By James Gwati- Limpopo Health provincial minister Dr Phophi Ramathuba has repeated her attacks on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

In a fresh video, Dr Ramathuba, said Mnangagwa was just seated in Zimbabwe while the country’s health delivery system was dilapidating.

She said South Africa would treat Zimbabweans visiting their hospitals and send the bills to Mnangagwa.

Dr Ramathuba last week told a Zimbabwean patient waiting for surgery at a health institution in Limpopo that Zimbabweans were straining South Africa’s health systems.

She also said that Harare was not giving her a budget for its citizens’ health care in South Africa.

Dr Ramathuba said this in front of patients and several health workers to the embarrassment of the ailing Zimbabwean on a death bed.

The campaigner and news supplier Hopewell Chin’ono yesterday fled a journalists’ WhatsApp group after being exposed for lying and on top of that endangering the Newsday Editor, Wisdom Mdzungairi through unsubstantiated allegations of confessing to knowing about brown envelope taking.

Chin’ono last week also indicated that journalists who do not do rolling reporting in the Justice Wadyajena case hearings have been bribed.

It is an offence to report inside Zimbabwe’s courts.

For over a month, Chin’ono has been evading questions over his allegations against particularly Mr Mdzungairi.

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By James Gwati- Zambia has announced the reduction of fuel prices with immediate effect.

The reduction in fuel prices comes from economic stability attributed to several measures the new government is implementing.

These measures have also made the Zambian Kwacha, once the worst in recent years, the world’s second-performing currency.

The Zambian economy has improved dramatically barely a year after the opposition United Party for National Development president, Hakainde Hichilema, beat Edgar Lungu of Zambia’s founding party, the Patriotic Front.

Zambia’s ruling party spokesperson, Joseph Kalimbwe, said he was happy to see his government reducing fuel prices.

He posted on Twitter:

Due to the growing strength of the Zambian Kwacha against the USD, the prices of fuel ( petrol, diesel & kerosene ) will starting at midnight today be reduced across all Zambian service & filling stations. Again friends, thanks for trusting our party to lead the country !!!

By James Gwati- Zanu PF activists in Watsomba, Thursday disrupted a parliamentary public hearing meeting targeting the local CCC legislator, Trevor Saruwaka.

Sources who attended the meeting said that the Mutasa Central MP escaped unhurt.

The thugs, he said, started singing and sloganeering in the middle of the meeting, causing the halt of the proceedings.

” They came targeting the local Mutasa Central member of Parliament, Hon.Trevor Saruwaka and other several participants. What is worrisome is that the police did not restrain these violent youths,” said the sources.

Yesterday a similar incident happened in Bulawayo, where known Zanu PF thugs disrupted a parliament meeting with the same plan.

This also happened in the eyes of the police, but no one was arrested.

By James Gwati- The Zambian Kwacha, one of the worst in recent years, has stabilized to become the second-performing currency in the world.

This happened only a year after Haikainde Hachilema was voted into office, taking over from Edgar Lungu.

Zambian President Hichilema announced Wednesday, saying they have managed to tame inflation.

He posted on Twitter:

The inflation rate is under control. The Zambian Kwacha has stabilized and is getting stronger against major foreign currencies. Zambia is rising and ultimately the cost of living will be fixed.

Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party to stop using violence to influence votes.

The CCC leader denounced the brutal killing of political opponents by the Zanu PF regime.

“DEAR POLITICIANS; Killing or injuring another is a serious crime not in just per laws of the land but before God.

Violence is a sin before God. God will ask you to account.

Stop using political violence,coercion,terrorism & destroying property for votes.

Stones, machetes, axes and guns in politics is so barbaric,” said President Chamisa.

On Tuesday President spent hours with Zengeza West MP Hon Job Sikhala at the latter’s bail application hearing.

According to President Chamisa, Hon Sikhala has been failed by the judiciary.

Writing on his micro blogging portal, President Chamisa said: “I’ve just been here at the Magistrates Court since 2pm for the #FreeWiwa bail ruling. Bail denied again. This is pure abuse & weaponizing of the law. The #Nyatsime16 detention is oppressive and despotic. The Zimbabwean supreme law makes bail a constitutional right.”

By James Gwati- The Zambian Kwacha, one of the worst in recent years, has stabilized to become the second-performing currency in the world.

This happened only a year after Zambia’s opposition United Party for National Development leader, Hakainde Hichilema, defeated Edgar Lungu of the revolutionary Patriotic Front party and became President.

The celebrated Zambian President Hichilema announced Wednesday, that they had managed to tame inflation.

He posted on Twitter:

The inflation rate is under control. The Zambian Kwacha has stabilized and is getting stronger against major foreign currencies. Zambia is rising and ultimately the cost of living will be fixed.

By James Gwati- Zanu PF activists in Watsomba disrupted a parliamentary public hearing on National Youth Service before targeting the local CCC legislator, Travor Saruwaka .

