It’s not just Zimbabwe even Europe and the United States tear dropping prices are wreaking havoc around the world.
By Dr Masimba Mavaza | Zimbabwe has been facing unprecedented challenges with electricity and people are getting agitated. The former minister of energy Fortune Chasi was released of his duties and Minister Zhemu was brought in but the darkness has become more pronounced than light. Fraustrated citizens try to blame ZANU PF and the hard working president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.
The CCC and their disgraced parrot Hopewell Ching’ono have tried to put the electricity problems at ZANU PD’s door steps.
The energy crisis is not peculiar to Zimbabwe. It is now a global crisis. The world started to experience energy crisis for a decade now. However this became more visible in 2021.
The 2021–present global energy crisis is the most recent in a series of circular energy shortages experienced over the last fifty years. It is more acutely affecting countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, China, United States and Zimbabwe among others. The crisis has emerged in oil, gas and electricity markets.
Power outages are the average number of power outages that establishments experience in a typical month or week as the problem become more and more pronounced globally.
Failing power grids are a leading reason for disastrous power outages that can affect residential and commercial activities. Countries that fail to invest in modern technologies for their power grids run the risk of suffering great financial loss. Power loss can range from a few hours to several days. While modern power grids have better technology than those in the past, they are still prone to risks of their own. Power outage causes can range from solar flares to cyber-attacks. However, since much of the world does not have access to the latest technologies they are destined to suffer the largest relative losses due to power outages.
Zimbabwe has seen it’s fair share of outages but it is not the most affected country.
Now as Russia becomes economical with Europe’s gas supply, the world is staring down a worrisome energy future. This has serious ripple effects and can be felt as far as Zimbabwe. It is not a fallacy when Zimbabwe points at Ukraine Russian war as another source of outages in the country. For months, sky-high natural gas and oil prices have been wreaking havoc around the world, and experts warn that there is no end in sight as long as the war in Ukraine barrels on.
From Ecuador to South Africa, to Zimbabwe fuel shortages and blackouts have plunged import-dependent countries into economic turmoil, leaving desperate governments scrambling for workaround solutions.
Zimbabwe depends more on import and export and the world crisis in power hits Zimbabwe right in the heart. Our economy is not spared and it’s a pity that opposition politicians seek to use electricity shortages as a campaign point. The power outages affect the richest countries how can CHAMISA turn that around. Politics of opportunity leads people into more darkness.
In Sri Lanka, which was already buckling under mounting crises, acute shortages and dayslong lines have forced authorities to issue work-from-home orders. Pakistan has resorted to shortening its work week to relieve pressure from lengthy power cuts, while Panama has been rocked by demonstrations over surging prices. This crisis had not spared Zimbabwe. The state of the electricity supply in Zimbabwe does not reflect the ability to govern or lack of it by ZANU PF. Those who blame ZANU PF for the darkness are shameless opportunists who are just after self aggrandisement and have no people at heart.
“We are experiencing the first global energy crisis,” said Jason Bordoff, an energy expert at Columbia University, who noted that the crunch has hit almost all of the world’s regions and energy sources. “The ripple effects are being seen globally, and I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of it yet.”
Markets were already tight before Russia invaded Ukraine, the result of a combination of the pandemic, supply chain slowdowns, and climate shocks. That was compounded by curtailed Russian gas exports, which forced Europe to turn elsewhere for its supplies and further drove up prices in the global marketplace. Now, as climate change-fueled extreme heat adds more fuel to the fire, these challenges have only deepened. Surely these challenges can never be translated as the failures of ZANU PF. It is a desperate move for the CCC to use electricity problems as a campaign tool. The opposition politricks must realise that.
“It’s just an interconnected global system,When you put pressure in one place, it is felt somewhere else.” So the shortages of electricity in Zimbabwe has nothing to do with the government’s way of governing.
The last time the world experienced a disastrous energy crunch—albeit only for oil—it was the 1970s, and OPEC had imposed an embargo that sent shockwaves through the oil industry. That crisis birthed the International Energy Agency (IEA) and pushed industrialized nations to develop strategic reserves in preparation for future supply disruptions. said Antoine Halff, an expert at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. But alas many emerging market economies and debt-laden countries including Zimbabwe don’t have this same cushion, leaving them especially exposed to any disturbances. This is a global problem which affects us as a nation.
Today, Zimbabwe is a whole new cast which has been developing rapidly and has been using more and more energy—and that’s a great sign that reflects its economic development. But that also made Zimbabwe much more vulnerable to disruption risks, and it is not part of that safety net of the IEA. Development which has been brought in by ED and ZANU PF has put more demand of electricity and this has made the shortages very visible. Instead of celebrating the development brought in by ED and ZANU PF the detractors are busy cherry picking problems and package them as failure.
“Take Pakistan, which has been struggling to cope with power cuts, or Ecuador, where deadly protests over surging fuel prices and costs brought the country to a near standstill in June. In recent weeks, both Ghana and Cameroon have been gripped by protests over fuel prices and shortages. So have Argentina and Peru, where surging energy costs have sparked strikes and demonstrations.
“The poorest countries in the world are struggling economically already, are in weak fiscal positions, and are just struggling to afford energy at all,” Bordoff said. “You’re going to see, I think, worse risk of rolling blackouts and trouble keeping the lights on and the electricity going in parts of the world that are lower income and don’t have stable electricity grids to begin with.” Zimbabwe does not exist on its own and it is indeed affected as much as other countries are affected.
Some countries are already in the dark. South Africa, which is certainly no stranger to load-shedding, has been plagued by rolling blackouts as it grapples with one of its worst-ever energy crises. So has Cuba, which was already suffering under widespread power outages. To avoid meeting the same fate, other nations have turned back to coal. As the energy crisis deepened in May, India pledged to restart coal mines and ramp up production; in June, India’s imports of coal reached record levels. And the country could be in it for the long haul, Indian Power Minister Raj Kumar Singh warned.
What the opposition is doing now is so potentially politically perilous because it really causes so much misery for so many citizens and it is raising anger in people for a situation which has gripped the world.
The opposition has not given the
People a way forward except just blaming ZANU PF.
Commenting on Russia’s war Dr Croft said “We could be looking at more disruption in the energy market and higher prices for oil come December, depending on how these sanctions are enforced,” Croft said.
And experts say the future of the crisis is deeply intertwined with the duration of the Russia-Ukraine war, which shows no signs of stopping. “It’s going to continue as long as this war goes on,” Ferreira said. “We see no indications that we are nearing an off-ramp here in the conflict.”
With 2023 beckoning nobody as power to improve power outages and this can not be laid on ZANU PF’s doorstep. Truth be told the biggest losers worldwide from power outages do not include Zimbabwe. With the way electricity is a problem in Zimbabwe Mnangagwa has kept Zimbabwe out of the top ten most affected countries. This shows that despite the problems we have moved on and we are still on the move. Again many countries have been financially affected by failing power grids. This puts Zimbabwe in the same oven and still this does not reflect failures but this actually shows how resilien is. He is pulling the country through against all odds. As already indicated Zimbabwe is not in the top ten countries prone to financial loss from power outage.
The worst hit country is AFGHANISTAN followed by UGANDA. UNGA Ganda is followed by MADAGASCAR. Other countries in serious power outages are,SOUTH SUDAN,TANZANIA, NIGERIA, GHANA, NEPAL,YEMEN and, PAKISTAN which is the most hit. Zimbabwe is not in the top ten and vilifying it is sheer mischief and unpatriotic. We must know that there are several causes of a power outage, many of which are common around the U.S. and Europe. These include storms, wind, ice, downed power lines, blown transformers , and overloaded power stations to name a few. Vehicle accidents and animal damage can also lead to power outages. Again there are causes of outages which are natural and beyond human control. These are Solar flares which may occur in space, but they have a great impact here on Earth. Powerful energy releases from the sun and creates bursts of solar wind as well as magnetic fields, which interrupt electrical currents. While the effects can happen anywhere, it is much more likely to hit low altitude areas. Again droughts do cause power outage. Uganda and Tanzania have experienced power outages due to low water levels in hydroelectric dams. These dams have electric turbines, which spin when water passes through them. If the water levels get too low, they stop spinning and electricity cuts out. This happens in part due to poor maintenance, but also because these countries often experience droughts.
It is not Zimbabwe which is affected, Much of the developing world does not have access to technology to improve utility infrastructures. Therefore, in countries such as Uganda, Ghana, and Afghanistan, poor infrastructure maintenance is a major cause of power outages. Regardless of the cause, when it comes to power for your home, ED has you covered. We struggle but we get there. Zimbabwe has shown extraordinary power to survive in hard times. These are hard times but ED will get us there. Next time you hear people say Zimbabwe has been mismanaged just remember dogs barks only to a moving car. We are moving as Zimbabwe and as ZANU PF. Move with us.
By- An 81-year-old man from Mtapa suburb in Gweru has been arrested for allegedly stealing a laptop belonging to a City of Gweru manager during lunchtime at the townhouse.
According to the state media, the laptop was stolen from the Human Resources Manager Mr Japson Nemuseso’s office.
Acting Town Clerk Mr Vakai Douglas Chikwekwe confirmed the incident identifying the suspect as Shingirai Mugabe. He said:
The suspect allegedly entered the townhouse during lunchtime pretending to be looking for old and used printer cartridges. He noticed Mr Nemuseso leaving his office for another office.
Chikwekwe said Mugabe quickly entered the office and grabbed an HP laptop which was on a desk before leaving unnoticed.
He said a few minutes later, Nemuseso returned to his office to find his laptop with the council’s confidential information missing.
He rushed out of the office looking for the suspect and noticed Mugabe walking away with a laptop bag. The suspect was searched and the laptop was recovered. He was taken to Gweru Central Police Station.
The suspect was caught red-handed while attempting to flee from the townhouse with the laptop already stashed in a bag he was carrying.
By- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted amnesty to at least 4 000 prisoners and ignored to free CCC deputy chairman Job Sikhala.
Sikhala and his counterpart Godfrey Sithole and 14 CCC activists have now clocked 110 in remand prison after their June arrest for demanding justice for the murdered Moreblessing Ali.
Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told reporters Thursday that Mnangagwa is releasing 4000 inmates to ease prison congestion.
She said: The nation is being informed that section 112 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe provides that the President after consultation with Cabinet may exercise the power of mercy to grant pardon to any person convicted of an offence against the law,” Mutsvangwa said. “The rationale behind the proposal is to decongest our prisons, whose population as at 29 August, 2022 stood at 22 114, against an official holding capacity of 17 000 inmates. “This situation means that 4 798 inmates do not have adequate floor space as required by the Constitution and compromises the health of inmates, among other challenges.” Mutsvangwa, however, said not all prisoners were eligible for amnesty especially those convicted of human trafficking, murder and unlawful possession of firearms, among others. “The amnesty excludes the following categories of prisoners: those previously released on amnesty; those serving a sentence imposed by court martial, those with a record of escaping from lawful custody; and those convicted of committing specified offences,” she said. “Specified offences include murder; treason; rape or any sexual offences; carjacking; robbery; public violence; human trafficking; unlawful possession of firearms; contravention of the Zesa Act, the PTC Act and Mopa and any conspiracy, incitement or attempt to commit any of these offences.” In 2021, at least 3 000 inmates were granted presidential amnesty. Newsday
By-The United Kingdom (UK) has deported more than 8 000 foreign criminals and immigration offenders, among them Zimbabweans.
According to the UK Home Office, a total of 8 175 people have been deported this year including 2 250 foreign national offenders.
In the month of September, 533 foreign criminals and immigration offenders were returned, including 105 to Albania on 3 dedicated charter flights and scheduled flights this month.
The Home Office also returned 26 Romanian nationals and 9 individuals to Zimbabwe on separate charter flights in September.
An online news portal NewZimbabwe cites Home Secretary, Suella Braverman as saying:
We are taking a zero-tolerance approach to anyone who comes to the UK and breaks our laws.
Returning such a high number of dangerous criminals sends a clear message that they are not welcome here.
We are also clamping down on those who come here illegally, and I am exploring every avenue to accelerate their removal.
The foreign national offenders removed had received combined prison sentences of more than 337 years and were convicted of crimes including sexual and violent offences, supplying Class A drugs and facilitating illegal entry to the UK.
The UK Borders Act allows the British government to deport any foreigner who has received a jail term of at least 12 months unless some exception applies.
By Farai D Hove | On this day 29 years ago ZBC presenter Tsitsi Vera died.
ZANU PF’a G40 faction accuses the new party leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa for her death. Their report which has remained unchallenged 5 years later, continues saying:
Her family blamed Mnangagwa for the incident which occurred at her flat which plunged her into alcoholism, drug abuse and a premature death. Mnangagwa showed up at her flat and immediately flew into a rage after he found another man there. The then justice minister ordered his bodyguards to switch on a stove.
the late ZBC presenter Tsitsi Vera
8) @edmnangagwa showed up at her flat and immediately flew into a rage after he found another man there. The then justice minister ordered his bodyguards to switch on a stove.
When it was red hot, the furious ED gave the man two choices, either to sit on the hot stove or to jump out of a third floor window. He was pushed out of the flat and landed on hard concrete, breaking his spine and now confined to a wheelchair for life.
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5. Brand new kitchen
6. Bathroom with tub
7. Separate toilet.
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The major power blackout that hit Zimbabwe on Tuesday and Wednesday was reportedly a result of a massive explosion at Hwange Power Station’s power generation Unit 4 on Tuesday, NewsDay Weekender has been informed.
Hwange, with an installed capacity of 920 megawatts (MW), produced zero power following the Tuesday explosion, but peaked to 238MW on Thursday, according the Zesa Holdings subsidiary Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC)’s website.
The situation at Hwange has worsened the country’s already desperate power situation that has seen consumers enduring long power outages lasting more than 12 hours per day.
“There was a loud sound and a huge fireball, luckily no one was hurt. However, it is the reason why the power system was disrupted,” a source at Hwange told NewsDay Weekender.
The cause of the explosion is, however, still unknown.
Speaking during Thursday’s Cabinet briefing, Energy and Power Development secretary Gloria Magombo described the Hwange fault as a system loss.
“On Tuesday we had power generation loss from Hwange. We were producing power before 10.25am when we had a system loss,” Magombo said.
When contacted for comment on Thursday, Zesa spokesperson George Manyaya said: “We will be releasing an update soon.”
Earlier on Tuesday, the power utility released a statement blaming the nationwide outage to an “abrupt system disturbance linking Harare and Kariba”.
However, information obtained from Zesa’s website showed that Hwange Power Station did not produce any electricity on Tuesday.
Yesterday, according to the ZPC website, Hwange power station was generating just 245MW, while other power stations Harare, Bulawayo, Munyati and Kariba were generating 11MW, 0MW, 14MW and 854MW, respectively, to bring a total of 1 124MW, against a peak demand of 2 200 MW.
Economists said the power outages are seriously affecting industry, which is being forced to cut short their operating hours, while the intermittent power cuts have also affected plant and machinery, some of which need constant power supply.
Government blames the power outages on an increase in economic activities, especially in agriculture, the mining sector as well as the manufacturing sector.
In a statement earlier this week, another Zesa subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), said power outages were due to technical challenges being faced in Hwange and Kariba and import constraints.
“ZETDC would like to advise its valued customers that there is increased load curtailment from September 24, 2022. This is due to technical challenges being experienced at our Kariba and Hwange Power Stations as well as import constraints.
“The utility is, therefore, conducting a maintenance exercise to ensure full restoration of service,” read the statement.
Speaking at a Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) stakeholder consultative workshop in Harare earlier this month, ZETDC acting managing director engineer Howard Choga said the entity was facing import challenges because regional partners now required payments upfront.
Zera has over the past five years licensed over 100 small independent power producers projects with a capacity to generate around 1 300MW, but most of them are yet to come on stream.
One such project is the US$183 million Gwanda solar project awarded to controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo. —Newsday
Firearms amnesty declared early August is set to end today, with 538 guns having been surrendered to the authorities.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa in August declared an amnesty on all illegal firearm holders to voluntarily surrender them to their nearest police stations with no questions asked.
The amnesty followed a spike in armed robberies and other offences involving the use of firearms throughout the country.
In a statement yesterday, national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said: “The 2022 Presidential Firearms Amnesty on voluntary surrender of firearms and compliance with a police verification exercise, which came into force on August 8, 2022 has seen 538 firearms and 260 rounds of ammunition being voluntarily surrendered to the police as at September 29, 2022.”
He said those who failed to beat the deadline would be charged.
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police urges those who are yet to surrender their firearms to utilise the opportunity before criminal charges are preferred against anyone who will be found in possession of unlicensed firearms during the pending physical check exercise to be conducted by the police on all residential and business premises where illegal firearms are suspected to be kept or hidden.” The amnesty also covered those in possession of weapons which were smuggled into the country. Police also noted the illegal possession of arms by former employees and children of deceased gun licence holders.
Govt reportedly gave $1 000 only as “compensation” to families of the August 1, 2018 army shooting victims, NewsDay Weekender has learnt.
The amount, given to assist burial of those killed by army personnel during the post-election protests over delayed announcement of presidential election results, translates to less than US$2.
Families of the six people killed during the disturbances opened up this week saying wounds of the incident are still fresh.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa narrowly beat opposition leader Nelson Chamisa in the disputed elections, with the case spilling into the Constitutional Court, where Chamisa lost the challenge.
During the post-election protests the army, using live ammunition, opened fire on fleeing protesters, killing Silvia Maphosa, Galvin Dean Charles, Ishmael Kumire, Jealous Chakandira, Challenge Tauro and Brian Zhuwawo.
Thirty-five others were wounded in the shootings in Harare’s central business district.
The killings hogged the international limelight, forcing Mnangagwa to appoint a commission of inquiry, headed by former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, to investigate the killings.
