Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa will be a pensioner after losing the 2023 Presidential Election, CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.

President Chamisa made the remarks at Mucheke Stadium on Sunday.

The CCC leader addressed a capacity crowd at a Thank You Rally in the ancient city of Masvingo.

Said President Chamisa:
“Mnangagwa is feeling the heat and he has admitted CCC is too strong for him to handle.

Soldiers, CIOs and police belong to the State, not Zanu PF.Let’s register to vote in numbers.

Mnangagwa will be a pensioner come 2023.
We are very alert , they will not steal the coming elections.
They want to provoke us we are aware of their tactics.”

President Chamisa also scoffed at Zanu-PF party claims that he was behind sensational allegations by Australia-based Zimbabwean Susani Mutami who claimed to have been raped as a minor by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

“Mvura ikasanaya ndiChamisa, uya musikana weku Australia (Susan Mutami) hameno zvaaitaura achiti ndakanzwai nanhingi, ndikanzwa zvonzi ndiChamisa, ini ndodongorera muchiita zvinhu zvenyu ndaivapo ini? Ndingasaita shohwera? (If it doesn’t rain they blame Chamisa; now this lady in Australia says she was abused by so and so … and they blame Chamisa)” President Chamisa said.

ZIMBABWEANS who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer have to wear face masks in public places, but must carry their vaccination cards at all times, Cabinet said yesterday.

Mnangagwa in a mask
Addressing a post-Cabinet briefing, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said the face mask requirement was removed as COVID-19 cases drop, and vaccination coverage increases.

“Noting the decrease in COVID-19 cases Cabinet resolved as follows: That those who have received three doses of the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended vaccines are exempted from mandatory wearing of face masks in outdoor public places, but should, however, wear face masks in indoor public places and on public transport,” she said.

“Those fully vaccinated should carry their vaccination cards all the time; that all provinces continue intensifying COVID-19 vaccination activities for the nation to achieve herd immunity; and that the country remains on high alert for other outbreaks such as measles, regional poliomyelitis and the global monkeypox.”

Since May 4, 2020, the wearing of masks was made mandatory as the country battled to control the spread of the pandemic.

Some of the restrictions such as curfew have been long relaxed, but face masks remained in force, with police arresting people not wearing them.

Zimbabwe began a COVID-19 vaccination exercise in February 2021 after the country received 200 000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine donated by China under the first phase of the programme.

Statistics show that an estimated 4,7 million people have been fully vaccinated against the pandemic against a targeted 10 million.

The country has recorded a total of 256 000 infections, and 5 588 COVID-19 related deaths.

In an unrelated matter, Cabinet said most of the 2 056 measles cases and 157 deaths were from people who were not vaccinated against the disease.

“The nation is being informed that following a report of the first case of measles in Mutasa district, Manicaland province, on August 10, 2022, the disease has now spread to other provinces. As of August 15, 2022, the cumulative figures from across the country had risen to 2 056 cases, and 157 deaths,” Mutsvangwa said.

Measles is a highly contagious respiratory tract viral infection which commonly affects children and is spread through sneezing, coughing and by touching or contact with secretions of an affected individual. Newsday

By- The government has dropped mandatory masking on people who have received three doses of COVID-19 vaccines in outdoor public places.

Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa announced the partial removal of the mandatory masking during a post-cabinet media briefing on Tuesday evening.

Mutsvangwa said wearing masks remains mandatory for all people in indoor public places and on public transport.

She said Cabinet noted the decrease in COVID-19 cases before deciding to amend the mask mandate. Said Mutsvangwa:
… those who have received three doses of the WHO recommended vaccines are exempted from the mandatory wearing of face masks in outdoor public places but should however wear masks in indoor public places and on public transport. Those fully vaccinated should carry their cards all the time.
… all provinces [should] continue intensifying COVID-19 Vaccination activities for the nation to achieve herd immunity.

By-Zanu PF MP for Gokwe-Nembudziya Justice Mayor Wadyajena has been arrested.

NewZimbabwe reports that Wadyajena was arrested Tuesday by members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC).

ZACC detained him at their Newlands office shortly after chairing a heated agriculture parliamentary committee meeting on the construction of Vungu dam in Midlands province.

ZACC spokesperson John Makamure was not picking up calls.
Wadyajena is reportedly facing multiple counts of abuse of office after looting presidential input scheme inputs meant for cotton farmers in his constituency.
He was ordered to present himself at Newlands soon after chairing an agriculture parliamentary committee meeting Tuesday.

-NewZimbabwe

By The Nation- Four IEBC commissioners, led by the vice-chair Juliana Cherera, have issued a second statement offering a comprehensive recap of their stance on the 2022 presidential election.

Speaking from the Serena Hotel, the four have claimed the electoral commission’s chair, Wafula Chebukati, overruled them and insisted on announcing the results despite concerns they raised.

They also claimed that the final tally of the presidential election results was not brought before the commission for processing.