Sources who attended the meeting said that the Mutasa Central MP escaped unhurt.

The thugs, he said, started singing and sloganeering in the middle of the meeting, causing the halt of the proceedings.

” They came targeting the local Mutasa Central member of Parliament, Hon.Trevor Saruwaka and other several participants. What is worrisome is that the police did not restrain these violent youths,” said the sources.

Yesterday a similar incident happened in Bulawayo, where known Zanu PF thugs disrupted a parliament meeting with the same plan.

This also happened in the eyes of the police, but no one was arrested.

By James Gwati- Zanu PF activists and suspected state agents have disrupted the parliamentary public hearing on National Youth Service in Watsomba.

Sources at the meeting on Wednesday said dozens of Zanu PF youths started singing and sloganeering and disrupted the proceedings.

” They came targeting the local Mutasa Central member of Parliament, Hon.Trevor Saruwaka and other several participants. What is worrisome is that the police did not restrain these violent youths,” said the sources.

Yesterday a similar incident happened in Bulawayo, where known Zanu PF thugs disrupted a parliament meeting with the same plan.

This also happened in the eyes of the police, but no one was arrested.

By- A well-known Zimbabwean businessman Kudzai Nyakutsikwa popularly known as Vlad Duk, in his Johannesburg circles, has committed suicide over debts.

The state media reports that Nyakutsikwa led a ‘FAKE LIFE,’ which ended with him being hounded by loan sharks.
The businessman committed suicide here on Monday and sent shockwaves across the Jozi entertainment scene.
It has emerged, from those close to him, that he lived a life in the fast lane, which was built on heavy borrowing from some loan sharks.

In the end, those who had handed him money were now hounding him, asking for their cash, and leaving him vulnerable.
Reports yesterday claimed things had become so bad he was now surviving on handouts from friends and family.
H-Metro interviewed members of his inner circle, who don’t want to be named for fear of being branded betrayers.
Vlad first came into the limelight around 2010, when he started hosting all-white parties – some of which were covered by H-Metro.
He hosted high-end gigs, which drew the Who Is Who in the South African entertainment industry.
He was branded one of Joburg’s top “mbingas,” although he never publicly declared himself as one.
Instead, he was a very quiet and humble character, who enjoyed sipping his favourite whisky.
One of Vlad’s well-known friends told H-Metro that he had been in a very bad space lately, largely caused by financial and marital problems.
“I have known Vlad from way before the social media frenzy that came into his life. We used to hang out a lot back in the day,” she said.
“I feel he became a victim of social media pressure, as his life had taken a turn for the worst.
“We used to buy some of the labels that he used to wear, like Gucci, cheaply in downtown Joburg.”
She said Vlad’s business was crumbling and he owed a lot of people money.
“Only recently, he was reported to the police and was on the verge of being arrested for fraud.
“He would borrow different sums of money, from different people, and they would give him believing he was a real mbinga.
“He would even borrow money from loan sharks, who were now on his case. I never thought it would get to this.
“The last time we had a drink in Randburg, he was so distraught and resorted to heavy drinking.
“The other day he was so drunk that he even refused to go home and was crying. It is indeed a very sad ending,” said the friend.
Vlad was in his second marriage, after he divorced his first wife, with whom he sired two sons.
He had one child with his second wife.
“There are a lot of lies circulating on social media that he found his wife with a boyfriend.
“That is far from the truth. Vlad was in a financial mess and was now unable to pay rent.
“He moved in with his brother, who stays in Jules, near the Joburg CBD.
“Yes, like in any marriage, couples fight and indeed he would have occasional nasty fights with Jane.
“I hope she will tell the world more,” said the friend.
The friend claimed Jane has Vlad’s suicide letter, which his family are still waiting for.
Details of how he died are still sketchy.
It is suspected that he downed a pesticide in the precincts of Sandarama Lake near Rosettenville on Saturday night.
He had sent an SMS to his wife, informing her that he intended to kill himself.
She then alerted his friends on Sunday and they looked for him for the whole day.
His body was identified on Monday afternoon, at the Hillbrow Pathology Mortuary.
Burial arrangements are yet to be divulged as the family is still awaiting post-mortem results.
There was a war of words in the WhatsApp groups set up to mourn the social scene legend.
Some were blasting Vlad for portraying flamboyance when he was nowhere near being one of the true Rich Boys of Joburg.
Others sympathised with the family’s plight and are willing to contribute to ensure Vlad gets a decent burial. H Metro

Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party to stop using violence to influence votes.

The CCC leader denounced the brutal killing of political opponents by the Zanu PF regime.

“DEAR POLITICIANS; Killing or injuring another is a serious crime not in just per laws of the land but before God.

Violence is a sin before God. God will ask you to account.

Stop using political violence,coercion,terrorism & destroying property for votes.

