By James Gwati- Norton MP Temba Mliswa has clashed with Zanu PF information director Tafadzwa Mugwadi over the latter’s attacks on Susan Mutami and Nelson Chamisa.
The clash happened after Mugwadi Wednesday blasted Mutami, accusing her of being hired by CCC leader Nelson Chamisa to attack President Emerson Mnangagwa.
That was after Mutami last week said that Mnangagwa raped her when she was a minor.
Mutami on Monday intensified her claims and opened a rape again Mnangagwa in Australia.
Mliswa said Mugwadi’s behaviour showed political immaturity.
Posting on Twitter Thursday while responding to Mliswa, Mugwadi said he would not withdraw his utterances.
He posted:
I disagree totally!!
u may need to knw tht at this point I hv no issues with
bt those behind her nonsense I care less for my so-called image when counter-revolutionary elements & puppets hire a trans-regional hooker to besmirch #ZIM-1. That’s a redline.
By James Gwati-Norton MP, Temba Mliswa has denounced Zanu PF information director Tafadzwa Mugwadi for attacking Susan Mutami and CCC leader Nelson Chamisa.
Mugwadi had posted on Twitter bashing Chamisa and accusing him of hiring Susan to attack President Mnangagwa.
Mliswa told Mugwadi that what he did show political immaturity.
This wasn’t necessary at all
. You are a sharper young man, reared through
and don’t have to go so low in seeking to besmirch political opponents. You should shun such.
By- Former Mashonaland Central Resident Minister Martin Dinha has been injured in a shootout with robbers.
According to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Dihna shot himself in his leg after his pistol was accidentally discharged when he was fighting with three suspected armed robbers in Greendale, Harare.
Reads the ZRP statement:
The ZRP is investigating a shooting incident which occurred on 26/07/22 at around 2240 hours at corner Leander and Metcaf Roads, Greendale, Harare.
Advocate Martin Dinha was involved in a shootout with three robbery suspects who were armed with a machete and a suspected AK47 rifle.
Advocate Dinha’s firearm, a CZ Pistol, accidentally discharged, resulting in him being shot in the leg.
By James Gwati-Norton MP, Temba Mliswa has denounced Zanu PF information director Tafadzwa Mugwadi for attacking Susan Mutami and CCC leader Nelson Chamisa.
Mugwadi had posted on Twitter bashing Chamisa and accusing him of hiring Susan to attack President Mnangagwa.
Mliswa told Mugwadi that what he did show political immaturity.
This wasn’t necessary at all
. You are a sharper young man, reared through
and don’t have to go so low in seeking to besmirch political opponents. You should shun such.
The Crisis Coalition organisation reports saying unidentified men in three ZANU PF twin cabs attempted a break in late Thursday evening.
Details were sketchy at the tine of writing with the NGO stating in part: “for the last 20 mins. Individuals inside the vehicles were trying to gain entry into the premises but eventually left just now.
Alert: 3 Twin Cab vehicles inscribed "Zanu PF" were parked outside the premises of @crisiscoalition offices for the last 20 mins. Individuals inside the vehicles were trying to gain entry into the premises but eventually left just now@ZLHRLawyers @ZimEye @NewsHawksLive
— Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (@crisiscoalition) July 28, 2022
By- President Emerson Mnangagwa through his Police Commissioner General ,Tandabantu Godwin Matanga, has reshuffled three senior police officers.
ZRP national spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi announced the changes in a statement issued this Thursday. Reads the statement:
The Commissioner General of Police, Tandabantu Godwin Matanga has effected the transfer of some senior officers in the Zimbabwe Republic Police in order to ensure that the Police Service achieves its constitutional role of providing quality services to the public in line with the country’s Vision 2030.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police reiterates its commitment to ensuring that the malady of crime is tackled without fear or favour in the country.
By-Susan Mutami says she is now a relieved woman after speaking out on the abuses she endured at the hands of President Emerson Mnangagwa.
The Australian-based Zimbabwean health worker says she had lifted a massive burden by revealing her alleged sexual abuse by President Emmerson Mnangagwa when she was a minor.
Mutami said this in a statement Thursday.
Below is her full statement:
Beyond me reporting my rape case to the nearest Police Station in my country of Residence, this issue assumes a life of its own which compels me to allow due process to take its own course.
I have taken a huge burden off my shoulders by sharing publicly my ordeal and am very grateful for the empathy and sympathies coming from across the globe, your tears and messages of solidarity have been very consoling and I continue to appreciate your messages of encouragement to stand up to Executive abuse and abuse of the powerful.
I finally mastered my courage on behalf of the girl child and other grown females who may not gather similar courage to share their ordeals at the hands of the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.
I can’t censure anyone on social media from debating further, even countering my story on behalf of the powerful but I can assure you no one will stop me from completing the journey of seeking justice I have embarked on, neither the passage of time nor the powers that be in Zimbabwe, this is my story, my ordeal, my experience, and am the witness in the case of my abuser, the President of Zimbabwe. Beyond this let the law take its own course.
Susan Vivian Mutami
Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp has been impressed with how Isaac Mabaya has performed in this pre-season.
The Zimbabwean youngster is part of the Reds’ senior squad for pre-season camp and featured in Manchester United and Crystal Palace friendlies.
Klopp also handed the 17-year-old an hour of on-pitch minutes in Wednesday’s 1-0 friendly defeat by Red Bull Salzburg.
Speaking on the academy players’ performance in the pre-season, the Reds gaffer singled out Mabaya.
He told LiverpoolFC.com: “The young kids, the self-confidence they have at that young age, I think that’s a really good sign for the team as well.
“How the team let these boys grow next to them. Seventeen years old, Isaac [Mabaya], a little mic check! I couldn’t deal with that. So, really cool, cool moments the whole night.”
Reflecting on his performances Mabaya said the latest taste of pre-season action has given him the appetite to keep working hard for more opportunities at the club.
The young defender said: “Honestly, I loved it. I always love stepping out on the pitch for Liverpool, so I just want to keep getting my opportunities to do that [and] hopefully [I will] in the future.”
He added: “It’s been brilliant playing and training with some of the best players in the world. There’s a lot to learn from all the players.”
Born in Preston, England, to Zimbabwean parents, Mabaya signed his first professional contract with the Reds in September 2021.
The defender has represented England at junior level but is still eligible to switch allegiance to Zimbabwe in the future.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a call for people around the world to “do one thing” to prevent drowning.
As one of the leading causes of death globally for children and young people ages 1–24, and the third leading cause of injury-related deaths overall, drowning tragically claims more than 236 000 lives each year. To galvanize action and mark World Drowning Prevention Day, the Jet d’Eau in Geneva will be illuminated in blue this evening, accompanied by similar actions in other cities around the world.
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More than 90% of drowning deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, with children under the age of 5 being at highest risk. These deaths are frequently linked to daily, routine activities, such as bathing, collecting water for domestic use, travelling over water on boats or ferries, and fishing. The impacts of seasonal or extreme weather events – including monsoons – are also a frequent cause of drowning and these impacts are largely preventable through a number of interventions.
“Every year, around the world, hundreds of thousands of people drown. Most of these deaths are preventable through evidence-based, low-cost solutions,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Today, cities around the world are lighting up their monuments in blue light as a call to action for each of us to do our part to prevent drowning. Let’s put a stop to drowning.”
“Drowning is a global public health challenge, and at Bloomberg Philanthropies, we’re focused on implementing solutions to prevent it.
Today, we’re joining our partners around the world in recognizing World Drowning Prevention Day and taking action,” said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries. “In many cases, we know what works to prevent drowning. We’ve developed tools and guidance to help governments implement solutions – and if we do more together, we really can save thousands of lives.”
WHO recommends 6 evidence-based measures to prevent drowning, including installing barriers controlling access to water; training bystanders in safe rescue and resuscitation; teaching school-aged children basic swimming and water safety skills; providing supervised day care for children; setting and enforcing safe boating, shipping and ferry regulations; and improving flood risk management.
This year, the theme of World Drowning Prevention Day invites the global community to “do one thing” to prevent drowning. Examples of actions that can be taken are as follows:
Individuals can share drowning prevention and water safety advice with their families, friends and colleagues, sign up for swimming or water safety lessons, or support local drowning prevention charities and groups.
Groups can host public events to share water safety information, launch water safety campaigns, or commit to developing or delivering new drowning prevention programmes using recommended best practice interventions.
Governments can develop or announce new drowning prevention policies, strategies, legislation or investment, convene multisectoral roundtables or parliamentary discussions on drowning burden and solutions, and introduce or commit to supporting drowning prevention programming domestically or internationally.
Many countries in the world have committed to drowning prevention programmes.
Bangladesh has started a 3-year program to reduce drowning among children throughout the country. As part of the program, the government will take over the 2 500 daycares established and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies since 2012, and will expand the program by adding an additional 5 500 daycares to provide supervision to 200 000 children ages 1–5 years.
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Tinashe Sambiri|Infighting is rising in Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party with youths calling for the beleaguered leader’s resignation.
The disgruntled youths are heard in the audio clip accusing Mr Mnangagwa of destroying the party.
This comes at a time Mr Mnangagwa is being accused of raping Susan Mutami.
“We cannot sit back, fold hands and watch as the party goes to the dustbins.
Mnangagwa has failed and he must resign,” one Zanu PF member is heard shouting.
Tinashe Sambiri|Infighting is rising in Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party with youths calling for the beleaguered leader’s resignation.
The disgruntled youths are heard in the audio clip accusing Mr Mnangagwa of destroying the party.
This comes at a time Mr Mnangagwa is being accused of raping Susan Mutami.
“We cannot sit back, fold hands and watch as the party goes to the dustbins.
Mnangagwa has failed and he must resign,” one Zanu PF member is heard shouting.
Business Correspondent
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Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa’s CCC has called for unity of purpose in the struggle for freedom.
CCC is determined to rescue millions of suffering citizens from Zanu PF oppression.
According to CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift Ostallos Siziba, the people’s struggle is unstoppable.
“Our struggle is and must continue to be a collective effort of Revolutionaries with the soul objective of transforming the concrete lives of suffering masses of our people.
When the centre is failing to hold!
Anyway let’s keep the focus, register to vote and prepare for Change.
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa’s CCC has called for unity of purpose in the struggle for freedom.
CCC is determined to rescue millions of suffering citizens from Zanu PF oppression.
According to CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift Ostallos Siziba, the people’s struggle is unstoppable.
“Our struggle is and must continue to be a collective effort of Revolutionaries with the soul objective of transforming the concrete lives of suffering masses of our people.
When the centre is failing to hold!
Anyway let’s keep the focus, register to vote and prepare for Change.
POMONA FRAUDS: HARARE MAYOR SPEAKS https://t.co/thzMpC36gc
— ZimEye (@ZimEye) July 28, 2022
https://youtu.be/5Tf3LBDFcuU
By Victor Bhoroma| The Zimbabwean government has announced measures to promote the wider use of the domestic currency (The Zimbabwean Dollar) in a last-ditch effort to save it from the re-dollarization onslaught. Part of the measures now compel businesses and individuals to pay customs and import duties in local currency using the Interbank Rate which is based on the Willing Buyer Willing Seller (WBWS) model. This foreign exchange rate changes daily and this means that duty will be adjusted frequently. Currently, there are at least 5 exchange rates that prevail in the Zimbabwean economy with the central bank pegged Auction (Official) Rate at US$1: ZW$173.27, the central bank approved Interbank Rate (ZW$277.03), the Zimbabwean Dollar cash rate (ZW$360), the Parallel Market rate (ZW$430) and the electronic money rate used on card payments (ZW$450). Other exchange rates also apply on mobile money and exchanging foreign currency in local Foreign Currency Accounts (FCA) to hard currency. The disparities across these various exchange rates mean that the market has huge arbitrage opportunities on the pricing of various commodities and rice stability remains a dream.
Dedollarization Attempt
In February 2019, the government relaunched the Zimbabwean Dollar (monocurrency) and banned the use of multiple currencies through Statutory Instrument (SI) 142 of 2019. It only took 1 year for the government to reverse the ban with the promulgation of SI 85 of 2020 which allowed consumers to legally pay for goods and services using foreign currency. Other regulations (SI 185 of 2020) later followed to compel local businesses and persons to price their goods and services using the central bank determined foreign exchange rates. What followed afterwards was a rapid decline of the productivity because of a combination of factors coalesced around high inflation, exchange rate volatility and foreign currency shortages.
Economic output declined from 4% growth realized in 2018 to -6.5% recorded in 2019 and -6.2% according to official figures from treasury. Annual inflation raced from 57% in January to 521% recorded in December 2019. Tax revenues plummeted from US$5,237 billion collected in 2018 to US$2,691 billion collected in 2019. Inflation consumed household incomes, pension funds and corporate incomes with the latter partially resorting to retrenchments to stay afloat. The World Bank estimates that extreme poverty cases in Zimbabwe increased from 4.7 million in 2018 to 6.6 million people in 2019 and 7.9 million in 2020. COVID-19 and droughts exacerbated the poverty levels.
With skyrocketing inflation and devaluation of the domestic currency, the writing was always on the wall. The De-dollarization path went off rails soon after its launch due to absence of various economic fundamentals that support the stability of a fiat currency such as foreign reserves, low levels of inflation, market confidence, sustainable fiscal budget, and central bank monetary policy independence from political interference. There are various elements that destroyed confidence in the domestic currency and made de-dollarization an uphill task. These include:
Political will on De-Dollarization Plan
Apart from a leaked de-dollarization roadmap document, Zimbabwe did not implement a long-term plan (5–10-year policy) of how to de-dollarize the local economy. The plan should have included institutional reforms at the central bank to ensure autonomy from political interference and notable milestones on building foreign currency reserves, implementing a managed floating foreign exchange market, disinflation and monetary targeting framework, taxation in local currency, real fiscal consolidation (spending below tax revenues) and measures to promote the usage of the local currency. Apart from having the de-dollarization plan, the underlying denominator of every policy is political will to reform and implement the plan.
Lack of foreign reserves
According to World Bank Data, Zimbabwe had total reserves (Gold and foreign currency) of US$33.5 million in 2020. In 2018 (before the monocurrency was launched), the figure was estimated to be US$86.951 million. The figure has barely equated to 1 month import cover since 2019. World over, central banks use foreign currency reserves to support fiat currency values, maintain competitiveness on exports, remain liquid in case of foreign currency shortages, and provide confidence for investors and the market. They also need reserves to pay external debts, afford capital to fund sectors of the economy, and profit from diversified portfolios. To introduce Bond Notes in November 2015, Zimbabwe’s central bank pointed that the country had secured a facility of US$200 million in reserves to back the so-called export incentive. However, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) professed ignorance over the existence of the facility from the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) which the Zimbabwean government claimed. To date, the central bank does not report the value of reserves it has despite it being a key mandate of the apex bank.
Fear of markets
To this day, the government does not trust the market in several economic sectors. A dual currency economy should allow smooth convertibility of currencies from a domestic currency to foreign currencies in the formal market. However, the central bank has not moved from a position where it wants to control the exchange rate to manage pricing in the economy. To do this, the apex bank has fixed foreign exchange prices on several occasions or manipulated the official rate. This is what has led to the collapse of the Auction system and feeds the alternative market.
