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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A full hearing on the case is pending.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All this ended when the adulterous affair began.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All this ended when the adulterous affair began.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 The trio was represented by their lawyer Kudakwashe Masiyenyama.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Masvingo Mirror

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The application was not opposed.

Manuwere said Njanji should return his passport on September 30.

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

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

What he said:

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

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

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

Context:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted the eyewitness:

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

By- Another top army official has died.

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

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

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

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

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

He said:

90% of those insulting ⁦

@hwendec

⁩ are those who outsourced their revolutionary duties t⁩o ⁦

@nelsonchamisa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zandile Dabula

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

-State media 

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

He was 64.

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

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

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

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

-State media

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

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

“Fellow Citizens in Chinhoyi …

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

YellowSunday,” Ostallos posted on Facebook.

President Chamisa has denounced violence and political barbarism.

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

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

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

“Fellow Citizens in Chinhoyi …

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

YellowSunday,” Ostallos posted on Facebook.

President Chamisa has denounced violence and political barbarism.

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

Tinashe Sambiri| The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is a heartless hypocrite, former Zaka Central MP Harrison Mudzuri has said.

Mudzuri, who is the PTUZ national coordinator, took a swipe at Mr Mnangagwa for maliciously causing the suffering of teachers.

The former MP further blamed Mr Mnangagwa for deliberately punishing teachers due to “perceived political reasons.”

“Teachers working under terrible conditions are insulted by being paid 40000 rtgs.

The govt of Zimbabwe is heartless.”

Responding to @zenzele’s tweet on Mr Mnangagwa’s remarks about genocide in Rwanda, Mudzuri said:
“What a hypocrite!”

@zenzele wrote on Twitter:
“This (see picture) is what Mnangagwa wrote in the Visitors book at the @Kigali_Memorial. #Asakhe #Gukurahundi.”

The below are pictures of the ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa publicly dressed like two men who died a long time ago.

The pictures show the man president Samara Machel who was allegedly assassinated on 19 October 1986. He is also adorning the late Robert Mugabe’s scarf of charm.

Mnangagwa has come out in Machel’s attire ahead of the anniversary of the late President’s assassination, next month, 19 October 1986.

The CCC party reports that 2 of its members were attacked today in Magunje.

The incidents happened at 8Wire Business Centre. The accuseds are Gebo Chasumba, an alleged ZanuPF terror gangster.

The victims were assaulted for belonging to CCC, the party says.

Here in Magunje terror is escalating and gangs headed by Ndambakuwa are going around intimidating villagers, the party adds saying.

By- The opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa will be in Chinhoyi this tomorrow for a thank you rally.

This time, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) permitted Chamisa to have the rally.

CCC, arguably the country’s most prominent opposition party, is set to celebrate its victories in recent by-elections, where the party won five out of six council wards.
Interim CCC Mashonaland West chairman Ralph Magunje confirmed the rally.

According to a clearance letter from Officer Commanding Makonde police district, Chief Superintendent M. Ngorima, addressed to Magunje, the event will go ahead on 11 September but the convenors must abide by strict conditions. Part of the letter reads:
Reference is made to your letter dated 10/08/22 with regards to holding a Thank You Rally on 11/09/22 from 0900 hours to 1600 hours at Gadzema Grounds.
Among conditions issued by police, CCC must adhere to strict COVID-19 containment protocols, which include wearing face masks.
ZRP also ordered CCC officials to desist from political hate speech calculated to provoke a breach of peace.
Police also instructed the organisers of the event to avoid exceeding the regulated time. Reads the letter:
If the above conditions are not followed, the gathering shall be dispersed and the organisers arrested.

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

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

Posted the eyewitness:

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

By James Gwati- The government of Zambia has announced a reduction in the transport fares.

Reduced fuel prices have resulted in the government reducing transport fares.

Joseph Kalimbwe, the ruling party’s spokesperson, made the announcement.

He posted:

Following the reduction in the prices of petrol & diesel, long distance public bus fares will tomorrow be reduced across Zambia. Our party, the UPND, remains a determined & pro-poor force in changing & improving the lives of our people !!!