Stones, machetes, axes and guns in politics is so barbaric,” said President Chamisa.

On Tuesday President spent hours with Zengeza West MP Hon Job Sikhala at the latter’s bail application hearing.

According to President Chamisa, Hon Sikhala has been failed by the judiciary.

Writing on his micro blogging portal, President Chamisa said: “I’ve just been here at the Magistrates Court since 2pm for the #FreeWiwa bail ruling. Bail denied again. This is pure abuse & weaponizing of the law. The #Nyatsime16 detention is oppressive and despotic. The Zimbabwean supreme law makes bail a constitutional right.”

By- Zimbabwean businessman Kudzai Nyakutsikwa popularly known as Vlad Duk in his Johannesburg circles, has committed suicide over debts.

The state media reports that Nyakutsikwa, led a ‘FAKE LIFE,’ which ended with him being hounded by loan sharks.
The businessman committed suicide here on Monday and sent shockwaves across the Jozi entertainment scene.
It has emerged, from those close to him, that he lived a life in the fast lane, which was built on heavy borrowing from some loan sharks.

In the end, those who had handed him money were now hounding him, asking for their cash, and leaving him vulnerable.
Reports yesterday claimed things had become so bad he was now surviving on handouts from friends and family.
H-Metro interviewed members of his inner circle, who don’t want to be named for fear of being branded betrayers.
Vlad first came into the limelight around 2010, when he started hosting all-white parties – some of which were covered by H-Metro.
He hosted high-end gigs, which drew the Who Is Who in the South African entertainment industry.
He was branded one of Joburg’s top “mbingas,” although he never publicly declared himself as one.
Instead, he was a very quiet and humble character, who enjoyed sipping his favourite whisky.
One of Vlad’s well-known friends told H-Metro that he had been in a very bad space lately, largely caused by financial and marital problems.
“I have known Vlad from way before the social media frenzy that came into his life. We used to hang out a lot back in the day,” she said.
“I feel he became a victim of social media pressure, as his life had taken a turn for the worst.
“We used to buy some of the labels that he used to wear, like Gucci, cheaply in downtown Joburg.”
She said Vlad’s business was crumbling and he owed a lot of people money.
“Only recently, he was reported to the police and was on the verge of being arrested for fraud.
“He would borrow different sums of money, from different people, and they would give him believing he was a real mbinga.
“He would even borrow money from loan sharks, who were now on his case. I never thought it would get to this.
“The last time we had a drink in Randburg, he was so distraught and resorted to heavy drinking.
“The other day he was so drunk that he even refused to go home and was crying. It is indeed a very sad ending,” said the friend.
Vlad was in his second marriage, after he divorced his first wife, with whom he sired two sons.
He had one child with his second wife.
“There are a lot of lies circulating on social media that he found his wife with a boyfriend.
“That is far from the truth. Vlad was in a financial mess and was now unable to pay rent.
“He moved in with his brother, who stays in Jules, near the Joburg CBD.
“Yes, like in any marriage, couples fight and indeed he would have occasional nasty fights with Jane.
“I hope she will tell the world more,” said the friend.
The friend claimed Jane has Vlad’s suicide letter, which his family are still waiting for.
Details of how he died are still sketchy.
It is suspected that he downed a pesticide in the precincts of Sandarama Lake near Rosettenville on Saturday night.
He had sent an SMS to his wife, informing her that he intended to kill himself.
She then alerted his friends on Sunday and they looked for him for the whole day.
His body was identified on Monday afternoon, at the Hillbrow Pathology Mortuary.
Burial arrangements are yet to be divulged as the family is still awaiting post-mortem results.
There was a war of words in the WhatsApp groups set up to mourn the social scene legend.
Some were blasting Vlad for portraying flamboyance when he was nowhere near being one of the true Rich Boys of Joburg.
Others sympathised with the family’s plight and are willing to contribute to ensure Vlad gets a decent burial. H Metro

By- The Emerson Mnangagwa administration is using the judiciary to seize the late President Robert Mugabe’s assets.

Through the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), the government has authorised the forfeiture of three trucks belonging to former first lady Mrs Grace Mugabe.

NPA claims that the trucks were brought into Zimbabwe more than ten years ago without duty payment after the supplier told Zimra that they were only temporarily in the country.

