By James Gwati-The late flamboyant and socialite Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi, could have left properties in South Africa and Botswana, a close follower has suggested.
Ginimbi’s follower, Aldrin Makotore, posted on Facebook claiming that there could be people secretly enjoying the late socialite’s wealth out there.
He posted: To me this still a continuation of the story of Ginimbi. There is a lot we still don’t know or being told. There could be a few more people out there in South Arica and Botswana secretly living on what Ginimbi created.
Plymouth Argyle defender Brendan Galloway received a red card just twenty minutes after coming on as a second half substitute in the League One 2-2 draw against Portsmouth.
The Warriors right-back started on the bench and came on in the 70th minute.
With his team leading 2-1 in the 89th minute, Galloway received a caution for delaying the restart on a throw-in.
The 26-year-old was then involved in an altercation with the opposite player a few moments later.
The incident resulted in another yellow card for the fullback.
The expulsion proved costly for Argyle, who left short at the back, and conceded a goal with the last kick of the match.
This is Galloway’s first red card in eight years, and a second in his senior career.
His other expulsion came in 2014 when he was still at MK Dons as a teenager.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|Prominent human rights defender, Makomborero Haruzivishe, says fear is Zimbabwe’s worst problem.
The culture of fear has been created by Zanu PF’s political hegemony.
Those perceived to be against the former revolutionary party are ruthlessly silenced.
Haruzivishe postulated:
“The problem with Zimbabwe is FEAR;
ZanuPf is afraid,opposition is afraid,civil society is afraid,judiciary is afraid,military commanders are afraid,trade unionists are afraid,citizens are afraid,churches are afraid,traditional leaders are afraid & police bosses are afraid. FEAR!!”
Manchester City Saturday beat Wolves by three goals to nil to leap above Arsenal on the log table. Arsenal have a game in hand and can still reclaim the spot if they win against Brentford tomorrow.
Highlights:
The reigning champions got their first goal in less than a minute after De Bruyne played the ball into the centre for Grealish to poke home.
Haaland scored City’s second to bring his Premier League goal tally to 11 in seven games. The Norway international who was named the Player of the Month of August became the first player in Premier League history to score in their first four away games.
Wolves’ Collins saw a straight red card after a reckless challenge on Grealish, which certainly did not help Wolves’ attempt to get back into the game.
Despite the home side looking brighter in the second half, City were just too good, and they scored a third through Foden.
Belgian playmaker, Kevin De Bryne made two assists, one for Jack Grealish and another for Phil Foden.- Pindula News
Manchester City Saturday beat Wolves by three goals to nil to leap above Arsenal on the log table. Arsenal have a game in hand and can still reclaim the spot if they win against Brentford tomorrow.
Highlights:
The reigning champions got their first goal in less than a minute after De Bruyne played the ball into the centre for Grealish to poke home.
Haaland scored City’s second to bring his Premier League goal tally to 11 in seven games. The Norway international who was named the Player of the Month of August became the first player in Premier League history to score in their first four away games.
Wolves’ Collins saw a straight red card after a reckless challenge on Grealish, which certainly did not help Wolves’ attempt to get back into the game.
Despite the home side looking brighter in the second half, City were just too good, and they scored a third through Foden.
Belgian playmaker, Kevin De Bryne made two assists, one for Jack Grealish and another for Phil Foden.- Pindula News
A man who tried to be a peacemaker suffered severe attacks after he was sliced with a machete for trying to refrain two s_əx workers who were fighting.
Anele Moyo (27) stays in Bulawayo’s Emganwini suburb and while he was at Emganwini shops drinking with his pals a tragic incident unfolded before him.
A witness said two s_əx workers were fighting over an undisclosed issue and when he saw a rival picking a beer bottle he dashed to them. While he was trying to restrain them, a male person confronted him and insulted him. Things turned nasty for him.
The bystander said: “As he was trying to block a rival who was clutching a broken beer bottle an imbiber confronted him and attacked him with a machete on the head, arm and leg.”
According to the source the attacker was a lover of one of the ladies who were fighting. After attacking him he fled. Moyo was rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital for treatment.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident and appealed for information that may lead to the arrest of the mystery man.
“We confirm the incident and we would like to warn members of the public that anyone who will be found carrying a weapon in the form of a machete, axe etc. will be arrested,” he said.
He added: “We are also appealing for information that may lead to the arrest of the suspect who was armed with a machete at the time he committed the crime. Anyone with information may contact any nearest police station or call us on 2922-60358.”
A man who tried to be a peacemaker suffered severe attacks after he was sliced with a machete for trying to refrain two s_əx workers who were fighting.
Anele Moyo (27) stays in Bulawayo’s Emganwini suburb and while he was at Emganwini shops drinking with his pals a tragic incident unfolded before him.
A witness said two s_əx workers were fighting over an undisclosed issue and when he saw a rival picking a beer bottle he dashed to them. While he was trying to restrain them, a male person confronted him and insulted him. Things turned nasty for him.
The bystander said: “As he was trying to block a rival who was clutching a broken beer bottle an imbiber confronted him and attacked him with a machete on the head, arm and leg.”
According to the source the attacker was a lover of one of the ladies who were fighting. After attacking him he fled. Moyo was rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital for treatment.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident and appealed for information that may lead to the arrest of the mystery man.
“We confirm the incident and we would like to warn members of the public that anyone who will be found carrying a weapon in the form of a machete, axe etc. will be arrested,” he said.
He added: “We are also appealing for information that may lead to the arrest of the suspect who was armed with a machete at the time he committed the crime. Anyone with information may contact any nearest police station or call us on 2922-60358.”
Plymouth Argyle defender Brendan Galloway received a red card just twenty minutes after coming on as a second half substitute in the League One 2-2 draw against Portsmouth.
The Warriors right-back started on the bench and came on in the 70th minute.
With his team leading 2-1 in the 89th minute, Galloway received a caution for delaying the restart on a throw-in.
The 26-year-old was then involved in an altercation with the opposite player a few moments later.
The incident resulted in another yellow card for the fullback.
The expulsion proved costly for Argyle, who left short at the back, and conceded a goal with the last kick of the match.
This is Galloway’s first red card in eight years, and a second in his senior career.
His other expulsion came in 2014 when he was still at MK Dons as a teenager.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Jordan Zemura has registered his first goal assist in the English Premier League.
The Warriors international set up Phillip Billing, who opened the scoring in the game against Newcastle.
Zemura threaded a through ball into the box after a quick build up and Billing made no mistake in putting it past the keeper.
The assist is Zemura’s first goal involvement for the club since April when the team was still in the English Championship.
The 23-year-old has so far made six appearances in the top-flight. He made his league debut on matchday one against Aston Villa.
The young fullback joined Villa midfielder Marvelous Nakamba, ex-Manchester City striker Benjani Mwaruwari, Peter Ndlovu (Birmingham City) and Bruce Grobbelaar (Liverpool) as the only fully-capped Warriors internationals to play in the EPL.
Zemura also became the sixth Cherries academy graduate to represent the club in the top flight, following in the footsteps of Baily Cargill, Matt Worthington, Jack Simpson, Sam Surridge and Mark Travers.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri| CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has dismissed claims that his party is structureless.
Zanu PF is exerting pressure on CCC to hold an elective congress before polls in a bid to infiltrate the party structures.
Addressing thousands of CCC supporters at Kondo Business Centre in Chipinge on Saturday, President Chamisa said:
“They say we don’t have a structure, they say we don’t have leadership. How can we have this number of people here in Kondo with no leadership, no structure?”
President Chamisa also wrote on Twitter:
“YELLOW EVERYWHERE… THANK YOU CHIPINGE…
We are formidable in the rural areas! WINNING BIG loading…”
Half of health care facilities worldwide lack basic hygiene services with water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub where patients receive care and at toilets in these facilities, according to the latest Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report by WHO and UNICEF.
Around 3.85 billion people use these facilities, putting them at greater risk of infection, including 688 million people who receive care at facilities with no hygiene services at all.
“Hygiene facilities and practices in health care settings are non-negotiable.
Their improvement is essential to pandemic recovery, prevention and preparedness. Hygiene in health care facilities cannot be secured without increasing investments in basic measures, which include safe water, clean toilets, and safely managed health care waste,” said Dr Maria Neira, WHO Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health.
“I encourage Member States to step up their efforts to implement their 2019 World Health Assembly commitment to strengthen water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in health care facilities, and to monitor these efforts.”
The latest report, “Progress on WASH in health care facilities 2000–2021: special focus on WASH and infection prevention and control”, has for the first time established this global baseline on hygiene services – which assessed access at points of care as well as toilets – as more countries than ever report on critical elements of WASH services in their hospitals and other health centres. For hygiene, data are now available for 40 countries, representing 35% of the world’s population, up from 21 countries in 2020 and 14 in 2019.
The newly established global estimate reveals a clearer and more alarming picture of the state of hygiene in health care facilities. Though 68% of health care facilities had hygiene facilities at points of care, and 65% had handwashing facilities with water and soap at toilets, only 51% had both and therefore met the criteria for basic hygiene services. Furthermore, 1 in 11 (9%) of health care facilities globally have neither.
“If health care providers don’t have access to a hygiene service, patients don’t have a health care facility,” said Kelly Ann Naylor, UNICEF Director of WASH and Climate, Environment, Energy, and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED).
“Hospitals and clinics without safe water and basic hygiene and sanitation services are a potential death trap for pregnant mothers, newborns, and children. Every year, around 670 000 newborns lose their lives to sepsis. This is a travesty – even more so as their deaths are preventable.”
The report notes that contaminated hands and environments play a significant role in pathogen transmission in health care facilities and the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
Interventions to increase access to handwashing with water and soap and environmental cleaning form the cornerstone of infection prevention and control programmes and are crucial to providing quality care, particularly for safe childbirth. Coverage of WASH facilities is still uneven across different regions and income groupings:
Facilities in sub-Saharan Africa are lagging on hygiene services. While three-quarters (73%) of health care facilities in the region overall have alcohol-based hand rub or water and soap at points of care, only one-third (37%) have handwashing facilities with water and soap at toilets.
The vast majority (87%) of hospitals have hand hygiene facilities at points of care, compared to 68% of other healthcare facilities. In the Least Developed Countries, only 53% of health care facilities have access on-premises to a protected water source.
To compare, the global figure is 78% with hospitals (88%) doing better than smaller health care facilities (77%), and the figure for eastern and south-eastern Asia is 90%. Globally, around 3% of health care facilities in urban areas and 11% in rural areas had no water service.
Of the countries with available data, 1 in 10 health care facilities globally had no sanitation service.
The proportion of health care facilities with no sanitation services ranged from 3% in Latin America and the Caribbean and in eastern and south-eastern Asia to 22% in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Least Developed Countries, just 1 in 5 (21%) had basic sanitation services in health care facilities. The data further reveals that many health care facilities lack basic environmental cleaning and safe segregation and disposal of health care waste. The report is being launched at World Water Week taking place in Stockholm, Sweden.
The annual conference, which runs from 23 August to 1 September, explores new ways to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges: from food security and health to agriculture, technology, biodiversity and climate.
ZimAdsense offers a unique platform for advertisers and publishers to market promote their business concerns.
ZimAdsense works like the famous Google AdSense.
Below is a statement written by Startupbiz on ZimAdsense operations :
So this is for those who want to make money by having ads placed on their websites or blogs.
You start by signing up for a publisher account. You simply follow the prompts and fill in all the relevant information. Once you are done you will be redirected to your dashboard.
Next, you click on Manage Domain, then Add Domain. You add your website URL making sure it is the actual one you are using. If you use a different format, the ads will not display.
You will proceed to add keywords and then Save Changes. The next thing will be to verify you are the real owner of the website. You start that process by clicking the green tick below the Action tab. You must click on Download followed by uploading the .txt file to your Cpanel. When you are done you click on Verify Now. It will usually take anything between a day and 5 days for approval.
Once approved you can go to Advertisements and copy the ad types you want by clicking on Copy Script.
You will then paste them where you want them to appear on your website. It takes at most about 10 minutes before the ads start showing on your website. When everything goes live you are ready to make money; you can withdraw every Friday.
ZimAdsense looks like a good idea and we are hopeful that they are here to stay.
I recently spoke to one of the guys behind the ZimAdSense brand. He indicated that one can make around US$5 daily with daily traffic of at least 500.
You can check out more information on their website.
Tinashe Sambiri| CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has dismissed claims that his party is structureless.
Zanu PF is exerting pressure on CCC to hold an elective congress before polls in a bid to infiltrate the party structures.
Addressing thousands of CCC supporters at Kondo Business Centre in Chipinge on Saturday, President Chamisa said:
“They say we don’t have a structure, they say we don’t have leadership. How can we have this number of people here in Kondo with no leadership, no structure?”
President Chamisa also wrote on Twitter:
“YELLOW EVERYWHERE… THANK YOU CHIPINGE…
We are formidable in the rural areas! WINNING BIG loading…”
Picture- A South African national & criminal gangster Lwazi Vime Mashiyi, was arrested trying to armed-rob a Mukuru money transfer agency in Gokwe. @OperationDudulapic.twitter.com/krs2q1PXgP
By-Police in Bulawayo Saturday missed armed robbers who pounced on Fidelity Building in Bulawayo and got away with US$6270 and ZAR5 000.
Fidelity is a 12-story building between 11th Avenue and Fife Street in Bulawayo’s Central Business District (CBD).
ZRP said the robbers escaped before officers arrived and cordoned off the area.
Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi further confirmed the incident saying the suspected robbers pounced on a Women Empowerment Trust housed in the building that also acts as a money transfer agent.
