By A Correspondent- Youths who want residential stands from Gweru City Council are allegedly being instructed by the ruling Zanu-PF to produce their party membership cards.
Information gathered by this publication shows that Zanu-PF youths from the Midlands applied for 500 stands and council allocated them the land five years ago.
Citizens’ Coalition for Change ward 10 councillor Charles Chikozho was mayor in 2017 when Zanu-PF reportedly applied for the land which it said was intended to empower youths through access to housing projects.
Several youths from the Midlands capital this week alleged that they were being asked to produce Zanu-PF membership cards whenever they ask about the residential stands.
Thousands of beneficiaries, including council employees, bought the stands that were availed in 2014. Three contracted companies however started servicing roads at the housing scheme a few weeks ago following years of failure to provide valid environmental impact assessments to the Environmental Management Agency. Some of the stands are on wetlands and other inhabitable land.
“The request for Zanu-PF cards intensified particularly prior to the 26 March Mkoba by-election. I went to enquire on the stands thinking they were for youth empowerment but was asked if l had a party card,” a youth who requested anonymity said.
Several other youths corroborated the story, saying Zanu-PF is demanding to see her membership card whenever she asks about the residential stands.
Attempts by The NewsHawks to find out from the then mayor Chikozho on whether Zanu-PF was allocated the stands in the first instance did not yield a clear picture as he was non-committal in his response.
“This question hasn’t been asked since l left office. What is the problem?” Chikozho quizzed this reporter.
Chikozho however later said: “Council didn’t allocate stands to any political parties.”
Zanu’s PF losing candidate in the 26 March by-elections, William Gondo, denied the allegations that the party was demanding Zanu-PF membership cards from youths who need residential stands.
“These are false allegations whoever is doing that is tarnishing the image of the revolutionary party,” he told The NewsHawks.
Critics have often accused the ruling party of vote buying ahead of next year’s general elections, especially through the partisan parcelling out of land, mine claims, money and income-generating projects. Zanu-PF however argues the move is meant to economically empower the masses.
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By- The family of Joyce Tandi from Waterfalls, who died in a Passion Java hit-and-run convoy, said they were not going to follow up on the case.
The family said they would neither pursue the legal route because it feels the country’s justice system is compromised.
According to CCTV footage of the last moments of Joyce’s life, the teenager visiting her mother’s sister in Hatfield tried to back-step in the middle of the busy Seke Road after realising that she could not cross.
She didn’t notice an oncoming car in another lane and was hit and thrown about 30 metres away. She died on the spot.
According to the video, the car that hit Joyce was speeding and did not stop immediately.
An expert traffic police officer told The Standard that the car that hit the teenager was cruising at between 140 – 160 kilometres per hour. The speed limit for the area is 60km per hour.
Java later issued a statement saying he was not at the scene of the accident and his driver, Courage Gwashira (32), claims that he was driving the vehicle.
Joyce’s father Tangai Tandi (57), said his daughter was hit at 12:16 PM and the family only discovered around 1 PM the next day that she had died. He said:
After my daughter was hit, the driver did not stop immediately. He later returned after a minute and he came with another car accompanying them. I feel Gwashira is just a sacrificial lamb, Passion was driving that car.
… I do not stay here in Zimbabwe, I work in Zambia. Her mother searched for her the whole day.
The following day, that is when she was advised to visit the Chitungwiza General Hospital mortuary, imagine the trauma of identifying your daughter’s lifeless body. She is still in pain.
Tandi dismissed social media rumours that Joyce was pregnant. He said:
There were two accidents on the day in question. A different car hit a pregnant woman who also died just a few metres from the spot where my daughter was hit.
She was God-fearing and a devout Christian even the post-mortem confirmed that she was not pregnant.
The Tandi family also revealed that neither Gwashira nor Java contributed anything towards the funeral expenses. Said, Tandi:
They did not even come here to pay condolences. The only time I met my daughter’s killer was at a police station where he pledged to pay 10 cows as compensation. Since then, I have never spoken to them.
Tandi said he was not going to rest until he found closure but at the same time, he doesn’t believe Zimbabwe’s justice system will help the family. He said:
I know Passion is rich and he can easily influence the outcome of a court case. If the state wants to press charges, let it be.
By-Zanu PF President Emerson Mnangagwa has been accused of greediness after reneging on an alleged earlier agreement with his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, to serve a single presidential term before handing over power.
Jim Kunaka, the leader of a Zanu PF group called Zanu PF Original, told NewZimbabwe on Saturday that Mnangagwa was no longer serving the party’s interests.
Kunaka also claimed that Mnangagwa had a gentleman’s agreement with Chiwenga to pass on the baton after serving one term. He said:
If they agreed with Gen Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga that he will hand over power to lead after five years, what makes him change?
He must honour his promise to Chiwenga… There is no need to go to Congress and say ‘2023 ED Pfeee’ for what?
Kunaka said the Zanu PF Lacoste faction has given birth to online activists and shadowy organisations such as Varakashi, Young Women4ED, Men BelievED, MaHwindi for ED, among others.
In 2014, Kunaka and other senior Zanu PF officials were expelled from the ruling party for fomenting factionalism.
During his time in Zanu PF, he was allegedly linked with Chipangano, a terror gang based in Mbare, Harare.
By A Correspondent- Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga recently took and introduced his new wife Miniyothabo Baloyi (donning white hat and mask), who is a colonel and his junior in the military ranks, to his extended family in Wedza during a recent birthday event for his aunt.
This follows Chiwenga’s acrimonious divorce with Marry Mubaiwa in 2019.
By- President Emerson Mnangagwa Saturday attended the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church annual Passover in a move meant to solicit the church’s votes in the next year’s elections.
Mnangagwa also said repeated Zanu PF attacks on the opposition.
“The unity of purpose you have displayed here should continue. We want peace and unity to prevail in the country. We should take a leaf from the church and ensure that we work together and develop our country. We will never allow detractors to fan and promote violence,” he said.
The Passover gathering was special to Johanne Marange Church members as it was presided over by the youthful new leader, High Priest Nimrod Taguta.
He took over the reins in May following his father’s death, High Priest Noah Taguta.
Mnangagwa visited the Taguta family in May to pay his condolences and promised to return for the church’s annual Passover gathering.
“I was shocked and saddened by the death of my close friend, St Noah Taguta. When I received news of his death, I could not believe it as we had met the previous month. He was in the company of his son, the new High Priest. Little did I know that he was introducing me to the new leader of this church,” he said.
“Despite his youthfulness, High Priest Nimrod has shown great leadership qualities as evidenced by successfully organising this year’s annual Passover gathering, which is oversubscribed. I have never addressed such a big crowd and I am at a loss for words.”
He pledged to continue assisting the church in constructing more schools.
“The late High Priest Noah Taguta was on a crusade of constructing schools and the new leader has also promised to continue with his legacy. As Government, we will continue supporting the church in this endeavour. We will also avail computers to the schools.”
Mnangagwa was accompanied by Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri; Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Nokuthula Matsikenyere; Transport and Infrastructural Development Deputy Minister Mike Madiro; Youth, Sport and Arts Deputy Minister Tino Machakaire and Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr Johannes Tomana.
By- The father of Joyce Tandi from Waterfalls, who died in a Passion Java hit-and-run convoy, claimed that the controversial prophet was the one driving the car that killed his daughter.
He said they would not pursue the legal route because it feels the country’s justice system is compromised.
According to CCTV footage of the last moments of Joyce’s life, the teenager visiting her mother’s sister in Hatfield tried to back-step in the middle of the busy Seke Road after realising that she could not cross.
She didn’t notice an oncoming car in another lane and was hit and thrown about 30 metres away. She died on the spot.
According to the video, the car that hit Joyce was speeding and did not stop immediately.
An expert traffic police officer told The Standard that the car that hit the teenager was cruising at between 140 – 160 kilometres per hour. The speed limit for the area is 60km per hour.
Java later issued a statement saying he was not at the scene of the accident and his driver, Courage Gwashira (32), claims that he was driving the vehicle.
Joyce’s father Tangai Tandi (57), said his daughter was hit at 12:16 PM and the family only discovered around 1 PM the next day that she had died. He said:
After my daughter was hit, the driver did not stop immediately. He later returned after a minute and he came with another car accompanying them. I feel Gwashira is just a sacrificial lamb, Passion was driving that car.
… I do not stay here in Zimbabwe, I work in Zambia. Her mother searched for her the whole day.
The following day, that is when she was advised to visit the Chitungwiza General Hospital mortuary, imagine the trauma of identifying your daughter’s lifeless body. She is still in pain.
Tandi dismissed social media rumours that Joyce was pregnant. He said:
There were two accidents on the day in question. A different car hit a pregnant woman who also died just a few metres from the spot where my daughter was hit.
She was God-fearing and a devout Christian even the post-mortem confirmed that she was not pregnant.
The Tandi family also revealed that neither Gwashira nor Java contributed anything towards the funeral expenses. Said, Tandi:
They did not even come here to pay condolences. The only time I met my daughter’s killer was at a police station where he pledged to pay 10 cows as compensation. Since then, I have never spoken to them.
Tandi said he was not going to rest until he found closure but at the same time, he doesn’t believe Zimbabwe’s justice system will help the family. He said:
I know Passion is rich and he can easily influence the outcome of a court case. If the state wants to press charges, let it be.
By-Obert Mpofu, the Zanu PF Secretary for Administration, has finally vacated Esidakeni Farm he occupied in November last year after the Supreme Court ruled that his occupancy was illegal.
Mpofu and his wife seized the farm located in Nyamandlovu. They forced out the owners, among them prominent human rights advocate Siphosami Malunga, who is the son of independence war hero Sydney Malunga.
On 11 July 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that Mpofu’s “brazen invasion” was illegal.
The Esidakeni Estate owners’ lawyers gave Mpofu three days to vacate the property or risk being driven out by the messenger of court.
Malunga co-owns the farm alongside Charles Moyo and Zephaniah Dhlamini, the latter a well-known scientist from the National University of Science and Technology.
Malunga confirmed on Thursday that they were back on the farm and taking stock of the loss caused by Mpofu’s invasion. He said:
We’re back on the farm. We will now take stock of the loss and damage. The rule of law must always prevail.
Mpofu grabbed the 554-hectare farm, arguing that he had been allocated 145 hectares of it by the lands minister.
He then planted corn, but the maize crop failed to produce a yield, apparently due to excessive water and neglect.
Mpofu’s brother, Mbonisi, was the resident occupier of the farm until the Supreme Court ruling.
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Premiership giants Highlanders suffered a morale deflating 2-1 defeat away to Zimbabwe prisons side Whawha in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League clash played at Ascot Stadium this Saturday.
Highlanders fell to a double strike by Albert Matewu who scored 14 minutes into play and doubled his account after 38 minutes.
The visitors got their consolation goal through Lynoth Chikuhwa on the stroke of half time.
The defeat is the first in the team’s last four matches under new coach Baltemar Brito who was brought into the Bosso dugout during the half season break to rescue what seemed like a faltering campaign by the Bulawayo giants’ under sacked coach Mandla ‘Lulu’ Mpofu.
In other Match Day 21 encounters played in different centres countrywide, Ngezi Platinum and Caps United shared the spoils in a 2-2 draw while ZPC Kariba were 1-0 victors over Cranborne Bullets at Nyamhunga.
Bulawayo City edged Tenax by a goal to nil while Harare City also posted a 1-0 defeat of visiting Triangle United.
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By A Correspondent| Controversial former Sunday Mail Editor, Edmund Kudzai has declared war on opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa, accusing him of making gay slurs against him using his supporters.
Posting on Twitter, Edmund Kudzai who is believed to be the face behind the Baba Jukwa character said has severed ties with CCC and will now fight back the backlash he is facing since his war against Fadzai Mahere began.
The use of gay slurs by Chamisa via his supporters has forced me reconsider my conciliatory position. They are uncivilised hooligans undeserving of mercy; instead, must be met with full brutality. This is what they gave me and I will return the favour, but with the truth.
— Edmund Kudzayi (@EdmundKudzayi) July 16, 2022
HARARE East lawmaker and former Finance minister, Tendai Biti, has confronted Local Government minister, July Moyo, on the continued disbursement of devolution funds in local councils without any legislation in place.
During a question and answer session in Parliament Wednesday, Biti said Moyo was abusing local authority funds without a law in place on how to govern and disburse local council money.
The lawmaker also took Moyo’s deputy to task, noting that she was not different.
“Local Government ministry keeps on referring to the use of devolution funds, but the fundamental issue is that there is no devolution law authorising the disbursement of those funds. “So you now have minister July Moyo on his own, willy-nilly now distributing these funds at his own discretion, thereby opening up for corruption and abuse. Why is the Ministry distributing devolution funds in the absence of a legal framework?” Biti said.
Deputy Local Government minister, Marian Chombo, however, insisted that the Constitution allows for a percentage to fund local councils through the devolution funds.
“I think that question has been brought up in this august House so many times. If you look at section 301, it is a constitutional requirement that we provide 5% so that gives us the power to do such,” Chombo said amid jeering from the left bench.
Biti disagreed: “Section 301 says an Act of Parliament must provide for equitable allocation of grants between provincial and metropolitan councils and local authorities. Therefore, you cannot distribute the funds without an Act of Parliament, so why are they doing that without an Act of Parliament?”
But Chombo blamed Parliament, saying it had approved the disbursements of the devolution funds without a law.
“I think when we were approving the budget, it is the same House that approved the disbursement of the devolution funds,” said Chombo.
Norton MP, Temba Mliswa, then attacked the two ministers, accusing them of corruption.
Mliswa also said the deputy minister was as corrupt as her ex-husband, Ignatius Chombo.
“She comes, she says that here and she still steals. Ishavi ripi iroro? We really do not want the minister to think that we are so ignorant to the fact that you are preoccupied with looting devolution money,” said Mliswa.
“We are not preoccupied with looting. We are preoccupied in making sure the law works. This House passes the law and it is an insult for her to come to us all the time disregarding the law, talking about the very same Act which talks about an enabling Act which must be there to pass money. I do not know what needs to be done for you to understand that,” Mliswa warned Chombo.
He added, “You have got very cute short hair and I would expect fresh air to be permeating through your brain so that you do not make us stupid, because we cannot come here and you are blindly defending Moyo.
“Mr. Speaker, we are tired of this. The best thing is, you must tell her to sit down and we must be asking her when the Act is coming to Parliament. This must be requested.
“We ushered the Second Republic into power so that His Excellency can take the country forward, but you are busy throwing spanners in the works through looting. Are you not ashamed of yourselves? Your husband, Chombo used to steal, your current Minister is also stealing. Chombo was a better thief but you are stealing in broad daylight.”.
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An Epistle From Chikurubi Maximum Prison
Dear Zimbabweans,
We would like to thank you all dear Zimbabweans for the demonstration of love, care and unbridled concern for the pain we are going through. We feel your love even when we are under incarceration here at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
We are pleased that besides members of our own political party CCC, all Zimbabweans of different political, social and ideological persuasion are standing with us.
Although I am going through difficult moments at present with the escalated persecution of my own and my other colleagues here in prison with me, be grateful beloved compatriots that we are all in high spirits.
I went through an unexplainable illness, I am on the road to recovery, please pray for us.
Standing for the weak and downtrodden in society as I did for Moreblessing Ali and many others is my God’s is calling.
My reward is in heaven, I do it selflessly, and sometimes I end up asking myself why my conscience is always triggered to stand for the predicament of other people. I was just born like that by my mother and father.
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa has urged jailed CCC members and human rights activists to remain strong following incessant persecution by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration.
President Chamisa also encouraged the nation to vote in numbers.
“CITIZENS SOLIDARITY & SUPPORT TO OUR CHANGE CHAMPIONS.
We don’t agonize.We organize.We WIN! Free them all. #FakaPressure,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
CCC Namibia has also called for solidarity with Hon Job Sikhala, Hon Godfrey Sithole and jailed party members.
“Citizens in Namibia embrace the Job Saro Wiwa Day on 2 August 2022.
We urge all social democrats across the globe to demand the immediate and unconditional release of Wiwa, Godfrey Sithole, and all prisoners of conscience. #FreeWiwa”
Tinashe Sambiri| Jailed CCC deputy chairperson and MP, Hon Job Sikhala says he is a man of great character and strength despite relentless persecution by the Zanu PF regime.
Hon Sikhala and Hon Godfrey Sithole were arrested for firmly supporting the Ali family following the gruesome murder of Moreblessing.
See below Hon Sikhala’s epistle from Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
An Epistle From Chikurubi Maximum Prison
Dear Zimbabweans,
We would like to thank you all dear Zimbabweans for the demonstration of love, care and unbridled concern for the pain we are going through. We feel your love even when we are under incarceration here at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
We are pleased that besides members of our own political party CCC, all Zimbabweans of different political, social and ideological persuasion are standing with us.
Although I am going through difficult moments at present with the escalated persecution of my own and my other colleagues here in prison with me, be grateful beloved compatriots that we are all in high spirits.