Four South African drivers sent by the supplier to deliver the three trucks were charged with swindling Mrs Mugabe of US$1 million in a truck deal after she complained to police that the wrong model of truck was delivered.
Cassimjee Bilal, Henry Hadebe, Samuel Baloyi and Sydney Sekgobelo, all South Africans, were later granted bail pending trial, but jumped bail and returned to South Africa.
NPA applied for the forfeiture of the trucks in June this year, but Harare magistrate Ms Barbara Mateko threw out the State application.
But on review at the High Court, Justice Pisirayi Kwenda reversed the magistrate’s decision and ordered forfeiture of the three Iveco 440 trucks to the State.
The three trucks were caught in the crossfire between Mrs Mugabe and her former associate, Ping Sung Hsieh, after a US$1 million deal went sour.
In February 2011, Bilal, Radebe, Baloyi and Sekgobela, were hired by Ping to deliver three trucks to Mrs Mugabe’s aides in Harare.
Mrs Mugabe had ordered Scania trucks, but Ping sent the Iveco trucks, leading Mrs Mugabe through her aide Ms Olga Bungu to file a police report.
Investigations also revealed that the drivers misrepresented to Zimra officials at the Beitbridge that the trucks were on a visit ito Zimbabwe, resulting in the customs officer issuing the trucks with temporary import permits. That meant no duty was paid.
The origin of the deal dates back to 2007, when the Mugabe family agreed to buy six haulage trucks from South Africa for $1 million.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe allegedly transferred the money to Ping’s company in South Africa, but the trucks were not delivered.
Finally, on February 18, 2011, Ping sent the four drivers to deliver the trucks. They were granted bail after spending two weeks in jail and barred from leaving Zimbabwe before their trial in June the same year, but they all skipped bail.
-State media

By- The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced Guruve Rural District Council dates.

 The by-elections are for the district’s Ward 4 & Takawira RDC Ward 6.

In a statement, ZEC said nomination courts would sit on 20 September. 

Reads the statement:

Guruve Rural District Council: Ward 4 & Takawira RDC Ward 6 By-elections

It is hereby notified in terms of Section 121 A of the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13], that following the death of Lencio Kafungura who was councillor of Guruve Rural District Council and the death of Johanes Kohli who was Councillors for ward 6 of Takawira Rural District Council, vacancies have arisen in the said wards.

The Nomination Courts for purposes of receiving nominations of candidates for election as councillors for the vacant wards shall sit on Tuesday 20 September 2022 at Guruve Rural District Council and Takawira Distict Council, respectively. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission fixes Saturday, 22 October 2022 as the day on which a poll shall take place if it becomes necessary in terms of Section 125(4) (b) of the Electoral Act.

By- Zanu PF youths Tuesday disrupted a public hearing meeting on the National Youth Service (NYS) in Bulawayo.

The Committee is consulting the public on the NYS bill which the government wants to introduce.

The government wants to return the notorious NYS next year and would also include early childhood (ECD) learners.

Rogue Zanu PF youths disrupted proceedings when one of the participants expressed reservations about the programme.

The participant, who identified herself as Grace Mutanda, claimed that an NYS base had been set up in Entumbane suburb.

This assertion did not go down well with some youths who tried to shove her.

Another participant, identified as Eric Gono was also attacked.

Some of the activists who were milling outside the meeting‘s venue flocked inside and started causing more mayhem by threatening to beat “sellouts” in the meeting.
“Whether you like it or not, we are going to introduce the NYS. We cannot have youths who denigrate their leaders and the country. That will not happen under our watch,” declared the visibly drunk youths.
CITE managed to track down the two participants and they narrated their ordeal.
“I introduced myself and said I am from Entumbane where there was a base, before I could even finish my sentence a group of about 20 youths disrupted proceedings and advanced towards Eric Gono, the previous speaker, who was also booed while he was making his contribution and started assaulting him before coming turning to me,” said the visible shaken Grace.
Mutanda said the chairperson of the Committee tried to protect her but he was outnumbered.
“When I had to leave the venue, the chairperson who was chairing the meeting Omega Sibanda said he will walk me out, when we got to the door, we found some of the youths waiting by the door threatening to assault me. I had to go back and hide inside,” said Mutanda.
Gono said he sustained some injuries during the attack.
“We went there as youths to air our views pertaining to that program and in the middle of giving our views, some youths started disrupting the program, thus when they started attacking me and Grace. I sustained a couple of bruises on my neck, eye, face and a torn shirt,” he said.
He said he was still trying to find a safe place as he fears he might be followed and attacked later on.
The NYS was established in 2001 and folded after six years due to funding challenges.
Appearing before the portfolio committee recently Youth, Sports Arts, and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry said the programme will have a new name, uniforms and curriculum.

-CITE

By James Gwati- Zanu PF has celebrated the further detention in remand prison of the CCC deputy chairman Job Sikhala.

Sikhala’s other bail bid hit a brick wall Tuesday after Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje dismissed his application.

The die-hard opposition politician is facing charges of obstructing or defeating the course of justice.

These trumped-up charges came after he allegedly posted a video on social media demanding justice for the killing of CCc activist Moreblessing Ali in the Nyatsime area in July this year.

Posting on Twitter, Zanu PF said Sikhala must rot in Jail.

By-South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has defended the underfire medical doctor Phophi Ramathuba after she remarked that foreigners were overburdening the country’s health sector.

