By-South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will face the wife of former President Jacob Zuma, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, in the December African National Congress Presidential contest.

 A few weeks ago, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma’s youngest daughter, Thuthukile Zuma, started posting social media posters of her mother’s bid for the ANC’s top job, according to the Daily Maverick. 

The posters announced Dlamini Zuma’s campaign ahead of its confirmation in the Sunday Times on 11 September. In 2017, Dlamini Zuma was narrowly beaten to the position of ANC president by just 179 votes by President Cyril Ramaphosa. 

Dlamini Zuma confirmed to the Sunday Times, via her spokesperson Lungi Mtshali, that she has been nominated for the position by ANC branches and is available to accept. That means it is game on in the ANC race for the presidency in December as the nomination window opened this week.

It is unknown whether Dlamini Zuma will run as the RET-faction candidate or whether she will put distance between it and her agenda, which is to fight on a “Womandla” or woman’s ticket.

For more than 100 years, the ANC has never had a female leader, and the lobby to accelerate women’s leadership is growing. But the RET faction does not have a credible leader to run against Ramaphosa in December and may put its weight behind her. 

Analysts believe that Ramaphosa has been weakened by the 2020 Phala Phala theft of game sale funds from a sofa they had been sewn into at his farm. It now turns out that the cash was hidden at the farm for much longer than the single weekend Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya first claimed in June. 

Dlamini Zuma is popular in the ANC but not outside it especially considering her strong hand approach to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tinashe Sambiri|Zanu PF wants to cause social unrest in the country and justify the postponement of elections.

This was said by CCC Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma.

According to Chuma, the bomb attack indicates Zanu PF is afraid of losing the 2023 polls.

“Continued attempts on President @nelsonchamisa’s life by ZANU PF misfits is a cause for concern.

Chinhoyi was a 3rd time within a month. They want to cause social unrest.

We don’t want another Somalia or Afghanistan on our shores! Chinhoyi marked 2nd Chimurenga,”Sarkozy wrote on Twitter.

By- Zanu PF has reportedly suspended Buhera district co-ordinating committee (DCC) chairperson Cosmore Chimombe over intra-party violence that erupted in the district two weeks ago.

 According to NewsDay the violence was recorded during the party’s district restructuring exercise to establish party cell structures in Chimombe East, Chimvuri and Chiremwa.

The party’s national political commissar Mike Bimha had assigned Mashonaland East provincial members to restructure the three districts of Buhera.

However, violence flared and the provincial members were forced to flee for their lives. A report to Bimha seen 

Reads the report:

After you (Bimha) assigned us on a restructuring exercise, we failed to complete the assignment since the party leadership of the area did not accommodate us. Instead, they instigated violence.

The leader present was DCC chairperson Chimombe among others. As we arrived there were more than 30 people at the party offices. Unfortunately, the co-ordinator on the day had not yet arrived. He later arrived with one Mutero and proceeded without even greeting us, although he noticed that we were visitors.

When we wanted to address the meeting, unfortunately no one wanted to listen to us and they started to sing. The mob became more violent, threatening to beat us since it was in possession of weapons.

We expected the chairman to control the mob but instead, violent threats increased. We managed to escape through the window with the mob in hot pursuit.

Insiders in the ruling party yesterday said Chimombe has since been suspended over the violence.

Both Chimombe and the party’s provincial chairman Mike Madiro refused to comment on the matter.

-NewsDay

By-South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will face the wife of former President Jacob Zuma, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, in the December African National Congress Presidential contest.

A few weeks ago, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma’s youngest daughter, Thuthukile Zuma, started posting social media posters of her mother’s bid for the ANC’s top job, according to the Daily Maverick. 

The posters announced Dlamini Zuma’s campaign ahead of its confirmation in the Sunday Times on 11 September. In 2017, Dlamini Zuma was narrowly beaten to the position of ANC president by just 179 votes by President Cyril Ramaphosa. 

Dlamini Zuma confirmed to the Sunday Times, via her spokesperson Lungi Mtshali, that she has been nominated for the position by ANC branches and is available to accept. That means it is game on in the ANC race for the presidency in December as the nomination window opened this week.

It is unknown whether Dlamini Zuma will run as the RET-faction candidate or whether she will put distance between it and her agenda, which is to fight on a “Womandla” or woman’s ticket.

For more than 100 years, the ANC has never had a female leader, and the lobby to accelerate women’s leadership is growing. But the RET faction does not have a credible leader to run against Ramaphosa in December and may put its weight behind her. 

Analysts believe that Ramaphosa has been weakened by the 2020 Phala Phala theft of game sale funds from a sofa they had been sewn into at his farm. It now turns out that the cash was hidden at the farm for much longer than the single weekend Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya first claimed in June. 