Among a raft of recommendations, the commission said families of the deceased should be compensated and that perpetrators be held accountable.
Last week, the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) hosted a roundtable discussion to measure progress on implementation of the recommendations of the commission, and victims of the deceased expressed sadness over their neglect.
Alison Charles, who lost her brother Galvin Dean, could not hold back her tears saying her brother was killed like a dog”.
“My brother died like a dog. He was never a violent person,” Alison said in-between tears.
“I have tried litigation to no avail. The government is untouchable and unapproachable. The only compensation we got from the government was the $1 000 deposited into our accounts to cover some funeral expenses.
“It was not even enough at the time as we were assisted by loved ones and friends.”
Maxwell Tauro said he wanted justice to find closure over the killing of his son Charles Tauro.
“I found out on social media that my son was shot, but I did not believe it,” he said
“My wounds are still fresh. I can’t even maintain my son’s grave because I have no money. He was our breadwinner.
“I am also demanding justice. We need to know the perpetrators.”
CiCZ chairperson Peter Mutasa said August 1, 2018 brings sad memories, and expressed regret that there is no will on the part of government to compensate the victims.
“We look at the August 1, 2018 shootings with sadness and grief as deceased families are yet to be compensated four years after the shootings,” Mutasa said.
“We are continuing to engage the commission and we have written to them and I don’t know if it’s bad or good news. Our secretariat has just received communication with the Motlanthe Commission to engage again on September 30.”
Opposition leader Linda Masarira, who testified before the Motlanthe commission, later donated five bags of cement to Tauro for his son’s grave.
“There is no political will to compensate the victims. There should be a special fund to compensate the families,” Masarira said. –Newsday
A leaked government correspondence has exposed the State-Zanu-PF conflation after it emerged that the party’s second secretary and former Zimbabwe’s vice-president Kembo Mohadi was being allocated fuel for a Mashonaland Central tour on party business.
This came as Mohadi was also sent by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to represent Zimbabwe at Tuesday’s funeral of ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
In a September 28 memorandum titled Authorisation of Pending Department Activities seen by NewsDay, the Local Government ministry’s Traditional Leaders Support Services, acting chief director Felix Chikovo said Mohadi would get 1 960 litres of fuel to travel to Mashonaland Central province between October 4 and 12.
“The following urgent department activities have been authorised to draw fuel and travel and subsistence allowances, chiefs installation for chiefs Nemamwa and Nemashakwe 3 000 litres, Chirumanzi section meetings (940 litres), VP Mohadi tour of Mashonaland Central (1 960 litres) and chief Benhura installation 2 260 litres,” Chikovo said.
Analysts told NewsDay yesterday that the communique speaks to conflation of Zanu-PF and the State and urged Parliament to investigate misuse of government resources by the party.
“Given that Mohadi is a former vice-president who resigned, he is entitled to pension benefits. But this appears to be something else, where he is getting resources from the government to carry out what appears to be political party work. This is an unfortunate conflation of government and party business and abuse of State resources, which Parliament must investigate,” Vivid Gwede said.
Another analyst Maxwell Saungweme said: “It’s the party-State conflation which aids endemic corruption, sense of entitlement and lack of accountability. It’s one of the reasons why Zimbabwe needs to change to democratic, transparent and accountable governance where State institutions are respected and not politicised.”
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba was unwilling to comment on the matter, accusing NewsDay of having written the story before without his comment.
“You want the world to read you, but you don’t read yourselves. I was not a factor in the construction of your story and I am not going to be in its development. If I had a role you would have called at the point of construction,” Charamba said.
Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu referred questions to party spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa but efforts to contact him were futile.
21 Form 4 pupils were allegedly expelled from the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) run Lower Gwelo Mission High School in Lower Gweru.
The boys were expelled for allegedly sneaking into the girls’ dormitories while the girls were expelled for entertaining the boys in their dormitories.
Of the 21, it could not be ascertained how many were girls and how many were boys.
However, 13 pupils were later reinstated and eight remain expelled. The incident occurred on Wednesday last week at around 10 PM.
The decision to expel the pupils has been castigated by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education which said a headmaster has no powers to exclude or expel learners. Only the Education Secretary has such authority.
The suspended pupils include both boys and girls. The decision to allegedly expel the eight has not been received well by parents who are now accusing the school authorities of favouritism.
“On September 21 around 10 PM, a group of male pupils sneaked into the girls’ dormitories. It’s now common for the boys to sneak into the girls’ dormitories to have sexual intercourse. Sometime they will be drinking hot stuff under the cover of the night,” said a source close to the matter.
A parent whose child was expelled posted on WhatsApp:
“I am bringing to your attention a case where Form 4 (pupils) have been expelled at the SDA run Lower Gwelo Mission in (Lower) Gweru. Boys sneaked into girls’ dormitories. 21 both sexes were suspended. Amazingly only eight were expelled, these were expelled because their parents are vocal against the school’s unreasonable opinions. Imagine female kids being dismissed at midnight not knowing where they will sleep. Favouritism was used to bring judgement.”
In an interview yesterday, Provincial Education Director of Midlands, Mr Jameson Machimbira confirmed receiving the information but said investigations were underway.
“I can confirm that there are reports to the effect that 21 learners at Lower Gwelo High School were expelled and we are investigating the matter,” he said.
Mr Machimbira castigated the school authority for expelling the learners saying school headmasters have no powers to exclude or expel learners.
“To begin with, whatever action that was taken was irregular. Currently disciplinary procedures of that nature are guided by policy circular number 35. The circular is very clear. The head has no powers to exclude/expel learners. Only the Secretary for MoPSE has such authority,” he said.
Mr Machimbira called on the affected parents to approach the Ministry so that they assist with investigations.
In a fit of anger, a man from Bulawayo who is employed as a security guard assaulted his girlfriend with a baton stick all over her body as punishment for deleting her pictures from his phone.
This was heard when Takaindisa Chirimo appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Busani Sibanda charged with physical abuse as defined in Section 3 (1) (a) as read with Section 4 of the Domestic Violence Act Chapter 5:16.
Chirimo, who pleaded not guilty, was remanded in custody to 12 October 2022 for trial. When asked by the magistrate why he used a baton stick to assault his girlfriend, Chirimo denied the accusations saying he assaulted her with fists.
The court heard that on 25 September 2022 and at around 7pm, Chirimo allegedly assaulted his girlfriend Chipo Rukweshe from Harrisvale suburb with a baton stick all over her body after a misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding arose after Rukweshe deleted her pictures from Chirimo’s cellphone.
It is reported that at the height of the misunderstanding, Chirimo assaulted his lover leading her to sustain serious injuries and she was referred to hospital for medication.
The matter was reported to the police leading to Chirimo’s arrest.
In an unrelated incident, a 61-year-old man from Killarney suburb in Bulawayo appeared before the same magistrate facing charges of stealing a wheelbarrow from a man who had failed to pay him for a part-time job he had performed at his house.
Lovemore Ndiweni who pleaded guilty to theft charges was sentenced to four months imprisonment which were wholly suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour.
The court heard that on 23 August 2022, Ndiweni went to Tinotenda Mberikwazo’s house in Killarney suburb to do a part-time job.
After doing the job, Mberikwazvo reportedly failed to pay him before he took his wheelbarrow with the aim of returning it after receiving his payment.
Mberikwazvo then reported the matter to the police leading to Ndiweni’s arrest.
In a spine-chilling incident that left villagers in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North province, in shock, a 28-year-old man who was employed as a herd boy allegedly murdered his employer’s 47-year-old wife with whom he was allegedly having an affair, after she allegedly invited another man for an all-night sex romp in the absence of her husband.
It was such a grisly killing that Daniel Zulu repeatedly struck his employer‘s wife-cum- lover Samukeliso Siziba’s head with a knobkerrie until the skull allegedly cracked open resulting in her brains spilling.
The gruesome incident happened on 11 September.
Circumstances are that two days before the incident, the now deceased’s husband visited his uncle Mzingayi Gorge Mutupa who stays in Insiza.
It is reported that the now deceased remained behind with Zulu at their plot at Kennelys Farm in Nyamandlovu.
It is alleged that on the day in question and at around 10pm the two who had an affair had a misunderstanding when the now deceased told Zulu that there was someone who was coming to spend the night with her.
That didn’t go down well with Zulu who thought since his boss wasn’t around it was his chance to spend a night with Samukeliso.
In a fit of anger, Zulu started beating up the now deceased who tried to defend herself.
It is alleged that the daring Zulu took a knobkerrie which was on the floor and used it to strike her once on the head and she fell on the sofa.
As the victim lay helplessly on the sofa, she was reportedly pleading with Zulu not to kill her.
The pleas seemed to have fallen on a livid Zulu’s deaf ears as he reportedly dragged the now deceased on the floor where he hit her several times on the back of the head until her skull cracked open exposing her brains.
Samukeliso died on the spot as a result of the brutal attack.
After the grisly act, Zulu reportedly covered Samukeliso’s lifeless body with sofa cushions and went out to hide the broken knobkerrie, which he had used to kill his lover.
Samukeliso’s lifeless body was discovered by her husband when he returned from visiting his uncle, who then reported the matter to the police.
Investigations led to the arrest of Zulu. For the callous offence Zulu has since appeared before Tsholotsho resident magistrate Victor Mpofu charged with murder as defined in Section 47 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23.
He was not asked to plead and was remanded in custody to October 10.
Liverpool starlet Isaac Mabaya made his debut for the English Under-19 side as he featured twice in their successful UEFA Under-19 EURO qualifying round which ended with a 4-2 victory over Denmark on Tuesday.
Mabaya, who is born to Zimbabwean parents, earned his maiden call-up to the Under-19 side this month and was an unused substitute when the Young Lions began their campaign with a 2-0 win over Montenegro.
He was introduced as a second half substitute when the England Under-19 side thrashed Georgia 6-0, with Mabaya providing an assist for Liverpool teammate Oakley Cannonier.
The 17-year-old versatile player then made a three-minute cameo as Simons Rusk’s side completed the qualifying round with three wins from three after a clinical 4-2 victory over hosts Denmark.
The Young Lions will now await the elite round draw being made later this year as they aim to defend their title from last season at the 2023 Under-19 EURO finals in Malta next summer.
Mabaya has been on a steady rise after making his first team debut at Liverpool during their pre-season tour of Asia.
Mabaya caught the eye with some solid performances for Liverpool’s senior squad in pre-season matches against Manchester United, Crystal Palace and Red Bull Salzburg.
He has also played for England age-group sides that include the Under-15s, Under-16s and Under-18s and the England-born footballer has almost ruled out chances of playing for Zimbabwe in the future.
In an incident that unfolded more like a movie script, a man from Gokwe shocked many with the way he reacted after he found his wife between the sheets with his uncle.
It is reported that when Wellington Sibanda from Marimirofa Village caught his wife Lucia Matambanadzo being intimate with his uncle Douglas Sibanda he created a scene when he tried to brutally axe him.
That was not before Douglas’ younger brother Charles intervened and took his elder brother (Douglas)’s side.
That reportedly didn’t go down well with Wellington who then threatened Charles saying he was going to also have sex with his wife Mary Dube as revenge for taking sides with Douglas.
Charles, who initially didn’t take Wellington’s threats seriously, was shocked a few months later when he caught him red-handed being intimate with his wife on his matrimonial bed.
According to a source, after being busted, Wellington reportedly bragged saying he wanted Charles to know how it also felt finding a close relative bedding his wife.
“When Wellington caught his wife cheating on him with his uncle he became aggressive and tried to axe him but was restrained by Charles who passionately begged him not to do so. In the process he was on Douglas’s side. In a fit of anger Wellington threatened Charles saying he was also going to do the same to his wife,” said the source.
Wellington, who was repeatedly swearing that he was going to inflict emotional pain on Charles as Douglas had done to him, later approached Chief Nemangwe’s traditional court demanding compensation from his uncle.
Douglas was fined two beasts as compensation for bedding Wellington’s wife.
The source further said Wellington who seemed to have been holding onto feelings of resentment despite the fact that he had been compensated, later lived true to his threats when he slept with Charles’ wife.
“It was indeed sweet revenge for Wellington who apparently believed that the only way he was going to ‘fix’ Charles who had supported his elder brother when he busted him having sex with his wife was also to sleep with his wife,” said the source.
Charles, who initially didn’t take Wellington’s threats seriously when he said he was going to do the same to his wife, was later shocked when he caught Wellington red-handed in bed with his wife on their matrimonial bed.
“After being busted Wellington was bragging that he wanted Charles to know how it feels when one catches his wife in bed with another man. A shocked Charles also approached Chief Nemangwe’s traditional court asking for compensation from Wellington and the matter is still pending,” added the source.
Chief Nemangwe confirmed the horrendous scandal. He lamented the situation describing it as the “worst abomination” to ever happen in an area under his jurisdiction.
“It’s actually a disturbing matter. Makunakuna chaiwo (it’s an abomination). Just imagine a man who approached my traditional court demanding compensation from his uncle for bedding his wife was also later caught red-handed in bed with his other uncle’s wife in bed.
“He is now refusing to pay the two beasts which I fined him, one is for appeasing his uncle and the other one is for putting the name of the area into disrepute.
“He is, however, arguing that as for the one for putting the name of the area into disrepute it was paid by his uncle whom I fined for bedding his wife since they were from the same family. During the court proceedings the parties caused violent scenes and we had to call the police who arrested them,” Chief Nemangwe.
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has dragged court officials including magistrates, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and acting Prosecutor-General Nelson Mutsonziwa, after bail conditions of Cottco official Maxmore Njanji, who faces a fraud charge involving US$5,8 million were changed under unclear circumstances.
Zacc also cited the clerk of court, magistrates Taurai Manuwere and Marehwanazvo Gofa, senior regional magistrate Ngoni Nduna, chief magistrate Faith Mushure, JSC, NPA and Njanji as respondents, respectively.
In an application filed through its executive secretary Sukai Tongogara on September 23, Zacc said it wanted to be furnished with September 21 record of court proceedings that led to the release of Njanji’s passport.
“This is an urgent application for a mandatory interdict to compel the first respondent to furnish applicant with record of court proceedings conducted on the 21st of September 2022 under CRB No 243/22 within 24 hours from the date of the order sought herein and that the ninth respondent’s passport shall remain in the first respondent’s custody until the matter under CRB No ACC 243/22 is finalised,” Tongogara submitted.
Njanji is being charged alongside Zanu-PF legislator Mayor Wadyajena and Cottco executives Pious Manamike, Fortunate Molai and Chiedza Danha director for Pierpont Moncroix Mauritius.
They are on $200 000 bail each.
Tongogara said Zacc’s urgent chamber application was motivated by its Constitutional mandate to secure the arrest and conviction of all persons suspected of corruption, abuse of power and other improper conduct which falls within its jurisdiction.
The anti-graft body said it was supposed to be notified of any applications that might seek to vary bail conditions of accused persons whom it would have investigated for offences relating to corruption.
“The purported application made by the ninth respondent to compel release of passport by first respondent and another order made by the third respondent in the circumstances is unknown to the applicant to date. The applicant was not made aware of these applications in question and was never afforded an opportunity to represent its interests,” Tongogara said.
“. . . the applicant was left with no other choice but to approach this court on an urgent basis with regards to the said proceedings held on the 21st of September 2022 before the third respondent.
“The basis of this application is premised on the applicant’s constitutional interest emanating from its mandate to arrest and secure prosecution of persons reasonable suspected of corruption, abuse of power and other improper conduct which falls within the applicant’s jurisdiction.”
Tongogara said Njanji’s bail conditions should never have been varied as that would jeopardise investigations.
“Manuwere had ordered a temporary release of Njanji’s passport until September 30 for travelling outside the country pursuant to an application for variation of bail conditions by the NPA and the Prosecutor-General wherein Zacc was never consulted,” Tongogara submitted.
“Given the nature and magnitude of the offence which involves money laundering in another territory including South Africa, Zacc holds the position that the conditions of bail should never have been varied without its knowledge or input.”
She added: “Furthermore, the apparent inconsistencies that arise from this unfortunate occurrence requires urgent protection of Zacc’s constitutional mandate to, among other things, fight corruption and the contribution to the administration of justice. The matter cannot, therefore, wait; it ought to be determined on an urgent basis.
“I am convinced that if this honourable court does not urgently order the clerk of court to avail the record of proceedings of the 21st of September 2022, Zacc’s constitutional mandate will be in jeopardy.”
In a sad love story, a woman from Bulawayo abandoned her husband of 20 years after he suffered a stroke and allegedly eloped to her married lover who also reportedly dumped his wife to accommodate her.
Idah Dimba allegedly dumped her husband Mike Ngwenya (47) after he suffered a stroke and took off with her married lover, Brighton Mlilwana, who also reportedly ditched his wife Silethemba Moyo.
Narrating his ordeal to B-Metro, a heartbroken Ngwenya from Njube suburb said Idah eloped to her lover on 25 August leaving him behind with his daughter. It seems Idah had perfected the art of eloping without her husband’s knowledge.
Ngwenya said before Idah left home, she had lied to him that she wanted to accompany her aunt to their rural home.
“When she left I thought she had accompanied her aunt to the rural areas as she had told me earlier on. I was shocked when I heard some people telling me that Idah had been spotted around Njube suburb where she was now staying with Mlilwana,” said Ngwenya.
Sharing further details he said before Idah deserted him they were always having disputes as she was in the habit of bringing her lover home and was allegedly sleeping with him in his presence.
‘‘Our marriage had problems like everyone else’s but Idah took it too far by inviting her lover to our matrimonial home. It seems like she has been seeing this man she is now staying with for a while.
“She was always bringing him home and they were sleeping together in my presence and she has been doing that a couple of times. After I complained that is when she threatened to leave saying she was no longer feeling comfortable staying with me.
