Tinashe Sambiri|The office of Whange Central MP, Daniel Molokele, has successfully implemented a series of projects under the Constituency Development Fund( CDF) scheme.

The MP unrolled the installation of Jojo tanks at various schools in the constituency.

See statement below:

Office of the MP Successfully Implements the CDF Project for 2022

The Office of the MP for Whange Central Constituency has successfully implemented its low cost but high impact project under the 2022 parliamentary Constituency Development Fund (CDF)

The 2022 project focused on the installation of water retention tanks (Jojo Tanks) in various public schools at local communities levels.

At times, some schools have been forced to consider closing temporarily due to water supply related problems

Each of the 210 constituencies across the country was allocated 11.4 million RTGS for CDF for 2022.

In response, our local CDF Committee did an extensive consultation public process, in close partnership with all the local ward Councillors under our constituency.

After the consultation process was successfully completed, it was then unanimously agreed that the 2022 CDF disbursement be used to buy the water retention tanks in order to guarantee access to water supplies in our local public schools.

The Office of the MP is so happy to announce that there are 12 local communities institutions that have now managed to benefit from the 2022 CDF project.

In particular, eleven public schools across the urban parts of our constituency together with the St Patrick’s Hospital at Empumalanga benefited from this year’s project.

For avoidance of doubt the following schools now have water retention tanks fully installed under the 2022 CDF project:

1. Sir Humphrey Gibbs Primary
2. Makwika Primary
3. Lusumbami Primary
4. Mabhinga Primary
5. St Ignatius Primary
6. Lwendulu Primary
7. Nechibondo Primary
8. St Georges Primary
9. Hwange High
10. Wankie Secondary
11. Kalope Secondary

Thulani Moyo
PA/Spokesperson
Office of the MP for Whange Central Constituency

Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has appealed to SADC to resolve the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe as a matter of urgency.

Millions of Zimbabweans have left the country due to perennial economic and political problems.

Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s “new dispensation” has dismally failed to revive the economy.

Mr Mnangagwa claims his administration is different from the one led by Robert Mugabe.

Below is President Chamisa’s statement on the escalating political crisis in Zimbabwe…

Zimbabweans do not want to be a burden.

SADC must help us relieve this regional burden

Writes the Champion in Chief, President Nelson Chamisa

Like many people in Zimbabwe and elsewhere around the world, I recently watched a video of Dr Phophi Ramathuba, the Limpopo MEC for Health, as she spoke to a Zimbabwean patient seeking care in a hospital.

As I listened to my dear compatriot expressing gratitude to the MEC, I was filled with a deep sense of regret, sadness, and rage.

Her vulnerability reminded us of real impact of poor leadership on the lives and dignity of our people. For me, it deepened my resolve to change it.
Like many other Zimbabweans who have had to shelter outside our borders, she did not want to be there. It was not her choice. She is there because her leaders, back at home, do not care about her.
She is not alone.
Zimbabwe has been a burden to her neighbours for far too long. It is time we changed this.
By the government’s own estimates, since this regime took power, people have left the country at a higher rate than at any time in our history. The national statistics agency recently released data showing that emigration reached a peak in 2021.

Nowhere is this exodus felt so strongly than in our critical health sector.
In the 12 months to March 2020, the UK took in 1059 Zimbabweans on that country’s skilled work visa. By 2022, that number had increased to 5549 visas to Zimbabweans for skilled work. Put in other terms, the number of skilled workers that have left Zimbabwe to work in other countries has gone up by 424% in just two years.
Zimbabwe is among the Top 5 recipients of these skilled visas to the UK. A country with a population of 15 million is in the same category with nations such as India – with its population of over a billion – in terms of exporting skills. We are losing skilled people more than countries that are at war.
Where are all these skilled people coming from? Many are coming out of our hospitals. Not only are they unable to feed their families, but they also have to face the emotional and psychological trauma of watching their patients die from what should be easily treatable ailments.
Our healthcare system fails the most basic tests.

The current doctor to patient ratio and nurse to patient ratio in Zimbabwe is depressing.
The last survey revealed 1.6 doctors per 10,000 people (23 doctors per 10,000 people is the W.H.O recommendation). Zimbabwe has 7.2 nurses per 10,000 people, which should be 83 per 10,000 people.

As I write, more than 700 children have been killed by measles, a disease that should not be afflicting us in this century. Our maternal mortality rate is 462 per 100 000 live births, one of the highest in the world. Our neonatal mortality rate is at 31 deaths per 1 000 live births. This rate has not changed since 1988, showing the lack of progress in healthcare.
Recently, our hearts broke after seven babies were stillborn in one night at Harare Central Hospital, because their mothers did not get the care they needed in time.
There is a reason why our hospitals are in this state. We know why patients are crossing the borders to seek treatment in neighbouring countries. It is because of corruption, bad governance and poor leadership under ZANU PF misrule.
Millions were lost in COVID-19 procurement deals, and nobody was held accountable. The political elite gets treated overseas. This is who they are; they do not care for ordinary people, like that woman in the Limpopo hospital. They care only for themselves.
Our crisis is not just a health crisis, or an economic crisis. It is essentially a governance crisis. Nelson Mandela once said there was a “crisis of leadership in Zimbabwe”. The icon was right. We are facing the consequences today, and so is the entire region.
We have a plan to turn this around. We have a New Great Zimbabwe plan to build and transform Zimbabwe into a greatness.
Zimbabwe is not poor. It is poorly led. It is simply a leadership crisis. And we will fix it.
The cartels that smuggle US$1.6 billion worth of gold from our country every year will be stopped. We will rededicate a larger proportion of our national budget to critical social services, and away from the overpriced vanity projects designed to oil corrupt cartels. We will increase the budget for health and ramp up support to our professionals.
We will treat our people at home, in our own first-class hospitals.
This all starts with solving the governance crisis, once and for all. We need reforms. We must PREPARE, and have a pre-election pact on electoral and political reforms.
Our call to our neighbours is this; we appreciate your benevolence and patience, but you should not have to carry this burden any longer than you already have.
Help us to hold credible elections. We are encouraged that President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the immigration crisis will be discussed at regional level. Now, more strongly than ever, SADC must demand reforms. We do not ask for anything new; only that Zimbabwe hold elections that meet already existing SADC guidelines.
This, more than shaming the innocent victims of misrule, is what will solve the crisis.
Zimbabweans do not want to cross the borders for services or jobs. They do not want to be a burden. They have not chosen this life. They have not chosen their leaders. It is time they did.

Advocate Nelson Chamisa leads the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change in Zimbabwe

Opposition parties have lost hope of the country holding free and fair elections next year in the absence of electoral reforms.

Some of the political parties have predicted a disputed poll as government drags its feet on implementing electoral reforms.

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday made a passionate plea to the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to stand in solidarity with the opposition party in its call for electoral reforms, which he said would help resolve the regional migration crisis.

In an open letter to Sadc, Chamisa said the emigration crisis facing Zimbabwe would continue affecting other countries in the region if the Zimbabwean governance crisis remains unresolved.

“Zimbabwe has been a burden to her neighbours for far too long,” Chamisa wrote.

“It is time we changed this. This all starts with solving the governance crisis, once and for all. We need reforms. We must prepare and have a pre-election pact on electoral and political reforms. Our call to our neighbours is this; we appreciate your benevolence and patience, but you should not have to carry this burden any longer than you already have.