Dlamini Zuma is popular in the ANC but not outside it especially considering her strong hand approach to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

By James Gwati- A Chipinge-based grassroots and youth empowerment lobby organization, Platform for Youth and Community Development Trust has introduced a free counselling centre at Checheche growth point in Chipinge.

The organization’s director Claris Madhuku said this was a response to the alarming statistics of young people committing suicide in Chipenge.

He said as an organization; they saw it prudent to help the local community with this essential service so that they save lives.

Below is Madhuku’s statement on this development, which he issued with their World Suicide Prevention day message.

PYCD STATEMENT

This day which has been honoured yearly on the 10th of September since 2003 by the International Association for Suicide Prevention in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, is essential and the right prescription for suicide awareness raising.

This day typically stretches to the 10th of October, which is World Mental Health Day, providing an opportunity for governments and civil society organizations to proactively discuss and propose various measures to prevent people from dying by suicide.
According to World Health Day, more than 700 000 people die yearly from suicide.
Research has confirmed that 77 per cent of those dying of suicide four are found in low and middle-income countries. The theme for this year 2022 is, Creating Hope through Action!
PYCD believes that reducing suicide is a vital public health consideration that must be prioritized to prevent untimely death and serve the millions of people experiencing intense grief due to the loss of their loved ones who would have succumbed to suicide.
As a grassroots-based organization operating in the rural areas of Manicaland, PYCD has recorded an increasing number of suicide cases of at least one person every week since the outbreak of Covid -19 in 2020.
These are very alarming statistics that PYCD is dedicated to reducing.
In Chipinge, suicide is among the four topmost causes of mortality among young people below the age of 35 years.
The causes have been linked to socio-economic challenges, some associated with improper marriages and infidelity.
PYCD has also recorded the absence and lack of sustainable institutions that provide psycho-social support and mental health.
In addressing these identified challenges, PYCD has since responded by institutionalizing basic counselling at the PYCD Centre in Checheche through a Drop-In facility.
The public in and around Checheche in Chipinge, has had an opportunity to visit the PYCD Centre and receive counselling and coping strategies that are being offered daily by a team of experienced and certified community actors who are part of the PYCD structure.

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By James Gwaii- Concerns have been raised over the safety of CCC leader Nelson Chamisa ahead of next year’s elections.

These concerns come after Zanu PF has put the opposition CCC leader under tight surveillance to assassinate him.

On Sunday, Zanu PF thugs threw a petrol bomb at the opposition party leader’s convoy when he approached the party’s thank you rally venue in Chinhoyi.

Luckily the detonating petrol bomb missed the youthful opposition party leader’s car.

This is not the first time attempts to kill Chamisa have been advanced by Zanu PF.

Early this year, similar attempts happened in Mutare and Masvingo, respectively.

By- Popular and veteran Zimbabwean actress, Mai Sorobhi has died.

Mai Sorobhi or Mai Parafini, real name Rhoda Mtembe died at the age of 79.

Her demise was announced by Kuwadzana West Member of Parliament, Johnson Matambo.

Matambo said the actress died Monday morning.

He said in a message shared on WhatsApp:

Makadii hama mose pano. Ndatambira mashoko anosuwisa. Rhoda Mutembe avo vanozivikanwa nezita rokunzi Mai Sorobhi kana kuti Mai Parafin vashaika. PaHarare Hospital. Tarasikirwa zvikuru semusha weKuwadzana Constituency uye seNyika.

The legislator confirmed the message.

Mai Sorobhi’s daughter, Martha Mtembe, also confirmed. She said:

Mhamha (Mai Sorobhi) vakambostroka (mom had a stroke) some four or five years ago and she had recovered. She then suffered another one recently which has now claimed her life.

By James Gwati- Zanu PF has put the opposition CCC leader under tight surveillance aiming to assassinate him.

This came out on Sunday after Zanu PF thugs threw a petrol bomb at the opposition party leader’s convoy when he approached the party’s thank you rally venue in Gadzema.

Luckily the detonating petrol bomb missed the youthful politician’s car.

This is not the first time attempts to kill Chamisa had been advanced by Zanu PF.

Early this year similar attempts happened in Mutare and Masvingo respectively.

By A Correspondent- All roads will this week lead to Kadoma for the inaugural Postal Telecommunications and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) and the Zimbabwe Online Content Creators (ZOCC) workshop.

The workshop will run from the 15th to the 16th of September 2022.

The organizers of this important event have roped in more than sixty (60) top online content creators drawn from the country’s 10 provinces.

The two day workshop to be addressed by the guest of honour, who is also the Minister of ICT, Postal and Courier Services Dr. Jenfan Muswere seeks to find lasting solutions around content creation in Zimbabwe.

The Postal and Telecommunications regulator will have time to engage with the Zimbabwe Online Content Creators on various issues that include the challenges faced by online content creators and best ways to leverage on already established postal infrastructure to increase reach and national inclusivity.