I went through an unexplainable illness, I am on the road to recovery, please pray for us.
Standing for the weak and downtrodden in society as I did for Moreblessing Ali and many others is my God’s is calling.
My reward is in heaven, I do it selflessly, and sometimes I end up asking myself why my conscience is always triggered to stand for the predicament of other people. I was just born like that by my mother and father.
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By Gift Ostallos Siziba
South Africa has created a border guard that will make sure no foreigner will illegally enter into South Africa.
Our people have been reduced to second class citizens and a standing joke everywhere.
Zimbabweans migrate to South Africa in search of greener pastures because of the economic crisis here at home.
More than a million Zimbabweans are in South Africa.
Talking to most of them you can tell they want to come back home- “it’s not easy out here” they say but home is worse.
They’re are subjected to harassment, arrests, paid meager wages and ill-treated all because most of them have no papers to stay there.
We have to and we must fix our country!
This will require the effort of every Citizen,
To our compatriots in South Africa, we urge you to do this one patriotic and most important duty come 2023.
Come back home and we vote the problem causer out!
That’s the only way we can restore or dignity as Zimbabweans.
Tinashe Sambiri| Jailed CCC deputy chairperson and MP, Hon Job Sikhala says he is a man of great character and strength despite relentless persecution by the Zanu PF regime.
Hon Sikhala and Hon Godfrey Sithole were arrested for firmly supporting the Ali family following the gruesome murder of Moreblessing.
See below Hon Sikhala’s epistle from Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
An Epistle From Chikurubi Maximum Prison
Dear Zimbabweans,
We would like to thank you all dear Zimbabweans for the demonstration of love, care and unbridled concern for the pain we are going through. We feel your love even when we are under incarceration here at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
We are pleased that besides members of our own political party CCC, all Zimbabweans of different political, social and ideological persuasion are standing with us.
Although I am going through difficult moments at present with the escalated persecution of my own and my other colleagues here in prison with me, be grateful beloved compatriots that we are all in high spirits.
I went through an unexplainable illness, I am on the road to recovery, please pray for us.
Standing for the weak and downtrodden in society as I did for Moreblessing Ali and many others is my God’s is calling.
My reward is in heaven, I do it selflessly, and sometimes I end up asking myself why my conscience is always triggered to stand for the predicament of other people. I was just born like that by my mother and father.
Also watch video:
The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the political declaration to be adopted by Member States during the High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on Global Road Safety.
It commits to cut road traffic deaths and injuries by 50% by 2030, a milestone for road safety and sustainable mobility.
The meeting takes place on 30 June – 1 July 2022 under the theme “The 2030 horizon for road safety: securing a decade of action and delivery”.
Road safety affects everyone. We step from our homes every day onto roads that take us to our jobs, schools and to meet our vital daily needs.
Yet our transport systems remain far too dangerous. No death should be acceptable on our roads. The future of mobility should promote health and well-being, protect the environment and benefit all,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO. “It will require transformative leadership from the highest levels of government to act on the Political Declaration to make that vision a reality.”
Worldwide, road crashes currently kill around 1.3 million people each year – more than 2 every minute, and more than 90% occur in low- and middle-income countries. Crashes are the biggest killer of children and young people globally.
More than 50 million people have died on the world’s roads since the invention of the automobile, more than the number of deaths in the First World War or in some of the worst global epidemics.
WHO is the lead agency for road safety in the United Nations and supported the President of the UN General Assembly in preparing this High-Level Meeting in collaboration with other UN agencies.
Through the declaration governments from around the world commit to provide leadership and coordination at the highest level of government to ensure all parts of the society are included to act on road safety and commit to boost policies and actions to reduce deaths and injuries. The declaration calls for the development and funding of national and local plans with clear targets and funding.
“Road traffic deaths upend countless lives and cost countries around 3% of GDP each year,” notes Dr Etienne Krug, Director of the Department for Social Determinants of Health, WHO. “This is an unacceptable price to pay for mobility. Putting safety at the heart of our mobility systems is an urgent health, economic and moral imperative. Let’s work together to scale up what works, save lives and build streets for life.”
In September 2020, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to proclaim the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030. WHO and the UN regional commissions, in cooperation with other partners in the UN Road Safety Collaboration, have developed a Global Plan for the Decade of Action, which was released in October 2021.
The plan calls for continued improvements in the design of roads and vehicles, enhancement of laws and law enforcement, and provision of timely, life-saving emergency care for the injured. In addition, it promotes healthy and environmentally sound modes of transport.
It also highlights that responsibility for road safety stretches far beyond health and transport. Urban planners and engineers must prioritize safety as a core value in all transport infrastructure while businesses can influence and contribute to strengthening road safety by applying safety-first principles to their entire value chains.
Countries and cities guided by the plan are seeing dramatic reductions in deaths. For example, the Colombian capital of Bogota halved deaths over 10 years through a set of integrated actions, including wide-ranging technical improvements and regulatory reforms that were driven by strong leadership.
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All roads will lead to the National Sports Stadium this Sunday, for what should be a cracker.
Harare giants Dynamos host high-flying FC Platinum in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League.
Tonderai Ndiraya’s charges have won only one of their last seven matches, a setback which has resulted in them losing further ground in the title race.
Some DeMbare fans are now questioning if Ndiraya is really the man capable of ending their 7-year wait for the league title.
DeMbare have not only struggled to get results, the kind of football they are playing lacks the flare associated with the culture of the club, some fans argue.
On Sunday, they face a FC Platinum firing from all cylinders.
Norman Mapeza’s troops have won their last seven matches and and are five points clear of second-placed Chicken Inn.
Ndiraya believes a win over the Platinum miners is an achievable task and will be a huge confidence booster going forward.
“I don’t know the right term to describe that game, but it’s a big game in the sense that FC Platinum have been on a roll and we have not been consistent in terms of getting results. But it’s a new game altogether for us and we would really want to do well,” he told the media yesterday.
The former Warriors assistant coach says the mouthwatering clash is an opportunity for his charges to correct their past mistakes.
“It’s a game we want to use to correct our past mistakes, but the question is: Would we really want to correct mistakes against a team like FC Platinum? The answer would be: Why not?
“This is an opportunity for us to correct those mistakes and make sure that we take off and consistently move forward as a team. We are looking forward to the match and we have been preparing well,” added Ndiraya. – Soccer24 Zimbabwe
By A Correspondent- A 38 year old woman from Mahatshula North suburb, Bulawayo, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for making a false rape claim against her husband.
Sipho Majahana, also known as Zanele Moyo, fabricated the rape allegation against her 52-year-old husband, Doswell Mupundu, to spite him after he had assaulted her.
Majahana opened a docket claiming that her husband had raped their nine-year-old daughter.
She appeared before Bulawayo provincial magistrate Gamuchirai Gore on Tuesday facing charges of defeating the course of Justice.
Majahana was convicted on her own plea of guilty and was sentenced to 12 months in prison.
However, eight months were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour and the remaining four months were also suspended on condition that she performs 140 hours of community service at Queens Park Police Camp.
Prosecuting, Sehliselo Khumalo said that on 19 March 2022, Majahana made a false report to the police alleging that her husband, Mupundu had raped their daughter.
On April 29, Majahana and her minor daughter went to trial and were separately interviewed by regional prosecutor Patience Sibanda who had been assigned to handle Mupundu’s alleged rape case.
During the interview, the child revealed that she was never raped, but was instead persuaded by her mother to lie against her father.
When Majahana was cross-examined, she stated that she had lied to her sister, Lucy Masuku that Mupundu raped the child.
She said she hoped that Masuku and her friends would gang up and beat up her husband for assaulting her.
Majahana later deposited an affidavit saying she had made a false report about the rape case.
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By A Correspondent- At least 135 residential, industrial and commercial properties built near the Mbudzi roundabout in Harare are set to be demolished to pave way for the construction of 14 bridges and bridge-like structures at the new traffic interchange.
Construction at the site has already started.
The Government has engaged three valuers, one of them from the Public Works, while two others are independent ones, to carry out the assessment of those affected.
The Herald reports that those affected will get full compensation from the Government.
The Mbudzi roundabout is at the intersection of Simon Mazorodze, Chitungwiza and High Glen roads that feed traffic from western Chitungwiza and many old and new suburbs into Harare city centre, as well as the heavy national and regional traffic on the Harare-Masvingo Highway.
In an interview, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development’s permanent secretary Engineer Kudzanai Chinyanga said they were happy with the progress being conducted at the Mbudzi traffic interchange by the contractor, Tefoma Group. He said:
So far the last time we were here we were talking about this bridge which is bridge number two. Bridge number two is the one which carries traffic towards High Glen, Glen Norah and the like.
So far on assessment of the project, we are excited and hoping that the contractor is keeping the progress. However, the drawback is that it has taken us more than we anticipated to conclude the compensation issues which are still ongoing
We have completed the valuation of all affected properties. We want to ensure that each and every affected citizen is not disadvantaged at all and that they are paid a fair compensation.
We have one group of affected citizens with title deeds, one group of citizens who are on leases.
So we will deal with them separately. Those who are on leases are mainly on the Hopely side.
There is a plan to get land quickly, put up some core houses for them and then move them. We will not leave anybody without shelter and this we are putting up arrangements to ensure that once we conclude with them, we agree with them, we move them and make sure that everyone is accommodated.
Eng Chinyanga said those with title deeds, the Government was considering two options with one of them being for them to identify properties of their choice of equivalent value and then Government pays.
He said in total, there were 14 bridges that were to be constructed at the interchange and out of these, five were already under construction.
Chinyanga added that when constructors start working on the main bridge, the junction will be closed completely.
By A Correspondent- Legislators here have accused the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) and the government of insincerity regarding the methods of payment for public examination fees.
The deadline for the payment of November public examination fees was set for 31 July.
ZIMSEC pegged the exam fees in US dollars with an option for parents to pay in the local currency.
However, the examination body has reportedly requested school heads to take foreign currency as the Zimdollar is volatile.
Speaking about the issue of public examinations in the National Assembly recently, Bikita East legislator, Johnson Madhuku (ZANU PF), said:
I rise on an issue of national interest and this concerns the issue of examination fees for the O level and A level students for the 2022 examination.
I remember a few weeks ago we were presented with a statement from the Deputy Minister of Primary and Secondary Education whereby he promised that the Ministry was looking into the issue with a view to revising downwards the fees charged to these students.
We were very much worried that the fees were too high and were going to disadvantage some students by failing to pay the examination fees.
We also raised the issue that the examination fees were pegged in USD as well as in the ZWL$.
However, what is surprising is that the deadline for the payment of these examination fees is supposed to be the end of this month but we have seen and heard reports from schools whose headmasters have been called for meetings and have been instructed that the candidates have to pay in the USD.
This is disturbing because the Ministry is not being sincere.
Now, the heads have been instructed that they have to accept fees in USD for the simple reason that if the fees are paid in the ZWL$ now, at the time of remitting the money to ZIMSEC it would have lost value because of the high inflation.
Therefore, we feel this is very unfair, not only to the prospective candidates but even to the parents also. A lot of these parents, especially in rural areas, do not earn USD.
Madhuku demanded that the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Evelyn Ndlovu should return to the Parliament and explain why the government has changed goalposts.
-CITE
By Nomusa Garikai- “These power cuts are already piling more costs in some hospitals such as Ingutsheni and Ekusileni Hospital that now have to rely on generators, yet fuel prices have been going up,” complained Bulawayo provincial medical director, Marphios Siamuchembu, in response to the now all familiar ZESA power cuts.
“The hospitals cannot do anything about load shedding and fuel prices but the government should just make sure hospitals are exempt from load shedding, or ensure that they have adequate fuel for back-up if they can’t be exempt.”
ZESA has been forced to switch off customers and ration supply because it is not generating enough to meet demand.
The power generating capacity the nation inherited from the white regime in 1980 is all there is.
Indeed, the power generation capacity has even dropped over the years as many of the generators are either unreliable due to age and or poor maintenance.
The Zanu PF government has failed to invest to meet the growing nation’s electricity power needs; any altogether familiar story.
Money that should have been spend building the country’s power generation capacity and other basic needs was squandered on such luxuries as the Blue Roof and extravagant lifestyles for the ruling elite. Mugabe’s Blue Roof mansion costed US$ 4 billion plus, enough to build, equip and commission Batoka Gorge Hydro – a second Kariba Hydro to the ordinary people.
The white colonial government would have commissioned Batoka Gorge Hydro in the 1970s if it was not for the civil war. The Mugabe regime should have built the Dam by the late 1980s if it was not for the corruption and mismanagement.
Think of the accumulated economic benefits to the whole nation of a second Kariba Dam pumping 600MW plus 24/7 for the last 30 years! Instead, the nation got the Blue Roof mansion which, like the rest Mugabe’s many of selfish projects is itself in any advanced stage of rot and decay.
And the nation is paying dearly for the criminal waste of money and opportunity. The chickens are now home to roost!
Director Siamuchembu is asking for hospitals to be exempt from ZESA load shedding as if hospitals can ever get all their economic needs untouched by the economic meltdown affecting the rest in the country.
No doubt, he is sold body and soul on President Mnangagwa’s Vision 2030, Zimbabwe attaining upper middle-income status.
A mirage since all evidence points to Zimbabwe sinking deeper and deeper into economic despair.
Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and lawless thugs who have rigged elections to stay in power.
It is near impossible to do business in such a corrupt and lawless country. And as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state, there will be no hope of meaningful economic recovery. None!
It is sad that intellectual like Dr Siamuchembu to bury their heads in the sand and ignoring the economic meltdown and human tragedy in the country caused by the decades of Zanu PF gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and rank lawless.
The nation has ignored the problem of Zanu PF misrule for decades and the nation has paid dearly for it in cash, lost opportunities and in human suffering and many lives lost unnecessarily. Enough is enough!
Forget asking for hospitals being exempt from ZESA load shedding, it is foolish asking for something that is not even there.
We, all Zimbabweans without exception, must demand democratic reforms and free and fair elections as the only way to end this curse of pariah state.
If anyone was ever going to hold the belligerent, pompous and tyrannical Robert Mugabe to respect the freedoms and rights of the ordinary citizens in independent Zimbabwe, then that could only be intelligentsia.
Fortunately for Zimbabwe, in 1980 the country had a sizeable number of very well-educated blacks. Unfortunately, they failed the nation in the principal task of restraining the arrogant Mugabe to keep him on the narrow and straight path.
Mugabe has never had any problems recruiting professional men and women to do his dirty bidding to establish and retain the de facto one-party Zanu PF dictatorship. Many joined out of the spirit of “if you cannot beat them, join!” Other just went along to get along.
Even those Zimbabwean intellectuals who have join the opposition, they too have not escaped Mugabe’s corrupting influence.
When it came to the critical task of implementing the democratic reforms, for example, even the likes of David Coltart and Tendai Biti failed to submit even one reform proposal in five years of the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC people have learned to enjoy the trapping of power; they will never rock the boat!) boasted the Zanu PF intellectuals when asked why MDC were not implementing any reforms.
They were smart enough to know what Mugabe was playing at; they too had fallen for the same honeypot trap and never rocked the boat.
Today, with the country’s economy in total ruins, the political system in paralysis (both Zanu PF and the opposition has corrupt and incompetent thugs with no clue how to get the nation out of this mess), millions living in abject poverty and the whole nation standing at the very edge of the abyss; it is for the intelligentsia to snap out of sloth like slumber and stop the nation walking over the edge.
If anyone can save Zimbabwe from this man-made hell-on-earth we are in, it is the intellectuals, if only they will finally wake up now before it is too late!
“Hospitals must be exempt from ZESA load shedding!” Of course, everyone knows that hospitals provide critical and essential, life and death, service but if you’re not generating enough to meet essential the load then even hospitals will be switched off.
The very fact that even hospitals re being switched off underlines to sorry state of the nation’s power supply industry.
The decay and rot is not just in the power industry, it is everywhere – people like Director Siamuchembu must finally wake up and see the tragic mess we in!
By A Correspondent- A Harare Magistrates Court delivered a ruling in a case in which musician Stunner was accused of assaulting his wife Dyonne Tafirenyika.
The ruling was handed down on Friday after a full trial in which Stunner denied ever laying a finger on his wife.
Stunner was found not guilty of assault. He was acquitted of all charges by Harare magistrate Evelyn Mashayakure.
Magistrate Mashayakure ruled that Dyonne Tafirenyika’s evidence to support her claim that she was assaulted by Stunner was weak to an extent that a reasonable court would not convict the musician.
Stunner allegedly had a misunderstanding with his wife after she refused to give him her mobile phone.
It was the State’s case that he went on to slap her before forcibly removing her artificial nails.
Stunner pleaded not guilty to the charge.
All roads will lead to the National Sports Stadium this Sunday, for what should be a cracker.
Harare giants Dynamos host high-flying FC Platinum in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League.