“Help us to hold credible elections. We are encouraged that President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the immigration crisis will be discussed at regional level. Now, more strongly than ever, Sadc must demand reforms. We do not ask for anything new; only that Zimbabwe holds elections that meet already existing Sadc guidelines. This, more than shaming the innocent victims of misrule, is what will solve the crisis,” Chamisa said.

Other political party leaders said government had failed to implement the necessary reforms in the past four years, which prompted them to have doubts on the possibility of authorities achieving it in less than the 12 months left before the next election.

They were speaking during a virtual discussion on analysis of critical electoral reforms for 2023 general elections, which was hosted by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network on Wednesday.

Opposition parties have complained about lack of independence of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and its failure to avail a credible voters roll, among others.

Gweru Urban MP Brian Dube (MDC-T) said some of the reforms could be implemented immediately, but government had dragged its feet to walk the talk since the 2018 election.

“The electoral reforms can be done through the legislative processes and for the law to be passed, it does not take ages as long as there is will, it can take up to two weeks,” he said.

“Zimbabweans already know what they want, a balanced and independent Zec that is demilitarised so that all those soldiers, the security sectors that comprise the electoral body, are removed. We should agree on the constitutional amendments. Those do not require years to be done. It’s only that there is no political will and intention to hold a free and fair election in Zimbabwe.”

ZimFirst party secretary-general Tafadzwa Tom added: “There are no two ways about electoral reforms, they are needed urgently. If the call for reforms is ignored, after the election there will still be talks of electoral reform. There is need for reforms for … a level ground. The electoral law should be amended.”

Political party leaders also implored Zec to fulfil the citizens’ right to vote on some disenfranchised groups which include those in hospitals, prisons and in the diaspora.

CCC deputy secretary for elections Ellen Shiriyedenga said: “As far as we are concerned from the CCC point of view, no discussions with regards to the electoral reforms have been done, particularly looking at the stakeholder engagement processes, the multiparty committees and also even the public discussions.

“The only thing that we have seen is the poll survey when Zec was engaging the public with regards to their views on registration of political parties. We have written to Zec several times with regards to the issue of electoral reforms.”

Labour Economists and African Democratic Party leader Linda Masarira said: “Extending the right to vote is something that we have also been advocating for for a very long time, especially for the population in prison which is always short-changed and those who will be in hospitals during the election time.”

Academic Ibbo Mandaza said although Sadc could play a role in resolving the problems Zimbabwe was facing, Parliament was one underutilised institution.

“Appeals to Sadc and the regional bodies are also important, but historically, Sadc did little or nothing about the Zimbabwean situation given the declining influence and status of the regional organisation, more than a graphic illustration of the sordid conditions in which Zimbabwe finds itself, economically, politically and socially,” he said.

“Parliament is one key institution which can be used to resolve the problem. We have opposition MPs in Parliament. What are they doing to push for electoral reforms in that House?”

Political analyst Eldred Masunungure described Chamisa’s plea to Sadc as “symbolic”.

He said: “I do not think those regional bodies have much appetite to involve themselves in the Zimbabwean situation. Such calls for solidarity can be made symbolic so that at least they can say they did something in their call for reforms.”

In a letter, ZANU PF tells Royal Family, we don't need your invitation to the Queen's funeral, we'll just gatecrash the ceremony, "hatikokwi, tonouya tega." pic.twitter.com/g6Ofw9B0LQ

— ZimEye (@ZimEye) September 9, 2022

Revenge gone horribly wrong!
In a nasty turn of events, a Harare businessman has been arrested after he recorded an audio and

video clip which went viral on various social media platforms in which he was harassing and threatening a Bulawayo lawyer and warning people against dealing with her UK-based husband who is also a truck supplier, claiming his company was selling non-existent vehicles.

So messy are the threats that Chamunorwa Chinenyanga (32), a transport operator based in South Africa, sensationally claimed that Vivianah Chikomo of V Chikomo Law Chambers married her husband Dyson Dzapasi for money over love.

In the video, Chinenyanga is also accusing Dzapasi of disappearing after taking his money. Dzapasi is reportedly a representative of Carsden UK Trucks.

Chinenyanga’s threats to Chikomo were heard when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Busani Sibanda charged with cyber-bullying and harassment as defined in Section 164B of the Cyber Security and Data Protection Act Chapter 11:12.

He was not asked to plead and was remanded out of custody to September 19 on $50 000 bail.

Allegations against Chinenyanga are that on 20 May 2022 he recorded an audio and video clip while threatening and bullying Chikomo.

In Shona he said: “Kusvika mangwana pasina that car, tiri kutora video toisa mu social media tichiudza vanhu kuti makadhonza kuUK mukaroorana naye mukachata naye, akadya mari dzevanhu dzema-trucks muri mese ikozvino mari hapasisina mava kuti madhivosa munhu.

“Saka imimi munongoda munhu mukuwana chete. Isusu taingoda kupedza naDyson wedu imimi makubisa mota usiku. Tichatora video tichiudza vanhu. (When we arrive there tomorrow and find out that the motor vehicle is not there, we will record a video and make it go viral on social media platforms informing people that you coerced a person from UK and married him. (He squandered people’s money meant for buying trucks while you were together. Now that there is no more cash to spend, you are now alleging that you have divorced. Is it that you only love people when they are still rich?

(We only wanted to solve our issues with Dyson and you are now removing the trucks at night. We will record the video informing people over that).”

It is reported that living true to his threats he allegedly posted the audio and video clip on various WhatsApp groups in Bulawayo before they went viral.

It is alleged that on 27 May 2022 Chinenyanga again recorded another video clip while accusing Dzapasi of selling non-existent vehicles.

He claimed that Dzapasi had since disappeared and was no longer reachable. The video clip which went viral after it was posted on various WhatsApp groups says:

“Makadi hama neshamwari, ini ndiri mu-transport industry based in South Africa. Pamba pandasiya trailer yangu apa ndipo panogara V Chikomo ane Law Chambers muno muBulawayo.

“Akaroorwa nemurume anonzi Dyson Dzapasi chizvarwa chemuno muZimbabwe asi ane citizenship yekuBritian. Murume uyu arikutengesera vanhu marori aasina”. (Greeting to you friends and relatives, I am in the transport industry based in South Africa.

(This house where I have left my trailers is where V Chikomo stays and is part of V Chikomo Law Chambers in Bulawayo. She is married to a man called Dyson Dzapasi, a Zimbabwean who has British citizenship. He is selling non-existent trucks).”

The matter was reported to the police and investigations led to the arrest of Chinenyanga and his subsequent appearance in court. -B Metro

A suspected thief was fatally assaulted in Kadoma on allegations of stealing two donkeys at a farm in the area as murder cases continue to be reported countrywide.

The victim only identified as Tafadzwa was stoned and beaten with a sjambok by four suspects who have since been arrested.

The incident occurred at Gazmmark Farm and police are still investigating the case.

National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident.

” Police in Kadoma arrested Admire Gonga aged 32, Nelson Gonga aged 28, Last Gonga aged 26 and Oscar Pfupajena aged 25 in connection with a case of murder which occurred at around 2.30am on September 6, 2022 at Gazmark Farm.

“The suspects allegedly teamed up and hit the victim, only identified as Tafadzwa, with bricks, stones and a sjambok all over the body on allegations that the suspect had stolen two donkeys. Investigations are underway,” he said. —Herald

The assault trial of Tendai Biti resumed today with him claiming that Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai Muchuchuti was making biased rulings and decisions, which were breaching his rights.