Ramathuba, who is a Member of the Executive (MEC) of health for Limpopo Province, told a bedridden Zimbabwean patient that she wouldn’t be discharged due to outstanding medical bills.

She also said that South Africa’s medical facilities were meant for South Africans.

The remarks attracted varying responses from people of all walks of life, with fellow medical practitioners saying Ramathuba had violated the profession’s ethics.

 Ramaphosa Tuesday told Parliament that he agrees with Ramathuba that Zimbabweans flocking to South Africa for Health care were worsening the country’s health crisis. He said:

The MEC of health in Limpopo has raised an important issue how service provision is affected by migration, that is an important issue that is on the top of minds of many South Africans and indeed it is part and parcel of having to deal with the whole issue of a framework around migration and not only on our continent but elsewhere as people move around the world.

One of the issues they are asked is are you able to make provision for any service that might have to be offered to you in any shape or form so that is part of that whole process of having to deal with migration so the MEC has raised an important issue which is currently under debate.

Of course she raised it in the presence of a patient and I guess such an important issue could have been raised another way but that as it may, it has been raised and it has evoked debate not only in our country but also in Zimbabwe and also the rest of the continent.

It is a matter that is going to enjoy quite a lot of attendance even as we meet at head of states level to discuss what precisely the movement of people should really entail, what should accompany that in the form of services, health issues criminality and the rule of law, so all those matters are matters that are germane to the whole process of migration.

Tinashe Sambiri|Team Pachedu has exposed how the Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa stole the 2018 Presidential plebiscite.

According to Team Pachedu, Mr Mnangagwa is a fortunate beneficiary of ballot stuffing and numbers he got from assisted voters.

Team Pachedu said:
“After careful analysis of 2018 elections, without intimidation, assisted voters, ballot stuffing in Mash Central ED Mnangagwa scored less than 37% of total vote.

The biggest heist was done in Mash Central where over 250k votes appeared from nowhere.

We are so sure of the math!”

A CCC official has also accused ZEC of rigging polls by frustrating young voters.

“@ZECzim is sabotaging the new voters drive.

ZEC officers on the ground are frustrating new registrants by making the registration process painfully slow.

They are even insulting and rude. This past Friday, we transported 12 Young people from Hatcliff to register and only managed,” said the CCC official.

By- The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced Guruve Rural District Council dates.

 The by-elections are for the district’s Ward 4 & Takawira RDC Ward 6.

In a statement, ZEC said nomination courts would sit on 20 September. 

Reads the statement:

Guruve Rural District Council: Ward 4 & Takawira RDC Ward 6 By-elections

It is hereby notified in terms of Section 121 A of the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13], that following the death of Lencio Kafungura who was councillor of Guruve Rural District Council and the death of Johanes Kohli who was Councillors for ward 6 of Takawira Rural District Council, vacancies have arisen in the said wards.

The Nomination Courts for purposes of receiving nominations of candidates for election as councillors for the vacant wards shall sit on Tuesday 20 September 2022 at Guruve Rural District Council and Takawira Distict Council, respectively. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission fixes Saturday, 22 October 2022 as the day on which a poll shall take place if it becomes necessary in terms of Section 125(4) (b) of the Electoral Act.

By- Suspected Zanu PF youths have disrupted a public hearing meeting on the National Youth Service (NYS) in Bulawayo on Tuesday.

The Committee is consulting the public on the NYS bill which the government wants to introduce.

The government wants to return the notorious NYS next year and would also include early childhood (ECD) learners.

Rogue Zanu PF youths disrupted proceedings when one of the participants expressed reservations about the programme.

The participant, who identified herself as Grace Mutanda, claimed that an NYS base had been set up in Entumbane suburb.

This assertion did not go down well with some youths who tried to shove her.

Another participant, identified as Eric Gono was also attacked.

Some of the activists who were milling outside the meeting‘s venue flocked inside and started causing more mayhem by threatening to beat “sellouts” in the meeting.
“Whether you like it or not, we are going to introduce the NYS. We cannot have youths who denigrate their leaders and the country. That will not happen under our watch,” declared the visibly drunk youths.
CITE managed to track down the two participants and they narrated their ordeal.
“I introduced myself and said I am from Entumbane where there was a base, before I could even finish my sentence a group of about 20 youths disrupted proceedings and advanced towards Eric Gono, the previous speaker, who was also booed while he was making his contribution and started assaulting him before coming turning to me,” said the visible shaken Grace.
Mutanda said the chairperson of the Committee tried to protect her but he was outnumbered.
“When I had to leave the venue, the chairperson who was chairing the meeting Omega Sibanda said he will walk me out, when we got to the door, we found some of the youths waiting by the door threatening to assault me. I had to go back and hide inside,” said Mutanda.
Gono said he sustained some injuries during the attack.
“We went there as youths to air our views pertaining to that program and in the middle of giving our views, some youths started disrupting the program, thus when they started attacking me and Grace. I sustained a couple of bruises on my neck, eye, face and a torn shirt,” he said.
He said he was still trying to find a safe place as he fears he might be followed and attacked later on.
The NYS was established in 2001 and folded after six years due to funding challenges.
Appearing before the portfolio committee recently Youth, Sports Arts, and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry said the programme will have a new name, uniforms and curriculum.