Tonderai Ndiraya’s charges have won only one of their last seven matches, a setback which has resulted in them losing further ground in the title race.
Some DeMbare fans are now questioning if Ndiraya is really the man capable of ending their 7-year wait for the league title.
DeMbare have not only struggled to get results, the kind of football they are playing lacks the flare associated with the culture of the club, some fans argue.
On Sunday, they face a FC Platinum firing from all cylinders.
Norman Mapeza’s troops have won their last seven matches and and are five points clear of second-placed Chicken Inn.
Ndiraya believes a win over the Platinum miners is an achievable task and will be a huge confidence booster going forward.
“I don’t know the right term to describe that game, but it’s a big game in the sense that FC Platinum have been on a roll and we have not been consistent in terms of getting results. But it’s a new game altogether for us and we would really want to do well,” he told the media yesterday.
The former Warriors assistant coach says the mouthwatering clash is an opportunity for his charges to correct their past mistakes.
“It’s a game we want to use to correct our past mistakes, but the question is: Would we really want to correct mistakes against a team like FC Platinum? The answer would be: Why not?
“This is an opportunity for us to correct those mistakes and make sure that we take off and consistently move forward as a team. We are looking forward to the match and we have been preparing well,” added Ndiraya. – Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Highlanders coach Baltemar Brito has urged stadium owners to renovate their properties to help improve the standards local football.
Brito made the sentiments ahead of their game against WhaWha at Ascot Stadium on Saturday.
The coach said the state of the Gweru venue makes it difficult for teams to play beautiful football.
He said: “I would like to give a suggestion to the people that belong to the federation of football here to care more about the football fields because I am told the stadium where we are going to play in Gweru is not so good.
“So this is one point that sometimes is hard to work on with teams. Even for the staff of the teams, we all should care about the fields where have hope to get good practice and where we give the fans a good game of football.”
The Brazilian gaffer added: “We are concerned about the football fields because we understand a good field promotes good players. We care about the fields because we are together in this project of our believed football in Zimbabwe.”- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa has urged jailed CCC members and human rights activists to remain strong following incessant persecution by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration.
President Chamisa also encouraged the nation to vote in numbers.
“CITIZENS SOLIDARITY & SUPPORT TO OUR CHANGE CHAMPIONS.
We don’t agonize.We organize.We WIN! Free them all. #FakaPressure,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
CCC Namibia has also called for solidarity with Hon Job Sikhala, Hon Godfrey Sithole and jailed party members.
“Citizens in Namibia embrace the Job Saro Wiwa Day on 2 August 2022.
We urge all social democrats across the globe to demand the immediate and unconditional release of Wiwa, Godfrey Sithole, and all prisoners of conscience. #FreeWiwa”
Tinashe Sambiri| Jailed CCC deputy chairperson and MP, Hon Job Sikhala says he is a man of great character and strength despite relentless persecution by the Zanu PF regime.
Hon Sikhala and Hon Godfrey Sithole were arrested for firmly supporting the Ali family following the gruesome murder of Moreblessing.
See below Hon Sikhala’s epistle from Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
An Epistle From Chikurubi Maximum Prison
Dear Zimbabweans,
We would like to thank you all dear Zimbabweans for the demonstration of love, care and unbridled concern for the pain we are going through. We feel your love even when we are under incarceration here at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
We are pleased that besides members of our own political party CCC, all Zimbabweans of different political, social and ideological persuasion are standing with us.
Although I am going through difficult moments at present with the escalated persecution of my own and my other colleagues here in prison with me, be grateful beloved compatriots that we are all in high spirits.
I went through an unexplainable illness, I am on the road to recovery, please pray for us.
Standing for the weak and downtrodden in society as I did for Moreblessing Ali and many others is my God’s is calling.
My reward is in heaven, I do it selflessly, and sometimes I end up asking myself why my conscience is always triggered to stand for the predicament of other people. I was just born like that by my mother and father.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the political declaration to be adopted by Member States during the High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on Global Road Safety.
It commits to cut road traffic deaths and injuries by 50% by 2030, a milestone for road safety and sustainable mobility.
The meeting takes place on 30 June – 1 July 2022 under the theme “The 2030 horizon for road safety: securing a decade of action and delivery”.
Road safety affects everyone. We step from our homes every day onto roads that take us to our jobs, schools and to meet our vital daily needs.
Yet our transport systems remain far too dangerous. No death should be acceptable on our roads. The future of mobility should promote health and well-being, protect the environment and benefit all,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO. “It will require transformative leadership from the highest levels of government to act on the Political Declaration to make that vision a reality.”
Worldwide, road crashes currently kill around 1.3 million people each year – more than 2 every minute, and more than 90% occur in low- and middle-income countries. Crashes are the biggest killer of children and young people globally.
More than 50 million people have died on the world’s roads since the invention of the automobile, more than the number of deaths in the First World War or in some of the worst global epidemics.
WHO is the lead agency for road safety in the United Nations and supported the President of the UN General Assembly in preparing this High-Level Meeting in collaboration with other UN agencies.
Through the declaration governments from around the world commit to provide leadership and coordination at the highest level of government to ensure all parts of the society are included to act on road safety and commit to boost policies and actions to reduce deaths and injuries. The declaration calls for the development and funding of national and local plans with clear targets and funding.
“Road traffic deaths upend countless lives and cost countries around 3% of GDP each year,” notes Dr Etienne Krug, Director of the Department for Social Determinants of Health, WHO. “This is an unacceptable price to pay for mobility. Putting safety at the heart of our mobility systems is an urgent health, economic and moral imperative. Let’s work together to scale up what works, save lives and build streets for life.”
In September 2020, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to proclaim the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030. WHO and the UN regional commissions, in cooperation with other partners in the UN Road Safety Collaboration, have developed a Global Plan for the Decade of Action, which was released in October 2021.
The plan calls for continued improvements in the design of roads and vehicles, enhancement of laws and law enforcement, and provision of timely, life-saving emergency care for the injured. In addition, it promotes healthy and environmentally sound modes of transport.
It also highlights that responsibility for road safety stretches far beyond health and transport. Urban planners and engineers must prioritize safety as a core value in all transport infrastructure while businesses can influence and contribute to strengthening road safety by applying safety-first principles to their entire value chains.
Countries and cities guided by the plan are seeing dramatic reductions in deaths. For example, the Colombian capital of Bogota halved deaths over 10 years through a set of integrated actions, including wide-ranging technical improvements and regulatory reforms that were driven by strong leadership.
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By Gift Ostallos Siziba
South Africa has created a border guard that will make sure no foreigner will illegally enter into South Africa.
Our people have been reduced to second class citizens and a standing joke everywhere.
Zimbabweans migrate to South Africa in search of greener pastures because of the economic crisis here at home.
More than a million Zimbabweans are in South Africa.
Talking to most of them you can tell they want to come back home- “it’s not easy out here” they say but home is worse.
They’re are subjected to harassment, arrests, paid meager wages and ill-treated all because most of them have no papers to stay there.
We have to and we must fix our country!
This will require the effort of every Citizen,
To our compatriots in South Africa, we urge you to do this one patriotic and most important duty come 2023.
Come back home and we vote the problem causer out!
That’s the only way we can restore or dignity as Zimbabweans.
Tinashe Sambiri| Jailed CCC deputy chairperson and MP, Hon Job Sikhala says he is a man of great strength despite relentless persecution by the Zanu PF regime.
Hon Sikhala and Hon Godfrey Sithole were arrested for firmly supporting the Ali family following the gruesome murder of Moreblessing.
See below Hon Sikhala’s epistle from Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
An Epistle From Chikurubi Maximum Prison
Dear Zimbabweans,
We would like to thank you all dear Zimbabweans for the demonstration of love, care and unbridled concern for the pain we are going through. We feel your love even when we are under incarceration here at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
We are pleased that besides members of our own political party CCC, all Zimbabweans of different political, social and ideological persuasion are standing with us.
Although I am going through difficult moments at present with the escalated persecution of my own and my other colleagues here in prison with me, be grateful beloved compatriots that we are all in high spirits.
I went through an unexplainable illness, I am on the road to recovery, please pray for us.
Standing for the weak and downtrodden in society as I did for Moreblessing Ali and many others is my God’s is calling.
My reward is in heaven, I do it selflessly, and sometimes I end up asking myself why my conscience is always triggered to stand for the predicament of other people. I was just born like that by my mother and father.
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Suspected state agents have disrupted our ZINASU Female Students Summit in Bulawayo. Students were forced to flee the venue. More to follow. pic.twitter.com/2J7JCNsBoD
— Boris Muguti (@BorisCde) July 16, 2022
By A Correspondent- A Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officer has been dragged to court after he failed to pay a US$600 debt.
Edison Sithole, who is stationed at 4 Brigade, was arraigned before Masvingo Magistrate Conceptor Ngwerume on Thursday.
Sithole borrowed USD600 and 2500 Rand from Sarah Fararira with the intention of buying second hand cellphones for resale.
However, he failed to repay the money, leaving the complainant with no option but to approach the court in an effort to recover her money.
The accused is alleged to have made a profit from his cellphone business but failed to own up to his promise to repay the debt.
Fararira demanded that Sithole pay the debt in two months’ time since he had inconvenienced her and lied that he didn’t record profit from the business.
Sithole pleaded with the court to give him four months to repay the debt but Ngwerume would have none of it, directing him to make full payment by September 30, 2022.
Low salaries of government employees have been regarded as a major security threat as members of security forces are getting involved in money heists.
Majority of robbery gangs which have been busted in recent months have serving members of the army and police force.
By A Correspondent- Civil servants have abandoned the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) with immediate effect, after two years of fruitless meetings.
The NJNC brought together the government and unions representing civil servants for negotiations on the latter’s salaries and conditions of service.
Civil servants have been demanding at least US$840 for the lowest paid worker but the government has turned down the request, citing financial constraints.
In a letter written to the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, the Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Union (FOZEU) said:
In this regard, honourable minister, workers through their representatives as they fall under the banner of APEX Council do hereby notify you of their withdrawal from the NJNC and the Health Service Bipartite Negotiating Forum (BNP) forum with immediate effect.
The same labour force would also want to bring to your attention that all the labour unions under the auspices of their federations are in unison with the observations and standing position that they will abide by the 14th day nationwide industrial action submitted to your office on the 4th of July 2022.
The civil servants lamented disagreements that characterised their meetings with the government over the past two years, with the meetings ending inconclusively.
They also bemoaned the government’s penchant for taking too long to implement some of the agreed conditions. Reads the letter:
The current negotiating forum does not uphold labour constitutional rights as enshrined in the national constitution section 65(1) which calls for collective bargaining.
Further to that, statutory you need to understand that statutory Instrument 141/97 under which we have been convening has since been superseded by section 65 of the current constitution and is therefore illegal.
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday said it had picked up over 180 000 errors on the voters roll as of June 23, a figure election watchdogs said was too huge and could have a strong bearing on the outcome of next year’s elections.
Zec spokesperson Jasper Mangwana told a Press conference in Harare yesterday that the commission has been making changes to the voters roll in compliance with section 35 of the Electoral Act.
The commission continues to clean the voters roll because it is a fluid document. It continues to change. The voters roll alterations that have been gazetted and effected, so far, as from June 23, 2022 is a total of 186 220 errors,” Mangwana said.
“Majority of the errors include full stop, where there should not be a full stop, omissions, in terms of the names of the chief of that area. From November 21 up to date, the commission has gazetted a total of 96 284 deceased voters that have been removed from the voters roll. The public must expect more because these figures continue to come every day.”
Electoral watchdogs, however, said it was crucial for the electoral management body to minimise errors to avoid cases where registered voters failed to cast their votes in the 2023 elections.
“The errors have a direct impact on Zec’s credibility,” Electoral Resource Centre programmes manager Solomon Bobosibunu said.
“These are administrative issues that must be very minimal, especially when the system is now computerised. Why those errors in the first place? It’s high time the electoral body makes use of technology for accurate data capturing.”
Zimbabwe Election Advocacy Trust national co-ordinator Robson Chikwinya said the number of the detected errors was suspiciously “too big”.
“It is an issue of concern for errors to be detected on the voters roll as this can go a long way to influence the outcome of the upcoming elections,” Chikwinya said.
Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network chairperson Andrew Makoni urged Zimbabweans to inspect the voters roll to avoid inconveniences on polling day.
“It is critical for the people to check the voters roll. Errors are unavoidable, but they must be minimised. Citizens must go and inspect the voters roll and ensure that all their details are captured correctly,” Makoni said.
Mangwana also announced that the Treasury had released US$83 million for the delimitation exercise, which starts tomorrow, with US$45 million set aside for the voter inspection process.
“We also have US$38 million for the delimitation exercise and the budget will cater for the printing of the voters roll, hiring of vehicles, stakeholder engagement that has been happening and will continue to happen, material acquisition, voter education material, advertising, publicity and the personal welfare, among others,” he said.
Zimbabwe last carried a delimitation exercise in 2007 ahead of the 2008 harmonised elections.
By A Correspondent- Home Affairs deputy minister Ruth Mavhunga-Maboyi has professed ignorance to the involvement of serving and ex-police and army members allegedly committing robberies and various other crimes in the country.
This was after opposition legislators on Wednesday took Mavhunga-Maboyi to task over armed robbery cases involving State security agents.
Mutare Central MP Innocent Gonese had asked: “What is the ministry doing to ascertain why so many serving members of the police or army services are being involved in armed robbery cases?”
Some ex-soldiers have been arraigned before the courts charged with armed robbery, triggering public security concerns.
The robbers mostly target individuals carrying large sums of money, corporates as well as gold mines.
But the deputy minister professed ignorance that people in the security services were involved in some armed robberies.
“I am not very aware that all those armed robberies are being done by the army and the police. I know of course that there are some who have been arrested but if you are insisting that I should talk more about it, I have no words to say,” Maboyi said.
She added: “We also have police officers who are experts, but we cannot say the police or the army are the ones who are stealing. Even ourselves here, we might be some of those doing that.
“We are saying once they are arrested we are going to deal with them. We are trying by all means to make sure that we make a follow-up of whatever is happening.
Last year, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe admitted before Parliament that some ex-members of the security services were involved in armed robberies.
-Newsday
By A Correspondent- Outspoken Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has slammed the Zimbabwe Republic Police for incompetence under Godwin Matanga while saying the former Police Chief, Augustine Chihuri was better.
Mliswa made the remarks yesterday in parliament during a question and answer session.
Rising on a point of order, the ever vibrant lawmaker said the the current surge in crime was due to lack of control and discipline within the police force.
“Right now, we are going through the worst policing ever in this country under Commissioner General Matanga. During the days of Augustine Chihuri, whether you like it or not, there was no such crime. Chihuri could have been anything but there was control in the police and there was discipline. Whether it was corrupt or not, there was still discipline with the corruption in the police because he was in total control. Right now, there is no total control of the police in this country. We need the Minister to come up with a Ministerial Statement in terms of the firearms database of this country,” he fumed
Mliswa further demanded that police reinstate Joseph Nemaisa, a former homicide detective who allegedly gunned down 4 highly trained armed robbers in Harare last year, into the police force to curb the ever rising rate in crime.
“We have got experts who are good at dealing with armed robbers. One of them is Nemaisa. Why can you not bring Nemaisa back to the police? Nemaisa was fired because of Delish Nguwaya. When he arrested Nguwaya at the time, Nemaisa was fired over a personal issue. We would want to know why one of the best experts in dealing with homicide was fired. I would want you to give us a Ministerial Statement. What wrong did Nemaisa do in terms of his conduct with the police? Not only that, why was he fired? If there was anything Madam Speaker, I think it was a personal issue where he arrested Nguwaya and he was then fired. We now lost a top cop who was experienced in terms of homicide,” he added.
Zimbabwe is currently facing serious cases of armed robberies and this has prompted the law makers to get worried.
Last week over $100 000 and $45 000 was lost to armed robbers in Harare and Bulawayo respectively leading the law makers to get worried over the security of the country.
By Staff Reporter- Zanu PF Norton ward 11 councillor Tino Mafusire has taken it upon himself to use his truck to collect garbage in the town.
The 26-year-old and the only Zanu PF councillor in Norton is doing this at a time his fellow councillors are said to be busy looting residential stands and other resources from the council.
Mafusire said unlike his colleagues who wait for government to bail out local councils during periods of crisis he donated his truck help to improve service delivery in the town.
” Our one and only council refuse truck was involved in an accident and this has affected service delivery in terms of garbage collection, hence my intervention,” he told Zimeye.com.
” The truck is being overwhelmed and I am also engaging the local business community to extend their assistance in this regard,” he added.
Norton has one refuse collection truck and an old tractor.
The town also has 13 councillors, most of whom belong to the opposition.
All of these opposition councillors (10) were Monday arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on allegations of corruption. According to ZACC these councillors corruptly parcelled out residential stands to their friends and relatives at lower prices.
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched an investigation into a case involving cotton farming inputs which were stocked at a warehouse linked to Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Wadyajena.