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

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

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

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

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

Zimbabweans do not want to be a burden.

SADC must help us relieve this regional burden

Writes the Champion in Chief, President Nelson Chamisa

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our call to our neighbours is this; we appreciate your benevolence and patience, but you should not have to carry this burden any longer than you already have.
Help us to hold credible elections. We are encouraged that President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the immigration crisis will be discussed at regional level. Now, more strongly than ever, SADC must demand reforms. We do not ask for anything new; only that Zimbabwe hold elections that meet already existing SADC guidelines.
This, more than shaming the innocent victims of misrule, is what will solve the crisis.
Zimbabweans do not want to cross the borders for services or jobs. They do not want to be a burden. They have not chosen this life. They have not chosen their leaders. It is time they did.

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

By- South Africa’s second-largest opposition political party, EFF led by Julius Malema, says it will not mourn the death of the British Queen, Elizabeth II, as she never apologised for the plunder of African resources and the brutal killings of millions of African people by the British during the colonial era.
Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch, died Thursday afternoon at Balmoral, Scotland, aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.
In a statement issued by National Spokesperson, Sinawo Thambo on Thursday, the party said that if indeed there is life after death, Elizabeth and her ancestors should be punished for their crimes. Reads the statement:
The Economic Freedom Fighters notes the death of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, the Queen of the United Kingdom, and the ceremonial head of state of several countries that were colonized by the United Kingdom.
Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952, reigning for 70 years as a head of an institution built up, sustained, and living off a brutal legacy of dehumanization of millions of people across the world.
We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth, because to us her death is a reminder of a very tragic period in this country and Africa’s history.
Britain, under the leadership of the royal family, took over control of this territory that would become South Africa in 1795 from Batavian control and took permanent control of the territory in 1806.
From that moment onwards, native people of this land have never known peace, nor have they ever enjoyed the fruits of the riches of this land, riches which were and still are utilized for the enrichment of the British royal family and those who look like them.
From 1811 when Sir John Cradock declared war against amaXhosa in the Zuurveld in what is now known as the Eastern Cape up until 1906 when the British crushed the Bambatha rebellion, our interaction with Britain under the leadership of the British royal family has been one of pain and suffering, of death and dispossession, and of dehumanization of African people.
We remember how Nxele died in the aftermath of the fifth frontier war, how King Hintsa was killed like a dog on the 11th of May 1835 during the sixth frontier war and had his body mutilated, and his head taken to Britain as a trophy.
It was also the British royal family that sanctioned the actions of Cecil John Rhodes, who plundered this country, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
It was the British royal family that benefited from the brutal mutilation of the people of Kenya whose valiant resistance to British colonialism invited vile responses from Britain.
In Kenya, Britain built concentration camps and suppressed with such inhumane brutality the Mau Mau rebellion, killing Dedan Kimathi on the 18th of February 1957, while Elizabeth was already Queen.
This family plundered India via the East India Company, it took over control and oppressed the people of the Caribbean Islands.
Their thirst for riches led to the famine that caused millions of people to die in Bengal, and their racism led to the genocide of aboriginal people in Australia.
Elizabeth Windsor, during her lifetime, never acknowledged these crimes that Britain and her family in particular perpetrated across the world.
In fact, she was a proud flag bearer of these atrocities during her reign. When the people of Yemen rose to protest against British colonialism in 1963, Elizabeth ordered a brutal suppression of that uprising.
During her 70-year reign as Queen, she never once acknowledge the atrocities that her family inflicted on native people that Britain invaded across the world.
She willingly benefited from the wealth that was attained from the exploitation and murder of millions of people across the world.
The British Royal family stands on the shoulders of millions of slaves who were shipped away from the continent to serve the interests of racist white capital accumulation, at the centre of which lies the British royal family.
If there is real life and justice after death, may Elizabeth and her ancestors get what they deserve.

By James Gwati- The court Friday deferred the ruling against CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri after the presiding magistrate failed to show up.