Listing four reasons behind their decision to reject the results declared, the commissioners said that the aggregation of the results were not mathematically correct and that the results did not include totals of registered voters, votes cast or rejected votes.

The four include Juliana Cherera, Francis Wanderi, Irene Masit and Justus Nyang’aya.

-Nation

By- The opposition CCC has intensified its rural voter registration program with the members using branded cars to transport first voters.

CCC Gutu branch said it was recording high numbers of people registering to vote.

#GutuWest Champions have already received a branded car for the Constituency that is helping them to mobilise and register to Vote. As of yesterday about 19youth went for the registration exercise in Gutu. 

@CCCMasvingo

@CCCZimbabwe

@advocatemahere

@CCCMasvngoYth

@drjaytee87

By-Three Zimbabwean nationals have been shot dead in South Africa.

On Sunday morning, the three’s bodies were found dead with gunshot wounds in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Organised crime detectives who are investigating the deaths have called for anyone with information related to the shootings to contact their nearest police station.

Provincial police spokesperson Novela Potelwa said the detectives were probing the murders after police were called out to Sakhelwe Street, Mbekweni, Paarl at about 5 AM on Sunday. He said:

One body was lying inside the vehicle, another behind the same vehicle, and the third one inside a shack on the premises.

The ages of the deceased people are 30, 33 and 40. Their identities (names) will be released once their next of kin have been informed.

Community Safety MEC Reagen Allen expressed shock over rising mass murder cases in rural towns in the Western Cape. Said Allen:

Not so long ago, we were faced with a similar shooting in Tulbagh. Our rural towns are not known for these types of horrendous crimes, and it cannot become the norm. We dare not allow this lawlessness to take root and continue.

We need to flush out all aspects of criminality and take our communities back.

Ian Cameron, director of Community Safety of non-profit organisation Action Society, said:

If I look at these shootings and the time I spent in Mbekweni, I don’t find it (the fatalities) surprising.

I think Mbekweni has very serious violent criminals that reside there. We are actually involved in a few cases there but those are more gender-based violence related.

More: IOL

By- Four Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)commissioners have rejected the results that endorsed William Ruto’s Presidential victory.

Ruto was on Monday declared the winner of the closely-fought presidential election.

IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati announced the disputed results.

Chebukati declared Kenya Kwanza’s candidate Ruto as president-elect and his running mate Rigathi Gachagua as the deputy president-elect, respectively.

Four commissioners held a surprise press conference at Serena Hotel, Nairobi on Monday afternoon and said they will not take ownership of the results.

The commissioners, including vice chair Juliana Cherera, commissioners Francis Wanderi, Irene Masit and Justus Nyang’aya, claimed that the results were arrived at in an opaque manner, without giving further details.

Ruto is said to have garnered 7,176,141 votes, representing 50.59 per cent of valid votes cast, beating his rival Azimio la Umoja candidate Raila Odinga whom the IEBC said had 6,942,930 votes. 

Said Chebukati:

Despite intimidation and harassment… I have done my duty in accordance with the constitution and the laws of the land.

The declaration has been made without results from four of 290 constituencies – Kacheliba, Kitui Rural, Pokot South and Rongai – whose voting was postponed.

Turnout was lower than in previous elections at around 65 per cent of Kenya’s 22 million registered voters.

The announcement ceremony was held at the national tallying centre at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi and was attended by diplomats and foreign election observers.

More: The East African

By The Nation-ODM leader Raila Odinga has rejected Wafula Chebukati’s declaration of DP William Ruto as president-elect, saying his coalition is pursuing all available constitutional options.

Speaking for the first time since the IEBC chair declared the presidential results on Monday, the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition party presidential candidate, claimed Mr Chebukati showed disregard to the Constitution by announcing results processed unilaterally.

He also claimed that the chair was the only person who accessed the presidential tally and informed the commissioners without permitting any discussion of the results.

“The chair acted in disregard to the Constitution… Azimio rejects the presidential results announced by Mr Chebukati,” he said.

Mr Odinga also urged his supporters to maintain peace and calm as the coalition pursues constitutional avenues to invalidate the pronunciations by Mr Chebukati.

-Nation

By A Correspondent- South Africa’s Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi today unveiled 200 border guards in a bid to enhance border security at the Beitbridge border post.

South Africa is expected to unveil more border guards at other border posts in the neighbouring country.

During the unveiling of the border guards at Beitbridge, other arms of SA’s government showed disinterest amid claims that Motsoaledi is bringing in an ulterior African Nation Congress (ANC) force into mainstream public administration.

As  Motsoaledi set the border guards into action, across the road the South African Revenue Services (SARS) officials picketed as they continued their strike against the SA government.

The newly-recruited members of the Border Guard whose selection has also raised eyebrows in Musina.

“We were just told to apply but were never responded to. They brought their own people from other areas,” Virginia Mbedzi of Musina said.

— NewsDay

Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF regime is planning to keep CCC officials Hon Job Sikhala and Hon Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole in jail until 2023, it has emerged.