Zacc spokesperson John Makamure confirmed that the matter was under probe but declined to release more details.
“I am unable to comment on matters under investigation. The media will be informed once investigations have been completed,” he said yesterday.
The Independent understands that a crack team from Zacc and the police descended on a warehouse in Gokwe last weekend where cotton farming inputs were confiscated by the law enforcement agents.
National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi yesterday said Zacc was handling the matter.
He said: “You can contact Zacc on that matter”.
Wadyajena was mum over the issue when approached for comment by the Independent yesterday, as he did not respond to questions while his mobile phone went unanswered several times.
Gokwe is a farming community which relies on cotton as a cash crop.
It was not yet clear whether the farming inputs were sourced procedurally but sources insisted investigators were convinced there could be a prima facie case.
“Zacc raided a warehouse in Gokwe following suspicion that some inputs were acquired unprocedurally. Politicians are involved in the inputs saga as they use such implements as political capital to distribute to voters in rural farming constituencies. The investigation is still underway and more details are likely to emerge soon,” a source close to the developments said.
This follows a clampdown by the anti-graft body on abuse of inputs by high profile figures.
Recently, the dragnet caught former Lands and Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro while Cottco managing director Pious Manamike and his marketing and business development manager Maxmore Njanji were also nabbed in the anti-graft drive. The cases are still pending in the courts.
Meanwhile, the Zacc raid in Gokwe-Nembudziya comes at a time when the parliamentary portfolio committee on agriculture chaired by Wadyajena is likely to summon Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka to appear over the construction of Vungu Dam.
The tender for the construction of the dam, located in Silobela, was won by a local engineering company, last year.
However, the contractor is lagging behind the implementation schedule for the US$87 million project because of the delays in the disbursement of funds from the government.
-ZimbabweIndependent
By A Correspondent- South African award-winning music producer DJ Tira is offering a US$1 000 reward to anyone who returns his passport.
DJ Tira lost his passport after staging a show in Gwanda during the weekend leading him to stay in Zimbabwe longer than he had anticipated.
He managed to return to South Africa after being issued travel documents by the South African Embassy on Monday.
DJ Tira said he only discovered that his passport was missing at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo when he was about to board a plane back to South Africa on Sunday morning.
He said he was sure the passport was at a guest house he was staying in Gwanda.
By-Jailed CCC deputy chairman Job Sikhala has reached out to Zimbabweans from Chikurubi Maximum Prison thanking them for standing by him.
Sikhala is in remand prison following his arrest last month for allegedly inciting violence recorded in Nyatsime in the funeral wake of CCC’s slain activist Moreblessing Ali.
In the letter, Sikhala said he was delighted by the support people gave him.
Dear Zimbabweans,
We would like to thank you all dear Zimbabweans for the demonstration of love, care and unbridled concern for the pain we are going through. We feel your love even when we are under incarceration here at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
We are pleased that besides members of our own political party CCC, all Zimbabweans of different political, social and ideological persuasion are standing with us.
Although I am going through difficult moments at present with the escalated persecution of my own and my other colleagues here in prison with me, be grateful beloved compatriots that we are all in high spirits.
I went through an unexplainable illness, I am on the road to recovery, please pray for us.
Standing for the weak and downtrodden in society as I did for Moreblessing Ali and many others is my God’s is calling.
My reward is in heaven, I do it selflessly, and sometimes I end up asking myself why my conscience is always triggered to stand for the predicament of other people. I was just born like that by my mother and father.
By-CCC deputy chairman Job Sikhala has written a letter from Chikurubi Maximum Prison thanking Zimbabweans for standing by him.
Sikhala is in remand prison following his arrest last month for allegedly inciting violence recorded in Nyatsime in the funeral wake of CCC’s slain activist Moreblessing Ali.
In the letter, Sikhala said he was delighted by the support people were extending to him.
Dear Zimbabweans,
We would like to thank you all dear Zimbabweans for the demonstration of love, care and unbridled concern for the pain we are going through. We feel your love even when we are under incarceration here at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
We are pleased that besides members of our own political party CCC, all Zimbabweans of different political, social and ideological persuasion are standing with us.
Although I am going through difficult moments at present with the escalated persecution of my own and my other colleagues here in prison with me, be grateful beloved compatriots that we are all in high spirits.
I went through an unexplainable illness, I am on the road to recovery, please pray for us.
Standing for the weak and downtrodden in society as I did for Moreblessing Ali and many others is my God’s is calling.
My reward is in heaven, I do it selflessly, and sometimes I end up asking myself why my conscience is always triggered to stand for the predicament of other people. I was just born like that by my mother and father.
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— ZimEye (@ZimEye) July 16, 2022
By A Correspondent | The country’s most popular leader, CCC President Nelson Chamisa hasn’t at all appointed cabinet posts, ZimEye reveals.
ZimEye reveals that the list of appointments circulating on Friday, is not at all a cabinet line up as previously reported.
Several news websites published saying CCC President Nelson Chamisa has this week appointed a shadow cabinet.
But ZimEye reveals that the list is of a few selected individuals picked up for parliamentary designations.
The accurate update on the cabinet is as follows
1. There’s a distortion- we have no such a thing as a shadow cabinet
2. These are point persons for parliament- Parliament has parliamentary point persons who speak on specific issues.
3. An alternative cabinet will be lean and small and will have some people who are not in Parliament but with expertise- that will be availed be availed in due course. – ZimEye
By A Correspondent | CCC Youth Spokesperson, Steven Sakorzy Chuma has called for a citizens arrest of Emmerson Mnangagwa following the ongoing persecution of the party’s Deputy Chairperson, Job Sikhala.
Speaking to ZimEye on Saturday, Sajorzy said, “the time has come for citizens to take charge and apprehend this criminal once and for all in line with international laws.”
He continued saying, “Citizens are living a drudgery type of life all because of one man who is preoccupied by power retention at the expense of citizens welfare and rights.”
Leading international litigation lawyers have over the past 3 years been advising Zimbabweans on methods of effecting arrest warrants, since the first document was issued against the Speaker Of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda in Serbia in 2019. WATCH VIDEO BELOW:
The development comes at a time Sikhala has continued struggling in prison over charges of incitement to violence, being mere spiritual, mythical statements he was instructed to announce as a family lawyer in honour of the murdered CCC activist Moreblessing Ali, who was killed by notorious ZANU PF members in Nyatsime 2 months ago.
Outspoken Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has slammed the Zimbabwe Republic Police for incompetence under Godwin Matanga while saying the former Police Chief, Augustine Chihuri was better.
Mliswa made the remarks yesterday in parliament during a question and answer session.
Rising on a point of order, the ever vibrant lawmaker said the the current surge in crime was due to lack of control and discipline within the police force.
“Right now, we are going through the worst policing ever in this country under Commissioner General Matanga. During the days of Augustine Chihuri, whether you like it or not, there was no such crime. Chihuri could have been anything but there was control in the police and there was discipline. Whether it was corrupt or not, there was still discipline with the corruption in the police because he was in total control. Right now, there is no total control of the police in this country. We need the Minister to come up with a Ministerial Statement in terms of the firearms database of this country,” he fumed
Mliswa further demanded that police reinstate Joseph Nemaisa, a former homicide detective who allegedly gunned down 4 highly trained armed robbers in Harare last year, into the police force to curb the ever rising rate in crime.
“We have got experts who are good at dealing with armed robbers. One of them is Nemaisa. Why can you not bring Nemaisa back to the police? Nemaisa was fired because of Delish Nguwaya. When he arrested Nguwaya at the time, Nemaisa was fired over a personal issue. We would want to know why one of the best experts in dealing with homicide was fired. I would want you to give us a Ministerial Statement. What wrong did Nemaisa do in terms of his conduct with the police? Not only that, why was he fired? If there was anything Madam Speaker, I think it was a personal issue where he arrested Nguwaya and he was then fired. We now lost a top cop who was experienced in terms of homicide,” he added.
Zimbabwe is currently facing serious cases of armed robberies and this has prompted the law makers to get worried.
Last week over $100 000 and $45 000 was lost to armed robbers in Harare and Bulawayo respectively leading the law makers to get worried over the security of the country.
By Tafadzwa Chigandiwa England born Zimbabwean teenage starlet Shumaira Mheuka (15) put pen to paper to sign a contract with the English Premier League (EPL) side Chelsea from Brighton and Hove Albion, The Secret Scout reported.
Born in England to Zimbabwean parents, the promising centre forward is also eligible to play for the Warriors despite having represented the Three Lions (England) at youth level.
By A Correspondent| Players in the clothing and fashion industry faces an uncertain future due to the recent proliferation of ‘runners’ who sell cheap and smuggled clothes and household goods that have flooded the local market.
In an interview with ZimEye, a clothing manufacturer based in Harare Central business district, Lovemore Baloyi said he was forced to downsize operations as his business struggled to remain afloat.
“At one point I had over 30 employees operating over 20 sewing machines, and since people are now flooding to buy cheap clothes from runners, I had to send the bulk of my workers home,” said Baloyi.
He said runners’ prices do not make business sense as an outfit that he produces at a break-even cost of $15 would be sold for $7 to $10 dollars at most these outlets that have now sprouted across Harare CBD.
A catalogue for one of the popular runners operating in the CBD
“Runners can sell a t-shirt for $3, but if I try to calculate my costs from buying material to labour, rentals and other related costs, it just doesn’t make business sense.
“What worsens our predicament is that the clothes from runners come from China and are sewn using highly computerised machines, so it’s difficult to compete with them,” added Baloyi.
An investigation by ZimEye has revealed that Chinese nationals have since invaded the ‘runners’ business and are now the main importers and suppliers to most traders countrywide.
Baloyi confirmed ZimEye’s investigations saying he witnessed kombis offloading an assortment of goods at one of the runners’ shop in the CBD.
“I have observed for a number of days, two kombis full of items offloading at one of the shops in the CBD, they are consistent in offloading almost every morning and i wonder if the so-called runners have that capacity to be importing on a daily basis, I realised that there are well resourced people behind these runners,” added Baloyi.
Another business operator Gerald Mabaika in Harare said runners forced him out of business which used to employ 10 people and would supply clothing shops across the country.
Another catalogue from a runner by the name Nicole Fashions who also sells electricals at very cheap prices
“Just like runners, I operated as a wholesaler and would supply business operators from as far as Chipinge, Chiredzi and Mutoko among other areas, they stopped coming and I could not operate as I needed money to pay rentals, service machines and pay workers, eventually I closed shop.
“Its sad that nothing is being done by the government and even ZIMRA seems complacent to this whole business, this is killing the local industry and very soon even big players like Edgars, Truworths among others will be out of business” said Mabaika.
He further questioned how runners would sell a pair of shoes for a price less than the $2 tax ZIMRA collects for every pair of shoe imported into the country.
“Explain to me how one can sell a pair of shoes for $1.50 or even $2 which is the amount one pays to ZIMRA as tax to import the same,” added Mabaika.
Blanket manufacturers have also been complaining of cheap imports which have flooded the local market.
Companies such as Waverley Blankets and National Blankets were left to count losses this winter season as cheap imports flooded the market.
Runners are informal business operators who sell imported goods at both wholesale and retail prices less VAT. This makes it impossible for genuine formal businesses to compete on a level playing field.
Runners gained momentum during the COVID-19 lockdown period as informal traders took advantage of closure of ports of entry to smuggle Chinese goods to feed the local market.
They mostly operate in suburbs and lately in the backyard of city buildings or upper floors. They use WhatsApp groups and broadcast list to market their wares and are usually crowded whenever there is a new order.
By A Correspondent- A form 3 boy from Chitungwiza died after he was stabbed by colleagues at Nyatsime College on sports day.
The minor, identified as Ngoni Tadiwanashe Kundishora, a student at Seke 1 High from Unit K was stabbed by yet to be identified assailants.
Said Patrick Mukutiri:
“Guys, in Unit K near C junction, a form 3 student pavakaenda kumasports muNyatsime college kwakubaiwa nebanga nevamwe vake meaning colleagues a student was stabbed today at a sports event at Nyatsime college. He died today. Gone too soon our little brother.”
Commenting on Facebook, a user revealed what transpired and said:
“Nyasha Kapita hanzi vakarwa kumasports then ndobva abaiwa nebanga kwakuendeswa kuchipatara ndobva atobuditswa achinzi he had recovered. pasina 2 days kwakutanga kurutsa ropa ndobva adzoserwa kuchipatara kwakuzofira ikoko.”
Several parents took to social media to lament the high level of violence and gangsterism within schools with one parent revealing how her form one child had even refused to attend the sports event citing bullying by learners from Zengeza 4 High school.
Said the parent:
“My own form 1 refused to go to the sports event complaining that boys from Zengeza 4 High School are beating up learners from other schools. He said the level of bullying was so bad that he woukd rather not attend the sports event.
This is very sad because our children are now even scared to go to school because of these animals in school uniform.”
We post below comments from social media users responding to the sad development:
Vana vemu Chitungwiza have turned into animals .gang fights have been allowed to go on for too long and now honai . Action should be taken with urgency
Said Chihwa Chihwaness WekwaMchawaya:
At Seke 6 High, there are learners vanoputa mbanje kuzasi kwedurawall kuma new stsnds haa vana vacho hatichavagoni.
Mai Talia said:
Zvakaoma paseke 3 hanzi first term mateacher paaisadzidzisa paya vana vaitochinjana kupinda mumaclass kuita havo bonde.
An Epistle From Chikurubi Maximum Prison
Dear Zimbabweans,
We would like to thank you all dear Zimbabweans for the demonstration of love, care and unbridled concern for the pain we are going through. We feel your love even when we are under incarceration here at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
We are pleased that besides members of our own political party CCC, all Zimbabweans of different political, social and ideological persuasion are standing with us.
Although I am going through difficult moments at present with the escalated persecution of my own and my other colleagues here in prison with me, be grateful beloved compatriots that we are all in high spirits.
I went through an unexplainable illness, I am on the road to recovery, please pray for us.
Standing for the weak and downtrodden in society as I did for Moreblessing Ali and many others is my God’s is calling.
My reward is in heaven, I do it selflessly, and sometimes I end up asking myself why my conscience is always triggered to stand for the predicament of other people. I was just born like that by my mother and father.
Acting Zifa president Gift Banda has responded to Zimbabwe’s disqualification from the CHAN 2022 tournament.
The country was scheduled to play Malawi in the first round of the qualifiers next week.
After failing to meet CAF’s condition, the Warriors will not partiticipate in the competition.
The continental body wanted Zifa to reinstate the suspended members Felton Kamambo and Joseph Mamutse so that the FIFA ban could be lifted.
The FA had until Saturday to meet the condition, but after the grace period lapsed, CAF took the latest measure ahead of the start of the qualifiers next week.
This is the third time in two months that the country has been disqualified from international competition due to the FIFA ban.
The Warriors were barred from participating in the Afcon 2023 and are not participating in the ongoing 2022 Cosafa Cup.
Reacting to the news, Banda insisted that there is no need to rush the nation back to international football as systems are being put in place to ensure Zimbabwe returns stronger from the FIFA suspension.
The acting FA boss told The Herald: “We can’t put time frames because it’s not in our hands, but we are expressing to the powers that be that we are doing all our things according to the constitution and, now that we have opened the avenues of communication (with FIFA) that were not there before, we are upbeat.
Banda added: “We want to holistically come up with a framework that’s going to work for Zimbabwean football.
“I always ask people that if FIFA were to say the ban is lifted today, are we ready to play? It’s a question I normally pose to many people and the nation at large. I don’t think we are (ready).
“There are a lot of things that we need to do to our football before we can say we are now ready to go back and play international football. We have got to work at our constitution, there are quite a lot of things.”- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Norton MP (independent), Temba Mliswa, has claimed that Local Government and Public Works Minister, July Moyo, collected a 10% commission on the Pomona Waste to Energy deal.
The US$344 million which requires Harare to pay US$22 000 per day was signed between Harare City Council and Geogenix BV, a Netherlands company fronted in Zimbabwe by Dilesh Nguwaya who is said to have close links with the first family.
Debating in Parliament during Wednesday’s question and answer session, Mliswa labelled Moyo a ‘debt collector’, alleging the minister was dodging Parliament to explain the deal, leaving deputy minister, Marian Chombo, to cover up for him.
Mliswa said:
Hon. July Moyo is not here to respond but is busy writing letters to the local authorities so that money comes out. His job now is to write letters wanting money. How can a minister be a debt collector? He is not here to answer issues of all the deals that he is doing.
The Government is a lawyer, the Attorney-General and the Minister is a lawyer. Why is it the lawyer is writing a letter? To us, they are bent on reducing and denigrating His Excellency’s name and they must be brought to book once and for all.
I will not waste much of your time but I have gotten the point home, especially Hon. July Moyo. Where is he? He is seen writing letters left, right and centre wanting a 10% commission. He has been paid.