The three were expecting a ruling on their discharge application at the State’s close.

Chief Magistrate Mrs Faith Mushure was not available to deliver the ruling.

The duo made their application after the State, led by Mr Michael Reza, led all its witnesses.

By- The opposition CCC secretary general, Chalton Hwende has called for mass protests to push for the release of Job Sikhala, Godfrey Sithole, and 14 other party’s activists.

Sikhala, Sithole and 14 others have been in remand prison for almost three months.

Hwende, said if the “Nyatsime 16” are not released from prison soon, they may die.

He posted on Twitter:
The situation of our MPs Hon Job Sikhala & Godfrey Sithole, plus the Nyatsime Cdes is very depressing.
If we don’t act, these Cdes will not be released soon and some might even die in detention.
Political prisoners require either mass action or political engagement to be released.
Last week, Sikhala fell sick in his D Class detention cell reserved for dangerous criminals amid unconfirmed reports he was poisoned.

By- Socialite and Comedienne Felistus Murata, known as Mai TT, said she burnt her wedding gown to forget about her marriage with the US-based Tinashe Maphosa.

Mai TT told H-Metro that burning the wedding garment, valued at US$6 000, following the collapse of her short-lived marriage to Maphosa signified that not everything is meant to be sold. She said:

I can never sell my pain to anyone. I did my prayers and wiped my tears with that gown, which is symbolic that not everything is meant to be sold.

This is a personal matter and I’m expecting answers from it.

Nobody influences me, I influenced myself and my tears never fall in vain.

No amount can pay back the pain of betrayal.

That gown will be my contact.

… I’ve burnt it in public and the answer will return where I burnt it from.

Mai TT’s wedding ceremony in April this year reportedly gobbled up US$100 000 and left her neck-deep in debt.

But soon after the wedding, Mai TT started claiming that Tinashe was a smooth and shrewd criminal.

She said her estranged husband has perfected the art of planning his moves, before striking to manipulate his victims.

By- War veterans said they would crush the opposition and NGOs defending Emerson Mnangagwa.

During a Press conference in Harare, Thursday, war veterans secretary Douglas Mahiya accused opposition parties and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) of being used by Western countries to effect regime change in Zimbabwe. Said Mahiya:
We are going out there to mobilise for the party. We have got political power, the question of power is not what we should be talking about in Zimbabwe, because Zimbabwe got political power from the colonisers… an opposition party that talks of power is misguided.
Our erstwhile enemies have planted their proxies, the opposition parties and NGOs to scatter the organisation… we are going to defend that power because we sacrificed for this.
ZANU PF national commissar Mike Bimha also said the party would use the ZANU PF war veterans conference which started on Thursday in Harare to garner support ahead of the 2023 elections. He said:
As you are all aware the inaugural war veterans league conference is now in motion, which is a wing of the party, we are now witnessing history in the making.
And, therefore, for us as commissariat we welcome the coming on board of this league; it makes our jobs easier joining the youth and women’s leagues, moreso as we face the 2023 elections.
Over 3 000 delegates are expected to attend the conference.
-NewsDay

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

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

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

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

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

Zimbabweans do not want to be a burden.

SADC must help us relieve this regional burden

Writes the Champion in Chief, President Nelson Chamisa

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our call to our neighbours is this; we appreciate your benevolence and patience, but you should not have to carry this burden any longer than you already have.
Help us to hold credible elections. We are encouraged that President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the immigration crisis will be discussed at regional level. Now, more strongly than ever, SADC must demand reforms. We do not ask for anything new; only that Zimbabwe hold elections that meet already existing SADC guidelines.
This, more than shaming the innocent victims of misrule, is what will solve the crisis.
Zimbabweans do not want to cross the borders for services or jobs. They do not want to be a burden. They have not chosen this life. They have not chosen their leaders. It is time they did.

