Tinashe Sambiri| Zimbabweans are fuming over ZBC’s coverage of a hit and run accident involving controversial preacher Passion Java’s convoy in Chitungwiza on Tuesday.

ZBC posted an article on Facebook under the headline : ” Pedestrian dies after being hit by a car.”

In response angry social media users blasted the public broadcaster for running away from the fact that Java’s motor vehicle hit and killed a pregnant woman.

One Theophilus observed:
“It seems the news is being reported by a grade 1.”

Itai Matanda said :
“Asi munomutya here Twabam. Just report accurately and do not leave important information.”

Oliver Kurira fumed:

“Are you guys telling me you can’t name Passion Java in your caption…shame on you.”

Zvikomborero Dube:

“Pregnant woman dies after being hit by a speeding car which was part of So and so’s ‘motorcade’!
Just say it all in the caption, we can’t all open the link.”

Faith Ndlovu f wrote:

“What headline is that nhai Zbc? Are you saying you are so scared to tell the truth that you can’t mention Java’s name?? What business do you have reporting then if you can’t report as it is?”

Just been to court in solidarity with our Change Champions Hon Mps @JobSikhala1 and Sithole.These Honourable Members and the 11 others deserve fairness, justice and all our support. Justice delayed is justice denied. We’re WINNING! #Godisinit #FakaPressure- Advocate Nelson Chamisa

By A Correspondent| Popular Jit music singer Braveman Chizvino better known as Baba Harare has urged young people to register to vote, a call that has riled pro-ruling party supporters who were quick to label him a ‘spend force’.

Posting on Twitter, Baba Harare who rose to fame when he released the hit song Hat Dzemurara said young people should vote in order to decide their future.

“A useful message to the youth would be participation in deciding your future through #RegisterToVoteZW toxic positivity yokunzi work harder with people connected to the hilt tabhoo,” said Baba Harare.

He followed up with another tweet this morning where he reinforced his message to young people saying his supporters are mostly youths to whom he has a social responsibility to remind to register to vote.

“I have a following, my following is within the voting age demographic That means I have a social responsibility to remind them #RegisterToVoteZW I hope this answers those asking my motivation. Good morning,” added Baba Harare.

Meanwhile, Zanu PF moles descended on the versatile music with one Nicole Hondo mocking the opposition for housing spend force musicians.

“Clearly CCC is a retirement home for struggling musicians. All the best with that,” Hondo charged.

Baba Harare responded by reminding Hondo that his call was not partisan but his birth right as a Zimbabwean.

“Voter registration is non partisan. It’s my birth right as a Zimbabwean. I should not be a struggling musician if we had a functioning music industry,” responded Baba Harare.

The ZRP confirms a fatal road traffic accident which occurred today at around 1208 hours along Seke Road near a Zuva Service Station when a BMW X6 vehicle which was travelling towards Chitungwiza hit a woman aged +/-20 who was trying to cross the road from West to East.

The woman died on the spot.- ZRP

A PROPHETESS has told villagers and school authorities that the reported incidents of goblin attacks at Majiji Primary School in Bubi, Matabeleland North were being caused by the spirit of a late teacher.

The prophetess, Sithembiso Moyo believes the spirit tormenting the school and has forced its closure was of a male teacher who died at the school some time ago.

The school was forced to close last month after school children, female teachers and women in nearby villages were tormented by some unnatural occurrences.

Last Friday, a cleansing ceremony was conducted at the school where Moyo made the revelations.

The affected teachers, parents and villagers from surrounding areas all gathered at the school for the ceremony.

“There is a spirit of a male teacher who died at the school. The family of the long deceased teacher failed to perform traditional rituals to cleanse his spirit from the school and his spirit is now troubled,” Moyo said.

“It is today that we get rid of it and make sure that the spirit of the late teacher will be exorcised and tamed so that he rests in peace.”

She also said the other problem was caused by a strange goat that has remained roaming at the school, and whose owners are not known.

“There is another strange goat that resides in one of the school houses whose owner is not known. The school says the goat has been at the school for some months and the owner is not known,“ Moyo said.

She revealed that there is room that is not being used at the school but is full of property belonging to one of the staff members who does not reside at the school and has vehemently refused to have the room allocated to a resident teacher.

School Development chairperson John Sibanda said after a fake prophet earlier failed to cleanse the school last month, a new committee was formed to handle the matter and prophetess Moyo was engaged.

“She began her cleansing rituals last Friday on a cold rainy day. She gathered the affected teachers and the nearby villagers. One teacher testified that she had been seeing a shadowy figure that would ‘strangle’ her.

During the process, she would be powerless to fight back. The same strange shadow would sexually abuse her, which is terrifying. We hope that the ceremony yields positive results,” Sibanda said

Tinashe Sambiri|CCC has dismissed a false report claiming that President Nelson Chamisa was diagnosed with cancer.