CCC Secretary General Hon Charlton Hwende on Monday denounced the prolonged detention of party members.

“Sikhala & Sithole’s application for removal from remand has been rejected. We all have been told that the State plans to keep them in Jail until 2023. We can’t let our own Comrades to rot in jail we should rather all be arrested. Moreblessing was killed she is still not buried
CCC,” Hwende said in a statement.

“JUSTICE FOR NYATSIME 15: We condemn the unlawful detention of the #Nyatsime15 including 2 MPs Hon Sikhala & Hon Sithole. They are being persecuted because they’re Yellow & sought justice for Moreblessing Ali. Bail is a constitutional right.

FreeTheNyatsime15,” CCC said in a statement on Monday.

Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa will be a pensioner after losing the 2023 Presidential Election, CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.

President Chamisa made the remarks at Mucheke Stadium on Sunday.

The CCC leader addressed a capacity crowd at a Thank You Rally in the ancient city of Masvingo.

Said President Chamisa:
“Mnangagwa is feeling the heat and he has admitted CCC is too strong for him to handle.

Soldiers, CIOs and police belong to the State, not Zanu PF.Let’s register to vote in numbers.

Mnangagwa will be a pensioner come 2023.
We are very alert , they will not steal the coming elections.
They want to provoke us we are aware of their tactics.”

President Chamisa also scoffed at Zanu-PF party claims that he was behind sensational allegations by Australia-based Zimbabwean Susani Mutami who claimed to have been raped as a minor by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

“Mvura ikasanaya ndiChamisa, uya musikana weku Australia (Susan Mutami) hameno zvaaitaura achiti ndakanzwai nanhingi, ndikanzwa zvonzi ndiChamisa, ini ndodongorera muchiita zvinhu zvenyu ndaivapo ini? Ndingasaita shohwera? (If it doesn’t rain they blame Chamisa; now this lady in Australia says she was abused by so and so … and they blame Chamisa)” President Chamisa said.

By A Correspondent- A Checheche Growth Point-based prophetess, Lindiwe Mkwananzi of Later Glory Church is locked in a messy divorce with her husband of 16 years, Mr Jacob Lunga.

Prophetess Mkwananzi (39) who commands a huge following at Checheche Growth Point in Chipinge South has filed for divorce at the Masvingo High Court, intending to void her marriage with the father of her three children and Chiredzi-based artist, Mr Jacob Lunga.

The two were legally married in terms of the Marriage Act, Chapter 5:11 in 2006 and the marriage still subsists.

According to the papers of declaration which were filed by Prophetess Mkwananzi at the High Court, she said she wanted to cancel the marriage because there is no hope of resuscitating it.

“The marriage has irretrievably broken down to an unsalvageable point. There are no reasonable prospects of resuscitating a normal and working marriage.

“There is no longer love and affection between us, and we have not shared conjugal rights since December 2018,” said Prophetess Mkwananzi.

However, Mr Lunga is refusing to sign the divorce papers, arguing that his estranged wife submitted fake copies to him in order to fast-track her marriage with former Chipinge and Chimanimani Senator, Tobias Matanga.

Mr Lunga accused Mr Matanga of wrecking his marriage of years.

He said Prophetess Mkwananzi’s marriage to Mr Matanga was stopped after the former senator learnt that his (Lunga’s marriage to Prophetess Mkananzi) was still subsistent.

“My wife is having an affair with Mr Matanga and they have been dating for years. I learnt of their relationship from my colleagues from Checheche when I left for Chiredzi.

“My wife as a prophetess used to meet Mr Matanga privately for healing sessions since she was praying for him for an undisclosed ailment. As the church, we decided that she could not pray for him publicly since he is a respected man in the society.

“That is when the relationship started and I have not enjoyed peace up to this day,” said Mr Lunga.

In a telephone interview on Tuesday, Prophetess Mkwananzi refuted all the allegations levelled against her by Mr Lunga.

She said her husband was abusive and was sick and tired of the abuses, hence the divorce.

“My husband is very abusive and that is why I am filing for a divorce. I don’t know why he is stalking me since he is the one who moved out of our matrimonial home. He is already married and should let me enjoy my freedom.

“He is lying that I am dating my clients. As a church leader, I mix with a lot of men and he confronts every man I assist.

“I am not dating anyone since I am still being bonded by our wedding. Once I finish the divorce process, I can’t stop dating and marrying someone else,” she said.

Contacted for comment, Mr Matanga denied ever ruining the prophetess’ marriage.

“Lunga is a funny man. He calls me several times alleging that I am having an affair with his wife. I never dated his wife. I used to visit Prophetess Mkwananzi for healing purposes only. He only wants to tarnish my image. I challenge him to come to my farm where I am staying and see if I am staying with his wife,” said Mr Matanga.

-manicapost

By A Correspondent- Chitungwiza Town Council yesterday demolished selected illegal structures in St Mary’s.