He said they also harassed customers queuing to get their money and allegedly locked into a room. Nyathi told Sunday News:
The ZRP is investigating an armed robbery incident which occurred at a Women Empowerment Trust at 6th Floor, Fidelity Building, Bulawayo where two armed robbers pounced and got away with US$6 270 as well as R5 000. The company is also involved in money transfer. They also harassed customers who wanted to collect and deposit their money.
He said police reacted swiftly to information and cordoned off the building with initial reports indicating that the robbers were still inside the building.
Nyathi said on entering the building, the police realised that the robbers had already sneaked out when they got to the scene.
Sources said police then looked at the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage in the building, and observed the two suspected robbers in the act.
The suspects reportedly fled in a white Honda Fit vehicle, and by the time security personnel in the building alerted the police, the suspects had escaped.
Last night Gogo Chamisa affectionately know as Mai Eucy died yesterday in Sosera, Gutu.
Gogo Chamisa (Mai Eucy) is the wife of the elder brother of President Chamisa’s father.
She will be buried today in the afternoon at her rural home in Sosera.
Confirming the death of Gogo Chamisa, Masvingo urban CCC ward 5 councillor Daniel Mberikunshe said, “Indeed Gogo Chamisa, Mai Eucy died yesterday evening in Sosera. She will be buried today in the afternoon. Our condolences to the Chamisa family and all relatives.”
President Chamisa will be at the funeral today.
Masvingo prominent lawyer advocate Martin Mureri, encourages all Masvingo citizens to join Chamisa’s family and relatives burying their beloved mother today at Sosera. In addition, advocate Mureri passed his condolences to President Chamisa and the entire family.
In another story, yesterday President Chamisa addressed more than 15 000 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters in rural Chipinge West ward 16.
The Thank You Rally, was done after CCC ward 16 councillor defeated Zanu PF, National Constitutional Assembly and other small parties during by elections.
By James Gwati- Diplomatic relations between Harare and Washington DC are at crossroads after President Emerson Mnangagwa’s administration unleashed members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation, CIO, on two visiting US senate aides.
In a story published by the US online news portal, foreignpolicy.com, members of the CIO filmed and later trailed two visiting American senate aides. The two diplomats were conducting a meeting with an unnamed human rights activist at a restaurant in the capital.
Below is the US website story:
On a late morning in mid-August, two U.S. Senate aides were sitting at an outdoor cafe in Harare, Zimbabwe, with a civil society activist, when someone approached them with a warning.
They were being tailed and filmed by another man in the cafe, whom the spotter suspected was a member of the Zimbabwean government’s security services.
The two aides work for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and were on an official visit to the southern African country organized in concert with the U.S. Embassy to meet with human rights advocates and other civil society leaders and hear first-hand accounts of Zimbabwe’s deteriorating political and human rights situation under President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
They requested meetings with the Zimbabwean government, most of which were declined.
After departing their meeting with the activist, they got into a U.S. Embassy vehicle, one of a fleet of clearly marked American government cars with diplomatic plates driven by an embassy staffer.
They were driving away when several cars slotted into the road in front of them, to the side, and behind them. Suddenly, their car was boxed in.
At one point, according to one official briefed on the matter, they tried to call the U.S. Embassy for help, but their phones all lost reception, apparently simultaneously.
They were on their own. After a tense standoff, as the phalanx of cars crawled along the road, the driver of the U.S. Embassy car saw an opening and swerved onto a side road to escape the tail.
They rushed back to the U.S. Embassy compound before the pursuing cars could intercept them.
From there, the U.S. Embassy worked to quickly ferry the two Senate staffers out of the country without further incident.
The ordeal, described to Foreign Policy by four current and former U.S. officials familiar with the matter, stunned U.S. diplomats and left them questioning what would have happened to the two Senate aides had the embassy vehicle not been able to make its escape.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to speak on the matter publicly.
The officials, who suspected Zimbabwean security services orchestrated the entire incident, said it underscored the increasingly brazen tactics of Mnangagwa’s government to suppress and intimidate political opponents and civil society activists as he strengthens his grip on power ahead of national elections next year.
However, all of the officials cautioned that they couldn’t say with certainty who followed the staffers and chased the U.S. Embassy car.
The incident incensed U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who sent a letter to President Joe Biden informing him of the harassment and car chase his staffers experienced.
In the letter, he urged Biden to step up U.S. attention on the “dire” repressive political atmosphere in Zimbabwe and boost support for the country’s increasingly embattled civil society organizations and pro-democracy activists.
“This blatant aggression towards congressional staff, one of whom—as the Zimbabweans surely know served as a senior advisor to you for many years when you were Chairman and Ranking Member of the Foreign Relations Committee—was meant to intimidate the staff themselves, and to send a message to the United States: our support of Zimbabweans working to defend democracy is unwelcome by those who hold power,” Menendez wrote in his letter to Biden dated Sept. 12, a copy of which was obtained by Foreign Policy. Menendez did not name the two staffers in his letter.
“Such outrageous behavior highlights the Zimbabwean regime’s reckless disregard for international norms. If American officials are deliberately targeted, you can well imagine the violence that will be directed to Zimbabweans who dare to criticize the government.”
Menendez in his letter pushed Biden to bring up the political situation in Zimbabwe with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during their scheduled meeting at the White House on Friday. Menendez’s office did not offer additional comment on the matter.
By James Gwati- Members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation, CIO, have harassed two U.S. senate aides in Harare.
In a story published by the US online news portal, foreignpolicy.com, members of the CIO filmed and later trailed two visiting American senate aides. The two diplomats were conducting a meeting with an unnamed human rights activist at a restaurant in the capital.
Below is the story:
On a late morning in mid-August, two U.S. Senate aides were sitting at an outdoor cafe in Harare, Zimbabwe, with a civil society activist, when someone approached them with a warning.
They were being tailed and filmed by another man in the cafe, whom the spotter suspected was a member of the Zimbabwean government’s security services.
The two aides work for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and were on an official visit to the southern African country organized in concert with the U.S. Embassy to meet with human rights advocates and other civil society leaders and hear first-hand accounts of Zimbabwe’s deteriorating political and human rights situation under President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
They requested meetings with the Zimbabwean government, most of which were declined.
After departing their meeting with the activist, they got into a U.S. Embassy vehicle, one of a fleet of clearly marked American government cars with diplomatic plates driven by an embassy staffer.
They were driving away when several cars slotted into the road in front of them, to the side, and behind them. Suddenly, their car was boxed in.
At one point, according to one official briefed on the matter, they tried to call the U.S. Embassy for help, but their phones all lost reception, apparently simultaneously.
They were on their own. After a tense standoff, as the phalanx of cars crawled along the road, the driver of the U.S. Embassy car saw an opening and swerved onto a side road to escape the tail.
They rushed back to the U.S. Embassy compound before the pursuing cars could intercept them.
From there, the U.S. Embassy worked to quickly ferry the two Senate staffers out of the country without further incident.
The ordeal, described to Foreign Policy by four current and former U.S. officials familiar with the matter, stunned U.S. diplomats and left them questioning what would have happened to the two Senate aides had the embassy vehicle not been able to make its escape.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to speak on the matter publicly.
The officials, who suspected Zimbabwean security services orchestrated the entire incident, said it underscored the increasingly brazen tactics of Mnangagwa’s government to suppress and intimidate political opponents and civil society activists as he strengthens his grip on power ahead of national elections next year.
However, all of the officials cautioned that they couldn’t say with certainty who followed the staffers and chased the U.S. Embassy car.
The incident incensed U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who sent a letter to President Joe Biden informing him of the harassment and car chase his staffers experienced.
In the letter, he urged Biden to step up U.S. attention on the “dire” repressive political atmosphere in Zimbabwe and boost support for the country’s increasingly embattled civil society organizations and pro-democracy activists.
“This blatant aggression towards congressional staff, one of whom—as the Zimbabweans surely know served as a senior advisor to you for many years when you were Chairman and Ranking Member of the Foreign Relations Committee—was meant to intimidate the staff themselves, and to send a message to the United States: our support of Zimbabweans working to defend democracy is unwelcome by those who hold power,” Menendez wrote in his letter to Biden dated Sept. 12, a copy of which was obtained by Foreign Policy. Menendez did not name the two staffers in his letter.
“Such outrageous behavior highlights the Zimbabwean regime’s reckless disregard for international norms. If American officials are deliberately targeted, you can well imagine the violence that will be directed to Zimbabweans who dare to criticize the government.”
Menendez in his letter pushed Biden to bring up the political situation in Zimbabwe with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during their scheduled meeting at the White House on Friday. Menendez’s office did not offer additional comment on the matter.
By James Gwati-The late flamboyant and socialite Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi, could have left unclaimed properties in South Africa and Botswana, a close follower has suggested.
Ginimbi’s follower, Aldrin Makotore, posted on Facebook claiming that there could be people secretly enjoying the late socialite’s wealth out there.
He posted: To me this still a continuation of the story of Ginimbi. There is a lot we still don’t know or being told. There could be a few more people out there in South Arica and Botswana secretly living on what Ginimbi created.
By-Armed robbers Saturday pounced on Fidelity Building in Bulawayo and got away with US$6270 and ZAR5 000.
Fidelity is a 12-story building between 11th Avenue and Fife Street in Bulawayo’s Central Business District (CBD).
Reports suggest that the robbers escaped before police arrived and cordoned off the area.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident saying the suspected robbers pounced on a Women Empowerment Trust housed in the building that also acts as a money transfer agent.
He said they also harassed customers queuing to get their money and allegedly locked into a room. Nyathi told Sunday News:
The ZRP is investigating an armed robbery incident that occurred at a Women Empowerment Trust at 6th Floor, Fidelity Building, Bulawayo where two armed robbers pounced and got away with US$6 270 as well as R5 000. The company is also involved in money transfer. They also harassed customers who wanted to collect and deposit their money.
He said police reacted swiftly to information and cordoned off the building with initial reports indicating that the robbers were still inside the building.
Asst Comm Nyathi said on entering the building, the police realised that the robbers had already sneaked out when they got to the scene.
Sources said police then looked at the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage in the building, and observed the two suspected robbers in the act.
The suspects reportedly fled in a white Honda Fit vehicle, and by the time security personnel in the building alerted the police, the suspects had escaped.
For avoidance of assumed positions , let me be clear as l begin that whatever l write remains my right as l write and anyone with contrary assertion shall be free to engage at whatever level and to whatever extend except the extent to silence my keypad.
I write what l want !!! Let me depart !!I have opined before on various occasions and matters in the political matrix of then MDC Alliance and now the CCC and l shall continue to do so .
As President Nelson Chamisa envisioned the 2023 plebiscite, his modus oparandi became non conformed to what used to be and what some assume used to be. This strategy has brewed anxiety not only within but also outside the confines of the party as those who scheme politically are left schemeless and guessing of President Chamisa’s next move except for a few in the know.
This remains a very smart move !!Any person inteligent or otherwise can agree that scheming for internal or external forces has been relegated to the periphery leaving political trajectories highly skewed towards paranoia.
As the paranoia increased time and again internal jostling for favour has gained traction thus the beginning of a new era of mud smearing , name calling and bootlicking on steroids , whilst all this is shaping on Facebook, Twitter and not sparing wordpress ; political competence has already been shelved.
The fight for proximity to number 1 is already messy and Zanu PF as usual is focused on its campaign trail and on the periphery is also focused on influencing narrative in the opposition camp and this has been a long term project which included media capture and many other social media shenanigans ( a topic for another day).
Excitable social media characters must fasten seat belts as facebook and Twitter shall be the arena for mud smearing and bootlicking as camps in the political matrix seek to outsmart and taint each other in the opposition. Not to be spared shall be civil society and much to the delight of Zanu PF and its PVO bill ( we are such a bunch of fools).
As you watch biggest loser on Dear Steve , opposition will suffer same fate as a result of PVO and internal mud smearing.I speak from a perspective of someone who has learnt what it means sending an audio to an inbox and then listen to it later on an online tabloid.
We have witnessed many being recorded whilst having discussions and such recordings being publicized for political millage.
President Nelson Chamisa has made it very difficult for those with ambitions to focus on zvigaro because noone knows the process which guarantees chigaro thus all are working hard to register voters , some post fake stats on that ( a story for another day).
This has actually managed to stabilise the party towards the plebiscite as well as increase kugwaza, although rumours and political grapevine remains vile on candidate selection and purported formation of a new structure.
This has increased the Paranoia and Mud smearing tactics. Behold and lo this is the season, brace yourselves as its going to be an interesting season of Facebook and Twitter mud smearing and bootlicking.
Bruce Grobbelaar was voted Liverpool’s second-best goalkeeper and seventh in Zimbabwe. In his long career, he has achieved many heights, won several important titles, and earned himself a good name, but he has not been without negative stories.
It turned out that during his career, he had bet several times on the matches he took part in and then influenced the course of the game to make money. Many soccer players and athletes around the world gamble and bet. But it’s one thing to go to topcadcasinos.net to find casinos for Canadian dollars and another to bet on your own games in which you take part.
For example, according to the Sun newspaper, in November 1994, Grobbelaar arranged for Chris Vincent to place a bet on Newcastle to win the upcoming game against Liverpool. Recall that Bruce, at that time, was the main goalkeeper of the Merseyside team and may well influence the result.
In that game, Newcastle won 3-0, and Andy Cole scored all three goals. And one of the goals was quite ridiculous: Grobbelaar suspiciously missed the ball between his hands, although he could have obviously grabbed it. For this match, Bruce earned 40 thousand pounds, but later on, soccer experts said it was impossible to catch the ball in that situation.
The second contracted match by Grobbelaar was Southampton against Coventry. At the time, he was on loan at Southampton and apparently needed some extra money. Despite his best efforts and an own goal, Bruce failed to cash in on the bet as his team rallied and made a combo, winning the game 3-1 at the end.