CCC spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere on Monday described the report as ” malicious black propaganda” emanating from the “last kicks of a dying horse.”

Zanu PF’s intelligence system is desperate to discredit the yellow revolution on social media.

“This story circulating on WhatsApp is fake news,” Advocate Mahere said.

CCC Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma said:

“This is the worst form of desperation, the people’s President Chamisa is as fit as a fiddle. Actually he is stronger than ever before…

The Zanu PF propaganda machine is way off the mark in this case.

We are busy with the citizens agenda, winning Zimbabwe for change is our objective.”

Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa has a documented history of tormenting women, dating back to the early 80s.

This was said by CCC Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma.

Chuma denounced Zanu PF’s desperate attempt to soil CCC spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere’s image.

“ZANU PF has a history of abusing women.

Ask Dr Fay Chung, Dr Amai & Dr Joy Mujuru. Misogynists at Jongwe House! Now their swords are on
@advocatemahere
! Her crime is speaking truth to power.

Mongoloids have circulated around her reputation! Aluta continua,” Chuma argued.

Tinashe Sambiri| The Zanu PF regime is using gold coins to steal from the poor, CCC vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said.

According to Hon Biti, gold coins will not solve the economic crisis in the country.

On Monday Hon Biti said:
“The gold coin will not solve the structural crises arising from exchange rate collapse, excess money, inflation & unemployment. Instead, it is another gimmick for extraction & arbitrage.

They never tire from devising ways of transferring wealth from the poor, the State to elites.”

Tinashe Sambiri|The trial of four CCC members who were arrested last month for spearheading President Nelson Chamisa’s campaign programmes in Zaka has been postponed to July 26.

The presiding magistrate was not available due to an ailment, according to court officials.

However CCC says the whole thing is calculated to frustrate party members.

The four were arrested for “convening a public meeting without approval of regulatory authority.”

Johannes Chongore, Manners Mundoga ,Method Gwangwava and Tendai Machisani were arrested and taken to CID Law and Order Masvingo last month.

” The trial of our four members has been postponed to July 26. We condemn the harassment of our members for carrying out their democratic and constitutional duties as enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe,” CCC Masvingo said in a brief statement.

State Media – Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) and its subsidiary Premier Service Medical Investments (PSMI) channelled nearly $1 billion to their Holding Company in management fees at a time when the institution was struggling to settle about $743 million worth of service provider claims.

Ironically, PSMAS has been struggling to have its card accepted by service providers due to delayed payments, most of which are done beyond the stipulated statutory 60-day period but has enough for the top brass, insiders said.

The institution has also been struggling to stock its pharmacies resulting in the majority of its membership being turned away without medication.

According to the organisation’s 2021 financial report, PSMAS collected nearly $8 billion during the period under review from which $ 500 million was channelled to Premier Service Holding Company in management fees alone.

Similarly, PSMI channelled almost the same amount to the same Holding Company, further financially constraining the organisation.

Oddly, during the same year, PSMI introduced co-payments to all PSMAS card-carrying members, and members are now required to pay US$5 or its equivalent for consultation fees.

Insiders at PSMAS House claim that though these management fees, which constitute five percent of all PSMAS revenue and five percent of PSMI revenue were approved by the board and are within acceptable thresholds in corporate governance, they are an unnecessary cost to members’ subscription.

“Whilst some quarters are arguing that members’ subscriptions are meagre and cannot sustain either PSMAS or PSMI operations, management is busy slitting that little subscription into non-core business. The Holding Company is an unnecessary entity as it creates unnecessary expenses for the Society and with the current state of affairs, it is not clear whether the Society is still abiding by the statutory requirement of channelling 80 percent of every dollar collected towards service provision,” said the insiders.

Best practices in the medical aid industry require 80 percent of every dollar collected from a member towards payment of claims, 15 percent for administration, and 5 percent must be on reserve.

Another insider from PSMI said the management fees were unfair for workers as they have been struggling to get salaries on time yet management fees are paid religiously and on time.

“Employees from the Holding Company have never gone without a salary as they feed on these management fees, yet we can go for months on half salaries. The most painful thing is this expense is unnecessary worse now that they even want to introduce two more structures beyond the Holding Company,” said the insider.

According to the Deed of Trust document, PSMAS intends to have a Board for the Holding Company appointed by Trustees. The Trustees are appointed by members at an AGM.

While board sitting allowances do not account for a huge chunk of PSMAS expenses, some board members have a tendency of abusing their power for personal gain. Some of the cases already in the public domain include the procurement of vehicles for board members. -Herald

The army is set to disposess 200 stand owners due to a statutory buffer zone, it has emerged.

The homeseekers and the Harare City Council (HCC) have squared off over stands allocated under the St Martins Housing Scheme along Airport Road in Harare.
The homeseekers, who belong to the Happiness Housing Pay Scheme, claim that they entered into an agreement with the local authority to purchase the stands in 2019, but up to now have not been given the greenlight to begin developing the stands.

