By-President Emerson Mnangagwa has ignored the striking health workers and proceeded to commission a small shoe-making project.

Zanu PF posted the images of Mnangagwa visiting the small shoe making project;

Zanu PF Posted:

Cde ED has finished touring Bata Shoe Company Zimbabwe and has commissioned machines worth US$800 000.

By-An 18-year-old man has complained to Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, accusing two senior police officers of looting gold ore at Rosa 10 Mine in Chiweshe despite a High Court order stopping operations at the mine.
Lawrence Shereni, who is a beneficiary to the estate, through his lawyers TK Takaindisa Law Chambers, accused Superintendent Ophius Gadzikwa and Chief Superintendent Enock Masimba of conniving with Yolanda Mututuma, who is a surviving spouse to the deceased, to loot the mine.
“We refer to the above in which we wish to lodge a complaint against two of your senior officers Superintendent Gadzikwa and Chief Superintendent Masimba, who have illegally sanctioned the removal of tonnes of gold ore at Rosa 10 Mine, contrary to the orders issued by the High Court,” he wrote to Comm-Gen Matanga.

“The High Court under case no.3366/22 ordered all mining operations to be stopped at the estate until an executor to the estate has been appointed. It is an order of the High Court that whatever is to happen at the deceased estate should be in consultation with our client, Lawrence Shereni, who is also a child and a beneficiary to the estate Rosa 10 mine (See order under case no HC 2978/22).
“Superintendent Gadzikwa and Chief Superintendent Masimba have been conniving with the other beneficiary of the estate, Yolanda Mututuma, who is a surviving spouse to the deceased, to loot gold contrary to the order of the High Court.”
Shereni said the officers’ acts were tantamount to corruption.
“We wish to state that there is no doubt that your officers are engaging in corrupt practices as these tactics were meant to ensure that they loot the gold ore in cahoots with one Yolanda Mututuma, who is a surviving spouse to the deceased, despite court orders having suspended operations,” he wrote.

Shereni claimed that the two officers had been threatening him against opening a report with the police at Chombira Police Station on the looting of the gold ore.
He stated that Supt Gadzikwa directed the officer in charge at the police station not to get involved in any issues to do with Rosa 10 mine.
“The actions of your police officers have resulted in the looting of gold ore valued at more than half a million US dollars,” he wrote. “We doubt very much that the police legal department sanctioned such criminal activities as the court orders are clear in black and white.”
The complaint was filed by Shereni today and stamped at the Police Headquarters.
Supt Gadzikwa and Masimba haven’t responded yet to the allegations being levelled against them.

By-High Court Judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda has defended President Emerson Mnangagwa in the state’s persecution of former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri.

In the civil court case where Chihuri is opposing the forfeiture of his assets, which the Prosecutor General says were probably bought through corrupt deals during the former top cop’s tenure at the helm of the police force, Chihuri, through his legal counsel, has claimed that political victimisation was behind the forfeiture.
But Justice Kwenda was not prepared to accept that allegations of political harassment could be made against the President as he was not a party to the proceedings.

“The President is not a party to these proceedings. He is, therefore, unable to respond to the allegations,” he said.
The judge made the remarks in his judgment that gave Chihuri some relief but not as much as he had sought.
“I did not order his (the President) joinder because the alleged personal vendetta has no bearing on the resolution of the dispute before me,” said Justice Kwenda.
The judge made it clear that the issues for determination were whether Chihuri and his family had placed before the court facts that constitute just cause to nullify the unexplained wealth orders granted by the court in two cases brought by the State.

Under such orders, those affected must show how they obtained the wealth or risk having it forfeited to the State.
While the judge criticised Chihuri for trying to drag the name of the President into the case, he ruled that the former police chief could keep some of the properties he acquired during his 25 years at the helm of the police force.
But other assets and those of his companies fingered in possible corrupt business deals with the police force remained under the unexplained wealth orders.
The properties removed from the unexplained wealth orders include five vehicles, farm equipment for his two farms in Chinhoyi and Shamva and several houses, including a magnificent mansion in Gletwyn sitting on 12ha of land valued at US$7 million. The property combines seven stands all acquired from the State.
“The acquisition of immovable properties in Gletwyn Township is not only explained by the applicant (Chihuri) but is something facilitated by the State,” noted Justice Kwenda. “Such records would, therefore, be available to the State. The papers of first respondent (PG) ironically state the sources of the stands in Gletwyn. The source is the State.”
In this regard, the judge referred to a minute from the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing dated May 29, 2018 that confirmed the allocation of the land to the Chihuri family (True Hope Trust) through a police co-operative, the consolidation of the seven stands and the allocation of a stand to his wife.