-CITE

By James Gwati-South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa said he agreed with Member of the Executive (MEC) of health for Limpopo Province, Dr Phophi Ramathuba that Zimbabweans were overburdening the country’s health sector.

Ramathuba, last week told a bedridden Zimbabwean patient that she wouldn’t be discharged due to outstanding medical bills.

She also said that South Africa’s medical facilities were meant for South Africans.

The remarks attracted varying responses from people of all walks of life, with fellow medical practitioners saying Ramathuba had violated the profession’s ethics.

 Ramaphosa Tuesday told Parliament that he agrees with Ramathuba that Zimbabweans flocking to South Africa for Health care were worsening the country’s health crisis. He said:

The MEC of health in Limpopo has raised an important issue how service provision is affected by migration, that is an important issue that is on the top of minds of many South Africans and indeed it is part and parcel of having to deal with the whole issue of a framework around migration and not only on our continent but elsewhere as people move around the world.

One of the issues they are asked is are you able to make provision for any service that might have to be offered to you in any shape or form so that is part of that whole process of having to deal with migration so the MEC has raised an important issue which is currently under debate.

Of course she raised it in the presence of a patient and I guess such an important issue could have been raised another way but that as it may, it has been raised and it has evoked debate not only in our country but also in Zimbabwe and also the rest of the continent.

It is a matter that is going to enjoy quite a lot of attendance even as we meet at head of states level to discuss what precisely the movement of people should really entail, what should accompany that in the form of services, health issues criminality and the rule of law, so all those matters are matters that are germane to the whole process of migration.

By James Gwati- Zanu PF has celebrated the further detention in remand prison on the CCC deputy chairman Job Sikhala.

Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje dismissed Tuesday dismissed Sikhala’s application for bond on changed circumstances.

He is charged with obstructing or defeating the course of justice after allegedly posting a video on social media demanding justice for the killing of CCc activist Moreblessing Ali in the Nyatsime area in July this year.

Posting on Twitter, Zanu PF said Sikhala must rot in Jail.

By James Gwati- South African President Cyril Ramphosa has defended Limpopo Health provincial minister Dr Phophi Ramathuba’s xenophobic rants to an ailing Zimbabwean patient.

Dr Ramathuba last week told a Zimbabwean patient waiting for surgery at a health institution in Limpopo that Zimbabweans were straining South Africa’s health systems.

She also said that Harare was not giving her a budget for its citizens’ health care in South Africa.

Dr Ramathuba said this in front of patients and several health workers to the embarrassment of the ailing Zimbabwean on a death bed.

On Tuesday, Ramaphosa said Dr Ramathuba was right to answer questions from parliament virtually.

He said: What she said was an issue which has sparked debate here in South Africa, in Zimbabwe and the whole region, and it’s an issue which our people have also been complaining about. Now that she said it, we will discuss it at a head of the state level and see what is needed on our migration policies,” he said without condemning Dr Ramathuba.

The Zimbabwean South African embassy has since made an official complaint against the MEC.

In a statement, the Zimbabwean Embassy said there are platforms for engagement that Ramathuba should have used “for the good of our two countries.” Reads the statement:

The Embassy of the Republic of Zimbabwe in Pretoria watched with shock and disbelief the video (images) in which the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) of Health Limpopo Province, spoke to a Zimbabwean national who happened to be a patient in a hospital in the province. The Embassy has been in contact with the government of South Africa. through the Department of International Relations and Cooperation. to who it has conveyed the concerns of the government of Zimbabwe on the comments made by the MEC.



By-James Gwati- The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has denied having arrested the former Deputy Prime Minister, Thokozani Khupe, but admitted that the politician visited the police station in Plumtree.

 In a statement Tuesday, ZRP said the reports that Khupe was arrested were false:

FALSE REPORT ON ALLEGED ARREST OF THOKOZANI KHUPE

The Zimbabwe Republic Police dismisses a story circulating on Newsdzezimbabwe.co.uk, CITE and other social media platforms linked to Citizen Coalition for Change Bulawayo’s Swithern Chirowodza that Dr. Thokozani Khupe and other CCC activists were arrested as totally false. 

The Police has not effected any arrest on Khupe and associates. The false story is dismissed with the contempt it deserves. It is totally wrong for politicians to claim arrest by Zimbabwe Republic Police in false circumstances.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police, in actual fact impounded a South African registered Toyota Hilux registration number JW15PT GP belonging to Joubert Maplanka (64) for failure to produce a valid Temporary Import Permit at the 98km peg along Bulawayo- Plumtree Road.