Biti, who is facing charges of manhandling a Zimbabwean investor Mrs Tatiana Aleshina at the Harare Magistrates Court, said this while submitting reasons why he wanted his matter referred to the Constitutional Court.

The CCC legislator had been making this application for the past two months and is still continuing.

And for these past two months, Biti has been repeating what he had been saying in this application.

He is claiming that the court has persistently abused his constitutional rights.

“Some of the rulings being made by this court are an insult to my constitutional rights,” he said.

The matter was deferred to September 15 for continuation.

Biti recently told the court that he was surprised why his matter was moved from the provincial to the regional court.

“I was shocked about three things, my matter was taken from the provincial court to the regional court under unclear grounds,” he said.

Biti said his matter was taken from Court 3 to the Anti-corruption Court also under unclear circumstances.

“I was also shocked why my matter was taken away from Court 3 to be handled by a senior magistrate Mr Micheal Reza who is deputy prosecutor general,” he said.

However, during the previous sitting, Mr Reza also informed the court that Biti’s application for recusal of the magistrate was not procedural, and lacked merit.

Mr Reza put it to Biti during cross-examination that he abandoned his application for referral of the matter to the Constitutional Court after the court ruled that his matter be heard on a daily basis to ensure progress.

Mr Reza further informed Biti that if he had any reservations with the court’s ruling, he should have appealed to the superior courts rather than applying for the magistrate’s recusal.

However, Biti insisted that he wanted Mrs Muchuchuti to recuse herself, further alleging that they are protagonists, a position that was dismissed in today’s ruling.

In her ruling to hear the matter on a daily basis Mrs Muchuchuti highlighted that Biti’s application for referral of the matter to the Apex Court started on May 27, and up to date, the application is yet to conclude.

She said she needed to dispose of this matter within a reasonable timeframe, hence the adoption of interventions where the matter will be heard daily with immediate effect.

The magistrate further reiterated that the accused should be reminded that he is the accused in this matter and should give it priority over other matters.

“With the rate we are managing this case it means the accused will need another two months to finish his application,” said Mrs Muchuchuti.– Herald

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested more Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board officials on abuse of office charges involving US$2,8 million.
First to be arrested on Tuesday was TIMB chief executive officer Meanwell Gudu.

His arrest was then followed by that of former TIMB chief executive officer and board member Andrew Matibiri yesterday.

Matibiri is the present Zimbabwe Agricultural Society chief executive officer.

Also arrested yesterday was TIMB former head of special projects Stuart Shanyika.

In a short statement last night, ZACC said: “ZACC has further arrested the former CEO Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board Andrew Everest Matibiri and Stuart Shanyika former head of special projects TIMB who are jointly charged with Meanwell Gudu on allegations of contravening section 174 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act (abuse of duty) involving US$2,8 million.

“The accused persons will appear in court tomorrow (today).” -Herald

In Mbare we lay to Rest Mbuya Mazani
a strong member of the prodemocracy movement.

One of the stalwarts of the democratic struggle who stood in principles and unshaken during the tough times of the struggle.

Many people dither and oscillate when it’s get tougher.

They prefer easy route, fall for the trinkets and trappings of the enemy in Harare.

Thank you mbuya Idah for this great sacrifice.

Rest in power.- CCC

The Communities In Action Platform (CAP) penned down reflections on the economy to alert the responsible authority (government) and bring awareness to the general citizenry on the deteriorating state of the Zimbabwean economy in August 2022.

The statement was a product of the lived realities that Zimbabweans are going through and also to dismiss the cosmetic surgeries being done by state propagandists, the state media.

The reality is that the government did not need a reminder on the state of the economy and also the people of this great nation do not need an awareness on the state of the economy as they live through the economic, social and political turbulence every single minute, however as promised by CAP that change can be slow and ponderous but when things come to a head action will be sudden and cataclysmic confronting previously unshakeable systems and now at this very moment things have come to a head.

Chronic poverty has now torn through any remnants of sanity and hope that our people had and collectively we cannot continue to normalize the abnormal, the time for citizen agency has now risen and the people have spoken not in tongues but in definitive and clear terms.

Zimbabwe is now at the top of the list in the world but for the wrong reasons, the year on year inflation is now at 484% for the month of August, the prices of basic commodities have risen steeply, service delivery is now crippled and the situation has now been compounded with opening of schools nationwide that has seen teachers being sent back to the modern day slavery they call jobs, students being sent to schools that now resemble refugee camps and parents back to squeezing out abnormal tuition from the little or no resources.

Zimbabwe is now burning and the ones who are supposed to be the drivers are ignorantly declaring no crisis and have adopted the ostrich mentality of burying their hands in the sand hoping the crisis will magically disappear.

Starting on Monday 12 September 2022, Communities In Action Platform will be engaging the government through mass protests on the state of the economy, these protests are an act of defiance and a direct confrontational call against this “see no evil, hear no evil and do nothing about it,” approach from the government of Zimbabwe.

The nation has a gallivanting President, an incompetent finance minister, an ignorant health minister and a kakistocratic government that fail to reconcile reasoning to reality.

CAP calls upon the citizens of Zimbabwe to rise up and stand their ground against the tyranny and chronic suffering they are being subjected to, ours is no longer a nation of productivity and hope but one of despair and chronic poverty whose results we see every single day in our homes, our community and our jobs.

The focus should not be on baton sticks for the pain that we experience from that, it is nothing compared to the pain of sleeping on an empty stomach, the focus should not be on jail cells but should be on the discomfort of losing your loved ones to treatable diseases just because our medical facilities have no medicines and because doctors and nurses are on strike.

The fear that strikes every individual when they hear of protests should be nothing compared to the fear that goes through us when we face the everyday certain of going to a home with no food and hungry children.

The hope and fight for a better Zimbabwe begins with us, those in power are not deaf but they just require us to speak more loudly, clearer and directly to them and in unity we can achieve more, stand your ground and demand your life back, if asking is not working then demand.

Communities in Action Platform ( CAP)

Tinashe Sambiri|Controversial former Zanu PF MP for Chivi South Constituency, Killer Zivhu, has declared that MDC leader, Mr Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora is an admirer of Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s party.

Zivhu also tore into NCA leader, Professor Lovemore Madhuku, for accusing CCC of causing Job Sikhala’s incarceration.

“Prof Madhuku vanoda kuti CCC ikumbire bail ra Job Sikhala from a political Party, zvakafanana nekukumbira hembe dzako kumunhu wakumbira, his first condition ndoyokuti don’t report me to police, Advocate Mtetwa is a senior lawyer moti vakatadza here kukumbira from Prosecutors.

Munhu wose wakakurira mu Zanu anoda Zanu, chero akapengereka unodzoka mu Zanu chete, honai Obert Gutu, Chebundo, Bhasikiti, Mwonzora, Madhuku, Rinda, Matutu, nevamwe vakawanda vari munzira…,” said Zivhu.

COURT DIARY: Our Champions Hon @JoanaMamombe & @ceechimbiri2 will appear before the Harare Magistrates’ Court for trial ruling tomorrow. They were abducted & sexually abused yet they are facing trumped up charges of communicating falsehoods. Let’s attend in solidarity.
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The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) has released the school calendar for 2023 noting that the first term opens on Monday the 9th of January ending on 30 March.