Domestic money printing
Critical to de-dollarization is the reduction in money supply, monetary policy targeting and an end to quasi fiscal activities that have an impact of increasing pressure on foreign currency. In the last 3 years, broad money supply growth averaged 350% against declining economic output. This growth in money supply leads to a sustained pressure on foreign currency and devaluation of the domestic currency. This remains the elephant in the room and will continue to be.
Taxation in foreign currency
The first holes on de-dollarization path were poked by the government itself through levying licenses, taxes and permits in foreign currency. The government has been using the Finance Act of 2009 to collect taxes (Import duty, VAT, royalties, and payroll tax) in foreign currency especially from importers of selected luxury commodities, miners, tourism and hospitality and petroleum sector. The government justifies the foreign currency taxation on its own foreign currency needs, however the government must allow a free market price discovery for foreign currency so that government suppliers can equally switch from payments made in local currency to foreign currency if need be. Government suppliers would not demand foreign currency if there is exchange rate stability for the domestic currency. Additionally, it is the role of the central bank as the agent of the government to source foreign currency on the open market. Without levying taxes in the domestic currency, the government cannot impress market players that it has confidence in its own monetary policy.
Exemption of certain sectors
The de-dollarization plan hinged on creating a market driven foreign exchange market so that all transactions in the economy can be done in a domestic currency. This is a standard in most countries and a necessity to ensure a domestic currency is demanded for local transactions. The Zimbabwean government made several exemptions to various sectors to use foreign currency openly. These sectors included the petroleum sector where to this day fuel is sold exclusively in foreign currency. The government would not need to exempt any sector in the economy provided the foreign exchange market is market determined and there is control of money supply growth from the central bank.
Experiences from elsewhere
Forced de-dollarization has had limited success. Countries that tried to force de-dollarization experienced financial disintermediation and capital flight. Some chose to reverse their policies a few years later to counter the adverse economic consequences. Zimbabwe was neither the first country to fully dollarize, nor was it the first to attempt to de-dollarize. Countries such as Cambodia, Bolivia, Vietnam, Peru, El Salvador and Chile (among several others) have dollarized and tried to de-dollarize before. De-dollarization has never been successful as a policy but as a benefit to pragmatic economic reforms. Only a handful (Notably Israel, Poland, Vietnam, and Georgia) have managed to fully de-dollarize due to a combination of factors such as free market policies, domestic money supply and macroeconomic stability, and strong institutions. Success was underwritten by political will to reform and grant the central bank monetary policy independency.
It is critical to point that if the government avoids critical economic reforms, if there is no discipline in money supply and confidence in the monetary policy as is the case in Zimbabwe, de-dollarization will always be mission impossible. The market will choose foreign currency over a local currency any day. De-dollarization will never be a success if the government constantly interferes with monetary policy, dictates foreign exchange prices to the market and maintains a local currency as a tool to print whenever need arises.
Victor Bhoroma is an economic analyst. He holds an MBA from the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). Feedback: Email [email protected] or Twitter @VictorBhoroma1.
Zanu-PF councillors and village heads in Mwenezi’s Maranda area in Masvingo are reportedly forcing villagers to contribute 10 rand each towards the purchase of a beast to give to President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he visits Mwenezi in the near future.
However, Zaka North MP Robson Mavenyengwa, who is also Masvingo provincial chairperson, said Mnangagwa was scheduled to visit Masvingo on July 10, but the visit was postponed.
But villagers from the Maranda area, ward 14 told Southern Eye that Zanu-PF councillors and some village heads have been collecting R10 from villagers claiming that Mnangagwa is set to visit Mwenezi West constituency.
A villager, who spoke on condition of anonymity, alleged that the Zanu-PF councillors were claiming that the money would be used to buy a cow ahead of Mnangagwa’s visit.
“The villages are resisting. The name of the councillor involved is Giri Gondo of ward 9 (Zanu-PF),” the villager said.
“He is the one who is instructing village heads to tell their subjects to pay R10 to fundraise for Mnangagwa’s visit during which he is reportedly going to address people in Mwenezi West constituency at Maranda business centre.”
Gondo, however, said he was not aware that Mnangagwa would be visiting Mwenezi West.
“At the moment we do not have such a programme and I am not yet aware of the date when the President would be coming,” Gondo said.
Mavenyengwa professed ignorance over the villagers’ contributions towards the purchase of the beast.
“He (President) was supposed to come to Masvingo on July 10, but it was postponed. He will not be coming soon. If he is coming, then he will be coming to Masvingo not Mwenezi. I will ask Gondo about that,” Mavenyengwa said.
-Newsday
A lawyer representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri yesterday dismissed video evidence submitted by the State linking the duo to charges of faking abduction as embarrassing.
The State through its witness, officer-in-charge Cyber security laboratory Muvhuro Mhlanga, had submitted the video as evidence that the duo was captured at Chicken Inn, Belgravia at the time it was said to have been abducted.
However, the video produced in court did not show Mamombe and Chimbiri or their vehicle registration number. The witness was at pains to identify the people being shown on the video as they were not clear.
At one time prosecutor, Michael Reza asked Mhlanga to explain what he meant when he said there was a woman seen disembarking from the vehicle.
“You said you observed a woman wearing a hat?” Reza asked.
Mhlanga replied: “No Your Worship, I did not say a woman, but a person wearing a hat.”
Mhlanga was asked by Reza to identify the two women who appeared on the video.
Mhlanga said they were the Chicken Inn employees who are alleged to have seen Mamombe and Chimbiri.
Mamombe and Chimbiri’s lawyer Alec Muchadehama said the video produced in court had no link to his clients.
However, Chief Magistrate Faith Mushure accepted the videos as evidence, saying they should be tendered in court with Muchadehama given an opportunity to cross-examine the
witness.
In the morning, the State had tried to use another flash disk to play the video, but Muchadehama objected, saying the State should have given them the same for examination before it was produced in court.
Mushure postponed the trial to Friday next week.
Mamombe and Chimbiri were allegedly abducted by suspected State security agents, and dumped in rural Bindura after they had been abused.
-Newsday
Zimbabwe has a very serious problem that threatens to keep dividing us as a nation.
That problem is intolerance by the ruling Zanu-PF party and a sizeable number of its supporters who rabidly and misguidedly believe that Zimbabwe belongs to them alone.
The party has become so bigoted about opposing views to its dogma that as we head for the 2023 elections, its hatred of all opposition is now bordering on xenophobia.
Some ruling party functionaries have declared that the party would set its dogs on the opposition and are prepared and ready to even murder the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa simply because he is leading a movement against the ruling elite who have hijacked the nation for self-gain through corruption and looting of national resources.
And the cacophony of voices denigrating all opposition to Zanu-PF rule is growing, with a Chivhu councillor, Tafadzwa Mukandi, being the latest to declare: “If we see that you have gone against the ideologies of the party, we will definitely come for you. This party is the very party that enhanced the land reform programme to which you are beneficiaries. But when we see that you are working against the gains of the liberation struggle, we will not tolerate that and we will definitely come for you … Some people died for this country, yet you want us to tolerate sell-outs.”
This mindset is terrifying and one of the major reasons why many Zimbabweans, for example, decide to leave the country as they are not allowed to hold an opposing view to that of the ruling party, which has presided over a crumbling economy and is prepared to kill nationals and completely destroy the economy simply because it feels it is its right to do so.
What is so very disconcerting is the fact that the country’s police force appears utterly oblivious to the threat to peace, harmony and unity the utterances by those in Zanu-PF are posing. So much for the police’s mission to “maintain law and order, protect and secure the lives and property of the people”.
Maybe it is high time President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has described those in the opposition as sell-outs, told us that Zimbabwe is not a multiparty democracy and all elections are just a façade.
The actions of his party simply show that Zimbabwe is not a democratic nation that believes in constitutionalism.
An open declaration by Mnangagwa that Zimbabwe is a one-party State would save us the headache of wasting our time and resources holding useless elections every five years and by-elections in-between.
We are saying this because the xenophobic attitude of the ruling party and its functionaries is forcing us to make this conclusion.
Would anyone be wrong or exaggerating that Zanu-PF is a dictatorship which has little respect for the country’s laws and its people?
The cap fits, and the ruling party must wear it.
-Newsday
By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has identified the body of a man who was found in a parked car at Midlands Hotel in Gweru city centre on Monday morning.
Police say the deceased is Denzel Trevor Ncube (26).
Ncube was found dead in a non-runner Mercedes Benz within Midlands Hotel premises on Monday and police have since arrested four suspects in connection with his death.
Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko told The Herald that Ncube’s relatives managed to positively identify the body.
He said police investigations were still going on, with the four murder suspects Nkosi Ncube, Terrence Sibanda, Washington Ngwenya and James Matola assisting with investigations.
Police Tuesday temporarily closed the hotel located in Gweru Central Business District (CBD) following the discovery of Ncube’s body.
Thousands of Zanu-PF supporters, who are living on a farm owned by Crest Breeders International, have been ordered to vacate the area to pave way for urban expansion.
The area is in Harare South constituency which is under Zanu-PF.
According to an eviction order signed by one FN Tapfuma, who is the Harare deputy messenger of court, the ruling party supporters have been given 48 hours to vacate the property after Langford Estates Farm approached the courts claiming ownership.
“Whereas in this action and on the court granted judgment in favour of the plaintiff against the defendant Crest Breeders International. For the ejectment of the said defendant and all those claiming occupation through it from a certain piece of land situated in the district of Salisbury being the remaining extent of Langford measuring 834 3479 hectares held under Deed of Transfer No. 2122/63,” the notice partly read.
The eviction is set to affect nearly 1 500 children who are enrolled at Crest Breeders Primary School including several Grade 7 pupils who are supposed to sit for their final examinations.
The learning institution has been used as a polling centre during elections.
The victims, who also include former Crest Breeders workers, have reportedly appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop their imminent eviction.
The wrangle at Cresta Breeders International started in 2019 resulting in clashes that claimed the life of a Zanu-PF supporter in 2020, while several others sustained injuries.
The farm is reportedly also being eyed by land barons.
Crest Breeders, once the country’s largest supplier of day-old chicks, point-of-lay birds and table eggs, closed shop in 2013 leaving thousands of workers without terminal benefits.
-Newsday
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has reported a robbery case in which unknown assailants broke into company premises gaining entry through the roof in Bulawayo and stole US$11 542, R 30 120 and $481.
Police posted on their Twitter page saying the incident occurred in the Belmont area between 22 and 25 July.
Read the statement:
ZRP Donnington is investigating a case of unlawful entry into premises and theft which occurred on an unknown date between 22 July and 25 July at a company along Wakefield Road, Belmont, Bulawayo.
Unknown suspects cut zinc roofing sheets and ceiling to gain entry into the company’s offices. Whilst inside, the suspects ransacked the offices and stole US$11 542, R 30 120 as well as $481 cash.
The police then appealed to members of the public who might have information that could assist in investigations to contact any nearest police station.
Mai Ruru| Lies and threats have now become the order of the day for the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government.
Since the inception of the new dispensation in 2017, Zimbabweans have been subjected to threats, lies and propaganda.
Not a day passes by without the issuance of threats, lies and propaganda by government.
The rate at which the current crop of ministers is surviving on lies is astonishing.
This will surely come back to haunt them one of these days. The list of ministers who have turned out to be pathetic liars and propagandist is endless.
Only last week, the Primary and Secondary Education ministry reported that 1 200 schools were built in Zimbabwe between 2017 and 2021.
There are 1 460 days in four years. It would mean that one school was opened every single day. Or that the government constructed an average of 25 schools every month. Is that possible?
One would expect the government to list the completed schools giving details such as their geographical location so that its story can be believable.
The Primary and Secondary Education ministry is not alone in all this, with Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, Information and Publicity minister Monica Mutsvangwa and Kazembe Kazembe of Home Affairs, among some of the new dispensation’s pathological liars.
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya’s utterances on bond notes will remain a joke of the century.
For how long will Mnangagwa and his subordinates last, considering that people now know them in and out.
Recently, prices of basic commodities were hiked manifold and the government had the audacity to tell the nation that the business community was on a mission to remove it through wanton price increases.
No, comrades, that is not it. You are the biggest culprits. Stop hiding behind the finger.
-Newsday
By A Correspondent- South Africa’s Home Affairs Department is facing another lawsuit relating to the looming termination of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP).
The ZEP is a special dispensation permit established more than 10 years ago that gives legal protection to an estimated 178 000 Zimbabwean nationals to live, work and study in South Africa.
However, the Cabinet decided in January 2022 that the arrangement must be terminated by December and that applicants should apply for a visa to remain in South Africa, based on a list of critical skills needed in the country.
In June, the Helen Suzman Foundation said it would be taking the government to court for discontinuing the permits.
Now, another organisation – the Zimbabwean Immigration Federation (ZIF) – is also taking the department to court, News24 reports.
its papers filed at the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, ZIF cited the Department of Home Affairs, President Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African Police Service, the South African National Defence Force, and the Border Management Authority.
Why is ZIF pushing this?
i). The application was aimed at preventing government departments from arresting or deporting ZEP holders once their permits expired at the end of the year.
ii). The organisation also wanted ZEP holders to be able to leave or enter the country legally if all their other travel documentation was in order.
iii). The ZIF wanted home affairs to review the decision not to extend the ZEP.
iv). The organisation also wanted the department to restart the review process for permits and, in the meantime, allow ZEP holders to remain in the country.
ZIF contends that:
1). The Department of Home Affairs has not taken the necessary steps to handle numerous applications by ZEP holders that will be lodged under the Refugees Act.
2). Members of the ZIF were victims of the Gukurahundi massacre who had been left homeless.
3). They were also worried that members of the LGBTQI community would face discrimination in Zimbabwe.
4). Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi erred in his decision to end the permits because he “failed to take into account relevant considerations in making the impugned decision”.
5). Motsoaledi’s approach to the withdrawal of the exemptions is reminiscent of the brutal international migration policy adopted by the Apartheid regime. They imposed harsh immigration controls and tight restrictions on Africans it considered undesirable.
6). ZEP termination would also lead to families being torn apart as most ZIF members didn’t qualify for alternative visas under the critical skills category.
7). Permit holders were also likely to lose their businesses and property, the court papers stated.
Home affairs spokesperson Siya Qoza said the department’s lawyers had filed a motion to oppose the ZIF court action.
By A Correspondent| Human rights lawyers have petitioned authorities at a Zimbabwean school seeking to stop them from disenfranchising pupils by not allowing them to register for their Grade Seven examinations owing to non-payment of registration fees guaranteed by government.
Tinashe Chinopfukutwa of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights on Tuesday 26 July 2022 gave a twenty-four hour ultimatum to the Headmaster of Mahombekombe Primary School only identified as Beretino to stop disenfranchising some pupils by arbitrarily withholding their Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) benefits by not allowing them to register for the November 2022 Grade Seven examinations scheduled for the end of the year.
Without giving any reasons, Beretino reportedly told parents and guardians that their children’s examination registration fees will not be paid through the government-backed BEAM programme.
Parents and guardians are expected to make payments at examination registration centres by Friday 29 July 2022.