The vehicle has been in Zimbabwe since July 2021 and the TIP is no longer valid. Thokozani Khupe later came aboard a different vehicle and was not arrested at all.

We continue to urge journalists to verify information obtained from purported reliable sources before publishing such stories. 

(NYATHI. P) Assistant Commissioner 

Senior Staff Officer [Press and Public Relations] To the Commissioner General of Police 

Police General Headquarters

By James Gwati-Zanu PF thugs have attacked the opposition CCC member, Wilfred Chuma, and left him for dead.

The CCC said Chuma was bashed in Harare last week for wearing the party T-shirt.

CCC posted on Twitter:

@CCCZimbabwe

 Ward 8 Champion, Wilfred Chuma, has been attacked and badly beaten by Zanu PF thugs for wearing CCC regalia near Dairiboard in Harare just now. He suffered leg, hand and back injuries & is not able to walk. #NoToViolence

Tinashe Sambiri|Team Pachedu has exposed how the Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa stole the 2018 Presidential plebiscite.

According to Team Pachedu, Mr Mnangagwa is a fortunate beneficiary of ballot stuffing and numbers he got from assisted voters.

Team Pachedu said:
“After careful analysis of 2018 elections, without intimidation, assisted voters, ballot stuffing in Mash Central ED Mnangagwa scored less than 37% of total vote.

The biggest heist was done in Mash Central where over 250k votes appeared from nowhere.

We are so sure of the math!”

A CCC official has also accused ZEC of rigging polls by frustrating young voters.

“@ZECzim is sabotaging the new voters drive.

ZEC officers on the ground are frustrating new registrants by making the registration process painfully slow.

They are even insulting and rude. This past Friday, we transported 12 Young people from Hatcliff to register and only managed,” said the CCC official.

By-CCC deputy chairman Job Sikhala has once agin been denied bail.

Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje dismissed his application for bond on changed circumstances.

He is charged with obstructing or defeating the course of justice after allegedly posting a video on social media demanding justice for the killing of CCc activist Moreblessing Ali in the Nyatsime area in July this year.

-State media

Tinashe Sambiri|Zanu PF won the Gokwe-Kabuyuni by-election through terror and massive manipulation of voters, according to CCC.

On Monday CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba commended citizens in Gokwe for showing determination and resilience in the wake of rampant intimidation.

Below is Siziba’s statement:

Thank you the brave and best of Gokwe-Kabuyuni

The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) family is humbled and inspired by the show of brave support for our candidate, Mr. Costin Muguti, in the recently held by-elections for the Gokwe-Kabuyuni constituency.

We are grateful for the 4 915 people of GOKWE KABUYUNI who,
against all odds, voted for our candidate, representing over 44% of the electorate.

It is encouraging as a party that we are closing the gap from the 2018 elections when the opposition then garnered 29% of the vote.

We had a good fight and for us this is a learning curve as we approach the watershed 2023 General Elections.

Gaining rural ground against nearly insurmountable odds shows that the message of change is gaining ground in rural communities. It is further proof that CCC is the real alternative and no amount of electoral chicanery will dampen the mood of change sweeping across the nation.

We got 4 915 votes in the midst of fear, thousands of assisted voters and abuse of traditional leaders by the dictatorship.

As a progressive party we must deal
decisively with the abuse of traditional leaders and the assisted voters provision by Zanu pf.

To this end electoral reforms remain the only solution to these electoral malpractices and we will mount a national, regional and international effort to push for all necessary reforms.

Zanu PF won on a margin of terror and a menu of manipulation consisting of violence, banning the alternative from campaigning, brazen vote buying and a captured ZEC.

The elections Commission long failed the nation and must be disbanded and in this election it failed to protect the integrity of the vote by allowing a range of malpractices to happen without any repercussions for Zanu PF. In any free, fair and credible contest the Zanu PF candidate should have disqualified for egregious infractions of the electoral law but the commission did nothing.

As we move foward, to counter the machinations of the dictatorship in our rural hinterland, Operation bull mango will take centre stage. Remain yellow at heart and green to the outsider.

Our pledge to the people of Zimbabwe is that change is here and come 2023 we must bring an end to the moribund dictatorship which has stolen our freedoms, prosperity, future and dignity as a people.

For and on behalf of the Citizens

Always

Comrade Ostallos

By A Correspondent- Zanu Pf MP who is facing fraud and money laundering charges had his passport released to allow him to travel to Germany and UK for Parliament business.

Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje released Wadyajena’s passport and gave him until September 26 to return it into the state’ s custody.

Wadyajena’ s bail conditions were also relaxed during the period of his travel.

Justice Mayor Wadyajena, is facing fraud & money laundering charges of over US$5,8 million.

He is being jointly charged with other Cottco bosses.