The workshop is also set to look into the operating environment for online players amidst the cyber security bill and how best government and online players can co-exist.

However, the main objective of this symposium is to produce a quality online content creator who is able to generate content for various consumers around Zimbabwe and beyond.

ZOCC chairperson Mr Toneo Rutsito said that he was optimistic that this workshop will not be another chat session, but a strategic engagement to jumpstart the online content creation sector.

“I’m so excited about the upcoming event, we have the support of Potraz director general Dr Gift Kalisto Machengete,who has content creation at heart, in His Geneva speech he pledged to see how best he can assist us to professionalise, capacitate and empower all the young content creators, to me this is fundemental, this is not your usual talk away workshop” said Toneo.

He added that they were excited to have a Potraz Director General who is passionate about content creation and seeing the youths propelling to the next level.

Apparently, Dr Machengete is spearheading various programs aimed at capacitating young digital players through innovation drives.

Toneo further said he is confident that this relationship will lead to long term benefits, particularly his ambitious vision towards the creation of a ZOCC hub, a physical structure that will cater for all online players who can not afford an office while also helping students to kickstart their industrial attachment in an already financially difficult environment.

The Online Content Creators will also be accorded with opportunities and responsibilities to dedicate focus on specific sectors around their communities and marginalized peripheries.

By James Gwati- The opposition CCC has issued a statement describing how Zanu PF thugs attempted to kill Nelson Chamisa in Chinhoyi on Sunday.

Zanu PF thugs threw a petrol bomb at the opposition party leader’s convoy when he approached the party’s thank you rally venue in Gadzema.

Luckily the detonating petrol bomb missed the youthful opposition party’s car.

CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere immediately issued a statement narrating what happened.

Below is her statement:

Today (Sunday), the CCC held a rally at Gadzema Grounds in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West Province which
was graced by a bumper crowd of citizens. As the motorcade of our Change Champion in Chief,
Adv Nelson Chamisa, approached the entrance of the venue, a silver sedan vehicle AFA 1651 sped
past and threw explosives at the convoy. This incident happened hours after petrol bombs had been
thrown at the venue last night as our advance team was setting up for today’s gathering. We
condemn this cowardly act.
This latest assassination attempt comes barely a month after two similar threats on the life of Adv
Chamisa in Wedza and Gokwe Kabuyuni respectively. The attack follows death threats against Adv
Chamisa and the CCC by Zanu PF leaders including Aton Mashayanyika whose incitement to
violence was caught on camera but no arrests have taken place.
After the detonation of the explosives, the security team immediately intensified security at all entry
points of the venue to safeguard against a further security breach inside the venue. The security
team further had to manage the panicked crowd which was trying to run to safety. In the midst of
this emergency response effort, a misunderstanding arose between journalist Ruvimbo Muchenje
and one of our security officers leading to a regrettable incident of assault. Our communications
team immediately stepped in to de-escalate the incident.
We have since approached Ruvimbo Muchenje directly to offer our unreserved apology for the
incident. She graciously accepted our apology. For the avoidance of doubt, we remain committed
to ensuring a free and safe environment for journalists who cover our events. Journalism is never a
crime. Lessons have been learnt from this Incident and we are improving our protocols to ensure
such an incident does not transpire in the future.
We thank the citizens of Chinhoyi for their overwhelming support at the recent by-elections and for
turning out in their thousands to attend our Thank You Rally this afternoon. Our Change Champion
in Chief delivered a message of hope and inspiration and emphasized the need for all citizens to
register to vote in their masses so that we win Zimbabwe for change in 2023.
Vote for change.
Hohere
Fadzayi Mahere
National Spokesperson

By James Gwati- CCC leader Nelson Chamisa has survived yet another assassination attempt by Zanu PF.

The plot to kill Chamisa happened Sunday in Chinhoyi when Zanu PF thugs threw a petrol bomb at the opposition party leader’s convoy.

Chamisa was lucky to escape the assassination as the detonating petrol bomb missed his car.

CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere immediately issued a statement narrating what happened.

Below is her statement:

Today (Sunday), the CCC held a rally at Gadzema Grounds in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West Province which
was graced by a bumper crowd of citizens. As the motorcade of our Change Champion in Chief,
Adv Nelson Chamisa, approached the entrance of the venue, a silver sedan vehicle AFA 1651 sped
past and threw explosives at the convoy. This incident happened hours after petrol bombs had been
thrown at the venue last night as our advance team was setting up for today’s gathering. We
condemn this cowardly act.
This latest assassination attempt comes barely a month after two similar threats on the life of Adv
Chamisa in Wedza and Gokwe Kabuyuni respectively. The attack follows death threats against Adv
Chamisa and the CCC by Zanu PF leaders including Aton Mashayanyika whose incitement to
violence was caught on camera but no arrests have taken place.
After the detonation of the explosives, the security team immediately intensified security at all entry
points of the venue to safeguard against a further security breach inside the venue. The security
team further had to manage the panicked crowd which was trying to run to safety. In the midst of
this emergency response effort, a misunderstanding arose between journalist Ruvimbo Muchenje
and one of our security officers leading to a regrettable incident of assault. Our communications
team immediately stepped in to de-escalate the incident.
We have since approached Ruvimbo Muchenje directly to offer our unreserved apology for the
incident. She graciously accepted our apology. For the avoidance of doubt, we remain committed
to ensuring a free and safe environment for journalists who cover our events. Journalism is never a
crime. Lessons have been learnt from this Incident and we are improving our protocols to ensure
such an incident does not transpire in the future.
We thank the citizens of Chinhoyi for their overwhelming support at the recent by-elections and for
turning out in their thousands to attend our Thank You Rally this afternoon. Our Change Champion
in Chief delivered a message of hope and inspiration and emphasized the need for all citizens to
register to vote in their masses so that we win Zimbabwe for change in 2023.
Vote for change.
Hohere
Fadzayi Mahere
National Spokesperson

By- Another top army official has died.

The official, the Director-General for logistics at the Zimbabwe Defence Forces at Headquarters, Brigadier-General Charles Kaneta, died at Hauna District Hospital Friday after collapsing at his farm in Nyanga.

In a statement, ZDF Headquarters Director of General Policy, Public Relations and International Affairs Brigadier-General Augustine Chipwere said mourners are gathered at Number 7 Married Quarters, Cranbourne West, Harare.
“The Zimbabwe Defence Forces would like to announce the untimely death of Brigadier General Charles Kaneta who was the Director General Logistics at the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Headquarters,” he said.
“General Kaneta 64 collapsed at his farm in Nyanga and was ferried to Hauna District Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival at around 12 noon on September 10, 2022.”
-State media

By- The opposition CCC security details have beaten up a NewsHawks journalist Ruvimbo Muchenje.

The overzealous security harassed the defenceless female scribe at the party’s thank you rally in Chinhoyi.

Muchenje said she was pulled by the hair and dragged to the ground by some security personnel manning the rally.

CCC national spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere, said they were unaware of the matter, adding that investigations were underway. She said:

This incident is being investigated. We were not aware of it. We respect the work of all journalists & strive to ensure that our rallies are a safe place for the press to the extent of creating a special press box to enable them to work without hindrance. #JournalismIsNotACrime.

Tinashe Sambiri| The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF regime is running scared as a result of CCC’s rising popularity.

According to CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift Ostallos Siziba, the Zanu PF regime is desperate to arrest the wave of change.

Below is Ostallos’ statement:

Reasserting the case of democracy!

We are building the Mass democratic preject from below.

Our disruptive strategic interventions and program of action has sent shivers to the opponents’ camp.

Regime troglodytes running post to pillar to try and dismantle, demobilize and destabilize the Alternative.

But is this part of the countryside fellow Africans the people are clearer that ever.

They want change and to them CCC as led by President Nelson Chamisa is a credible vehicle to bring that Change.

By A Correspondent- The claimed mistress of ex-CBZ Holdings chief executive officer Nyasha Makuvise has been slapped with a US$100,000 adultery claim by the banker’s estranged wife.

According to papers before the High Court, Makuvise has been living with lover, Tsuu Machingura, since 2019 when he left his matrimonial home.

At the the time, he reportedly told wife Clarieta Makuvise, nee Mbizi, that he was going to Dubai on a business trip.

Clarieta only established recently that her husband has been in Zimbabwe all along and living with Machingura who was a friend to the couple’s daughter.

Clarieta has since filed for divorce and asked the court to impose a caveat on their properties after noting that Makuvise was allegedly selling them without her consent.

The Court also heard that Makuvise lied to Clarieta that he had stage 4 cancer and deceived her “into selling some of their business immovable properties in the guise of raising money for his cancer treatment”.

Clarieta is demanding that Machingura pays US$40,000, being damages for loss of contumelia, injury, insult, embarrassment and indignity.

She also wants US$60 000 for loss of consortium, disruption of comfort society, loss of financial support and loss of society.

A full hearing on the case is pending.

According to Clarieta’s lawyers, Machingura “betrayed the trust of the plaintiff because, at all material times, she had known her only as a friend to the couple’s daughter.

only sometime in August 2022 that the plaintiff unearthed the truth of the adulterous affair between her husband and the defendant,” wrote Absolom Attorneys, representing Clarieta.

“Such deception and influence of adultery has led to the plaintiff’s husband concealing imperative business affairs of their matrimonial wealth.

“The disposed properties have been to fund the adulterous relationship’s luxurious trips and holidays.

“It has also led to the defendant being bought luxurious motor vehicles and living a luxurious life where herself and her family members have been spoilt to some of these holidays’ trips and expensive gadgets. In simple words, the defendant now enjoys the lifestyle that the Plaintiff used to enjoy prior to 2019.”