This information was not available before the court when it granted the two Unexplained Wealth Orders in 2020.
Chihuri’s sources of income were not contested: the long service spanning over 35 years in the police, large scale commercial farming, savings from government trips, employment by Interpol, conditions of service benefits which included high value vehicles which he could and did sell after holding them for the required period.
“Such information which was not before this court when it granted the Unexplained Wealth Orders ex parte, constitutes good cause if looked at objectively,” said Justice Kwenda.
He noted that Chihuri retired after serving the police force for 37 years and over the period he made savings on salaries, bonuses, savings from foreign trips and conditions of service benefits.
Chihuri was also a delegate and vice president for Interpol in Africa and was salaried in United States dollars.
Justice Kwenda also found that Chihuri acquired all the assets prior to the period during which, the State alleges, he became involved in serious crime in the year 2017.
“Therefore, the State is not justified in insinuating that they are proceeds of crime because they were all acquired prior to the year 2014,” noted the judge finding that some of them were acquired in the 80s, 90s up to 2007.
Documentary evidence was submitted with the application to prove the acquisition, in some cases, disposal and ownership of the various properties.

“Most of the property subjected to the Unexplained Wealth Orders was acquired prior to the period during which the first and second applicants (Chihuri and his wife) are suspected of having committed serious crimes,” said Justice Kwenda.
“Such property cannot properly be considered as proceeds of serious crime in the circumstances of this matter. The period of acquisition is not contested. The title deeds speak for themselves.”
The PG could not dispute that Chihuri was a successful commercial farmer from the year 1996, a period of 21 years, said Justice Kwenda adding that he would not have records of all his produce.
“The law did not impose a duty on him to keep records and if so for how long. The level at which he conducted his commercial farming activities is such that it cannot be said that his income was insufficient to acquire the residential properties listed.”
The judge, however, found that Chihuri had not shown good cause to set aside the rest of the orders in regard to funds received by four of his companies — Croxile Investments, Adamah Enterprises, Mastermedia and Mastaw Investments — from the police force for services rendered.
Chihuri was represented by lawyer Addington Chinake, while the State was represented by Chief Law officer and Head of Assets Forfeiture Unit, Mr Chris Mutangadura, who is now seeking to appeal to the Supreme Court against the judgment releasing some of Chihuri’s property.

-State media

By- The opposition CCC has said that the ongoing strike by health care workers is justified.

Since Monday, doctors, nurses and other staff at public hospitals have been on strike, demanding US dollar salaries, among other demands.

In a statement on Thursday, 23 June 2022, CCC said the nurses and doctors “were left with no option” but to down tools and the Government should address their demands as a matter of urgency. CCC said:
We stand in firm solidarity with government health workers who were left with no option but to withdraw their labour on the 20th of June 2022 due to incapacitation and poor working conditions.
This is regrettable because the State’s incompetence and failure to address the workers’ concerns and prioritize this critical sector have caused mass suffering to Zimbabweans whose right to affordable, quality health care remains under constant threat.
The health workers issued a public statement on the 17th of June 2022 indicating that they had repeatedly tried to engage the Health Services Board and the Ministry of Health and Childcare over a fourteen-month period to have their plight addressed without success.
They stated that their poor conditions of service had caused chronic brain drain in the health sector with over 4000 resignations in the last three years.
Instead of engaging with the health workers to address their concerns in good faith, draconian measures have been introduced to illegally prevent health workers from leaving the country, including through the refusal to issue certificates of good standing.
We call for the concerns that have been raised to be addressed immediately to ensure that the citizens’ right to health is respected.
As the alternative and a government-in-waiting, we wish to put forward highlights of the alternative CCC health policy approach which will solve the nation’s health crisis at its root.

By- Three CCC members arrested at Moreblessing Ali’s funeral have been taken to court.

Police arrested the three instead of arresting Zanu PF activists who caused the havoc at the late CCC activist’s funeral.

Posting on Twitter, CCC said they were worried about the selective application of the law by the police.

CCC posted:

Our members whose houses were burnt to ashes by suspected Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime will appear at the Harare Magistrate Court at 3pm today on trumped up charges of inciting public violence. Let’s all attend in solidarity with the trio of Jeche, Guzha & Makona.

? Our members whose houses were burnt to ashes by suspected Zanu PF thugs in Nyatsime will appear at the Harare Magistrate Court at 3pm today on trumped up charges of inciting public violence.Let’s all attend in solidarity with the trio of Jeche, Guzha & Makona. pic.twitter.com/prbS3uNoVh

— Citizens' Coalition for Change (@CCCZimbabwe) June 23, 2022

The ZRP confirms the death of two people and injury of 18 others in a road traffic accident which occurred at the 267 km peg along Mutare-Masvingo Road on 22/06/22 when a Mukumba bus which had 56 passengers crashed.

— Zimbabwe Republic Police (@PoliceZimbabwe) June 23, 2022

By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is appealing for information which may lead to the identification of the biological parents of two children who were rescued from kidnappers in 2020 in Mutoko.

The girl is aged 7 while the boy is aged 6. They are both currently living at a children’s home in Harare. ZRP national spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said:

The two infants were rescued by the Police at Chakufuna Village, Mudzi in Mutoko in 2020 after they were kidnapped by the suspect, Gift Chemhuru and his wife, Miriam Bwanali.