The ministry also noted that school opening days have shifted from Tuesdays to Mondays.

The Second Term is scheduled to open on the 8th of May ending on 3 August while the Third Term begins on 4 September ending on the 1st of December.- Pindula News

The Communities In Action Platform (CAP) penned down reflections on the economy to alert the responsible authority (government) and bring awareness to the general citizenry on the deteriorating state of the Zimbabwean economy in August 2022.

The statement was a product of the lived realities that Zimbabweans are going through and also to dismiss the cosmetic surgeries being done by state propagandists, the state media.

The reality is that the government did not need a reminder on the state of the economy and also the people of this great nation do not need an awareness on the state of the economy as they live through the economic, social and political turbulence every single minute, however as promised by CAP that change can be slow and ponderous but when things come to a head action will be sudden and cataclysmic confronting previously unshakeable systems and now at this very moment things have come to a head.

Chronic poverty has now torn through any remnants of sanity and hope that our people had and collectively we cannot continue to normalize the abnormal, the time for citizen agency has now risen and the people have spoken not in tongues but in definitive and clear terms.

Zimbabwe is now at the top of the list in the world but for the wrong reasons, the year on year inflation is now at 484% for the month of August, the prices of basic commodities have risen steeply, service delivery is now crippled and the situation has now been compounded with opening of schools nationwide that has seen teachers being sent back to the modern day slavery they call jobs, students being sent to schools that now resemble refugee camps and parents back to squeezing out abnormal tuition from the little or no resources.

Zimbabwe is now burning and the ones who are supposed to be the drivers are ignorantly declaring no crisis and have adopted the ostrich mentality of burying their hands in the sand hoping the crisis will magically disappear.

Starting on Monday 12 September 2022, Communities In Action Platform will be engaging the government through mass protests on the state of the economy, these protests are an act of defiance and a direct confrontational call against this “see no evil, hear no evil and do nothing about it,” approach from the government of Zimbabwe.

The nation has a gallivanting President, an incompetent finance minister, an ignorant health minister and a kakistocratic government that fail to reconcile reasoning to reality.

CAP calls upon the citizens of Zimbabwe to rise up and stand their ground against the tyranny and chronic suffering they are being subjected to, ours is no longer a nation of productivity and hope but one of despair and chronic poverty whose results we see every single day in our homes, our community and our jobs.

The focus should not be on baton sticks for the pain that we experience from that, it is nothing compared to the pain of sleeping on an empty stomach, the focus should not be on jail cells but should be on the discomfort of losing your loved ones to treatable diseases just because our medical facilities have no medicines and because doctors and nurses are on strike.

The fear that strikes every individual when they hear of protests should be nothing compared to the fear that goes through us when we face the everyday certain of going to a home with no food and hungry children.

The hope and fight for a better Zimbabwe begins with us, those in power are not deaf but they just require us to speak more loudly, clearer and directly to them and in unity we can achieve more, stand your ground and demand your life back, if asking is not working then demand.

Communities in Action Platform ( CAP)

In Mbare we lay to Rest Mbuya Mazani
a strong member of the prodemocracy movement.

One of the stalwarts of the democratic struggle who stood in principles and unshaken during the tough times of the struggle.

Many people dither and oscillate when it’s get tougher.

They prefer easy route, fall for the trinkets and trappings of the enemy in Harare.

Thank you mbuya Idah for this great sacrifice.

Rest in power…CCC

Tinashe Sambiri|Controversial former Zanu PF MP for Chivi South Constituency, Killer Zivhu, has declared that MDC leader, Mr Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora is an admirer of Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s party.

Zivhu also tore into NCA leader, Professor Lovemore Madhuku, for accusing CCC of causing Job Sikhala’s incarceration.

“Prof Madhuku vanoda kuti CCC ikumbire bail ra Job Sikhala from a political Party, zvakafanana nekukumbira hembe dzako kumunhu wakumbira, his first condition ndoyokuti don’t report me to police, Advocate Mtetwa is a senior lawyer moti vakatadza here kukumbira from Prosecutors.

Munhu wose wakakurira mu Zanu anoda Zanu, chero akapengereka unodzoka mu Zanu chete, honai Obert Gutu, Chebundo, Bhasikiti, Mwonzora, Madhuku, Rinda, Matutu, nevamwe vakawanda vari munzira…,” said Zivhu.

COURT DIARY: Our Champions Hon @JoanaMamombe & @ceechimbiri2 will appear before the Harare Magistrates’ Court for trial ruling tomorrow. They were abducted & sexually abused yet they are facing trumped up charges of communicating falsehoods. Let’s attend in solidarity.
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Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa’s CCC party has clashed with Professor Lovemore Madhuku over the latter’s remarks on Hon Job Sikhala’s incarceration.

Madhuku accused CCC of arrogance and the party responded by describing the NCA leader as a “dull professor.”

Below is CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba response to Professor Madhuku’s remarks:

In which constitutional democracy is bail negotiated between prosecutors & a political party?

Which constitutional democracy makes the grant of bail dependent on one’s political affiliation? Where would that leave the right to equal protection of the law? Stop gaslighting.

I suppose that Prof Madhuku in this instance, had either smoked or imbibed something very detrimental to his otherwise fine legal brains!

Surrey Storm is delighted to announce the re-signing of Zimbabwe Captain Felisitus Kwangwa and Storm GK Leah Middleton for the 2023 Superleague season!

Both Kwangwa and Middleton return in the duck egg blue and were quite the defensive combo last season.

After finishing strong towards the end of 2021, Kwangwa returned home to play in the African Championships and Pent series. Upon arrival ahead of the 2022 Superleague Kwangwa made it clear she was ready to take a starting role in the squad.

After missing Kwangwa for the opening games due to visa registrations, Head Coach Austin quickly identified the success of Middleton and Kwangwa controlling the circle on defence which led to shifting Middleton to GK and Felisitus to GD for the rest of the season.

Middleton, one of Storms most consistent players last season made an appearance in every game. The Goalkeeper racked up 82 deflections, 81 turnovers and 26 interceptions across the season.

Looking forward to being back at Sports Park: “I’m super excited to be back at Storm this season. Last season it was so rewarding to see our improvement within the group and I’m very keen to see how much more we can push as a franchise. Having the storm fans back in the building was immense, we definitely felt the love and for me personally I believe they play a massive part in our growth!”

Fan favourite and most improved winner Kwangwa commented: I’m grateful to be part of Storm family this coming season. The goal is always to be crowned the champions of 2023 season and that is what we will strive for.”

Head Coach Mikki Austin pleased with the defensive unit returning commented: We are excited to Welcome Leah middleton back to Surrey Storm for the third year. Leah gives us the presence within the defensive circle required within the VNSL Leah ended 2022 sitting 3^rd in the VNSL for deflections. We look forward to continuing to work with Leah on her defensive game in 2023.

Felisitus worked tirelessly on her game throughout the season and reaped the rewards in court time. She is a relentless tracker with the ability to win ball when it counts, and I truly believe will continue to thrive into next season. We look forward to seeing what Felisitus can achieve.

Former Zanu PF legislators Killer Zivhu and Temba Mliswa have dismissed the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Professor Lovemore Madhuku’s remarks that incarcerated CCC duo of Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole as well as 16 other party members will only be released through dialogue.

Madhuku ruffled feathers when he appeared in a video saying CCC was to blame for the continued incarceration of Sikhala and others as they refusal to join the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) made it difficult for them to negotiate with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

But Zivhu and Mliswa disagreed with him saying CCC must never negotiate for their release when the constitution is clear on the need for judicial independence.