Some of the beneficiaries are set to lose their stands, which are part of the 200-metre buffer zone of the Commando Barracks along Airport Road in Harare despite paying for them.

The local authority allocated the stands to the beneficiaries in the medium density suburb of St Martins on layout plan number TP2F/CR/022, with sizes ranging between 300 and 2 000 square metres.

It was agreed that members of the pay for your house scheme would contribute resources on a pro-rata basis as determined by the project management committee for the completion of infrastructural development of the area.

The members, however, claim that they paid the full servicing fee in 2019, but the council failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that the land was serviced. Yesterday, they gathered at the allocated area, hoping to hold a meeting with the city fathers.

Happiness Housing Pay Scheme spokesperson Farai Nyamupinga said: “According to the agreement we had with the local authority, we were supposed to have monthly meetings to discuss issues of concern. What we had was less than 10 meetings in five years since 2019.”

He said over the weekend, they were surprised that the council now planned to bring in a surveyor without their knowledge.

“We raised over $500 000 for the servicing of the area, but it was wiped out by inflation before anything was done. We deserve to know as stakeholders what will happen to our land.”

Harare City Council spokesperson Innocent Ruwende confirmed that some of the beneficiaries were set to lose their stands, but said they would receive alternative allocations.

“Our plans were approved, but the issue of the buffer zone by the soldiers was raised thereafter, so it is beyond our control. So those people who were allocated stands within the 200-metre buffer zone will be reallocated stands elsewhere and this is for security reasons. We also later received an ecological report that showed that some of the allocated stands are in a wetland so those again will be affected because there are no two ways on wetlands conservation. There is no attempt to prejudice stands,” Ruwende said.

Chairperson of the pay scheme, Dave Jenje said: “It appears the local authority is failing to abide by its own laws. It is questionable why the local authority would allocate a stand without giving allowance for the buffer zone of the barracks. Up to now, the environment impact assessment hasn’t yet been conducted. Some of the beneficiaries have already passed on before they have enjoyed their benefits. Council should follow the necessary procedures so that we benefit from what is due to us.” Newsday

Civil servants yesterday gave the government a two-week ultimatum to address their salary grievances or face a crippling strike likely to paralyse public services, especially the health and education sectors.
Public sector workers have been demanding to be paid in United States dollars citing continued depreciation of local currency, and high inflation, which rose to 191,7% in June.

Workers say they are being forced to source for US dollars from the parallel market to pay rentals and other expenses that are now being charged in foreign currency while the government is insisting on paying them in local currency.

Civil servants are, however, allowed to withdraw US$100 from their salaries and are given another US$75 as COVID-19 allowances.

In a notice dated July 4, directed to the Public Service Commission (PSC), the unions said they were finding it difficult to make ends meet with the current inflation rates.

“The Public Service Association, the Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Unions, the Federation of Educators Unions of Zimbabwe and Nurses Federations of Zimbabwe hereby give notice of service wide industrial action within 14 days of the date of this notice,” read the notice.

“Be advised that the industrial action hereby notified is in respect of a long overdue cost of living adjustment that speaks to the food basket that now stands at $114 000 against the latest adjustment to ZWL$36 000 for the lowest paid worker.”

Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enock Dongo said: “We are together with all other civil servants to demand civil servants wages. Government should take the notice seriously. The 100% that they tried to offer us was far short. They have to address our grievances soon, and we are not turning back,” Dongo said.

Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe president Obert Masaraure said failure to comply with their demand for United States dollar salaries and improved working conditions would force them to embark on a collective job action as provided for under section 65(3) of the Constitution.

Last month, workers gave the government a one-week ultimatum to address their salary grievances saying they were tired of unfulfilled promises.

They went on a one week strike and the government gave them a 100% salary increase, which they rejected.

Nurses also went on strike but returned to work to allow for negotiations.

Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare secretary Simon Masanga yesterday told NewsDay that negotiations with civil servants were going on.

“As far as we are concerned as a government, we have agreed with the workers’ team led by Ms Cecilia Alexander that we are having a meeting of the National Joint Negotiating Council on Monday next week to discuss the issues and conditions of civil servants. I don’t want to say much, all I can say is that it’s a continuation of negotiations,” Masanga said.-Newsday

CONDOLENCE MESSAGE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, DR E.D. MNANGAGWA, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF AMBASSADOR ANDREW HAMA MTETWA, HARARE, 4TH JULY, 2022

I learnt with deep grief and a sense of loss the passing on yesterday morning of one of our veteran ambassadors in the foreign service, Ambassador Andrew Hama Mtetwa.

An eminent scholar and historian, the late Ambassador Mtetwa belonged to the pioneering crop of black Zimbabweans who joined the civil service in the early years of our Independence in the 80s.