In response to Beretino’s conduct, Chinopfukutwa on Tuesday 26 July 2022 served him with a letter demanding that he within twenty-four hours forward the list of names of all Grade Seven students, who are enrolled on the BEAM programme to Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC), for payment of their 2022 examination fees. Chinopfukutwa protested that the summary and arbitrary decision to withhold BEAM benefits to the pupils is unlawful, constitutes a breach of the learners’ right to “basic State-funded education”.
In addition, Beretino’s conduct, Chinopfukutwa said, amounts to treating the learners in an unfair and discriminatory manner based on the economic and social status of their disadvantaged parents and guardians.
This, the human rights lawyer said, is a breach of the affected learners’ right to equality and non-discrimination as set out in section 56 of the Constitution.
Chinopfukutwa also warned that Beretino’s conduct amounts to a breach of the affected learners’ right to administrative justice guaranteed in section 68 of the Constitution, which entitles them to be furnished with reasons in writing for the adverse administrative conduct which the school head has adopted against the learners.
Chinopfukutwa said Beretino’s failure to comply with the students’ parents and guardians’ demands will leave him with no choice but to institute legal action against the school head seeking an order to compel him to register the students so as to write their Grade Seven examinations.
By-Susan Mutami says she is now a relieved person after speaking out on the abuses she endured at the hands of President Emerson Mnangagwa.
The Australian-based Zimbabwean health worker says she had lifted a massive burden by revealing her alleged sexual abuse by President Emmerson Mnangagwa when she was a minor.
Mutami said this in a statement Thursday.
Below is her full statement:
Beyond me reporting my rape case to the nearest Police Station in my country of Residence, this issue assumes a life of its own which compels me to allow due process to take its own course.
I have taken a huge burden off my shoulders by sharing publicly my ordeal and am very grateful for the empathy and sympathies coming from across the globe, your tears and messages of solidarity have been very consoling and I continue to appreciate your messages of encouragement to stand up to Executive abuse and abuse of the powerful.
I finally mastered my courage on behalf of the girl child and other grown females who may not gather similar courage to share their ordeals at the hands of the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.
I can’t censure anyone on social media from debating further, even countering my story on behalf of the powerful but I can assure you no one will stop me from completing the journey of seeking justice I have embarked on, neither the passage of time nor the powers that be in Zimbabwe, this is my story, my ordeal, my experience, and am the witness in the case of my abuser, the President of Zimbabwe. Beyond this let the law take its own course.
Susan Vivian Mutami
By A Correspondent- A Harare man died after he was beaten to death following an incident of road rage along the Harare-Bulawayo Road.
The victim, identified as Simeon Norman, died after being ganged up on and beaten by at least 10 passengers from a pickup truck following a heated altercation.
The road rage incident and the subsequent death occurred in March 2022.
The police are only appealing for information 5 months later.
A statement released on Wednesday afternoon, National Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said:
By James Gwati-Norton MP, Temba Mliswa has denounced Zanu PF information director Tafadzwa Mugwadi for attacking Susan Mutami and CCC leader Nelson Chamisa.
Mugwadi had posted on Twitter bashing Chamisa and accusing him of hiring Susan to attack President Mnangagwa.
Mliswa told Mugwadi that what he did shows political immaturity. He said:
This wasn’t necessary at all
. You are a sharper young man, reared through
and don’t have to go so low in seeking to besmirch political opponents. You should shun such.
By- Australia has started acting on Susan Mutami’s rape case against Zimbabwean President Emerson Mnangagwa.
Australia’s Queensland Police Service told ZimLive that it would refer the case to “international jurisdictions”,.
This means that the case will now be dealt with by the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol).
This will escalate and internationalise the rape case that has sent shockwaves across the country.
Mnangagwa, 79, was accused of sexual assault by a now 33-year-old woman dating back to 2004 when she was a 15-year-old Form 3 pupil at Loreto High School in Silobela.
ZimLive reports that Australian police are bound to open the case and then refer it to Interpol for investigations that may rope in other jurisdictions which may be helpful in the process.
In response to an enquiry by ZimLive about Mutami’s report, Matt Adams, senior media and public affairs advisor (Queensland Police), said:
For confidentiality and privacy reasons, we are unable to provide any information other than to advise Queensland Police will liaise with, and refer any inquiries to international jurisdictions.
Interpol offers investigative support such as forensics, analysis, and assistance in locating fugitives around the world.
All Interpol’s actions are politically neutral and taken within the limits of the existing laws in different countries, in this case, Australia and Zimbabwe.
While Interpol deals with various crimes, including corruption, human and drug trafficking, organised crime, smuggling, cybercrime and terrorism, one of its major focuses is crimes against children, especially sexual abuse and exploitation, trafficking, forced labour and abduction. The organisation says in its mandate brief:
Sexual abuse and exploitation, trafficking, forced labour and abduction: these are just some of the dangers faced by children around the world today. At Interpol, we work to address those crimes that have an international dimension.
Meanwhile, George Charamba, the official spokesman for Mnangagwa, dismissed the rape allegations as “gossip.” He said Mnangagwa would not be commenting.
The scandal has cast a shadow over Mnangagwa’s bid to seek re-election as Zanu PF leader at a congress expected in October.
He fired his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, after he was exposed for bedding his married aides.
By- A member of the Zimbabwe National Army has lost US$100 to thugs hired by a hooker; he had paid US$50 for a night stint.
Tafadzwa Mugombi was allegedly robbed by Daniel Banda (18) and Tinashe Mufamba (Age not given) of Old Railways Mucheke before he even got into bed but after paying Barbra Chekenyika (21) US$50 for the service.
Chekenyika and the two suspected robbers appeared this week before Masvingo Magistrate Ritaiswe Silaigwana facing theft charges.
Mugombi is stationed at 4.1 Infantry Battalion Masvingo.
The court heard that on July 23, 2022 at around 2 am the complainant paid Chekenyika for the services. Chekenyika noticed that Mugombi had a lot of money and she connived with Banda and Mufamba to steal from him.
The State told the court that Chekenyika entered her room to offer services to Mugombi. Banda and Mufamba were following close behind. Mufamba then declared that Chekenyika was his wife and the two suspects grabbed US$100 from the complainant and walked away. Mugombi pressed Chekenyika since he suspected her to be the mastermind of the robbery. He reported the matter at Chikato Police station leading the arrest of the trio.
Nothing was recovered.
Chekenyika denied the allegations and said Banda and Mufamba entered her bedroom and stole money from Mugombi. She further alleged that the two also stole her US$50 which she was paid by Mugombi.
Magistrate Silaigwana postponed the matter to August 15, 2022 for continuation of trial.
-Masvingo Mirror
By-Nine workers of a Harare businessman, and President Emerson Mnangagwa’s friend, Alex Elias Mashamhanda, have been arrested for stealing US$70 000.
The US$70 000 was stolen from his Highglen business entity in Harare.
Mashwede made headlines in November last year when he bought President Mnangagwa’s biography for US$755 000 and US$50 000 for the Zanu PF leader’s Scarf.
Of the nine arrested, four of them were arrested last week and have since appeared in court.
They are Daisy Chakauya (35), Aseni Masenda (26), Brighton Moyo (age not given) and Samantha Guzuzu (32) who appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs Yeukai Dzuda.
They were all released on $50 000 bail.
Sources close to the investigations said the the other five who were employed as cashiers at Mashwede Holdings in the Highglen area were arrested yesterday and will appear in court this afternoon.
Police also believe that the suspects could have stolen more than the US$70 000 and they are now waiting for an audit report to ascertain the exact figure that was stolen as investigations on the case continue.
However, it is alleged that on July 20, detectives received a tip off that the suspects had formed a criminal syndicate and were allegedly stealing from their employer, Mashwede Holdings.
The information was that after sales had been made, the suspects would write their daily sales and, instead of capturing all the transactions, they would steal part of the US dollar cash.
They would then inflate or credit the amount stolen to swipe transaction values.
Acting on the tip off, police managed to arrest Masenda, who implicated Chakauya, who then implicated the other suspects.
Upon arrest, Chakauya led the police to the recovery of US$11 460, 60 x 750ml bottles of Jameson Whisky, 84 x 750ml bottles of Jäegermeister which had been obtained by the stolen money.
Masenda also allegedly led police to the recovery of US$1 000 cash stolen from the employer and several second-hand clothes also purchased using the stolen money for resale.
It is further alleged that in order to cover up for the offence, Moyo who was the accountant, after receiving the falsified transactions, would then obtain his proceeds from either Chakauya who was the manager and Guzuzu who was a cashier.
Investigations revealed that this has been going on since December last year and so far over US$70 000 was stolen. Only US$14 000 was recovered.
This is not the first time Mashwede Holdings employees have been arrested for stealing from their employer.
-State media
By-The Zimbabwe Republic Police have confirmed the arrest of three bobbers by citizens in Belvedere, Harare.
The ZRP posted on Twitter confirming the citizens’ arrest.
Posted ZRP:
1/3 The ZRP appreciates the support given by the public in the fight against crime. On 23/07/22, Police in Harare swiftly reacted to a robbery report and arrested McDonald Bechani (31), Blessing Kapanyira (31) Betwell Chivumba (28) and Hardlife Chivumba (25).
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the citizens movement has a grand economic turnaround scheme.
CCC’s objective is to build a modern and efficient civil service, according to President Chamisa.
The CCC leader wrote on Twitter:
“BUILDING A TIGER NATION…
At the centre of leadership is always a grand vision,strong institutions,a bankable economic model,formidable discipline & building a modern efficient civil service.
We will articulate the essentials required to start building an African Tiger!#Thistime”
“THE LOGO MEANING …New, Sunrise, Hope, Brilliance, Balance, Excellence, Fresh, Clean, Clear, Solid, Love, & Oneness…CITIZENS AT THE CENTRE”
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the citizens movement has a grand economic turnaround scheme.
CCC’s objective is to build a modern and efficient civil service, according to President Chamisa.
The CCC leader wrote on Twitter:
“BUILDING A TIGER NATION…
At the centre of leadership is always a grand vision,strong institutions,a bankable economic model,formidable discipline & building a modern efficient civil service.
We will articulate the essentials required to start building an African Tiger!#Thistime”
“THE LOGO MEANING …New, Sunrise, Hope, Brilliance, Balance, Excellence, Fresh, Clean, Clear, Solid, Love, & Oneness…CITIZENS AT THE CENTRE”
The mayor of the city of Harare, Jacob Mafume challenges Zanu PF regime to stop disrupting council programmes.
According to Mafume, the regime is looting council resources at a shocking pace.
Read CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba’s statement below:
By Gift Ostallos Siziba
Today we covered Harare State of the City address by his worship Mayor Jacob Mafume
The CCC Mayor who has been in the forefront of fighting central government control over council, corruption and gross incompetence today was clear what needs to be done.
Under a CCC government there will be no interference and we will restore executive mayor so that our people can be free from lack of service delivery, corruption and decay.
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC has mocked Ziyambi Ziyambi over his bid to buy voters’ loyalty with sweets.
Ziyambi attempted to hoodwink voters with sweets before the Kariba by-election last week.
Zanu PF lost to CCC in Kariba and Chipinge by-elections.
Below is a statement compiled by CCC champions:
The prophesy has come to pass.
ZANU PF has been decimated,decapitated,
devoured,dribbled,hushed,silenced,dehorned in Ward 5 Kariba after importing all the who is who in ZANU PF including the Justice minister who is not just Advocate Ziyambi Ziyambi,Mary Mliswa and hordes of others.
They even intimidated and threatened Karibeans with no further development if they voted for CCC.Zanu PF even disrupted lessons at Mahombekombe Primary School to hold their rally where they donated 11 new curriculum textbooks and many boxes of outdated and phased out old curriculum textbooks which are nolonger used in schools.they were beaten hands down even after promising to pay amounts ranging from US$5 to $20 to the electorate
It’s time they heed God’s word,”No man can open a door God has closed.”
If God is saying Goodbye Mnangagwa who are they to say Welcome Mnangagwa?
Thank you Kariba.
Makorokoto CCC, President Nelson Chamisa and Cllr Tonderai Chikwati.- CCC
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC has mocked Ziyambi Ziyambi over his bid to buy voters’ loyalty with sweets.
Ziyambi attempted to hoodwink voters with sweets before the Kariba by-election last week.
Zanu PF lost to CCC in Kariba and Chipinge by-elections.
Below is a statement compiled by CCC champions:
The prophesy has come to pass.
ZANU PF has been decimated,decapitated,
devoured,dribbled,hushed,silenced,dehorned in Ward 5 Kariba after importing all the who is who in ZANU PF including the Justice minister who is not just Advocate Ziyambi Ziyambi,Mary Mliswa and hordes of others.
They even intimidated and threatened Karibeans with no further development if they voted for CCC.Zanu PF even disrupted lessons at Mahombekombe Primary School to hold their rally where they donated 11 new curriculum textbooks and many boxes of outdated and phased out old curriculum textbooks which are nolonger used in schools.they were beaten hands down even after promising to pay amounts ranging from US$5 to $20 to the electorate
It’s time they heed God’s word,”No man can open a door God has closed.”
If God is saying Goodbye Mnangagwa who are they to say Welcome Mnangagwa?
Thank you Kariba.
Makorokoto CCC, President Nelson Chamisa and Cllr Tonderai Chikwati.- CCC
The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) has advised stakeholders and practitioners in the cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) and the general public that NAMA legend Mr. Cont Mhlanga has been admitted to a health care facility in Bulawayo.
Cont Mdladla Mhlanga is a Zimbabwean playwright, actor and theatre director who also founded the Amakhosi Theatre Productions company in 1982.
Rodney Ruwende, National Arts Council of Zimbabwe, Communication and Marketing Manager says Mhlanga has been under constant and close medical supervision since Friday 22 July and is currently stable and responding well to treatment. In a statement published by Earground, Ruwende said:
The Mhlanga family is requesting members of the public to remain hopeful and keep him and the family in their prayers.
While, understandably, as international art and cultural icon Cont’s health condition raises a lot of interest, however, members of the public are encouraged to resist the temptation of raising unwarranted alarm over his health condition.
The Family spokesperson Miss Gcina Mhlanga, Fairtalk Communications and the NACZ will from now on be responsible for communicating any relevant information related to Mr. Mhlanga’s illness.
All other statements emanating from sources other than the ones mentioned above should not be regarded as the official position of the family or his close associates.
Meanwhile, the NACZ would like to urge players in the sector and the public to exercise restraint and desist from communicating private family matters on public platforms.
The NACZ implores practitioners not to abuse the social media space to communicate false and unverified information following the events of the past two days where players have been communicating about the health of NAMA legend Cont Mhlanga.
Members of the public should disregard any messages currently circulating on social media purporting to be representing his family and seeking financial assistance for his medical treatment.
The Mhlanga family is grateful for the words of encouragement and prayers and appreciates the love that has been shown by practitioners in the CCIs and members of the public during this period.
Cont Mhlanga established Amakhosi Cultural Center in 1982. The Center started off as a youth karate club and turned semi-professional in 1988. It created the first pilot center, the Amakhosi Performing Arts Workshop (APAW), which produced and toured with theater plays written and directed by Mhlanga.