The third time, Grobbelaar also failed to make money on a bet on his own team, although he did his best to do so. He was promised £50,000 if Manchester City beat Southampton by a margin of one goal. Luck again turned away from Bruce, and that meeting ended with a score. Experts also stated that the goalkeeper could not have influenced any of the missed goals.
Despite the accumulated experience in match-fixing, luck turned away from Grobbelaar in the future. For example, in the game against Manchester United, he purposely jumped to the wrong side of the ball but still accidentally kicked it, which cost him £125,000 in potential winnings.
But the story didn’t end there. The independent media found out that Vincent, a friend of Grobbelaar, who told all these facts about rigged matches, was promised 33,000 pounds by the Sun for detailed data, which discredited him.
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora on Wednesday said political and electoral reforms in the country will only come through dialogue, not confrontation.
Mwonzora said ZANU PF has a huge majority in Parliament, therefore, political parties should come to the negotiating table to discuss ways to move the country forward.
Addressing journalists at the Bulawayo Media Centre on Wednesday, Mwonzora said:Our position as a party is that we cannot avoid dialogue in order to achieve key reforms.The reality we have to live with is that ZANU PF enjoys a supermajority in Parliament, and they have been the majority since 2013.
If we are to go via dialogue, it means that we agree and what we would have agreed will then be processed through Parliament.If we are to amend the Electoral Act, for example, we need to agree and cooperate with legislators from across the political spectrum.
Mwonzora said in the history of Zimbabwe, key political reforms have come through dialogue and he cited the Lancaster House agreement of 1979 which brought about the majority rule in the country and the 1987 Unity Accord which brought an end to Gukurahundi.
He said:This is what happened throughout the history of the country. In 1979, the issue of majority rule was a key political reform, and it came via dialogue.The disturbances in Matabeleland after independence were stopped via dialogue which led to the signing of the Unity Accord between the warring parties.
People can argue about the content of the Unity Accord itself and whether one party won more than the other, but that is beside the point at this point and time.The fact of the matter is that the Accord came via dialogue.
Mwonzora also cited the talks between ZANU PF and the two MDC formations facilitated by SADC in 2008 which culminated in the signing of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) and the formation of the Government of Unity (GNU) in 2009.
By- The President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government has blocked a Robert Gabriel Mugabe Memorial gig set for Zimbabwe Grounds today.
Former Zanu PF youth leader Jim Kunaka had organised the gala under the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Legacy Movement he fronts.
Kunaka wrote a letter to the police on 12 September notifying them to hold the gala in terms of the Maintenance of Peace and Order Act [Chapter 11:23]. In response to Kunaka, Officer Commanding Police Harare South District, Chief Superintendent, M Majojo, said the gala has not been approved. He wrote: Reference is made to your letter dated 12 September 2022… In the letter, you notified to hold a Robert Gabriel Mugabe memorial gala at Zimbabwe Grounds, Highfield, Harare from the 17th to the 18th of September 2022 from 1700 to 0600 hours. May you be advised that the notice to hold a Robert Gabriel Mugabe memorial gala is not approved
FORMER Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye (pictured), who was slapped with a 36-month jail term in June this year for corruption, has appealed for bail pending appeal at the High Court while also filing papers to overturn the conviction and sentence.
Advocate Lewis Uriri, who represented the disgraced former minister and was instructed by lawyer Rungano Mahuni, confirmed the development.
The matter is being handled by Justice Pisirai Kwenda.
Kagonye was found guilty of converting to her own use some 20 computers which were donated through her by the Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz). The equipment was meant to benefit schools in the Zanu-PF politician’s Goromonzi South constituency in 2018.
Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti, who found her guilty of the charge, set aside 12 months of the imprisonment term for five years on condition of good behaviour.
A further eight months were set aside on condition she restituted US$10 000, equivalent to the laptops she stole.
The politician’s woes began in June 2018 when she wrote to then Information Communication Technology minister Supa Mandiwanzira requesting computers to donate to schools in her constituency.
On 20 June 2018, Mandiwanzira then wrote to Potraz requesting facilitation of the donations through its e-learning project to Goromonzi South schools.
Potraz donated the computers to Kagonye, who sent her brother Evans Kagonye to collect them on her behalf.
Potraz later made a follow-up on the donation, but the computers could not be accounted for.
The NewsHawks gathered that a few days after her conviction, she made frantic freedom bids to get out of jail, but her husband was advised that the appeals could only be tabled after 10 working days.
After the lapse of the days, she immediately filed papers for appeal under case number HACC (B) 112/22 at the High Court.
In her heads of argument as presented by Uriri, Kagonye said she was seeking her admission to bail pending appeal against both conviction and sentence on a charge of theft of trust property as defined in terms of section of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] by the regional magistrate, Eastern Division [Anti-Corruption Court] sitting at Harare on 8 June 2022.
“The primary issue for determination is whether applicant is in the circumstances entitled to bail pending appeal. The applicant has in her application canvassed the considerations relating to the grant of an application for bail pending appeal. It is submitted that the application has merit and ought to be allowed,” Uriri argued.
“These heads were filed when the applicant has not had an opportunity to consider the respondent’s papers. Therefore, they might not touch on issues that the respondent might raise in their response. The heads focus on issues arising from the application and motivate the application for bail pending appeal filed before the court. These heads start by addressing the legal principles applicable in bail pending appeal applications.”
The former minister also argued that the provisions of section 123 (1) (b) (ii) of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act as augmented by the provisions of section 123 (2) of the Act make her a deserving candidate for bail pending appeal.
“The import of the above provisions when as appropriately modified, is that bail pending appeal is a right on the same footing as bail pending trial. It therefore necessarily follows that the grounds set out in sections 117(2) and (3) of the Act come into play together with the common law on bail pending appeal suitably adapted to the statutory framework of section 117 (1) thereof,” read part of the heads of argument.
Uriri confirmed that the arguments had been put to the High Court.
“We are now at a stage where we are waiting for the judgement. It was reserved, but we are confident that the courts will rule in our favour,” he said.
The NewsHawks also obtained papers of Kagonye’s notice of appeal against conviction and sentence which is under case number CRB ACC/10/21 at the High Court.
Through her lawyers, again led by Advocate Uriri, Kagonye said the magistrate who convicted her misdirected herself.
“The court a quo erred and misdirected itself on the principles relative to the discharge of an accused person at the close of state case and in not acquitting the appellant at the close of the state case in view of the fact that, at that stage, no evidence had been lead relative to the essentials of the charge vis a trust agreement in the terms alleged by the state and appropriation of trust property or failure to account for the same.”
“The court a quo erred and misdirected itself on the facts and the evidence in holding as it did, that the property the subject of the charge was held in trust for schools in the Goromonzi constituency and in thus regarding direct real evidence that the direct real evidence that the said property was for the benefit of the needy in the said constituency.”
“The property having been donated for a specific person, and the purpose having been properly undertaken, the court a quo erred in holding that the appellant had a duty to account for the same and failed to do so,” reads the appeal papers.
Other Zanu-PF officials who have been prosecuted for acts of corruption by Zimbabwean courts still walk free.
They include former Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo, Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadjajena, former Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira as well as former legislator Psychology Mazivisa.
Apart from being known for its landscapes and epic safari, Zimbabwe boasts many active gamblers. In fact, due to economic hardship in the country resulting in unemployment, income loss, and job instability, gambling is one of the residents’ resources. Gambling has always been practised in the country but has grown over the last few decades.
When previously Zimbabweans viewed gambling as a harmless entertaining activity, it started becoming popular among them as it was exposed to various technological advancements. The Lotteries and Gambling Board (LGB) controls and monitors the gaming industry operations in Zimbabwe, which is completely outdated and irrelevant to how online gambling works. Today, the country is moving forward with plans to legalise online gambling to boost revenue collection.
Gambling Regulation in Zimbabwe
Gambling is completely legal in Zimbabwe and is under the responsibility of the Lotteries and Gambling Board (LGB), established with the enactment of the Lotteries and Gaming Act in 2000. This body regulates and supervises gambling areas such as the popular state-run lottery, land-based casinos, sports betting, and horseracing.
Online gambling has shown incredible growth in Zimbabwe, with most players using their mobile devices to access online casinos. Nevertheless, it remains an unregulated sector with no specific laws prohibiting or legalising online gambling. As the current Lotteries and Gaming Act is obsolete and does not adequately cover online gambling, the laws need to be set for revision.
In fact, the initial version of gambling regulations was introduced in 1998 and was amended in 2001 and 2002. It has not yet been updated for over 20 years. Therefore, Zimbabwe should ramp up efforts to legalise online gambling for the purpose of enabling players to bet freely on overseas online casino sites without fear of prosecution.
Amendments to the Lotteries and Gaming Act
As Zimbabwe’s original version of gambling laws was introduced in 1998, it is no longer appropriate to the players’ needs. As stated by the Minister of Home Affairs Kazembe Kazembe, the cabinet had received and approved the amendments to the Lotteries and Gaming Act with the goal of increasing revenue from the gambling industry.
Kazembe explained that essential amendments to the Act included provisions enabling top websites for online gambling to embrace innovations adapted to LGB acts for monitoring and control purposes. The Minister of Home Affairs also stated that the government missed the opportunity on a profitable sector with the profits from which are remitted to unregulated gambling operators.
The regulator, the Lotteries and Gaming Board, would continue to supervise and guide the unregulated operators. Kazembe added that the new laws ensured that operators applied for a licence and reduced criminal activities related to gambling in the country. The President’s advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa was confident that the change would ensure revenue for the country while reducing money-laundering risks.
Benefits of Future Changes Regulation of Virtual Gambling
Increasing Revenue Collection
Apart from the tourism sector, gambling is also a considerable contributor to the economy of Zimbabwe. Actually, the country is one of the largest concentrations of land-based casinos in the African continent, with up to 22 gambling establishments spread across 11 cities.
The gambling winnings in this country are generally subject to a flat 10% tax for sports betting and horse racing and 15% for casino gambling. This means that gambling revenues represent a significant part of the GDP in this southern African country.
For example, by 2020, the online casino market is set to be worth $60 billion, meaning a huge amount of tax revenue. In 2017, online gambling experienced a growth of 50.8%, which is chiefly driven by social networking sites like Facebook and WhatsApp. The lack of proper regulation in the flourishing industry permits black market operators to accumulate vast amounts of revenue.
Safer Gaming Environment
Web-based gambling industry is prone to different types of gambling-related crimes. Money laundering, underage gambling, and frauds are common problems related to gambling. Hence, heavy regulation is needed to fight against these issues. In Zimbabwe, the lack of relevant regulation leaves Zimbabwe gamblers unprotected.
Therefore, under the supervision of state regulation, the gambling environment is ensured to be safe, fair, and transparent. All gambling sites operating in the country should comply with any laws to promote responsible gambling and minimise gambling-related crimes.
Moreover, when legalising the online gambling industry, the state is also responsible for supporting and treating players with gambling problems. Zimbabwe should learn from other countries and experiences to help make the right decision regarding online gambling regulation. For instance, Zimbabwe can use the experience of the UK, where strict regulations allow the gambling environment to grow in a supervised and responsible way.
Conclusion
Gambling is a thriving industry in Zimbabwe, with several land-based casinos spreading throughout the country. The Lotteries and Gambling Board is a regulatory body that covers the regulation of land-based casinos, national lotteries, sports betting, and horseracing.
This body was set up under the Lotteries and Gaming Act in 1998 and was reformed in 2002. Nonetheless, the country hasn’t yet made internet gambling laws despite the booming of this sector. Zimbabweans, hence, turn to offshore online casinos, which can be insecure. The state plans to legalise the online gambling sphere by reforming the gambling laws there.
This new regulation will boost the country’s revenue and provide a safer gambling environment. The players will be able to choose trustworthy sites while applying responsible gambling.
By-MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has sanitised the Gukurahundi massacres and heaps of praises on Zanu PF.
Mwonzora, who was in Bulawayo Wednesday, said like what happened to end the Gukurahundi atrocities in the 1980s, political and electoral reforms in the country would only come through dialoguing with Zanu PF.
Addressing journalists at the Bulawayo Media Centre , Mwonzora said:
Our position as a party is that we cannot avoid dialogue in order to achieve key reforms.
The reality we have to live with is that ZANU PF enjoys a supermajority in Parliament, and they have been the majority since 2013.
If we are to go via dialogue, it means that we agree and what we would have agreed will then be processed through Parliament.
If we are to amend the Electoral Act, for example, we need to agree and cooperate with legislators from across the political spectrum.
Mwonzora said in the history of Zimbabwe, key political reforms have come through dialogue and he cited the Lancaster House agreement of 1979 which brought about the majority rule in the country and the 1987 Unity Accord which brought an end to Gukurahundi. He said:
This is what happened throughout the history of the country. In 1979, the issue of majority rule was a key political reform, and it came via dialogue.
The disturbances in Matabeleland after independence were stopped via dialogue which led to the signing of the Unity Accord between the warring parties.
People can argue about the content of the Unity Accord itself and whether one party won more than the other, but that is beside the point at this point and time.
The fact of the matter is that the Accord came via dialogue.
Mwonzora also cited the talks between ZANU PF and the two MDC formations facilitated by SADC in 2008 which culminated in the signing of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) and the formation of the Government of Unity (GNU) in 2009. | New Ziana
FORMER State Security minister Owen Ncube yesterday described the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as an enemy of the ruling party and encouraged Zanu PF supporters to defend the party against the opposition’s inroads.
Ncube, who is the Zanu PF Gokwe-Kana Member of Parliament, made the statement while addressing ruling party supporters at a Gweru inter-district meeting in the Midlands capital on Tuesday.