“Ever since she left, she called me once saying she was coming to collect her clothes and she hasn’t yet come to collect them,” narrated Ngwenya.
According to a source privy to the drama, Idah did not only destroy her marriage but Silethemba’s after she eloped with the latter’s husband.
An embittered Silethemba had no kind words for Idah whom she labelled a “home-wrecker”.
“Before we separated, my husband had told me that there is a woman that he needs to take as his second wife.
“Sometime in August when I returned from South Africa where I had visited a relative I was shocked when I came back and found him with Idah in the house and she had already changed the curtains. Out of frustration I left the house to stay with my sister as I felt that it was difficult for two women married to the same man to stay together under one roof,” said Silethemba.
When reached for comment, a fuming Idah refused to entertain questions from this publication. She even threatened this reporter with an unspecified action.
Mlilwana also declined comment saying he was not happy with the way he was approached.
A man was shot dead during a break-in at the Harare home of Central Intelligence Organisation deputy director Gatsha Mazithulela, ZimLive can reveal.
The incident took place at around 2AM on Thursday at Mazithulela’s Crichton Road residence in the Groombridge area of Mt Pleasant.
The former National University of Science and Technology vice chancellor, who was appointed to the role in January 2020, was unharmed in the incident.
Neighbours said they woke up to the sound of gunfire, and before long the Mazithulela residence was swarming with police and security agents from various departments.
“I heard there could have been three people who tried to jump over a perimeter wall, and one was shot dead,” one neighbour said. “An ambulance arrived at around 3AM but the person didn’t make it.
“Everyone around here seems to think the intruders were robbers because just hours before, there was an attempted break-in at a house on Maxwell Road nearby.”
ZimLive understands police are keeping an open mind, their concerns heightened after the Central Intelligence Organisation’s training college in Hatfield caught fire in a suspected arson attack just before 3PM on Thursday.
Investigators would be trying to establish if the two incidents are related. Mazithulela also teaches at the college.
Mazithulela said: “Sorry, I don’t talk to the media.”
National police spokesman Paul Nyathi said he did not have full details.
“Call me tomorrow,” he said.
This is not the first security incident at the home of Mazithulela.
In November 2020, just months after his appointment, a CIO agent guarding his Matabeleland North farm drunkenly pointed a gun him.
Mazithulela was leaving his farm in Norwood in Umguza at about 7PM on November 28 when he observed Earnest Muleya, who was on guard duties at the property, staggering.
Suspecting the 38-year-old was drunk, Mazithulela demanded that Muleya hands over his AK-47 assault rifle which he was carrying. Instead of handing over the rifle, Muleya cocked it and pointed it at Mazithulela who ran and took cover behind his vehicle before making a dash for his house where he barricaded himself inside.
Mazithulela called the CIO’s regional headquarters at Magnet House in Bulawayo and agents were dispatched to the farm where they disarmed and arrested Muleya.
Zimbabwe opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa says there was urgent need to correct historical anomalies in order to end disputed election outcomes.
The timing, according to CCC, was now as the country nudges towards the much anticipated general elections slated for next year.
In a quest to crank the heat on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to implement electoral reforms, the new opposition party Thursday launched an electoral reform blueprint dubbed Pre-Election Pact on Electoral Reforms (PREPARE).
The document, among others, demands universal suffrage allowing the right to vote, credibility of the voters roll, realtime and credible results and transmission system. It also calls for integrity of election processes, political freedoms, media access, security of the vote and the voter.
Speaking at the launch event, Chamisa said it was high time the nation shifted from contested plebiscites to dialogue and engagement premised on the seven points, which anchor their demands.
“Since 1980 credible and undisputed elections have been a pipe dream in Zimbabwe. People have not been able to choose their own leaders,” said Chamisa.
“This is what we need to correct, this is what we need to remedy. Indeed, the history of disputed elections is a common story within the region and the continent. Zimbabwe is known for testimony of elections that are disputed, that is part of what we need to resolve.”
The country has in the past witnessed turbulent electoral processes amid allegations of vote manipulation levelled by the opposition against Zanu-PF.
After the heated 2018 polls, foreign observer missions raised red flags over the conduct of elections and recommended far-reaching reforms.
Chamisa hinted the blueprint would be handed to Parliament, political players and other regional bodies in an effort to press government to implement the contentious reforms.
However, ruling party Zanu-PF has maintained its stance referring the opposition to the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a Mnangagwa roundtable. CCC has scoffed at the arrangement, insisting on dialogue convened on neutral ground and by non-aligned actors.
The youthful leader expressed confidence that electoral reforms would be done in readiness for next year’s polls.
“It is within this context that we have learnt from 2018 when we had the election observer mission reports and other critical election bodies sharing their perspectives on our election. We have been unfortunate that insufficient work has been done,” the presidential hopeful said.
CCC interim vice president, Tendai Biti said the blueprint was a foundation upon which democratic elections would be held.
“We are tired of contested elections, since 1980 electoral issue remain an outstanding issue.
“We have to put a full stop to the election dispute and I hope that our colleagues in Zanu-PF can understand that our PREPARE document is a peace offering. It is a document to create a soft landing for our country,” Biti said.
A United Kingdom Member of Parliament, Lord Jonathan Oates Wednesday 28 September 2022 asked what the UK government was doing with regard to the prolonged detention of opposition MP Job Sikhala.
Sikhala was arrested in June together with a fellow legislator, Godfrey Sithole and 14 Nyatsime residents over public violence which erupted in Nyatsime on 14 June during the funeral wake of slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali.
They have been in prison since then with courts denying them bail on several occasions.
Responding to Oates’ question, the Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Lord Goldsmith said his government was monitoring the detention of the political activists. Goldsmith said:
The former Minister for Africa met with the Foreign Minister of Zimbabwe on 30 June and reiterated the importance of all political parties respecting the rule of law, refraining from violence and respecting the right of others’ to campaign freely ahead of upcoming elections in 2023.
The CCC party has often argued that its members were being detained for political reasons to force their party.
Law expert Professor Lovemore Madhuku said Sikhala and others were “victims of their party’s refusal to join the Political Actors Dialogue,” a platform initiated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for parties that participated in the 2018 elections to engage in dialogue.
Meanwhile, about 52 000 people have signed a petition calling for the release of Sikhala and his colleagues.
The State says it has almost completed investigations into their case and they should stand trial on 15 November.
State Media -Resolutions by Harare City councillors to block or cancel the Pomona waste management project are invalid since the Government was involved from the start and efforts to derail the project work against the interests of residents and the nation at large, Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo has said.
In a letter to Harare Mayor, Councillor Jacob Mafume, Minister Moyo said minutes of a council meeting held on August 3 reported resolutions detrimental to the city as waste management was a nightmare under the present council.
In any case, there was a binding contract between Geogenix BV and council while the Government had granted the project national status, showing its importance.
In the letter dated September 27, 2022, Minister Moyo cited a number of resolutions that were made in that meeting, the notable one being that council should not oppose the court case by residents of Harare for publication of the report on investigations into converting Pomona waste to energy.
Other resolutions were that council exercises the termination clause in its contract with Geo Pomona Waste Management (Pvt) Ltd to cancel the deal and mandated the acting chamber secretary to proceed with the necessary action.
“Pursuant to the passing of the resolutions, your office through the office of the town clerk advised the Ministry through a letter dated 26 September.
“In my view the above mentioned resolutions were gratitious and not in the interests of the inhabitants of Harare and the public at large, a burden which is now cascading to the inhabitants and therefore cannot be allowed,” he said.
Minister Moyo said in any case, the project was granted national project status by Government and therefore in the national interest, Government is part of this arrangement.
“Hence Government will not accept such an action which undermines efforts to enhance service delivery in the local authorities as well as erosion of investor confidence on current and future investments in Zimbabwe,” he said.
“I accordingly, direct in terms of Section 314 of the Urban Council’s Act, that council immediately rescinds the resolutions cited above which seeks to not oppose the court case as well as the termination of the contract. The resolution is, in my view, in bad faith and not in the public interest.”
The €304 million Pomona dumpsite waste-to-energy project is expected to generate up to 22MW of electricity.
Apart from electricity generation, the project is also projected to generate at least 300 jobs, boost economic growth and reduce the country’s import bill for electricity with the investor already exploring other investment opportunities in the country.
There has been persistent attempts by opposition CCC councillors led by Mayor Mafume to derail projects that are critical in the restoration of Harare’s sunshine City status. Herald
A BUHERA teenager was recently arrested for fatally stabbing his friend following a misunderstanding during a swimming expedition.
The 15-year-old of Torevasei Village under Chief Nyashanu’s area of Buhera is assisting police with investigations.
Manicaland provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Nobert Muzondo confirmed the death of Brighton Mapfumo (15) who succumbed to two wounds after he was allegedly stabbed by his friend on the chest and thigh.
“The boys and two other friends were swimming in Save River when Mapfumo came out of the water and told his friends that it was time to go home. The accused refused to come out, arguing that they should continue swimming.
“Irritated by his friends’ refusal to heed his advice, Mapfumo started throwing stones at the accused who was still swimming. The accused immediately stopped swimming, went out of the water and dashed home where he took a homemade knife. He waylaid Mapfumo and their other colleagues on their way home,” said Inspector Muzondo.
The accused stabbed Mapfumo on the chest and thigh.
Mapfumo collapsed and bled profusely.
The other boys rushed home to call other villagers who rushed Mapfumo to Murambinda Mission Hospital where he was pronounced dead upon arrival.
The accused was immediately arrested.
Inspector Muzondo called for peaceful solutions to any forms of conflict.
“It is important that parents and guardians teach their children that violence does not solve problems. Young people should also not be subjected to violent films as they encourage such behaviour. As the police, we encourage parents and guardians to keep a close eye on their children,” he said.
Disgruntled CAPS United fans confronted head coach Lloyd ‘Lodza’ Chitembwe over the team’s insipid display in their 0-1 loss to Yadah at the National Sports Stadium.
The struggling Harare giants failed to register a single shot on target during the entire game, which was decided by a Tanaka Shandirwa solitary 50th minute strike, to the dismay of the Makepekepe faithful.
After the game, a section of the Green Machine fans ‘disowned’ their players and celebrated with the victorious Yadah players before confronting Chief Executive Officer Charlie Jones.
Jones had to bring Chitembwe and the fans voiced their concerns over the team’s performance.
“Firstly, we are aware that the players were not being paid, but we then read that all their outstanding salaries were paid in full. If that is not the case then please tell me,” one fan said to Chitembwe, before the coach asked him what his point was.
“My point is when we play a small team like Yadah, it’s unacceptable for CAPS to not even register a single shot on target, considering these players wanted money and were given.
“Do these lads want to play for CAPS United or they have some kind of an agenda? Do they want our team to be relegated? We have been patient with them, we know they were not being paid but now it’s a different case so we expect better.
“We cannot let our team sink, we have been patient with these players,” said the fan.
Another fan weighed in and also questioned the commitment of Chitembwe’s charges.
“Coach, my input is we want to see these players, for them to explain to us what the problem really is. They should simply tell us if they still want to play for CAPS United or not,” he said.
“If they feel they no longer want to play for the club, they should simply say so because even their body language says a lot,” added the fan.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|Former Zaka Central MP Harrison Mudzuri has exhorted teachers to avoid being used being used by the Zanu PF regime.
Mudzuri, who is also the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe national coordinator, believes the programme is meant to “magnify Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s support by coercion.”
“Teachers who join the Teachers 4 ED. ( Teachers 4 Economic Disaster)* must have their minds examined.
If those who are supposed to be enlightened can easily be fooled, then the value of being educated is questionable.
Teachers must fight for living wages,” Mudzuri wrote on Twitter.
Tinashe Sambiri|Zimbabweans say life under Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is hell on earth.
Mr Mnangagwa rose to power in November 2017 after removing his ailing 93-year- old boss Robert Mugabe via a military coup.
On Friday CCC leader Nelson Chamisa wrote on Twitter: “Using one word or a few words, how would you describe life in Zimbabwe since Nov 2017? Blessed Friday!”
Below are some of the responses from suffering citizens…
Renay: A script out of a movie called ‘Out goes a thief, in comes an armed robber’
Gatsheni: Mr President..Mapfumo gave us the two immortal words, Disaster and Mamvhemvhe ,in Ndebele it’s called “ inhlekelele” and ED keep on upgrading , now it’s Version 15.9.1 , Worse than a category 5 tropical cyclone Blowhorns : Takafarira N’anga neinobata mai.
MudiwaNotHood:
Haa pakaipa President. The masses are languishing in poverty whilst the Elites are acquiring more wealth. The gap between the few rich and majority poor is widening everyday. They’re feeding from our poverty and fear, and I hope 2023 will be different.
Dave screamed: Disaster!
Tanganda wrote :
HORRIBLE!
Another social media user observed: Jumping from frying pan to the fire. Takaitiswa, imagine it was always obvious that a 93 year old would soon die or fail to go to work
Have you ever seen a president who gives a paedophile amnesty? ED released Munyaradzi Kereke. Is that normal? Show me one. It's a failed state. https://t.co/dX0VCm4zmg
Tinashe Sambiri| Zanu PF ‘s Simba Chisango has been fingered in the abduction of a CCC activist.
According to CCC, champion Felix Bhire was abducted by Chisango and Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime on Thursday.
Chisango’s brother Pius Jamba was arrested for the abduction and brutal Murder of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
A senior CCC member said in a statement on Thursday:
ATTENTION MA ZIM CHAMPIONS.. SAD NEWS.
KUNYATSIME AGAIN. pane mu CCC Champion anonzi Felix bhire apambwa na Chisango pamba Ne ma Zanu Pf Thugs just now now varikumukuvadza zvakaomarara pa Zanu pf base riri pa Chibhanguza Complex. .kusanganisira ne madzimai maviri nemwana mumwechete Mwana weimwe victim yekunyatsime inonzi manyanga.
Vanhu vose Ava varikufira kuve Vanhu ve CCC mu Nyatsime. As of now havasati vati vawana help.
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The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change‘s Southend branch has claimed that Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives are following and intimidating the children of slain CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
In a post on Twitter this Thursday, the party said:
We are disturbed to hear slain #CCC activist #MoreblessingAli’s grieving children are being followed & intimidated by @edmnangagwa’s Central Intelligence Organisation operatives. This is a despicable corrupt use of state resources. Is it not enough that you killed their mum?
Moreblessing Ali went missing on 24 May 2022 after she had been kidnapped by Pius Mukandi, alias Jamba, at Chibhanguza Shopping Centre in Nyatsime.
Her mutilated body was found in a disused well on 11 June.
Jamba who is believed to be a ZANU PF member was arrested in Hurungwe five days after the discovery of Ali’s body at his mother’s plot.
Moreblessing’s body is yet to be buried with her family demanding that their lawyer, Job Sikhala, be released first.
Sikhala, who was at the forefront in demanding justice for Moreblessing, was arrested alongside Chitungwiza North member of Parliament Godfrey Sithole and 14 other CCC activists over the violence which erupted during Moreblessing Ali’s funeral wake. – Pindula News
IN a sad love story, a woman from Bulawayo abandoned her husband of 20 years after he suffered a stroke and allegedly eloped to her married lover who also reportedly dumped his wife to accommodate her.
Idah Dimba allegedly dumped her husband Mike Ngwenya (47) after he suffered a stroke and took off with her married lover, Brighton Mlilwana, who also reportedly ditched his wife Silethemba Moyo.
Narrating his ordeal to B-Metro, a heartbroken Ngwenya from Njube suburb said Idah eloped to her lover on 25 August leaving him behind with his daughter. It seems Idah had perfected the art of eloping without her husband’s knowledge.
Ngwenya said before Idah left home, she had lied to him that she wanted to accompany her aunt to their rural home.
“When she left I thought she had accompanied her aunt to the rural areas as she had told me earlier on. I was shocked when I heard some people telling me that Idah had been spotted around Njube suburb where she was now staying with Mlilwana,” said Ngwenya.
Sharing further details he said before Idah deserted him they were always having disputes as she was in the habit of bringing her lover home and was allegedly sleeping with him in his presence.
‘‘Our marriage had problems like everyone else’s but Idah took it too far by inviting her lover to our matrimonial home. It seems like she has been seeing this man she is now staying with for a while.
“She was always bringing him home and they were sleeping together in my presence and she has been doing that a couple of times. After I complained that is when she threatened to leave saying she was no longer feeling comfortable staying with me.
“Ever since she left, she called me once saying she was coming to collect her clothes and she hasn’t yet come to collect them,” narrated Ngwenya.
According to a source privy to the drama, Idah did not only destroy her marriage but Silethemba’s after she eloped with the latter’s husband.
An embittered Silethemba had no kind words for Idah whom she labelled a “home-wrecker”.
“Before we separated, my husband had told me that there is a woman that he needs to take as his second wife.
“Sometime in August when I returned from South Africa where I had visited a relative I was shocked when I came back and found him with Idah in the house and she had already changed the curtains. Out of frustration I left the house to stay with my sister as I felt that it was difficult for two women married to the same man to stay together under one roof,” said Silethemba.
When reached for comment, a fuming Idah refused to entertain questions from this publication. She even threatened this reporter with an unspecified action.
Mlilwana also declined comment saying he was not happy with the way he was approached.- B Metro
By A Correspondent- Zimbabwean Telecommunications Expert, Dr Cosmas Zavazava has made history by winning elections for the powerful and coveted Director Telecommunications Development Bureau (BDT) position at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) after an electrifying three rounds of voting at the ongoing ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, Romania.
Zimbabwe has never occupied an elective position in any of the UN organs and this victory will go down as a momentous achievement for the country and the SADC region.