In 1995 Amakhosi established the country’s first privately owned cultural center located within the boundaries of the townships, now popularly known as the Township Square Cultural Center. – Pindula News
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The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) has announced that the country’s population has increased by two million – from 13 million to 15 million – over the past decade.
ZIMSTA on Tuesday released the preliminary results of the 2022 Population and Housing Census.
The country conducted the 2022 Population and Housing Census in April.
According to the 2022 Population and Housing Census preliminary results, the country’s population had increased by 1.5 per cent from the 1.1 per cent that was recorded in 2012.
2022 population shows Zimbabwe has 600,000 fewer men than females.
Harare is the most populous province with 16 per cent and Bulawayo the least at 4.4 per cent. Below are the percentages:
Harare……………………16%
Manicaland…………..13.4%
Mash West…………..12.5%
Midlands………………11.9%
Mash East…………….11.4%
Masvingo…………….10.8%
Mash Central……….9.1%
Mat North……………5.5%
Mat South……………5%
Bulawayo…………….4.4%
Actual population figures by province:
Harare………………….2,427,209
Manicaland………….2,037,762
Mash West………….1,893,578
Midlands……………..1,811,908
Mash East……………1,731,181
Masvingo…………….1,638,539
Mash Central………1,384,891
Mat North……………827,626
Mat South……………760,345
Bulawayo………………665,940
Pindula News
By-Nine workers of a Harare businessman, and President Emerson Mnangagwa’s friend, Alex Elias Mashamhanda, have been arrested for stealing US$70 000.
The US$70 000 was stolen from his Highglen business entity in Harare.
Mashwede made headlines in November last year when he bought President Mnangagwa’s biography for US$755 000 and US$50 000 for the Zanu PF leader’s Scarf.
Of the nine arrested, four of them were arrested last week and have since appeared in court.
They are Daisy Chakauya (35), Aseni Masenda (26), Brighton Moyo (age not given) and Samantha Guzuzu (32) who appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs Yeukai Dzuda.
They were all released on $50 000 bail.
Sources close to the investigations said the the other five who were employed as cashiers at Mashwede Holdings in the Highglen area were arrested yesterday and will appear in court this afternoon.
Police also believe that the suspects could have stolen more than the US$70 000 and they are now waiting for an audit report to ascertain the exact figure that was stolen as investigations on the case continue.
However, it is alleged that on July 20, detectives received a tip off that the suspects had formed a criminal syndicate and were allegedly stealing from their employer, Mashwede Holdings.
The information was that after sales had been made, the suspects would write their daily sales and, instead of capturing all the transactions, they would steal part of the US dollar cash.
They would then inflate or credit the amount stolen to swipe transaction values.
Acting on the tip off, police managed to arrest Masenda, who implicated Chakauya, who then implicated the other suspects.
Upon arrest, Chakauya led the police to the recovery of US$11 460, 60 x 750ml bottles of Jameson Whisky, 84 x 750ml bottles of Jäegermeister which had been obtained by the stolen money.
Masenda also allegedly led police to the recovery of US$1 000 cash stolen from the employer and several second-hand clothes also purchased using the stolen money for resale.
It is further alleged that in order to cover up for the offence, Moyo who was the accountant, after receiving the falsified transactions, would then obtain his proceeds from either Chakauya who was the manager and Guzuzu who was a cashier.
Investigations revealed that this has been going on since December last year and so far over US$70 000 was stolen. Only US$14 000 was recovered.
This is not the first time Mashwede Holdings employees have been arrested for stealing from their employer.
-State media
By- A member of the Zimbabwe National Army has been robbed of US$100 after paying US$50 for a night stint with a hooker.
Tafadzwa Mugombi was allegedly robbed by Daniel Banda (18) and Tinashe Mufamba (Age not given) of Old Railways Mucheke before he even got into bed but after paying Barbra Chekenyika (21) US$50 for the service.
Chekenyika and the two suspected robbers appeared this week before Masvingo Magistrate Ritaiswe Silaigwana facing theft charges.
Mugombi is stationed at 4.1 Infantry Battalion Masvingo.
The court heard that on July 23, 2022 at around 2 am the complainant paid Chekenyika for the services. Chekenyika noticed that Mugombi had a lot of money and she connived with Banda and Mufamba to steal from him.
The State told the court that Chekenyika entered her room to offer services to Mugombi. Banda and Mufamba were following close behind. Mufamba then declared that Chekenyika was his wife and the two suspects grabbed US$100 from the complainant and walked away. Mugombi pressed Chekenyika since he suspected her to be the mastermind of the robbery. He reported the matter at Chikato Police station leading the arrest of the trio.
Nothing was recovered.
Chekenyika denied the allegations and said Banda and Mufamba entered her bedroom and stole money from Mugombi. She further alleged that the two also stole her US$50 which she was paid by Mugombi.
Magistrate Silaigwana postponed the matter to August 15, 2022 for continuation of trial.
-Masvingo Mirror
By- Australia has started acting on Susan Mutami’s rape case against Zimbabwean President Emerson Mnangagwa.
Australia’s Queensland Police Service told ZimLive that it would refer the case to “international jurisdictions”,.
This means that the case will now be dealt with by the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol).
This will escalate and internationalise the rape case that has sent shockwaves across the country.
Mnangagwa, 79, was accused of sexual assault by a now 33-year-old woman dating back to 2004 when she was a 15-year-old Form 3 pupil at Loreto High School in Silobela.
ZimLive reports that Australian police are bound to open the case and then refer it to Interpol for investigations that may rope in other jurisdictions which may be helpful in the process.
In response to an enquiry by ZimLive about Mutami’s report, Matt Adams, senior media and public affairs advisor (Queensland Police), said:
For confidentiality and privacy reasons, we are unable to provide any information other than to advise Queensland Police will liaise with, and refer any inquiries to international jurisdictions.
Interpol offers investigative support such as forensics, analysis, and assistance in locating fugitives around the world.
All Interpol’s actions are politically neutral and taken within the limits of the existing laws in different countries, in this case, Australia and Zimbabwe.
While Interpol deals with various crimes, including corruption, human and drug trafficking, organised crime, smuggling, cybercrime and terrorism, one of its major focuses is crimes against children, especially sexual abuse and exploitation, trafficking, forced labour and abduction. The organisation says in its mandate brief:
Sexual abuse and exploitation, trafficking, forced labour and abduction: these are just some of the dangers faced by children around the world today. At Interpol, we work to address those crimes that have an international dimension.
Meanwhile, George Charamba, the official spokesman for Mnangagwa, dismissed the rape allegations as “gossip.” He said Mnangagwa would not be commenting.
The scandal has cast a shadow over Mnangagwa’s bid to seek re-election as Zanu PF leader at a congress expected in October.
He fired his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, after he was exposed for bedding his married aides.
Australia’s Queensland Police Service says it will refer Susan Mutami’s rape case against Zimbabwean President Emerson Mnangagwa to “international jurisdictions”,.
This means that the case will now be dealt with by the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol).
This will escalate and internationalise the rape case that has sent shockwaves across the country.
Mnangagwa, 79, was accused of sexual assault by a now 33-year-old woman dating back to 2004 when she was a 15-year-old Form 3 pupil at Loreto High School in Silobela.
ZimLive reports that Australian police are bound to open the case and then refer it to Interpol for investigations that may rope in other jurisdictions which may be helpful in the process.
In response to an enquiry by ZimLive about Mutami’s report, Matt Adams, senior media and public affairs advisor (Queensland Police), said:
For confidentiality and privacy reasons, we are unable to provide any information other than to advise Queensland Police will liaise with, and refer any inquiries to international jurisdictions.
Interpol offers investigative support such as forensics, analysis, and assistance in locating fugitives around the world.
All Interpol’s actions are politically neutral and taken within the limits of the existing laws in different countries, in this case, Australia and Zimbabwe.
While Interpol deals with various crimes, including corruption, human and drug trafficking, organised crime, smuggling, cybercrime and terrorism, one of its major focuses is crimes against children, especially sexual abuse and exploitation, trafficking, forced labour and abduction. The organisation says in its mandate brief:
Sexual abuse and exploitation, trafficking, forced labour and abduction: these are just some of the dangers faced by children around the world today. At Interpol, we work to address those crimes that have an international dimension.
Meanwhile, George Charamba, the official spokesman for Mnangagwa, dismissed the rape allegations as “gossip.” He said Mnangagwa would not be commenting.
The scandal has cast a shadow over Mnangagwa’s bid to seek re-election as Zanu PF leader at a congress expected in October.
He fired his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, after he was exposed for bedding his married aides.
By-A Harare businessman, and President Emerson Mnangagwa’s friend, Alex Elias Mashamhanda, has lost US$70 000 to robbers.
The US$70 000 was stolen from his Highglen business entity in Harare, and nine people have so been arrested in connection with the robbery.
Also known as Mashwede, Mashamhanda made headlines in November last year after he bought President Mnangagwa’s biography for US$755 000 and US$50 000 for the Zanu PF leader’s Scarf.
Of the nine suspects, four of them were arrested last week and have since appeared in court.
They are Daisy Chakauya (35), Aseni Masenda (26), Brighton Moyo (age not given) and Samantha Guzuzu (32) who appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs Yeukai Dzuda.
They were all released on $50 000 bail.
Sources close to the investigations said the the other five who were employed as cashiers at Mashwede Holdings in the Highglen area were arrested yesterday and will appear in court this afternoon.
Police also believe that the suspects could have stolen more than the US$70 000 and they are now waiting for an audit report to ascertain the exact figure that was stolen as investigations on the case continue.
However, it is alleged that on July 20, detectives received a tip off that the suspects had formed a criminal syndicate and were allegedly stealing from their employer, Mashwede Holdings.
The information was that after sales had been made, the suspects would write their daily sales and, instead of capturing all the transactions, they would steal part of the US dollar cash.
They would then inflate or credit the amount stolen to swipe transaction values.
Acting on the tip off, police managed to arrest Masenda, who implicated Chakauya, who then implicated the other suspects.
Upon arrest, Chakauya led the police to the recovery of US$11 460, 60 x 750ml bottles of Jameson Whisky, 84 x 750ml bottles of Jäegermeister which had been obtained by the stolen money.
Masenda also allegedly led police to the recovery of US$1 000 cash stolen from the employer and several second-hand clothes also purchased using the stolen money for resale.
It is further alleged that in order to cover up for the offence, Moyo who was the accountant, after receiving the falsified transactions, would then obtain his proceeds from either Chakauya who was the manager and Guzuzu who was a cashier.
Investigations revealed that this has been going on since December last year and so far over US$70 000 was stolen. Only US$14 000 was recovered.
This is not the first time Mashwede Holdings employees have been arrested for stealing from their employer.
-State media
The preliminary round and first-round draws for the Chibuku Super Cup were conducted in Harare on Tuesday.
The competition will revert to the traditional knockout format from the preliminary round.
In the previous edition that acted as a warm-up tournament to the 2021/22 season, the eighteen top-flight teams were grouped into four groups, with the top two sides progressing to the quarterfinals.
The draw was based on the log table of the Castle Lager Premiership Matchday 17, and the knockout tournament will start on 6 August and runs until 19 November.
The four least ranked teams will begin their campaigns in the preliminary stage. The winners will progress to the first round, where they will join the teams ranked from number 1-14.
The top-8 sides on the log standings are the seeded teams and were paired with the sides from Number 9-14 plus the preliminary round winners.
Preliminary Draw:
Cranborne Bullets vs WhaWha
ZPC Kariba vs Bulawayo City
First Round Draw:
Chicken Inn vs Harare City
FC Platinum vs Tenax
Dynamos vs Win. Cranborne/WhaWha
Manica Diamonds vs Yadah
Triangle United vs Highlanders
Black Rhinos vs CAPS United
Ngezi Platinum Stars vs Herentals
Bulawayo Chiefs vs Win. ZPC Kariba/Bulawayo City
Dates:
Preliminary Round: 6 August
First Round: 20-21 August
Quarterfinals:17-18 September
Semifinals: 15-16 October
Final: 19 November- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa’s CCC party has unveiled a new logo for party business.
In a statement on Tuesday morning, CCC said the new logo would appear on official party documents and correspondence.
According to President Chamisa, the logo is a sign of brilliance and hope.
“THE LOGO…New, Sunrise, Hope, Brilliance Balance, Excellence, Fresh, Clean, Clear, Solid, Love, & Oneness…CITIZENS AT THE CENTRE,” President Chamisa said in a brief statement.
CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift Ostallos Siziba said:
“This is our new logo.
Clear, Clean and Concise.
The sun shall rise again.
For our official party business and processes we use our official logo.
For elections and the ballot box we use an election symbol. “
“ANNOUNCEMENT: We wish to notify you of our official logos for party and election business. The one with a white background and yellow circle at the center is for party business while the one with the Change Champion in Chief’s image is our election symbol. Vote for Change,” CCC announced on Tuesday.
Dynamos Junior squad coach Lloyd Chigowe has resigned following an age-cheating scandal involving the team’s Under-17.
The Glamour Boys’ youth side was disqualified from the Marvelous Nakamba Foundation Invitational Under-17 tournament after fielding at least two over-aged players.
The identified players include Dylan Gumbe and Vusimusi Ngwenya whose ages are believed to be beyond twenty years.
According to the Herald, the executive recommended that Chigowe be relieved of his duties.
“The findings are finally out. This age-cheating thing involved a lot of people but was orchestrated by Chigowe. So the executive had decided to fire him,” an unnamed source told the publication.
“However, Chigowe got wind of the pending action and acted faster than the team. He tendered his resignation last weekend but still the team can take some action.”
Chigowe confirmed that he had resigned from the club but gave a different reason for the move.
He said: “Yes, I resigned from Dynamos last week. I am now the chairman for Zimbabwe junior football Harare Province and also the national acting chairman. So I thought it was for the good of my standing to resign from being a coach.”- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
More details have emerged regarding Galatasaray’s pursuit of Tino Kadewere.
The forward was placed on transfer list after falling out of favour at Lyon following Peter Bosz’s appointment as the new coach last season.
According to reports in Turkey, the availability of the Warriors international put Galatasaray on high alert. The player was recommended to the club by the scouting department.
The Super Lig side started monitoring the player’s situation several weeks ago and the technical team will prepare a report.
Kadewere’s versatility drew the club’s interest as the 26-year-old can play as a central striker or from the wing.
Other teams like Ligue 1 sides Brest and Strasbourg have expressed interest in the services of the Warriors forward, while La Liga club Real Valladolid and several unnamed German outfits are also monitoring the player.
Meanwhile, Kadewere is currently in Netherlands, with his Lyon teammates, preparing for the 2022/23 season.
He was named in the traveling squad for the pre-season in the Netherlands, where coach Peter Bosz wants to assess his options before making any transfer decisions ahead of the season.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
The British Solicitors Regulatory Authority narrates how the sociallite Olinda Chapel’s solicitor, Taffy Nyawanza, has been fined for deceiving one of his clients that their case was in motion, when it had been long struck out 2 years before.
Nyawanza was fined after admitting to not noticing that his client’s application had been struck out, with the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal clearing Tapfumanei Nyawanza (admitted in 2009) of manifest incompetence.
The tribunal heard that Nyawanza continued to work on the case for more than two years and reassured his client that everything was in hand despite the court having thrown it out.