Ndozvinonetsa kana wadya mari dzevanhu. Haurari usiku nekuti unenge uchingonyora matsamba uchirotomoka. He must come and answer on why he is writing letters when he is not a debt collector.
Moyo has been in a war with the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) with the party’s councillors rejecting the deal which they say the central government imposed on the local government authority.
They also argue that at a rate of US$22 000 per day and the amount of waste required, the deal was designed to fail which can lead to the termination of the deal prematurely, something that won’t deter Geogenix BV from being paid all its money agreed in the deal.- Pindula News
By-The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, ZEC, is said to have hinted that President Emerson Mnangagwa had already won the 2023 Presidential elections.
NewZimbabwe reports that ZEC told a Zanu PF youth league national executive, Phenias Makombe has said sources that his party will win the 2023 Presidential election.
Addressing youths in Kwekwe Thursday, Makombe said party leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently leading with at least 3.8 million votes. Said Makombe:
I recently went to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission offices.
I have friends who are at ZEC and I approached one of my guys there and asked him what the statistics are like. I asked him for people who are registering to vote, who was their preferred candidate. He laughed and said I was going to get him in trouble.
At first he wanted a kick-back to give me the information. However, I told him I am ZANU PF and I don’t condone corruption. After seeing that I wasn’t budging, he then gave me the information.
He told me that at least 3.8 million people told ZEC that President Mnangagwa is their candidate. When I asked about Chamisa he laughed and said only 20 000 people had indicated interest to vote for Chamisa.
We are targeting 5 million votes and, at 3.8 million votes currently, it shows we still have a long way to go. The issue is not about going to the elections because we have already won the polls.
The issue why we are mobilising people to register and vote is for them to come and join the governing party and understand what life is like in ZANU PF. We have already won this election. President Mnangagwa is loved by everyone.
ZANU PF is targeting five million votes while the Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is eyeing six million.
So far, just over 5.8 million people have registered to vote, according to ZEC.
Makombe added that the opposition “is always losing elections because they don’t have a strategy and the next thing they cry foul” while on the contrary, ZANU PF has a strategy.
He said CCC leader Nelson Chamisa’s mission is to attain power and hand it over to Western powers. Votes can only be known after voting.
-NewZimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, ZEC, is said to have hinted that President Emerson Mnangagwa had already won the 2023 Presidential elections.
NewZimbabwe reports that ZEC told a Zanu PF youth league national executive, Phenias Makombe that his party will win the 2023 Presidential election.
Addressing youths in Kwekwe Thursday, Makombe said party leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently leading with at least 3.8 million votes. Said Makombe:
I recently went to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission offices.
I have friends who are at ZEC and I approached one of my guys there and asked him what the statistics are like. I asked him for people who are registering to vote, who was their preferred candidate. He laughed and said I was going to get him in trouble.
At first he wanted a kick-back to give me the information. However, I told him I am ZANU PF and I don’t condone corruption. After seeing that I wasn’t budging, he then gave me the information.
He told me that at least 3.8 million people told ZEC that President Mnangagwa is their candidate. When I asked about Chamisa he laughed and said only 20 000 people had indicated interest to vote for Chamisa.
We are targeting 5 million votes and, at 3.8 million votes currently, it shows we still have a long way to go. The issue is not about going to the elections because we have already won the polls.
The issue why we are mobilising people to register and vote is for them to come and join the governing party and understand what life is like in ZANU PF. We have already won this election. President Mnangagwa is loved by everyone.
ZANU PF is targeting five million votes while the Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is eyeing six million.
So far, just over 5.8 million people have registered to vote, according to ZEC.
Makombe added that the opposition “is always losing elections because they don’t have a strategy and the next thing they cry foul” while on the contrary, ZANU PF has a strategy.
He said CCC leader Nelson Chamisa’s mission is to attain power and hand it over to Western powers. Votes can only be known after voting.
-NewZimbabwe
By- Harare Provincial magistrate Ngoni Nduna has postponed to Monday the case in which CCC deputy chairman Job Sikhala is challenging him to recuse himself.
Sikhala Thursday appeared at Harare magistrate Nduna, facing charges of obstructing the course of justice and challenged that the magistrate should recuse himself.
The senior CCC member wants another magistrate other than Nduna to hear his case.
CCC posted Friday, saying that Nduma will make a ruling on the case on Monday.
Posted CCC:
The Magistrate Ngoni Nduna postponed the matter to Monday the 18th of July 2022 at 1415hrs to make his decision on whether or not he’ll recuse himself. Ms Mtetwa gives an update on Hon
’s recusal application.
Below are pictures of a section of young farmer, Terrence Maphosa’s field grazed down by a donkey.
ZimEye understands the notorious donkey has since been killed following this ordeal.
The development has brought into discussion the need for farmers to insure their crops, amid revelations that the nation does not have any insurers that offer full cover for farm produce losses.
By Staff Reporter- Citizens Coalition for Change, CCC, has condemned the arrest of its Norton councillors by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC).
ZACC arrested 10 Norton Councillors, six (6) affiliated with Nelson Chamisa’s CCC.
They were arrested on allegations of parcelling-out residential stands.
CCC Norton Town chairperson Silvester Gumisirayi confirmed the arrests.
” I confirm the arrest of Norton Town Councillors which is a mix of Independent, MDC-T and CCC and the town secretary on allegations of abuse of office while on duty,” he said.
CCC deputy spokesperson Ostallos Gift Siziba condemned the arrests saying they were political.
“It’s clear persecution by prosecution. The intention and objective is to tarnish the image of the opposition in different parts of the country and make sure that they demoralise the party from its programming. Its a clear political persecution. There are a lot of cases in which ZACC has failed to act upon which invove members of the executive. For example there is the Pomona scandal where a minister is cited and several other government officials. So its a clear and deliberate persecution of political opponents,” said Siziba.
ZACC spokesperson John Makamure declined to comment.
The Birdcage
Lesson 3
Memory Text: “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials” (1 Peter 1:6, NKJV).
INTRODUCTION
In the full light of day, and in hearing of the music of other voices, the caged bird will not sing the song that his master seeks to teach him. He learns a snatch of this, a trill of that, but never a separate and entire melody. But the master covers the cage, and places it where the bird will listen to the one song he is to sing. In the dark, he tries and tries again to sing that song until it is learned, and he breaks forth in perfect melody. Then the bird is brought forth, and ever after he can sing that song in the light. Thus God deals with His children. He has a song to teach us, and when we have learned it amid the shadows of affliction we can sing it ever afterward.”—Ellen G. White, The Ministry of Healing, p. 472.
Notice that the one who carries the bird into the darkness is the master himself.
It is easy to understand that Satan causes pain, but would God Himself actively take a part in guiding us into crucibles where we experience confusion or hurt?
The Week at a Glance: What examples can you think of in the Bible in which God Himself leads people into experiences that He knows will include suffering? What do you think were the new songs He wanted them to sing?
SABBATH: God’s grace breeds no sorrow, except the healthy sorrow that wipes our tears & refines us. A bird without a tutor can sing, but its song will be poorly made for it’ll be mixed with other voices. It isn’t able to separate an entire melody from other sounds. But when put in a covered cage by its master to learn one song repeatedly, it sings the perfect melody (MH, p. 472). God is with us even in the dark.
SUNDAY: Surprises are inevitable in life. It can be walking into a room of friends who all shout “Surprise! Happy Birthday” or walking into a friendship of betrayal. Israel were met with unpleasant surprises in their walk to Canaan. Yet, it was God who led them. First, He led them to a “dead end” (Red Sea). God doesn’t guarantee an absence of trouble but His salvation (Exod. 14:10, 31, 13:21, Jer. 17:9).
MONDAY: Water is a great treasure in a desert. But Israel after the Red Sea event could find no water for 3 days in the desert (Exod. 17:1). At Marah, they found water but they spat it out because it was bitter. It was God (“The pillar”) who took them to Marah & later Rephidim where there was no water at all. God knew Rephidim had no water but He sought to test their faith (see Exod. 15:22-27, 17:1-7).
TUESDAY: God sometimes lead us to trying places for us to know our helplessness & our dependency in Him (Luke 4:1-13). Christ was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert where He was tempted at the start of His ministry. God doesn’t tempt us (James 1:13). Through tests & trials, He perfects us (DA, pp. 126, 129). We can get burned in the crucible rather than purified. Thus, we can hope in Christ (1 Tim. 1:15).
WEDNESDAY: Heaven is worth any sacrifice. This is what Peter shared with the early believers who were experiencing “grief in all kinds of trials” (1 Pet. 1:6). At the time, they were a minority who were often misunderstood & persecuted. The trials are not random, they come to produce a genuine faith in us. We should keep our eyes fixed on the ultimate price; Heaven when tried (1 Pet. 1:6-9). God purges us!
THURSDAY: Our lives are pilgrim life. As we journey, we’ll face many unplanned hurdles. God wants us to trust His plan for our lives. Alex, a young man, battled with drugs, violence, & had a jail time. A local church member he stole from led him to God to a time he planned to be a pastor (1 John 5:1, 2). Yet, his life began to crush again at school. Was his time with God a mistake? (Prov. 3, Jer. 29:13, Rom. 8:28, 2 Cor. 12:9, Heb. 13:5). God cares!
FRIDAY: As God (the pillar) chose to lead Israel to Rephidim, He may choose to lead us to trying places to test our loyalty. He doesn’t at all times lead us to pleasant places. If He did, we’d trust in our own might & forget that He’s our helper. It’s His wish to manifest Himself to us, to show us the abundant supplies in store for us, & come to Him for aid when troubled. He made a cool stream to flow from a stony rock.
—Ellen G. White, “The Exodus,” pp. 281–290; “From the Red Sea to Sinai,” pp. 291–302, in Patriarchs and Prophets; “The Temptation,” pp. 114–123, in The Desire of Ages & Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, April 7, 1903.
Keywords
MH- The Ministry of Healing
DA- The Desire of Ages
Crucible- a vessel used for melting a substance that requires a high degree of heat, a severe test, or a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development.
Canaan- The Promised Land or the Land of Promise
“The pillar”- God. He was the pillar of cloud to guide Israel on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.
Captions
SUNDAY- To the Promised Land via a Dead End
MONDAY- Bitter Waters
TUESDAY- The Great Controversy in the Desert
WEDNESDAY- An Enduring Legacy
THURSDAY- Trial by Fire
Discussion Questions
? We often talk of temptation as an individual thing, which, of course, it is. At the same time, are there any corporate temptations, things that we as a church or a local church family might have to guard against as a group? If so, what?
? Ask those who are willing to talk about any of the “unpleasant places” that they have been brought to. Why were these unpleasant? If they had to revisit those experiences today, would they view them any differently?
? We all understand the principle behind God allowing us to be purified and refined by trials. How, though, do we understand the situation in which trials appear to have no value—for instance, someone is killed instantly in a car wreck? As a class, seek to work through possible answers.
God bless you all. Happy Sabbath
By Staff Reporter- Members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) have arrested six (6) Nelson Chamisa’s CCC Norton councillors.
The six are part of the ten opposition councillors arrested Monday on allegations of parcelling-out residential stands.
CCC Norton Town chairperson Silvester Gumisirayi confirmed the arrests.
” I confirm the arrest of Norton Town Councillors which is a mix of Independent, MDC-T and CCC and the town secretary on allegations of abuse of office while on duty,” he said.
Norton has 13 ward councillors. Out of the 13, six (6) come from the CCC, two (2) independent, one (1), Zanu PF, and four (4) are from the MDC-T of Douglas Mwonzora, and
” The main allegations are that of selling stands to their friends and relatives at a price which is lower than the recommended price. They are expected to appear in the Norton Court tomorrow (Friday),” a ZACC source told Zimeye.com Thursday evening.
CCC deputy spokesperson Ostallos Gift Siziba condemned the arrests saying they were political.
“It’s clear persecution by prosecution. The intention and objective is to tarnish the image of the opposition in different parts of the country and make sure that they demoralise the party from its programming. Its a clear political persecution. There are a lot of cases in which ZACC has failed to act upon which invove members of the executive. For example there is the Pomona scandal where a minister is cited and several other government officials. So its a clear and deliberate persecution of political opponents,” said Siziba.
ZACC spokesperson John Makamure declined to comment.
By A Correspondent| Players in the clothing and fashion industry faces an uncertain future due to the recent proliferation of ‘runners’ who sell cheap and smuggled clothes and household goods that have flooded the local market.
In an interview with ZimEye, a clothing manufacturer based in Harare Central business district, Lovemore Baloyi said he was forced to downsize operations as his business struggled to remain afloat.
“At one point I had over 30 employees operating over 20 sewing machines, and since people are now flooding to buy cheap clothes from runners, I had to send the bulk of my workers home,” said Baloyi.
He said runners’ prices do not make business sense as an outfit that he produces at a break-even cost of $15 would be sold for $7 to $10 dollars at most these outlets that have now sprouted across Harare CBD.
“Runners can sell a t-shirt for $3, but if I try to calculate my costs from buying material to labour, rentals and other related costs, it just doesn’t make business sense.
“What worsens our predicament is that the clothes from runners come from China and are sewn using highly computerised machines, so it’s difficult to compete with them,” added Baloyi.
An investigation by ZimEye has revealed that Chinese nationals have since invaded the ‘runners’ business and are now the main importers and suppliers to most traders countrywide.
Baloyi confirmed ZimEye’s investigations saying he witnessed kombis offloading an assortment of goods at one of the runners’ shop in the CBD.
“I have observed for a number of days, two kombis full of items offloading at one of the shops in the CBD, they are consistent in offloading almost every morning and i wonder if the so-called runners have that capacity to be importing on a daily basis, I realised that there are well resourced people behind these runners,” added Baloyi.
Another business operator Gerald Mabaika in Harare said runners forced him out of business which used to employ 10 people and would supply clothing shops across the country.
“Just like runners, I operated as a wholesaler and would supply business operators from as far as Chipinge, Chiredzi and Mutoko among other areas, they stopped coming and I could not operate as I needed money to pay rentals, service machines and pay workers, eventually I closed shop.
“Its sad that nothing is being done by the government and even ZIMRA seems complacent to this whole business, this is killing the local industry and very soon even big players like Edgars, Truworths among others will be out of business” said Mabaika.
He further questioned how runners would sell a pair of shoes for a price less than the $2 tax ZIMRA collects for every pair of shoe imported into the country.
“Explain to me how one can sell a pair of shoes for $1.50 or even $2 which is the amount one pays to ZIMRA as tax to import the same,” added Mabaika.
Blanket manufacturers have also been complaining of cheap imports which have flooded the local market.
Companies such as Waverley Blankets and National Blankets were left to count losses this winter season as cheap imports flooded the market.
Runners are informal business operators who sell imported goods at both wholesale and retail prices less VAT. This makes it impossible for genuine formal businesses to compete on a level playing field.
Runners gained momentum during the COVID-19 lockdown period as informal traders took advantage of closure of ports of entry to smuggle Chinese goods to feed the local market.
They mostly operate in suburbs and lately in the backyard of city buildings or upper floors. They use WhatsApp groups and broadcast list to market their wares and are usually crowded whenever there is a new order.
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Mutare City Council Mayor councillor Simon Chabuka and 11 other councillors appeared in court on Thursday on allegations of fleecing the local authority of nearly $13 million in travel and subsistence allowances.
The Herald reports that Mayor Chabuka appeared at Mutare Magistrates Court charged with criminal abuse of office.
Others accused of the same charge are councillors Farai Mabiza, Elizabeth Tsoro, Zwenyika Misi, Daniel Saunyama, Blessing Tandi, Tsitsi Ziweya, Norman Nyanhanda, Exavior Upare, Sakai Cathrine, Thomas Nyamupangedenga and Calvin Matsiya appeared at Mutare Magistrates Court charged with criminal abuse of office.
There have been countless reports of abuse of public resources at all levels of government while service delivery remains poor.
The ratepayers are, nevertheless expected to religiously pay their bills.
-Online
By Luke Tamborinyoka| It has been the week that the Zanu PF second-in-command’s daughter was appointed as a ZEC commissioner; the same week that the Zanu PF national spokesperson bragged that the national army was part of their party structures.
It has been the week in which a video has gone viral in which a Zanu PF supporter says Nelson Chamisa must be killed; and in which yet another party mandarin quips that Chamisa’s children too must be eliminated.
Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s blood–soaked legacy as well as the callous murders of Nyasha Zhambe, Mboneni Ncube and Moreblessings Ali mean that the threats must be taken seriously.
Exactly a year to go before the next watershed poll, the signs are clear we are headed for yet another sham unless the country implements a raft of comprehensive reform to ensure a truly free, fair and credible poll.
It is in this context that we have called for a special kind of dialogue to discuss and agree on the raft of reforms to be implemented so as to ensure a credible poll. We have dubbed the reform agreement PREPARE , which is an acronym for Pre-Election Pact for Reforms.
There has in the past weeks been regime change in both the UK and Sri Lanka, well outside the electoral process.