“Our President (Emmerson Mnangagwa) has won the 2023 presidential election. It is only Zanu PF which must rule this country not the opposition because liberation fighters sacrificed for this country,” Ncube declared.
He then turned his anger on the divisions in Zanu PF particularly in the Midlands province saying: “The enemy is not in our (Zanu PF) party. The enemy is the CCC led by Nelson Chamisa.
“So do not waste your time fighting in Zanu PF. Midlands should be united under the chairmanship of Larry Mavima. As we approach the 2023 elections, the enemies of the revolution are growing in number and, therefore, as youths you should be defending the revolutionary party and Mnangagwa.”
CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Siziba said Ncube’s statement exposed Zanu PF’s fear of electoral defeat in the 2023 elections.
“For the former minister Mudha to say this, it shows the level at which the country is in dire need of leadership,” Siziba said.
“The words are a clear sign that the centre is failing to hold. It is a clear sign that Zanu PF is focusing on power retention instead of addressing the welfare of our people. Zanu PF is failing to address the plight of teachers and other public workers, students are failing to access education because of its failed policies.”
Ncube was alleged to be linked to a violent mob known in the Midlands province as Al Shabaab before his appointment as State Security minister.
He was fired as minister in January this year on charges of instigating post-election violence in Zanu PF’s Midlands province after the party’s disputed December provincial elections.
In 2019, the United States cited him for “gross violations of human rights” and added him to its sanctions list.
“In his role as the minister of National Security, Ncube, with the support of other Zimbabwean government officials, ordered the Zimbabwean security services to identify, abduct and mistreat individuals assumed to be supporters of a Zimbabwean opposition group,” the US State Department said then.
“In addition, while in his position, the government of Zimbabwe has at times used so-called “ferret teams” to abduct and beat individuals deemed to be a threat to the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front. Ncube is being designated for being responsible for, or participating in, human rights abuses related to political repression in Zimbabwe.”
Ncube’s threats against the CCC follows recent acts of political violence against opposition members by suspected Zanu PF activists, with Chamisa raising fears over his safety after a suspected hand grenade exploded a few metres from the venue of his campaign rally in Chinhoyi on Sunday.
A latest human rights’ situational report by the Zimbabwe Peace Project, listed Zanu PF as the leading perpetrator of violence in August during which 257 rights abuses were recorded.
Zanu PF has, however, denied the charges.
This is not the first time that senior Zanu PF officials have declared that only a Zanu PF leader should rule this country.
In June this year while addressing ruling party supporters at Bata Shoe Company in Gweru, Mnangagwa said the opposition would never rule Zimbabwe because Zanu PF was the sole custodian of the country’s liberation history.
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC councillors have declared they will never abandon the people’s struggle.
The CCC councillors assured party leader President Nelson Chamisa they were ready to fight for freedom from Zanu PF oppression.
President Chamisa held a crucial meeting with CCC councillors in Harare on Thursday.
We will never abandon this struggle: Current settings in Harare, CCC Councillors meeting to shape the agenda to take our country forward. pic.twitter.com/6jtV7Gt283
Tinashe Sambiri|Prominent human rights defender, Makomborero Haruzivishe, says fear is Zimbabwe’s worst problem.
The culture of fear has been created by Zanu PF’s political hegemony.
Those perceived to be against the former revolutionary party are ruthlessly silenced.
Haruzivishe postulated:
“The problem with Zimbabwe is FEAR;
ZanuPf is afraid,opposition is afraid,civil society is afraid,judiciary is afraid,military commanders are afraid,trade unionists are afraid,citizens are afraid,churches are afraid,traditional leaders are afraid & police bosses are afraid. FEAR!!”
Tinashe Sambiri|Outspoken Zanu PF activist, Sybeth Musengezi, has said Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is too old to lead the nation.
Mr Mnangagwa turned 80 yesterday.
Musengezi, known for openly challenging Mr Mnangagwa’s legitimacy, argues the Zanu PF leader is a liability to the nation.
“Mnangagwa turned 80 y/day. Some Cdes are saying since he wants 5 more years as ‘president’ let’s give him.
This means he’ll finish his 2nd unproductive term when he is 86. For me it’s a big NO Considering our economy, it’s very foolish to let someone this old determine our future,” Musengezi wrote on Twitter.
He further accused Mr Mnangagwa of plotting to kill him.
“I’ve seen a sudden influx of unmarked twincabs coming to my house. Not sure if my house is now a tourist attraction for cars without number plates.
Whoever is sending the guys must stop wasting resources and put them to good use.
President Chamisa addresses rural Chipinge rally today
As “perceived” MDC T Masvingo urban councillor Beta dumps Mwonzora and attended CCC councillors meeting in Harare on Thursday.
17th September 2022
Wezhira Munya
Citizens Coalition for Change President Nelson Chamisa is expected to address a Thank You Rally in Chipinge today.
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) won ward 16 by election in rural Chipinge. CCC defeated Zanu PF, National Constitutional Assembly party among others.
Consequently, today, President Chamisa is thanking CCC supporters and Change champions for voting and trusting CCC.
CCC deputy spokesperson Ostallos said, “There are thousands of CCC supporters at the venue and there is great excitement. Chipinge is in yellow.”
On this week thursday, more than 400 CCC councillors from across both rural and urban areas met President Chamisa in Harare.
Interestingly, “perceived” MDC T Masvingo urban councillor Beta attended CCC councillors meeting on Thursday. Councillor Beta joined Masvingo urban CCC councillors who attended this meeting: Councillor Serina Maridza ward 1, Rocky Kamuzondo ward 3, councillor Daniel Mberikunshe ward 5, Councillor Aleck Tabe ward 4 and councillor Richard Musekiwa ward 7.
One of the Masvingo urban CCC councillors who refused to be named said, “Advocate Mayor Maboke did not attend CCC meeting because he had an urgent court meeting to attend.”
It means in Masvingo urban MDC T led by Mwonzora has lost all councillors.
In the past months, councillor Beta was attending and supporting MDC T led by Mwonzora. However, he has decided to throw Mwonzora and MDC T under the bus and joined CCC.
Commenting on councillor Beta’s new relationship with CCC, his friend who refused to be named said, “Councillor Beta has officially joined CCC. He has realized that MDC T is a Zanu PF project and MDC T has lost grassroots support as evident by high by election losses. He realized that his political career is dead in MDC T.”
Councillor Beta is serving his term, he first became a councillor in 2018.
Also, Masvingo urban ward 1 Councillor Serina Maridza dumped MDC T few month ago and now religiously attends CCC party meetings.
It’s now “officially” that Masvingo urban council have 7 CCC councillors, Zanu PF 3 and MDC T 0.
Furthermore, veteran politician, former MDC T led by Mwonzora secretary of local government and former MDC T led by late President Tsvangirai Masvingo provincial chairperson Mr Ben Chiondengwa dumped MDC T Mwonzora and joined CCC.
The top mining business man Mr Chiondegwa is supporting CCC party programs in Masvingo.
In Bulawayo urban , Mwonzora recalled ward 3 councillor Kambarami.Kambarami is CCC strong member and his was reinstated by the court. However, the vindictive MDC T president Mwonzora partnered with Zanu PF minister of local government to recall CCC councillor Kambarami.
Tinashe Sambiri|A Zimbabwean dancehall star has challenged the Zanu PF regime to release jailed CCC official Hon Job Sikhala with immediate effect.
In a statement on his official Facebook page, the dancehall star, Jusa Riddim, described the prolonged detention of Hon Sikhala, Hon Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole and Nyatsime activists as unacceptable.
He wrote: “Whats happening to @jobsikhalaofficial could happen to anyone of us. Of we dont speak out we sanitise this major injustice and are complicit is helping the system to continue to nose dive.
Freeup de mun if uno nah have nothing fi stick! Wam to dem.
Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp has criticised Chelsea owner Todd Boehly’s plan for the English Premier League.
Boehly suggested this week, at a conference in New York, that an EPL ‘north v south’ All-Star game would create revenue that would filter down the English soccer pyramid.
The idea copies its format from the American Major League Baseball and basketball’s NBA, who both have exhibition games featuring the best players from the different leagues and conferences.
“People are talking about why don’t we have more money for the pyramid? MLB did their All-Star Game this year. They made $200 million from a Monday and a Tuesday. You could do a North vs South All-Star game from the Premier League to fund the pyramid very easily,” the Blues chief said.
But this idea has been mocked by Klopp, who suggested EPL fans would be unimpressed.
“He doesn’t wait long,” said the Liverpool boss. “When he finds a date for that he can call me.
“In American sports these players have four-month breaks. Does he want to bring the Harlem Globetrotters (exhibition basketball team) as well?
“Maybe he can explain that. I’m not sure people want to see that – (Man) United players, Liverpool players, City players, Everton players all together. It is not the national team. Did he really say it?- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC councillors have declared they will never abandon the people’s struggle.
The CCC councillors assured party leader President Nelson Chamisa they were ready to fight for freedom from Zanu PF oppression.
President Chamisa held a crucial meeting with CCC councillors in Harare on Thursday.
We will never abandon this struggle: Current settings in Harare, CCC Councillors meeting to shape the agenda to take our country forward. pic.twitter.com/6jtV7Gt283
Tinashe Sambiri|Prominent human rights defender, Makomborero Haruzivishe, says fear is Zimbabwe’s worst problem.
The culture of fear has been created by Zanu PF’s political hegemony.
Those perceived to be against the former revolutionary party are ruthlessly silenced.
Haruzivishe postulated:
“The problem with Zimbabwe is FEAR;
ZanuPf is afraid,opposition is afraid,civil society is afraid,judiciary is afraid,military commanders are afraid,trade unionists are afraid,citizens are afraid,churches are afraid,traditional leaders are afraid & police bosses are afraid. FEAR!!”
Half of health care facilities worldwide lack basic hygiene services with water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub where patients receive care and at toilets in these facilities, according to the latest Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report by WHO and UNICEF.
Around 3.85 billion people use these facilities, putting them at greater risk of infection, including 688 million people who receive care at facilities with no hygiene services at all.
“Hygiene facilities and practices in health care settings are non-negotiable.
Their improvement is essential to pandemic recovery, prevention and preparedness. Hygiene in health care facilities cannot be secured without increasing investments in basic measures, which include safe water, clean toilets, and safely managed health care waste,” said Dr Maria Neira, WHO Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health.
“I encourage Member States to step up their efforts to implement their 2019 World Health Assembly commitment to strengthen water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in health care facilities, and to monitor these efforts.”
The latest report, “Progress on WASH in health care facilities 2000–2021: special focus on WASH and infection prevention and control”, has for the first time established this global baseline on hygiene services – which assessed access at points of care as well as toilets – as more countries than ever report on critical elements of WASH services in their hospitals and other health centres. For hygiene, data are now available for 40 countries, representing 35% of the world’s population, up from 21 countries in 2020 and 14 in 2019.
The newly established global estimate reveals a clearer and more alarming picture of the state of hygiene in health care facilities. Though 68% of health care facilities had hygiene facilities at points of care, and 65% had handwashing facilities with water and soap at toilets, only 51% had both and therefore met the criteria for basic hygiene services. Furthermore, 1 in 11 (9%) of health care facilities globally have neither.
“If health care providers don’t have access to a hygiene service, patients don’t have a health care facility,” said Kelly Ann Naylor, UNICEF Director of WASH and Climate, Environment, Energy, and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED).
“Hospitals and clinics without safe water and basic hygiene and sanitation services are a potential death trap for pregnant mothers, newborns, and children. Every year, around 670 000 newborns lose their lives to sepsis. This is a travesty – even more so as their deaths are preventable.”
The report notes that contaminated hands and environments play a significant role in pathogen transmission in health care facilities and the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
Interventions to increase access to handwashing with water and soap and environmental cleaning form the cornerstone of infection prevention and control programmes and are crucial to providing quality care, particularly for safe childbirth. Coverage of WASH facilities is still uneven across different regions and income groupings:
Facilities in sub-Saharan Africa are lagging on hygiene services. While three-quarters (73%) of health care facilities in the region overall have alcohol-based hand rub or water and soap at points of care, only one-third (37%) have handwashing facilities with water and soap at toilets.
The vast majority (87%) of hospitals have hand hygiene facilities at points of care, compared to 68% of other healthcare facilities. In the Least Developed Countries, only 53% of health care facilities have access on-premises to a protected water source.
To compare, the global figure is 78% with hospitals (88%) doing better than smaller health care facilities (77%), and the figure for eastern and south-eastern Asia is 90%. Globally, around 3% of health care facilities in urban areas and 11% in rural areas had no water service.
Of the countries with available data, 1 in 10 health care facilities globally had no sanitation service.
The proportion of health care facilities with no sanitation services ranged from 3% in Latin America and the Caribbean and in eastern and south-eastern Asia to 22% in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Least Developed Countries, just 1 in 5 (21%) had basic sanitation services in health care facilities. The data further reveals that many health care facilities lack basic environmental cleaning and safe segregation and disposal of health care waste. The report is being launched at World Water Week taking place in Stockholm, Sweden.
The annual conference, which runs from 23 August to 1 September, explores new ways to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges: from food security and health to agriculture, technology, biodiversity and climate.
ZimAdsense offers a unique platform for advertisers and publishers to market promote their business concerns.
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You will proceed to add keywords and then Save Changes. The next thing will be to verify you are the real owner of the website. You start that process by clicking the green tick below the Action tab. You must click on Download followed by uploading the .txt file to your Cpanel. When you are done you click on Verify Now. It will usually take anything between a day and 5 days for approval.
Once approved you can go to Advertisements and copy the ad types you want by clicking on Copy Script.
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Tinashe Sambiri|CCC councillors have declared they will never abandon the people’s struggle.