They were our change agents upon whom we relied to transform a predominantly white minority-dominated civil service in order to give it a new look reflecting the majority dispensation under the First Republic. In the case of the late departed, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an Under Secretary and rose through the ranks to ultimately head the Ministry as permanent secretary. In that capacity, he played a critical role in shaping and defining our country’s foreign policy. He will be remembered for his diligence and hard work as one of our longest-serving career diplomats who advanced and defended our national interests at the various stations he served as our ambassador, including at the African Union. On retirement from the diplomatic service, he continued to share the knowledge he had acquired in the foreign service as a lecturer in diplomacy at the then Zimbabwe Defence College, now National Defence University. At the time of his demise, he had just been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Zimbabwe Foreign Service Institute. Our Nation is all the poorer with his passing on.

In recognition of his long, outstanding and loyal service to Zimbabwe, I have granted the late Ambassador a State-assisted funeral.

On behalf of Government, and indeed on my behalf, I wish to express my sincere condolences to the Mtetwa Family following the loss of the dear departed. May they take comfort from the knowledge that their loss is shared by our Nation in whose service he gave his utmost.
May his dear soul rest in eternal peace.

E.D. Mnangagwa President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.

DEPARTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS Office of the President and Cabinet

Tinashe Sambiri|The trial of four CCC members who were arrested last month for spearheading President Nelson Chamisa’s campaign programmes in Zaka has been postponed to July 26.

The presiding magistrate was not available due to an ailment, according to court officials.

However CCC says the whole thing is calculated to frustrate party members.

The four were arrested for “convening a public meeting without approval of regulatory authority.”

Johannes Chongore, Manners Mundoga ,Method Gwangwava and Tendai Machisani were arrested and taken to CID Law and Order Masvingo last month.

” The trial of our four members has been postponed to July 26. We condemn the harassment of our members for carrying out their democratic and constitutional duties as enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe,” CCC Masvingo said in a brief statement.

Tinashe Sambiri| The Zanu PF regime is using gold coins to steal from the poor, CCC vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said.

According to Hon Biti, gold coins will not solve the economic crisis in the country.

On Monday Hon Biti said:
“The gold coin will not solve the structural crises arising from exchange rate collapse, excess money, inflation & unemployment. Instead, it is another gimmick for extraction & arbitrage.

They never tire from devising ways of transferring wealth from the poor, the State to elites.”

Tinashe Sambiri|CCC has dismissed a false report claiming that President Nelson Chamisa was diagnosed with cancer.

CCC spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere on Monday described the report as ” malicious black propaganda” emanating from the “last kicks of a dying horse.”

Zanu PF’s intelligence system is desperate to discredit the yellow revolution on social media.

“This story circulating on WhatsApp is fake news,” Advocate Mahere said.

CCC Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma said:

“This is the worst form of desperation, the people’s President Chamisa is as fit as a fiddle. Actually he is stronger than ever before…

The Zanu PF propaganda machine is way off the mark in this case.

We are busy with the citizens agenda, winning Zimbabwe for change is our objective.”

Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa has a documented history of tormenting women, dating back to the early 80s.

This was said by CCC Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma.

Chuma denounced Zanu PF’s desperate attempt to soil CCC spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere’s image.

“ZANU PF has a history of abusing women.

Ask Dr Fay Chung, Dr Amai & Dr Joy Mujuru. Misogynists at Jongwe House! Now their swords are on
@advocatemahere
! Her crime is speaking truth to power.

Mongoloids have circulated around her reputation! Aluta continua,” Chuma argued.

Tinashe Sambiri|CCC has dismissed a false report claiming that President Nelson Chamisa was diagnosed with cancer.

CCC spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere on Monday described the report as ” malicious black propaganda” emanating from the “last kicks of a dying horse.”

Zanu PF’s intelligence system is desperate to discredit the yellow revolution on social media.

“This story circulating on WhatsApp is fake news,” Advocate Mahere said.

CCC Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma said:

“This is the worst form of desperation, the people’s President Chamisa is as fit as a fiddle. Actually he is stronger than ever before…

The Zanu PF propaganda machine is way off the mark in this case.

We are busy with the citizens agenda, winning Zimbabwe for change is our objective.”

CONDOLENCE MESSAGE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, DR E.D. MNANGAGWA, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF AMBASSADOR ANDREW HAMA MTETWA, HARARE, 4TH JULY, 2022

I learnt with deep grief and a sense of loss the passing on yesterday morning of one of our veteran ambassadors in the foreign service, Ambassador Andrew Hama Mtetwa.

An eminent scholar and historian, the late Ambassador Mtetwa belonged to the pioneering crop of black Zimbabweans who joined the civil service in the early years of our Independence in the 80s.