The demolished structures were reported to have been approved illegally by some Council officials.

A bulldozer pulled down structures at Huruyadzo Shopping Centre and went on to remove foundations of some housing structures along Chitungwiza Road in St Mary’s.

In an interview, Chitungwiza Acting Housing Director, Tendai Chinganga, said the local authority was on a 30-day operation that will see more demolitions of illegal structures.

We have been trying to trace origins of fake documents, within the Council offices, which allowed these people to construct structures on undesignated areas,” said Chinganga. We cannot rule out that there are some officials who parcelled such land without proper procedures.

“We have people who decided to defy enforcement orders by the town planners, and what we have witnessed here is a process that is going to cut across Chitungwiza, for the next 30 days, in order to restore sanity.

“We are encouraging Chitungwiza residents to respect Council by-laws, to respect the laws of the land. If they want to construct any structure, they should first get the approval before they do anything,” said Chinganga.

Some of the demolished structures were close to the road while some residential stands were on wetlands and closing places marked for roads.

— HMetro

By A Correspondent- ZANU PF has been described as a “criminal gang” after a ruling party member threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his family with death.

The police were evasive yesterday when contacted over whether investigations have been opened yet following the threat.

Zanu PF member Abton Mashayanyika, who is a Habbakuk Apostolic Faith Mission bishop in Mberengwa, Midlands province, recently made the threats against Chamisa while addressing a rally at Rampopo hills under Chief Mapiravana in Mberengwa North.

In the video which has gone viral on social media, Mashayanyika said: “When we said down with (the late former Zimbabwe-Rhodesia Prime Minister Abel) Muzorewa, we meant he should die, when we say down with a witch, we mean they should die. When we say down-down with Chamisa, we mean he should be killed. Do you all understand the meaning? Down with CCC [Citizens Coalition of Change], down with Chamisa and his children.”

The chant is an age-old rallying call from Zimbabwe’s 1970s war of liberation which largely called for the death of the then common enemy, the late Rhodesian leader Ian Smith.

After independence in 1980, the Zanu PF party adopted the chant against all those who opposed its rule.

Police yesterday were evasive when asked whether there have been any investigations into Mashayanyika’s utterances.

Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the matter was being investigated at local level, and referred questions to Masvingo provincial spokesperson Inspector Kudakwashe Dewa.

Dewa, however, referred questions to Midlands provincial spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko, who said: “If he said the matter was being investigated at the local level, what more can I say? Further details will be released in due course.”

Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa refused to comment on the matter, while party information director Tafadzwa Mugwadi did not respond to questions sent to him.

The opposition CCC said the police inaction against threats to the life of their party leader confirmed their fears over selective application of the law.

This came as CCC legislators Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North) are fighting for their freedom at the courts following their incarceration on June 14 on charges of inciting violence.

CCC said it was not taking the threats against Chamisa lightly after he survived two assassination attempts during his meet-the-people tours last year when gunshots were reportedly fired at his convoy.

CCC acting spokesperson Gift Siziba said: “We do not take this lightly chiefly because there have been numerous attempts on the life of president Chamisa. It is to this end that we call for our able police service to move with speed and detain Mashayanyika and charge him and his accomplices with death threats and calling for violence.”

Lawyer Alec Muchadehama said Mashayanyika should be charged for inciting public violence.

He has gone beyond the bounds of freedom of expression. The Constitution guarantees the freedom of expression, but this is not the kind of freedom the Constitution entails. What he is saying is completely unjustified,” Muchadehama said.

“But that he has not been arrested or the police not issuing a statement shows how the police in Zimbabwe selectively apply the law by only targeting people who are perceived to be anti-Zanu PF. To that extent, it gives weight to allegations that the police act in a partisan manner.”

Said Effie Ncube, a political analyst: “The threats by this fellow are sadly consistent with the long-standing position of Zanu PF in which it has sought to retain power by all foul means.

“If you look at its record of murders, abductions, enforced disappearances and corruption on a grand scale, it has surpassed all regimes since colonial rule. Nothing like it has ever been seen. It has crossed all the lines in terms of being repugnant and brazenly criminal.”

Renowned United States-born applied economics professor and currency reformer Steve Hanke said the ruling party was synonymous with a criminal organisation.

He made the remarks in an interview on CNBC Africa about Zimbabwe’s current economic woes and possible solutions on Wednesday.

“Now we have a new President (Emmerson Mnangagwa), but, in fact, the same kind of regime, we have a Minister of Finance (Mthuli Ncube) who has been there since 2018 and it’s the same old story. We have got the governor of the Reserve Bank (of Zimbabwe, John Mangudya), who’s been there since 2014. That’s the same old story and we have got Zanu PF, a political party in power, but you have to remember Zanu PF has more in common with a criminal organisation than a political party, so that’s where we are at,” Hanke said.

“You have got criminals running the country. There are absolutely no preconditions to install a successful currency board, there have been over 70 of them. They have all been installed in the middle of the crisis in most cases.”