Clarieta said, as a result of the affair, she was deprived of a lifestyle she had become accustomed to.

“The plaintiff has lost consortium; particularly, there has been a disruption of the comfort, society, loss of financial support and loss of service from the Plaintiff’s husband.

“The plaintiff’s husband has neglected the plaintiff in all respects to an extent that he has no knowledge of how the plaintiff currently manages to take care of herself because he no longer provides the plaintiff with the lifestyle she was accustomed to and he has blocked the plaintiff outside all of her assets and investments.”

It was also said to have taken the couple’s minor children to Dubai where they reportedly lived alone in a hotel since 2019.

“Therefore, by reason of the adultery, plaintiff has not seen her children since sometime in August 2019,” said Clarietta’s lawyers.

“The Plaintiff worked very hard to contribute and build a lifestyle that is beyond average and invested her time into nurturing her family.

“Together, they enjoyed a blossoming marriage of companionship which has always been in the public eye owing to the fact that the Plaintiff’s husband was a well-known business executive whose reputation and influence pervaded the whole country.”

Clarietta added that she enjoyed financial support from her husband, a lifestyle of being pampered with expensive gifts, surprise parties and events to honour her as well as expensive holiday trips around the world.

All this ended when the adulterous affair began.

Clarieta said she feels embarrassed, hurt and undignified because of what happened.

On the other hand Machingura has not shown any remorse but brags about having snatched Makuvise from Clarieta.

 was also said to have taken the couple’s minor children to Dubai where they reportedly lived alone in a hotel since 2019.

“Therefore, by reason of the adultery, plaintiff has not seen her children since sometime in August 2019,” said Clarietta’s lawyers.

“The Plaintiff worked very hard to contribute and build a lifestyle that is beyond average and invested her time into nurturing her family.

“Together, they enjoyed a blossoming marriage of companionship which has always been in the public eye owing to the fact that the Plaintiff’s husband was a well-known business executive whose reputation and influence pervaded the whole country.”

Clarietta added that she enjoyed financial support from her husband, a lifestyle of being pampered with expensive gifts, surprise parties and events to honour her as well as expensive holiday trips around the world.

All this ended when the adulterous affair began.

Clarieta said she feels embarrassed, hurt and undignified because of what happened.

On the other hand Machingura has not shown any remorse but brags about having snatched Makuvise from Clarieta.

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By A Correspondent- Three Zanu PF youths were dragged to Mutoko magistrates courts yesterday after allegedly assaulting Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members.

Innocencia Kapanga (35), Patson Dzenza(25) and Blessings Magidhi (35) appeared before magistrate Rumbidzayi Mhandu.

The trio pleaded not guilty and were remanded out of custody to September 23.

The state led by Nathan Majuru alleged on July 23 the trio heavily assaulted two CCC members Stephen Zenda and Christopher Katsande at Jonasi village Mutoko.

The trio were angered by a memorial service for a CCC member which was being conducted in their area.

In attacking the duo, the suspects used logs, fists open hands.

 The trio was represented by their lawyer Kudakwashe Masiyenyama.

By A Correspondent- Patience Madondo has remanded in custody a 22-year-old Mashava sex-worker after she allegedly stole US$ 130 from her client and stabbed him twice on the chest when he confronted her in the morning.

Esther Musapaimbwa (22) will appear before Magistrate Madondo on Friday for judgment.

Musapaimbwa allegedly stabbed Polite Mawela (49) on the early morning of January 30, 2022 once on the left side of the chest and on the left shoulder using a kitchen knife. Mawela escaped and received medical attention at Bere Clinic where he was then referred to Masvingo General Hospital.

Prosecutor Nixon Chamisa told the court that Mawela and Musapaimbwa hooked up at Upper Deck Bar, Mashava and went to Musaipambwa’s house for the night.

Mawela discovered that his US$ 130 was missing in the morning and he confronted Musapaimbwa but the conservation degenerated into a scuffle. Musapaimbwa then took a kitchen knife and stabbed Mawela twice. 

Mawela managed to escape and got a lift to Bere Clinic where he was attended to.

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 By A Correspondent- A woman allegedly confessed that she had s_3x with her son after her husband allegedly stumbled upon her underwear in theor son’s bedroom.

Sifelani Moyo had been married to Media Hoboya for 18 years and they had been staying together at Redbank Plot on the outskirts of Bulawayo.

All was well, but their marital life took a turn for the worst after Moyo stumbled on his wife’s underwear in the son’s bedroom hut.

Moyo got suspicious and quizzed his estranged wife and she confessed that she had lula lula with their first born son who is in his early 30s.

I stumbled on her panty I got worried and suspicious that my wife was sleeping with my son and I confronted her over the issue,” he said.