They were our change agents upon whom we relied to transform a predominantly white minority-dominated civil service in order to give it a new look reflecting the majority dispensation under the First Republic. In the case of the late departed, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an Under Secretary and rose through the ranks to ultimately head the Ministry as permanent secretary. In that capacity, he played a critical role in shaping and defining our country’s foreign policy. He will be remembered for his diligence and hard work as one of our longest-serving career diplomats who advanced and defended our national interests at the various stations he served as our ambassador, including at the African Union. On retirement from the diplomatic service, he continued to share the knowledge he had acquired in the foreign service as a lecturer in diplomacy at the then Zimbabwe Defence College, now National Defence University. At the time of his demise, he had just been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Zimbabwe Foreign Service Institute. Our Nation is all the poorer with his passing on.

In recognition of his long, outstanding and loyal service to Zimbabwe, I have granted the late Ambassador a State-assisted funeral.

On behalf of Government, and indeed on my behalf, I wish to express my sincere condolences to the Mtetwa Family following the loss of the dear departed. May they take comfort from the knowledge that their loss is shared by our Nation in whose service he gave his utmost.
May his dear soul rest in eternal peace.

E.D. Mnangagwa President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.

DEPARTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS Office of the President and Cabinet

A Khami Prison inmate has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly axed another inmate, police confirmed.

The inmate, Giant Moyo (45), used an axe against another inmate after they had quarrelled during supper on Thursday last week. The injured inmate, Nqobizitha Ndlovu (39) was taken to Mpilo Central Hospital where he received medical treatment for injuries sustained. He remains in serious condition.

The two reportedly quarrelled over an issue yet to be established with Moyo picking up an axe used to cut firewood and striking Ndlovu once on the head where he sustained a deep cut. A report was made to the police and Moyo is still being held at Khami Prison. Bulawayo Province Police deputy spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed the incident.

United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH)
Meanwhile, police in the province are investigating a suicide by hanging that occurred in Entumbane on 27 June where a 37-year-old Kelvin Magenende who was employed as a laboratory technician at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) was discovered by his nine-year-old son hanging from a roof truss.

The boy informed a neighbour who advised him to go to the police where a report was made.

At the scene, police found a suicide note in which the deceased professed his love for his wife and asked her to look after their two children since he had “failed to cope with the situation.”–Chronicle

CONDOLENCE MESSAGE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, DR E.D. MNANGAGWA, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF AMBASSADOR ANDREW HAMA MTETWA, HARARE, 4TH JULY, 2022

I learnt with deep grief and a sense of loss the passing on yesterday morning of one of our veteran ambassadors in the foreign service, Ambassador Andrew Hama Mtetwa.

An eminent scholar and historian, the late Ambassador Mtetwa belonged to the pioneering crop of black Zimbabweans who joined the civil service in the early years of our Independence in the 80s.

They were our change agents upon whom we relied to transform a predominantly white minority-dominated civil service in order to give it a new look reflecting the majority dispensation under the First Republic. In the case of the late departed, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an Under Secretary and rose through the ranks to ultimately head the Ministry as permanent secretary. In that capacity, he played a critical role in shaping and defining our country’s foreign policy. He will be remembered for his diligence and hard work as one of our longest-serving career diplomats who advanced and defended our national interests at the various stations he served as our ambassador, including at the African Union. On retirement from the diplomatic service, he continued to share the knowledge he had acquired in the foreign service as a lecturer in diplomacy at the then Zimbabwe Defence College, now National Defence University. At the time of his demise, he had just been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Zimbabwe Foreign Service Institute. Our Nation is all the poorer with his passing on.

In recognition of his long, outstanding and loyal service to Zimbabwe, I have granted the late Ambassador a State-assisted funeral.

On behalf of Government, and indeed on my behalf, I wish to express my sincere condolences to the Mtetwa Family following the loss of the dear departed. May they take comfort from the knowledge that their loss is shared by our Nation in whose service he gave his utmost.
May his dear soul rest in eternal peace.

E.D. Mnangagwa President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.

DEPARTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS Office of the President and Cabinet

During Rhodesia, Air Zimbabwe conducted 50 flights per week between Harare and Bulawayo, today there is only 1 flight per day | ED IS BUILDING or DESTROYING THE COUNTRY? pic.twitter.com/hin7bF41oz

— ZimEye (@ZimEye) July 5, 2022

One of national hero Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri’s children has hauled her siblings to the High Court demanding that they undergo DNA test to ascertain whether they are his biological off-springs before they benefit from his estate.

Tanaka Musvamhiri wants Rufaro Stephanie Shiri and Tawanda Zulu to undergo DNA tests to ascertain whether they were the late hero’s biological children before they benefitted from the estate.

Musvamhiri wants the two to visit National Blood Services of Zimbabwe within seven days.

In summons prepared by Mr Arshiel Mugiya of Mugiya and Muvhami Law Chambers and filed at High Court, Musvamhiri claims that she has since undertaken the DNA test and it was proved that she was the late national hero’s biological child.

She also claims that the late Air Chief Marshal Shiri disowned the two before his death and also left them in his will.