For this position, Africa fielded four candidates from Cameroon, The Gambia, Congo Brazavile and Zimbabwe while the other candidates were from Bahamas and Pakistan.
It was a nail-biting encounter as Zimbabwe led in the first round of voting but failed to reach the mandatory threshold of 50% plus 1 votes after garnering 59 votes thus forcing the polls to go to a second round of voting. Bahamas was a close second in the first round with 47 votes, followed by The Gambia with 35 votes. Pakistan, Cameroon and Congo Brazavile had 20, 11 and 8 votes respectively.
Cameroon and Congo Brazzaville withdrew their candidatures in the second round of voting. In this round, Zimbabwe’s votes shot up to 81 but again fell shy of the winning threshold of 91 votes from the 181 ballots cast by the ITU member states in attendance.
Bahamas received 59 votes while the Gambia and Pakistan received 25 and 15 votes, respectively.
The Gambia and Pakistan dropped out of the race after this round leaving only Zimbabwe and Bahamas in the running. In this final ballot, Zimbabwe garnered an impressive 101 votes compared to 63votes polled by Bahamas.
Announcement of this result caused a stamped by delegates who cheered and ululated as they rushed to congratulate Dr Zavazava and the Zimbabwe delegation, which was led by Deputy Minister of ICT, Postal and Courier Services, Hon Dingimuzi Phuti deputised by POTRAZ Director General, Dr Gift Kallisto Machengete. Dr Machengete Chaired the Dr Zavazava Campaign Team where he also doubled as Campaign manager and strategist for the campaign.
The campaign team also comprised officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services, Office of the President and Cabinet and POTRAZ.
The ITU is a specialised organisation of the United Nation (UN). The union meets every four years to elect its Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General and Directors its three Bureau’s, namely Radio Communications Bureau, Telecommunication Standadisation Bureau and Telecommunications Development Bureau. As Director Telecommunications Development Bureau, Dr Zavazava will be responsible for the development arm of the ITU, which facilitates development projects in Developing Countries, Small Island Developing States and Underdeveloped areas of the world.
Prior to this latest appointment, Dr Zavazava was working as Chief of Department, Partnerships for Digital Development in the BDT responsible for strategic partnerships, engagement with industry and private sector, resource mobilization and projects implementation.He also spent many years working as Chief of Department forProjects and Knowledge Management in the Telecommunication Development Bureau.
Prior to joining ITU, Dr Zavazava served as Head of Zimbabwe Government’s Telecommunication Agency. He also served as a Senior Diplomat for many years.
Dr Zavazava has worked in the Development Sector of the ITU since 2001. He has over 30 years of experience in telecommunications. He holds impeccable qualifications in telecommunications, business management, law, and international relations. He also holds a doctorate in multilateral trade. Over the years, he successfully implemented many projects and initiatives, mobilized resources, and negotiated partnerships. He has demonstrated extreme dedication and passion in his work.
By- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted amnesty to at least 4 000 prisoners and ignored to free CCC deputy chairman Job Sikhala.
Sikhala and his counterpart Godfrey Sithole and 14 CCC activists have now clocked 110 in remand prison after their June arrest for demanding justice for the murdered Moreblessing Ali.
Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told reporters Thursday that Mnangagwa is releasing 4000 inmates to ease prison congestion.
She said: The nation is being informed that section 112 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe provides that the President after consultation with Cabinet may exercise the power of mercy to grant pardon to any person convicted of an offence against the law,” Mutsvangwa said. “The rationale behind the proposal is to decongest our prisons, whose population as at 29 August, 2022 stood at 22 114, against an official holding capacity of 17 000 inmates. “This situation means that 4 798 inmates do not have adequate floor space as required by the Constitution and compromises the health of inmates, among other challenges.” Mutsvangwa, however, said not all prisoners were eligible for amnesty especially those convicted of human trafficking, murder and unlawful possession of firearms, among others. “The amnesty excludes the following categories of prisoners: those previously released on amnesty; those serving a sentence imposed by court martial, those with a record of escaping from lawful custody; and those convicted of committing specified offences,” she said. “Specified offences include murder; treason; rape or any sexual offences; carjacking; robbery; public violence; human trafficking; unlawful possession of firearms; contravention of the Zesa Act, the PTC Act and Mopa and any conspiracy, incitement or attempt to commit any of these offences.” In 2021, at least 3 000 inmates were granted presidential amnesty. Newsday
By- A Central Intelligence Organisation training centre in Hatfield has been burnt down in a suspected arson attack.
The spy training offices went in flames on Thursday afternoon.
An online newspaper with the details, ZimLive, said the police were investigating the cause of the fire.
An attempted break-in preceded the incident at the Harare house of CIO deputy director Gatsha Mazithulela early Thursday.
A man was shot dead during a break-in, while two others are said to have disappeared.
Investigators would be trying to establish if the two incidents are related. Mazithulela, a former NUST vice-chancellor who teaches at the CIO’s training college, was unharmed in the incident. Mazithulela was appointed to the role of deputy director in January 2020.
By-Abductors of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member Felix Biri have released him and facilitated his arrest.
Biri was abducted on Thursday by known Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime.
CCC posted this announcement:
LATEST ON NYATSIME VIOLENCE: Our change champion, Felix Bhiri who was abducted and badly beaten by Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime yesterday has been taken to Harare Central Police. After beating him the thugs went on to call the @PoliceZimbabwe to arrest the victim.
?LATEST ON NYATSIME VIOLENCE: Our change champion, Felix Bhiri who was abducted and badly beaten by Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime yesterday has been taken to Harare Central Police. After beating him the thugs went on to call the @PoliceZimbabwe to arrest the victim. #FreeBhiripic.twitter.com/UPbzn3k1w3
'You can phone her & find out if she was ever serious about exposing ED. This CIO group worked hand in hand with ZANU PF elements led by (NAME WITHHELD). You've already seen that even the police ref no. Susan cited is fake, it's just the badge number of the cop she talked with.' pic.twitter.com/jCgQ5QW1is
Pitso Mosimane has revealed why he decided to take a job in the Middle East, describing the move as a high risk.
The South African gaffer joined Saudi Arabian second tier side Al-Ahli Jeddah this week.
Mosimane had been unattached since June following his exit at Egyptian giants Al Ahly.
His move to the Middle East, however, has been seen as downgrade, with many believing he joined the Saudi club because of money.
But in his address to the reporters on Friday, the three-time Champions League winning coach said he was attracted by the revival projects that the club set.
“I have built my career on waking up sleeping giants. This is a big risk, but a very good risk. I have never arrived at a club where everything was 100% all right,” said Mosimane.
“All the clubs that I have coached, we have changed the status quo. I found Mamelodi Sundowns on position 14 in the PSL [Premier Soccer League log] and it took us many years to win a trophy.
“SuperSport United were struggling when I joined them. But we built the club and we were in six consecutive cup finals. We won two trophies and lost four. So, I believe I can wake up this sleeping giant in Saudi Arabia.”
Al Ahli Jeddah were relegated from the Saudi Pro League last season.
It was the first time they had ever been demoted in the club’s history.
The gaffer continued: “When we were in Egypt [Al Ahly], we had to make sure that we turn the international programme around and get the club back to the CAF Champions League, the Fifa Club World Cup, and also the CAF Super Cup.
“I told my agents, MT Sport Management, that they must hand-pick a project that would take us out of our comfort zone. We had to go through three offers and we looked at that league and the expectations.
“I think this is very challenging and we want to take our legacy to that space, in the Middle East, and make history.”- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
By Simba Chikanza | Hopewell Chin’ono exposes a lot of corruption, but how much beyond what earns him an award and retains him the title ‘Daddy of Hope’ : [in Shona, ‘Mudhara Vachauya’?] How much does he give people beyond what is convenient for his personal show-off or iron-fish-hook?
What are his blind spots? While there are undenied reports of money laundering and cheque fraud in the UK committed under different names between 1997 and 2001, long before Hopewell Chin’ono had fled the UK for Zimbabwe, where he changed his own name, in this feature, I list only what I have seen with my own eyes and experienced over the last five (5) years since the early days when Mr Hopewell Rugoho-Chin’ono began pushing us to expose his close female friend’s misconduct.
Hopewell-Chinono…
contents:
-ENDANGERING JOURNALISTS.
-ELECTORAL FRAUD AND ENCOURAGING OPPOSITION TO RECEIVE MONEY FROM MNANGAGWA SON
-CHANGING OWN NAMES 3 TIMES
-SUPPORTING FRIEND’S FRAUDS AND ABUSE OF COURTS.
-BENSON MUNERI AUDIO LEAKS.
-DID HOPEWELL STAGE FAKE POLICE ARRESTS?
ENDANGERING JOURNALISTS.
What triggered this investigation was the concern over the safety of journalists endangered by him, one of whom is the Newsday paper’s editor Wisdon Mudzungairi, Mr Hopewell Chin’ono accuses of confessing to knowledge of bribes in newsrooms.
Why do you suggest journalists who don't do rolling-court reporting have been bribed? &isn't it clear there's rarely any such even in English courts, & why not complain over Mahere's case in which she's harassing another woman & abusing the JSC, while with a checkered reputation?
And 2 weeks ago, you apologised to me in private; When are you saying 'sorry' to @wisdomdzungairi who you named on the same topic, over which you didn't return calls while right here in London? Why do you seem to seek to destroy the reputation of @ZUJOfficial fellows?
Having since 29th July 2022 given Mr Hopewell Chin’ono four (4) weeks to address his ‘bribe’ allegations, I thought just needed a short apology; I ended up physically approaching him over his false accusations against scores of journalists, he says are bribed because they do not do rolling court reporting, stressing that he should urgently consider their physical security when they get arrested of which they will be in a worse prison predicament than his which did not involve beatings. I asked him this at the sidelines of a Thomas Mapfumo-Toky-Macheso show in Leicester, UK on 29th Aug.
2 days later on the 31st August 2022, after I had whistleblown concerning his conduct, Hopewell Chin’ono wrote, replying to a journalists’ WhatsApp group inquiry, saying: “There is an issue that must also be addressed; Simba is lying that I said Wisdom took bribes.
“I never said that. I said that Wisdom explained to us the bribe problem in the industry due to low salaries.
“Wisdom knows this and when I spoke to him yesterday he even reminded me that he said it in Alexandra Park where there were many other journalists.”
No editor I know any where has confirmed ever talking to Hopewell Chin’ono about taking bribes over Wadyajena, and none at all over any other issue or during meetings.
“Of course there’s nothing like that. I suppose he’s got a very fertile sense of imagination,” adds Mr Mudzungairi, who says if there is anything he would have done surrounding the topic of bribes, it is to highlight how Newsday runs a self regulation mechanism that helps maintain professionalism at all times.
Furthermore, at no time had I, Simba Chikanza, in any way stated that Chin’ono said Mudzungairi took bribes, and my statements are in the public domain in both broadcast and printed form. My verbal posture was also the same at the Leicester show on 29 August 2022.
I asked Chin’ono in reply to please “address the matter Hopewell. Don’t change the English. You clearly said Wisdom confessed about brown envelopes affecting newsrooms.”
Why can’t you respond? asked another journo.
Another scribe quipped in, asking, “On the issue of live updates in our courts. How many times were you reprimanded in court for using your phone? I think on that one, you should know that is why at times, we delay updating court stories.”
To this, Chin’ono replied in a voice message which he posted saying: “guys I have work to do, I have no time to deal with Simba’s issues, he is slandering me let him go ahead. I know how I am going to deal with it legally. Simba is a liar, I posted about the issue of bribes being offered to journalists and my followers came on my posts and started naming him, because I guess people were not happy with the fact that he was dealing with the Susan Mutami issue, and he phoned me and he said he is worried that people were talking about him, and I said I am not talking about you, it’s a well known issue that journalists are offered bribes, and then he asked me to write something else to exonerate him. And I said there was no need for me to exonerate anybody when I am talking about an industry wide issue. I think if people have issues with me they need to direct them rather than talking behind my back. I am very thankful to the person who added me to this group, if there is any substantive issue I am happy to address it, I don’t want to be here more than I need to be.”
Chin’ono totally avoided the issue concerning his false allegations against journalists he wants to do rolling reporting; otherwise, they have been bribed, and he swiftly exited the WhatsApp group after being challenged with an audio recording of him audibly evading his comments against Wisdom Mudzungairi and also showing no concern for the safety of the journalists he is falsely accusing.
‘This is you speaking at Lance Guma’s Red car… you show you DON’T CARE a thing about the physical safety of your own colleagues, Wisdom, who you’ve endangered here,’ I asked him in writing, to which he replied saying, “The fact that you recorded me without my consent shows how unprofessional you are and I have no time for you. I think I have addressed the real issues.
Good day.”
Discussion on journalists WhatsApp Group-pic
He exited the WhatsApp group in a huff without addressing the issue of the safety of journalists whose life he has endangered, and days after his allegations, Mudzungairi was arrested. My request to Chin’ono in the four (4) weeks running into August was: please consider the plight of journalists like you who could easily be tortured when they are imprisoned, unlike in your case, which did not involve torture.
Journo group discusssion-pic
After this, Mr Wisdom Mudzungairi told me that contrary to Chin’ono’s claims, there had not been any phone contact for several months. It was suggested to me that Chin’ono is attacking the Newsday brand so that he can promote a rival newspaper that was recently launched a few months before and that he has business interests in.
All these experiences made me to start wanting to understand what exactly Chin’ono is pursuing, the path of journalism or if there is something else. In my inquiry trying to obtain who he is, I found multiple identities and names, four (4) different ones between 1997 and 2001, of the self-same individual, the ‘Dem Loot’ singer. – this is the subect of an upcoming major investigation.
What is Hopewell Chin’ono gaining in all this if it is not fraudulent scoops? In his conduct, unless it is a unique case of mental illness, is Mr Hopewell Chin’ono not making fraudulent representations against industry colleagues to obtain financial and or political gain?
-ELECTORAL FRAUD AND ENCOURAGING OPPOSITION TO RECEIVE MONEY FROM MNANGAGWA SON.
I have personally experienced and witnessed Mr Hopewell Chin’ono covering up evidence exposing the looming vote rigging and election violence in the upcoming 2023 elections.
Mr Chin’ono tephoned me from a never-used-before phone number at 9.48am in 15th May 2022, soon after I had posted my tweet (alerting Mrs Auxillia Mnangagwa that she should consider finishing her interview in which I among other things expose her deployment of a well known notorious convicted armed robber to the Directorship of State House properties) when I demanded that he first disclose who he is.
“Please introduce self,” I asked, to which he wrote back saying,
“Calling to let you know that this is my new number.
Hope.”
I then picked up the phonecall upon which time he told me that my tweet over Auxillia Mnangagwa “is blackmail.”
I reiterated to him saying the Twitter communication was perfect industry practice, which is the declaring of a deadline before going to print, to which Chin’ono started quoting ghost accounts on Twitter who were also suggesting my tweet was blackmail. He continued arguing for several times until he said I should delete it as it would hinder relations between Mrs Mnangagwa and the media.
Mrs Mnangagwa has never at any time in her career enjoyed good relations with the media.
I not knowing Mr Chin’ono’s motive, decided to meet him half way by deleting though albeit reposting an edited message. I would only discover to my disappointment weeks later that I had been duped by him- He was not interested in any journalism, and his call was just to save Mrs Mnangagwa from the demand of finishing the interview.
He even ignored my statement below which he could have updated his followers if he has the interests of the news hungry masses at heart.
My statement was the following, which was my last message on the day:
“For the record: this was NOT an off record, in fact the FL called me via video herself on the official newsdesk phone.
2ndly, she broke trust by threatening me during the interview.
3rdly, there has never been any trust between her and the media since the coup, no one has ever been allowed to critique her.
4thly, I did not threaten Mrs Auxillia Mnangagwa other than informing her of what is inevitable, as it is standard practice to notify a source of the deadline before a story is published so they can ensure they have contributed fully. Unfortunately Twitter character space doesn’t allow for all these words to be typed.
5thly, Mrs Mnangagwa knows well the issues at stake are beyond the single one that she cites. They, as the video reveals, also relate to one of armed robbers she has deployed to strategic national positions which placings now endanger the security of millions of Zimbabweans.
6thly, Mrs Mnangagwa also knowing well that the matter at stake is the ongoing looting of millions of USD’s of Harare ratepayer money, is just being unprofessional and I contend, downright criminal
7thly, my mention of Auxillia’s house was no threat but just a stating of the conclusions the public will reach when they notice that her claim that she ‘sells tomatoes for a living’, totally contradicts the 24 karat golden chair she is sitting on. The video shows jewellery and other expensive things in the interior of the house, which thing threatens her image as an honest person. I follow the rule that you have to seek to protect your source’s dignity and wellbeing, before your own.
Simba Chikanza.”
I also have audio recordings of Mr Benson Muneri, who is seen with Mr Chin’ono many times, making clear demands that I do not ask Auxillia Mnangagwa ‘hard questions, ‘ and that I should from now on, only send her questions directly to him. This is so despite the fact that Benson Muneri appears nowhere as her official representative. He was however the first person to telephone me within 10 minutes of my videocall with Mrs Mnangagwa on her behalf, followed by Hopewell Chin’ono, the following day, after Muneri’s interventions on behalf of Auxillia Mnangagwa had failed.
Earlier on, on the 15th March 2022, Mr Chin’ono was involved in a Twitter brawl as he defended Hotplacegrill businessman and director, Benson Muneri’s donations to the opposition CCC party on the Twitter website.
Well i know for a fact that it is owned by Ed clan, but i will exchange that evidence once you provide me evidence that am doing nothing on the 390,757 km² of Zimbabwe. pic.twitter.com/N7ruiyjgPX
He labelled warnings about the dangers of donations from the Mnangagwa family, “silly arguments.”
He added saying, ” CCCZimbabwe needs USD150,000 for bi elections.”