He added: “I took the panty to her and interrogated her over why it was in my son’s bedroom. At first she denied but within a few minutes of interrogation she confessed that she slept with my son and that broke my heart.”

According to Moyo his wife shared the forbidden fruit with his son three times.

After  the bizarre confession tempers flared between the pair causing Moyo to vent his anger on his estranged wife.

I am in pain and my heart was torn apart because I didn’t expect that she could do such a taboo and get into the blankets with my own son. I bashed her, after that she left to her paternal home in Cowdray Park suburb and since then she has not returned,” he said.

Moyo says after the incident his son also deserted home as he was wanted by the police for a crime he committed.

He says despite what his wife and his son did to him, he still loved them and was ready to let bygones be bygones.

“My wife still occupies a special place in my heart and I still love her despite what she did and I’m ready to forgive her and we settle down. And even my son I still love him and I’m ready to forgive him,” he said.

When Hoboya was contacted someone answered the call and refused to identify herself choosing to say: “The person you are talking of assaulted Hoboya and burnt her with charcoal. And he (Moyo) was emotionally and verbally abusing her for quite a long time causing her to desert their home.

“We do not want to meet him or talk to him. Please stop calling us because we will do something bad to you.

By A Correspondent- Matabeleland South’s biggest irrigation scheme, ARDA Antelopes is counting losses after a veld fire that broke out on Friday, spreading into the farm and destroying a part of the seed crop.

Estate Manager, Aleck Chinyayi told ZBCnews that the fire broke out in the morning and destroyed a seed crop with an estimated value of US$5 000. Chinyayi said:

A fire just broke out across the fence and because the wheat is ready for harvest it didn’t take time for it to catch fire and we had to rush with the workers and put it out, we have lost almost a hectare of the seed crop.

This is happening when Zimbabwe is in serious need of locally-produced wheat to cover the deficit that was caused by Russia/Ukraine war which interrupted international trade.

Meanwhile, Mukunjulelwa Ndlovu, Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water Fisheries and Rural Development, Acting Provincial Director has urged farmers to guard against fire. Ndlovu said:

This is a seed crop that is going to help us increase our area of wheat next season and farmers need to be on the lookout for fire incidences as they can destroy the crop at the critical stage.

ARDA Antelope is one of the biggest irrigation schemes in Matabeleland South province with over 500 hectares under commercial wheat, 180 hectares of wheat seed, and 56 hectares of potatoes.

By A Correspondent- A 37-year-old man from Bulawayo’s Nkulumane suburb has been arrested on allegations of raping his 17-year-old daughter.

The man, who has not been named to protect the identity of the victim, reportedly raped his daughter on 6 September 2022 at around 1 PM when the two were alone at home.

Allegations are that the victim was at home cooking when his father came out of his bedroom, and grabbed her waist and carried her into his bedroom.

She reportedly screamed for help, but no one came to her rescue.

The father allegedly closed the bedroom door and raped her once and left the house.

He was, however, spotted leaving the bedroom by the victim’s cousin aged 11 who had just arrived home.

She then discovered that the victim was sobbing inside her father’s bedroom.

The cousin then went next door and informed their neighbour who came and asked the girl why she was crying.

The victim narrated the sexual abuse, and the neighbour called the child’s aunt and then accompanied the her to make a report to the police leading to the arrest of her father.

Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson in Bulawayo Province, Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident and implored parents to protect their children instead of abusing them. He said:

It is disturbing that most cases of a sexual nature on juveniles are perpetrated by very close relatives. Parents must protect their children and not be the ones exposing them to abuse.

Members of the public are urged not to trust anyone. In this case a trusted biological father raped his daughter.

By A Correspondent- Police in Mbembesi arrested Andrew Jackson (50) for killing his daughter, Mary Jackson, aged five years, at Sojini Village, Mbembesi.

Police said Jackson onfessed that he took the minor from the mother and killed her before dumping the body along Harare-Bulawayo Road.

ZRP, however, did not reveal the motive behind the callous murder

By A Correspondent- Three people died at a funeral on Friday morning in the Igava area of Marondera after they were hit by a car.

They were at the funeral of liberation war hero Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Superintendent Editor Chimimba.

ZRP national spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the tragic incident to the State media.

 The now-deceased were hit by the car as mourners were preparing to go for burial at the Mashonaland East Provincial Heroes Acre.

One person, a police officer who was a member of the ZRP Band died on the spot while a two-year-old toddler and an elderly woman were seriously injured and later succumbed to their injuries at Marondera Provincial Hospital.

Asst Comm Nyathi said investigations are underway to establish what transpired.

By A Correspondent- The UK embassy has kept corruption-accused ZANU PF Member of Parliament for  Gokwe  Nembudziya,  Justice Mayor Wadyajena, guessing on whether he is going to travel to the United Kingdom or not as it delayed confirming his visa.