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

By- War veterans said they would crush the opposition and NGOs defending Emerson Mnangagwa.
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Speaking during a Press conference in Harare, war veterans secretary Douglas Mahiya accused opposition parties and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) of being used by Western countries to effect regime change in Zimbabwe. Said Mahiya:
We are going out there to mobilise for the party. We have got political power, the question of power is not what we should be talking about in Zimbabwe, because Zimbabwe got political power from the colonisers… an opposition party that talks of power is misguided.
Our erstwhile enemies have planted their proxies, the opposition parties and NGOs to scatter the organisation… we are going to defend that power because we sacrificed for this.
ZANU PF national commissar Mike Bimha also said the party would use the ZANU PF war veterans conference which started on Thursday in Harare to garner support ahead of the 2023 elections. He said:
As you are all aware the inaugural war veterans league conference is now in motion, which is a wing of the party, we are now witnessing history in the making.
And, therefore, for us as commissariat we welcome the coming on board of this league; it makes our jobs easier joining the youth and women’s leagues, moreso as we face the 2023 elections.
Over 3 000 delegates are expected to attend the conference.
-NewsDay

By- South Africa’s second-largest opposition political party, EFF led by Julius Malema, says it will not mourn the death of the British Queen, Elizabeth II, as she never apologised for the plunder of African resources and the brutal killings of millions of African people by the British during the colonial era.
Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch, died Thursday afternoon at Balmoral, Scotland, aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.
In a statement issued by National Spokesperson, Sinawo Thambo on Thursday, the party said that if indeed there is life after death, Elizabeth and her ancestors should be punished for their crimes. Reads the statement:
The Economic Freedom Fighters notes the death of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, the Queen of the United Kingdom, and the ceremonial head of state of several countries that were colonized by the United Kingdom.
Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952, reigning for 70 years as a head of an institution built up, sustained, and living off a brutal legacy of dehumanization of millions of people across the world.
We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth, because to us her death is a reminder of a very tragic period in this country and Africa’s history.
Britain, under the leadership of the royal family, took over control of this territory that would become South Africa in 1795 from Batavian control and took permanent control of the territory in 1806.
From that moment onwards, native people of this land have never known peace, nor have they ever enjoyed the fruits of the riches of this land, riches which were and still are utilized for the enrichment of the British royal family and those who look like them.
From 1811 when Sir John Cradock declared war against amaXhosa in the Zuurveld in what is now known as the Eastern Cape up until 1906 when the British crushed the Bambatha rebellion, our interaction with Britain under the leadership of the British royal family has been one of pain and suffering, of death and dispossession, and of dehumanization of African people.
We remember how Nxele died in the aftermath of the fifth frontier war, how King Hintsa was killed like a dog on the 11th of May 1835 during the sixth frontier war and had his body mutilated, and his head taken to Britain as a trophy.
It was also the British royal family that sanctioned the actions of Cecil John Rhodes, who plundered this country, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
It was the British royal family that benefited from the brutal mutilation of the people of Kenya whose valiant resistance to British colonialism invited vile responses from Britain.
In Kenya, Britain built concentration camps and suppressed with such inhumane brutality the Mau Mau rebellion, killing Dedan Kimathi on the 18th of February 1957, while Elizabeth was already Queen.
This family plundered India via the East India Company, it took over control and oppressed the people of the Caribbean Islands.
Their thirst for riches led to the famine that caused millions of people to die in Bengal, and their racism led to the genocide of aboriginal people in Australia.
Elizabeth Windsor, during her lifetime, never acknowledged these crimes that Britain and her family in particular perpetrated across the world.
In fact, she was a proud flag bearer of these atrocities during her reign. When the people of Yemen rose to protest against British colonialism in 1963, Elizabeth ordered a brutal suppression of that uprising.
During her 70-year reign as Queen, she never once acknowledge the atrocities that her family inflicted on native people that Britain invaded across the world.
She willingly benefited from the wealth that was attained from the exploitation and murder of millions of people across the world.
The British Royal family stands on the shoulders of millions of slaves who were shipped away from the continent to serve the interests of racist white capital accumulation, at the centre of which lies the British royal family.
If there is real life and justice after death, may Elizabeth and her ancestors get what they deserve.