Part of the Twitter brawl as Hopewell Chin’ono stated there is nothing wrong with the CCC receiving ZANU PF money- pic
Chin’ono was replying to Twitter handle Foxlion2028. Is Chin’ono truly working in favour of the opposition to help it win, or it’s all a counter intelligence operation?
Part of the argument as Hopewell Chin’ono said there is nothing unusual with CCC getting money from ZANU PF companies.- pic.
The Auxillia Mnangagwa Video LEAK Hopewell Chin’ono Doesn’t Want You See.
Contrary to a few people the likes of Mr. Clarence Miranze, I did not at all shelve my Auxillia Mnangagwa story, even though Mr. Hopewell Chin’ono told me to delete the tweet, which I reinstated within 30seconds. I did this as I also emphasised to him that this is because the people must know of the armed robbers positioned to destory their future.
State Agents do not want the people to know that the hiding place of the 1 August 2018 terrorists, State House is now under the executive Directorship of a convicted armed robber, Mr Paradzayi Kutyauripo, who isnalso Auxillia Mnangagwa’s brother.
I also provide herewith evidence of Mr Chin’ono’s call to me on the 15th May, my response in writing to him, plus also audio recordings of Mr Chin’ono’s friend Benson Muneri (pic) , the other person who telephoned me, also trying stop me from informing the masses of this great expose the population have to know before the upcoming 2023 elections.
The Chinono phone call on the 15th of May on Auxillia Mnangagwa’s behalf- pic
Hopewell Chin’ono and Benson Muneri – pic: Twitter/Jealousy Mawarire
After my correspondence, Mr Chin’ono who publicly claims he wants the opposition to win the 2023 elections, further demonstrated his ploy by deciding not to reveal the legal reasons why the nation must know of the contents of Mrs Mnangagwa’s disclosures.
Comment by the late President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson, Jealousy Mawarire- pic
4 months later, Mr Chin’ono continues to ignore my response, despite sounding as if he was interested in the Auxillia Mnangagwa expose.’ He however choses to play algorithms and promote himself as a “Daddy of Hope, ” in Shona, Mudhara vachauya.
WATCH THE VIDEOS HERE-
LEAK PART 1 – VIDEO
LEAK PART 2 – VIDEO
-CHANGING OWN SURNAME 3 TIMES
Mr Hopewell Chin’ono publicly announces saying he worked for BBC in the year 2000 under the name Hopewell M Chingono, which he changed a year later to Hopewell Mukusha, and then in the same year he registered a new name, Hopewell Rugoho-Chin’ono as reflected in this document. Effectively, all this means he changed his name 3 times in under 24 months. Did this man truly work for BBC in 2000, and is not trying to stitch up events so to blanket-cover the reports which state he was in fact involved in high level crime during this time?
BBC work ID with third name. Source: Hooewell Chin’ono, Twitter, Facebook
govt registry department deed of change of name – source: Hopewell Chin’ono, Facebook, Twitter
sef published explanation that his father is the one who ordered the name change
govt registry department deed of change of name
sef published explanation that his father is the one who ordered the name change
BBC work ID with third name
He has presented a BBC work ID with his face thereon and the name, Hopewell M Chingono, and then at another date, presented a govt deed of name change which officially states that his name in 2001 was not at all Hopewell M Chingono, it was just Hopewell Mukusha [No middle name], the latter which correlates with data records at the Zim national registry. In less than 2 years, he changes name from not M. Chingono, but from Hopewell Mukusha, to adopt a new family surname, Rugoho-Chin’ono.
To date there is not a single trace at the BBC to back Mr Chin’ono’s claims that he was a staff member at the BBC in Jan 2000, and scores of ex-employees of the broadcaster contacted by ZimEye do not remember him at any time in Jan 2000. If he was truly employed by the entity in any capacity during that month, it will further raise eyebrows of how and why could have wielded a name that is totally different from his birth record and his passport. This will only make clear that he actually traveled around UK with a third identity that has no correlation at all with data in the Zimbabwe National Registry. This reporter has had access to data records of the man and his immediate family names.
There is a fourth identity being investigated and whose findings will be reported on in due course. How and why does a real journalist working for the public broadcaster change his identity by three (3) names in less than 24months? Is this all because of a single instruction from his father, as Mr Chin’ono suggests in his Twitter uploads?
Is a person who changes names three times, supports ZANU PF terrorists in the 2018 elections to kill scores of Zimbabweans, and in 2022 tells the opposition to accept ZANU PF money, an honest contributor to democratic change?
-BENSON MUNERI AUDIO LEAKS. I below avail audios of Hopewell Chin’ono’s referral for the opposition’s 2023 election funding, Benson Muneri as he announced that he is Auxillia Mnangagwa’s son, and was busy attention to obfuscate the contents of the Auxillia Mnangagwa interview revelations. (streaming at 4pm 28th Aug).
-SUPPORTING FRIEND’S FRAUDS ABUSE OF COURTS.
The most disturbing development around Mr Hopewell Chin’ono which is going to affect a stable Zimbabwe surrounds his support for his personal friend Fadzayi Mahere, an individual who he has personally exposed over dishonesty, among other areas of misconduct since 2017.
What is most disgusting about Chin’ono is how he used to telephone us for numerous hours to get us to warn the world about Mahere, and after we started doing this, he has begun calling us ZANU PF over none but his own disclosures. All this is happening at a time when there are rumours that he has had an affair with Miss Mahere and has now wants to block the public interest disclosure because he has reconciled with her; and in this, Chin’ono is supporting Mahere harrass another Zimbabwean woman, the book author Petina Gappah, and assisting his friend abuse the courts. In my personal discussions with Chin’ono, he does not deny that Mahere is a monster set to destroy the nation per his own investigative disclosures, submitted to us.
Chin’ono was the first to reveal that Mahere was truly given preferential entrance into the University Of Zimbabwe for an undergraduate degree through her father, Stephen Mahere’s connections, which matter the lawyer is abusing the courts to argue against Gappah’s re-hashs.
Below is our latest discussion over Mahere, afterwhich he never sought to engage after I advised him not to abuse the opposition following to rally behind Mahere’s personal misconduct.
The case Chinono is suddenly assisting Mahere to fight against Petina Gappah pertains her claim that she is a person of good and honest character (which Chin’ono himself has revealed the opposite) and she has been defamed by Gappah.
Conversation with Hopewell Chin’ono 15th July 2022.- source: Twitter DM
Conversation with Hopewell Chin’ono 15th July 2022. – source: Twitter DM
Those who in 2020 suggested Mahere be made the opposition spokesperson advised the party on the basis that her father, Stephen Mahere is a Christian who is now a retired permanent secretary. But, Mahere has a very dangerous family background, her father being the only permanent secretary to be fired by ZANU PF leadership for being an activist who is against progress and one who has a record of authorising the torture and expulsion of teachers on the grounds of supporting the opposition then known as the MDC party and MDC Alliance subsequently. Much of this is revealed in documents at the ministry of Education and also cited in former minister David Coltart’s autobiography.
– DID HOPEWELL STAGE FAKE POLICE ARRESTS?
There is a prison officer who has suggested that Hopewell Chin’ono since his first imprisonement in 2020, has staged several fake arrests in order to build his profile as a human rights activist, a hero, who is doing none other than the act of exposing corruption, over which he is being victimised.
“That arrest was fake and no one touched him in the prisons you can even ask him and cross check with scores of other staff members and prison mates alike.
“He was arrested over exposing Obadiah Moyo, the latter whose arrest was also animated, and you will notice that Hopewell has never even talked about how fake the arrest of the then Health Minister was, ” the officer who requested anonymity further suggested.
If Chin’ono truly staged the arrests, this will not be a new phenomenon, as it has been happening for over 38 years (1983 – 2022) from the days of the fake dissident Richard Gwesela who was used to help aid the government agenda (appearing to be exposing its corruption and abuses) to the post 2018 period of the anti government activist Tinashe Jonas who even launched a party of his own from opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa’s large following.
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s uncle, Obadiah Moyo last October walked out of the High Court a free man following his year long prosecution case over corruption.
The former Health Minister is the ZANU PF leader’s uncle. Obadiah-Moyo is Emmerson Mnangagwa’s cousin, titled “uncle” or sekuru, in the Shona vernacular. He is son to Mnangagwa’s mother’s brother.
When the police arrested Obadiah Moyo over Hopewell Chinono’s Drax expose’, the police quickly released him on Mnangagwa’s orders. The head of the Central Intelligence Organisation, Isaac Moyo is another of Obadiah Moyo’s relatives who worked together with Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to make the case appear credible. They together went to Mnangagwa and organised that everything be staged so that he (Obadiah Moyo) is served so to manage public angers over the Draxgate scandal. The plan was that Obadiah Moyo would sleep inside the police cells, and then bail be granted (and even that was cut short – he left Rhodesville Police station soon after arrival.) The CIO Director General and Ziyambi then went to get Obadiah Moyo’s own muzukuru, cousin, Munamato Mutevedzi who is the acting Chief Magistrate. Mutevedzi was invited to come and sit on the same case and the matter had the prosecutor saying that bail is not opposed. He was charged a bail of $50,000, which is just USD380, a small amount over a case involving USD60 million.
He had to take a fall to save Mnangagwa’s son, Collins, so he is actually a hero, in Mnangagwa’s eyes at the least.
Moyo was discharged from prosecution on corruption charges for illegally awarding a multi-million-dollar contract for Covid-19 medical supplies to Drax International without going through a competitive tender process. He was facing charges of criminal abuse of office over the awarding of a US$ 60 million contract to the company that allegedly sold supplies to the Government at inflated prices. The whole case was totally expunged a year later.
[VIDEOS AND IMAGES ONLY VIEW/WATCHABLE ON THE ZIMEYE WEBSITE]
Hopewell Chin’ono exposes a lot of corruption, but how much beyond what earns him an award and retains him the title ‘Daddy Hope’ : [in Shona, ‘Mudhara Vachauya’?] How much does he give people beyond what is convenient for his personal show-off or iron-fish-hook? Before I conclude this article, I am reminded that the title Daddy Hope, is the crown of a famous ZANU PF song. I am also at a struggle on why Mr Chin’ono chose such a nickname, which is the signature of all fraudsters, tricksters, rapists, and police arrest stagers for more than 20 centuries of human history, one of whom is a Zimbabwean preacher we exposed between 2010 and 2018 leading to his conviction in 2015, and final removal from community leadership in 2018 following years of grooming women and kids for sex while hypnotising them into the ritualistic salutation, Daddy.
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Tinashe Sambiri|Former Zaka Central MP Harrison Mudzuri has exhorted teachers to avoid being used being used by the Zanu PF regime.
Mudzuri, who is also the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe national coordinator, believes the programme is meant to “magnify Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s support by coercion.”
“Teachers who join the Teachers 4 ED. ( Teachers 4 Economic Disaster)* must have their minds examined.
If those who are supposed to be enlightened can easily be fooled, then the value of being educated is questionable.
Teachers must fight for living wages,” Mudzuri wrote on Twitter.
Tinashe Sambiri| Zanu PF ‘s Simba Chisango has been fingered in the abduction of a CCC activist.
According to CCC, champion Felix Bhire was abducted by Chisango and Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime on Thursday.
Chisango’s brother Pius Jamba was arrested for the abduction and brutal Murder of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
A senior CCC member said in a statement on Thursday:
ATTENTION MA ZIM CHAMPIONS.. SAD NEWS.
KUNYATSIME AGAIN. pane mu CCC Champion anonzi Felix bhire apambwa na Chisango pamba Ne ma Zanu Pf Thugs just now now varikumukuvadza zvakaomarara pa Zanu pf base riri pa Chibhanguza Complex. .kusanganisira ne madzimai maviri nemwana mumwechete Mwana weimwe victim yekunyatsime inonzi manyanga.
Vanhu vose Ava varikufira kuve Vanhu ve CCC mu Nyatsime. As of now havasati vati vawana help.
Tinashe Sambiri| Zanu PF ‘s Simba Chisango has been fingered in the abduction of a CCC activist.
According to CCC, champion Felix Bhire was abducted by Chisango and Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime on Thursday.
Chisango’s brother Pius Jamba was arrested for the abduction and brutal Murder of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
A senior CCC member said in a statement on Thursday:
ATTENTION MA ZIM CHAMPIONS.. SAD NEWS.
KUNYATSIME AGAIN. pane mu CCC Champion anonzi Felix bhire apambwa na Chisango pamba Ne ma Zanu Pf Thugs just now now varikumukuvadza zvakaomarara pa Zanu pf base riri pa Chibhanguza Complex. .kusanganisira ne madzimai maviri nemwana mumwechete Mwana weimwe victim yekunyatsime inonzi manyanga.
Vanhu vose Ava varikufira kuve Vanhu ve CCC mu Nyatsime. As of now havasati vati vawana help.
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa Thursday gave a sombre account admitting to his camp’s failure to secure the release of legislators, Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole along with the Nyatsime 14 activists, saying all legal routes were exhausted.
Sikhala and Sithole have spent 105 days in remand prison with Chamisa emphasising that CCC will remain steadfast in its quest to have the duo freed.
Presiding over his party’s official launch in Harare Thursday of the Pre-Election Pact on Electoral Reforms (PREPARE), a document that outlines CCC electoral demands, Chamisa said his party had left no stone unturned in seeking the release of the lawmakers and 14others.
“We as a citizens movement are taking this issue seriously, we have left no stone unturned,” he said.
“We know what our opponents are expecting us to do, we don’t normally accept invitations from those who do not like us, neither do we accept advice from those who stand at the opposite of the moral and political spectrum, but we have done everything to make sure that within the confines of legality, constitutionality and also peace we are able to secure their release.
“Its been 105 days, Honourable Sikhala and Honourable Sithole are still incarcerated together with the Nyatsime 14. What is clear is that it is an assault on democracy, an assault on the will of the people, but also an undermining of the sovereign declaration of the people of Zimbabwe because Honourable Sikhala and Honourable Sithole were elected by the people of Zimbabwe.”
The CCC leader also raised questions on the the legality and treatment of the MPs in accordance with the Constitution.
“They are not honourable by mistake, they are not honourable by omission,” he said.
“You do not treat honourable members like common criminals, especially on the basis of an allegation which is politically contrived and motivated.”
He added that Sikhala and Sithole, along with the Nyatsime 14, were victims of a failed government.
“What is clear is that Honourable Sikhala and Honourable Sithole did not commit any offence. Their only offence was to stand against repression, oppression, corruption, dictatorship, tyranny and bad governance.
“That surely cannot be an offence because they were voted on the basis of that platform by the citizens of Zimbabwe.”
The opposition party would try other routes in search of justice, including approaching the African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN).
“I will not go into detail of what we are doing within the country and across within the region and of course on the continent to reach out to the highest offices, including the UN to make sure that the issue of this pretrial incarceration is dealt with.
“We are very serious, we know as the next government will face many challenges, trials and tribulations our people are going to be persecuted, supporters are going to be subjected to harassment, a lot of traps are going to be set, booby traps in our way, we will resist and overcome all of them,” said Chamisa.
Tinashe Sambiri|Zimbabweans say life under Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is hell on earth.
Mr Mnangagwa rose to power in November 2017 after removing his ailing 93-year- old boss Robert Mugabe via a military coup.
On Friday CCC leader Nelson Chamisa wrote on Twitter: “Using one word or a few words, how would you describe life in Zimbabwe since Nov 2017? Blessed Friday!”
Below are some of the responses from suffering citizens…
Renay: A script out of a movie called ‘Out goes a thief, in comes an armed robber’
Gatsheni: Mr President..Mapfumo gave us the two immortal words, Disaster and Mamvhemvhe ,in Ndebele it’s called “ inhlekelele” and ED keep on upgrading , now it’s Version 15.9.1 , Worse than a category 5 tropical cyclone Blowhorns : Takafarira N’anga neinobata mai.
MudiwaNotHood:
Haa pakaipa President. The masses are languishing in poverty whilst the Elites are acquiring more wealth. The gap between the few rich and majority poor is widening everyday. They’re feeding from our poverty and fear, and I hope 2023 will be different.
Dave screamed: Disaster!
Tanganda wrote :
HORRIBLE!
Another social media user observed: Jumping from frying pan to the fire. Takaitiswa, imagine it was always obvious that a 93 year old would soon die or fail to go to work
Former Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede’s circulating picture in which he look frail has set social media ablaze with Zimbabweans warning each other against going out of way to serve the ruling Zanu PF as it has the potential to forget you once you nolonger serve its interests.
At the height of his power, Mudede used to run the country’s elections before the setting up of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).
Most of the elections he presided over were disputed while the issuance of birth certificates and national identity documents has always been mired in controversy as it was believed to be done in a way that favoured the ruling party.
Now Mudede who has since retired has been in and out of courts and looks old and wasted.
By A Correspondent- The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has issued an update on its member, Felix Biri who it claimed was abducted on Thursday 29 September 2022 kidnapped by ZANU PF members in Nyatsime.
Said CCC in a twitter post:
LATEST ON NYATSIME VIOLENCE: Our change champion, Felix Bhiri who was abducted and badly beaten by Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime yesterday has been taken to Harare Central Police. After beating him the thugs went on to call the @PoliceZimbabwe to arrest the victim.
Charges against him are not yet known.
CCC posted yesterday saying its security team was seized with the matter.
By A Correspondent- A man was shot dead at the Harare home of Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) deputy director Gatsha Mazithulela.
The incident took place at around 2 AM on Thursday at Mazithulela’s Crichton Road residence in the Groombridge area of Mt Pleasant, ZimLive reported.
The former National University of Science and Technology (NUST) vice-chancellor, who was appointed to the role in January 2020, was unharmed in the incident.