Zimbabweans still retain some waning faith in elections, but if the regime continues to throw spanners and to rig the electoral route, the citizens retain their right to siege the State House showers and to bathe there as they reportedly did in Sri Lanka when they chased their incompetent leader from the citizens’ sacred House.
After all, the citizens are the State and there are always no qualms if they storm the State House in order to occupy it. After all it’s their house!
As part of my civic responsibilities as a citizen and in light of the regime’s clear intention to subvert the people’s will in 2023, I republish in the public interest an earlier piece I wrote on the 31st of December 2021 which spells out in greater detail the issues that need to be addressed if we are to have a credible plebiscite in 2023; an election that reflects the sovereign will of the people of Zimbabwe.
Electoral Reform must be the uninterrupted national chorus for the year 2022
As we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023. And yet for some of us, highly expectant conversations about the pending elections that are not grounded on context are a false discourse.
The proper discourse should be about agreeing and implementing a raft of comprehensive reforms so that we break the vicious cycle of disputed elections that has afflicted this country since independence in 1980.
As we commence this crucial year, the nation should engage in animated conversations not about elections per se but about the quality and character of those elections so that this important exercise of choosing our national and local government leaders ceases to be a meaningless ritual.
For it is only the implementation of agreed reforms that can afford us herd immunity against the unfolding pandemic of illegitimacy that has now affected all pillars of the State. Indeed, we now have an illegitimate Executive headed by an illegitimate President, an illegitimate Judiciary headed by a disputed and illegitimate Chief Justice as well as an illegitimate Parliament where representatives legitimately elected by the people have been recalled through murky agents and processes. The spectre of illegitimacy has now permeated all facets of the body politic and only a truly free, fair and credible plebiscite undergirded by a raft of comprehensive reforms can take us back to an uninterrupted path to legitimacy.
Today, on the eve of the year 2022, the talk should not be simply about the pending by-elections or the forthcoming 2023 watershed polls. The deeper discourse should be about a basket of cogent reforms to ensure that our electoral processes do not continue to breed contested outcomes.
We have walked this tenuous road before and we must now move to the deeper discourse of the character and nature of our national elections. It is not enough to fulfill a calendar assignment when it comes to the holding of elections.
Meaningful elections must embed the undisputed sovereign expression of the people. Therefore, it is nationally profitable for the reform discourse to now start dominating all public platforms in Zimbabwe.
Without substantive electoral reforms in this country, our elections will continue to be a meaningless charade
By Jane Mlambo| After weeks of fighting, controversial socialites Mai Titi and Joey Nyikadzino have made peace and pictured together as a confirmation of having buried their differences.
Mai Titi and Nyikadzino fought on social media after the latter claimed that a car the popular comedienne got from her United States based husband as a birthday presented, used to be hers.
Mai Titi reacted angrily, attacking Nyikadzino for trying to gain limelight from her birthday. The drama proceeded with Nyikadzino posting chats with the car sale company who were handling the transaction.
Posting on Facebook, Nyikadzino said Mai Titi assisted her at her time of need when she wanted someone to collect something for her when she was applying for a visa at an unnamed embassy.
She reckoned that social media is just a street while there is real life behind the mobile phone and computer screens.
“I have learnt my lesson today, kuti in life musavengane ne zvinhu zvisina basa on social media, ini pfee Ku visa then they said they wanted something that I did not have ipapo, guess who helped me mai titi thank you so much, I appreciate. Social media is just a street , there is what we call life behind social media.”
Norton MP (independent), Temba Mliswa, has claimed that Local Government and Public Works Minister, July Moyo, collected a 10% commission on the Pomona Waste to Energy deal.
The US$344 million which requires Harare to pay US$22 000 per day was signed between Harare City Council and Geogenix BV, a Netherlands company fronted in Zimbabwe by Dilesh Nguwaya who is said to have close links with the first family.
Debating in Parliament during Wednesday’s question and answer session, Mliswa labelled Moyo a ‘debt collector’, alleging the minister was dodging Parliament to explain the deal, leaving deputy minister, Marian Chombo, to cover up for him. Mliswa said:
Hon. July Moyo is not here to respond but is busy writing letters to the local authorities so that money comes out. His job now is to write letters wanting money. How can a minister be a debt collector? He is not here to answer issues of all the deals that he is doing.
The Government is a lawyer, the Attorney-General and the Minister is a lawyer. Why is it the lawyer is writing a letter? To us, they are bent on reducing and denigrating His Excellency’s name and they must be brought to book once and for all.
I will not waste much of your time but I have gotten the point home, especially Hon. July Moyo. Where is he? He is seen writing letters left, right and centre wanting a 10% commission. He has been paid.
Ndozvinonetsa kana wadya mari dzevanhu. Haurari usiku nekuti unenge uchingonyora matsamba uchirotomoka. He must come and answer on why he is writing letters when he is not a debt collector.
Moyo has been in a war with the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) with the party’s councillors rejecting the deal which they say the central government imposed on the local government authority.
They also argue that at a rate of US$22 000 per day and the amount of waste required, the deal was designed to fail which can lead to the termination of the deal prematurely, something that won’t deter Geogenix BV from being paid all its money agreed in the deal.
-Newsday
By A Correspondent| Tashinga Mugwara, a second victim of indiscriminate police shooting is suing @PoliceZimbabwe for damages he suffered as a result of callous, unlawful and negligent shooting at Taita shops in Chitungwiza on 27 June.
Represented by Tinashe Chinopfukutwa of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Mugwara said police officers used excessive force in shooting him which constitutes gross human rights violations.
Mugwara, is the second person to sue @PoliceZimbabwe for disproportionate use of force which unnecessarily endangered the lives of of the public on 27 June.
The alleged killer of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali, Pius Jamba, is reportedly being treated better than opposition MPs Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole who are detained at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
The two lawmakers were arrested last month and charged with incitement to commit public violence to avenge the death of Ali who was allegedly killed by Jamba, a Zanu-PF supporter.
Jamba is detained at Harare Remand Prison pending finalisation of his case. But Sikhala and Sithole who are yet to be tried are jailed at Chikurubi, the home of convicted criminals.
Kambuzuma legislator Willias Madzimure in Parliament on Wednesday slammed the justice system in Zimbabwe for practicing selective application of the law. He raised a point on why Sikhala and Sithole were brought to court in leg irons when they were not convicted criminals.
Madzimure protested: “Madam Speaker, there has been a general deliberate way of making sure that the law is applied selectively. For instance, we have seen Hon. Members of Parliament in this House being leg-ironed into the courts for issues like even re-tweeting a message.
“Of all those people who have been incarcerated in that manner, not a single one has been convicted.
“A number of MPs are detained at Chikurubi whilst on remand when there is a Remand Prison for an issue or a matter that is not near anything like murder or armed robbery.
“Even the person who killed Moreblessing Ali is detained today at Central Remand Prison. He is not at Chikurubi but someone who is accused of having said mabhonzo aBlessing achamuka is at Chikurubi.
“More-so, Hon. Members of Parliament have been treated worse than a common criminal. Is it now lawful that the law is applied selectively and deliberately.
“My point of order is that the Hon. The Minister of Justice must come here and give a Ministerial Statement why there is selective application of the law.”
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament responded: “Hon. Madzimure, we cannot discuss issues which are before the courts.”
Sikhala and Sithole have been denied bail at both the Magistrate court and the High Court.
The CCC vice chairman was charged afresh on allegations of obstruction and defeating the course of justice.
Sikhala was picked from Chikurubi Maximum Prison by an unregistered vehicle to Harare Central Police Station to be slapped with the additional charge.
He is represented by Human Rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa.
His party the CCC said in a statement: “Update: Our MP Hon Job Sikhala was taken to Law and Order Harare Central this afternoon on new charges. He’s alleged to have obstructed & defeated the course of justice. This continued harassment of CCC members must stop.”
Commenting on the latest development, top journalist Hopewell Chin’ono said;
“Jailed CCC MP Job Sikhala has been charged using the same facts from his previous charge, but using a different act,” he said.
“His lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said that at law it is called splitting of facts, hoping that they can get him on the other charge. Only Sikhala has been charged!
“His co-accused from the previous arrest, CCC Member of Parliament, Godfrey Sithole has not been charged, and is at Chikurubi prison.
-NewZimbabwe
HARARE – The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), a grouping of over 75 civic society groups, has threatened to organise large-scale protests in response to the persecution of human rights defenders.
The call comes as government workers have vowed to stage mass job boycotts starting next Monday to press for better pay.
CiZC leader Peter Mutasa, speaking during a news conference in the Harare, accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime of cracking down on dissent instead of addressing the country’s multifaceted crisis.
“It has become quite apparent that the state is keen on entrenching authoritarian rule and pursuing its agenda of a one-party state and for us, this is a call to action,” Mutasa said.
“We therefore, reiterate that we shall pursue all avenues necessary to resist entrenchment of authoritarian rule and this includes strengthening advocacy initiatives at the regional and international level.
“Human rights abuses, continued mutilation of the constitution, a dishonest, parasitic and extractive national economic system clearly remains a threat to inclusive economic growth and national development.”
The government is set to pass the Private Voluntary Organisation Amendment Bill, which will deregister civil society groups considered by the justice minister to be operating outside their mandate – sweeping new powers which critics say are designed to silence critical voices.
Mutasa said a raft of “draconian laws” being considered by the government were targeted at silencing dissenting voices speaking out against misgovernance and corruption.
“The enactment of draconian laws that include the Data Protection Act enacted in December 2021, amendments to the PVO Act among other draconian pieces of legislation is a calculated move to criminalise anyone seeking to hold the government to account,” he said.
Mutasa said they also “note with concern that law enforcement agents continue to act as appendages of the ruling party, Zanu PF, in violation of the country’s constitution.”
Political analysts and opposition parties fear the law changes and targeted arrests of government critics point to disputed general elections next year.
The main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change, led by Nelson Chamisa, recently called for electoral reforms and stakeholder dialogue ahead of the 2023 elections.
-Newsday
Armed robberies have become the order of the day in Zimbabwe with business people and security companies losing lots of transit money on a daily basis. Of late, the security personnel have also been implicated in robberies involving large sums of money.
Bikita East legislator Johnson Madhuku on Wednesday asked the government to explain its position regarding the proliferation of cases of armed robberies throughout the country.
“Thank you very much, my question is directed to the Hon. Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage. Madam Speaker Ma’am, in recent days and months we have been seeing a proliferation of cases of armed robberies throughout the country,” he asked.
“It is so disturbing because as a nation, we are feeling that we are very unsecure. A lot of people are being shot and in some cases, even by guns with silencers.
“I would want to ask the Hon. Minister for Home Affairs, what has been put in place by the Ministry to ensure that they are proactive and also they rapidly react or respond to such cases of armed robbery so that we feel safe? I thank you Madam Speaker Ma’am.”
In response, Home Affairs Deputy Minister Maboyi said the government was facilitating measures to curb armed robberies. She further stated that the shortage of police vehicles sometimes hinders their efforts.
“Thank you Madam Speaker Ma’am for the question which has been asked. We are very worried about the armed robberies which are happening. Police are not everywhere but we are trying our best to make sure that we protect the people, banks and so forth. However, you will find that things are happening.
“We are talking of people who are intelligent and are also understudying the police. I do not think that we are all happy here about what is happening but it is happening.
“We are facilitating whatever we are able to do. If armed robberies are happening, usually we go and attend to that and at times we do not have vehicles to dash quickly but we are trying to do everything we can,” she said.
-Newsday
Mberengwa Ward 15 Councillor Ravasingadi Zhou who served for 28 years from 1994 is no more.
He died on Tuesday at his homestead under Chief Mposi’s area, Mataga where he was then laid to rest yesterday. He suffered a stroke a few years back.
He was Mberengwa’s longest-serving councillor and once worked for the Ministry of Women Affairs.
Mberengwa District Development Coordinator (DDC) Vafious Hlavati told the Mirror that the passing of Zhou had disheartened Mberengwa.
“It is very sad that we have lost our longest serving councillor. It is painful to lose someone like Councillor Zhou. He was experienced and responsible for advising others, he is difficult to replace,” said Hlavati
Zhou is survived by his wife and six children.
-Masvingo Mirror
Citizens Coalition for change lawmaker, Job Sikhala, Thursday appeared before a Harare magistrate answering to charges of defeating the course of justice.
Sikhala was charged at a time he is currently locked in at Chikurubi Maximum Prison on charges of inciting public violence.
Through his lawyer, Jeremiah Bamu, Sikhala challenged the court’s jurisdiction after his case was heard in an anti-corruption court.
He complained that this was unfair, considering that the matter has nothing to do with corruption.
He is seeking to have the matter heard in a provincial court.
Bamu also said that the state was choosing to be hostile to civic society and opposition members.
“As evidence of that, your worship, the accused submits that besides himself, Hopewell Chinóno, Tendai Biti, Fadzayi Mahere and a few other opposition leaders, media practitioners and civil society members whose matters have nothing to do with corruption were placed in an Anti-Corruption court,” he said.
“It feels as if the Anti-Corruption court has been reduced to a political court of targeted individuals who are perceived as non-conforming to the dictates of the State.
“Reasonable persons in this matter will generally believe that the anticorruption court will be biased against Sikhala…Job Sikhala will not get justice in this court.
Bamu said, ‘bias exists in this matter.”
The National Prosecution Authority (NPA) represented by Ephraim Zinyandu and Silent Shoko said they wanted to verify some facts before asking for a postponement.
Magistrate Ngoni Nduna postponed the hearing to this Friday.
Sikhala is expected to challenge his placement on remand.
The legislator is accused of posting a video in a bid to mislead investigating officers in the murder of slain CCC activist, Moreblessing Ali.
Sikhala was charged for inciting violence, with the State also relying on the same video.
Beatrice Mtetwa, also representing Sikhala, fumed over why he was taken to an anti-corruption court.
If they had deemed it regional, we expected it to go to the remand regional court but surprisingly it was taken to court 16 which is a trial court and magistrate Nduna is sitting in that court and some of you will be aware that he previously denied honourable Sikhala bail on a basis that had not been relied upon by the state factually in it’s form 424.
She added, “In fact he made up his facts in denying him bail, in addition he also denied him bail on the basis that he has a propensity towards committing offense because he had been arrested 65 times in a short space of time
Mtetwa said the 68 times Sikhala was arrested relate to a 21 year period as such to characterise 21 years as short as the magistrate’s creation.
“So we are saying we fear that he will do the same, we are asking why second cases that have nothing whatsoever to do with anti corruption are taken to anti corruption courts.
“We are also saying anti-corruption courts judicial officers are known to deny bail to certain types of accused persons who include opposition politicians who include civil society activities who include generally those who are seen as a nuisance by the establishment.
“So naturally we fear that even before we take about bail, or other applications we will make, it will fall on deaf ears because the magistrate has a predisposition to deny people like Sikhala bail.
“We are not saying this from the air, we are saying it because he has done it before,” she said.
-Newsday
By Staff Reporter- The arrested 10 opposition and independent Norton councillors have been charged with corruption.
The 10 were arrested by members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday and are expected to appear in court today in Norton.
Norton Town chairperson Silvester Gumisirayi confirmed the arrest of the arrests.
“Thank you and sorry for late response. I confirm the arrest of Norton Town Councillors which is a mix of Independent, MDC-T and CCC and the town secretary on allegations of abuse of office while on duty,” he said.
Norton has 13 ward councillors. Out of the 13, two (2) are independent, one (1) is from Zanu PF, and the rest belong to the opposition.
The councillors are accused of illegally selling residential stands.
” The main allegations are that of selling stands to their friends and relatives at a price which is lower than the recommended price. They are expected to appear in the Norton Court tomorrow (Friday),” a ZACC source told Zimeye.com Thursday evening.
ZACC spokesperson John Makamure could not be reached for further details of the allegations
Observers view the arrest of the 10 councillors as a Zanu PF ploy to discredit the opposition ahead of the 2023 national elections.
Freedom for Economic Emancipation of Zimbabwe (FEEZ) leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has sensationally claimed that opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa and former Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere are the only people who can pull the country out of the current economic and political crisis.
Addressing journalists in Harare Wednesday afternoon, the former Zanu PF secretary for youth said people from Mashonaland Central are clamouring for the return of Kasukuwere who is exiled in South Africa.
“There are only two people at the moment who are capable of causing an upset and deliver Zimbabweans from where we find ourselves, some of us are just helpers and we have taken our rightful places of mobilising 10%. These two people are Nelson Chamisa and Saviour Kasukuwere, some of you may be surprised but listen to me,” said Tsenengamu.
The outspoken politician called on Chamisa to mobilise his supporters to stand in support of those who are being arrested and persecuted by the Government.
“For now Advocate Nelson Chamisa is the face of opposition politics in Zimbabwe, but Advocate you must also provide leadership, it’s good to be on twitter but at times there is need for you to be on ground. Do not hesitate fearing arrest its part of the journey Mr. Mugabe was arrested even Mnangagwa spent 10 years in jail. Even when you get arrested we will visit you the same way you are visit those who are incarcerated and that makes Zimbabwe to stand their ground.
