13, the 21-year-old wants nothing to do with him. The first-time voter told the Nation:
Life has only become worse under him.
More pain for Kenyans in new Ruto, IMF loan deal
When Ruto (56) came to power, he slashed food and fuel subsidies introduced by his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta arguing that the interventions had “not borne any fruit.”
Their removal was a request from the International Monetary Fund, a major lender to the East African economic powerhouse.
Business analysts including Ken Gichinga, chief economist at business analytics firm Mentoria Economics say the move to remove the fuel subsidy was not very strategic as it has led to a slower economy, rising inflation and higher interest rates.
The Central Bank of Kenya raised interest rates by a cumulative 1.75 per cent in 2022, while inflation soared to a five-year high of 9.6 per cent in October.
Even Ruto’s pet project, the 50-billion-shilling ($408-million) “hustler fund”, has sparked controversy, with some accusing him of abandoning promises to make the credit scheme interest-free.
The fund, launched last month, will offer personal loans of up to 50 000 Kenyan shillings, with interest charged at eight per cent a year, lower than the rate of inflation.
Borrowers have already complained of difficulty in getting loans higher than 1 000 Kenyan shillings approved, despite the fund’s stated objective of boosting financial access for the country’s poorest citizens.
Ruto, who marked his one-hundredth day on the job on Thursday, also failed or neglected to deliver on his campaign pledge to achieve gender parity in his cabinet, naming just seven women to his 22-member team.
Despite a “disappointing” start, however, Manyora, who supported Ruto’s opponent Raila Odinga during the polls, said it was too early to dismiss the president and his team.
State Media – A HARARE man is still searching for his eight-year-old son who disappeared with his ex-wife on July 23.
Precious Nemutambwe has lost hope of ever finding his son after his former wife, Miriam Ziramba, disappeared with the boy.
Ziramba is now wanted for breaching the law after Justice Neville Wamambo granted a provisional order barring her from leaving the country with the child under HC5780/22 with reference number HC:3029/22 on September 20.
She is now wanted for contempt of court and child abduction for not complying with the court order.
“I am now troubled since all my efforts are hitting a brick wall. She was supposed to comply with the law within 10 days, but she has never appeared.
“I don’t know what to do now since I have run out of leads, and it seems she has changed her phone numbers.
“After the court ordered her to bring the child, I thought she would comply, but I am told she might be in Cape Town or Canada.
“It means she used illegal ways or bribed officials to leave the country since all entry points were advised to be on the lookout for her,” said Precious. – H Metro
State Media -A man believed to have been part of the 13-member gang of armed robbery suspects that raided three cash-in-transit vehicles and got away with 11 kilogrammes of gold in early October has since died, Sunday News can reveal.
While Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Abednico Ncube could not confirm the development, a source close to the investigations said the suspect succumbed to injuries sustained in the shoot-out with How Mine’s security manager during the heist.
The manager, a former CID Homicide officer reportedly showed his prowess as he shot two of the suspects with the now deceased hit on the spine.
The suspect reportedly died a week later in South Africa.
Police arrested three of the 13 and later connected some of them to four similar forays that occurred in the city.
The gang was fingered in heists at two financial institutions, a fruit and vegetable wholesale and a grocery shop between May and October.
In total, the gang reportedly got away with US$858 000 and R508 000 in five raids within four months. – Sunday News
FIVE people died on the spot yesterday when a Toyota Hilux was involved in a head-on collision with a Nissan Magnite at the 379km peg along the Harare-Bulawayo Road.
The accident occurred around 5pm.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident.
“The ZRP reports a fatal road traffic accident which occurred on December 19, 2022 at around 5pm at 379 km peg along Harare-Bulawayo Road where five people died on the spot.
“A D4D Toyota Hilux vehicle with one passenger on board was involved in a head on collision with a Nissan Magnite vehicle which had five passengers on board. The bodies of the deceased were taken to United Bulawayo Hospital mortuary,” he said.
On the same day, six people died while seven others were injured when a Honda Fit was involved in a head-on collision with a Toyota double cab at the 111 km peg along Harare- Bulawayo Road.
The accident occurred around 10am.
“The ZRP reports a fatal road traffic accident which occurred on December 19, 2022 at around 10am at the 111 km peg along Harare- Bulawayo Road in which six people died while seven others were injured.
“A Honda Fit Vehicle with eight passengers on board was involved in a head on collision with a Toyota KZ Double cab vehicle which had three passengers on board. Four people died on the spot while two others died on the way to the hospital,” Asst Comm Nyathi said.
The bodies of the victims were taken to Chegutu District Hospital Mortuary for post mortem, while the injured are admitted at the same hospital.
— Herald
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has pointed out that Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa lacks sincerity in terms of fostering national unity.
Despite killing, arresting and torturing political rivals, Mr Mnangagwa insists the so called second republic has transformed the lives of many.
According to President Chamisa, the persecution of citizens by the regime is a mockery of national unity tenets.
Below is President Chamisa’s Unity Day statement:
WE THE CITIZENS, yearn for real unity based on equality, tolerance, justice & freedom.This was the vision of our founding leaders,such Dr Joshua Nkomo,who made sacrifices to bring us together. Today on Unity Day,we recommit ourselves to building a new, great, united Zimbabwe.
MAKING ZIMBABWE A WINNING NATION…We will unite all Zimbabweans across politics,race &tribe.Unity wins peace &prosperity for nations.Unity thrives nations.There can never be true unity without true dialogue &love.We need each other.Unity is good for us all &for a thriving economy.
Unity doesn’t manipulate or rig elections.Unity doesn’t imprison or persecute political competitors.Unity is not unjust or unequal.Unity is neither violent nor terrorist.Unity is not violence or vengeance.
Unity is not hateful or vindictive.Unity is love and forgiveness #FreeWiwa