The CCC councillors assured party leader President Nelson Chamisa they were ready to fight for freedom from Zanu PF oppression.
President Chamisa held a crucial meeting with CCC councillors in Harare on Thursday.
We will never abandon this struggle: Current settings in Harare, CCC Councillors meeting to shape the agenda to take our country forward. pic.twitter.com/6jtV7Gt283
This is the office of Blinart Investments which won a Zimbabwe parliament tender to buy 173 laptops at the cost of US$ 1 602 756.77 & 79 desktops for US$ 243 052.36. One laptop at a cost of US$ 9264.49 & one desktop for US$ 3076.61. Corruption is the biggest sanction against ??!! pic.twitter.com/MTvl6d2ET9
Emmerson Mnangagwa will be represented by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commissioner, Kudzai Shava’s parental-guardian, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Frederick Shava.
By Farai D Hove | The state owned Sunday Mail paper has confirmed a ZimEye expose that Emmerson Mnangagwa is not at all attending British Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
At the time government spokesperson Nick Mangwana was dismissing a fake letter purporting that Mnangagwa has been blocked for attending, ZimEye grilled the Perm Sec on why he is failing to further explain that Mnangagwa’s itinerary does not include London.
The state owned paper has since confirmed the ZimEye expose’ revealing that Mnangagwa is not at all flying in for the funeral. He will be represented by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commissioner, Kudzai Shava’s parental-guardian, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Frederick Shava.
Shava will represent Mnangagwa at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in London next week, the paper reports.
Mnangagwa will not be able to attend.
Deputy Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications) Mr George Charamba was quoted saying: “The Foreign Minister (Shava) is attending for the President, who is scheduled to leave for United Nations General Assembly on the day.”
Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, which is expected to be attended more than 192 Heads of State and Government from around the world, will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday.
Meanwhile there are 9 commissioners on the electoral commission, 5 of whom are well known children of top ZANU PF members.
Hon Mrs Justice Priscilla CHIGUMBA (Chairperson since 31st January 2028). She is the daughter in law of ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s business partner, Christopher Chigumba, and is also the girlfriend of Zimbabwe’s Minister of Mines Winston Chitando.
· Mr Rodney KIWA (a Commissioner since November 2021 and Deputy Chairperson since March 2022).
· Mr Jasper MANGWANA (a Commissioner since October 2021 and ZEC spokesperson since March 2022). He is the nephew of govt Spokesperson Ndabaningi Mangwana, and ZANU PF Legal Secretary Paul Mangwana.
The New Commissioners
In alphabetical order by surname, the new 6 Commissioners are:
Mrs Abigail Millicent Mohadi AMBROSE
She is from Matabeleland South and is an accountant by profession. She is the daughter of former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi.
Mr Kudzai SHAVA
He is a doctoral student, and an expert on disability matters, specialising in blind disability inclusion, and a researcher. He himself is visually impaired. He is the legal child of the Foreign Affairs Minister Frederick Shava.
Ms Catherine MPOFU,
Catherine Mpofu’s family has officially told ZimEye that her parents are all ZANU PF members. Catherine is a language, communications specialist and peace practitioner. She holds eleven years’ experience working with the public, media and civic society from the legislative arm of the State.
Mr Shepherd MANHIVI
He is a registered legal practitioner, with an LL.B. (Hons) degree, and hold with two additional degrees B.Sc. (Hons) in Administration and an M.Sc. in International Relations, all from the University of Zimbabwe.
Mrs Rosewita MURUTARE
Commissioner Murutare is a social scientist with experience in community health, community research and gender equity. She has previously worked with ZichiRe [the Zimbabwe Community Health Intervention Research Behavioural Change Programme, a project of the University of Zimbabwe, resident in the department of community medicine]. She holds an M.Sc. in Population Studies (UZ), B.Sc. in Geography and Environmental Studies (MSU) and a Diploma in Education from GTC.
Dr Janet Mbetu NZVENGA
She has a diploma in Education, a B.Sc. degree in psychology, a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology and a Ph.D. in Psychology. She is a currently a lecturer at Gweru Polytechnic.
By- MDC-T, Douglas Mwonzora has recalled Bulawayo Ward Three councillor Tinashe Kambarami, a former City of Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, for winning and dining with CCC President Nelson Chamisa.
Kambarami recently won a High Court battle reinstating him as a councillor and argued that the court order also applied to his reinstatement as the city’s Deputy Mayor.
This set him on a collision course with the incumbent, Ward One councillor Mlandu Ncube who refused to vacate the post.
On Thursday, the Minister of Local Government and Public Works, July Moyo wrote to the city’s Town Clerk, Christopher Dube informing the local authority of Kambarami’s recall. Part of the letter reads:
I wish to inform you that I am in receipt of a letter from the Movement Democratic Change stating that Councillor Tinashe Kambarami of ward three has ceased to be a member of the Party.
In terms of Section 278(1) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe as read with Section 129(1)(k), his ward is now vacant. Please advise Zimbabwe Electoral Commission accordingly.
The MDC-T has recalled dozens of councillors since the March 2020 Supreme Court ruling which nullified Nelson Chamisa’s appointment as MDC-T deputy president by the late Morgan Tsvangirai in 2016. | The Sunday News
By- Comedian and socialite MAI TT Murata’s ex-lover Tinashe Maphosa has blocked her from demanding a divorce. She also accused Tinashe of sleeping with one of her close friends. Following her demands, Tinashe, through his legal team, is said to have served her with a warning to take down all negative posts, from her social media platforms, which tarnish his image. Mai TT was also blocked from contacting Tinashe and ordered to stop live videos talking about him. She was also warned not to mention his name for 24 hours. Tinashe is also claiming an undisclosed amount of money. Mai TT said she was not moved by all the warnings since she wants her money and divorce, and will continue to display her bitterness. In an interview yesterday, after her Facebook Live talking about her present challenges with Tinashe, she said: “After my wedding, I was booked to be an MC at a wedding in Victoria Falls in April. “I left home only to come and find out that Tinashe had left. I then discovered that my money was missing. He admitted to taking US$30 000 from my house. “That US$30 000 was meant for a cooperative and he has not yet paid back my money.” She added: “Tinashe is now sending summons, with warnings and threats. He thinks that will stop me from asking for my money. “Even blocking me will not stop me from asking for my money back. “All I am asking of him is to sign divorce papers and give me back my money, then I stay out of his life.” H Metro
By- The President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government has blocked a Robert Gabriel Mugabe Memorial gig set for Zimbabwe Grounds today.
Former Zanu PF youth leader Jim Kunaka had organised the gala under the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Legacy Movement he fronts.
Kunaka wrote a letter to the police on 12 September notifying them to hold the gala in terms of the Maintenance of Peace and Order Act [Chapter 11:23]. In response to Kunaka, Officer Commanding Police Harare South District, Chief Superintendent, M Majojo, said the gala has not been approved. He wrote: Reference is made to your letter dated 12 September 2022… In the letter, you notified to hold a Robert Gabriel Mugabe memorial gala at Zimbabwe Grounds, Highfield, Harare from the 17th to the 18th of September 2022 from 1700 to 0600 hours. May you be advised that the notice to hold a Robert Gabriel Mugabe memorial gala is not approved
By Showbiz Reporter | The ZANU PF comedian, Mai Titi this week reached a dead end in her fight against her ex husband Tinashe Maphosa.
Felistas Murata who in the last few days has been on a tirade to accuse her ex husband of several moral failures, was on Friday left with an egg on face as her own evidence of conversations with between Tinashe Maphosa and a said, Tom Jones showed a pile of several inconsistencies.
One major boob was on a Worldremit transaction which has Tinashe Maphosa’s surname mispelt as Maposa., making it highly improbable for authenticity.
The comedian was still to comment over the embarassing gaffe.
Lifestyle editor, Rose Mudiwa wrote of the development, saying: “Mai TT and Tom Jones have been exposed. Lol. The fake text message from Mukuru spelt Maphosa incorrectly. Then the fake WhatsApp chat messages between Tinashe and Tom Jones show Tinashe’s chats being in green instead of the other way around.
Mai TT and Tom Jones warris this? Instead of settling your bills you are paying Tom Jones to connive with you. ????”
Former Zanu PF legislator, Psychology Maziwisa and ex-ZBC broadcaster, Oscar Pambuka, could be heading back to jail after their appeal against conviction and sentence in the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) scandal was thrown out by the High Court.
The High Court has struck off the roll their appeal citing its invalidity.
Maziwisa and Pambuka were in 2018 caged six years by Harare Magistrate, Lazini Ncube, who found them guilty of defrauding ZPC of $12 000 after they were favoured with a public relations contract through then Energy Minister Samuel Undenge without going to tender.
Ncube released the two on $800 bail each pending High Court appeal on their conviction and sentence 10 days after they were jailed.
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere was yesterday issued with a warrant of arrest by Harare magistrate Taurai Manuwere.
This is despite the fact that the courts had released her passport to allow her to meet former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in New York, in the United States.
Mahere, through her lawyer Chris Mhike, had filed an application for the release of her passport saying she would be attending the Presidential Centre for Wen Development strategic review session scheduled for September 14 and 15 in New York City.
Mahere is a pioneer fellow of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf initiative.
She said the initiative is designed for the development of young women and the advancement of democracy, adding that her participation would benefit Zimbabwe’s standing as a constitutional democracy.
However, Manuwere said Mahere knew very well that she was supposed to be in court yesterday.
“The remand of the accused who is absent must be consensual with the State and now the State is opposing it. The accused should be called three times and a warrant of arrest be issued,” Manuwere said.
Mahere is expected to appear in court on September 30, where her ruling is expected to be delivered on the charge of communicating falsehoods.
Government has reviewed councillors’ allowances as President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he had approved a scheme to import vehicles duty free.
Mnangagwa also said councillors would get special terms on purchasing personal housing stands.
The allowances review was announced by Local Government and Public Works secretary Zvinechimwe Churu in a correspondence to local authorities dated September 14.
In a letter addressed to town clerks, secretaries and chief executive officers, Churu said mayors/chairpersons would get $138 575,40, their deputies ($127 027,45) committee chairpersons ($120 098,68) and councillors $115 479,50.
“Local authorities are hereby advised that effective August 1, 2022, allowances have been reviewed. However, councils are advised that payment of these allowances is subject to performance of the local authority. Please note that this circular rescinds all previous communication relating to this subject matter and its interpretation of this circular rests with the undersigned,” he said.
Speaking at the closing day of the all-councillors indaba in Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa said he had approved the importation of councillors’ vehicles duty free, but would need to find out what was stalling the finalisation of the duty waiver.
Reacting to the developments, Citizens Coalition for Change councillor Denford Ngadziore (Harare ward 16) told NewsDay Weekender that councillors were more concerned about getting devolution funds allocation than personal vehicles.
“There is nothing to celebrate if money is not allocated to devolution so that our people can have better service delivery. We need our 5% which is supposed to be allocated to the City of Harare for us to have better service delivery,” he said.
“We are for the citizens whom we represent, not ourselves. We will celebrate more the day we will receive our devolution money for service delivery. If duty-free car imports scheme is implemented, I will donate the vehicle to the community to assist in charity and social responsibility work or alternatively will procure a permanent refuse collection truck for my ward.”
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume said: “We need to see how much impact this will have on the ability of councillors to supervise service delivery. We need to right-size incomes across the board for all Zimbabweans.”
Kadoma mayor Action Nyamukondiwa described the development as a great achievement in the ministry.
“At least for this time, but we don’t know how inflation is going to haunt us. The ordinary councillor was on $16 755 and the mayor’s was $20 000,” he said. -Newsday
The China-flying hospital patient, Constantino Chiwenga has said Zimbabwe should be the preferred destination for healthcare services.
Vice-President-Constantino-Chiwenga
He made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf at the official opening of this year’s Association of Health Funders of Zimbabwe annual stakeholders conference in Victoria Falls by his deputy John Mangwiro.
Chiwenga said there was need for an overhaul of the health sector so as to avoid outbound travels for health care services.
“Government wishes to see quality services in public sector facilities and good outcomes. Our country should be a preferred destination for healthcare services/in-bound medical tourism as well as reverse the outward-bound trips for healthcare services. This is why renovating and re-equipping is a priority area for which we keenly invite the Private Sector to be part of,” he said.
His remarks come at a time when the country has been subjected to attacks over its poor health system that has forced many citizens to seek medical care services in South Africa, India and China.
Ironically, Chiwenga is one of the government bureaucrats, among them President Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi, who often fly out for medical treatment in other countries.
Chiwenga said government was committed to eliminating the challenge of mental health in the country.
“As government, we look forward to seeing aggressive programmes on prevention and as well as a deliberate focus on mental health which has not received requisite attention over the years,” he said.
“Therefore, as you structure your packages, you should provide for both prevention and efficient management of non-communicable diseases which have become a silent killer. Mental health is a time bomb, which has been exacerbated by alcohol and drug abuse.” Newsday
153 Zimbabweans at aLimpopo farm threatened with deportation. The white employer yesterday sent home 15 workers. The employees are being chased away with no benefits or early termination fee.
By Showbiz Reporter | The late Genius Kadungure’s widow, Zodwa Mkandla has for the first time revealed her huge mansion.
I’ve shown you my home not to show off, but to show you that it is possible as a woman to achieve it in life, says Zodwa Mnkandla speaking to Ghanaian youtuber Wode Maya.
The footage opens with drone footage of the massive property and a Bentley, upon which time, Zodwa says her husband was a lover of nice things, while suggesting her cars were purchased by her man.
This is a Bentley?, asks Maya, to which Zodwa replies, “yes this is a Bentley, my late husband loved cars.”
Zimbabwe’s Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda has ordered all legislators to cease all debates that criiticise executive decisions.