Political lecturer and analyst Eldred Masunungure said Hanke’s assertion was spot on.

“This is a party in government, deeply corrupt and has all sorts of predatory conduct, both in politics and the economic issues of the country; but it remains a political party. It’s an ugly animal, yes,” he said.

-Newsday

By- The body of the missing Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) official Daniel Mbolu Musyoka has been found in Kajiado.

IEBC is the body that runs elections in Kenya.

On Monday evening, police officers from Loitoktok, Kajiado South sub-county were alerted over the presence of the body of a middle-aged man in a forest.

Loitok tok police boss Kipruto Ruto said that Musyoka’s body was positively identified by his sisters Mary Mwikali and Ann Mboya at Loitokitok sub-county mortuary. Said Ruto:

His two sisters identified the body lying at Loitoktok sub-county hospital last night.

We are waiting for communication from police headquarters either to ferry the body to the city mortuary or to remain here.

Musyoka (53) was serving as returning officer at Embakasi East polling station in Nairobi county.

According to Ruto, the middle-aged male body was discovered early on Monday in Kilombero forest, at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro by herders in the valley of a dry seasonal river.

Ruto said the body was naked, though the man’s clothes — a tracksuit and a Maasai shuka — were found at the edge of the valley.

There were visible signs of struggle and torture on the victim’s body. Added Ruto:

It is evident that the victim was killed elsewhere and the body dumped in the valley.

The body has scars indicating torture before the death. He possibly died a painful death.

Musyoka disappeared on Wednesday, 10 August 2022 moments before announcing the results for the parliamentary and county assembly races at the East Africa School of Aviation tallying centre.

Those who interacted with him reportedly said he excused himself to answer a phone call before he went missing. His deputy took over and announced the results.

More: Nation

By- President Emerson Mnangagwa has congratulated the discredited Kanya’s President-elect, Willam Ruto, a few minutes after the announcement of the results.

Mnangagwa sent his congratulatory message to Ruto via Twitter Monday evening.

“Congratulations to 

@WilliamsRuto

 on his election as the next President of Kenya. I have no doubt he will serve his country, his people and our continent with distinction,” Tweeted Mnangagwa.

Ruto was on Monday declared the winner of the closely-fought presidential election by the IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati.

Chebukati declared Kenya Kwanza’s candidate Ruto as president-elect and his running mate Rigathi Gachagua as the deputy president-elect, respectively.

Four commissioners with IEBC immediately held a surprise press conference at Serena Hotel, Nairobi and said they will not take ownership of the results.

The commissioners, including vice chair Juliana Cherera, commissioners Francis Wanderi, Irene Masit and Justus Nyang’aya, claimed that the results were arrived at in an opaque manner, without giving further details.

Ruto garnered 7,176,141 votes, representing 50.59 per cent of valid votes cast, beating his rival Azimio la Umoja candidate Raila Odinga whom the IEBC said had 6,942,930 votes. 

Said Chebukati:

Despite intimidation and harassment… I have done my duty in accordance with the constitution and the laws of the land.

The declaration has been made without results from four of 290 constituencies – Kacheliba, Kitui Rural, Pokot South and Rongai – whose voting was postponed.

Turnout was lower than in previous elections at around 65 per cent of Kenya’s 22 million registered voters.

The announcement ceremony was held at the national tallying centre at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi and was attended by diplomats and foreign election observers.

Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa will be a pensioner after losing the 2023 Presidential Election, CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.

President Chamisa made the remarks at Mucheke Stadium on Sunday.

The CCC leader addressed a capacity crowd at a Thank You Rally in the ancient city of Masvingo.

Said President Chamisa:
“Mnangagwa is feeling the heat and he has admitted CCC is too strong for him to handle.

Soldiers, CIOs and police belong to the State, not Zanu PF.Let’s register to vote in numbers.

Mnangagwa will be a pensioner come 2023.
We are very alert , they will not steal the coming elections.
They want to provoke us we are aware of their tactics.”

President Chamisa also scoffed at Zanu-PF party claims that he was behind sensational allegations by Australia-based Zimbabwean Susani Mutami who claimed to have been raped as a minor by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

“Mvura ikasanaya ndiChamisa, uya musikana weku Australia (Susan Mutami) hameno zvaaitaura achiti ndakanzwai nanhingi, ndikanzwa zvonzi ndiChamisa, ini ndodongorera muchiita zvinhu zvenyu ndaivapo ini? Ndingasaita shohwera? (If it doesn’t rain they blame Chamisa; now this lady in Australia says she was abused by so and so … and they blame Chamisa)” President Chamisa said.

By James Gwati- The High Court has directed the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services to allow Human Rights Lawyer Rose Hanzi access to CCC’s Job Sikhala and Godfrey in Chikurubi maximum security prison.

The two are in remand after their arrest two months ago for demanding the apprehension of CCC activict Moreblessing Ali’s murderers.