Neighbours said they woke up to the sound of gunfire, and before long the Mazithulela residence was swarming with police and security agents from various departments. One neighbour told ZimLive.
I heard there could have been three people who tried to jump over a perimeter wall, and one was shot dead. An ambulance arrived at around 3AM but the person didn’t make it.
Everyone around here seems to think the intruders were robbers because just hours before, there was an attempted break-in at a house on Maxwell Road nearby.
November 2020, just months after his appointment, a CIO agent guarding his Matabeleland North farm drunkenly pointed a gun at him.
Mazithulela was leaving his farm in Norwood in Umguza at about 7 PM on November 28 when he observed Earnest Muleya, who was on guard duties at the property, staggering.
Suspecting the 38-year-old was drunk, Mazithulela demanded that Muleya hands over his AK-47 assault rifle which he was carrying. Instead of handing over the rifle, Muleya cocked it and pointed it at Mazithulela who ran and took cover behind his vehicle before making a dash for his house where he barricaded himself inside.
City of Harare has written to controversial businessman Dilesh Nguwaya informing him of the council resolution to terminate the Pomona waste to energy deal.
In a letter to Nguwaya, City Acting Town Clerk Engineer Phakamisa Moyo said; “Pursuant to the agreement entered between City of Harare and Geogenix BV, we advise that Council resolved to terminate the contract in its sitting on the 3rd of August 2022.”
The cancellation of the Pomona deal follows desperate attempts by government to force council to allow Nguwaya to proceed with a deal that was clearly manipulative and in favour of the so-called investor as the local authority was expected to pay a fee to dump their waste at their property.
UNDERCOVER PHONECALL WITH @ZECzim Justice Priscilla Chigumba – Madam Judge, I’ve just been speaking with you when you confirmed that you have a daughter-in-law relationship ED Mnangagwa’s business partner & though you divorced- you also responded on your love affair with Chitando pic.twitter.com/fHgMqw8mvO
By- The dreaded CIO’s training centre in Hatfield has caught fire.
The training centre was burnt in a suspected arson attack on Thursday afternoon.
An online newspaper with the details, ZimLive, said the police were investigating the cause of the fire.
An attempted break-in preceded the incident at the Harare house of CIO deputy director Gatsha Mazithulela early Thursday.
A man was shot dead during a break-in, while two others are said to have disappeared.
Investigators would be trying to establish if the two incidents are related. Mazithulela, a former NUST vice-chancellor who teaches at the CIO’s training college, was unharmed in the incident. Mazithulela was appointed to the role of deputy director in January 2020.
By- Zimbabwe has been forced to halt issuing passports after it has run out of passport production paper.
The situation according to an online portal, NewZimbabwe has left hundreds stranded at the Registrar-General’s (RG) office.
The online newspaper said that sources informed them passport production had stopped.
Said the news sources:
There is no paper and the contractors contracted to produce the e-passports have not been paid.
This would be the second time Zimbabwe’s e-passport processing system has run aground in two months with authorities unsure of when the crisis will be over.
By James Gwati- Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime have abducted a prominent CCC member.
According to the party, Felix Bari was abducted Thursday by known Zanu PF thugs and took him to their base.
CCC posted on social media saying that their security team was in the process of rescuing Bari.
?ALERT: We have received a report that CCC member, Felix Biri has been kidnapped by Zanu PF members in Nyatsime this afternoon. He has been taken to a base where he’s being beaten by these thugs. Our security team is currently on its way to secure his release. pic.twitter.com/gbjIyEZ4U4
IN a sad love story, a woman from Bulawayo abandoned her husband of 20 years after he suffered a stroke and allegedly eloped to her married lover who also reportedly dumped his wife to accommodate her.
Idah Dimba allegedly dumped her husband Mike Ngwenya (47) after he suffered a stroke and took off with her married lover, Brighton Mlilwana, who also reportedly ditched his wife Silethemba Moyo.
Narrating his ordeal to B-Metro, a heartbroken Ngwenya from Njube suburb said Idah eloped to her lover on 25 August leaving him behind with his daughter. It seems Idah had perfected the art of eloping without her husband’s knowledge.
Ngwenya said before Idah left home, she had lied to him that she wanted to accompany her aunt to their rural home.
“When she left I thought she had accompanied her aunt to the rural areas as she had told me earlier on. I was shocked when I heard some people telling me that Idah had been spotted around Njube suburb where she was now staying with Mlilwana,” said Ngwenya.
Sharing further details he said before Idah deserted him they were always having disputes as she was in the habit of bringing her lover home and was allegedly sleeping with him in his presence.
‘‘Our marriage had problems like everyone else’s but Idah took it too far by inviting her lover to our matrimonial home. It seems like she has been seeing this man she is now staying with for a while.
“She was always bringing him home and they were sleeping together in my presence and she has been doing that a couple of times. After I complained that is when she threatened to leave saying she was no longer feeling comfortable staying with me.
“Ever since she left, she called me once saying she was coming to collect her clothes and she hasn’t yet come to collect them,” narrated Ngwenya.
According to a source privy to the drama, Idah did not only destroy her marriage but Silethemba’s after she eloped with the latter’s husband.
An embittered Silethemba had no kind words for Idah whom she labelled a “home-wrecker”.
“Before we separated, my husband had told me that there is a woman that he needs to take as his second wife.
“Sometime in August when I returned from South Africa where I had visited a relative I was shocked when I came back and found him with Idah in the house and she had already changed the curtains. Out of frustration I left the house to stay with my sister as I felt that it was difficult for two women married to the same man to stay together under one roof,” said Silethemba.
When reached for comment, a fuming Idah refused to entertain questions from this publication. She even threatened this reporter with an unspecified action.
Mlilwana also declined comment saying he was not happy with the way he was approached.- B Metro
By- A detained Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Nyatsime activist, Ephrage Gwavava, is seriously ill in prison.
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum lawyer Noble Chinhanu told NewsDay that Gwavava was suffering from complications related to diabetes.
“Nyatsime detainee falls sick in remand prison. He has been unwell because of his condition of sugar diabetes. The prison hospital has been assisting him, but he is saying his condition is not improving,” Chinhanu said. “We have written to the officer-in-charge requesting that he be allowed private medical attention.” Writing to Harare Remand Prison officer-in-charge Chief Superintendent Charles Nyamasoka on September 26 requesting that Gwavaya be allowed access to private medical health care, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum said: “We seek to advise that our client wishes to exercise his right to be attended to by a medical practitioner of his choice in terms of section 50 of the Constitution. “We hereby inform you of such intention that you may kindly facilitate that he sees such a private medical practitioner as he wishes.” Contacted for comment the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services spokesperson Chief Superintendent Meya Kanyezi requested questions via email, but she did not respond to them. Gwavava is one of 16 CCC activists, including legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole charged with public violence and are being denied bail. As of yesterday, over 50 000 Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals had signed a petition seeking President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s intervention over their continued detention.
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change‘s Southend branch has claimed that Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives are following and intimidating the children of slain CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
In a post on Twitter this Thursday, the party said:
We are disturbed to hear slain #CCC activist #MoreblessingAli’s grieving children are being followed & intimidated by @edmnangagwa’s Central Intelligence Organisation operatives. This is a despicable corrupt use of state resources. Is it not enough that you killed their mum?
Moreblessing Ali went missing on 24 May 2022 after she had been kidnapped by Pius Mukandi, alias Jamba, at Chibhanguza Shopping Centre in Nyatsime.
Her mutilated body was found in a disused well on 11 June.
Jamba who is believed to be a ZANU PF member was arrested in Hurungwe five days after the discovery of Ali’s body at his mother’s plot.
Moreblessing’s body is yet to be buried with her family demanding that their lawyer, Job Sikhala, be released first.
Sikhala, who was at the forefront in demanding justice for Moreblessing, was arrested alongside Chitungwiza North member of Parliament Godfrey Sithole and 14 other CCC activists over the violence which erupted during Moreblessing Ali’s funeral wake. – Pindula News
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change‘s Southend branch has claimed that Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives are following and intimidating the children of slain CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
In a post on Twitter this Thursday, the party said:
We are disturbed to hear slain #CCC activist #MoreblessingAli’s grieving children are being followed & intimidated by @edmnangagwa’s Central Intelligence Organisation operatives. This is a despicable corrupt use of state resources. Is it not enough that you killed their mum?
Moreblessing Ali went missing on 24 May 2022 after she had been kidnapped by Pius Mukandi, alias Jamba, at Chibhanguza Shopping Centre in Nyatsime.
Her mutilated body was found in a disused well on 11 June.
Jamba who is believed to be a ZANU PF member was arrested in Hurungwe five days after the discovery of Ali’s body at his mother’s plot.
Moreblessing’s body is yet to be buried with her family demanding that their lawyer, Job Sikhala, be released first.
Sikhala, who was at the forefront in demanding justice for Moreblessing, was arrested alongside Chitungwiza North member of Parliament Godfrey Sithole and 14 other CCC activists over the violence which erupted during Moreblessing Ali’s funeral wake. – Pindula News
By- A suspected venomous black mamba has struck and killed three members of a Hurungwe family.
The three deceased were struck while searching for firewood.
NewZimbabwe reports that the sad incident occurred in the Karuru area of Hurungwe district two weeks ago.
The online portal also said the trio later died this week in Chinhoyi and Harare hospitals, respectively.
The deceased are, Emilia Musiiwa (nee Moyo) aged 47, her daughter Nyarai (21) and her grandson Tatenda Tototo (15).
The late Emilia’s husband, Tapiwa Musiiwa the online newspaper that the deaths dealt him a heavy blow. He said:
The incident has left me devastated.
The three were looking for firewood when the snake bit Nyarai, prompting her mother to try and scare away the creature but it also attacked her.
Sensing danger, our grandson Tatenda tried to run away but the snake pursued him and striked.
The three victims were taken to hospital for treatment, but unfortunately the boy died at Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital yesterday (Tuesday) while my wife and daughter passed on at Sally Mugabe Hospital (formerly Harare Hospital) in Harare today (Wednesday).
A local funeral parlour pledged to ferry the bodies to Karuru Ward 8, Hurungwe for burial Thursday.
Experts say when one is bitten by a black mamba, first aid should focus on maintaining vital functions, such as respiratory support. The victim should be kept still and try to limit any unnecessary movement.
BUHERA – A detective at Murambinda Growth Point has been charged with excessively assaulting a local prominent businessman following an argument over the arrest of the latter’s young brother.
Sergeant Elias Taguta (35) and a colleague Constable Zhira arrested Tatenda Mondo (29) on suspicion that he was smoking dagga. He later found a sex enhancing pill in the suspect’s pocket.
The incident happened on September 9, 2022 at 9:30 pm.
The arrest was made at a local beer hall but the accused’s brother Tinashe Mondo (38) who was also at the bar pleaded for the release of Tatenda. Tinashe is a prominent businessman at Murambinda.
Tinashe allegedly suffered severe injuries after the assault. He made a police report at Murambinda after obtaining a medical examination report at Murambinda Mission Hospital.
According to a Police report, Taguta took Tinashe to the Police Station where he assaulted him.
Taguta is being charged under section 89 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law and Reform Act, Chapter 9:23.- Masvingo Mirror
IN a sad love story, a woman from Bulawayo abandoned her husband of 20 years after he suffered a stroke and allegedly eloped to her married lover who also reportedly dumped his wife to accommodate her.
Idah Dimba allegedly dumped her husband Mike Ngwenya (47) after he suffered a stroke and took off with her married lover, Brighton Mlilwana, who also reportedly ditched his wife Silethemba Moyo.
Narrating his ordeal to B-Metro, a heartbroken Ngwenya from Njube suburb said Idah eloped to her lover on 25 August leaving him behind with his daughter. It seems Idah had perfected the art of eloping without her husband’s knowledge.
Ngwenya said before Idah left home, she had lied to him that she wanted to accompany her aunt to their rural home.
“When she left I thought she had accompanied her aunt to the rural areas as she had told me earlier on. I was shocked when I heard some people telling me that Idah had been spotted around Njube suburb where she was now staying with Mlilwana,” said Ngwenya.
Sharing further details he said before Idah deserted him they were always having disputes as she was in the habit of bringing her lover home and was allegedly sleeping with him in his presence.
‘‘Our marriage had problems like everyone else’s but Idah took it too far by inviting her lover to our matrimonial home. It seems like she has been seeing this man she is now staying with for a while.
“She was always bringing him home and they were sleeping together in my presence and she has been doing that a couple of times. After I complained that is when she threatened to leave saying she was no longer feeling comfortable staying with me.
“Ever since she left, she called me once saying she was coming to collect her clothes and she hasn’t yet come to collect them,” narrated Ngwenya.
According to a source privy to the drama, Idah did not only destroy her marriage but Silethemba’s after she eloped with the latter’s husband.
An embittered Silethemba had no kind words for Idah whom she labelled a “home-wrecker”.
“Before we separated, my husband had told me that there is a woman that he needs to take as his second wife.
“Sometime in August when I returned from South Africa where I had visited a relative I was shocked when I came back and found him with Idah in the house and she had already changed the curtains. Out of frustration I left the house to stay with my sister as I felt that it was difficult for two women married to the same man to stay together under one roof,” said Silethemba.
When reached for comment, a fuming Idah refused to entertain questions from this publication. She even threatened this reporter with an unspecified action.
Mlilwana also declined comment saying he was not happy with the way he was approached.- B Metro
Hwange FC are just a game away from sealing their Premier Soccer League promotion after a 3-0 walkover score line over Ajax Hotspurs, who failed to travel to the Colliery Stadium on Saturday.
Chipangano need at least a point in their next game to mark their return to the top-flight.
The coal miners will play Indlovu Iyanyathela at the Colliery this weekend.
The club is sitting on the top of the ZIFA Southern Division One table with 82 points, five ahead of the second placed ZPC Hwange, with two games to play.
Hwange FC, who are coached by former Bulawayo City boss Try Ncube , have lost only two games so far and won 26 in the 32 matches played.
They were relegated three years ago in the previous campaign before the coronavirus pandemic affected the domestic league.
Meanwhile, Simba Bhora booked their place in the top flight after winning the ZIFA Northern Region Division One.
Sheasham and Green Fuel FC were promoted following their title triumphs in the Central and Eastern Region league, respectively.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has stressed the need for free, fair and credible elections.
Speaking at the launch of the PREPARE document in Harare on Thursday, President Chamisa expressed concern at the prolonged detention of political activists by the Zanu PF regime.
PREPARE spells out conditions that enable the nation to hold free and fair elections.
Zanu PF is sitting on key reforms due to fear of losing the 2023 polls.
“Traditional leaders also concur with our viewpoint- we feel United Nations should observe and monitor the coming polls.
Traditional leaders are of the same view.Our PREPARE document calls for the safety of the voter and the vote. The document also stresses the importance of the diaspora vote. We need the diaspora vote in Zimbabwe.
In addition, State security forces are not supposed to interfere with electoral processes,” said President Chamisa.
Norman Mapeza’s manager Gibson Mahachi has responded to reports linking the FC Platinum coach to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) giants TP Mazembe.
An online publication L’Avenir, claimed that the five-time African champions are interested in Mapeza, who is on the brink of winning his fourth league title as a coach.
Mahachi dismissed the rumors, saying there has not been any communication to either him or Mapeza from the Moise Katumbi-owned side.
“The position is that the only thing we know regarding the issue, is the story. The coach doesn’t know anything about it, as he only read about it from that story in question,” Mahachi told Soccer24.
“There is nothing official,” he added.
Mazembe are under the tutelage of French tactician Franck Dumas, who has guided them to the CAF Champions League second preliminary round, where they face Ugandan outfit Vipers next month.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
ARTICLE BY HERALD:
THE Pomona waste management investment, which has national status, is progressing well and attempts to suspend it by overzealous CCC councillors is null and void at law as the contract clearly stipulates that the deal can only be terminated when there is a breach.
There have been persistent attempts by CCC councillors led by Mayor Clr Jacob Mafume to scupper projects that are critical in the restoration of Harare services.
Clr Mafume has embarked on a crusade that seeks to stall city projects, even when they are good for both the city and nation at large.
A resident, Mrs Evelyn Mbara, said they have been paying for refuse collection and management of water and solid waste, but the service from the city of Harare has been shoddy.
“The methane gas emitted (at Pomona dumpsite) is not just considered waste in greenhouse gas emission, but also fires have been permanently burning in addition to the nasty smell which has been a problem to the surrounding inhabitants and passers-by.
“The area has been unsightly for a long time and to make matters worse, there are families which have been living in and around the dumpsite with children and the Mayor is turning a blind eye,” she said.
Mr Tafadzwa Mare said the Pomona deal should proceed as waste management has been a nightmare over the past 20 years.
“The Mayor and his councillors have been told that on the side of the Government, this matter went through several stages until it was approved by Cabinet, which is the highest authority in this unitary State of Zimbabwe.
“After going through Cabinet, and having been examined by the Attorney General, Harare city was then told to sign the agreement with Geogenix BV.
“Government therefore should not allow this project to be cancelled due to the mere fact that Mayor Mafume does not like it and because the venture was signed when he was out of the council,” he said.
Another resident, Mrs Lista Mweke, said the deal should proceed as it is of critical importance to residents of Harare.
“After Government received communication from the Town Clerk suspending the lucrative deal, Government through the Minister responsible for local authorities directed that in terms of the Urban Councils Act, council should rescind this decision and that Geogenix BV should continue working on the site.
“This means that suspension can only be done when Geogenix BV fails to meet its end of the bargain as regards the contract,” she said.
The €304 million Pomona dumpsite waste-to-energy project is expected to generate up to 22MW of electricity.
Apart from electricity generation, the project is also set to generate at least 300 jobs, boost economic growth and reduce the country’s import bill for electricity with the investor already exploring other investment opportunities in the country.