The solicitor admitted allowing the claim to be struck out due to his inaction, misreading the court order striking out the application and misleading his client that the action was still continuing.
The SDT fined the Birmingham practitioner for mistakes but cleared him of manifest incompetence.
But Nyawanza denied the SRA’s allegation that his conduct had been manifestly incompetent, saying that his failure to take the right action was the result of inadvertent negligence.
The tribunal found that while his failings were serious, they did not mean Nyawanza was not competent to be a solicitor or should be struck off the roll.
Nyawanza was a director of Birmingham firm Genesis Law Associates Limited until the end of 2019. He had taken on an immigration appeal in 2014 from a client who lost her student visa following a Home Office allegation that she had cheated on her English language test. The solicitors made representations to the Home Office and lodged an appeal with the First Tier Tribunal. When those routes were rejected Nyawanza lodged a judicial review in March 2015.
The tribunal heard that Nyawanza allowed the case to be struck out by not complying with tribunal directions, but he subsequently advised his client there was nothing to be concerned about.
He then created letters for the client wrongly stating that proceedings were ongoing. He also told the client in a meeting in 2018 that the case was ‘pending in court’. It was submitted in mitigation that proceedings were reinstituted and the client’s claim eventually succeeded after she instructed another firm, so there was no long-term harm.
The tribunal ruled that Nyawanza’s incompetence was ‘repeated and continued over a period of time’, and his misconduct left the client’s immigration status unsettled for year. The solicitor was fined £12,500 and ordered to pay £3,000 costs.
The preliminary round and first-round draws for the Chibuku Super Cup were conducted in Harare on Tuesday.
The competition will revert to the traditional knockout format from the preliminary round.
In the previous edition that acted as a warm-up tournament to the 2021/22 season, the eighteen top-flight teams were grouped into four groups, with the top two sides progressing to the quarterfinals.
The draw was based on the log table of the Castle Lager Premiership Matchday 17, and the knockout tournament will start on 6 August and runs until 19 November.
The four least ranked teams will begin their campaigns in the preliminary stage. The winners will progress to the first round, where they will join the teams ranked from number 1-14.
The top-8 sides on the log standings are the seeded teams and were paired with the sides from Number 9-14 plus the preliminary round winners.
Preliminary Draw:
Cranborne Bullets vs WhaWha
ZPC Kariba vs Bulawayo City
First Round Draw:
Chicken Inn vs Harare City
FC Platinum vs Tenax
Dynamos vs Win. Cranborne/WhaWha
Manica Diamonds vs Yadah
Triangle United vs Highlanders
Black Rhinos vs CAPS United
Ngezi Platinum Stars vs Herentals
Bulawayo Chiefs vs Win. ZPC Kariba/Bulawayo City
Dates:
Preliminary Round: 6 August
First Round: 20-21 August
Quarterfinals:17-18 September
Semifinals: 15-16 October
Final: 19 November- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Juventus have approached Chelsea about signing Timo Werner on loan. The Guardian
Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo says he does not know who “invented” the story linking Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo to the Spanish side and that it is “practically impossible” the 37-year-old Portugal international will join them. El Partidazo de COPE
Manchester United have been given fresh hope in their pursuit of winger Antony after his club Ajax refused to rule out selling the Brazilian. The Sun
Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong would only leave Barcelona for Chelsea but the London club are not prepared to pay as much as Manchester United for the 25-year-old. Sport
Chelsea are interested in signing Leicester City defender Wesley Fofana. Sky Sports
The Blues are also targeting Dutch defender Denzel Dumfries, 26, from Inter Milan after struggling to bring in France international Jules Kounde, 23, from Sevilla. Evening Standard
Luis Suarez has entered a pre-contract agreement to join Uruguayan club Nacional as a free agent.
West Ham have completed the signing of Sassuolo striker Gianluca Scamacca in a deal worth £35.5m.
Leicester City chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha says the club have had no offers for 25-year-old Belgium midfielder Youri Tielemans, whose contract with the Foxes runs out next summer. – Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the citizens movement has a grand economic turnaround scheme.
CCC’s objective is to build a modern and efficient civil service, according to President Chamisa.
The CCC leader wrote on Twitter:
“BUILDING A TIGER NATION…
At the centre of leadership is always a grand vision,strong institutions,a bankable economic model,formidable discipline & building a modern efficient civil service.
We will articulate the essentials required to start building an African Tiger!#Thistime”
“THE LOGO MEANING …New, Sunrise, Hope, Brilliance, Balance, Excellence, Fresh, Clean, Clear, Solid, Love, & Oneness…CITIZENS AT THE CENTRE”
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC has mocked Ziyambi Ziyambi over his bid to buy voters’ loyalty with sweets.
Ziyambi attempted to hoodwink voters with sweets before the Kariba by-election last week.
Zanu PF lost to CCC in Kariba and Chipinge by-elections.
Below is a statement compiled by CCC champions:
The prophesy has come to pass.
ZANU PF has been decimated,decapitated,
devoured,dribbled,hushed,silenced,dehorned in Ward 5 Kariba after importing all the who is who in ZANU PF including the Justice minister who is not just Advocate Ziyambi Ziyambi,Mary Mliswa and hordes of others.
They even intimidated and threatened Karibeans with no further development if they voted for CCC.Zanu PF even disrupted lessons at Mahombekombe Primary School to hold their rally where they donated 11 new curriculum textbooks and many boxes of outdated and phased out old curriculum textbooks which are nolonger used in schools.they were beaten hands down even after promising to pay amounts ranging from US$5 to $20 to the electorate
It’s time they heed God’s word,”No man can open a door God has closed.”
If God is saying Goodbye Mnangagwa who are they to say Welcome Mnangagwa?
Thank you Kariba.
Makorokoto CCC, President Nelson Chamisa and Cllr Tonderai Chikwati.- CCC
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a call for people around the world to “do one thing” to prevent drowning.
As one of the leading causes of death globally for children and young people ages 1–24, and the third leading cause of injury-related deaths overall, drowning tragically claims more than 236 000 lives each year. To galvanize action and mark World Drowning Prevention Day, the Jet d’Eau in Geneva will be illuminated in blue this evening, accompanied by similar actions in other cities around the world.
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More than 90% of drowning deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, with children under the age of 5 being at highest risk. These deaths are frequently linked to daily, routine activities, such as bathing, collecting water for domestic use, travelling over water on boats or ferries, and fishing. The impacts of seasonal or extreme weather events – including monsoons – are also a frequent cause of drowning and these impacts are largely preventable through a number of interventions.
“Every year, around the world, hundreds of thousands of people drown. Most of these deaths are preventable through evidence-based, low-cost solutions,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Today, cities around the world are lighting up their monuments in blue light as a call to action for each of us to do our part to prevent drowning. Let’s put a stop to drowning.”
“Drowning is a global public health challenge, and at Bloomberg Philanthropies, we’re focused on implementing solutions to prevent it.
Today, we’re joining our partners around the world in recognizing World Drowning Prevention Day and taking action,” said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries. “In many cases, we know what works to prevent drowning. We’ve developed tools and guidance to help governments implement solutions – and if we do more together, we really can save thousands of lives.”
WHO recommends 6 evidence-based measures to prevent drowning, including installing barriers controlling access to water; training bystanders in safe rescue and resuscitation; teaching school-aged children basic swimming and water safety skills; providing supervised day care for children; setting and enforcing safe boating, shipping and ferry regulations; and improving flood risk management.
This year, the theme of World Drowning Prevention Day invites the global community to “do one thing” to prevent drowning. Examples of actions that can be taken are as follows:
Individuals can share drowning prevention and water safety advice with their families, friends and colleagues, sign up for swimming or water safety lessons, or support local drowning prevention charities and groups.
Groups can host public events to share water safety information, launch water safety campaigns, or commit to developing or delivering new drowning prevention programmes using recommended best practice interventions.
Governments can develop or announce new drowning prevention policies, strategies, legislation or investment, convene multisectoral roundtables or parliamentary discussions on drowning burden and solutions, and introduce or commit to supporting drowning prevention programming domestically or internationally.
Many countries in the world have committed to drowning prevention programmes.
Bangladesh has started a 3-year program to reduce drowning among children throughout the country. As part of the program, the government will take over the 2 500 daycares established and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies since 2012, and will expand the program by adding an additional 5 500 daycares to provide supervision to 200 000 children ages 1–5 years.
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Tinashe Sambiri|CCC has mocked Ziyambi Ziyambi over his bid to buy voters’ loyalty with sweets.
Ziyambi attempted to hoodwink voters with sweets before the Kariba by-election last week.
Zanu PF lost to CCC in Kariba and Chipinge by-elections.
Below is a statement compiled by CCC champions:
The prophesy has come to pass.
ZANU PF has been decimated,decapitated,
devoured,dribbled,hushed,silenced,dehorned in Ward 5 Kariba after importing all the who is who in ZANU PF including the Justice minister who is not just Advocate Ziyambi Ziyambi,Mary Mliswa and hordes of others.
They even intimidated and threatened Karibeans with no further development if they voted for CCC.Zanu PF even disrupted lessons at Mahombekombe Primary School to hold their rally where they donated 11 new curriculum textbooks and many boxes of outdated and phased out old curriculum textbooks which are nolonger used in schools.they were beaten hands down even after promising to pay amounts ranging from US$5 to $20 to the electorate
It’s time they heed God’s word,”No man can open a door God has closed.”
If God is saying Goodbye Mnangagwa who are they to say Welcome Mnangagwa?
Thank you Kariba.
Makorokoto CCC, President Nelson Chamisa and Cllr Tonderai Chikwati.- CCC
Business Correspondent
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By Reason Wafawarova in Australia
Let me start by saying I have not met, talked to, or communicated in any way with one Susan Vivian Mutami, a 34 year old Australian woman originally from Kwekwe, Zimbabwe.
I haven’t been on Facebook for the past two days, and I have had people asking me about my role if any, in the reported case where Ms Mutami is reported to have made a police report with Queensland Police Services regarding a case of alleged historical child sexual molestation or rape, dating back 19 years when Ms Mutami was 15.
The alleged perpetrator is the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.
Without getting much into the detail of the allegations, let me categorically state I have not played any role in influencing the direction of this case, apart from suggesting here on social media that victims of similar crimes perpetrated in countries where they can prove they can’t get a fair trial have an option to pursue extra territorial jurisdiction.
Essentially this is when a country in another jurisdiction decides to prosecute an accused person in another jurisdiction because it is satisfied the perpetrator may never face justice where the alleged crime was committed, or when the victim of the alleged crime is a citizen of the country opting to exercise extra territorial jurisdiction, or when the accused is a citizen who committed the alleged crimes abroad.
Chapter 4 of the Australian Constitution provides for instances where Australia will exercise its extraterritorial jurisdiction. So far only cases related to war crimes have been considered.
Section 98 of the Zimbabwe Constitution provides for immunity for a sitting president, meaning a sitting President is not obliged at law to respond to any civil or criminal charges relating to his personal life, not until he leaves office. This also will be taken into consideration.
In Ms Mutami’s case two of the options apply, given the social standing of the alleged perpetrator. She is a citizen, and the accused wields a lot of power in Zimbabwe.
Belgium once announced it had taken a decision to exercise its right to extraterritorial jurisdiction over allegations levelled against Israeli General Ariel Sharon, and they announced if he travelled to Belgium or through Belgium they would arrest him and put him on trial.
The US responded by threatening to pull out NATO Headquarters from Belgium if the threat was carried out.
A few countries threatened to do the same with George W Bush’s alleged war crimes in Iraq after the US President left office.
Ms Mutami reported her case to the police service of a state in Australia, not the Australian Federal Police.
Like any other case the police will assess the allegations, ask for evidence and decide whether or not to refer the case to Federal Police.
Federal Police will investigate as well, most likely contact the accused, and if there are grounds to go to trial, charges can or may be pressed against the accused.
The accused can be represented by lawyers in absentia or can attend court if they choose to.
If the accused ignores the court summons, trial may proceed in absentia.
I notice Ms Mutami has a traceable record of the alleged case on line, including several times she explicitly exonerated the accused of any wrongdoing, including with the media.
I also notice Ms Mutami has a colourful, if not dramatic traceable sexual history on line, involving at least 33 high profile men in Harare alone.
I was just wondering if there will be a list for Australian men. While I am certain about my innocence on this matter I have a feeling I will have to ascertain my non involvement when or if the list will come out.
I also note there were claims made by Ms Mutami that her son was fathered by a late Zimbabwean politician, and that someone was framed to be the biological father to cover up the responsibility of the late Foreign Minister.
I also note Ms Mutami has claimed in the past that she was scan proven pregnant with politician Temba Mliswa’s two baby twins, and the twins never really got to materialise. No explanation has been offered for the anomaly yet.
The police will most likely assess factuality, credibility, intention, motivation, and any other relevant aspects related to this matter.
RW
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the citizens movement has a grand economic turnaround scheme.
CCC’s objective is to build a modern and efficient civil service, according to President Chamisa.
The CCC leader wrote on Twitter:
“BUILDING A TIGER NATION…
At the centre of leadership is always a grand vision,strong institutions,a bankable economic model,formidable discipline & building a modern efficient civil service.
We will articulate the essentials required to start building an African Tiger!#Thistime”
“THE LOGO MEANING …New, Sunrise, Hope, Brilliance, Balance, Excellence, Fresh, Clean, Clear, Solid, Love, & Oneness…CITIZENS AT THE CENTRE”
By A Correspondent| The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has replaced party leader Nelson Chamisa’s face on its logo and replaced it with a yellow circle.
CCC was formed ahead of the March 26 by-elections to settle a dispute over the use of the name, MDC Alliance, which the rival opposition party the MDC-T was claiming.
Announcing the new developments, Chamisa said the new symbol brings hope and oneness.
“THE LOGO MEANING …New, Sunrise, Hope, Brilliance, Balance, Excellence, Fresh, Clean, Clear, Solid, Love, & Oneness…CITIZENS AT THE CENTRE,” he said.
The new logo is a departure from the old one which had Chamisa’s face on it and had raised scepticism that he was creating an occult In the political spaces.
Questioned on why he had removed the face, Chamisa noted: “Face is for the ballot and elections”
By Victor Bhoroma| Zimbabwe’s informal sector is growing in leaps and bounds as the business environment continues to deteriorate. It is estimated between 85-90% of Zimbabweans are engaged in informal economic activities at a personal, household or enterprise level. The 2022 Labour Force Survey published by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) points that 3.3 million people are employed locally, pointing that over 2.8 million Zimbabweans derive their living from the informal sector as opposed to 495 000 in formal employment. The informal sector is connected into the local and regional supply chains, thus creating a trading platform where millions of dollars exchange hands daily. A 2018 study by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) discovered that 60% of the Zimbabwean economy is informal, second in the world only to Bolivia’s 62.3%.
The level of informalization in the country is now estimated to be between 65% and 70% due to several push and pull factors such as high inflation, poor remuneration in the formal sector, punitive foreign exchange regulations, weak institutions and high levels of corruption, low tax morale, high levels of unemployment, overregulation, limited automation in tax collection and increase in poverty levels in the country. It has been observed that developing countries with a large agricultural sector also tend to have high levels of informalization as trade in agricultural commodities between producers and merchants are typically cash transactions. However, informality is also a factor of vulnerability, with millions of employees in the informal sector lacking job and social security, income consistency, health insurance, savings and living from hand to mouth. All these conditions are closely associated with poverty.