ZPCS last month blocked Hanzi from seeing Sikhala and Sithole.

Announcing the High Court order, Monday Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said they were happy with the directive.

Posted ZLHR:

JUST IN: High Court Judge Justice Emilia Muchawa has ordered 

@ZPCS_PR

 to allow human rights lawyer 

@rose_hanzi

 to consult in private with her clients Hon. Job Sikhala & Godfrey Sithole. This came after Hanzi, represented by 

@obeyshava1

 & 

@PaidaSaurombe

 of 

@ZLHRLawyers

By-The Ministry of Health and Child Care has fired Robert Emmanuel Chiduku, the leader of the Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union (ZPNU).

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga doubles as the Health Minister.

He is also a retired Army General who led a coup that ousted the late President Robert Mugabe in November 2017.

Chiduku, who worked as a nurse at Gweru Provincial Hospital was fired effective 15 August 2022 following a disciplinary hearing on 5 August.
He was found guilty on charges of conducting Union business during business hours on work premises without the employer’s consent.
According to a letter dated 15 August 2022 and signed by one S Jailos, Chiduku has seven days to appeal the decision. Part of the letter reads:
I refer to a Disciplinary hearing held on the 5th of August 2022 which you attended. I make further reference to a subsequent letter of findings and determination dated 14 August 2022 in respect of the same hearing.
You faced a single charge with three particulars. However, after going through the submissions and evidence, I found you not guilty on Particular I and Particular II.
I found you guilty of Particular III in terms of Section 4 (a) of Labour (National Employment Code of Conduct) Regulations.
S I 15 of 2006 “Any act of conduct or omission inconsistent with the fulfilment of your employment contract” by conducting Union business during business hours which you did within the premises of your employer without his consent.
Your conduct is a serious breach of your employment under the above-cited section as charged.
In coming up with the penalty, I took into account your submissions in mitigation on the penalty. I also took into account submission in aggravation by the Complainant only in regards to this particular charge you are found guilty.
I also took into account that your improper conduct undermines the business of your employer as he is the national provider of healthcare to the citizenry.
The nature of the violation, which to me clearly goes to the root of your employment contract, demonstrates incredible disrespect to the sanctity of your workplace and the critical business thereof.
Your conduct undermined the relationship of trust which is essential for the proper functioning of business as such it is understood that continued relationship is impossible.
On the basis of the disciplinary hearing held, I have no option but serve to order a summary dismissal with immediate effect.
Please be advised that should you be aggrieved by my decision, you may without prejudice to right of appeal, appeal as appropriate to the appeals Officer, within seven (7) days from date of receipt of this letter.

By- Well-wishers in the diaspora have raised £6 000 for detained CCC’s Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole’s families.

The initiative was launched on 2 August, and as of 21:55 on Sunday, 14 August 2022, £6 011 had been raised by 45 people.

The fundraising initiative was initiated by Estelle Adams-Stone, who says the money will be used for the welfare of the duo’s families while the legislators are in detention.

Sikhala, Sithole and colleagues were arrested in June over the 14 June violence that erupted in Nyatsime during the funeral wake of slain CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
They deny the charges.
They have been in jail since then, with the Magistrates and High Court denying them bail.

By- President Emerson Mnangagwa has congratulated the discredited Kanya’s President-elect, Willam Ruto.

Mnangagwa sent his congratulatory message to Ruto via Twitter Monday evening.

“Congratulations to 

@WilliamsRuto

 on his election as the next President of Kenya. I have no doubt he will serve his country, his people and our continent with distinction,” Tweeted Mnangagwa.

Ruto was on Monday declared the winner of the closely-fought presidential election by the IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati.

Chebukati declared Kenya Kwanza’s candidate Ruto as president-elect and his running mate Rigathi Gachagua as the deputy president-elect, respectively.

Four commissioners with IEBC immediately held a surprise press conference at Serena Hotel, Nairobi and said they will not take ownership of the results.

The commissioners, including vice chair Juliana Cherera, commissioners Francis Wanderi, Irene Masit and Justus Nyang’aya, claimed that the results were arrived at in an opaque manner, without giving further details.

Ruto garnered 7,176,141 votes, representing 50.59 per cent of valid votes cast, beating his rival Azimio la Umoja candidate Raila Odinga whom the IEBC said had 6,942,930 votes. 

Said Chebukati:

Despite intimidation and harassment… I have done my duty in accordance with the constitution and the laws of the land.

The declaration has been made without results from four of 290 constituencies – Kacheliba, Kitui Rural, Pokot South and Rongai – whose voting was postponed.

Turnout was lower than in previous elections at around 65 per cent of Kenya’s 22 million registered voters.

The announcement ceremony was held at the national tallying centre at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi and was attended by diplomats and foreign election observers.

Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa will be a pensioner after losing the 2023 Presidential Election, CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.

President Chamisa made the remarks at Mucheke Stadium on Sunday.

The CCC leader addressed a capacity crowd at a Thank You Rally in the ancient city of Masvingo.