The suspects are also linked to another case of kidnapping involving a minor which occurred in Harare in 2020. The minor was positively identified by her mother.

Gift Chemhuru was arrested while Miriam Bwanali is on the run.

Anyone with information to contact, National Complaints Desk on (0242) 703631, or WhatsApp 0712800197 or report at any nearest Police Station.

By A Correspondent- Police in Mashonaland East Province have recovered suspected human remains allegedly belonging to an elderly woman who went missing in April this year.

Beatrice Kunyiminya (75) went missing on 24 April 2022 from her homestead in Marimo Village, Juru.

The human remains were discovered by another villager, scattered in tall grass.

The villager informed Beatrice’s relative Joseph Kunyiminya who then reported the matter to the police.

The scene was attended to by Juru police officers and they recovered a human skull, bones, floral dress, doek, hat and a white blouse.

The remains were taken to Murewa District Hospital for postmortem and DNA testing.

Beatrice’s relatives believe that the remains are that of their missing relative.

By A Correspondent- Munyaradzi Chauraya, who has been trending lately following allegations of sexual abuse, is not a stranger in the corridors of criminal courts.

A local tabloid reports that Chauraya once appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing allegations of fraud after he duped a client of US$8 000 in a botched car deal in 2017.

The complainant in the matter was Clara Hambury.

The State failed to prove the allegations leading to Chauraya applying for discharge at the close of the State’s case and the Court ruled that the case was weak and lacked merit.

In June last year, Chauraya appeared at the same court, this time as a complainant after he lost R138 000, in a botched car deal.

It is the State’s case that on June 16, Chauraya came across an advert where one Governor Chirume was advertising cars and claiming to be a car dealer in South Africa.

Chauraya allegedly ordered an Isuzu KB300, which Chirume offered for R138 000, inclusive of driving it to Beitbridge Border Post.

The following day, Chauraya deposited R130 000 into Chirume’s South African account FNS Bank.

He then filed a police report after the accused failed to deliver the car or reimburse the money.

Chauraya is currently facing allegations of child abuse after a video in which he forced a toddler to touch his private parts found its way on social media streets.

Following Chauraya’s recent accusations, his girlfriend Natalie Taruvinga (the mother of the alleged abused child) has said she was threatened with a gun by the dealer if she disclosed the existence of the video and she also prays that justice should prevail.

She said:

“I was physically abused by Munyaradzi and he is the one who sent the video of the minor holding his manh00d to my cellphone,” said Natalie.

“He came to my place of residence to assault me after I decided to dump him following the abuse he subjected me to.

“I kept the video and one of my sisters discovered the video and informed other relatives about it.

Tinashe Sambiri| Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is largely failing to address the concerns of citizens, CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.

The CCC leader also challenged government leaders to perform and deliver expected results.

“ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT LEADERS; JUST PERFORM & DELIVER!!

When you perform and lead so well, you render opposition or criticism so irrelevant, meaningless and unnecessary.

The best way to silence opposition or critics is to perform & serve the citizens so excellently .#FakaPressure.”

2/2 before attacking the two security guards. The suspects proceeded to the company offices, where they broke a safe and stole US$30 000 in cash and keys for a Toyota Hilux single cab (AFB 6321) before driving away with the company vehicle. #notocrime.

— Zimbabwe Republic Police (@PoliceZimbabwe) June 23, 2022

By A Correspondent- The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has condemned a court decision Wednesday to deny party legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole bail.

The duo returned to remand after they were refused bail by deputy chief magistrate, Gibson Mandaza.

The two were arrested a week ago after violence rocked to funeral wake and memorial services for murdered CCC activist, Moreblessing Ali.

Said the magistrate; “It is the view of this court that the State has managed to prove that the two accused should be denied bail.

“Accordingly therefore bail is denied to the two accused person will be in custody.”

CCC national spokesperson Fadzai Mahere said there was no justification for the court’s ruling.

She spoke to the media outside the courts;

Ali was allegedly murdered by one Pius Jamba who has since been arrested.

Prosecutors allege Sikhala posted videos encouraging public violence following the recovery of Ali’s dismembered, decomposing body.

Sithole is accused of acting in connivance with Sikhala by reportedly organising transport which ferried mourners to Ali’s homestead in Nyatsime.

The two lawmakers, who deny the charges, are being represented by Jeremiah Bamu and Alec Muchadehama.

They will be back in court on July 6.

Meanwhile, three other CCC activists also appeared in court Wednesday over the Nyatsime clashes.

Precious Jeche (41), Misheck Guzha (62) and Odius Makoma (42) appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi charged with public violence.

They were remanded in custody to Thursday for a bail application.

According to court papers, the trio allegedly conspired to engage in acts of violence to avenge Ali’s while attending her funeral service on June 14, 2022.