“Prof Madhuku vanoda kuti CCC ikumbire bail ra Job Sikhala from a political Party, zvakafanana nekukumbira hembe dzako kumunhu wakumbira, his first condition ndoyokuti don’t report me to police, Advocate Mtetwa is a senior lawyer moti vakatadza here kukumbira from Prosecutors,” said Zivhu.

Mliswa also said negotiating with Mnangagwa to release Sikhala will be a strategic mistake.

“Prof Madhuku’s advice for a negotiated release for @JobSikhala1 has a faulty spine. It seeks to give credibility and respectability to a vengeful system. This is sheer persecution of a politician and united voices should speak out against that!

“The law is the law and should be applied fairly. In this case it’s not because there are hands behind the scenes pulling strings. However, negotiating with them is a strategic mistake that gives them standing for increased abuse,” said Mliswa.

The 20-year-old Zimbabwean player Bill Antonio signed a two year contract with an option for another 2 years at Belgium’s KV Mechelen with the club announcing that he will play in their under 23.

“Bill is a fast right wing with an action in the feet,” says sporting director Tom Caluwé. “To integrate, he will play with our U23 at the beginning.”

Antonio comes over from the PE Academy in Harare and played his matches at Dynamos FC Harare. He also made his debut for the national team last year.

Former Vice President, Kembo Mohadi has continued his demonising non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in the country accusing them of agitating regime change.

Mohadi said the NGOs, with help from rogue traditional leaders, were plotting to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration, and replacing it with “puppets of the West”.

Addressing traditional chiefs and headmen during a Kwekwe District Coordinating Committees (DCC) meeting last week, Mohadi claimed he was aware of the shenanigans by wayward chiefs and headmen.

“I have been reliably informed that there are some traditional leaders in here who are receiving US$100 and airtime from the NGOs.

“We know that non-governmental organisations will come to you with freebies and their little US dollars to bribe you against President (Emmerson) Mnangagwa. We do not expect traditional leaders to be sell-outs,” he said.

Kembo Mohadi with Zanu-PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa

“During the liberation struggle, did you know about NGOs? Were they present during the war? Was there no hunger at that time? So, why are they coming up now? We now have 3,000 NGOs in Zimbabwe, what is their job?”

“They come to you and give you mealie meal, cooking oil and freebies. After donating goodies to you they will ask what your government is doing concerning the situation. … they work on your brain to capture you,” Mohadi said.

In a bid to thwart the alleged plot against Zanu-PF, the former State VP, announced new perks for traditional leaders, who are set to receive a US$50 stipend, in addition to doubling of their monthly local currency-denominated allowances.

“We are going to double your allowances with an additional US$50 incentive for each and every one of you.”

Mohadi ordered party DCCs to work with chiefs and headmen in formulating proper grassroots structures of the former revolutionary party, which is engulfed by deep-seated factionalism.

As the party heads towards its October elective congress, the presidium of which Mohadi is a part, has attempted to downplay divisions at the top, urging party supporters and officials to unite ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections.

Mohadi has been moving around the country meeting traditional leaders and the main opposition party feels it is one of the new regime’s tactics to intimidate them into voting Zanu-PF.

-NewZimbabwe

Senior Zanu PF officials in the Midlands province are reportedly baying for Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena’s blood and are seeking his expulsion from the ruling party for his alleged involvement in the US$5,8 million fraud and money-laundering cases.

NewsDay, however, understands that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is allegedly protecting his long-time ally, saying the party can only expel Wadyajena after the court has concluded the case.

Wadyajena and three Cotton Company of Zimbabwe officials, currently on $100 000 bail each, were dragged to court to answer to charges of fraud and money laundering involving over US$5 million.

The case has reportedly prompted spirited efforts by senior Zanu PF officials in Mnangagwa’s Midlands home province to expel Wadyajena from the party for bringing the ruling party’s name into disrepute.

Sources in the party told NewsDay that veteran party officials July Moyo, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and Mike Bimha approached Midlands provincial chairperson Larry Mavima asking him to write a letter expelling Wadyajena from the ruling party.

“The trio were unequivocal about their demands. They cited Priscah Mupfumira, who was fired in Mashonaland West for the same allegations,” the source said.

Former Tourism minister Mupfumira was expelled from the party after spending 21 days in remand prison after being arrested over corruption charges.

After incessant pressure from senior leaders, it is alleged Mavima consulted a senior politburo member in the province, Jorum Gumbo, who advised him to seek clearance from Mnangagwa.

“If they want to leave the party, they can. Wadyajena is not going anywhere. How do you expel someone based on allegations? We will only act after court processes if there is a conviction and an appeal is lodged and he loses,” Mnangagwa is said to have told Mavima.

Mnangagwa’s stance, largely seen to be an act of protecting Wadyajena, is said to have irked the senior party members, who have been accused of recently fighting to ensure the Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator falls out with their party leader.

The move also comes amid growing divisions in the party ahead of the 2023 elections as members jostle for positions and influence, often pitting Mnangagwa against other senior members.

Highly-placed sources said Wadyajena had stopped enjoying “unrestricted” access to Mnangagwa for a while before his arrest.

When contacted for comment, Mavhima professed ignorance over the issue.

“I am sick and tired of people who want to cause divisions in the party. There are some people who do not want unity in the party. They just want verbal exchanges serving their own interest. We are not going to be fighting, we are all united behind President Emmerson Mnangagwa,” he said.

Zanu PF political commissar Mike Bimha refuted the claims that he approached Mavima.

“Zanu PF is an organised party and it follows due processes. I cannot just pick up the phone and instruct a senior member like Mavima to expel someone. If there are issues, a disciplinary hearing will be conducted,” he said.

Contacted for comment, Gumbo said: “I met Mavima during the weekend at a party meeting in the Midlands. I did not speak to him about that issue and none of the people you mentioned spoke to me about that issue. I want to emphasise that I did not meet Mavima privately during or after the meeting in Midlands.”

Efforts to get a comment from Moyo and Mumbengegwi were fruitless as their phones were not being answered.

Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba could also not be reached for comment.

The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) has released the school calendar for 2023 noting that the first term opens on Monday the 9th of January ending on 30 March.

The ministry also noted that school opening days have shifted from Tuesdays to Mondays.

The Second Term is scheduled to open on the 8th of May ending on 3 August while the Third Term begins on 4 September ending on the 1st of December.- Pindula News

A rhumba dancer for Mxolisi “Mr Bones” Ndlovu and Garamtata’s Finest was stabbed to death by his girlfriend during a fight last night.

Mr Bones confirmed the death of Mthabisi “Mavikintuthu” Sibanda from Skente village in Tsholotsho saying he was heartbroken.

“They’d been having challenges with his girlfriend and I sat him down and spoke to him so I thought all was well. The latest fight which I understand was very bad was over a phone and it, unfortunately, ended with Mavikintuthu being stabbed to death.

This has happened at a very bad time as we’re preparing to launch our eighth album on 4 October. Mavikintuthu was a very disciplined someone and he’s been with me through thick and thin. Losing him in this manner is heartbreaking. I’m at a loss of what to say or do at the moment.”

Sibanda’s death follows the death of Sadam Ncube who was a dancer for Rhumba artist Mandlenkosi Godolude Mpofu.