Said President Chamisa:
“Mnangagwa is feeling the heat and he has admitted CCC is too strong for him to handle.

Soldiers, CIOs and police belong to the State, not Zanu PF.Let’s register to vote in numbers.

Mnangagwa will be a pensioner come 2023.
We are very alert , they will not steal the coming elections.
They want to provoke us we are aware of their tactics.”

President Chamisa also scoffed at Zanu-PF party claims that he was behind sensational allegations by Australia-based Zimbabwean Susani Mutami who claimed to have been raped as a minor by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

“Mvura ikasanaya ndiChamisa, uya musikana weku Australia (Susan Mutami) hameno zvaaitaura achiti ndakanzwai nanhingi, ndikanzwa zvonzi ndiChamisa, ini ndodongorera muchiita zvinhu zvenyu ndaivapo ini? Ndingasaita shohwera? (If it doesn’t rain they blame Chamisa; now this lady in Australia says she was abused by so and so … and they blame Chamisa)” President Chamisa said.

Tinashe Sambiri|The panicky Zanu PF regime instructed ZESA to switch off power at Mucheke Stadium in bid to disrupt President Nelson Chamisa’s Thank You Rally.

The CCC leader addressed thousands of party supporters in Masvingo on Sunday.

Speaking at the rally, CCC organising secretary, Amos Chibaya, said :

“Our supporters have been arrested and the regime has impounded vehicles belonging to our members.

This shows the regime is in panic mode.
They have also blocked kombis from ferrying our supporters to Mucheke Stadium.These are desperate measures.”

Hundreds of CCC supporterd walked to the venue.

The presence of police presence and water cannons could not stop thousands of CCC supporters and residents from attending the rally.

About 40 000 supporters attended the rally.

By A Correspondent- First lady Auxilia Mnangagwa’s Facebook post has torched a storm on social media with netizens calling her to assist Marry Mubaiwa.

Said Mnangagwa in a post:

“Ukasimudzira mudzimai, Wasimudzira nyika.”

By A Correspondent- A Kadoma fuel attendant yesterday morning, allegedly faked a robbery by blasting a cash safe using explosives at Macshep business complex in the town.

The suspect who has since been arrested, allegedly tried to blow down the complex in a bid to conceal evidence after stealing an undisclosed amount of money.

He is said to have used explosives to blow the safe and destroyed part of the building while, a 20-litre container full of petrol was discovered in the building whose purpose is believed to have been to help blow the property.

Mr Jimayi Muduvuri, the owner of the complex confirmed the incident saying the whole building could have been destroyed from the explosion.

Police swiftly responded and managed to apprehend the suspect and recover some of the money.

Mr Jestinos Madzingira a line manager at the fuel station said he was at the complex when the explosion occurred.

“We were not so sure what could have been the cause of explosion until we recovered some of the explosives within the room where the safe was. This made us believe the fuel attendant on duty was behind it since he had the keys to the room,” he said.

Part of the money, amounting to, US$1200 was recovered underneath human faeces near a railway line a stone’s throw away from the complex.

Police spokeperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident adding the suspect was in custody.

Further investigations were carried out by forensic experts.

— Herald

By A Correspondent- A 40 year old man has been brought to court on accusations of killing his son.

Bigmore Kumadziro was remanded in custody when he appeared before magistrate Yeukai Dzuda.

Kumadziro will be back in court on Friday.

Circumstances are that on August 7, at around 9am, Kumadziro was playing with his son at home at Seed Co Compound in Stapleford.

He threw him in the air and failed to catch him.

The boy landed on the floor and started bleeding through his nose and ears.

He sustained a swollen head and was rushed to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals where he was pronounced dead upon examination.

According to the State, Kumadziro attempted to commit suicide on the same day.

It is alleged he jumped in front of a moving truck, along Lomagundi Road, but was injured after being knocked down.

He is currently admitted at the same hospital.

Anesu Chirenje prosecuted

By A Correspondent- Business Simba “Buju” Ndoro, lost US$70 000 when armed robbers struck at his office in Shamva on Saturday.

Ndoro, who is the president and owner of Division One side, Simba Bhora, told H-Metro he was notified about the robbery just after arriving in Kadoma.

His team played a ZIFA Northern Region Division One League match against CAM & Motor at Rimuka on Saturday.

Ndoro said he was informed the robbery occurred a few minutes after the cash had been delivered at his office.

I don’t know what to say, I’m very disappointed.

“When I was informed about it, for a moment, I thought it was a joke or something and there was nothing that I could do because I had just arrived in Kadoma.

“The matter was reported to the police and they are still investigating.

“I don’t know what I have done wrong to deserve this.

“The blow is too heavy for me to just move on,” said Ndoro.

The employees are saying the money was delivered safely from Harare and it was business as usual when the man who delivered the cash left.

“They are saying they were caught off guard by the armed robbers, who took every cent in sight,” he narrated.