Wadyajena had successfully applied for his passport release by the courts a week ago so he could travel to the UK and Germany on parliament business.

Harare lawyer Oliver Marwa told Harare magistrate Taurai Manuwere on Thursday that his client was still waiting for confirmation of his travel to the United Kingdom from the British embassy in Pretoria, South Africa.

The lawyer also said even if Wadyajena fails to travel to the UK, he still has another trip to Germany soon, according to ZimLive.com.

This comes after the controversial lawmaker’s recent arrest with details of his fraud scandal recently splashed in the media for all to see.

Wadyajena is being charged together with his company Mayor Logistics, Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) managing director Pius Manamike, Maxmore Njanji, Fortunate Molai, Chiedza Danha, a director of Pierpoint Moncroix Mauritius.

They are accused of defrauding Cottco of US$5.8 million in a money laundering scam.

Wadyajena said he intends to challenge his placement on remand by 13 September.

Njanji also successfully filed for the release of his own passport saying he wanted to go to South Africa for a medical examination.

The application was not opposed.

Manuwere said Njanji should return his passport on September 30.

They were recently granted $100 000 bail each by Harare magistrate Stenford Mambanje.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed that the ruling ZANU PF is the only party in Zimbabwe that has people-centred policies. 

What he said:

In his closing remarks at the inaugural War Veterans League elective congress held at the HICC, Mnangagwa said: 

Zanu-PF is the only party which fought for the liberation and democracy of this country, through you, our war veterans.

We are the only Party with people centred policies, programmes and projects. We are the party which is delivering a better quality of life that is leaving no one and no place behind, step by step, brick upon brick, stone upon stone.

Context:

The ruling party has in recent years been accused of only being interested in retaining power while doing nothing to improve the welfare of the citizenry.

In 2017 when the army then led by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga initiated “Operation Restore Legacy” which resulted in the demise of the late former President Robert Mugabe, it argued that the ruling party had diverged from the ethos and values of the liberation struggle.

Historians say improving the lives of the citizenry was one of the major motivations behind the liberation struggle.

Many Zimbabweans currently live in abject poverty following the collapse of the economy at the turn of the millennium.

Critics cite the huge contrast between the lives of political elites and the lives of the electorate as proof that the ruling party does not care about the lives of the general populace.

Mnangagwa’s remarks come as Zimbabwe prepares for harmonised elections slated for 2023.

By- Namibia and Botswana governments have scraped the passport requirements on their border.

This development is the first of its kind in southern Africa.

Namibian president Hage Geingob, speaking in the Botswana capital Gaborone on Friday, said nationals of the two countries would only need to produce IDs to move between the two countries. 

Geingob said, speaking during the inaugural Botswana-Namibia bi-national commission:

Our two countries not only share a common border, but also a common people and heritage. A symbiotic and inter-dependent relationship exists along our common borders.

Therefore, I call on our senior officials to fast-track the implementation of the usage of Identity Documents (IDs) as travel documents between the two countries, without delay.

The development came after President Geingob’s meeting with President Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi.

By- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired Justice Edith Mushore from the Office of a judge.

This comes after the Tribunal established to look into an alleged absence from work handed its recommendations to Mnangagwa.
The Tribunal recommended that Mushore should be removed from the Office of a judge for acts of gross misconduct.

Acting Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Martin Rushwaya made the announcement.
Said Rushwaya:
The Tribunal which was inquiring into the question of removal from the Office of Honourable Justice Edith Mushore, in terms of Section 187 (3) of the Constitution, has completed its work.
The Tribunal has reported its findings to His Excellency, The President, Cde Dr E.D Mnangagwa, and has recommended that Hon. Justice Edith Mushore be removed from the Office of a judge for acts of gross misconduct.
Accordingly, His Excellency The President, acting in terms of Section 187 (8) of the Constitution, has removed Hon. Justice Edith Mushore from the Office of Judge of the High Court.
Mnangagwa appointed a tribunal to investigate Justice Mushore’s suitability for Office after she last reported for duty on 14 June 2021 without giving reasons for her absence.

In May 2021, Mushore was one of the judges who ruled that Chief Justice Luke Malaba had ceased to lead the bench upon reaching mandatory retirement age.

However, Malaba appealed the ruling and controversially won, and he remains the Chief Justice to date.

By James Gwati- An unidentified Harare woman was seen Saturday dropping a thing believed to be fortune-seeking magic.

An eyewitness posted the image of the item on social media.

Posted the eyewitness:

A lady driving a Toyota Fortuner dropped this item outside FantasyLand, opposite Eastgate Mall. She sped off after dumping it.

By- Another top army official has died.

The official, the Director-General for logistics at the Zimbabwe Defence Forces at Headquarters, Brigadier-General Charles Kaneta, died at Hauna District Hospital yesterday after collapsing at his farm in Nyanga.