JACOB MUDENDA
Mudenda who once stripped Nelson Chamisa’s MPs of their allowances to stop them from criticising Emmerson Mnangagwa’s controversial electoral win, said people must not humiliate their country.
Mudenda said very few countries around the world are using the United States dollar as their legal currency, hence calls for the country to dollarise so that the economy picks up were not scholarly justified.
“Political context is important, when you are a Zimbabwean and you don’t agree with the general policy of your country in a specific area, you would rather be quiet when you are out there or support the currency of that policy and this is standard internationally. You don’t get an American or British criticising their Government when they are out there,” he said.
In his keynote address, Adv Mudenda said in the execution of their constitutional mandate, parliamentarians require information on socio-economic issues to clinically analyse motions and Bills as well as scrutinise public policies tabled before Parliament.The speaker said MPs depend on parliamentary resource researchers in searching for knowledge data.
“To that extent, a well-resourced and skilled human capital is an invaluable source of independent, neutral and non-partisan analysis of the knowledge bank that must be avoided to members of Parliament.
To that end, this workshop becomes historic and distinctive contribution towards the strengthening of the operational skills of the human capital represented here today. It is gratifying to me to note that this workshop is also part of the deliberate efforts by the institution to address key result areas (KRAs) numbers one and six of our Institutional Strategic Plan in our quest to become a strong, independent, people-driven, world class Parliament,” said Adv Mudenda.
He said one of the outcomes of the workshop will be an empowered human resource of Parliament that adequately responds to the information and research needs of members of Parliament in particular and of the institution in general.Adv Mudenda said much may be known about the use of evidence based research in some public institutions, accent but much has not been directed at the research requirements of Parliament and its processes.
“Leveraging on robust research which rides on relevant academic expertise can equip members of Parliament with the right information in executing their roles. Parliamentary Research is not theoretical and abstract. It must be grounded on the specific knowledge needs of speeches to be delivered by presiding officers at various regional and international fora,” he said.
“Parliamentarians need researched information data on motions, bills, committee enquiries on various subject matters, the budget presentations, petition subjects and public policy statements such as the National Development Stratey1 (NDS1). Parliamentarians cannot access the requisite knowledge data if they are not supported by well-grounded Parliamentary researchers.”
Douglas Mwonzora-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has recalled Bulawayo City Council Ward 3 Councillor and former deputy mayor, Tinashe Kambarami.
Local Government Minister, July Moyo has since written to Town Clerk Christopher Dube notifying him of a vacancy following Kambarami’s recall.
Moyo wrote: “l wish to notifiy you that l am in receipt of a letter from Movement for Democratic Change stating that Cllr Tinashe Kambarami of Ward 3 has ceased to be a member of the party.
“In terms of section 278 (l) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe as read with section 129 (l)(k) his ward is now vacant. Please advise Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) accordingly.”
The town clerk reportedly sent the dismissal letter to Kambarami through social media platform, WhatsApp.
Kambarami has hogged the limelight for months on end following his previous ouster and subsequent bounce-back in a unending drama allegedly fuelled by tribalism at Town House.
Mayor Solomon Mguni and councillor Mlandu Ncube reportedly roped in MDC-T to fire Kambarami, a development that would end months of efforts to reclaim the city’s deputy mayorship following his recent reinstatement by the Bulawayo High Court.
High Court Judge, Justice Martin Makonese last month reinstated Kambarami as Bulawayo deputy mayor, as well as Ward 3 councillor.
In 2019, Justice Thompson Mabhikwa declared the election of Kambarami as councillor null and void after 1892 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement Trust and Nomalanga Dabengwa approached the High Court challenging his election.
Kambarami, however, appealed the ruling at the Supreme Court, which overturned Justice Mabhikwa’s ruling.
Following the apex court ruling, Kambarami attempted to attend a full council meeting in council chambers, but was swiftly blocked by Mguni and the town clerk, who claimed council had not been served with the Supreme Court judgment.
At that time, Mguni also claimed that Kambarami was recalled from council by the Douglas Mwonzora led MDC.
Kambarami then approached the High Court leading to Justice Makonese’s judgment.
Following Kambarami’s reinstatement by the High Court, Mguni has been blocking his comeback.
Last week, Ncube also approached the courts seeking to block the ex-deputy mayor’s reinstatement.
By Dr Masimba Mavaza | The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the ascending to power of King Charles III has shown that tradition is key to both the monarchy and the country. It offers continuity, spectacle and a chance for structured national reflection – it is also the source of some of the most fascinating facts. This shows that a government can only blossom if it has strong roots in its own culture and traditions.
What followed after the death of CHIHERA, Her Majesty, the Queen, showed that we as Africans have let our traditional culture and customs down. What we have done believing that the rutual is the Western way of governance-life and practice, has been exposed as a fallacy.
Africa has been failed by westernisation. It must cast off its subservience as it has sunk so low in the belief of what it thought was Western culture which all in the end turned out to be Africa’s own undoing.
To fix this, the continent’s elites will have to reject the notion that being ‘modern’ and ‘civilised’ means aping the west.
Africa has been burdened with the belief that our own culture is barbaric and satanic yet it is what we are and what it is. Borrowing from the words of my primary school teacher Mr Madziya from Mberi Primary School in Zengeza 2, “Africans are covered under a million blankets of paganism.” By this he meant and believed that our own culture was paganistic. It is actually true that one of the greatest ironies in the history of the collapse of any civilisation must be the initial interaction between Africans and Europeans.
The superiority battle ended with the demise of African culture.
If only we had believed our great prophet His holiness Archbishop Chaminuka who initially saw the Europeans as “madmen with no knees and of strange appearance and ill-formed ideologies,” we Africans would have realised we got stripped of our values, and were even made to hand over our possessions for others to keep for them. By the end of the 19th century, the “madman” had overturned our civilisation, and adopted the west’s.
Sadly today even our children scornfully look down at our culture. The irony is especially relevant in these times when, given the relative failures of most former western colonies, there have been renewed calls for revisiting our culture and customs.
In September, the death of the Queen has shown that the British are deep in their custom. Each day brings out the deep routed custom, culture and way of life of the British. The following of the rituals was so pronounced. The rituals were done both publicly and in private. One can imagine millions of people all just queing for hours just to put themselves near a coffin of her majesty. This is no body viewing. The Queen is now the nation’s Diplomat in Chief.
The events in the UK now show how Africans have dived for a wrong ball. The foundations of African cultural bankruptcy are flawed, because like most people today, they have come to accept that the only metric for measuring modernity is through the western lens and abandoning their own. This is the heart of the problem of Africa today. In trying to accept the Western system we see many churches being built and few industries done.
This has resulted in Africa being slowly emptied of its essence, and becoming a relic.
Colonialism across most of Africa was so thorough – especially among the former British protectorates – that in its aftermath Africa was essentially hollowed out. The civilisations of the peoples, their various cultures and traditions, their religions, political philosophies and institutions, were eroded or even destroyed.
Today the world is glued and fascinated with the countdown to the funeral of the king which has become a platform to show the culture,custom and the way of life of the British people. The mourning of her majesty has opened the monarchy and exposed that they are beyond just a ceremonial entity. Obviously after the burial of the Queen there will be coronation of the king. The coronation of the monarch of the United Kingdom is a ceremony (specifically, initiation rite) in which they are formally invested with regalia and crowned at Westminster Abbey. It corresponds to the coronations that formerly took place in other European monarchies, all of which have abandoned coronations in favour of inauguration or enthronement ceremonies. A coronation is a symbolic formality and does not signify the official beginning of the monarch’s reign; de jure and de facto his or her reign commences from the moment the preceding monarch dies, maintaining the legal continuity of the monarchy. But the coronation will be done anyway. This shows the richness of the custom.
The coronation usually takes place several months after the death of the previous monarch, as it is considered a joyous occasion that would be inappropriate while mourning continues. This interval also gives the planners enough time to complete the elaborate arrangements required.
For example, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on 2 June 1953, having ascended the throne on 6 February 1952; the date of her coronation was announced almost a year in advance, and preparations inside the abbey took five months. The ceremony is performed by the archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the Church of England, of which the monarch is supreme governor. Other clergy and members of the nobility also have roles; most participants in the ceremony are required to wear ceremonial uniforms or robes and coronets. Many other government officials and guests attend, including representatives of other countries. The essential elements of the coronation have remained largely unchanged for the past thousand years. The sovereign is first presented to, and acclaimed by, the people. He or she then swears an oath to uphold the law and the Church. Following that, the monarch is anointed with holy oil, invested with regalia, and crowned, before receiving the homage of his or her subjects. Wives of kings are then anointed and crowned as queen consort. The service ends with a closing procession, and since the 20th century it has been traditional for the royal family to appear later on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, before attending a banquet there. This is a ritual which defines the British and defines their future. The customs of thousands of years remain and always adhered to. Our own African brothers look down upon their own culture. We have noticed that While a vital ritual among the world’s monarchies, coronations have changed over time for a variety of socio-political and religious factors; most modern monarchies have dispensed with them altogether, preferring simpler ceremonies to mark a monarch’s accession to the throne. In the past, concepts of royalty, coronation and deity were often inexorably linked. In some ancient cultures, rulers were considered to be divine or partially divine: the Egyptian pharaoh was believed to be the son of Ra, the sun god, while in Japan, the emperor was believed to be a descendant of Amaterasu, the sun goddess. Rome promulgated the practice of emperor worship; in Medieval Europe, monarchs claimed to have a divine right to rule (analogous to the Mandate of Heaven in dynastic China). Coronations were once a direct visual expression of these alleged connections, but recent centuries have seen the lessening of such beliefs. Coronations are still observed in the United Kingdom, Tonga, and several Asian and African countries. In Europe, most monarchs are required to take a simple oath in the presence of the country’s legislature. Besides a coronation, a monarch’s accession may be marked in many ways: some nations may retain a religious dimension to their accession rituals while others have adopted simpler inauguration ceremonies, or even no ceremony at all.
While it is hidden in silence the British enshrined the monarchy in the religion. The Queen or the king remains the head of the church making her or home the most holy on the church. Such acts symbolise the granting of divine favour to the monarch within the relevant spiritual-religious paradigm of the country. While Charles automatically became king the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died, the coronation will not come until later as this deeply symbolic ceremony takes time to organise.it is argued that royal rituals ought to be seen as dynamic and generative aspects of late medieval political culture.Traditional African religions have faced persecution from Christians and Muslims.Adherents of these religions have been forcefully converted to Islam and Christianity, demonized and marginalized.The atrocities include killings, waging war, destroying of sacred places, and other atrocities. Now Africa has become a deadly weapon against itself and against its culture. It is in Africa where they call their ancestors evil. Respecting one’s ancestor is called satanism. This has destroyed Africa while Britain dives in its culture to showcase how rich it is in customs and culture and traditions.
The traditional beliefs and practices of African people are highly diverse beliefs that include various ethnic religions. Generally, these traditions are oral rather than scriptural and passed down from one generation to another through folk tales, songs, and festivals,include belief in an amount of higher and lower gods, sometimes including a supreme creator or force, belief in spirits, veneration of the dead, use of magic and traditional African medicine. Most religions can be described as animistic with various polytheistic and pantheistic aspects.The role of humanity is generally seen as one of harmonizing nature with the supernatural.
The death of the Queen has shown that a country is as strong as its adherence to its culture ethics and culture. Today most of the nations in Africa should not even be called African nations, but western African nations. The language, political ideology, socio-economic structures, education, and everything that makes up a nation, even down to popular culture, do not originate from within these countries. African nations have a total dependency on foreign political philosophies and ideas, and their shifts and movements. It is the feeblest position a state and its people can be in, because it is a position of chronic subservience. It also means that whatever becomes normalised in the west will eventually be adopted in, Afriva. This is the curse we willingly accept. This has resulted in Africa being slowly emptied of its essence, and becoming a relic, no different in substance from a statue or a museum.
Celebrations of Africa on the international scene mostly involve dancing, music, traditional fashion and other cultural artefacts – hardly ever showcasing African-originated economic ideas, social ideologies or intellectual theories. It is not that these do not exist, but the world has successfully convinced everyone – including Africans themselves – that everything African is inferior.
Central to this psychology is the proliferation of Africans being educated in the west. This trend has resulted in the rise of an army of western-influenced elites who continue the colonialism of their own people.
Kylian Mbappe’s contract extension with Paris Saint-Germain consists of a two-year commitment with an option for an extra season, not three years that were initially reported.
The French star signed a new £650,000-a-week contract with the Parisian club in May after prolonged questions surrounding his future dominated the headlines last season.
It has now emerged that his contract has a shorter term and could still leave at the end of this season.
According to L’Equipe, the contract Mbappe signed is actually ending in 2024, with the third year an optional extension at the hands of the French international.
Mbappé’s decision over whether to trigger the clause will depend on the club’s progress on the pitch, and the World Cup winner could use the arrangement as a way to put the pressure on the management.
Meanwhile, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has ruled out any future move for Mbappe.
The Spanish side wanted to sign the forward before he committed for PSG.
Ancelotti told reporters on Wednesday: “Kylian contract? Again with this? [laughs] We are delighted with our players… we’re very happy with Vinicius and Rodrygo.
“We are not thinking about anyone else. Asensio has chances to play tomorrow, he’s training very well.”- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa is expected to address thousands of party supporters at Kondo Business Centre, Chipinge West on Saturday.
According to CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba, the victory celebration rally will be attended by thousands of party supporters in and around Chipinge.
“All roads lead to Chipinge this Saturday Be there,” Siziba said in a short statement on Facebook.
On the detention of CCC members, Siziba said:
“Only 3 000 signatures to get to the 25K mark for this important petition by Zimbabwe’s Tsitsi dangarembwa Please sign and add your voice to the demand to free Hon Job Sikhala and the Nyatsime 16.”