Defining the informal sector
The international Labour Organization (ILO) defines the informal sector as all economic activities by workers and economic units that are not covered or sufficiently covered by formal arrangements at law. Formal arrangements include adherence to contracts in business transactions, applying labour regulations, social security contributions, banking proceeds, paying requisite taxes and council levies, and following legal channels on importing and exporting goods. Therefore, those employed in the informal sector are not subject to national labour legislation, income taxation, social protection, or entitlement to certain employment benefits such as maternity leave. The informal sector has been referred to as the grey economy, shadow economy, underground economy, parallel sector, and cash economy in some circles.
Zimbabwe’s Dual Economy
The formal sector and the informal sector have become two distinct economies in Zimbabwe with the earlier vulnerable to complex tax regime and inconsistent monetary policies while the latter has no regard for both. The informal sector contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is estimated to be below 50% according to national statistics. According to the World Bank, Zimbabwe’s economy grew by 5.8% to US$19.2 billion in 2021 after contracting by 6.1% in 2019 and 6.2% in 2020. The economic instability witnessed in the past 3 years also triggers informalization among small businesses. The existence of the dual economy makes it difficult for the government to control the economy through fiscal or monetary policy as the informal sector is largely cash based and fully dollarized.
African Comparisons
The size of the informal economy in Africa in terms of its contribution to GDP has declined from an average of 41% of total GDP in 1990 to an estimated 33% of total GDP by end of 2020.
| ESTIMATED SIZE OF INFORMAL SECTOR | ||||
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | |
| Nigeria | 57% | 58% | 53% | 53% |
| South Africa | 30% | 28% | 26% | 23% |
| Algeria | 35% | 34% | 26% | 24% |
| Morocco | 37% | 36% | 29% | 27% |
| Kenya | 35% | 32% | 33% | 32% |
| Rwanda | 40% | 40% | 32% | 26% |
| Ghana | 46% | 42% | 40% | 38% |
| Mauritius | 26% | 23% | 21% | 18% |
| Botswana | 34% | 33% | 26% | 24% |
| Zambia | 54% | 49% | 34% | 40% |
| Zimbabwe | 57% | 59% | 66% | +65% |
Nigeria is the second ranked country with high informality averaging 53% of the country’s GDP, though the figure has declined from 57% of the 1990s. Mauritius is the country with least informal economy activities which averages 18% towards national GDP. South Africa, Algeria, Rwanda, Botswana, Namibia, and Morocco are among the countries with low levels of informalization. The countries with low levels of informalization are also the least corrupt countries in Africa on the Transparency International Corruption Index.
Impact of policy missteps
The complex tax regime, multiple tax heads to various government entities and frequent renewals are all triggers of informalization in Zimbabwe as businesspeople find ways to cut costs. According to the survey conducted by the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) in 2019, a business operating locally will have to make at least 51 payments for various tax heads for it to be considered tax compliant. The local taxation complexity has to do with a limited automation (Excessive paperwork), archaic laws, payment in different currencies, need to travel to Harare or other cities to make tax contributions and the multifaceted government departments involvement. Thus, the level of informalization is higher in rural areas where digitalization and formal banking channels are limited.
Equally, Zimbabwe’s monetary policy is far from being consistent, in the last 15 years the local currency (Notes, coins or electronic) has assumed at least 5 different names while there is no free-market price determination of foreign currency. The central bank issues a plethora of circulars and regulations which are sometimes contradictory. The high levels of money printing and resultant inflation leads to low confidence, loss of savings and income for households which inflames informalization.
Informalization within formal businesses
The past 10 years have also seen increased levels of informalization in business operations by players in the formal sector. Corporates are finding ways to evade taxes, compensate for the disparity between the manipulated formal exchange rates and the market rate by not banking cash proceeds, buying foreign currency off the parallel market, not paying council levies, using parallel exchange rates in forward pricing, paying employees in hard currency, not filing tax returns, externalizing cash, smuggling in raw materials, and falsifying imports or exports.
Poverty and informality link
High levels of informalization have a positive correlation with poverty. According to Zimstat, extreme poverty in Zimbabwe has been rising over the past 3 years, growing from 29% in 2018 to 34% in 2019, 49% in 2020 and 43% in 2021. This means that approximately 2.2 million Zimbabweans have sunk into poverty since January 2018. Although poverty remains an overwhelmingly rural phenomenon, it has increased relatively faster in urban areas leading to the urbanization of poverty.
Harare is one of the biggest contributors to poverty statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa, a situation exacerbated by the fact that most of the countries with high cases of poverty such as South Sudan, Somalia, Madagascar, and Burundi are characterized by conflict, civil wars, or unrest.
High informalization unsustainable
Zimbabwe’s informal sector bears a mark of economic resilience, however high levels of informalization are also unsustainable for any country as it leads to limited tax mobilization on the part of Treasury which leads to poor public service delivery (Dilapidated Road infrastructure, power generation, health care, education, housing, water, and other amenities) and limited capacity to repay public debt (increase in arrears). While the informal sector is growing, it cannot be excluded from consuming public services despite not contributing to tax payments. Over and above the negative aspects mentioned in the introduction, high levels of informalization lead to a limited credit market and savings growth in the economy, limited growth in the financial and insurance sector (decline in Banking sector lending and geographical presence). Informalization also nurtures and aids corruption, and criminal activities in the economy. Thus, levels of information must be managed to below 40% of the economy to ensure sustainable economic growth.
Zimbabwe’s public debt is estimated to grow to US$18.37 billion by December 2022 (Declared figures only), with external debt arrears contributing US$13 billion. Based on current tax revenue figures, Harare has no capacity to repay its external debt despite guarantees of support from the African Development Bank (AfDB). There is an urgent need to remove barriers to formalization through simplifying the tax registration process and providing incentives to fiscalization by making the cost of fiscalization tax deductible or partnering commercial banks to spread the cost of fiscalization on the part of ZIMRA. This means that tax payments and filing tax returns should be done efficiently online without visiting the tax agency. For the few tax compliant businesses, the tax agency must process tax rebates efficiently and give holidays where it is necessary. The government would need to chart flexible labour laws that make it easy for businesses to retrench through short term notices and employees to quit through short term notices. The new labour laws which compel employers to accord permanent employment status after consecutive contracts push employers to retrench repeat contract employees while restricting their ability to hire short term labour. For sustainable economic growth, supply side incentives to re-industrialize the economy and diversify to value addition and beneficiation, and services are key to formalizing the local economy. As the population grows and economic instability persists, deliberate policies must implemented to contain informalization and eliminating all barriers to formalization.
Victor Bhoroma is an economic analyst. He holds an MBA from the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). Feedback: Email [email protected] or Twitter @VictorBhoroma1.
Business Correspondent
Ads Network Zim Private Limited has launched a vibrant advertising platform known as ZimAdsense.
The company says the platform seeks to help advertisers and publishers in terms of boosting business via digital marketing tactics.
ZimAdsense has been crafted specifically for Zimbabwean advertisers and publishers.
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By CHRA| Harare City Council blamed government’s insufficient distribution of devolution funds for causing poor service delivery (water supply and waste management) in the City.
In the State of the City Address held in Harare, yesterday, Harare City Council Mayor, Jacob Mafume said the devolution funds that government released are not sufficient enough to support adequate service delivery projects.
“Devolution funds are being released but these are not adequate. For example, in the 2022 budget we were allocated over ZWL$2, 3 billion but to date we have received ZWL$ 73 million by end of June and a further ZWL$91 million in July.
“We are past the half year, and this means the capital projects we had planned will not be completed,” said the Harare Mayor.
There is inadequate supply in the City, with some parts of Harare (Eastern, Western, Northern, North-Western, Southern and South-Western surburbs) experiencing water rationing.
According to the Harare Mayor, City Council encounters challenges in the provision and supply coverage of water, owing to the deteriorating water services infrastructure.
“Harare and its dormitory Towns’ water demand is around 800ML/Day. Due operational and infrastructural challenges, we are not able to meet this demand. Our Water Production Capacity at Morton Jeffery is 470 ML/Day but over the past months, our production has been depressed, averaging 295 ML/Day,” added the Mayor.
However, City Council said it will continue to take up measures to, “increase Water Production and reach its target of producing 470 ML/Day by 31st of December 2022 and progressively increase each year until we reach the 800 ML/Day production by the year 2025”.
Also, the mayor stated that due to shortage of refuse collection machinery, collection, disposal and management of the refuse in the City has become almost impossible for the local Council.
“Your City for the past 6 months managed to maintain an average daily fleet of 10 Compactors out of a desired 46 Compactors to collect waste in the 46 Wards.
“We are currently collecting waste from 207 000 properties. Our collection efficiency has been compromised due to non-availability of adequate fleet and this has seen the recurrence of illegal dumps across the City.
“Recently we purchased 3 Compactors using our own funds and we are hoping to purchase more before the end of the year if Government honors its obligation to release devolution funds which we had budgeted for the purchase of refuse collection compactors and trucks,” he said.
Meanwhile, City Council said it recognizes the significance of the Informal sector and urged all illegal business operators to get licensed.
“The Informal Sector businesses continues to grow and as of June 2022 an estimated 100 000 informal businesses are operating in Harare.
“As a City we have since rebranded these business as Small to Medium Enterprises and we are in the process of providing them with decent trading spaces as well as encouraging them to regularise their operations by obtaining appropriate trading licences and paying of taxes to government, said Mayor Mafume.
“To support the growth of the informal sector, as a City we are constructing two (2) informal sector facilities that is Seke Dieppe (Coca-Cola) people Market and Hatcliffe Market,” he added.
The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) Masvingo depot has been hit by accusations of nepotism and sex scandals involving managers and supervisors, according to documents in the hands of The Mirror.
The Mirror has in its hands grievance documents dated June 17, 2022, written to management by the workers’ committee which include corruption, nepotism, incompetency and sexual abuse of female conductors by supervisors and managers.
The workers’ committee chairperson, Mandebvu Mutikizizi, confirmed the workers’ grievances to The Mirror and said that they have since been sent to them Division Operations Manager (DOM), Tinei Rwasoka.
Key among the grievances is that some managers are sleeping with female conductors in exchange for job security. Conductors at ZUPCO are employed temporarily. The grievances, in particular, cite one manager who is said to have slept with almost every female conductor at the depot.
-Masvingo Mirror
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Miners Federation President, Henrietta Rushwaya has denied allegations that she tried to bribe an X-Ray machine operator at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in 2020 when she was caught trying to smuggle 6kgs of purified gold to Dubai.
ZimLive reports that Rushwaya’s lawyers applied for discharge before Harare magistrate Learnmore Mapiye, arguing that Rushwaya was the victim of a “malicious arrest.”
Rushwaya was detained at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International airport on October 26, 2020, just before boarding a plane to Dubai with a handbag concealing 6kg of gold worth US$333 000 at the time.
She told airport staff she had picked up the wrong handbag when she raced to the airport, claiming to have identical handbags.
The National Prosecuting Authority alleges that the former Zimbabwe Football Association CEO offered a US$5 000 bribe to Owen Sibanda, who was operating the X-Ray machine after it detected the gold.
Rushwaya’s lawyer Peter Patisani said she would have to be dumb to put a bag through an X-Ray machine in the full knowledge that it had gold. The lawyer said:
This was a malicious arrest. She asked the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe officials to accompany her home to collect the right bag which she intended to travel with, and they did not take up her offer.
Patisani said Sibanda testified that Rushwaya had offered him “5 000” but did not mention if this was currency.
The lawyer said his client cannot be convicted when the court is not even aware of what Sibanda was referring to when he mentioned the number “5 000”. Patisani added:
The state doesn’t know what was offered. Are we talking about 5,000 stones or 5,000 cents, which remains an essential part of the alleged offence?
Rushwaya also said she could not have bribed Sibanda and his colleague Dzikamai Paradza because they were “junior”.
Prosecutor Netsai Mushayabasa said they had proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt. The “5 000” mentioned by Sibanda was United States dollars, the prosecutor insisted.
The prosecution rested on the first day of the trial.
Opposition lawmaker Job Sikhala has been denied bail on his latest charge of defeating the course of justice.
The latest bail ruling comes as it was confirmed that an international law firm based in the United States and the United Kingdom which specialises in high profile international human rights cases would join his legal team.
Sikhala is accused of posting a video aimed at disturbing investigations into the murder of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) slain activist, Moreblessing Ali.
He was denied bail on another charge of inciting public violence, a charge which is based on the same video.
His lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said they expected the outcome and only approached the magistrates court as a formality.
“As you probably heard the magistrate, as was expected, refused to give him bail and naturally we will be going to the High Court.
“We knew he was not going to get bail because in these cases we now know for a fact that nobody gets bail in the magistrates court. We come for the purpose of creating the record then we appeal at the high court and that is what we will be doing,” said Mtetwa.
Sikhala denies the allegations, arguing that he never posted the alleged video on the internet.
Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka handed down the ruling on behalf of magistrate Stanford Mambanje.
The court agreed that the investigating officer in the case did not investigate who posted the video but ruled that this does not mean that there was no evidence against Sikhala.
“The IO (investigating officer) said they are yet to find who posted the video and they also said there are eye witnesses to testify that indeed the accused uttered the alleged words,” said the magistrate.
He added, “The fact that the IO said that they are still investigating does not mean that the State failed to demonstrate their case beyond reasonable doubt.”
The magistrate also said Sikhala has already violated a High Court bail order which weighs against him.
Sikhala is accused of posting a video aimed at disturbing investigations into the murder of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) slain activist, Moreblessing Ali.
He was denied bail on another charge of inciting public violence, a charge which is based on the same video.
Sikhala will be back in court on August 8.
Ruling in the trial of AMH journalists Blessed Mhlanga and Chengeto Chidi which had been set for 26 July 2022 has been postponed to 4 August 2022.
Mhlanga and Chidi are being charged for allegedly contravening Section 25 (a) as read with Section 30 of Statutory Instrument 21/2005 which prohibits taking of photographs within a polling station. The alternative charge is disorderly conduct in a polling station as defined in Section 89 of the Electoral Act.
A Chipinge man who stopped a 14-year-old girl on her way to school and took her to a lodge where they agreed to have sex has been slapped with four years in jail.
Ephraim Mutambara 32 of 3259 ZBS Gaza, Chipinge pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court on Monday but was however found guilty by Chipinge Magistrate Frenklin Mkwananzi.
Franklin will however serve an effective three years after 12 months were suspended from the sentence. The charge was having sexual intercourse with a young person.
Mkwananzi ruled that there was enough evidence linking Mutambara to the crime. He also said that Mutambara had sexual intercourse with the minor knowing she was under the age of 16.
Prosecutor Edmore Mahlanganise said Mutambara and the minor were lovers.
On May 7, at 7am, Mutambara phoned the minor who is a Form 2 pupil at Gaza High School and asked her whereabouts. The minor told him that she was going to school. Mutambara then met her at Metro Peech in town and took her to Travers (Manica) Lodge where they agreed to have sex once.