It is alleged that the trio and accomplices still at large moved around the Nyatsime area breaking down windows and also burnt down the house of local Zanu-PF chairperson George Murambatsvina.

Prosecutors claim, the trio then proceeded to Chibhanguza shopping centre where they torched down a gazebo, damaged the windows of 13 shops, 4 beer halls and looted groceries.

The trio allegedly destroyed properties and houses of over 53 people in the Nyatsime local area.

The value of property damaged was estimated at ZW$5 800 000.-newsday

By A Correspondent- New details emerged yesterday during the trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members Joana Mamombe (Harare West MP), Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova who are accused of faking their abduction in 2020.

Andrew Manongore, the owner of the Mercedes Benz C type vehicle which the trio used and was parked at Harare Central Police Station at the time of their alleged abduction, said he had given the vehicle to Mamombe on May 13, 2020, the day the trio was allegedly abducted.

The vehicle is still parked at the Harare Central Police Station.

Giving evidence before Harare magistrate Faith Mushure, Manongore said he could not remember the vehicle’s number plates, but he identified it at the police station.

Prosecutor Michael Reza asked Manongore to confirm if the number plates were registered as AFE 9222, but he said if the registration number belonged to the Mercedes Benz vehicle parked at the police station, then it was his.

Further asked by Reza whether he was in control of that vehicle on the day the trio was abducted, he said Mamombe, Chimbiri and Marova had the vehicle.

In their defence, Mamombe and Chimbiri said they left the vehicle parked opposite Harare Central Police Station after they were arrested by some police officers who instructed them to lock it and get into a kombi which had tinted windows.

Manongore said he voluntarily gave the vehicle to Mamombe, but could not remember whether it had any special features.

He said his vehicle had no tracker, but had a spare key.

Mamombe and Chimbiri’s lawyer Alec Muchadehama asked Manongore to explain whether the vehicle could be opened in the absence of the owner.

But Manongore said he was not the one who assisted the police to park it in their parking lot.

“I was called by the police at a later stage to identify the vehicle at the Harare Central Police Station parking area. I cannot deny nor confirm their abduction as I also learnt about it on social media,” he said. Manongore also told the court that he could not deny nor confirm that the trio parked the vehicle opposite the police station and that they were later abducted, tortured or sexually abused in Muchapondwa village in Bindura where they were allegedly taken.

He is the sixth witness to testify in the matter. Other witnesses, Fortunate Machingauta and Takudzwa Shumbayaonda are expected to testify today.

Last week, Godfrey Mangezi from Econet Zimbabwe confirmed that calls made by the accused showed that they were located at the Harare Central Police Station.

Initially, police had denied arresting the trio

By A Correspondent- In another matter, three CCC activists yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi to face charges of public violence.

This was after violence broke out in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza during slain CCC activist Moreblessing Ali’s funeral wake last week.

The trio, Precious Jeche (41), Misheck Guzha (62) and Odius Makoma (42) were represented by Noble Chinhanu who argued that the CCC supporters were actually victims of the violence, not perpetrators.

Chinhanu further submitted that during the melee in Nyatsime, his clients’ properties were destroyed.

They were remanded in custody to tomorrow for bail ruling.

Allegations are that on June 14, 2022, the trio in the company of other accomplices still at large, attended Ali’s funeral service in Nyatsime, where they connived to avenge, through violence, her brutal murder by suspected Zanu PF activist Pius Jamba.

The accused and their accomplices were reportedly transported from various locations to Nyatsime where they allegedly moved around on foot, stoning houses, breaking window panes and also burnt down the house of Zanu PF chairperson for Nyatsime, George Murambatsvina.

The State further alleges that they also went to Chibhanguza Shopping Centre in Chitungwiza, where they torched a gazebo, damaged windows of 13 shops, four beerhalls and looted groceries and electrical gadgets.

They are also accused of assaulting people and damaging vehicles and properties of 53 people in the Nyatsime area, prejudicing the community of $5,8 million.

Moses Mapanga prosecuted.-Newsday

By A Correspondent- Workers from other sectors have started joining a tools down job action by health personnel and teachers who are demanding United States dollar salaries.

The strike entered its third day yesterday, leaving most major public hospitals paralysed,  while critically-ill patients were being turned away.

At Harare’s Parirenyatwa Hospital, the NewsDay crew saw patients lying on pavements unattended to. Some of them had come from far away for reviews for chronic diseases, while others sought treatment for ailments such as hypertension and diabetes.

A desperate patient said: “We have wasted our transport money coming for check-ups as per our scheduled reviews. I am supposed to do blood tests, but was told to come back again because doctors and nurses are on strike.”

In Bulawayo, nurses who have been on a go-slow, joined the strike and were not attending to patients at different institutions.

The health personnel turned up for work, but were not performing any duties.

“We spent the whole day watching nurses and doctors on strike,” a patient told NewsDay.

Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enock Dongo said doctors and nurses in most parts of the country had joined the strike.