More details to follow ……

The Zimbabwe Online Content Creators (ZOCC) notes with serious concern and condemns in the strongest terms the brutal attack of journalists in Gokwe recently and generally the continuing attacks on journalists and media freedom in Zimbabwe.

Four journalists suffered grave bodily harm and psychological trauma on August 25 when Zanu PF members attacked them with booted legs and clenched fists for taking pictures and videos of what was happening in Gokwe.

The rowdy party members who had beaten up a police officer in charge a day prior, were indiscriminately attacking bystanders around Chitekete shopping centre in Gokwe.

The party members were driving in a well-orchestrated party vehicle convoy of more than 20 marked and unmarked 4×4 trucks pounced on the journalists after they recorded their unusual activity and movement around the centre.

The irate party members blamed the journalists for recording the activity and told them to mind their own business after assaulting them.

The remote Gokwe shopping growth point resembled a war zone area as scandidates where mopping up their campaigns for the Saturday By-Elections, with a tense environment setting the tone.

Journalists Toneo Rutsito, Tongai Mwenje, Pellagia Mpurwa and a media intern, Chelsea Mashayamombe were left for dead on the tarmac after being beaten up indiscriminately while the whole shopping centre watched in awe.

Pelagia was left unconscious, Toneo lost his tooth, Tongai suffered a cut on his face while Chelsea was left bruised.

A man who identified himself as a state security officer travelling in the vehicle with the District Coordinating Councillor offered the journalists assistance and consolation.

The vehicles were escorting government ministers to the venue namely, Larry Mavhima the minister for provincial affairs in midlands and and Mike Bimha, the Minister of State for Industry and Commerce who is also the Zanu Pf commissar .

Notably none of the vehicles had the usual rowdy party supporter carried on the back of the trucks, but all delegates comfortably sat, the same who descended upon journalists.

Suspected driver for Gokwe aspring MP, Spencer Tshuma joined some two identified ladies to beat up female journalist before ransacking the vehicles and took away mobile phones and broadcast equipment.

A police report has since been made at the Chitekete police post with RRB Number 5075130.

As Online Content Creators, we expect the Police service to conduct itself professionally and make arrests of the attackers who are well known by their organizers.

In the interest of media freedoms and rights of journalists, ZOCC further takes note of the deteriorating environment for safety of journalists in Zimbabwe and calls on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to be accountable and restrain his party members from engaging in unprovoked attacks against journalists and other citizens.

As the fourth Estate, the media remains a vital cog in holding power to account and must enjoy unfettered access to ports of information without fearing for their personal security.

The incidences in Gokwe, must never be repeated should the state and media continue to enjoy a cordial relationship.

Journalism is not a crime, and should thus be treated with the respect it deserves.

We are closely following up on the case with the leads and expecting the government to swiftly act accordingly as per the law dictates.

Yvonne Muchaka

Central Chapter Secretary

For and On behalf of the Zimbabwe Online Content Creators (ZOCC) Board

On the 27th of August 2022 Primrose Siziba Nr unknown aged 32 years of Village Mlotshwa Chief Samambwa, Zhombe closed her tuck shop at Mushange business centre and decided to go home to Village Chakaipa Chief Samambwa.

She was with Sekai Musekiwa Nr unknown aged 29 years of Village Mapiye Chief Samambwa, Zhombe who only accompanied her for about 100 metres and returned back to the Business Centre. Primrose Siziba proceeded on her own along Zhombe East-Sidhakeni Road.

On the same date at around 1830 hours Emildar Moyo Nr 58-301249-P-58 aged 32 years of Joel stands, Zhombe was in a motor vehicle proceeding from Bhamala and she noticed the now deceased lying down facing sideways about 4 metres from a side road in a bush at village Mlotshwa chief Samambwa. She disembarked from the car and she discovered that Primrose Siziba was dead and she positively identified her.

Emildar Moyo rushed to Nelson Malito Nr 58-240391-X-58 aged 41 years of Village Mlotshwa Chief Samambwa who is the now deceaseds brother and she alerted him. Nelson Malito proceeded to the scene and discovered that Prmrose Siziba was already dead with a deep cut on the left side of the chest and he advised the police.

The scene was attended and discovered that the deceased was lying down facing sideways with a deep cut on the left side of the chest an indication that a sharp object was used to stab her and blood was still oozing out.

A pair of deceaseds sandals and a black sun hat belonging to the deceased was seen on the main road with drops of blood around the area.

Near the property there was a footprint of a single left shoe and a single push.

Further searches were carried out and a brown handbag with receipts, books a broken cellphone of the deceased was recovered about 20 meters from the road on the right side and again the same footprints were seen around the property.

Enquires were carried out leading to the arrest of Leonard Muwinga Nr unknown aged 32 years of Village Chakaipa Chief Samambwa.

The single left shoe with footprints which resembled those that were seen at the scene of crime was recovered.