Cases of armed robberies have been on the rise in the country.

— HMetro

By-A Kenyan Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) official has gone missing.

Daniel Mbolu Musyoka (53) disappeared moments before announcing the results for the parliamentary and county assembly races at the East Africa School of Aviation tallying centre, reported the Nation.

On Friday, IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati announced that Musyoka had gone missing and asked the police to expedite investigations.

Musyoka is the Embakasi East Constituency Returning Officer.

Speaking in an interview with the Nation at their home in Nyonjoro in Bahati Constituency, Nakuru County, Musyoka’s wife, Tabitha, said that the news about her husband’s disappearance has left the family devastated. She said:

We’re devastated but we strongly hope my husband will be found alive and safe.

When we talked, he did not sound disturbed, he was in high spirits and did not complain about anything.

The day he disappeared, I tried calling him but he did not answer. I was later told by his cousin, who lives in Utawala, that he was missing.

Tabitha added that search efforts have been extended to mortuaries, hospitals and other facilities.

The family wants detectives to expedite their investigations and help trace him.

According to the Nation, Musyoka has worked for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for 13 years.

He was posted to Loitoktok but was later transferred to Embakasi East in May.

The family said that police reported that his mobile phone signal disappeared an hour after he went missing.

When Musyoka disappeared, he was about to declare the winners in the National Assembly and County Assembly contests.

Those who interacted with him reportedly said he excused himself to answer a phone call before he went missing. His deputy took over and announced the results.

More: Nation

By- Well-wishers have raised £6 000 for detained CCC’s Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole.

The initiative was launched on 2 August, and as of 21:55 on Sunday, 14 August 2022, £6 011 had been raised by 45 people.

The fundraising initiative was initiated by Estelle Adams-Stone, who says the money will be used for the welfare of the duo’s families while the legislators are in detention.

Sikhala, Sithole and colleagues were arrested in June over the 14 June violence that erupted in Nyatsime during the funeral wake of slain CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
They deny the charges.
They have been in jail since then, with the Magistrates and High Court denying them bail.

By-CCC leader Nelson Chamisa told his supporters in Masvingo Sunday that he was a soldier.

Chamisa said even Vice President Constantino Chiwenga knows this.

Said Chamisa:

Chiwenga knows that I grew up at Manyame Airbase… in the Airmen’s Mess, in the Sergent’s Mess. I had gone for training, and was going to become an airman.. Chiwenga knows it that I am trained, that when I stand up, I am not turning back

By-A 32-year-old Zanu PF Mutare member has been arrested for denouncing party leader Emerson Mnangagwa.

The member landed himself in trouble after suggesting that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not doing enough to address the socio-economic crisis in the country.

Malcom Masari from Chikanga 1, Mutare, allegedly sent a message in a WhatsApp group suggesting that the socio-economic crisis was forcing party members to ditch governing Zanu PF.

In court papers the state says Masari who is unemployed was reported by Esau Mupfumi, a 60-year-old businessman. 

The state said on the 5th of August 2022, Masari posted a defamatory message on a Zanu PF WhatsApp group called “Zanu PF Election Indaba” by posting messages that insult the president E D Mnangagwa. He allegedly said:

People are suffering out there and our structures are empty vanhu have lost confidence in the party because they feel neglected… If that can be fixed zvoreruka… I remember the genius Robert Mugabe during time yema interface, vanhu vachichema so achitaura nekufara mdara uyu addressing issues that would have been raised at Provincial level… President ngavaudzwe zviri pa ground zvaminama. 

Translated to say in short the current president is not doing enough to address the socio-economic issues.

The state says Masari insulted the President by comparing him with the late former president Robert Mugabe, that is to say, the current President performing below par. 

Masari is among many other people who have so far been arrested for allegedly insulting the president.

By- The opposition CCC president, Nelson Chamisa, has for the first time spoken out on Temba Mliswa ex-lover Susan Mutami’s rape claims.

Mutami last month opened a rape case against President Emerson Mnangagwa after coming out on Twitter spaces accusing the Zimbabwean leader of raping her when she was a minor.

She opened the case in Australia.

Zanu PF said Chamisa was using Mutami to tarnish Mnangagwa ahead of the next year’s elections.

Speaking at a rally in Masvingo’s Mucheke stadium Sunda Chamisa said he had nothing to do with Mutami-Mnangagwa’s sexual affairs.

He said: I hear they want to associate me with their issues, that Australian lady. I was not there when they did their things; had I peeped through, I could had developed a swollen eye.

By James Gwati-Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa said he would beat Zanu PF Presidential candidate Emerson Mnangagwa with an undisputed margin.

Chamisa told his supporters at Mucheke stadium in Masvingo Sunday that he would win the next year’s Presidential poll with 65%.

PRAYERS FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS…

May we take this special day to pray for all political prisoners @Nyatsime15 including their families and all of us, the oppressed.

So Peter was kept in prison,but the church was fervently praying to God for him. Acts 12:5 #freethemnow