By A Correspondent- Women Excel Trust (WET), has urged parents to monitor their children at all times to protect them from possible sexual abuse.

This follows a viral video of a 2-year-old girl being sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend.

In a statement, WET expressed shock over the video and demanded that the perpetrator be prosecuted. The statement reads:

Whilst we are still celebrating ‘Day of the African Child’, under this year’s theme: “Eliminating Harmful Practices Affecting Children…” these which include child abuse in all forms, it has come to our attention the video circulating on various social media platforms of a 2-year-old girl being sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend.

We are appalled and deeply saddened by such a horrendous incident. Adults are supposed to be protectors of children but what has become of the society when they are turning out to be the main perpetrators of abuse?

As Women Excel Trust, we have zero tolerance for such kind of behaviour that impedes the child’s mental, health, moral and social development.

Children’s rights also entail the legal protection of children in conditions of freedom, security and dignity.

As such, we demand justice to be served accordingly. We call upon policymakers to enact stiffer penalties for such perpetrators.

We urge parents to monitor their children at all times and do away with the tendency of putting children at the centre of their conflicts.

By A Correspondent- Civil servants have advised Vice President Constantino Chiwenga to stop interfering in the affairs of the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS).

In a letter dated 1 June 2022, addressed to Chiwenga, who is also the Health and Child Care minister, the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) decried the Government’s tendency to sideline civil servants on the PSMAS issue. Reads the letter:

Your announcement, Your Excellency is regrettably, yet another example of the employer making a unilateral decision on a matter of collective bargaining nature without consulting its employees at all.

This observation is particularly important in view of the fact that on March 28 2022 we wrote to [Minister] Paul Mavima proposing that instead of Government directly paying subscriptions on behalf of civil servants to PSMAS, it was fairer if Government simply paid an allowance to all employees and leave them scout around and choose medical aid societies of their choice.

This would firstly allow freedom of choice and secondly allow numerous civil servants who are currently not on PSMAS and therefore not enjoying medical aid benefits, to also benefit therefrom.

We have taken note of the rather irrational scenario where we are paying more for funeral assurance than we do for medical aid. Surely, healthcare is more important than a burial.

… An agreement has to be reached between the employer and us, the employees, on new salaries for the civil servants sooner rather than later to avert industrial disharmony.

Our below-inflation wages have impacted our access to affordable quality healthcare and PSMAS is the most affected in this regard.

Civil servants are requesting to meet Chiwenga as soon as possible to address the concerns raised.

They believe the Public Service Commission (PSC) and Public Service and Social Welfare Minister Paul Mavima have failed to address their problems.

More: Business Times

By A Correspondent- A 43 year old man from Gwanda’s Magwe Irrigation Scheme under Chief Mathe and his accomplices have been accused of raiding Poly Packaging Pvt Ltd in Bulawayo at gunpoint and getting away with US$105 410.

The robbery allegedly happened on November 13 last year.

Nkosilathi Ncube from Metropolitan flat, Alexander Street Johannesburg in South Africa, pleaded not guilty to the armed robbery charges when he appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Dambudzo Malunga on Wednesday.

Malunga remanded him in custody to next Monday for continuation of trial.

Prosecutor Naison Chivayo told the court that on November 13, 2020 at 9:30am, Ncube who was in the company of two accomplices who are still at large went to Poly Packaging at Josiah Chimanamo road, Belmont armed with pistols.

On arrival they attacked a Fawcett security guard, Thandolwenkosi Dube, who was manning the main entrance, while one of them remained behind guarding him while they entered the premises and forced open the cashier’s office.

One of them jumped through an open window and gained entry into the office and found Anna Nheta inside.

He slapped her twice on the face, pointed a pistol at her, and opened the locked office door using the keys which he found hanging on the door.

They allegedly force-marched Nheta into the manager’s office where they found the manager, Conditioner Vavashe (30) with another employee Kudzaishe Chabvutagondo and threatened to shoot them and demanded cash and keys to the safe.

The robbers then allegedly took an unlocked small safe which was inside the big safe and emptied all the money into Vavashe’s handbag.

They stole a gold Samsung S7 Galaxy cellphone and then demanded car keys of a Toyota Corolla which they had found parked outside the company premises.

They also disarmed the security guard, Norman Mapfumbe of his service pistol, and a 38 special Rossi revolver.

The robbers locked the company officials into a storeroom before fleeing with the cash in the Toyota Corolla vehicle.

The same day at around 1pm, the stolen vehicle was found dumped at corner Fairbridge way and Blake road, Malindela.

Police from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) crime team attended the scene and uplifted the fingerprints from the vehicle; they also recovered car keys inside a blue overall which was found from the scene.

Investigations by police led to Ncube’s arrest while the other two accomplices are still at large and warrants of arrest have been issued on them.-newsday

By- The government of South Africa has dropped the wearing of face masks.

South Africa’s Health Minister, Joe Phaahla announced the repealing of regulations Wednesday evening.