Ncube was burnt beyond recognition in South Africa with two other Zimbabweans over allegations of robbing and killing a shop owner.- Chronicle

A rhumba dancer for Mxolisi “Mr Bones” Ndlovu and Garamtata’s Finest was stabbed to death by his girlfriend during a fight last night.

Mr Bones confirmed the death of Mthabisi “Mavikintuthu” Sibanda from Skente village in Tsholotsho saying he was heartbroken.

“They’d been having challenges with his girlfriend and I sat him down and spoke to him so I thought all was well. The latest fight which I understand was very bad was over a phone and it, unfortunately, ended with Mavikintuthu being stabbed to death.

This has happened at a very bad time as we’re preparing to launch our eighth album on 4 October. Mavikintuthu was a very disciplined someone and he’s been with me through thick and thin. Losing him in this manner is heartbreaking. I’m at a loss of what to say or do at the moment.”

Sibanda’s death follows the death of Sadam Ncube who was a dancer for Rhumba artist Mandlenkosi Godolude Mpofu.

Ncube was burnt beyond recognition in South Africa with two other Zimbabweans over allegations of robbing and killing a shop owner.- Chronicle

The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) has released the school calendar for 2023 noting that the first term opens on Monday the 9th of January ending on 30 March.

The ministry also noted that school opening days have shifted from Tuesdays to Mondays.

The Second Term is scheduled to open on the 8th of May ending on 3 August while the Third Term begins on 4 September ending on the 1st of December.- Pindula News

The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) is owed millions of dollars by over 100 000 motorists who are in road license arrears, Zinara Public Relations and Marketing Manager Tendai Mugabe has said.

Mugabe said this during an exclusive interview with The Mirror at the Zimbabwe Agriculture Show (ZAS) in Harare today.

However, Zinara is conducting a promotion at the Agricultural Show and all its stations countrywide where motorists in default are allowed to pay the arrears without paying penalties.

The promotions started on Monday and they are ending tomorrow, Saturday 3 September, 2022.

Mugabe warned motorists that all vehicles with arrears will not be allowed to pass through tollgates after the expiry of the promotion.

He urged motorists to take advantage of the promotion to regularise their vehicle licenses. – Masvingo Mirror

Tinashe Sambiri| CCC leader, President Nelson Chamisa has accused the Zanu PF regime of abandoning the core values of the liberation struggle.

President Chamisa, quoted by a South African radio station, urged the ANC government to assist Zimbabweans in the neighbouring country.

Said President Chamisa :
“It’s not by choice that Zimbabweans have to be exposed to such indignity. We are not bad people as Zimbabweans. We are not criminals. It is because of political circumstances.

We are good neighbours, when we are in problems we should help each other. We are not trying to ask for something that is impossible.

Zimbabwean problems are going to be solved by Zimbabweans. We do not expect a Messiah from outside, anywhere to come and help us. There has been a very impossible situation where our neighbours have chosen to listen to Zanu PF’s voice more than the voice of the oppressed.

Zanu PF has become a crocodile liberator. They have abandoned all the ideals of the liberation struggle.

They are now oppressors. They have become a black apartheid against their people.”

Tinashe Sambiri|The Citizens’ Coalition for Change has slammed Professor Lovemore Madhuku for attempting to romanticize the people’s struggle.

In a statement, CCC Namibia described Professor Madhuku as a man of shallow thinking.

This follows Professor Madhuku’s assertion that Hon Job Sikhala’s incarceration is a result of his party’s arrogance.

Read CCC Namibia statement:

Do we need political negotiations to get bail?

CCC Namibia interrogates captured Madhuku Lovemore.

07 September 2022

Citizens who subscribe to the yellow train in Namibia are infuriated at the shallow and myopic thinking of the whole professor Lovemore Madhuku, the NCA president. It is quite disturbing that an objective officer of the law could advocate for political negotiations between ZANU-PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change(CCC) so that the incarcerated Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, Godfrey Sithole and the Nyatsime 14 can be released from jail. His perception does not conform to his status as a leader of a genuine opposition party committed to fighting judiciary capture and the selective application of the law.

Madhuku said that the perpetual incarceration of Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala and other political prisoners is a product of his party’s arrogance. He postulated that if CCC was part of Polad, Sikhala and others could have gotten bail a long time ago because of negotiations. Shockingly, a lawyer now believes in negotiating and begging freedom instead of pushing ZANU-PF to respect the rule of law and constitutionalism. Bail is a right enshrined in the supreme law of the country. Sikhala, Godfrey and the Nyatsime 14 deserve bail just like Wadyajena, Prisca Mupfumira, Obadiah Moyo, and many ZANU-PF looters who are walking scot-free after stealing the national cake.

It is quite pathetic that those who should stand firm in defending fundamental human freedoms are the ones instigating law fare and interference with the judiciary by the politically inept ZANU-PF. Instead of blaming the system, defiant Madhuku chose to blame the victims of state repression, this is satanic and stupid. Citizens in Namibia would like to make it categorically clear that the change champions shall never sell the struggle for three pieces of silver. Social Democrats believe that justice and equality before the law is a prerequisite in a purported constitutional democracy.

His nasty comments came when the Sikhala family received touching and saddening news that our champion, Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, was vomiting, struggling to walk, and was having diarrhoea. It was alleged that some people entered his cell at Chikurubi Maximum Prison during his absence and this is a case of suspected food poisoning. Madhuku, as a lawyer, must uphold the provisions of the constitution not to aid ZANU-PF satanists to abuse the law, especially against the genuine voices confronting state-sponsored abductions and high levels of human butchery.

It has become clear that Madhuku is a ZANU-PF puppet masquerading as a change seeker. Citizens in Namibia are now convinced that this moron was surely bought to defend the devil. We anticipated that Madhuku was going to sympathize with the victims of this selective application of the law but he chose to side with the oppressor. It is now a public secret that he sacrificed the struggle for a single twin cab he had received from Polad. Madhuku and NCA must be called to order. Selling the people’s struggle because of one car given to him is not only pathetic but sadist as well.

Let’s all register to vote against these shenanigans, belly politicians like this wayward Madhuku will only surrender our beautiful nation to the dogs. We should target 6 million voters for change in 2023.

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One passenger died while several others were injured when a Joma bus they were travelling in developed an engine failure while negotiating the treacherous Boterekwa escarpment in Shurugwi and rolled back before landing on its left side just before midday today.

When The Herald arrived at the scene, the injured had been rushed to Gweru District hospital while a recovery company was trying to remove the bus which was blocking part of the road.

The Joma bus driver who was still at the scene said he had 33 passengers on board.

A recovery company tries to remove the bus that was blocking part of the road.

He said as he was negotiating the steep ascent, the bus developed a fault and started rolling back.

“The passengers started screaming and there was confusion all over, but I managed to avoid plunging into the steep gorge,” he said.

Police who were at the scene said a female passenger was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital while the majority of the passengers were treated and discharged.- The Herald

A 33-year-old man from Gutu, Masvingo has been jailed for seven years for breaking into two houses where he stole an assortment of goods that included an AK-47 rifle belonging to a member of the President’s Office.

Obey Mhuru was arrested last year when he was hit by a car while attempting to rob a motorist using the stolen rifle in the Vhembe View suburb.

Although he pleaded not guilty to three charges of unlawful entry and one of attempted robbery when he appeared before Beitbridge Regional Magistrate, Mr Innocent Bepura, he was convicted on the strength of the State evidence.