Musvamhiri cited executor of the estate Sobusa Gula Ndebele, Tatenda Shiri, Cynthia Shiri and the Master of the High Court as other defendants.

“The 2nd and 3rd (Rufaro Stephanie Shiri and Tawanda Zulu) defendants are compelled within 7 days from the day that this order is granted to submit themselves at National Blood Services of Zimbabwe in order for blood samples to be extracted from them and undergo DNA tests to verify whether or not they were related to the late Perrance Benjamin Chikerema Shiri,” reads part of the summons.

Musvamhiri, in her founding affidavit claimed that the late Air Marshal Shiri acknowledged in his will that Tatenda Shiri and Cynthia Shiri were his biological children.

“The late Perrence Benjamin Chikerema Shiri died on 29 day of July 2020 and in his will listed 4 and 5 defendants as his biological children and beneficiaries to his estate, the plaintiff (Musvamhiri), 2nd and 3rd defendant were not listed as children born by the deceased in the will.

“The plaintiff underwent DNA test by comparing her blood samples with that of her uncle Whiteford Chikerema, a brother and sibling of the deceased and the results confirmed that indeed she is related to the brother of the deceased, thereby confirming that she is the biological daughter of the deceased.

“The second and third defendants are also claiming to be the biological children of the deceased and have listed their names with the first Defendant (estate executor) and the sixth (Master of High Court) defendant as beneficiaries of the Estate late Perrance Benjamin Chikerema Shiri,” she said.

Musvamhiri said in her affidavit that other relatives were also questioning the Rufaro Stephanie Shiri and Tawanda Zulu statuses.

She said Rufaro and Tawanda were refusing to undergo the DNA tests.

“The authenticity and claims of the 2nd and 3rd defendants are being disputed not only by the Plaintiff but other close relatives of the deceased and the deceased in his lifetime disowned the 2nd and 3rd defendants as his biological children

“The 2nd and 3rd defendants have refused in family meetings to undergo these DNA tests insisting that they are children of the deceased even though such claims are being disputed and are questionable and open to doubt,” she said.

Musvamhiri said Rufaro and Tawanda were already enjoying the fruits of the estate, as they are in occupation of some immovable properties and cars that belonged to the estate.

She said she is willing to under-go another DNA test together with the Rufaro and Tawanda in order to bring finality to the question of who should not benefit from the estate.- State Media

Tinashe Sambiri|CCC has a mandate to safeguard the expectations and promises of the liberation struggle, President Nelson Chamisa has said.

Zanu PF has monopolized and corrupted the liberation war ideology over the past four decades.

“DEFENDING & SAFEGUARDING THE VALUES OF THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE…We will give true meaning to the liberation idea,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.

He added:
“LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE WASTED IN QUARRELS, HURTS, FIGHTS, DIVISIONS AND VIOLATIONS OF EACH OTHER.
LOVE beautifies human life.

PEACE illuminates human existence.
FREEDOM unleashes human ingenuity & creativity.
TOLERANCE rewards human diversity.”

Below is a state media printspit accusing the Public Service Association (PSA), Mrs Cecilia Alexandra and the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Unions (ZCPSTU), Mr David Dzatsunga of being too compromised to lead discussions on Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS).

In the article, the Herald, which never covered the massive looting at the institution that led to its grounding since 1999, bases the accusations on persons it determines are: “insiders.”

The Herald says the leaders are heavily implicated in chaos and maladministration bedevilling the organisation.

State Media: Mrs Alexandra is vice-chairperson of Premier Service Medical Investments, a subsidiary of PSMAS, while Mr Dzatsunga is a committee member on the PSMAS board.

The duo, together with the rest of the other board members stand accused of siphoning money from PSMAS and PSMI respectively through unconventional means and have reportedly colluded with other senior executives to create additional structures beyond the medical aid organisation’s board.

Premier Service Holding Company (PSHC), said the insiders, is an illegally constituted entity as evidenced by its absence from the PSMAS financials in the 2020 and 2021 annual report.

They added that the absence of its financials since its inception in 2019 is a clear indication that this entity was not properly constituted in accordance with the 2015 AGM resolution.

The PSHC is being used to divert members’ funds into other non-core medical activities such as the formation of Claydust — a mining company — and Premier Service Microfinance Company.

According to the deed of trust document, the power to appoint or remove the board of directors will rest with the Holding Company, a scenario which will render other governance structures useless.

“The company shall, in consultation with the Board of Trustees manage the affiliates for an agreed fee between it and the individual affiliates, exercise control of all affiliates including but not limited to, appointing and removing their boards of directors, receive dividend and/ or surplus as the case may be, from all affiliates, render such administrative services as are necessary for the smooth functioning of the Trust,” reads an extract from the deed document.

The deed of trust, as provided in the aborted AGM pack, also clearly spells out that the current board (the Bvirindi board), shall remain in office for a renewable period of three years from the date of registration of Deed of Trust. This obviously is the main reason why this current board is fighting viciously against Government scrutiny.