In May, at 5pm at Mutambara lured the minor as she came from school to number 4360 Makwakwama building in Gaza. They entered a room where again they had sex.
On May 22, the minor’s sister proceeded to Mutambara’s workshop and advised him to stay away from the minor and he ignored. Mutambara again had sex with the pupil as she came back from school at Mukwakwami Building.
The matter came to light when the minor told her sister that she has been having sexual intercourse with Mutambara.The matter was reported to Chipinge Urban Police leading to Mutambara’s arrest.
Chipinge Times
By A Correspondent- Family and friends of the late Soul Jah Love, musicians and music promoters on Tuesday visited the late musician’s grave and laid some wreaths as a way of remembering him.
Jah Love, whose real name was Soul Musaka succumbed to diabetes on February 16, 2021 and was declared a Liberation hero.
Below are pictures of the visit courtesy of Chipaz Promotions:
I HAVE EVIDENCE … TEMBA MLISWA.
Temba Mliswa responds to Susan Mutami’s allegations against self and ED, as a person who has had an affair with her and the MP gets grilled on ZimEye on Sunday 7pm (Zim time). He announces he has physical evidence to totally dismiss all that’s been said about the President and other men. “I hold no brief from anyone,” he tells ZimEye. #NOTOABUSEAGAINSTMEN
SUN 7PM 31 JULY
By-James Gwati- President Emerson Mnangagwa’s rape accuser, Susan Mutami, has claimed that the Zimbabwean leader abused several other young girls in her eyes.
These young women who later became Zanu PF office bearers, Mutami claims Mnangagwa abused, include the late Melody Dziva and Annacencia Ndlovu.
Dziva died of cancer in December 2020 at the age of 35.
She was a Zanu PF Youth League proportional representation Member of the National Assembly.
Posting on Twitter Tuesday, Mutami said a lot more girls would come out:
abused Melody Dziva whilst she was a minor too. The day she came to show
her HIV positive results at the farm, that girl wept like a lil baby and as usual she was promised heaven on earth, a career, and protection, and all she needed to do was to shut up…
By-Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje Tuesday denied CCC legislator Job Sikhala’s bail.
Mambanje said Sikhala was not a proper candidate to be released on bond.
In his ruling read on his behalf by magistrate Mrs Feresi Chakanyuka, the court noted that Sikhala violated a High Court order that bars him from addressing gatherings or posting videos on social media that are likely to incite the public to cause violence.
Sikhala is charged with obstructing the course of justice after he allegedly incited the public to cause violence at the funeral wake of Moreblessing Ali in Nyatsime.
By Staff Reporter- Auxillia Mnangagwa publicist and ZBC-TV News Presenter, Vicky Mlilo has been thrown into Susan Mutami’s s*x circle.
Taking to Twitter spaces last week, Mutami said Mlilo was also in love with the Norton MP, Temba Mliswa.
Mutami has twins with Mliswa.
Vickie Mlilo also doubles as Auxilia Mnangagwa’s Angel of Hope Foundation Public Relations executive.
Susan, during her confession, said that he had slept with at least eight (8) senior Zanu PF officials, including President Emerson Mnangagwa.
Among the eight men, Mutami said include, the former CIO Minister Owen Mudha Ncube, the late Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, deputy Mines minister Polite Kambamura and Zanu PF Central Committee member Kenneth Musanhi.
Susan also mentioned Mnangagwa’s brother Patrick, JSC secretary Walter Chikwanha and one Hemmish.
She also most of these men are HIV positive.
The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) has advised stakeholders and practitioners in the cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) and the general public that NAMA legend Mr. Cont Mhlanga has been admitted to a health care facility in Bulawayo.
Cont Mdladla Mhlanga is a Zimbabwean playwright, actor and theatre director who also founded the Amakhosi Theatre Productions company in 1982.
Rodney Ruwende, National Arts Council of Zimbabwe, Communication and Marketing Manager says Mhlanga has been under constant and close medical supervision since Friday 22 July and is currently stable and responding well to treatment. In a statement published by Earground, Ruwende said:
The Mhlanga family is requesting members of the public to remain hopeful and keep him and the family in their prayers.
While, understandably, as international art and cultural icon Cont’s health condition raises a lot of interest, however, members of the public are encouraged to resist the temptation of raising unwarranted alarm over his health condition.
The Family spokesperson Miss Gcina Mhlanga, Fairtalk Communications and the NACZ will from now on be responsible for communicating any relevant information related to Mr. Mhlanga’s illness.
All other statements emanating from sources other than the ones mentioned above should not be regarded as the official position of the family or his close associates.
Meanwhile, the NACZ would like to urge players in the sector and the public to exercise restraint and desist from communicating private family matters on public platforms.
The NACZ implores practitioners not to abuse the social media space to communicate false and unverified information following the events of the past two days where players have been communicating about the health of NAMA legend Cont Mhlanga.
Members of the public should disregard any messages currently circulating on social media purporting to be representing his family and seeking financial assistance for his medical treatment.
The Mhlanga family is grateful for the words of encouragement and prayers and appreciates the love that has been shown by practitioners in the CCIs and members of the public during this period.
Cont Mhlanga established Amakhosi Cultural Center in 1982. The Center started off as a youth karate club and turned semi-professional in 1988. It created the first pilot center, the Amakhosi Performing Arts Workshop (APAW), which produced and toured with theater plays written and directed by Mhlanga.
In 1995 Amakhosi established the country’s first privately owned cultural center located within the boundaries of the townships, now popularly known as the Township Square Cultural Center. – Pindula News
By-Nhlanhla “Lux” Dlamini has parted ways with the controversial Operation Dudula movement over a difference of opinion on foreign nationals in South Africa.
The Times Live cites Dlamini saying he will now focus on his activities with Soweto Parliament and its programmes.
The split comes after the two organisations could not see eye to eye on immigration.
The difference of opinion stems from Operation Dudula wanting all foreigners to leave SA, while Soweto Parliament only wants illegal foreigners out.
In a joint statement, the organisations said no way forward could be found and they had agreed to part ways and work independently. Read the statement:
The two organisations have resolved to deal with these issues independently (under different brands) but in a complementary manner.
Most importantly, based on the workload of these community-based operations and campaigns, the parties have agreed to allow Nhlanhla Lux to focus exclusively on Soweto Parliament and its programmes.
Operation Dudula’s stance has been criticised by many, including politicians Julius Malema and Mmusi Maimane.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Malema told Podcast and Chill Dlamini that Operation Dudula’s stance was rooted in self-hate. He said:
Black people are not loved all over the world. And for a black person to hate another black person who is hated all over the world, what is that?
Criminals, let’s deal with them. I have no time for thugs. I do not tolerate thugs, but I am not going to beat up a person because he is dark and ugly in my eyes.
One SA Movement leader Maimane said the operation was a “dangerous distraction that solves nothing”. He said:
Operation Dudula is hating on fellow Africans and I have a problem with that.
He also criticised Dlamini saying he was not a revolutionary, “not a visionary, and your whole brand is built on hate. Your operation is a dangerous distraction that solves nothing.”
Previously, ANC Veterans’ League president Snuki Zikalala said Operation Dudula was “dangerous” and suggested it was exploiting the unemployed.
He said protesters must go to school and get skills instead of harassing foreign nationals.
By-Police have raided and arrested a driver of a truck carrying CCC party regalia from South Africa through the Beitbridge Border Post.
According to the Police, the truck driver, Chamunorwa Shonhiwa, is expected to appear in court soon, facing a smuggling charge.
It is reported that the vehicle was raided at the Chicago security checkpoint, some 12km along the Beitbridge to Harare highway.
Police officer commanding Beitbridge district, Chief Superintendent Tichaona Nyongo, confirmed the incident yesterday.
“The matter is still under investigation and we will give you further information at a later stage,” he said.
A source close to the investigations said Chamunorwa was found with 108 golf t-shirts branded with CCC political messages and logos.
The value of the goods is yet to be ascertained.
“During interrogation, the driver claimed he was given the political regalia by one man identified only as Magumise.
“The consignment was destined for Chivi under Masvingo province. However, upon getting to the border, the driver didn’t declare the goods as per standard practice,” said a security official.
MASVINGO – Helen McGhie Primary School head Sheila Deve, has appeared before a Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education disciplinary committee, for allegedly lifting an Early Childhood Development (ECD) teacher’s dress exposing her undergarments in public.
This allegedly happened during a scuffle between the two at the school last year.
The hearing took place at the Better Schools Programme Zimbabwe (BSPZ) Building in Mucheke on Tuesday last week.
Efforts to get a comment from Deve or her lawyer Martin Mureri of Matutu Mureri Legal Practitioners were futile.
Efforts to get a comment from Ishmael Chigaba, the District Schools Inspector, were futile as his phone was unreachable.
The Mirror could not immediately establish why the hearing took place after almost a year.
It is alleged that in October 2021, Deve got into an argument with an ECD teacher and allegedly pushed and shoved her and then lifted her dress exposing her undergarments in front of toddlers.
In the second incident, Deve confronted another teacher, and after several minutes of a heated altercation, Deve allegedly started shoving and pulling the teacher until other members of staff intervened.
A team of inspectors from Chigaba’s office was dispatched to the school and carried out investigations.
https://masvingomirror.com
Ngezi Platinum Stars have named an interim coach to replace Benjani Mwaruwari who was relieved of his duties on Monday.
Mwaruwari’s sacking comes after taking charge of thirteen games.
The former Manchester City striker, who replaced Rodwell Dhlakama in March, had a disastrous spell, winning just three games.
According to a statement from Ngezi Platinum Stars, the club’s board have appointed assistant coach Takesure Chiragwi as an interim coach.
Chiragwi will be assisted by Klifton Kadulira.
The statement reads: “Ngezi Platinum Stars Football Club would like to inform all its stakeholders that the Club has parted ways with head coach Benjani Mwaruwari by mutual agreement.
“This was Benjani’s first coaching assignment and both the club and the coach have agreed that it did not deliver the expected results hence the decision to seperate was in the best interest of the club.”
The statement adds: “The board has appointed Assistant Coach Takesure Chiragwi as the interim head coach assisted by Klifton Kadulira.”- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Lupane State University (LSU) has reportedly barred students from writing examinations over fee arrears.
Students who spoke on condition of anonymity told Southern Eye that the institution usually insists on full payment of fees before examinations.
“This is not the first time the university has threatened to bar students from writing exams due to non-payment of fees. They have said it before without taking action, but this time they made things tough for the students by making a follow-up on them. Those who failed to clear the arrears were barred from exam rooms,” a student said.
LSU Students Representative Council member Kuda Mnangagwa declined to comment on the matter, but university spokesperson Zwelithini Dlamini said the students had to clear their outstanding fees before starting another semester.
“The correct position is that the university is only barring unregistered students from writing the examinations. Students register at the beginning of the semester, which means they should have cleared fees for the previous semester,” he said. -Newsday
The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) has announced that the country’s population has increased by two million – from 13 million to 15 million – over the past decade.
ZIMSTA on Tuesday released the preliminary results of the 2022 Population and Housing Census.
The country conducted the 2022 Population and Housing Census in April.
According to the 2022 Population and Housing Census preliminary results, the country’s population had increased by 1.5 per cent from the 1.1 per cent that was recorded in 2012.
2022 population shows Zimbabwe has 600,000 fewer men than females.
Harare is the most populous province with 16 per cent and Bulawayo the least at 4.4 per cent. Below are the percentages:
Harare……………………16%
Manicaland…………..13.4%
Mash West…………..12.5%
Midlands………………11.9%
Mash East…………….11.4%
Masvingo…………….10.8%
Mash Central……….9.1%
Mat North……………5.5%
Mat South……………5%
Bulawayo…………….4.4%
Actual population figures by province:
Harare………………….2,427,209
Manicaland………….2,037,762
Mash West………….1,893,578
Midlands……………..1,811,908
Mash East……………1,731,181
Masvingo…………….1,638,539
Mash Central………1,384,891
Mat North……………827,626
Mat South……………760,345
Bulawayo………………665,940
Pindula News
State Media – CCC legislator Job Sikhala yesterday lost his latest bail bid after the court dismissed his application saying he was not a proper candidate to be released on bond because of his previous conduct including disregarding bail conditions imposed by the High Court on another charge.
Sikhala is accused of posting a video on social media where he made utterances likely to hinder police investigations into the killing of Moreblessing Ali in Nyatsime.
In a ruling read on his behalf by regional magistrate Mrs Feresi Chakanyuka, regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje noted that Sikhala disregarded the bail condition set by the High Court. Sikhala’s lawyers led by Ms Beatrice Mtetwa did not dispute that there was an existing order which barred Sikhala from addressing public gatherings and uttering words that are likely to incite the public to commit violence.
The High Court order also barred Sikhala from posting videos on social media sites that are likely to incite public violence.
“The court is convinced that there is a similar case against accused. He was granted bail by High Court and it is common cause that he was arrested on allegations of inciting public violence,” the magistrate said.
That bail order remained extant.
Mr Mambanje said the earlier and separate charge Sikhala is facing is related to the current charge he is charged with.
Sikhala had applied for bail saying he never posted the alleged videos on social media and also doubted the existence of these videos. He argued that in the absence of the videos, the State’s case was weak.
Mr Tafara Chirambira, prosecuting, had opposed the granting of bail to Sikhala saying he was likely to re-offend since he once breached a bail condition set by the High Court, which barred him from sending such videos.
He argued that the court was supposed to look into such conduct before granting Sikhala bail. “The court is allowed to deny bail where the accused has propensity to commit more offences,” Mr Chirambira said.
The State also led evidence from Detective Hardwork Muziti who told the court that Sikhala was likely to evade trial once granted bail.
He said Sikhala was also likely to interfere with investigations since police were yet to record statements from two witnesses and investigators were yet to receive a report from the police Cybercrime Unit.
The State opposed to granting of his bail after it had successfully placed him on remand when Mr Mambanje ruled that the State placed before the court all requisites to place him on remand in its application.
In its application, The State said that there was reasonable suspicion that Sikhala committed the offence and that the charges were recognisable at law.
Sikhala had challenged placement on remand arguing that there was an unnecessary splitting of charges as he was on remand on similar charges stemming from the same incident.
Sikhala is expected back in court on August 10 for his routine remand.- State Media
Veteran author, playwright, actor and director Cont Mhlanga was last Friday hospitalised and is under close medical supervision, the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) revealed yesterday.
His medical condition was not disclosed.
In a statement, NACZ communications and marketing manager, Rodney Ruwende said Mhlanga is stable and responding well to treatment.
“The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) would like to advise stakeholders and practitioners in the cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) and the general public that Nama legend Mr Cont Mhlanga has been admitted to a health care facility in Bulawayo.
“He has been under constant and close medical supervision since Friday, 22 July and is stable and responding well to treatment. The Mhlanga family is requesting members of the public to remain hopeful and keep him and the family in their prayers,” read the statement.
Ruwende asked the public to keep Mhlanga in their thoughts and prayers.
“The Mhlanga family is requesting members of the public to remain hopeful and keep him and the family in their prayers. While, understandably, as international art and cultural icon Cont’s health condition raises a lot of interest, however, members of the public are encouraged to resist the temptation of raising unwarranted alarm over his health condition.