What Happened:
Ronald Mugwagwa who was representing the state said on September 7 last year, at around 5 pm, Mhuru stole a Samsung J7 smartphone, Cash R1000, and US$70 after breaking into a cottage in Benne Knot Street. Occupants were not around.

The following day at around 5 pm, Mhuru raided a house belonging to the President’s Department where the occupants were away. He stole an AK47 rifle (shot butt) and a magazine with 30 rounds.

Both offences were discovered on September 9 and were reported to the police.

Mhuru was arrested early in October last year, at another house in Hill-Clause in the same suburb after being hit by a car as he attempted to attack one of the occupants using the stolen AK47 rifle.

The rifle was subsequently recovered, loaded with 19 rounds and the accused opened up to investigators during interrogations that he had stolen the firearm from a house at Benne Knot Street.- Pindula News

Tinashe Sambiri|The Citizens’ Coalition for Change has slammed Professor Lovemore Madhuku for attempting to romanticize the people’s struggle.

In a statement, CCC Namibia described Professor Madhuku as a man of shallow thinking.

This follows Professor Madhuku’s assertion that Hon Job Sikhala’s incarceration is a result of his party’s arrogance.

Read CCC Namibia statement:

Do we need political negotiations to get bail?

CCC Namibia interrogates captured Madhuku Lovemore.

07 September 2022

Citizens who subscribe to the yellow train in Namibia are infuriated at the shallow and myopic thinking of the whole professor Lovemore Madhuku, the NCA president. It is quite disturbing that an objective officer of the law could advocate for political negotiations between ZANU-PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change(CCC) so that the incarcerated Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, Godfrey Sithole and the Nyatsime 14 can be released from jail. His perception does not conform to his status as a leader of a genuine opposition party committed to fighting judiciary capture and the selective application of the law.

Madhuku said that the perpetual incarceration of Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala and other political prisoners is a product of his party’s arrogance. He postulated that if CCC was part of Polad, Sikhala and others could have gotten bail a long time ago because of negotiations. Shockingly, a lawyer now believes in negotiating and begging freedom instead of pushing ZANU-PF to respect the rule of law and constitutionalism. Bail is a right enshrined in the supreme law of the country. Sikhala, Godfrey and the Nyatsime 14 deserve bail just like Wadyajena, Prisca Mupfumira, Obadiah Moyo, and many ZANU-PF looters who are walking scot-free after stealing the national cake.

It is quite pathetic that those who should stand firm in defending fundamental human freedoms are the ones instigating law fare and interference with the judiciary by the politically inept ZANU-PF. Instead of blaming the system, defiant Madhuku chose to blame the victims of state repression, this is satanic and stupid. Citizens in Namibia would like to make it categorically clear that the change champions shall never sell the struggle for three pieces of silver. Social Democrats believe that justice and equality before the law is a prerequisite in a purported constitutional democracy.

His nasty comments came when the Sikhala family received touching and saddening news that our champion, Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, was vomiting, struggling to walk, and was having diarrhoea. It was alleged that some people entered his cell at Chikurubi Maximum Prison during his absence and this is a case of suspected food poisoning. Madhuku, as a lawyer, must uphold the provisions of the constitution not to aid ZANU-PF satanists to abuse the law, especially against the genuine voices confronting state-sponsored abductions and high levels of human butchery.

It has become clear that Madhuku is a ZANU-PF puppet masquerading as a change seeker. Citizens in Namibia are now convinced that this moron was surely bought to defend the devil. We anticipated that Madhuku was going to sympathize with the victims of this selective application of the law but he chose to side with the oppressor. It is now a public secret that he sacrificed the struggle for a single twin cab he had received from Polad. Madhuku and NCA must be called to order. Selling the people’s struggle because of one car given to him is not only pathetic but sadist as well.

Let’s all register to vote against these shenanigans, belly politicians like this wayward Madhuku will only surrender our beautiful nation to the dogs. We should target 6 million voters for change in 2023.

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AllShallBeWell.

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Rundu Branch Interim Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya

Tinashe Sambiri|The Citizens’ Coalition for Change has slammed Professor Lovemore Madhuku for attempting to romanticize the people’s struggle.

In a statement, CCC Namibia described Professor Madhuku as a man of shallow thinking.

This follows Professor Madhuku’s assertion that Hon Job Sikhala’s incarceration is a result of his party’s arrogance.

Read CCC Namibia statement:

Do we need political negotiations to get bail?

CCC Namibia interrogates captured Madhuku Lovemore.

07 September 2022

Citizens who subscribe to the yellow train in Namibia are infuriated at the shallow and myopic thinking of the whole professor Lovemore Madhuku, the NCA president. It is quite disturbing that an objective officer of the law could advocate for political negotiations between ZANU-PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change(CCC) so that the incarcerated Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, Godfrey Sithole and the Nyatsime 14 can be released from jail. His perception does not conform to his status as a leader of a genuine opposition party committed to fighting judiciary capture and the selective application of the law.

Madhuku said that the perpetual incarceration of Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala and other political prisoners is a product of his party’s arrogance. He postulated that if CCC was part of Polad, Sikhala and others could have gotten bail a long time ago because of negotiations. Shockingly, a lawyer now believes in negotiating and begging freedom instead of pushing ZANU-PF to respect the rule of law and constitutionalism. Bail is a right enshrined in the supreme law of the country. Sikhala, Godfrey and the Nyatsime 14 deserve bail just like Wadyajena, Prisca Mupfumira, Obadiah Moyo, and many ZANU-PF looters who are walking scot-free after stealing the national cake.

It is quite pathetic that those who should stand firm in defending fundamental human freedoms are the ones instigating law fare and interference with the judiciary by the politically inept ZANU-PF. Instead of blaming the system, defiant Madhuku chose to blame the victims of state repression, this is satanic and stupid. Citizens in Namibia would like to make it categorically clear that the change champions shall never sell the struggle for three pieces of silver. Social Democrats believe that justice and equality before the law is a prerequisite in a purported constitutional democracy.

His nasty comments came when the Sikhala family received touching and saddening news that our champion, Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, was vomiting, struggling to walk, and was having diarrhoea. It was alleged that some people entered his cell at Chikurubi Maximum Prison during his absence and this is a case of suspected food poisoning. Madhuku, as a lawyer, must uphold the provisions of the constitution not to aid ZANU-PF satanists to abuse the law, especially against the genuine voices confronting state-sponsored abductions and high levels of human butchery.

It has become clear that Madhuku is a ZANU-PF puppet masquerading as a change seeker. Citizens in Namibia are now convinced that this moron was surely bought to defend the devil. We anticipated that Madhuku was going to sympathize with the victims of this selective application of the law but he chose to side with the oppressor. It is now a public secret that he sacrificed the struggle for a single twin cab he had received from Polad. Madhuku and NCA must be called to order. Selling the people’s struggle because of one car given to him is not only pathetic but sadist as well.

Let’s all register to vote against these shenanigans, belly politicians like this wayward Madhuku will only surrender our beautiful nation to the dogs. We should target 6 million voters for change in 2023.

FreeJobSaroWiwaSikhala

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AllShallBeWell.

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Rundu Branch Interim Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya

One passenger died while several others were injured when a Joma bus they were travelling in developed an engine failure while negotiating the treacherous Boterekwa escarpment in Shurugwi and rolled back before landing on its left side just before midday today.