MASVINGO – A Gutu Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Charles Zvenyika (49) who resisted a move by a Zanu PF group calling itself Mahwindi4ED’s bid to force every tout at the rank to put on ruling party regalia has been denied bail.
Zvenyika allegedly snatched one of the Zanu PF tout, Joseph Mutema (35)’s mobile phone during running battles as the latter used the phone to take videos of him. He is also accused of grabbing Mutema’s party card.
Mutema is said to be one of the leading figures of the Mahwindi4ED group. He was then arrested and charged for stealing a cellphone and resisting Police arrest.
Zvenyika’s lawyer Martin Mureri of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) confirmed the development to The Mirror. Mureri said Zvenyika applied for bail at Gutu Magistrates Court as a self-actor before the arrival of his lawyer on Monday and his bid was turned down.
The running battles at Mpandawana happened last Monday as the Mahwindi4ED were also launching their organisation.
Zvenyika of Mpandawana Village under Chief Gutu allegedly stole a Samsung J4 Core with US$50 in the pouch, US$1 Buddie recharge voucher and a Zanu PF membership card from Joseph Mutema (35) before escaping Police custody on the same day.
It is the State case that on the day, Zvenyika had an altercation with a council worker, Richard Manyika outside Mutema’s shop. Mutema tried to refrain the two but failed and he called Manyika’s supervisor to intervene.
Mutema then allegedly put his phone to Manyika’s ear so that he could speak to his supervisor but Zvenyika grabbed the phone and ran away. Mutema then filed a report to Police officers who were patrolling the terminus.
Zvenyika was arrested and he escaped from the officers at the terminus before he was rearrested and taken to Gutu Police Station. He initially appeared in court on Friday.-Masvingo Mirror
OPEN LETTER TO VILLAGE HEADS UNDER CHIEF NEGARI Ward 2 Mwenezi
Vadiwa Masabhuku emeNegari kuMwenezi
Don’t let Ezra Mashindi browbeat you. He is not a saint, he is not a genuine war veteran as he proclaims. Ezra Mashindi has no authority ,monopoly ,mauscle or whatsoever to frog march you and your people to Zanu pf meetings. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans and everyone has a right Join his or her desired party. If you may assist me to send this important message to him that LEAVE VILLAGERS ALONE OR GOD WILL PUNISH YOU. Moreover tell him that one day citizens would awaken especially Negari villagers and things would turn round for him. And by that time it would be too late to repent.
Am very much aware of his accomplice one Dube from the resettlement areas, those guys are demeaning and belittling you to nothing yet you are our traditional leaders and the custodians of our historical, ancestoral land, culture and development. Stay away from politics and deny to bullied.
I have wrote this letter to you village heads knowing very much the concequencies that I might face from Mashindi and team but Mwana asingachemi anofira mumbereko. Zvinondirwadza kuona vakuru vedu munzvimbo vachiitwa chamutavanhava kumanyiswa nekuunganidzwa misangano yeazvebato nemunhu anonzi Mashindi uye achitaura mashoko ekutyityidzira kuvabereki.
Mashindi haasi Mwari munomutyei.
Ngaasakuzvidzai nekukudzikisirai achimanyisa vabereki nekuvaita zvituta zvake iye achidya ega Mari dzaanopiwa nevakuru vake. Paakawana Ngoro yekushungurudza vanhu 2008 akaiwana ega saka imi masabhuku asakushandisai. Murivabereki vedu tese muzanu muCCC kana muNdonga tese tirivana venyu vevhu.
A 22-YEAR-OLD man from Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from roof trusses.
The deceased has been identified as Emeka Mpofu.
Circumstances are that on 26 September 2022 and at around 7 am, Mpofu’s sister found her brother’s lifeless body hanging from a roof truss in his bedroom. Mpofu hanged himself using a T-shirt. No suicide note was reportedly found on him.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident and urged the public to find ways to deal with problems.
“We are investigating a case of sudden death and we encourage people to seek counselling from elders or church when they encounter problems rather than taking their lives,” said Inspector Ncube.
BUHERA – A detective at Murambinda Growth Point has been charged with excessively assaulting a local prominent businessman following an argument over the arrest of the latter’s young brother.
Sergeant Elias Taguta (35) and a colleague Constable Zhira arrested Tatenda Mondo (29) on suspicion that he was smoking dagga. He later found a sex enhancing pill in the suspect’s pocket.
The incident happened on September 9, 2022 at 9:30 pm.
The arrest was made at a local beer hall but the accused’s brother Tinashe Mondo (38) who was also at the bar pleaded for the release of Tatenda. Tinashe is a prominent businessman at Murambinda.
Tinashe allegedly suffered severe injuries after the assault. He made a police report at Murambinda after obtaining a medical examination report at Murambinda Mission Hospital.
According to a Police report, Taguta took Tinashe to the Police Station where he assaulted him.
Taguta is being charged under section 89 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law and Reform Act, Chapter 9:23.- Masvingo Mirror
By- A detained Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Nyatsime activist, Ephrage Gwavava, is seriously ill in prison.
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum lawyer Noble Chinhanu told NewsDay that Gwavava was suffering from complications related to diabetes.
“Nyatsime detainee falls sick in remand prison. He has been unwell because of his condition of sugar diabetes. The prison hospital has been assisting him, but he is saying his condition is not improving,” Chinhanu said. “We have written to the officer-in-charge requesting that he be allowed private medical attention.” Writing to Harare Remand Prison officer-in-charge Chief Superintendent Charles Nyamasoka on September 26 requesting that Gwavaya be allowed access to private medical health care, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum said: “We seek to advise that our client wishes to exercise his right to be attended to by a medical practitioner of his choice in terms of section 50 of the Constitution. “We hereby inform you of such intention that you may kindly facilitate that he sees such a private medical practitioner as he wishes.” Contacted for comment the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services spokesperson Chief Superintendent Meya Kanyezi requested questions via email, but she did not respond to them. Gwavava is one of 16 CCC activists, including legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole charged with public violence and are being denied bail. As of yesterday, over 50 000 Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals had signed a petition seeking President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s intervention over their continued detention.
By- Three family members have been bitten and killed by a venomous black mamba
All three belonged to one family, and they met the unfortunate fate while searching for firewood.
NewZimbabwe reports that the sad incident occurred in the Karuru area of Hurungwe district two weeks ago.
The online portal also said the trio later died this week in Chinhoyi and Harare hospitals, respectively.
The deceased are Emilia Musiiwa (nee Moyo) aged 47, her daughter Nyarai (21) and her grandson Tatenda Tototo (15).
The late Emilia’s husband, Tapiwa Musiiwa the online newspaper that the deaths dealt him a heavy blow. He said:
The incident has left me devastated.
The three were looking for firewood when the snake bit Nyarai, prompting her mother to try and scare away the creature but it also attacked her.
Sensing danger, our grandson Tatenda tried to run away but the snake pursued him and striked.
The three victims were taken to hospital for treatment, but unfortunately the boy died at Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital yesterday (Tuesday) while my wife and daughter passed on at Sally Mugabe Hospital (formerly Harare Hospital) in Harare today (Wednesday).
A local funeral parlour pledged to ferry the bodies to Karuru Ward 8, Hurungwe for burial Thursday.
Experts say when one is bitten by a black mamba, first aid should focus on maintaining vital functions, such as respiratory support. The victim should be kept still and try to limit any unnecessary movement.
By James Gwati- Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime have abducted a prominent CCC member.
According to the party, Felix Bari was abducted Thursday by known Zanu PF thugs and took him to their base.
CCC posted on social media saying that their security team was in the process of rescuing Bari.
?ALERT: We have received a report that CCC member, Felix Biri has been kidnapped by Zanu PF members in Nyatsime this afternoon. He has been taken to a base where he’s being beaten by these thugs. Our security team is currently on its way to secure his release. pic.twitter.com/gbjIyEZ4U4
By- Zimbabwean courts have convicted prominent and award-winning author Tsitsi Dangarembga and Julie Gabriel Barnes for inciting public violence.
The two were arrested in 2020 and charged with participating in a public gathering to promote public violence and breach of peace.
They have been on trial over the last two years on charges of inciting public violence after participating in a demonstration in the Borrowdale suburb in Harare.
They were protesting against the detention of journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume.
The pair had also been arrested on 20 July 2020 for inciting public violence after they allegedly rallied people to participate in a foiled demonstration that had been slated for 31 July 2020.
Ngarivhume was released on bail after 43 days in prison. Chin’ono was released after spending 17 days in the overcrowded Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison. Meanwhile, Dangarembga and Barnes’s lawyer, Chris Mhike, is currently addressing the court on the mitigation of the sentence.
Norman Mapeza’s manager Gibson Mahachi has responded to reports linking the FC Platinum coach to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) giants TP Mazembe.
An online publication L’Avenir, claimed that the five-time African champions are interested in Mapeza, who is on the brink of winning his fourth league title as a coach.
Mahachi dismissed the rumors, saying there has not been any communication to either him or Mapeza from the Moise Katumbi-owned side.
“The position is that the only thing we know regarding the issue, is the story. The coach doesn’t know anything about it, as he only read about it from that story in question,” Mahachi told Soccer24.
“There is nothing official,” he added.
Mazembe are under the tutelage of French tactician Franck Dumas, who has guided them to the CAF Champions League second preliminary round, where they face Ugandan outfit Vipers next month.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
She has been found guilty of incitement & her lawyers aren't against the verdict they instead argued that they should be given lenient treatment as they are first time offenders "The accused are first-time offenders & it is stated at law that they should be treated with leniency"
Dementia is a syndrome in which there is deterioration in cognitive function beyond what might be expected from the usual consequences of biological ageing. Although dementia mainly affects older people, it is not an inevitable consequence of ageing.
Currently more than 55 million people live with dementia worldwide, and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year.
Dementia results from a variety of diseases and injuries that primarily or secondarily affect the brain. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and may contribute to 60-70% of cases.
Dementia is currently the seventh leading cause of death among all diseases and one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older people globally.
Dementia has physical, psychological, social and economic impacts, not only for people living with dementia, but also for their carers, families and society at large. Dementia is a syndrome – usually of a chronic or progressive nature – that leads to deterioration in cognitive function (i.e. the ability to process thought) beyond what might be expected from the usual consequences of biological ageing. It affects memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language, and judgement. Consciousness is not affected. The impairment in cognitive function is commonly accompanied, and occasionally preceded, by changes in mood, emotional control, behaviour, or motivation.
Dementia results from a variety of diseases and injuries that primarily or secondarily affect the brain, such as Alzheimer’s disease or stroke.
Dementia is currently the seventh leading cause of death among all diseases and one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older people worldwide. Dementia has physical, psychological, social and economic impacts, not only for people living with dementia, but also for their carers, families and society at large. There is often a lack of awareness and understanding of dementia, resulting in stigmatization and barriers to diagnosis and care.
Signs and symptoms Dementia affects each person in a different way, depending upon the underlying causes, other health conditions and the person’s cognitive functioning before becoming ill. The signs and symptoms linked to dementia can be understood in three stages.
Early stage: the early stage of dementia is often overlooked because the onset is gradual. Common symptoms may include:
forgetfulness losing track of the time becoming lost in familiar places. Middle stage: as dementia progresses to the middle stage, the signs and symptoms become clearer and may include:
becoming forgetful of recent events and people’s names becoming confused while at home having increasing difficulty with communication needing help with personal care experiencing behaviour changes, including wandering and repeated questioning Late stage: the late stage of dementia is one of near total dependence and inactivity. Memory disturbances are serious and the physical signs and symptoms become more obvious and may include:
becoming unaware of the time and place having difficulty recognizing relatives and friends having an increasing need for assisted self-care having difficulty walking experiencing behaviour changes that may escalate and include aggression. Common forms of dementia There are many different forms of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form and may contribute to 60-70% of cases. Other major forms include vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies (abnormal aggregates of protein that develop inside nerve cells), and a group of diseases that contribute to frontotemporal dementia (degeneration of the frontal lobe of the brain). Dementia may also develop after a stroke or in the context of certain infections such as HIV, harmful use of alcohol, repetitive physical injuries to the brain (known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy) or nutritional deficiencies. The boundaries between different forms of dementia are indistinct and mixed forms often co-exist.
Rates of dementia Worldwide, around 55 million people have dementia, with over 60% living in low- and middle-income countries. As the proportion of older people in the population is increasing in nearly every country, this number is expected to rise to 78 million in 2030 and 139 million in 2050.
Risk factors and prevention
Although age is the strongest known risk factor for dementia, it is not an inevitable consequence of biological ageing. Further, dementia does not exclusively affect older people – young onset dementia (defined as the onset of symptoms before the age of 65 years) accounts for up to 9% of cases. Studies show that people can reduce their risk of cognitive decline and dementia by being physically active, not smoking, avoiding harmful use of alcohol, controlling their weight, eating a healthy diet, and maintaining healthy blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Additional risk factors include depression, social isolation, low educational attainment, cognitive inactivity and air pollution.
Zanu pf’s continued torture and persecution of opposing voices should be resisted forthwith.
In a survey made by the writer across all constituencies in Masvingo Province, an emotional mood and wave is among the youths. As we drive closer to 2023 general elections, Zanu pf regime has been on an offensive ruthless attack on civic society members ,oppositions members and journalists.
The ruthless attacks and persecution done in a crocodile style where the challenge involves spilling of the blood has now awakened the youths with great bitterness and distress over the future of Zimbabwe. The persecution includes physical attack, cyber attack, religious engulfment attack as well as the judiciary system attack.
CCC Gutu Councillor attacked
Recently, Gutu councillor and Provincial Youth Deployee was attacked by Zanu pf thugs at a party in the hood. This triggered an uproar across all platforms from fellow youth citizens who vowed not to let this go. In a statement one youth champion from Chiredzi said the level as gone too high to be tolerated hence justice and resistance by any means within the principle of our party should take off. The cyber attack includes circulating fake photos and ghost accounts meant to put the citizens movement into disrepute.
Social media and cyber attacks
American based former Masvingo Urban councillor was also recently attacked by one zanu pf bootlicker and propagandist Mugwadi giving some false information over the demonstration made at UNGA, kutaura “kwaasina kuswera…”
One T Kundishaya has also gone on a rampage of attacks on CCC youths champions giving false deragatory posts and sexual attacks which is not only a criminal offence but unholy and inhuman before the society. This Kundishaya is just popular for wanting to steal Goats from journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and is a desperate attention and relevance seeker in political circus.
Determination among youths
Masvingo Youths Citizens vow not let this go in all fields of warfare be it on social media and on the ground up until they achieve a democratic peaceful Zimbabwe. Another youth from Masvingo Urban Mucheke suburbs said “…we have all the potential and power to resist this continued persecution against our fellow comrades. They won’t kill us all, they won’t arrest us all, we are in this struggle well aware of bruises and hardships we may face…”
In all statements gathered around, the determination shows that youths are unstoppable and the ongoing party programmes would be handled with an active security machine.
Bikita champions Arrests
Meanwhile the arrests of the bikita champions Zebron and team also portrays the persistence of Zanu pf in thwarting our CCC. The regime is shaken by the ongoing Mugwazo and the general consensus among even non-political actors that indeed President Chamisa is the only deal in the Country.
Strategic Principled Reaction
Although Masvingo youths seem to be folded the sleeves up for the struggle they have insisted that they would not be pushed into lawlessness and violent behaviour by the violence mongers but would deal with such acts accordingly in a human, lawful ,peaceful and resistance manner.
The Religious attack
The religious community has also not been spared from this zanu pf attack. Over the period to date ,Zanu pf is going around churches forcing church leaders to endorse their leadership out of fear of victimization.
Some church leaders who spoke on anonymity for safety reasons said they are now in the corner to impose a president amount their congregants out of fear. Zanu pf leader Mr Munangagwa recently visited the apostolic churches, and the popular ZCC church however some congregants strongly denounce the utterance made at these services saying the church leaders should condemn political violence and disown all leaders involved in it as it is not good before God. They should call a spade a spade and stop imposing leaders to their congragants instead indulge in an inclusive dialogue to push for a peaceful and undesputed election.
Job Sikhala and the Nyatsime team
Above all Masvingo seem to be saddened much by the persecution of Hon Job Sikhala and the Nyatsime 15.
Timoth Muswere is Masvingo Youth Change Champion whose article is based upon a rigorous interview survey across the Province.
MASVINGO – A Gutu Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Charles Zvenyika (49) who resisted a move by a Zanu PF group calling itself Mahwindi4ED’s bid to force every tout at the rank to put on ruling party regalia has been denied bail.
Zvenyika allegedly snatched one of the Zanu PF tout, Joseph Mutema (35)’s mobile phone during running battles as the latter used the phone to take videos of him. He is also accused of grabbing Mutema’s party card.
Mutema is said to be one of the leading figures of the Mahwindi4ED group. He was then arrested and charged for stealing a cellphone and resisting Police arrest.
Zvenyika’s lawyer Martin Mureri of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) confirmed the development to The Mirror. Mureri said Zvenyika applied for bail at Gutu Magistrates Court as a self-actor before the arrival of his lawyer on Monday and his bid was turned down.
The running battles at Mpandawana happened last Monday as the Mahwindi4ED were also launching their organisation.
Zvenyika of Mpandawana Village under Chief Gutu allegedly stole a Samsung J4 Core with US$50 in the pouch, US$1 Buddie recharge voucher and a Zanu PF membership card from Joseph Mutema (35) before escaping Police custody on the same day.
It is the State case that on the day, Zvenyika had an altercation with a council worker, Richard Manyika outside Mutema’s shop. Mutema tried to refrain the two but failed and he called Manyika’s supervisor to intervene.