“I beg you to mobilise your supporters to stand in solidarity with comrades who are under persecution because if what is happening to the other comrades happens to you, your comrades being pacified as they are now you will sink in broad daylight teach your people to fight for each other, to stand in support of each other no matter your factional differences if they exist within CCC.
“Lead the fight against the Pomona issue, we are there to assist because you have the voice that Zimbabweans listen and your supporters are waiting for an instruction, signal but if you fail to take leadership as the eldest brother, us as young brothers will not listen to you and we will mobilise to correct the problems,” said Tsenengamu.
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By-CCC deputy chairman Job Sikhala is back in court today, challenging the presiding magistrate to recuse himself.
Sikhala Thursday appeared before Harare provincial magistrate Ngoni Nduna facing fresh charges of obstructing the course of justice.
The senior CCC member wants another magistrate other than Nduna to preside over his case.
CCC posted Thursday announcing this development:
Hon
application for the recusal of Provincial Magistrate Ngoni Nduna in his latest trumped up charges will be determined tomorrow at 1000hrs. Let’s come in our numbers to show solidarity with Sikhala.
By Staff Reporter- All opposition MDC-T Norton councillors have reportedly been arrested on allegations of corruption.
Norton has 13 ward councillors. Out of the 13, two (2) are independent, one (1) is from Zanu PF, and 10 belong to the MDC-T led by Senator Douglas Mwonzora.
Sources close to the arrests of these councillors told Zimeye.com that they were nabbed Monday by members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for illegally selling residential stands.
” They were summoned to ZACC offices in Harare on Monday for interviews, and they were later charged with abuse of office,” said the sources.
” The main allegations are that of selling stands to their friends and relatives at a price which is lower than the recommended price. They are expected to appear in the Norton Court tomorrow (Friday),” the source added.
Repeated efforts to get an official comment from ZACC spokesperson John Makamure were fruitless as his phone went answered. We also sent him text messages via WhatsApp, but they were not yet responded to at the time of publishing despite having been read.
Norton MP, Temba Mliswa, neither picked his phone nor responded to WhatsApp messages sent to him.
We also tried to reach the MDC-T President, Senator Mwonzora, but his phone was unavailable.
Observers, however, view the arrest of the 10 MDC-T councillors as a Zanu PF poly to discredit the opposition ahead of the 2023 national elections.
Norton MP (independent), Temba Mliswa, has claimed that Local Government and Public Works Minister, July Moyo, collected a 10% commission on the Pomona Waste to Energy deal.
The US$344 million which requires Harare to pay US$22 000 per day was signed between Harare City Council and Geogenix BV, a Netherlands company fronted in Zimbabwe by Dilesh Nguwaya who is said to have close links with the first family.
Debating in Parliament during Wednesday’s question and answer session, Mliswa labelled Moyo a ‘debt collector’, alleging the minister was dodging Parliament to explain the deal, leaving deputy minister, Marian Chombo, to cover up for him.
Mliswa said:
Hon. July Moyo is not here to respond but is busy writing letters to the local authorities so that money comes out. His job now is to write letters wanting money. How can a minister be a debt collector? He is not here to answer issues of all the deals that he is doing.
The Government is a lawyer, the Attorney-General and the Minister is a lawyer. Why is it the lawyer is writing a letter? To us, they are bent on reducing and denigrating His Excellency’s name and they must be brought to book once and for all.
I will not waste much of your time but I have gotten the point home, especially Hon. July Moyo. Where is he? He is seen writing letters left, right and centre wanting a 10% commission. He has been paid.
Ndozvinonetsa kana wadya mari dzevanhu. Haurari usiku nekuti unenge uchingonyora matsamba uchirotomoka. He must come and answer on why he is writing letters when he is not a debt collector.
Moyo has been in a war with the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) with the party’s councillors rejecting the deal which they say the central government imposed on the local government authority.
They also argue that at a rate of US$22 000 per day and the amount of waste required, the deal was designed to fail which can lead to the termination of the deal prematurely, something that won’t deter Geogenix BV from being paid all its money agreed in the deal.- Pindula News
By-CCC deputy chairman Job Sikhala, Thursday appeared at the Harare magistrate’s court facing another charge.
Sikhala appeared before Harare provincial magistrate Ngoni Nduna facing charges of obstructing the course of justice.
Several CCC officials, including Charlton Hwende filled Harare magistrate’s court in solidarity with Sikhala.
Sikhala was arrested last month in Chitungwiza when he was representing the family of the late CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
The police arrested him and charged him with inciting violence.
CCC posted the bail hearing court pictures on Twitter Thursday
Several
champions thronged Rotten Row Court in Harare to attend the remand hearing of Hon
who’s facing new trumped-up charges of obstructing the course of justice. He was arrested in the course of performing his duties as a lawyer.
By- The Ministry of Health has summoned nurses who went on strike protesting against poor salaries to appear before a disciplinary hearing.
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, a former army general, is the Minister of Health and Child Care.
In 2018 he fired thousands of nurses who went on strike to demand higher salaries.
Health Service Board (HSB) chairperson Paulinus Sikhosana confirmed to NewDay that Chiwenga directed them to summon the striking nurses
Sikhosana said:
These disciplinary actions are confidential. There are disciplinary principles in place and when something happens, they refer to the procedures that are there.
Health workers, mainly doctors and nurses, last month withdrew their services across the country over poor remuneration.
They are demanding restoration of their pre-October 2018 salaries that were in United States dollars.
Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Association president Robert Chiduku said the disciplinary hearings were an attempt to intimidate health workers. Chiduku said this Wednesday:
This is a tactic to instil fear in anticipation of the looming and pending industrial action that is meant to take place on July 22, 2022 and maybe prevent another action from taking place.
Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enock Dongo echoed Chiduku’s remarks and castigated the government for victimising people “every time they ask for better salaries.” He added:
We have a President (Emmerson Mnangagwa) who says he is a listening President and when the people he appoints behave like this, then it is not good. Nurses were demonstrating at the hospitals because they were incapacitated, they were never on strike.
Tinashe Sambiri|Prominent cleric Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has expressed concern at the violation of human rights by the Zanu PF regime.
Bishop Magaya also challenged the regime to stop the relentless persecution of political activists.
Watch video below:
French Ligue 1 side Stroudsburg has joined the race to sign Lyon striker Tinotenda Kadewere.
The Zimbabwean forward is looking for an exit after falling out of favour at the club. He struggled for game time last season and is reportedly out of coach Peter Bosz’s plans for the next campaign.
According to L’Equipe, Strasbourg have already inquired about the player and are prepared to pay a transfer fee ranging between €7m and €8m.
However, Lyon wants something not less than €10m, having signed the striker from Le Havre for €12m back in 2020.
The other Ligue 1 side that has been linked with Kadewere is Brest, while several unnamed German clubs are also monitoring the player.
Meanwhile, the 26-year-old was among the first batch of players who started Lyon’s pre-season preparations over two weeks ago.
Kadewere, who spent his break with his family in South Africa and United Arab Emirates, has featured in a couple of friendlies so far.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Norton MP (independent), Temba Mliswa, has claimed that Local Government and Public Works Minister, July Moyo, collected a 10% commission on the Pomona Waste to Energy deal.
The US$344 million which requires Harare to pay US$22 000 per day was signed between Harare City Council and Geogenix BV, a Netherlands company fronted in Zimbabwe by Dilesh Nguwaya who is said to have close links with the first family.
Debating in Parliament during Wednesday’s question and answer session, Mliswa labelled Moyo a ‘debt collector’, alleging the minister was dodging Parliament to explain the deal, leaving deputy minister, Marian Chombo, to cover up for him.
Mliswa said:
Hon. July Moyo is not here to respond but is busy writing letters to the local authorities so that money comes out. His job now is to write letters wanting money. How can a minister be a debt collector? He is not here to answer issues of all the deals that he is doing.
The Government is a lawyer, the Attorney-General and the Minister is a lawyer. Why is it the lawyer is writing a letter? To us, they are bent on reducing and denigrating His Excellency’s name and they must be brought to book once and for all.
I will not waste much of your time but I have gotten the point home, especially Hon. July Moyo. Where is he? He is seen writing letters left, right and centre wanting a 10% commission. He has been paid.
Ndozvinonetsa kana wadya mari dzevanhu. Haurari usiku nekuti unenge uchingonyora matsamba uchirotomoka. He must come and answer on why he is writing letters when he is not a debt collector.
Moyo has been in a war with the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) with the party’s councillors rejecting the deal which they say the central government imposed on the local government authority.
They also argue that at a rate of US$22 000 per day and the amount of waste required, the deal was designed to fail which can lead to the termination of the deal prematurely, something that won’t deter Geogenix BV from being paid all its money agreed in the deal.- Pindula News
Below are pictures of a section of young farmer, Terrence Maphosa’s field grazed down by a donkey.
ZimEye understands the notorious donkey has since been killed following this ordeal.
The development has brought into discussion the need for farmers to insure their crops, amid revelations that the nation does not have any insurers that offer full cover for farm produce losses.
Harare lawyer Tapiwanashe Mukandi has filed a High Court application challenging laws that criminalise possession, consumption and cultivation of cannabis (mbanje or dagga) in Zimbabwe.
In his application, filed on July 13, Mukandi cited ministers Constantino Chiwenga (Health and Child Care), Ziyambi Ziyambi (Justice) Kazembe Kazembe (Home Affairs) as respondents.
He is represented by Tapiwa Chivanga of Scanlen & Holderness.
In his founding affidavit, Mukandi said the existing laws were “inconsistent with the rights to privacy; equal protection and benefit of the law as well as to bodily and psychological integrity in sections 57, 56 (1) and 52 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe respectively, to the extent that they criminalise the cultivation, possession and or use of cannabis in private by an adult for his or her personal consumption.
“In essence, I am seeking a declaratory order to the effect that the challenged provisions are unconstitutional as they infringe on my aforementioned constitutional rights and the infringement is unfair, unreasonable, unnecessary and unjustifiable in a democratic society based on openness, justice, human dignity, equality and freedom.”
He cited sections of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) as read with Section 6 of Dangerous Drugs Act, as well as section 4 of the Dangerous Drugs Regulations, among others in his application.
Zimbabwe legalised the production of cannabis for medicinal or scientific purposes in April 2018 through a statutory instrument.
The country became the second African nation to legalise cannabis production after Lesotho.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court then followed suit by legalising the cultivation and smoking of marijuana inside homes. -Newsday
Public Service minister Paul Mavima yesterday pleaded with civil servants not to abandon salary negotiations fearing a full-blown strike beginning next week.
“At this particular point in time, they should not abandon the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC). NJNC is the only legitimate platform for our civil servants to negotiate,” he said.
“We are moving towards instituting a collective bargaining council and everyone within the labour movement in the civil service knows that we have moved quite a lot towards establishing that.”
Civil servants are pushing for United States dollar salaries in the face of skyrocketing prices of basic goods and commodities as well as a free-falling local currency.
Inflation clocked 192% last month, with some retailers now refusing to accept the Zimbabwe dollar as currency of trade fearing losses.
Civil servants say the harsh economic climate has turned them into paupers, but Mavima begged them not to abandon the negotiations.
“I am appealing to them to come back to the NJNC. We can’t abandon NJNC as of now. The current round of negotiations is not yet complete. We have met twice and they can’t declare industrial action unless we have met three times and at each point, it is an interactive process,”Mavima said.
However, labour unions said Mavima’s pleas were a little too late unless government was ready to consider United States dollar salary discussions.
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe president Takavafira Zhou also accused Mavima of dishonesty.
“We cannot be negotiating in perpetuity without coming to a conclusion. We have been negotiating since October 2018. What we need is restoration of salaries that teachers were getting in October 2019,” Zhou said.
Zimbabwe Teachers Association secretary-general Goodwill Taderera added: “When he says we should be patient, it must be shown by some action. How do we talk about ongoing negotiations when we go back and forth and get the same result?
“We are also pleading with him to make sure that he also increases the salary component, especially the US$ component.”
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe national secretary Moreblessing Nyambara and Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enock Dongo weighed in, saying government was not genuine.
“The government has a take it or leave it mantra. It is the one that has abandoned the negotiations long back and the workers were just called to sanitise whatever they have done. Now workers have realised they are being used and, therefore, the government needs to introspect,” Dongo said.
Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions secretary David Dzatsunga said: “We have come together to abandon the negotiating forum they call the NJNC and our reason for that is that government has taken too long to put in place a collective bargaining framework as provisioned in section 65 of the Constitution and Internatinal Labour Organisation conventions.
“NJNC is no longer a retainable platform for us to perform on in negotiations. We cannot go for arbitrations. We cannot go into a forum where we aid the government to abuse the rights of its workers.” –Newsday
By A Correspondent | ZimEye | MP, Job Sikhala on Thursday applied for recusal of the magistrate who is currently trying him.
Speaking outside the Magistrates Court, Job Sikhala’s lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa said the sitting magistrate, Nduna has created his own facts which are the basis of the denial of bail.
Zengeza MP, Job Sikhala on Thursday applied for recusal of the magistrate who is currently trying him.
— ZimEye (@ZimEye) July 14, 2022
Speaking outside the Harare Magistrates Court, Job Sikhala's lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa said the sitting magistrate, Nduna: has created his own facts pic.twitter.com/DYFJ0KZgO9
She said, as ZimEye transribes below : I think those of you who were in court heard Mr Bamu’s application for recusal. We expected that we would be in the provincial Court because this is a provincial case which a provincial magistrate can deal with. If they deemed it regional, we expected it go to the remand region l Court which is Court 14.
But surprisingly it was taken to court 16 which is a trial court and Mr Nduna, magistrate Nduna is sitting in that court, and some of you will be aware that mag Nduna previously denied Hon Sikhala bail on a basis that had not been relied upon by the state factually in its form 242. In short he made up his own facts in denying him bail. In addition, he denied him bail on the basis that he has a propensity towards committing offences because he has been arrested 65 times in a short space of time. Firstly, this 65 times related to a 21 year period, so to characterise 21 year as short, was again his own creation. But more importantly he then relied on propensity based on arrest not conviction. As you all know.
But more importantly he then relied on propensity based on arrest not conviction. As you all know political leaders get arrested many many times. They never get tried. And you heard me say Bamu addressed the court saying the state is very quick to arrest and deny bail but very slow to provide a trial date. It is a misdirection to say because the police come to arrest you, whether rightly or wrongly, that shows a propensity when you have not been convicted. So we are saying we fear that you will do the same, we are asking why certain cases that have nothing whatsoever to do with Anti Corruption are taken to Corruption Courts. We are also saying, anti corruption court judicial officers are known to denying bail to certain types of accused persons who include opposition politicians, who include citivl society activists and who include generally those who are seen as a nuisance by the establishment, so naturally, we fear that even before we talk about bail, or whatever other application we will make, it will fall on deaf ears because the magistrate has a predisposition to deny people like Sikhala bail, and we are not saying this from the air, we are sayjng he has done it before. So that basically is where we are. Thank you
By- Police in South Africa have confirmed the death of a man two minutes after taking an entire bottle of Jagermeister.
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The incident happened at a drinking spot in Mashamba Village in the Waterval area of Limpopo Province over the weekend.
Police spokesman Motlafela Mojapelo said:
The patrons allegedly participated in what they called a ‘drinking competition’ in which the winner – who could consume the entire bottle of Jägermeister within a specified time – would get R200 (about US$12) cash.
One of them, aged 30, immediately collapsed thereafter and was taken to the local clinic where he was certified dead.
In a video posted on Twitter this Wednesday, the man is seen drinking from a bottle. In the clip, he was crowded around by other patrons encouraging him to finish the alcohol. Watch the video below for more:
Hopewell Chin’ono
@daddyhope on Twitter:
I reported that a ZANUPF Deputy Minister & a newly elected councilor had offered Africa’s biggest musician @burnaboy money to wear the ED Scarf, and he refused.
ZANUPF said that I was lying
Here is @burnaboy talking about how he turned down that big offer to endorse the ED scarf
Tinashe Sambiri|Prominent cleric Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has expressed concern at the violation of human rights by the Zanu PF regime.
Bishop Magaya also challenged the regime to stop the relentless persecution of political activists.
Watch video below:
Solidarity is a core value in social democracy:CCC Namibia applauds their delegation!
14 July 2022
Citizens in Namibia salute their delegation to Zimbabwe led by the organic, pragmatic, determined, and committed Interim Secretary General Simbarashe Ndoda and Youth Commander Ropafadzo Tsara who exhibited much-needed solidarity with the incarcerated Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole. We urge all genuine change champions to emulate this revolutionary spirit to counter ZANU-PF shenanigans aimed at deterring yellow revolutionaries in the run-up to the historic 2023 harmonized elections.