Dynamos coach Tonderai Ndiraya has conceded that his charges have lost control in the Castle Lager Premiership title race and will be looking for consolation in the Chibuku Super Cup.
The Glamour Boys fell nine points behind league leaders FC Platinum with seven games to play.
The two teams will meet in the quarterfinal of the knockout tournament on Sunday and Ndiraya hopes to find a way that will see his side progressing to the next round.
“We are no longer in control of the league race,” Ndiraya said in his pre-match presser on Thursday.” FC Platinum are in control; they have it in their hands.
“But in this match, we are all starting at the same level. So we also have some bit of control in this match and we are going to put everything into it to make sure that we qualify to the semi-finals.”
Dynamos are yet to win the tournament since its reintroduction in 2014.
The Harare giants failed to pass the semifinal stage last year, losing to their Sunday’s opponents, who went on to win the cup.
“Dynamos have not won this tournament since its inception,” Ndiraya added. “So that’s what we are getting into all these matches with, in our minds, and hopefully we can push through.
“We have two difficult hurdles ahead of us before we reach the final. So we want to push to get into the final and once we get there the chances of winning the cup are so high.”
The match will be played at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. The kick-off team is at 3 pm CAT.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|A Zimbabwean dancehall star has challenged the Zanu PF regime to release jailed CCC official Hon Job Sikhala with immediate effect.
In a statement on his official Facebook page, the dancehall star, Jusa Riddim, described the prolonged detention of Hon Sikhala, Hon Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole and Nyatsime activists as unacceptable.
He wrote: “Whats happening to @jobsikhalaofficial could happen to anyone of us. Of we dont speak out we sanitise this major injustice and are complicit is helping the system to continue to nose dive.
Freeup de mun if uno nah have nothing fi stick! Wam to dem.
Tinashe Sambiri|Outspoken Zanu PF activist, Sybeth Musengezi, has said Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is too old to lead the nation.
Mr Mnangagwa turned 80 yesterday.
Musengezi, known for openly challenging Mr Mnangagwa’s legitimacy, argues the Zanu PF leader is a liability to the nation.
“Mnangagwa turned 80 y/day. Some Cdes are saying since he wants 5 more years as ‘president’ let’s give him.
This means he’ll finish his 2nd unproductive term when he is 86. For me it’s a big NO Considering our economy, it’s very foolish to let someone this old determine our future,” Musengezi wrote on Twitter.
He further accused Mr Mnangagwa of plotting to kill him.
“I’ve seen a sudden influx of unmarked twincabs coming to my house. Not sure if my house is now a tourist attraction for cars without number plates.
Whoever is sending the guys must stop wasting resources and put them to good use.
Former Golden Arrows striker Norman Smith has slammed Khama Billiat for not delivering enough on the pitch and failing to justify his high earnings.
Billiat is among the top earners at Kaizer Chiefs since signing with the club in 2018.
The Zimbabwean is yet to score this season and his only goal involvement is an assist registered on match day two against Maritzburg United.
The 32-year-old now faces some time out due to injury.
Billiat’s attacking partner Keagan Dolly has also struggled to reach the top form after scoring one goal this term.
“Football is a business and it is structured in a way that top performers should be earning better and are those two players’ performances living up to their earnings? I say no,” Smith told KickOff.
“What you get must be determined by your performance. If you don’t deliver and yet you are going home with that big salary, it becomes a problem and even you as the earner must feel the guilt that so much is being invested in you, but you are not delivering.
“It is the same with Keagan and Khama. Imagine how it feels for a person earning peanuts yet delivering every week. It becomes a bitter pill to swallow for that player.
“To be fair up until this point, they haven’t delivered on their worth this season when measured against what they are earning at the club and they must be told so.”
Billiat and Dolly formed a feared combination during their days at Mamelodi Sundowns together with Leonardo Castro, although the trio failed to recreate that partnership last season at Chiefs.
Smith added: “I think they are trending based on what happened on previous occasions with them at another club.
“I hope that they get their form back sooner than later because so much is always expected from them based on their earnings.”- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
A 50-YEAR-OLD man from Cowdray Park, Bulawayo recently appeared at Western Commonage Magistrates court facing charges of assaulting his wife, accusing her of infidelity and denying him səx.
Evans Farai Chitanda (50), who is employed as a general hand at Dominican Convent School, was arraigned before the courts on Tuesday, facing one count of domestic violence.
According to the prosecutor, Tafara Dzimbanete, on 11 September, Chitanda arrived home from work and began accusing his wife, Mary Chikumba (44) of infidəlity.
It is alleged that he assaulted Chikumba once with a fist on the cheek while further accusing her of denying him his c0njugal rights.
Chikumba sustained no physical injuries and hence she did not seek any medical attention.
The Magistrate, Mr Shepherd Mjanja warned Chitanda to desist from the conduct of violence in future and fined him ZWL$24 000.
The case of a Harare man, who was slapped with a US$250 000 lawsuit in adu_ltery damages last month, has been set down for next Tuesday.
Elton Sanyamahwe was slapped with adu_ltery damages lawsuit by Cloudio Jume, who accuses him of bedding and impreg_nating his wife.
The notice reads: “Pease take notice that the said matter shall be heard before this honourable court on September 21 at 8am, or soon thereafter, as the matter maybe heard.
“Further take notice that all documents concerning this matter are filed in this record.”
Jume is demanding US$200k, or its equivalent in Zimbabwe dollars, at the prevailing bank rate, in adultery damages. He is also demanding a further US$50 000, or equivalent in Zimbabwe dollars, at the prevailing bank rate, for loss of companionship.
Sanyamahwe did not respond and the matter will be heard unopposed.
Jume says he married Thelma Guvakumwe, under the Marriages Act Chapter 5:11.
Thelma gave birth to a baby girl on February 22, this year, after disappearing from their matrimonial home on December 7, leaving her two minor children.
By- Comedian and socialite MAI TT Murata has claimed she was blocked from contacting Tinashe Maphosa after demanding a divorce. She also accused Tinashe of sleeping with one of her close friends. Following her demands, Tinashe, through his legal team, is said to have served her with a warning to take down all negative posts, from her social media platforms, which tarnish his image. Mai TT was also blocked from contacting Tinashe and ordered to stop live videos talking about him. She was also warned not to mention his name for 24 hours. Tinashe is also claiming an undisclosed amount of money. Mai TT said she was not moved by all the warnings since she wants her money and divorce, and will continue to display her bitterness. In an interview yesterday, after her Facebook Live talking about her present challenges with Tinashe, she said: “After my wedding, I was booked to be an MC at a wedding in Victoria Falls in April. “I left home only to come and find out that Tinashe had left. I then discovered that my money was missing. He admitted to taking US$30 000 from my house. “That US$30 000 was meant for a cooperative and he has not yet paid back my money.” She added: “Tinashe is now sending summons, with warnings and threats. He thinks that will stop me from asking for my money. “Even blocking me will not stop me from asking for my money back. “All I am asking of him is to sign divorce papers and give me back my money, then I stay out of his life.” H Metro
By- Police in Harare have blocked a Robert Gabriel Mugabe Memorial gig set for Zimbabwe Grounds tomorrow.
Former Zanu PF youth leader Jim Kunaka had organised the gala under the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Legacy Movement he fronts.
Kunaka wrote a letter to the police on 12 September notifying them to hold the gala in terms of the Maintenance of Peace and Order Act [Chapter 11:23]. In response to Kunaka, Officer Commanding Police Harare South District, Chief Superintendent, M Majojo, said the gala has not been approved. He wrote: Reference is made to your letter dated 12 September 2022… In the letter, you notified to hold a Robert Gabriel Mugabe memorial gala at Zimbabwe Grounds, Highfield, Harare from the 17th to the 18th of September 2022 from 1700 to 0600 hours. May you be advised that the notice to hold a Robert Gabriel Mugabe memorial gala is not approved
By- The leader of the MDC-T, Douglas Mwonzora, on Thursday recalled Bulawayo Ward Three councillor, Tinashe Kambarami, who was a former City of Bulawayo Deputy Mayor.
Kambarami recently won a High Court battle reinstating him as a councillor and argued that the court order also applied to his reinstatement as the city’s Deputy Mayor.
This set him on a collision course with the incumbent, Ward One councillor Mlandu Ncube who refused to vacate the post.
On Thursday, the Minister of Local Government and Public Works, July Moyo wrote to the city’s Town Clerk, Christopher Dube informing the local authority of Kambarami’s recall. Part of the letter reads:
I wish to inform you that I am in receipt of a letter from the Movement Democratic Change stating that Councillor Tinashe Kambarami of ward three has ceased to be a member of the Party.
In terms of Section 278(1) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe as read with Section 129(1)(k), his ward is now vacant. Please advise Zimbabwe Electoral Commission accordingly.
The MDC-T has recalled dozens of councillors since the March 2020 Supreme Court ruling which nullified Nelson Chamisa’s appointment as MDC-T deputy president by the late Morgan Tsvangirai in 2016. | The Sunday News
By Showbiz Reporter | The comedian, Mai Titi who in the last few days has been on a tirade to accuse her ex husband of several moral failures, was on Friday left with an egg on face as her own evidence of conversations with between Tinashe Maphosa and a said, Tom Jones showed a pile of inconsistencies.
One major boob was on a Worldremit transaction which has Tinashe Maphosa’s surname mispelt as Maposa., making it highly improbable for authenticity.
The comedian was still to comment over the embarassing gaffe.
Lifestyle editor, Rose Mudiwa wrote of the development, saying: “Mai TT and Tom Jones have been exposed. Lol. The fake text message from Mukuru spelt Maphosa incorrectly. Then the fake WhatsApp chat messages between Tinashe and Tom Jones show Tinashe’s chats being in green instead of the other way around.
Mai TT and Tom Jones warris this? Instead of settling your bills you are paying Tom Jones to connive with you. ????”
Former Golden Arrows striker Norman Smith has slammed Khama Billiat for not delivering enough on the pitch and failing to justify his high earnings.
Billiat is among the top earners at Kaizer Chiefs since signing with the club in 2018.
The Zimbabwean is yet to score this season and his only goal involvement is an assist registered on match day two against Maritzburg United.
The 32-year-old now faces some time out due to injury.
Billiat’s attacking partner Keagan Dolly has also struggled to reach the top form after scoring one goal this term.
“Football is a business and it is structured in a way that top performers should be earning better and are those two players’ performances living up to their earnings? I say no,” Smith told KickOff.
“What you get must be determined by your performance. If you don’t deliver and yet you are going home with that big salary, it becomes a problem and even you as the earner must feel the guilt that so much is being invested in you, but you are not delivering.
“It is the same with Keagan and Khama. Imagine how it feels for a person earning peanuts yet delivering every week. It becomes a bitter pill to swallow for that player.
“To be fair up until this point, they haven’t delivered on their worth this season when measured against what they are earning at the club and they must be told so.”
Billiat and Dolly formed a feared combination during their days at Mamelodi Sundowns together with Leonardo Castro, although the trio failed to recreate that partnership last season at Chiefs.
Smith added: “I think they are trending based on what happened on previous occasions with them at another club.
“I hope that they get their form back sooner than later because so much is always expected from them based on their earnings.”- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
MASVINGO –Ratidzo Zimcare Head Sabelo Zivurawa and his Margetha Hugo School for the blind counterpart Clever Madzokere have died after they were involved in an accident at Fare-Fields near Mvuma. The accident occurred this morning. Masvingo Provincial Education Director (PED) Shylatte Mhike confirmed the accident to The Mirror. She however, said her office is yet to get details of the accident.- Masvingo Mirror
Dynamos coach Tonderai Ndiraya has conceded that his charges have lost control in the Castle Lager Premiership title race and will be looking for consolation in the Chibuku Super Cup.
The Glamour Boys fell nine points behind league leaders FC Platinum with seven games to play.
The two teams will meet in the quarterfinal of the knockout tournament on Sunday and Ndiraya hopes to find a way that will see his side progressing to the next round.
“We are no longer in control of the league race,” Ndiraya said in his pre-match presser on Thursday.” FC Platinum are in control; they have it in their hands.
“But in this match, we are all starting at the same level. So we also have some bit of control in this match and we are going to put everything into it to make sure that we qualify to the semi-finals.”
Dynamos are yet to win the tournament since its reintroduction in 2014.
The Harare giants failed to pass the semifinal stage last year, losing to their Sunday’s opponents, who went on to win the cup.
“Dynamos have not won this tournament since its inception,” Ndiraya added. “So that’s what we are getting into all these matches with, in our minds, and hopefully we can push through.
“We have two difficult hurdles ahead of us before we reach the final. So we want to push to get into the final and once we get there the chances of winning the cup are so high.”
The match will be played at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. The kick-off team is at 3 pm CAT.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
By A Correspondent- Local content creators have been urged to create sector specific content and widen their reach as a way of monetising their work.
This was said by the Director General of POTRAZ Dr Kalisto Machengete at a 2 day engagement workshop currently underway in Kadoma.
The workshop, is being attended by over 50 content creators affiliated under their umbrella body, the Zimbabwe Online Content Creators (ZOCC).
Said Dr Machengete:
“Content creation brings about new opportunities for local content hosting and creating local internet traffic.
We ought to replace google servers with local servers as we move towards the hosting of local content locally.
We have so much good content created by Zimbabweans with millions of hits, but all this content is hosted internationally, yet there is provision to do so locally.
On another note, there is need to create sector specific local content for the different sectors such as education, health, tourism, mining. Because content creators may not be experts in these fields, how are they going to generate the relevant content? These are some of the questions we should be thinking of.”