In a statement, ZDF Headquarters Director of General Policy, Public Relations and International Affairs Brigadier-General Augustine Chipwere said mourners are gathered at Number 7 Married Quarters, Cranbourne West, Harare.
“The Zimbabwe Defence Forces would like to announce the untimely death of Brigadier General Charles Kaneta who was the Director General Logistics at the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Headquarters,” he said.
“General Kaneta 64 collapsed at his farm in Nyanga and was ferried to Hauna District Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival at around 12 noon on September 10, 2022.”
-State media

By James Gwati- Top CCC officials are said to be divided over calls for a mass protest in solidarity with the jailed party deputy chairman, Job Sikhala

Last week Charlton Hwende, the CCC secretary general, encouraged his party members to consider holding a protest for the release of Sikhala.

Makomborero Haruzivishe, a prominent CCC activist, posted on social media highlighting that cadres were castigating Hwende for organising the march.

He said:

90% of those insulting ⁦

@hwendec

⁩ are those who outsourced their revolutionary duties t⁩o ⁦

@nelsonchamisa

⁩ When ⁦Job Sikhala was last in jail we didn’t demand NC to take action,we just acted If you disagree with Hwende just go into the street ka than insult him.

By- Zimbabweans living and working in South Africa without critical skills risk failing to benefit from the extended stay that has been given to Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders.

South Africa Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s recently said they had extended the stay of ZEP holders to the end of June next year, after the initial deadline of 31 December this year. 

The permits were also extended last year by one year, after being introduced in 2009.

Media reports from South Africa said “after considering numerous factors, including that only a few Zimbabweans have so far applied for other permits to regularise their stay in the country, Motsoaledi announced the six-month extension.”

In an interview with News24, Zimbabwe Community in South Africa chairperson Mr Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena said Zimbabweans have now been given more time to get their affairs in order, although those without critical skills were still in limbo.

“We appreciate the extension. It gives people some bit of time to gather all the necessary documents. What we would try is to send the concerns raised by our members to the South Africa Home Affairs Department.”

He added there were some grey areas around the latest extension.

“There is a lack of clarity around the issue of a waiver, particularly for people who work in low-skill jobs because we are told people should apply for waivers, but according to the requirements in the Immigration Act, a person who applies for a waiver is one who can prove that there is no South African [that] can do the job that one does , even though they don’t have critical skills. So, this has caused a lot of problems for people that are working as domestic workers.”

Those with critical skills are in the fields of medicine, finance, science, Information Communication Technology, agricultural experts, and engineering, among other skilled professions. Mabhena said once clarity was made on people with no “critical skills”, he was hopeful that by December many Zimbabweans would have come forward to regularise their stay in the country.

Last month, News24 reported that only 9 000 of the 178 000 permit holders had made representations about why the department should not terminate their permits. Meanwhile, self-appointed illegal immigrant watchdog Operation Dudula has said it is heading to the apex court to interdict the Home Affairs minister’s extension of the permits.

Zandile Dabula, national secretary-general of the movement, said it rejects the “vague” reasons behind the special advisory committee’s decision.

Zandile Dabula

“Operation Dudula has instructed its attorneys to apply for ‘direct access’ to the Constitutional Court on an urgent basis, with an intent to prevent the minister of Home Affairs [from extending the] ZEP. If Zimbabwean permit holders were serious about legalising their stay in South Africa, [they] would have taken advantage of the opportunity presented by the Department of Home Affairs. Failure to make representations could mean the current permit holders don’t have valid legal grounds to advance or consciously elect to ignore legalising their stay in South Africa,” said Dabula.

-State media 

DIRECTOR-General responsible for logistics at the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Headquarters Brigadier-General Charles Kaneta has died.

He was 64.

Brig-Gen Kaneta died at Hauna District Hospital yesterday at midday after collapsing at his farm in Nyanga.

In a statement, ZDF Headquarters Director of General Policy, Public Relations and International Affairs Brigadier-General Augustine Chipwere said mourners are gathered at Number 7 Married Quarters, Cranbourne West, Harare.

“The Zimbabwe Defence Forces would like to announce the untimely death of Brigadier General Charles Kaneta who was the Director General Logistics at the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Headquarters,” he said.

“General Kaneta 64 collapsed at his farm in Nyanga and was ferried to Hauna District Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival at around 12 noon on September 10, 2022.”

-State media

Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa is expected to address thousands of party supporters in Chinhoyi on Saturday.

According to CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift Ostallos Siziba, Chinhoyi is ready to receive the Champion in Chief.

“Fellow Citizens in Chinhoyi …

This weekend we come to salute and galvanize the base towards Change.

YellowSunday,” Ostallos posted on Facebook.

President Chamisa has denounced violence and political barbarism.

“NEVER KILL FOR MONEY, POLITICS OR POWER. These things are so intoxicating yet so temporary and short lived!”