“The Family spokesperson Miss Gcina Mhlanga, Fairtalk Communications and the NACZ will from now on be responsible for communicating any relevant information related to Mr Mhlanga’s illness. All other statements emanating from sources other than the ones mentioned above should not be regarded as the official position of the family or his close associates,” he said.
Ruwende urged members of the public to desist from raising unwarranted alarm over his health condition.
“Meanwhile, the NACZ would like to urge players in the sector and the public to exercise restraint and desist from communicating private family matters on public platforms. The NACZ implores practitioners not to abuse the social media space to communicate false and unverified information following the events of the past two days where players have been communicating about the health of Nama legend Cont Mhlanga.
“Members of the public should disregard any messages circulating on social media purporting to be representing his family and seeking financial assistance for his medical treatment. The Mhlanga family is grateful for the words of encouragement and prayers and appreciates the love that has been shown by practitioners in the CCIs and members of the public during this period,” he said. -Chronicle
Staff Writer
Controversial philanthropist and healthcare worker Susan Mutami has pointed out the Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa forced himself on her.
However, an analysis made by ZimEye.com shows Mutami is not completely innocent in the whole saga…
ANALYSIS | By Reason Wafawarova in Australia | Extra Territorial Jurisdiction
Let me start by saying I have not met, talked to, or communicated in any way with one Susan Vivian Mutami, a 34 year old Australian woman originally from Kwekwe, Zimbabwe.
I haven’t been on Facebook for the past two days, and I have had people asking me about my role if any, in the reported case where Ms Mutami is reported to have made a police report with Queensland Police Services regarding a case of alleged historical child sexual molestation or rape, dating back 19 years when Ms Mutami was 15.
The alleged perpetrator is the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.
Without getting much into the detail of the allegations, let me categorically state I have not played any role in influencing the direction of this case, apart from suggesting here on social media that victims of similar crimes perpetrated in countries where they can prove they can’t get a fair trial have an option to pursue extra territorial jurisdiction.
Essentially this is when a country in another jurisdiction decides to prosecute an accused person in another jurisdiction because it is satisfied the perpetrator may never face justice where the alleged crime was committed, or when the victim of the alleged crime is a citizen of the country opting to exercise extra territorial jurisdiction, or when the accused is a citizen who committed the alleged crimes abroad.
Chapter 4 of the Australian Constitution provides for instances where Australia will exercise its extraterritorial jurisdiction. So far only cases related to war crimes have been considered.
Section 98 of the Zimbabwe Constitution provides for immunity for a sitting president, meaning a sitting President is not obliged at law to respond to any civil or criminal charges relating to his personal life, not until he leaves office. This also will be taken into consideration.
In Ms Mutami’s case two of the options apply, given the social standing of the alleged perpetrator. She is a citizen, and the accused wields a lot of power in Zimbabwe.
Belgium once announced it had taken a decision to exercise its right to extraterritorial jurisdiction over allegations levelled against Israeli General Ariel Sharon, and they announced if he travelled to Belgium or through Belgium they would arrest him and put him on trial.
The US responded by threatening to pull out NATO Headquarters from Belgium if the threat was carried out.
A few countries threatened to do the same with George W Bush’s alleged war crimes in Iraq after the US President left office.
Ms Mutami reported her case to the police service of a state in Australia, not the Australian Federal Police.
Like any other case the police will assess the allegations, ask for evidence and decide whether or not to refer the case to Federal Police.
Federal Police will investigate as well, most likely contact the accused, and if there are grounds to go to trial, charges can or may be pressed against the accused.
The accused can be represented by lawyers in absentia or can attend court if they choose to.
If the accused ignores the court summons, trial may proceed in absentia.
I notice Ms Mutami has a traceable record of the alleged case on line, including several times she explicitly exonerated the accused of any wrongdoing, including with the media.
I also notice Ms Mutami has a colourful, if not dramatic traceable sexual history on line, involving at least 33 high profile men in Harare alone.
I was just wondering if there will be a list for Australian men. While I am certain about my innocence on this matter I have a feeling I will have to ascertain my non involvement when or if the list will come out.
I also note there were claims made by Ms Mutami that her son was fathered by a late Zimbabwean politician, and that someone was framed to be the biological father to cover up the responsibility of the late Foreign Minister.
I also note Ms Mutami has claimed in the past that she was scan proven pregnant with politician Temba Mliswa’s two baby twins, and the twins never really got to materialise. No explanation has been offered for the anomaly yet.
The police will most likely assess factuality, credibility, intention, motivation, and any other relevant aspects related to this matter.
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Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa’s CCC party has unveiled a new logo for party business.
In a statement on Tuesday morning, CCC said the new logo would appear on official party documents and correspondence.
According to President Chamisa, the logo is a sign of brilliance and hope.
“THE LOGO…New, Sunrise, Hope, Brilliance Balance, Excellence, Fresh, Clean, Clear, Solid, Love, & Oneness…CITIZENS AT THE CENTRE,” President Chamisa said in a brief statement.
CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift Ostallos Siziba said:
“This is our new logo.
Clear, Clean and Concise.
The sun shall rise again.
For our official party business and processes we use our official logo.
For elections and the ballot box we use an election symbol. “
“ANNOUNCEMENT: We wish to notify you of our official logos for party and election business. The one with a white background and yellow circle at the center is for party business while the one with the Change Champion in Chief’s image is our election symbol. Vote for Change,” CCC announced on Tuesday.
MASVINGO – Helen McGhie Primary School head Sheila Deve, has appeared before a Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education disciplinary committee, for allegedly lifting an Early Childhood Development (ECD) teacher’s dress exposing her undergarments in public.
This allegedly happened during a scuffle between the two at the school last year.
The hearing took place at the Better Schools Programme Zimbabwe (BSPZ) Building in Mucheke on Tuesday last week.
Efforts to get a comment from Deve or her lawyer Martin Mureri of Matutu Mureri Legal Practitioners were futile.
Efforts to get a comment from Ishmael Chigaba, the District Schools Inspector, were futile as his phone was unreachable.
The Mirror could not immediately establish why the hearing took place after almost a year.
It is alleged that in October 2021, Deve got into an argument with an ECD teacher and allegedly pushed and shoved her and then lifted her dress exposing her undergarments in front of toddlers.
In the second incident, Deve confronted another teacher, and after several minutes of a heated altercation, Deve allegedly started shoving and pulling the teacher until other members of staff intervened.
A team of inspectors from Chigaba’s office was dispatched to the school and carried out investigations.
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Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa’s CCC party has unveiled a new logo for party business.
In a statement on Tuesday morning, CCC said the new logo would appear on official party documents and correspondence.
According to President Chamisa, the logo is a sign of brilliance and hope.
“THE LOGO…New, Sunrise, Hope, Brilliance Balance, Excellence, Fresh, Clean, Clear, Solid, Love, & Oneness…CITIZENS AT THE CENTRE,” President Chamisa said in a brief statement.
CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift Ostallos Siziba said:
“This is our new logo.
Clear, Clean and Concise.
The sun shall rise again.
For our official party business and processes we use our official logo.
For elections and the ballot box we use an election symbol. “
“ANNOUNCEMENT: We wish to notify you of our official logos for party and election business. The one with a white background and yellow circle at the center is for party business while the one with the Change Champion in Chief’s image is our election symbol. Vote for Change,” CCC announced on Tuesday.
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Ads Network Zim Private Limited has launched a vibrant advertising platform known as ZimAdsense.
The company says the platform seeks to help advertisers and publishers in terms of boosting business via digital marketing tactics.
ZimAdsense has been crafted specifically for Zimbabwean advertisers and publishers.
WHO IS ZIMADSENSE?
ZimAdSense is a product that was developed by Ads Network Zim Private Limited (ANZ). Ads Network Zim is a registered online advertising media agency.
Their thrust is to help Zimbabwean businesses build brand awareness or visibility. This results in driving conversions for the much-needed revenue and profits. They do this through the use of ad banners. Essentially, advertisers can have their ad banners placed on strategic websites that are part of the Ads Network Zim network. ZimAdSense is a way for website owners to earn money from ad banner placements.
They use popular advertising formats such as footer ads, inner ads, section ads, and banner ads.
HOW TO GET STARTED AS AN ADVERTISER
You start by registering for an advertiser account. You simply follow the prompts and fill in all the relevant information.
Once you are done you will be redirected to your dashboard. You will then choose your preferred price plan.
For more information about Zimadsense signup here : https://zimadsense.co.zw/ref/43/
Facebook: https//www.facebook.com/Zimadsense/
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a call for people around the world to “do one thing” to prevent drowning.
As one of the leading causes of death globally for children and young people ages 1–24, and the third leading cause of injury-related deaths overall, drowning tragically claims more than 236 000 lives each year. To galvanize action and mark World Drowning Prevention Day, the Jet d’Eau in Geneva will be illuminated in blue this evening, accompanied by similar actions in other cities around the world.
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More than 90% of drowning deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, with children under the age of 5 being at highest risk. These deaths are frequently linked to daily, routine activities, such as bathing, collecting water for domestic use, travelling over water on boats or ferries, and fishing. The impacts of seasonal or extreme weather events – including monsoons – are also a frequent cause of drowning and these impacts are largely preventable through a number of interventions.
“Every year, around the world, hundreds of thousands of people drown. Most of these deaths are preventable through evidence-based, low-cost solutions,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Today, cities around the world are lighting up their monuments in blue light as a call to action for each of us to do our part to prevent drowning. Let’s put a stop to drowning.”
“Drowning is a global public health challenge, and at Bloomberg Philanthropies, we’re focused on implementing solutions to prevent it.
Today, we’re joining our partners around the world in recognizing World Drowning Prevention Day and taking action,” said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries. “In many cases, we know what works to prevent drowning. We’ve developed tools and guidance to help governments implement solutions – and if we do more together, we really can save thousands of lives.”
WHO recommends 6 evidence-based measures to prevent drowning, including installing barriers controlling access to water; training bystanders in safe rescue and resuscitation; teaching school-aged children basic swimming and water safety skills; providing supervised day care for children; setting and enforcing safe boating, shipping and ferry regulations; and improving flood risk management.
This year, the theme of World Drowning Prevention Day invites the global community to “do one thing” to prevent drowning. Examples of actions that can be taken are as follows:
Individuals can share drowning prevention and water safety advice with their families, friends and colleagues, sign up for swimming or water safety lessons, or support local drowning prevention charities and groups.
Groups can host public events to share water safety information, launch water safety campaigns, or commit to developing or delivering new drowning prevention programmes using recommended best practice interventions.
Governments can develop or announce new drowning prevention policies, strategies, legislation or investment, convene multisectoral roundtables or parliamentary discussions on drowning burden and solutions, and introduce or commit to supporting drowning prevention programming domestically or internationally.
Many countries in the world have committed to drowning prevention programmes.
Bangladesh has started a 3-year program to reduce drowning among children throughout the country. As part of the program, the government will take over the 2 500 daycares established and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies since 2012, and will expand the program by adding an additional 5 500 daycares to provide supervision to 200 000 children ages 1–5 years.
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Midlands Hotel has been temporarily closed by the Zimbabwe Republic Police after a dead body of an unknown man was found in a dysfunctional vehicle parked in the hotel’s parking area.
Midlands Provincial Police Spokesperson, Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the incident saying investigations are already underway, with all operations at the hotel suspended.
The Hotel is in Gweru Central Business District (CBD).- TellZim
NGEZI PLATINUM STARS FOOTBALL CLUB PARTS WAYS WITH HEAD COACH BENJANI MWARUWARI
Ngezi Platinum Stars Football Club would like to inform all its stakeholders that the Club has parted ways with Head Coach Benjani Mwaruwari by mutual agreement. This was Benjani’s first coaching assignment and both the club and the coach agreed that it did not deliver the expected results hence the decision to separate was in the best interest of the club.
NPS FC wishes Benjani all the best in his future endeavours.
Meanwhile, the Board has appointed Assistant Coach Takesure Chiragwi as the interim head coach assisted by Kifton Kadurira
By-James Gwati- President Emerson Mnangagwa’s rape accuser, Susan Mutami, has claimed that the Zimbabwean leader abused several other young girls in her eyes.
These young women who later became Zanu PF office bearers, Mutami claims Mnangagwa abused, include the late Melody Dziva and Annacencia Ndlovu.
Dziva died of cancer in December 2020 at the age of 35.
She was a Zanu PF Youth League proportional representation Member of the National Assembly.
Posting on Twitter Tuesday, Mutami said a lot more girls would come out:
abused Melody Dziva whilst she was a minor too. The day she came to show
her HIV positive results at the farm, that girl wept like a lil baby and as usual she was promised heaven on earth, a career, and protection, and all she needed to do was to shut up…
By-Leaders of Operation Dudula have been divided over a difference of opinion on foreign nationals in South Africa.
Nhlanhla “Lux” Dlamini, the leader of the xenophobic movement, left the organisation over this dispute.
The Times Live cites Dlamini saying he will now focus on his activities with Soweto Parliament and its programmes.
The split comes after the two organisations could not see eye to eye on immigration.
The difference of opinion stems from Operation Dudula wanting all foreigners to leave SA, while Soweto Parliament only wants illegal foreigners out.
In a joint statement, the organisations said no way forward could be found and they had agreed to part ways and work independently. Read the statement:
The two organisations have resolved to deal with these issues independently (under different brands) but in a complementary manner.
Most importantly, based on the workload of these community-based operations and campaigns, the parties have agreed to allow Nhlanhla Lux to focus exclusively on Soweto Parliament and its programmes.
Operation Dudula’s stance has been criticised by many, including politicians Julius Malema and Mmusi Maimane.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Malema told Podcast and Chill Dlamini that Operation Dudula’s stance was rooted in self-hate. He said:
Black people are not loved all over the world. And for a black person to hate another black person who is hated all over the world, what is that?
Criminals, let’s deal with them. I have no time for thugs. I do not tolerate thugs, but I am not going to beat up a person because he is dark and ugly in my eyes.
One SA Movement leader Maimane said the operation was a “dangerous distraction that solves nothing”. He said:
Operation Dudula is hating on fellow Africans and I have a problem with that.
He also criticised Dlamini saying he was not a revolutionary, “not a visionary, and your whole brand is built on hate. Your operation is a dangerous distraction that solves nothing.”
Previously, ANC Veterans’ League president Snuki Zikalala said Operation Dudula was “dangerous” and suggested it was exploiting the unemployed.
He said protesters must go to school and get skills instead of harassing foreign nationals.
By Staff Reporter- The courts have denied bail for the detained CCC deputy chairman, job Sikhala.
Sikhala was arrested last month in Nyatsime.
He was representing the family of CCC activity Moreblessing Ali who Zanu PF thugs murdered in Nyatsime.
Since then, Sikhla and his fellow MP Godfrey Sithole have been detained at Chikurubi prison.
On Tuesday, CCC posted on their Twitter account that the state was persecuting Sikhala.
CCC posted:
REAKING: Our MP
has been denied bail by the Regional Magistrate Mambanje. He’s facing trumped-up charges of obstructing or defeating the course of justice. He’s being persecuted for demanding justice for Ali who’s brutally murdered by a suspected Zanu PF member.