Half of health care facilities worldwide lack basic hygiene services with water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub where patients receive care and at toilets in these facilities, according to the latest Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report by WHO and UNICEF.
Around 3.85 billion people use these facilities, putting them at greater risk of infection, including 688 million people who receive care at facilities with no hygiene services at all.
“Hygiene facilities and practices in health care settings are non-negotiable.
Their improvement is essential to pandemic recovery, prevention and preparedness. Hygiene in health care facilities cannot be secured without increasing investments in basic measures, which include safe water, clean toilets, and safely managed health care waste,” said Dr Maria Neira, WHO Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health.
“I encourage Member States to step up their efforts to implement their 2019 World Health Assembly commitment to strengthen water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in health care facilities, and to monitor these efforts.”
The latest report, “Progress on WASH in health care facilities 2000–2021: special focus on WASH and infection prevention and control”, has for the first time established this global baseline on hygiene services – which assessed access at points of care as well as toilets – as more countries than ever report on critical elements of WASH services in their hospitals and other health centres. For hygiene, data are now available for 40 countries, representing 35% of the world’s population, up from 21 countries in 2020 and 14 in 2019.
The newly established global estimate reveals a clearer and more alarming picture of the state of hygiene in health care facilities. Though 68% of health care facilities had hygiene facilities at points of care, and 65% had handwashing facilities with water and soap at toilets, only 51% had both and therefore met the criteria for basic hygiene services. Furthermore, 1 in 11 (9%) of health care facilities globally have neither.
“If health care providers don’t have access to a hygiene service, patients don’t have a health care facility,” said Kelly Ann Naylor, UNICEF Director of WASH and Climate, Environment, Energy, and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED).
“Hospitals and clinics without safe water and basic hygiene and sanitation services are a potential death trap for pregnant mothers, newborns, and children. Every year, around 670 000 newborns lose their lives to sepsis. This is a travesty – even more so as their deaths are preventable.”
The report notes that contaminated hands and environments play a significant role in pathogen transmission in health care facilities and the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
Interventions to increase access to handwashing with water and soap and environmental cleaning form the cornerstone of infection prevention and control programmes and are crucial to providing quality care, particularly for safe childbirth. Coverage of WASH facilities is still uneven across different regions and income groupings:
Facilities in sub-Saharan Africa are lagging on hygiene services. While three-quarters (73%) of health care facilities in the region overall have alcohol-based hand rub or water and soap at points of care, only one-third (37%) have handwashing facilities with water and soap at toilets.
The vast majority (87%) of hospitals have hand hygiene facilities at points of care, compared to 68% of other healthcare facilities. In the Least Developed Countries, only 53% of health care facilities have access on-premises to a protected water source.
To compare, the global figure is 78% with hospitals (88%) doing better than smaller health care facilities (77%), and the figure for eastern and south-eastern Asia is 90%. Globally, around 3% of health care facilities in urban areas and 11% in rural areas had no water service.
Of the countries with available data, 1 in 10 health care facilities globally had no sanitation service.
The proportion of health care facilities with no sanitation services ranged from 3% in Latin America and the Caribbean and in eastern and south-eastern Asia to 22% in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Least Developed Countries, just 1 in 5 (21%) had basic sanitation services in health care facilities. The data further reveals that many health care facilities lack basic environmental cleaning and safe segregation and disposal of health care waste. The report is being launched at World Water Week taking place in Stockholm, Sweden.
The annual conference, which runs from 23 August to 1 September, explores new ways to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges: from food security and health to agriculture, technology, biodiversity and climate.
Tinashe Sambiri|A Zimbabwean dancehall star has challenged the Zanu PF regime to release jailed CCC official Hon Job Sikhala with immediate effect.
In a statement on his official Facebook page, the dancehall star, Jusa Riddim, described the prolonged detention of Hon Sikhala, Hon Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole and Nyatsime activists as unacceptable.
He wrote: “Whats happening to @jobsikhalaofficial could happen to anyone of us. Of we dont speak out we sanitise this major injustice and are complicit is helping the system to continue to nose dive.
Freeup de mun if uno nah have nothing fi stick! Wam to dem.
Tinashe Sambiri|A Zimbabwean dancehall star has challenged the Zanu PF regime to release jailed CCC official Hon Job Sikhala with immediate effect.
In a statement on his official Facebook page, the dancehall star, Jusa Riddim, described the prolonged detention of Hon Sikhala, Hon Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole and Nyatsime activists as unacceptable.
He wrote: “Whats happening to @jobsikhalaofficial could happen to anyone of us. Of we dont speak out we sanitise this major injustice and are complicit is helping the system to continue to nose dive.
Freeup de mun if uno nah have nothing fi stick! Wam to dem.
Tinashe Sambiri|Outspoken Zanu PF activist, Sybeth Musengezi, has said Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is too old to lead the nation.
Mr Mnangagwa turned 80 yesterday.
Musengezi, known for openly challenging Mr Mnangagwa’s legitimacy, argues the Zanu PF leader is a liability to the nation.
“Mnangagwa turned 80 y/day. Some Cdes are saying since he wants 5 more years as ‘president’ let’s give him.
This means he’ll finish his 2nd unproductive term when he is 86. For me it’s a big NO Considering our economy, it’s very foolish to let someone this old determine our future,” Musengezi wrote on Twitter.
He further accused Mr Mnangagwa of plotting to kill him.
“I’ve seen a sudden influx of unmarked twincabs coming to my house. Not sure if my house is now a tourist attraction for cars without number plates.
Whoever is sending the guys must stop wasting resources and put them to good use.
Former Zanu PF legislator Killer Zivhu has written a cryptic message which appeared to suggest his sympathy to the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).
Posting on Twitter, Zivhu said he loves the yellow color.
Yellow has lately become synonymous with CCC led by Nelson Chamisa which rebranded from the MDC Alliance.
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Former Zanu PF legislator Killer Zivhu has written a cryptic message which appeared to suggest his sympathy to the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).
Posting on Twitter, Zivhu said he loves the yellow color.
Yellow has lately become synonymous with CCC led by Nelson Chamisa which rebranded from the MDC Alliance.
Tinashe Sambiri|Outspoken Zanu PF activist, Sybeth Musengezi, has said Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is too old to lead the nation.
Mr Mnangagwa turned 80 yesterday.
Musengezi, known for openly challenging Mr Mnangagwa’s legitimacy, argues the Zanu PF leader is a liability to the nation.
“Mnangagwa turned 80 y/day. Some Cdes are saying since he wants 5 more years as ‘president’ let’s give him.
This means he’ll finish his 2nd unproductive term when he is 86. For me it’s a big NO Considering our economy, it’s very foolish to let someone this old determine our future,” Musengezi wrote on Twitter.
He further accused Mr Mnangagwa of plotting to kill him.
“I’ve seen a sudden influx of unmarked twincabs coming to my house. Not sure if my house is now a tourist attraction for cars without number plates.
Whoever is sending the guys must stop wasting resources and put them to good use.
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa is expected to address thousands of party supporters at Kondo Business Centre, Chipinge West on Saturday.
According to CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba, the victory celebration rally will be attended by thousands of party supporters in and around Chipinge.
“All roads lead to Chipinge this Saturday Be there,” Siziba said in a short statement on Facebook.
On the detention of CCC members, Siziba said:
“Only 3 000 signatures to get to the 25K mark for this important petition by Zimbabwe’s Tsitsi dangarembwa Please sign and add your voice to the demand to free Hon Job Sikhala and the Nyatsime 16.”
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Attorney-General Prince Machaya face arrest for contempt of court after they defied a ruling ordering them to craft a code of conduct for the country’s Vice-President and ministers.
In June, High Court judge Justice David Mangota ordered government to craft a law regarding office conduct for the VPs and ministers within 45 days after former law student Nyasha Chiramba approached the court in April 2021 seeking the enactment of the law.
Mangota ruled that the law was long overdue since the Constitution was promulgated nine years ago.
In his court application filed through the Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum on Wednesday, Chiramba said: “As more fully appears on that court order, the respondents were ordered to submit to the Cabinet for consideration the Bill envisaged by section 106(3) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe within 45 days from the date of that order.
“There was a wilful disregard of this order. The order was granted on 8 June 2022 and the respondents failed or neglected to act on that order until 25 days after the issuance of that order on 15 July 2022 when they requested a full judgment of that order.”
Chiramba cited Ziyambi and Machaya as respondents.
“In computing the timeframe to comply with that order, the respondents were supposed to submit to Cabinet this Bill by 17 August 2022. That order is still extant, and the respondents failed or neglected to comply with that order,” he added.
Chiramba said Ziyambi and Machaya’s conduct was contemptuous.
“In a clear case of attempting to evade compliance with this court order, the respondents approached the Supreme Court under case SC 369/22 seeking condonation for non-compliance and an extension of time to file a notice of appeal in terms of the Supreme Court rules. That application was then struck off the roll.
“The respondents have not appealed against that judgment, and they have not also approached this court seeking extension of time to comply with that order. Their conduct is contemptuous; it goes against the founding principles of constitutional supremacy, rule of law and good governance. That law should sanction that parlous behaviour,” he added.
Douglas Mwonzora-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has recalled Bulawayo City Council Ward 3 Councillor and former deputy mayor, Tinashe Kambarami.
Local Government Minister, July Moyo has since written to Town Clerk Christopher Dube notifying him of a vacancy following Kambarami’s recall.
Moyo wrote: “l wish to notifiy you that l am in receipt of a letter from Movement for Democratic Change stating that Cllr Tinashe Kambarami of Ward 3 has ceased to be a member of the party.
“In terms of section 278 (l) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe as read with section 129 (l)(k) his ward is now vacant. Please advise Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) accordingly.”
The town clerk reportedly sent the dismissal letter to Kambarami through social media platform, WhatsApp.
Kambarami has hogged the limelight for months on end following his previous ouster and subsequent bounce-back in a unending drama allegedly fuelled by tribalism at Town House.
Mayor Solomon Mguni and councillor Mlandu Ncube reportedly roped in MDC-T to fire Kambarami, a development that would end months of efforts to reclaim the city’s deputy mayorship following his recent reinstatement by the Bulawayo High Court.
High Court Judge, Justice Martin Makonese last month reinstated Kambarami as Bulawayo deputy mayor, as well as Ward 3 councillor.
In 2019, Justice Thompson Mabhikwa declared the election of Kambarami as councillor null and void after 1892 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement Trust and Nomalanga Dabengwa approached the High Court challenging his election.
Kambarami, however, appealed the ruling at the Supreme Court, which overturned Justice Mabhikwa’s ruling.
Following the apex court ruling, Kambarami attempted to attend a full council meeting in council chambers, but was swiftly blocked by Mguni and the town clerk, who claimed council had not been served with the Supreme Court judgment.
At that time, Mguni also claimed that Kambarami was recalled from council by the Douglas Mwonzora led MDC.
Kambarami then approached the High Court leading to Justice Makonese’s judgment.
Following Kambarami’s reinstatement by the High Court, Mguni has been blocking his comeback.
Last week, Ncube also approached the courts seeking to block the ex-deputy mayor’s reinstatement.
United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) joins Zimbabwe and the rest of the World in commemorating International Day of Democracy.
Established through a resolution passed by the UN General Assembly in 2007 encouraging governments to strengthen and implement policies and measures that consolidate democracy, the day is celebrated annually on 15 September.
International Day of Democracy serves as an opportunity for us to reflect and take stock of our journey in fulfilling the basic tenets of democracy.
The day, also gives Zimbabwean office bearers and citizens the platform to reflect and renew their commitment to build equal, accountable, stronger and healthier societies where everyone is protected, respected and empowered to realise their maximum potential for development.
Our party values International Day of Democracy and we celebrate the end of colonial rule in 1980 which returned the power and control into the hands of those elected by the people.
The recognition that women are equal players politically is also appreciated and out party values the role of women as voters and political office bearers.
As we look back on this important day our party believes that while progress has been made to ensure adherence to a democratic system of rule, more needs to be done to ensure that citizens realise the full benefits of a democratic state.
Equally important is the role of youths where we believe that Zimbabwe’s young people will have the deciding vote in the 2023 general elections.
Our youths must realise that they are the drivers of change in our nation. They must know that change will come but this will only possible if they participate fully as voters and candidates.
Section 67 of our Constitution sets out political rights for every citizens stating that every Zimbabwean has the right to make political choices freely.
It also guarantees every Zimbabwean equal rights to fully participate in elections as candidates.
On this International Day of Democracy, UZA calls on leaders in governments or outside to support and invest in open societies where different opinion is embraced and where, freedom of expression is guaranteed.
Our party supports a politically plural Zimbabwe espousing constructive engagement of all political parties in good governance.
This is why as UZA, we don’t spend time denigrating other political parties.
We are a different Party with a clear mandate to unite Zimbabweans and build our country.
Our country has been ruined by politics of division for the past two decades.
On this day, we are also calling on the existing political parties to desist from creating divisions in our nation and ensure inclusive democracy where every citizen’s political rights are protected and guaranteed.
UZA comes at a time where Zimbabwe is in dire need of a new leadership with a unitary approach to politics.
We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.
In a Democracy, state institutions and the other arms of government will be independent espousing the basic tenets of human rights.
When voted into office, we are going to safeguard the independence of the judiciary and the separation of powers to ensure that all citizens are equal before the laws of country.
Democracy has to be exercised to every citizen in our country as a way of propelling the developmental agenda.
The moment acid attack victim Prim Ruwocha for the first time met @dondo_comfort as she prepares to fly for her reconstructive surgery. pic.twitter.com/9GjtR5vjV4
Five University of Zimbabwe students who were arrested Wednesday in connection with demonstrations against tuition fees hike have been remanded out of custody to 29 September on free bail.