Phaahla said:

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT, 2003

REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE SURVEILLANCE AND THE CONTROL OF NOTIFIABLE MEDICAL CONDITIONS: REPEAL

I Mathume Joseph Phaahla, Minister of Health hereby repeal Regulations 16A 16B and 16C of the Regulations Relating to the Surveillance and the Control of Notifiable Medical Conditions, made in terms of sections 90(i)(j), (k) and (w) of the National Health Act, 2003 (Act 61 of 2003), and promulgated on 4 May 2022 under Government Notice 2060, in their entirety.

The repeal of the Regulations concerned will come into operation on publication in the Gazette.

By- The Police have arrested five (5) more CCC Five supporters for attending the opposition’s activist Moreblessing Ali.

This takes to 10, including Members of Parliament, Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North), the number of CCC supporters arrested.

The Harare Magistrate Court denied bail to the CCC MPs and three supporters of the opposition party, Misheck Guzha, Adious Makoma and Precious Jeche.

Sikhala and Sithole, who have been appearing in court in leg irons, were remanded in custody to 6 July.

Magistrate Gibson Mandaza said Sikhala and Sithole are “a threat to public security” and likely to re-offend if released on bail. Mandaza ruled that Sikhala had already disregarded a High Court order that barred him from using Social Media.

The ruling on the trio’s bail application will be delivered Thursady at 3 PM.

Noble Chinhanu, of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, is representing the trio.

By- A Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) bus ploughed into a Highfield home Wednesday.

ZBC News reports that the family in Harare are lucky to be alive.
ZBC News arrived just after the accident, with family members breaking windows to come out of the house after the bus had blocked the veranda entrance.
The bus driver, which had no passengers, escaped unhurt, but the conductor sustained minor injuries and was immediately ferried to a local clinic for treatment.

By-CCC leader Nelson Chamisa Wednesday led hundreds who attended his party’s deputy chairman Job Sikhala and Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole’s court hearing.

Ostallos Siziba, the CCC deputy spokesperson, posted pictures of Chamisa at Harare magistrate’s courts on Twitter.

Siziba posted:

Shoulder to Shoulder: In Court today in solidarity with our #NyatsimeTrio together with Hon Job Sikhala and Hon Gody Sithole for their bail hearings. We stand together knowing fully well that one day We Shall Be Free!! Solidarity always! Thank you Champions #FakaPressure

https://twitter.com/Cde_Ostallos/status/1539609050115104769/photo/1

Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has unpacked a comprehensive transformation plan set to revive the ailing economy.

According to President Chamisa, the county’s education system is in the graveyard.

In a statement on Tuesday, President Chamisa bemoaned the demise of the country’s health sector.

See full statement below:

OUR RAPID & ACCELERATED TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY PLAN

The CITIZENS government will come up with policy framework and turnaround strategy which among others includes the following:

1. Develop demand driven policies informed by inclusive policies and inclusive politics anchored upon an inclusive dialogue with all political actors, economic players, labour, business, civil society and academia with a view to build A NEW CONSENSUS and buy-in.
2. Our policies will be predictable, consistent and guarantee certainty – this will help citizens, economic agents, workers, business and investors to plan with certainty.
3. The corrupt will be an endangered species and extinct. We will eliminate corruption, enforce rule of law, foster political tolerance, constitutionalism and respect of property rights, which, combined, are critical ingredients required to attract investment, savings and production.

4.Resolving the debt crisis in Zimbabwe by engaging the multilateral community and opening Zimbabwe to the world.

5.We will make Zimbabwe an entrepreneurial society- new industries, new factories and new companies and new sectors and employing more.

6.We will embark on radical Central Bank reforms on the back of wide consultation with bankers, business and labour.

7.We will start with full dollarization and then create a conducive environment and the right confidence levels for the adoption of our local currency.

As part of our de-dollarisation road map we will make sure that we meet the following: (i) fiscal consolidation; (ii) current account surplus; (iii) 6 months import cover (forex reserves); (iv) stable exchange rate; (v) single digit inflation; and (vi) productive and competitive economy.

8. On the back of a well functioning economy, powered by production and stable macroeconomic environment, we will provide a dynamic social services which inter alia includes a robust heath and education system, well functioning welfare system and a highly rewarding civil service which will attract workers from the private sector.

The monster and beast we are taming;
9.In 2018 annual inflation was 5% but the regime has guided inflation to 837.5% in July 2020 and somehow managed to drop inflation to 55% in July 2021 after having used hard earn foreign currency from the exporters to bribe the economy by dishing it our at unreasonably controlled rates – now they have run out of steam annual inflation is now raking havoc again and shot to 132% in May 2022 – its not turning back;

9. Prof Mthuli 2019 budget was $8.1 billion but has shot up by 11900% to $960 billion in 2022 – its unprecedented! Fun enough salaries have not risen by the same magnitude.
10. Poverty levels as reported by ZIMSTAT shows that people in extreme poverty has risen from 29% (4.64 million people) to 49% (7.9 million people), that is, an additional 69% of the population was pushed into extreme in the last 4 years.
11. Civil servants were earning US$540 but teachers are now taking home ZWL$30,000 which is equivalent to US$42 …
12. Hospitals are now death traps …women are being asked to buy consumables for them to be registered to give birth;
13. Likewise, the education system is in the graveyard. Parents have assumed the role of government by paying teachers incentives with a view to arrest the situation.
14. War veterans and pensioners have been reduced to beggars.
15. Corruption has reached alarming levels. The recent audit on COVID funds shows that the monies were squandered and the targeted vulnerable people never received anything.