When The Herald arrived at the scene, the injured had been rushed to Gweru District hospital while a recovery company was trying to remove the bus which was blocking part of the road.

The Joma bus driver who was still at the scene said he had 33 passengers on board.

A recovery company tries to remove the bus that was blocking part of the road.

He said as he was negotiating the steep ascent, the bus developed a fault and started rolling back.

“The passengers started screaming and there was confusion all over, but I managed to avoid plunging into the steep gorge,” he said.

Police who were at the scene said a female passenger was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital while the majority of the passengers were treated and discharged.- The Herald

Tinashe Sambiri|The Citizens’ Coalition for Change has slammed Professor Lovemore Madhuku for attempting to romanticize the people’s struggle.

In a statement, CCC Namibia described Professor Madhuku as a man of shallow thinking.

This follows Professor Madhuku’s assertion that Hon Job Sikhala’s incarceration is a result of his party’s arrogance.

Read CCC Namibia statement:

Do we need political negotiations to get bail?

CCC Namibia interrogates captured Madhuku Lovemore.

07 September 2022

Citizens who subscribe to the yellow train in Namibia are infuriated at the shallow and myopic thinking of the whole professor Lovemore Madhuku, the NCA president. It is quite disturbing that an objective officer of the law could advocate for political negotiations between ZANU-PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change(CCC) so that the incarcerated Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, Godfrey Sithole and the Nyatsime 14 can be released from jail. His perception does not conform to his status as a leader of a genuine opposition party committed to fighting judiciary capture and the selective application of the law.

Madhuku said that the perpetual incarceration of Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala and other political prisoners is a product of his party’s arrogance. He postulated that if CCC was part of Polad, Sikhala and others could have gotten bail a long time ago because of negotiations. Shockingly, a lawyer now believes in negotiating and begging freedom instead of pushing ZANU-PF to respect the rule of law and constitutionalism. Bail is a right enshrined in the supreme law of the country. Sikhala, Godfrey and the Nyatsime 14 deserve bail just like Wadyajena, Prisca Mupfumira, Obadiah Moyo, and many ZANU-PF looters who are walking scot-free after stealing the national cake.

It is quite pathetic that those who should stand firm in defending fundamental human freedoms are the ones instigating law fare and interference with the judiciary by the politically inept ZANU-PF. Instead of blaming the system, defiant Madhuku chose to blame the victims of state repression, this is satanic and stupid. Citizens in Namibia would like to make it categorically clear that the change champions shall never sell the struggle for three pieces of silver. Social Democrats believe that justice and equality before the law is a prerequisite in a purported constitutional democracy.

His nasty comments came when the Sikhala family received touching and saddening news that our champion, Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, was vomiting, struggling to walk, and was having diarrhoea. It was alleged that some people entered his cell at Chikurubi Maximum Prison during his absence and this is a case of suspected food poisoning. Madhuku, as a lawyer, must uphold the provisions of the constitution not to aid ZANU-PF satanists to abuse the law, especially against the genuine voices confronting state-sponsored abductions and high levels of human butchery.

It has become clear that Madhuku is a ZANU-PF puppet masquerading as a change seeker. Citizens in Namibia are now convinced that this moron was surely bought to defend the devil. We anticipated that Madhuku was going to sympathize with the victims of this selective application of the law but he chose to side with the oppressor. It is now a public secret that he sacrificed the struggle for a single twin cab he had received from Polad. Madhuku and NCA must be called to order. Selling the people’s struggle because of one car given to him is not only pathetic but sadist as well.

Let’s all register to vote against these shenanigans, belly politicians like this wayward Madhuku will only surrender our beautiful nation to the dogs. We should target 6 million voters for change in 2023.

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AllShallBeWell.

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Rundu Branch Interim Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya

Tinashe Sambiri| A member of the British House of Lords has blasted Mr Tony Blair for embracing the Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Mr Mnangagwa is accused of violating human rights in Zimbabwe.

Kate Hoey, a Member of British House of Lords, feels Mr Blair’s association with Mr Mnangagwa is a mockery of fundamental democratic tenets.

“What on earth was Tony Blair doing being so close up and personal with the human rights abuser @edmnangagwa Zimbabwean people need help to ensure free and fair election next year not support for a neo dictator…,” Hoey fumed.

Self-appointed illegal immigrant watchdog Operation Dudula says it is heading to the apex court to interdict the Home Affairs minister’s extension of Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP).

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

“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 SA, [they] would have taken advantage of the opportunity presented by the Department of Home Affairs.”

Home Affairs recently extended ZEP for another six months, from December 31 to June 30, 2023.

“Failure to make representations could mean the current permit holders don’t have valid legal grounds to advance or consciously elected to ignore legalising their stay in SA,” said Dabula.

Dabula said contravention of the Immigration Act was a criminal offence and should not be reasoned otherwise.

“The Minister of Home Affairs Dr Aaron Motsoaledi’s behaviour is consistent with that of Dr Joe Phaahla, who instead of instructing hospitals to report an illegality taking place at public hospitals elects to tell South Africans he is contemplating making lawbreakers pay for medical services,” Dabula said.

ActionSA said it was also concerned about the ZEP decision.

“South Africa has been under the grip of crime, economic squeeze and a seemingly unending plethora of social ills, allegedly due to the influx of migrants and mostly undocumented and illegal immigrants,” the party said.

“It is not long ago that violence flared in Kagiso, west of Johannesburg, when residents took the law into their own hands after the rape of local women by illegal zama-zamas, known to be illegal Basotho hiding in the myriad tunnels in the old West Rand mines.

“The extension of the Zimbabwean special permit to June 2023 is, therefore, a mockery of our constitutional democracy and further chips away at the autonomy of our State and its function, especially on managing our borders.”

However, the organisation that hauled the Department of Home Affairs to court over the permits says the six-month extension was not enough.

Luke Dzviti of the Zimbabwean Immigration Federation (ZIF) said while they were relieved, it was not a solution.

“The same problems we have now in reviewing the visas are the same problems we will have by 30 June. The conditions have not changed,” he added.

One reason for the extension was that the department had received few applications by Zimbabwean nationals for ordinary visas so far.

Last month, News24 reported that the department made submissions in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria that only 6 000 of the 178 000 permit holders had made representations on why the department should not terminate their permits.

The ZIF is one of the organisations that took the department to court over the ZEP issue.

It wants the government to be interdicted from arresting or deporting ZEP holders once their permits expire.

In the second part of its application, the ZIF wants the department to review the decision not to extend the ZEP.

The organisation also wants the department to restart the review process for permits and, in the meantime, allow ZEP holders to remain in the country.

Dzviti said they were not backing down on their court action, adding that even with the extension, the department still had “hostile” conditions for renewal.

He argued that in six months, conditions in Zimbabwe would not have changed.

“People have no homes in Zimbabwe. They built their lives here.”

The extension was welcomed by the Federated Hospitality Association of Southern Africa.

The organisation’s Rosemary Anderson said: “Requiring of ZEPs to leave South Africa would not only have negative consequences for the hospitality and tourism industry but would cause trauma and pain to people whose only sin was to legally look for a better life for themselves and their families.”

She added that the unemployment problems in South Africa would not improve even if ZEP holders left the country.

“For tourism and hospitality to deliver on its economic promise, we require an approach where all government departments, business, and labour join forces to remove unnecessary red tape, provide a tourism-friendly environment and elevate our destination status to the level it should be.”

-Newsday