The Trust comprises of five members who are supposed to have been voted for by members during the cancelled AGM but oddly, no name nor profile of potential candidates were shared even to date.

The holding company will report to a board, appointed by the Board of Trustees. The Holding Company will then appoint board members for the rest of the other entities namely: PSMAS, PSMI, PSMAS (Zambia), Premier Service Microfinance and Claydust.

Members will no longer have power to vote for board members as is the current set up.

Apart from posing governance risks, the introduction of this layer of governance is coming with costs to fund new boards to be appointed by the Holding Company, further straining members’ contributions.

PSMAS board chairman, Dr Bvirindi, PSMI board chairman Colonel Wellington Tutisa and her vice Mrs Alexandra, have further been accused of enjoying benefits way beyond those spelt out in best corporate governance practices.

According to the insiders at PSMI, Mrs Alexandra received a Mercedes Benz E300 (registration number provided).

This vehicle, the insiders elaborated, is being used by his son George Khowa who works in the properties and facilities department. The vehicle is serviced by PSMI, despite the fact that Mr Khowa receives monthly allowances at AA rates to cater for any service expenses he may incur for using his personal vehicle for work-related assignments.

Colonel Tutisa also got a Toyota Fortuner (registration number provided), while at PSMAS, Dr Bvirindi got a Toyota Hilux 2018 Revo Rocco (registration number provided).

The insiders claim that for these and other reasons, the outgoing board will continue defending the establishment of these additional structures.

“This is the reason why they are defending this structure because they know they are set to benefit personally. Their interests have nothing to do with the entire membership but individual greediness. They have been milking the society in board fees and allowances all along and in some instances claiming what is not due to them and they want to continue doing the same without anyone questioning them,” said the insiders.

Defending the board’s position to create other structures beyond PSMAS Board last week, Mrs Alexandra said PSMAS had “grown”.

“Government doesn’t want us to set up a Trust. As you can see, PSMAS has grown. It has properties, it has hospitals, it has a lot of things so it is not just like those other organisations,” said Mrs Alexandra.

Mr Dzatsunga concurred with Alexandra arguing that Government wanted to take over PSMAS, an allegation Government has since dismissed.

Instead, Government has challenged PSMAS to conduct a forensic audit to ascertain utilisation of funds disbursed so far.-Herald

Tinashe Sambiri|Torture and intimidation of perceived Zanu PF opponents will not stop the people’s struggle.

This was said by CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift Ostallos Siziba.

Siziba condemned the arrest of CCC organising secretary Hon Amos Chibaya.

Hon Chibaya was arrested on Monday morning for allegedly ocnvening a meeting in April without seeking police approval.

“We are witnessing a pattern of unrelenting assault on the Citizens movement after the arrest of Hon Sikhala, Hon Sithole and 11 others.

The State is in panic mode and has resorted to its fascist default mode of using fear, torture arrest and killing as weapons against the opposition.

It’s going to get darker before dawn and we will forge ahead until Zimbabwe is free,” said Siziba.

In a statement on Monday, CCC Namibia condemned the arrest of Hon Chibaya.

Citizens Coalition for Change Namibia castigates the arbitrary arrest of the vibrant International Organiser, Hon Amos Chibaya.

04 July 2022

Citizens who subscribe to the able leadership of President Advocate Nelson Chamisa castigate the perpetual torture, intimidation, and gross violations of human freedoms in Zimbabwe. It is quite infuriating to receive the sad and frustrating news about the illegal arrest of the organic Organiser Hon Amos Chibaya today in Gweru.

Our message to Mr. Emmerson is very clear! No amount of arbitrary arrests and long pre-trial detentions shall deter change champions from mobilizing citizens to register to vote in 2023. It is now imperative to change champions to amplify their revolutionary voices against the selective application of the law by the desperate and clueless regime.

The people of Zimbabwe must rise to the occasion demanding the immediate release of Hon Amos Chibaya, Hon Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, Godfrey Sithole, The Nyatsime 13, and The Chimanimani 3 who are enduring incarceration for all of us.

We also hear that Hon Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala is not feeling well at Chikurubi Maximum Prison where he is unconstitutionally detained for demanding justice for Moreblessing Ali. Namibia district urges ZANU-PF to release all prisoners of conscience. Hon Amos Chibaya was arrested facing charges of convening an illegal meeting sometime in April, this is an attempt to silence him. Citizens should peacefully pent up their outrage by advocating for the unconditional release of our change champions. Citizens in Namibia wish Hon Sikhala a quick recovery so that he can continue fighting for freedom in the fatherland.

Discharge our innocent ambassadors for socioeconomic transfiguration who are suffering to usher in a New Great Zimbabwe where the rule of law and constitutionalism will be guaranteed. We shall continue to put political and diplomatic pressure on the satanic regime to free our change champions. Amos Chibaya, Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala, Godfrey Sithole, and all prisoners of conscience are innocent. The regime is panicking that is why they are trying to close the democratic space ahead of the 2023 harmonized elections.