Citizens should flood the courts to demonstrate their unity of purpose in winning Zimbabwe for complete change under the astute leadership of President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. Thank you, Champion Mako and Sg Hwende, and all champions who are there for mukoma Hon Job Wiwa Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole. Wiwa and all prisoners of conscience such as the firebrand Artuz President Obert Masaraure are enduring long pre-trial detentions because they are speaking truth to power clamouring for justice and equality before the law . We demand their immediate and unconditional release because they are innocent and law-abiding citizens.
The police must arrest Nyatsime ZANU-PF chairperson Masimbi Masimbi, Mashayanyika, and others who openly incited political violence against President Chamisa and all Citizens Coalition for Change members. We condemn this selective application of the law by the clueless regime. Thank you, Namibia for exhibiting participatory democracy! Solidarity is a core value in social democracy. It is imperative to pent up our outrage democratically to ensure that fundamental human rights are respected in the motherland.
Citizens Coalition for Change Namibia
Rundu Branch Interim Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
Founder members of Artuz urge ZANUPF to drop trumped-up charges against President Obert Masaraure and Sg Robson Chere!
12 July 2022
As founder members of the tremendous and consistent teachers’ union fighting for decent wages for the educators and the entire civil service, we demand an abrupt end to the insane behaviour by ZANU-PF satanists. It is quite pathetic to witness labor unionists enduring long pre-trial detentions for demanding a living wage of US540 per month. Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe was formed to fight against slave wages, contribute to the formulation of sound education policies, and the promotion of fair labour practices. Our leaders have the right to resist 24 loaves of bread as their salaries.
Founders of the Award Winning vibrant movement are cobra-headed at the targeted prosecution by the persecution of President Obert Masaraure and Secretary-General Robson Chere. Winning a Frontline Human Rights Defenders Award should not be criminalized because it is a fundamental basic freedom and right enshrined in the constitution of 2013. It appeared funny when Masaraure was bundled back into the hellhole of Chikurubi Maximum Prison for demanding the release of Sg Chere on social media, this daylight satanism should be resisted with equal measure.
We urge all educators to peacefully express their disgruntlement at the continued incarceration of innocent teachers who are being starved by a corrupt and greedy regime that does not care about its downtrodden teachers.
Teachers in Zimbabwe are wallowing in abject poverty while ZANU-PF leaders are enjoying their ill-gotten wealth. As founders of this mammoth union, we demand their immediate release. The unfortunate death of Roy Issa was concluded in 2016 and the relevant authorities ruled out foul play. Our leaders are suffering because they are genuinely representing the underrated educators.
It is now crucial to amplify our voices demanding justice for President Obert Masaraure, Sg Robson Chere, CCC Vice-Chairperson Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, Godfrey Karakadzayi Sithole, Moreblessing Ali, the Nyatsime 13, Chimanimani 3 and all political prisoners. ZANU-PF must unconditionally release the yellow party leaders and labor unionists who are determined to promote the rule of law and constitutionalism. We can’t be mute when our leaders are being abused for speaking the truth to power against a politically inept regime.
In a nutshell, the founders of Artuz shall not fold their hands in the face of the brutality and inhumane treatment of the union leaders. Obert, Chere, Sikhala, Godfrey, and others are not criminals. They deserve bail as provided in the supreme law of the country.The irony is that substantial criminals in the names of Obadiah Moyo, Ignatius Chombo, Prisca Mupfumira, Henrietta Rushwaya only to mention but a few are walking scot-free after daylight looting of the national cake right under the nose of ZANU-PF goons who continue the plunder of our economy with impunity. The jailing of our fellow authors at Artuz signifies the insatiable appetite of the desperate regime to continue grabbing national wealth without transparency and accountability.
We demand the immediate release of our leaders. They are innocent! They are not criminals! They deserve bail! Trumped-up charges must be dropped now! ZANU-PF must just go because it has dismally failed to put the economy on a sounder footing since the coup which unconstitutionally removed Mugabe accusing him of corruption and gross governance.
By Former Artuz Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
By Sofia Mapuranga
*Farai Chiremwaremwa* is a new tenant in the neighbourhood who does not associate with anyone.
A 27year old reserved young man who barely greets his neighbour lest they get too close, he recounts and still cannot get over the trauma and humiliation he suffered the day he was booted out of his previous rented home in Seke, Chitungwiza.
“My landlord made sure everyone knows the reason why she no longer wanted me at her house. It was one of the most humiliating experiences I have ever suffered. I ended up picking up my property late at night because I feared for my life.”
He narrated his ordeal which started on a cold Sunday, in June last year where he woke up to his usual routine where he did his laundry before making his breakfast.
The 7 roomed house he shared with a co- tenant in Unit A belonged to a woman in her late fifties, Gogo Manjobo who resided in another location in Zengeza 1, about 12 kilometres away.
It had been almost 5 years and he never had any challenges staying at this house.
The good thing he enjoyed the most was that the family he shared the house with minded their own business and would never pry into his personal life.
Besides the usual communication over bill payments and home cleaning, Farai rarely interacted with his co- tenant over anything.
On this said day, Farai had invited his lover over who came just before lunch.
He welcomed his partner and the duo were laughing and chatting when his landlord arrived.
Oblivious that his landlord had paid them a visit, Farai started getting intimate with his lover in his bedroom. Just when things began hotting up,the door was flung open without even a knock.
It was Farai’s landlord.
The look on her face after she walked in on Farai was clear testimony that life at this place he had called home for over 5 years was never going to be the same.
“What in God’s name are you doing defiling my house with such actions?” Farai’s landlord burst out before she started shouting all sorts of obscenities.
Her loud voice boomed attracting the attention of Farai’s co tenant who immediately enquired what had happened to trigger such a reaction.
Gogo Manjobo’ increased the tempo and she started shouting at Farai on the top of her voice. In no time, the development had attracted the attention of the other neighbours.
Farai’ s lover made a hasty exit from the premises after realising that the woman was unstoppable.
She started telling all and sundry who cared to listen what she had seen with her own eyes, a man kissing another man.
The notice to vacate the premises was issued without any qualms in full glare of the small crowd that had gathered.
Farai was supposed to leave gogo’ house and find somewhere else to live despite that it was mid-month.
He complied after receiving threats that failure to do so would see the community members beat him up for his sexuality.
One of the many challenges experienced by LGBTIs within communities, rejection and segregation has forced many not to disclose their sexuality.
Most of them are evicted and given days’ notice to vacate their rented apartments.
Sam Matsikure, a programs officer at Gays and Lesbians Zimbabwe (GALZ), an organisation that works with LGBTIs in Harare confirmed that his organisation was overwhelmed with such challenges where sometimes their constituency was given hours notices to vacate their “homes”.
“They would have paid rentals but are treated unfairly. One has to then weigh the option of challenging their landlord for their rights as lodgers or opt to just move out as soon as they can and guarantee their safety. Most chose the later,” said Matsikure.
He said LGBTIs are welcome to reach out to his organisation as it has in place measures to assist them find safe spaces where they can find shelter until they are able to stand on their own feet again.
He said because most of these challenges occur mid month where the affected victims would not be financially capable of finding alternative accommodation, most are left traumatised and vulnerable as they have no means to move out from where they would have been booted out.
“There are certain communities that we know are a no no. The homophobia and segregation for LGBTIs is rampant. Communities still gang up with some even threatening to beat up gays and lesbians.”
A Chitungwiza based social commentator Danai Garambwe said there is need for communities to be inclusive and accept LGBTIs for who they are.
“LGBTIs have rights too and those rights should not be taken away just because landlords or communities discover one’s sexuality. Sensitisation is key.”
A landlord from Unit M in Seke said communities are yet to unlearn the homophobia that was prevalent during the late former President Robert Mugabe’s era, who publicly attacked LGBTs describing them as “worse than dogs.”
“There is a shift on acceptance of LGBTIs in some communities but you will still hear the statement that ‘Mugabe was right’. This shows how leaders shape public opinion because even after he is gone, his opinion is still held in high regard by some Zimbabweans. Leaders must be at the forefront of promoting inclusivity and acceptance.”
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UN Report: Global Hunger
The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (1), according to a United Nations report that provides fresh evidence that the world is moving further away from its goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030.
The 2022 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report presents updates on the food security and nutrition situation around the world, including the latest estimates of the cost and affordability of a healthy diet. The report also looks at ways in which governments can repurpose their current support to agriculture to reduce the cost of healthy diets, mindful of the limited public resources available in many parts of the world.
The report was jointly published today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The numbers paint a grim picture:
As many as 828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021 – 46 million people more from a year earlier and 150 million more from 2019.
After remaining relatively unchanged since 2015, the proportion of people affected by hunger jumped in 2020 and continued to rise in 2021, to 9.8% of the world population. This compares with 8% in 2019 and 9.3% in 2020.
Around 2.3 billion people in the world (29.3%) were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021 – 350 million more compared to before the outbreak of the COVID‑19 pandemic. Nearly 924 million people (11.7% of the global population) faced food insecurity at severe levels, an increase of 207 million in two years.
The gender gap in food insecurity continued to rise in 2021 – 31.9% of women in the world were moderately or severely food insecure, compared to 27.6% of men – a gap of more than 4 percentage points, compared with 3 percentage points in 2020.
Almost 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet in 2020, up 112 million from 2019, reflecting the effects of inflation in consumer food prices stemming from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to contain it.
An estimated 45 million children under the age of five were suffering from wasting, the deadliest form of malnutrition, which increases children’s risk of death by up to 12 times. Furthermore, 149 million children under the age of five had stunted growth and development due to a chronic lack of essential nutrients in their diets, while 39 million were overweight.
Progress is being made on exclusive breastfeeding, with nearly 44% of infants under 6 months of age being exclusively breastfed worldwide in 2020. This is still short of the 50% target by 2030. Of great concern, 2 in 3 children are not fed the minimum diverse diet they need to grow and develop to their full potential.
Looking forward, projections are that nearly 670 million people (8% of the world population) will still be facing hunger in 2030 – even if a global economic recovery is taken into consideration. This is a similar number to 2015, when the goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by the end of this decade was launched under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
As this report is being published, the ongoing war in Ukraine, involving two of the biggest global producers of staple cereals, oilseeds and fertilizer, is disrupting international supply chains and pushing up the prices of grain, fertilizer, energy, as well as ready-to-use therapeutic food for children with severe malnutrition. This comes as supply chains are already being adversely affected by increasingly frequent extreme climate events, especially in low-income countries, and has potentially sobering implications for global food security and nutrition.
“This report repeatedly highlights the intensification of these major drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition: conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks, combined with growing inequalities,” the heads of the five UN agencies (2) wrote in this year’s Foreword. “The issue at stake is not whether adversities will continue to occur or not, but how we must take bolder action to build resilience against future shocks.”
Repurposing agricultural policies
The report notes as striking that worldwide support for the food and agricultural sector averaged almost US$ 630 billion a year between 2013 and 2018. The lion’s share of it goes to individual farmers, through trade and market policies and fiscal subsidies. However, not only is much of this support market-distorting, but it is not reaching many farmers, hurts the environment and does not promote the production of nutritious foods that make up a healthy diet. That’s in part because subsidies often target the production of staple foods, dairy and other animal source foods, especially in high- and upper-middle-income countries. Rice, sugar and meats of various types are most incentivized food items worldwide, while fruits and vegetables are relatively less supported, particularly in some low-income countries.
With the threats of a global recession looming, and the implications this has on public revenues and expenditures, a way to support economic recovery involves the repurposing of food and agricultural support to target nutritious foods where per capita consumption does not yet match the recommended levels for healthy diets.
The evidence suggests that if governments repurpose the resources they are using to incentivize the production, supply and consumption of nutritious foods, they will contribute to making healthy diets less costly, more affordable and equitably for all.
Finally, the report also points out that governments could do more to reduce trade barriers for nutritious foods, such as fruits, vegetables and pulses.
(1) It is estimated that between 702 and 828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021. The estimate is presented as a range to reflect the added uncertainty in data collection due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions. The increases are measured with reference to the middle of the projected range (768 million).
(2) For FAO – QU Dongyu, Director-General; for IFAD – Gilbert F. Houngbo, President; for UNICEF – Catherine Russell, Executive Director; for WFP – David Beasley, Executive Director; for WHO – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General.
What they said
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu: “Low-income countries, where agriculture is key to the economy, jobs and rural livelihoods, have little public resources to repurpose. FAO is committed to continue working together with these countries to explore opportunities for increasing the provision of public services for all actors across agrifood systems.”
IFAD President Gilbert F. Houngbo: “These are depressing figures for humanity. We continue to move away from our goal of ending hunger by 2030. The ripple effects of the global food crisis will most likely worsen the outcome again next year. We need a more intense approach to end hunger and IFAD stands ready to do its part by scaling up its operations and impact. We look forward to having everyone’s support.”
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell: “The unprecedented scale of the malnutrition crisis demands an unprecedented response. We must double our efforts to ensure that the most vulnerable children have access to nutritious, safe, and affordable diets — and services for the early prevention, detection and treatment of malnutrition. With so many children’s lives and futures at stake, this is the time to step up our ambition for child nutrition – and we have no time to waste.”
WFP Executive Director David Beasley: “There is a real danger these numbers will climb even higher in the months ahead. The global price spikes in food, fuel and fertilizers that we are seeing as a result of the crisis in Ukraine threaten to push countries around the world into famine. The result will be global destabilization, starvation, and mass migration on an unprecedented scale. We have to act today to avert this looming catastrophe.”
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: “Every year, 11 million people die due to unhealthy diets. Rising food prices mean this will only get worse. WHO supports countries’ efforts to improve food systems through taxing unhealthy foods and subsidising healthy options, protecting children from harmful marketing, and ensuring clear nutrition labels. We must work together to achieve the 2030 global nutrition targets, to fight hunger and malnutrition, and to ensure that food is a source of health for all.”
GLOSSARY
Acute food insecurity: food insecurity found in a specified area at a specific point in time and of a severity that threatens lives or livelihoods, or both, regardless of the causes, context or duration. Has relevance in providing strategic guidance to actions that focus on short-term objectives to prevent, mitigate or decrease severe food insecurity.
Hunger: an uncomfortable or painful sensation caused by insufficient energy from diet. Food deprivation. In this report, the term hunger is synonymous with chronic undernourishment and is measured by the prevalence of undernourishment (PoU).
Malnutrition: an abnormal physiological condition caused by inadequate, unbalanced or excessive intake of macronutrients and/or micronutrients. Malnutrition includes undernutrition (child stunting and wasting, and vitamin and mineral deficiencies) as well as overweight and obesity.
Moderate food insecurity: a level of severity of food insecurity at which people face uncertainties about their ability to obtain food and have been forced to reduce, at times during the year, the quality and/or quantity of food they consume due to lack of money or other resources. It refers to a lack of consistent access to food, which diminishes dietary quality and disrupts normal eating patterns. Measured based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale.
Severe food insecurity: a level of severity of food insecurity at which, at some time during the year, people have run out of food, experienced hunger and at the most extreme, gone without food for a day or more. Measured based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale.
Undernourishment: a condition in which an individual’s habitual food consumption is insufficient to provide the amount of dietary energy required to maintain a normal, active, healthy life. The prevalence of undernourishment is used to measure hunger (SDG indicator 2.1.1).
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MASVINGO residents spolied with a busy entertaining weekend *as FC Wangu Mazodze squres off with Ruwa FC
Whilst Alick Macheso would entertain the thirsty fans at Caravan Park later on…
The lines have been drawn, the dates have been set It’s all set for the fierce encounter between Wangu Mazodze FC and Ruwa FC. The most interesting thing about the match is that both teams are financialy smart and fat. The renowned brand in Zimbabwe Probrands injects in Ruwa FC s financial veins meanwhile the Zhalala zhululu guys are unquestionably the most extravagant ,flamboyant and spoiler of all time which has earned them a household slang name “mbinga dzemashuwa shuwa”. Apart from that the team enjoys a nationwide supportbase powered by the Eve and Delilah factor where most ladies have become die hard supporters for Wangu Mazodze due to its smart , spectacular outshining nature. The Kingdom boys have turned out to be a national darling team.
Enriched with the confidence of being on number 3 on the log, Ruwa FC is mostly likely to give the Kingdom boys a torrid time on their homeland, however the 13th player the supporters and the motivator (greenbucks) are going to be the pillar of strength for the Zhalala zhululu guys. With the good news for the fans that the VP Amai Mazodze who sponsors the team would also be in the stadium obviously the atmosphere is going to be electric and valuable.
A win for Wangu Mazodze FC will mean that they are going to celebrate ,wine and dance or rather mjololise at Macheso show later on through the night. Macheso show has come as a bonus for the Masvingo people after watching mostly wanted win it match. With the blessing of the Amai Mazodze present if a win is to be achieved as wished then she may do what she knows best lashing out to players ,supporters and technical team like she never cares.
Braai and drinks!!
This will not end well. Hazvipere Mushe
Zhalala zhululu
Timothy Muswere
Freelance writer and
Soccer fan