Failure is written everywhere and all over
This time let’s end and fix this !!

FakaPressure

By- The Police have arrested five (5) more CCC Five supporters for attending the opposition’s activist Moreblessing Ali.

This takes to 10, including Members of Parliament, Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North), the number of CCC supporters arrested.

The Harare Magistrate Court denied bail to the CCC MPs and three supporters of the opposition party, Misheck Guzha, Adious Makoma and Precious Jeche.

Sikhala and Sithole, who have been appearing in court in leg irons, were remanded in custody to 6 July.

Magistrate Gibson Mandaza said Sikhala and Sithole are “a threat to public security” and likely to re-offend if released on bail. Mandaza ruled that Sikhala had already disregarded a High Court order that barred him from using Social Media.

The ruling on the trio’s bail application will be delivered Thursady at 3 PM.

Noble Chinhanu, of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, is representing the trio.

By-Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala and his Chitungwiza North counterpart Godfrey Sithole have been denied bail.

The two are in prison for demanding justice in the gruesome murder of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.

A Harare magistrate Wednesday denied the two bail and said they would cause chaos if released.

The two were arrested on Tuesday on charges of incitement to commit violence.

Sikhala, the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy national chairperson and Sithole, the Chitungwiza North legislator, are being accused of mobilising their party supporters to unleash violence in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza, during a memorial service for Moreblessing Ali.
Ali, a CCC member, was abducted outside a nightclub in Nyatsime on May 14, and her dismembered remains were discovered in a disused well at a farm in Beatrice, about 10km away from where she was taken.
The chief suspect in her murder, Pius Jamba (31) was arrested last Friday and was on Saturday remanded in custody.

Magistrate Gibson Mandaza, remanded Sikhala and Sithole in custody to July 6 this year and their lawyers immediately indicated that they would
be launching an urgent appeal at the High Court.
In denying them bail, magistrate Gibson Mandaza said Sikhala and Sithole were “a threat to public security” and were likely to re-offend if
released.

– New Ziana

By- A Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) bus has crashed into a Highfield home.

ZBC News reports that the family in Harare are lucky to be alive.
ZBC News arrived just after the accident, with family members breaking windows to come out of the house after the bus had blocked the veranda entrance.
The bus driver, which had no passengers, escaped unhurt, but the conductor sustained minor injuries and was immediately ferried to a local clinic for treatment.

By-The Zanu PF regime, through the Harare magistrate Mrs Munashe Chibanda has for the second time dismissed an application for exception filed by a legal clerk with Tendai Biti Law Chambers who is facing two fresh counts of fraud due to lack of merit.

The magistrate ruled that the trial should commence on June 29.

Constantine Chaza had applied for an exception on amended charges arguing that the charges on the State outline do not constitute an offence.
In dismissing the application, Mrs Chibanda said Chaza’s application lacked merit.
On the first count, it is alleged that on February 26, 2020 at the High Court in Harare, Chaza tendered a fake special power of attorney from Elliot Rogers in the matter in which the complainant, Tendai Mashamhanda, was the other party.

The court acted upon the misrepresentation and allowed Chaza to file the papers.
The matter came to light when Mashamhanda managed to contact Rogers in the United Kingdom, who denied giving Chaza any power of attorney and the matter was reported to the police.
The special power of attorney tendered by Chaza was checked out by the CID Forensic Laboratory for analysis together with other documents that Rogers signed and it was allegedly discovered that the documents were not signed by the same person.
On the second count, it is alleged that on October 18 2021 at the High Court in Harare, Chaza again allegedly tendered a fake special power of attorney from Rogers in another case.

It is further alleged that the matter came to light when the complainant, Piwayi Chiutsi, noted that the signature on the special power of attorney dated September 27, 2015 was different from the signature by Rogers on an affidavit done on October 7, 2014 and a report was made to the police.

Chaza is on $5 000 bail on another matter involving perjury charges after allegedly filing a false statement under oath at the High Court.
-State media

By-CCC leader Nelson Chamisa Wednesday led hundreds who attended his party’s deputy chairman Job Sikhala and Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole’s court hearing.

Ostallos Siziba, the CCC deputy spokesperson, posted pictures of Chamisa at Harare magistrate’s courts on Twitter.