FreeAmosChibaya

freemukomajobsarowiwasikhala

freegodfreykarakadzayisithole

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ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners

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Citizens Coalition for Change Namibia
Rundu Branch Interim Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya

2 Mashwede Holdings employees were yesterday convicted of stealing fuel coupons worth nearly US$17 000 and faking an armed robbery to cover up.
Edson Mashamhanda, who was a book-keeper and Ernest Nevanji Madanhire an ICT officer, were convicted of fraud by Harare magistrate Mrs Evelyn Mashavirakure after a full trial.

They are expected back in court today for their submissions in mitigation and sentence.

The State led by Mr Moses Mapanga told the court that the two were first offenders with no records of previous convictions.

Mr Mapanga proved during trial that in March 2020, Mashwede Holdings fuel coupons printer, Laptime Design and Print, printed 40 000 petrol coupons which were collected by Madanhire.

Madanhire then hooked up with Mashamhanda and hatched a plan to dupe their employer. On March 11, 2020 Mashamhanda declared to the accounts department that he had received 17 000 litres worth of petrol coupons from Madanhire.

On March 24, Madanhire sold another 6 000 litres of fuel coupons for US$7 500, which he acknowledged receipt and Mashamhanda deducted US$600 as commission and handed him US$6 900. No funds were remitted to the company, which owned the coupons, and recorded into Mashwede’s books.

April 4, 2020, an armed robber pounced on Mashwede Holdings’ premises where money and fuel coupons and other property was stolen.

Mashamhanda and Madanhire, then decided to report that the coupons they had taken earlier, the 17 000 litres, would be added to those coupons stolen by the robbers, taking the total to 23 000 litres had been stolen.

Mashwede Holdings carried out a stock reconciliation to establish how many coupons had been stolen and revealed that Mashamhanda was in custody of 11 240 litres of fuel coupons.

Out of caution, Mashwede Holdings notified fuel attendants not to accept fuel coupons stolen during the robbery.

On April 8, 2020 a client David Clinton went to Mashwede service station to redeem fuel coupons purchased from Madanhire on March 24, 2020, well before the robbery.

Further investigations at Mashwede Holdings revealed that the two had failed to declare fuel coupons worth 3 000 litres tat were collected from the printers

It was also revealed that they had sold 6 000 litres worth of fuel coupons to David Clinton’s companies with 3 000 litres having not been declared.

On March 23, 2020 Mashamhanda received US$2 050 from Muvengwa Changamire from the sale of fuel coupons from previous debtors.

Mashamhanda only recorded the money in Muvengwa Changamire’s debtors’ book, failed to record it in the company books and converted the proceeds to his own use.

He received US$1 000 cash from Changamire from sale of 1 000 litres of fuel coupons, which money he converted to own use. About 760 litres sold at US$1,15 a litre and redeemed well before the robbery was not recorded and they were valued at US$874.

Further investigations revealed that the company had been defrauded of a total of US$16 850. Herald

Tinashe Sambiri|
Outspoken Zimbabwean philanthropist Susan Mutami has said Emmerson Mnangagwa is a sex pervert.

Last week Mutami revealed Mnangagwa’s bedroom secrets.

According to the controversial businesswoman, Mnangagwa is originally from the Republic of Zambia.

“Honai macitizens zvanga zvatomubata ari pa parade anga akutoda kukecha mwana wevaridzi…

@HHichilema
please be prepared to welcome ur citizen
@edmnangagwa
w all his wives and children back home in 2023. Zimbabweans have had enough and there’s no need to send someone to pick him up. Temba Mliswa will carry his bags for him and accompany him to Mumbwa village…

… Zambians are good people and I know the actions of one is not a true reflection of the whole loving nation of Zambia. Zimbabweans are finally going to take their country back and you can have ur son of the soil,” Mutami postulated.

Tinashe Sambiri| CCC Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has called for the immediate release of Hon Job Sikhala, Hon Godfrey Sithole and Nyatsime party members.

Chuma called for mass protests at the presecution of opposition activists.

“The only way to stop a paranoid regime is to hit the streets!

Even the worst of dictators are afraid of mass action.

We, the citizens can stop this madness,” said Chuma.

Change Radio says Hon Sikhala is not feeling well in prison…

Freddy Michael Masarirevu :
Today , in the company of Hon Daniel Molokele & Adv Nkomo, we visited Hon Job Sikhala at Chikurubhi -Visibly, his health has deteriorated and he complained of chest pain – He has been sleeping on the cold floor and his moral is evidently ‘dying’. He appreciates all your messages

Source : https://twitter.com/freddyMM93/status/1543203608660942849?t=WJfitsaq86gPMD-VEwnlXw&s=19