Mutema then allegedly put his phone to Manyika’s ear so that he could speak to his supervisor but Zvenyika grabbed the phone and ran away. Mutema then filed a report to Police officers who were patrolling the terminus.
Zvenyika was arrested and he escaped from the officers at the terminus before he was rearrested and taken to Gutu Police Station. He initially appeared in court on Friday.-Masvingo Mirror
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has stressed the need for free, fair and credible elections.
Speaking at the launch of the PREPARE document in Harare on Thursday, President Chamisa expressed concern at the prolonged detention of political activists by the Zanu PF regime.
PREPARE spells out conditions that enable the nation to hold free and fair elections.
Zanu PF is sitting on key reforms due to fear of losing the 2023 polls.
“Traditional leaders also concur with our viewpoint- we feel United Nations should observe and monitor the coming polls.
Traditional leaders are of the same view.Our PREPARE document calls for the safety of the voter and the vote. The document also stresses the importance of the diaspora vote. We need the diaspora vote in Zimbabwe.
In addition, State security forces are not supposed to interfere with electoral processes,” said President Chamisa.
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has stressed the need for free, fair and credible elections.
Speaking at the launch of the PREPARE document in Harare on Thursday, President Chamisa expressed concern at the prolonged detention of political activists by the Zanu PF regime.
PREPARE spells out conditions that enable the nation to hold free and fair elections.
Zanu PF is sitting on key reforms due to fear of losing the 2023 polls.
“Traditional leaders also concur with our viewpoint- we feel United Nations should observe and monitor the coming polls.
Traditional leaders are of the same view.Our PREPARE document calls for the safety of the voter and the vote. The document also stresses the importance of the diaspora vote. We need the diaspora vote in Zimbabwe.
In addition, State security forces are not supposed to interfere with electoral processes,” said President Chamisa.
OPEN LETTER TO VILLAGE HEADS UNDER CHIEF NEGARI Ward 2 Mwenezi
Vadiwa Masabhuku emeNegari kuMwenezi
Don’t let Ezra Mashindi browbeat you. He is not a saint, he is not a genuine war veteran as he proclaims. Ezra Mashindi has no authority ,monopoly ,mauscle or whatsoever to frog march you and your people to Zanu pf meetings. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans and everyone has a right Join his or her desired party. If you may assist me to send this important message to him that LEAVE VILLAGERS ALONE OR GOD WILL PUNISH YOU. Moreover tell him that one day citizens would awaken especially Negari villagers and things would turn round for him. And by that time it would be too late to repent.
Am very much aware of his accomplice one Dube from the resettlement areas, those guys are demeaning and belittling you to nothing yet you are our traditional leaders and the custodians of our historical, ancestoral land, culture and development. Stay away from politics and deny to bullied.
I have wrote this letter to you village heads knowing very much the concequencies that I might face from Mashindi and team but Mwana asingachemi anofira mumbereko. Zvinondirwadza kuona vakuru vedu munzvimbo vachiitwa chamutavanhava kumanyiswa nekuunganidzwa misangano yeazvebato nemunhu anonzi Mashindi uye achitaura mashoko ekutyityidzira kuvabereki.
Mashindi haasi Mwari munomutyei.
Ngaasakuzvidzai nekukudzikisirai achimanyisa vabereki nekuvaita zvituta zvake iye achidya ega Mari dzaanopiwa nevakuru vake. Paakawana Ngoro yekushungurudza vanhu 2008 akaiwana ega saka imi masabhuku asakushandisai. Murivabereki vedu tese muzanu muCCC kana muNdonga tese tirivana venyu vevhu.
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has stressed the need for free, fair and credible elections.
Speaking at the launch of the PREPARE document in Harare on Thursday, President Chamisa expressed concern at the prolonged detention of political activists by the Zanu PF regime.
PREPARE spells out conditions that enable the nation to hold free and fair elections.
Zanu PF is sitting on key reforms due to fear of losing the 2023 polls.
“Traditional leaders also concur with our viewpoint- we feel United Nations should observe and monitor the coming polls.
Traditional leaders are of the same view.Our PREPARE document calls for the safety of the voter and the vote. The document also stresses the importance of the diaspora vote. We need the diaspora vote in Zimbabwe.
In addition, State security forces are not supposed to interfere with electoral processes,” said President Chamisa.
By A Correspondent- Self exiled Political Science Professor, Jonathan Moyo has told the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) led by Nelson Chamisa that the party should have sought electoral reforms a day after the 2018 elections if it was “serious.”
Moyo’s remarks come as CCC announced that it will launch its “Electoral Reform Blueprint” on Thursday 29 September 2022 (today), a few months before the harmonised elections scheduled for 2023.
Moyo said:
As electoral reform experiences around Africa show, serious opposition political players seek meaningful electoral reforms the day after the last election when they have five years to spare; and not the day before the next election, when they have squandered five years!
Seeking electoral reforms when, after participating in the last election, you hibernate; say and do nothing about election reforms only to wake up on the eve of the next election with cacophonic calls for electoral reforms; smacks of political cynicism and gross incompetence.
Calls for electoral reforms should not be a desperate substitute for an election manifesto based on sound values, ideology, constitution and policy alternatives pursued by a political structure with a demonstrable capacity to govern and improve people’s lives and livelihoods.
By A Correspondent- The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change‘s Southend branch has claimed that Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives are following and intimidating the children of slain CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
In a post on Twitter this Thursday, the party said:
We are disturbed to hear slain #CCC activist #MoreblessingAli’s grieving children are being followed & intimidated by @edmnangagwa’s Central Intelligence Organisation operatives. This is a despicable corrupt use of state resources. Is it not enough that you killed their mum?
Some context:
Moreblessing Ali went missing on 24 May 2022 after she had been kidnapped by Pius Mukandi, alias Jamba, at Chibhanguza Shopping Centre in Nyatsime.
Her mutilated body was found in a disused well on 11 June.
By Dr Masimba Mavaza | A businessman, Mr Learnard Dahwa fired his pistol five times at Mr Wellington Mavaza hitting him from the back of the head. The bullet went through the neck coming out through the cheekbones and shuttering the jaw. Wellington was lucky to be alive.
Service manager Leonard Dahwa, 54 who owns a few mining claims was denied bail by Harare magistrate Taurai Manuwere after he was charged with attempted murder. He was remanded in custody to October 12.
Welling Mavaza with bullet wound
Contrary to earlier reports, Mr Wellington Mavaza was not drinking beer at all on this day. He was coming from choir practice on his way home. Mavaza was called by a friend who asked him to pass by the bar to collect his home keys. As he arrived in the bar Mr Mavaza proceeded to the bar lady who is known to him to collect the keys.
While talking to the bar lady Mr Dahwa came fuming asking Mr Mavaza why he was talking to this lady. Seeing that Dahwa was furious Mr Mavaza remained silent but did not move as he had not collected his friend’s keys.
Dahwa went outside for a few minutes and came back holding a gun. He pointed the gun at Mr Mavaza shouting unprintable words. Sensing danger Mr Mavaza walked outside but Dahwa was not done yet. He followed Mr Mavaza outside and fired a shot. Mavaza turned around and took to his heels in a speed of lightning. Dahwa was encouraged by the running and fired four more times towards Mr Mavaza. A bullet caught up with Mavaza midair and overtook him, only that it made its way through his neck and could not stay in his mouth; made its way out through his cheek.
Not sure if he was hit as it happened so fast, Mavaza continued running, screaming like a baby calling for his mother who was miles away in Kadoma.
When Mavaza arrived home, he felt excruciating pain on his neck. It was then that he realised that he was hit. Gripped by the fear of death, he fell right in the arms of his wife who was startled by the screams.
Mavaza collapsed in the arms of his wife and both fell on the ground. Help was summoned and Mavaza who was now unconscious was ferried to a private clinic in Warren Park 1 where he was referred to Parirenyatwa Hospital.
People at the bar managed to take down the number plates of Dahwa’s car and assisted the police to apprehend Dahwa.
The National Prosecuting Authority had said Dahwa and victim Wellington Mavaza, 28, were drinking beer at Nyangani Nightclub in Warren Park 1 on September 21 when Mavaza had a misunderstanding with the bar lady. Mavaza and Dahwa do not know each other and so could not drink together. Furthermore Mavaza was not drinking, he made a dash in the bar to pick house keys of a friend from the bar lady who is known to Mavaza and his friend.
Mavaza’s twin brother, Washington Mavaza confirmed that Wellington was not drinking and he was not drunk on the day. He was shot in an unprovoked incident.
Dahwa, was arrested in a swift reaction by the CID Homicidef and was dragged to court on Monday 26th September.
Dahwa who was not happy to see Mavaza talking to the bar lady violently approached Mavaza who was cool and composed. These made Dahwa more angry and allegedly left the bar temporarily and went to his Mitsubishi Colt where he fetched his licenced FN Browning pistol.
He returned and “fired five shots towards Mavaza.” A bullet went through the back of Mavaza’s head and came out through the cheek. After the shooting, Dahwa got in his vehicle and drove off, the court heard. He did not try to help and did not care what happened to his victim.
The alert Investigators later recovered the gun used in the shooting.
Prosecutors opposed bail, arguing that Dahwa was a flight risk. The court heard that he tried to flee when detectives went to arrest him.
One eye witness told the police that Dahwa fired several shots missing him, then when Mavaza fell down he came and shoot him whilst laying down. Dahwa is a very violent man and must rot in jail. He shoot him at point blank execution style.”
Dahwa is well known in Warren Park for his violent behaviour and that he is quick to produce his fire arm and point it to anyone who crosses his path. – [email protected]
By James Gwati- The opposition CCC members of parliament on Wednesday confronted Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi over the continued detention of their colleague Job Sikhala.
By- The Zimbabwe National Army said it would release tankers and troops to six districts of Mashonaland Central province.
In a statement to the mainstream media, the ZDF said the tankers and troops would be holding drills in the said province.
Reads the statement:
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces would like to inform the general public that it will be conducting a training exercise in Bindura, Mbire Muzarabani, Rushinga, Shamva and Mt Darwin districts of Mashonaland Central Province, from 22 September to 21 October 2022. This year’s training exercise is a follow up to a similar exercise conducted in Masvingo Province in 2021.
The training exercise is meant to sharpen and perfect operational skills so as to enhance the Zimbabwe Defence Forces capability to fulfil its mandate. The exercise involves the movement of a large number of troops and vehicles from Harare into Mashonaland Central Province. Therefore the general populace should not be surprised by these movements.
BUHERA – A detective at Murambinda Growth Point has been charged with excessively assaulting a local prominent businessman following an argument over the arrest of the latter’s young brother.
Sergeant Elias Taguta (35) and a colleague Constable Zhira arrested Tatenda Mondo (29) on suspicion that he was smoking dagga. He later found a sex enhancing pill in the suspect’s pocket.
The incident happened on September 9, 2022 at 9:30 pm.
The arrest was made at a local beer hall but the accused’s brother Tinashe Mondo (38) who was also at the bar pleaded for the release of Tatenda. Tinashe is a prominent businessman at Murambinda.
Tinashe allegedly suffered severe injuries after the assault. He made a police report at Murambinda after obtaining a medical examination report at Murambinda Mission Hospital.
According to a Police report, Taguta took Tinashe to the Police Station where he assaulted him.
Taguta is being charged under section 89 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law and Reform Act, Chapter 9:23.- Masvingo Mirror
By- The Zanu PF October elective congress is set to discuss President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s retirement plan.
If the succession plan succeeds, Mnangagwa will retire, and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga will take over as the country’s President in 2028.
According to Newsday, Zanu PF will do this through fast-tracking internal constitutional amendments to enable Mnangagwa’s succession roadmap in consultation with the proposed council of elders.
Insiders said the amendments to be tabled at the party congress would enable him to step down as State President after serving his two five-year terms and continue as party president. Party sources said the council of elders would comprise Zanu PF old guard retired from government and deployed to the party to serve as advisers to the State President — effectively running government business from the party headquarters. But it is the succession issue that Mnangagwa is said to be more interested in to avoid going the same way as his predecessor the late Robert Mugabe who was toppled in a military-assisted coup in 2017 after 37 years in power. The council of elders will be composed of former party presidents and other “senior members”, Zanu PF secretary for legal affairs Paul Mangwana told NewsDay yesterday. “We have a council of elders made up of former Presidents and other senior members and their duty is to advise the President and settle disputes especially among senior members,” Mangwana said. “We have created the council of elders and it will be appointed this year,” he said without giving specific timelines. Mnangagwa, who is understood to be consolidating his grip on the ruling party through all its structures, reportedly wants to amend the Zanu PF constitution to allow him to remain the leader of the party after his two maximum terms in office as State President expire. But Mangwana dismissed the claims, saying that would be unconstitutional. “That (making Mnangagwa party president beyond his maximum terms as State President) would not be consistent with the national Constitution which is the supreme law of the land and it is my duty to ensure that our party constitution does not contradict with the national Constitution,” Mangwana said. He added: “We have made sure our constitution is in harmony with the national Constitution. The national Constitution has two presidential term limits; whereas our party constitution has no term limits, but it says whoever is party president becomes our presidential candidate for national elections so that means there is harmony.” Mangwana also dismissed speculation that the presidential candidate as well as his deputies would be handpicked by the party leadership. Mnangagwa assumed the Zanu PF party leadership after usurping power from Mugabe through a military-assisted coup in November 2017. Soon after assuming power, he retired party bigwigs Obert Mpofu, Patrick Chinamasa and Simbarashe Mumbengegwi among others from government and deployed them to work fulltime at the party headquarters. The amendments to the Zanu PF constitution are coming after Mnangagwa indicated in 2019 that the ruling party would establish a war veterans league and a council of elders to restore unity and discipline in the party. The war veterans’ league was set up recently and held its inaugural conference early this month. Meanwhile, former long-serving State Security minister and close Mugabe ally Didymus Mutasa has claimed that Mnangagwa might lose the 2023 polls after failing to douse the factional fights within the ruling party. Mutasa, a former Zanu PF secretary for administration, made the remarks while responding to allegations that he was decampaigning former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa in Makoni district Manicaland province by influencing Zanu PF party members to vote him out of the central committee. Both Mutasa and Chinamasa hail from Makoni district. Chinamasa was dressed down during a Zanu PF Makoni inter-district meeting that was held in Rusape last week, where party members requested that his central committee position be challenged in the upcoming internal party polls. This was after Zanu PF Makoni district co-ordinating committee (DCC) chairperson Albert Nyakuedzwa attempted to impose Chinamasa on the grounds that the former Finance minister be spared as a member of the politburo. “People are against Chinamasa since he was also the one who was behind the downfall of Mutasa as they both wanted to control the Makoni district and Manicaland as well,” a source in Makoni said. Before his fall from grace, Mutasa was regarded as Zanu PF political Godfather in Manicaland province. Contacted for comment yesterday, Mutasa said: “I enjoy respect not only in Makoni, but in Manicaland province and countrywide. Yes, l have heard the issue of me and Comrade Patrick Chinamasa fighting, and this is not the first time I have heard about that. But, l don’t know anything about that. I am not haunting anyone.” He said the party leadership needed to work hard to win next year’s polls. “I am not talking about Manicaland province, but the whole country. The party is in trouble, leaders in the party should work hard — hear me correctly, I am saying all the leaders. If they want to win, they have to stop gossiping within the party,” Mutasa said. Newsday
A 22-YEAR-OLD man from Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from roof trusses.
The deceased has been identified as Emeka Mpofu.
Circumstances are that on 26 September 2022 and at around 7 am, Mpofu’s sister found her brother’s lifeless body hanging from a roof truss in his bedroom. Mpofu hanged himself using a T-shirt. No suicide note was reportedly found on him.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident and urged the public to find ways to deal with problems.
“We are investigating a case of sudden death and we encourage people to seek counselling from elders or church when they encounter problems rather than taking their lives,” said Inspector Ncube.
In a tragic incident, a man from Bulawayo reportedly died while allegedly having sex with his lover at her house in Paddonhurst suburb.
The incident reportedly happened on Sunday night and the deceased has been identified as Makwiro Manwere (51).
According to a source on the day in question Manwere visited his lover Janet Ndlovu (50) at her place and found her already in bed.
“He arrived at around 11.30pm and found her already in bed. He then joined her and after a few minutes they engaged in sex. Things, however, went bad while the two were enjoying themselves as Manwere started sweating profusely and was complaining that he was feeling hot. They immediately stopped the act,” said the source.
The source said when they stopped the act, Manwere went on to sit on a chair still sweating profusely.
“Janet then opened the bedroom door for fresh air but her lover’s situation worsened as he started to experience difficulties in breathing and he fell to the ground.
“Janet then tried to save her lover by rendering first aid but within a few minutes she realised that things were getting worse and that is when she phoned an ambulance which swiftly came. Sadly the crew could not save his life as he died in his lover’s hands,” the source said.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident which was reported at Khumalo Police Post and said investigations were under way.
By- A Harare’s Rhodesville police station police officer and seven civilians have been arrested over the murder of a Marondera businessman during a robbery last Friday.
The robbers killed Lucas Chimoka at his Paradise Park Marondera home at 2 AM on Friday last week after robbing him of US$7 900.
The suspects were armed with an unidentified pistol, iron bars, and spears. They attacked the family before robbing them of US$7 910, a cellphone, and killing Chimoka.
A 22-YEAR-OLD man from Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from roof trusses.
The deceased has been identified as Emeka Mpofu.
Circumstances are that on 26 September 2022 and at around 7 am, Mpofu’s sister found her brother’s lifeless body hanging from a roof truss in his bedroom. Mpofu hanged himself using a T-shirt. No suicide note was reportedly found on him.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident and urged the public to find ways to deal with problems.
“We are investigating a case of sudden death and we encourage people to seek counselling from elders or church when they encounter problems rather than taking their lives,” said Inspector Ncube.