Siziba posted:

Shoulder to Shoulder: In Court today in solidarity with our #NyatsimeTrio together with Hon Job Sikhala and Hon Gody Sithole for their bail hearings. We stand together knowing fully well that one day We Shall Be Free!! Solidarity always! Thank you Champions #FakaPressure

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By-A Harare magistrate Wednesday denied bail to Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala and his Chitungwiza North counterpart Godfrey Sithole and said the two would cause chaos if released.

The two were arrested on Tuesday on charges of incitement to commit violence.
Sikhala, the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy national chairperson and Sithole, the Chitungwiza North legislator, are being accused of mobilising their party supporters to unleash violence in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza, during a memorial service for Moreblessing Ali.
Ali, a CCC member, was abducted outside a nightclub in Nyatsime on May 14, and her dismembered remains were discovered in a disused well at a farm in Beatrice, about 10km away from where she was taken.
The chief suspect in her murder, Pius Jamba (31) was arrested last Friday and was on Saturday remanded in custody.

Magistrate Gibson Mandaza, remanded Sikhala and Sithole in custody to July 6 this year and their lawyers immediately indicated that they would
be launching an urgent appeal at the High Court.
In denying them bail, magistrate Gibson Mandaza said Sikhala and Sithole were “a threat to public security” and were likely to re-offend if
released.

– New Ziana

By-A Harare magistrate Wednesday denied bail to Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala and his Chitungwiza North counterpart Godfrey Sithole and said the two would cause chaos if released.

The two were arrested on Tuesday on charges of incitement to commit violence.
Sikhala, the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy national chairperson and Sithole, the Chitungwiza North legislator, are being accused of mobilising their party supporters to unleash violence in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza, during a memorial service for Moreblessing Ali.
Ali, a CCC member, was abducted outside a nightclub in Nyatsime on May 14, and her dismembered remains were discovered in a disused well at a farm in Beatrice, about 10km away from where she was taken.
The chief suspect in her murder, Pius Jamba (31) was arrested last Friday and was on Saturday remanded in custody.

Magistrate Gibson Mandaza, remanded Sikhala and Sithole in custody to July 6 this year and their lawyers immediately indicated that they would
be launching an urgent appeal at the High Court.
In denying them bail, magistrate Gibson Mandaza said Sikhala and Sithole were “a threat to public security” and were likely to re-offend if
released.

– New Ziana

By Gift Ostallos Siziba

We are at Harare magisatrate court in solidarity with our Champions Hon Job Wiwa Sikhala and Hon Godfrey Sithole.

The state denied Sikhala bail. A travesty of justice. Political prisoners must be freed.

We forge ahead knowing fully that one day the victory of the people will bring total freedom to the oppressed.

FakaPressure

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By A Correspondent- Beitbridge Border Post, the country’s busiest inland port of entry, has been identified as the country’s major corruption hot spot, with some Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials under investigation after building mansions in Harare.

Zimra is investigating three Beitbridge-based revenue officers who built mansions in Harare, but failed to account to their employer how they raised the money following a lifestyle audit.

The revenue authority could, however, not release the names of the officers since the matter is still under investigation.

This emerged during a stakeholders’ workshop on the progress made in the fight against corruption held in Bulawayo on Friday.

Presenting a lifestyle audit report to parliamentarians and other stakeholders during the meeting, Zimra loss control manager Mr Selleck Mapfeka said lifestyle auditing or monitoring is a basic comparison of one’s proceeds or sources of income against how it is utilised.

It is an accountability tool which is conducted when the visible lifestyle or standard of living of an individual appears to exceed their known income levels.

“We are currently investigating three officers who built mansions in Harare, but failed to explain how they acquired the wealth following a lifestyle audit,” he said.

Mr Mapfeka said corruption is more pronounced at Beitbridge Border Post and urged Government to consider extending the lifestyle audits to other stakeholders operating at the border post.

“We also have another officer who built a block of flats and he has since resigned.

The lifestyle audit also revealed that some Zimra revenue officers based in Beitbridge had six properties acquired through shady deals at the border,” he said.

Mr Mapfeka also mentioned the case of a former Beitbridge based Zimra revenue officer Mr Kennedy Nyatoti, who made history by becoming the first person to lose assets under the country’s civil-based asset forfeiture law when his US$150 000 mansion in Harare and US$10 000 car were forfeited to the State.

Nyatoti joined Zimra in 2014 aged 25 and two years down the line he got married and paid lobola of US$10 000. In 2017, he took his family for a holiday in China and spent US$15 000.

During the same year, Nyatoti bought a residential stand for US$24 000 and under-declared that it was worth US$18 000. He built and completed his house in five months.

“We investigated Kennedy Nyatoti, who was based at Beitbridge Border Post, which is a major a hot spot for corruption, and he failed to explain the source of his wealth following a lifestyle audit,” he said.

Mr Mapfeka said Nyatoti’s ill-gotten wealth emanated from fraudulently clearing immigrants’ rebates for people not qualifying to bring in goods duty-free under the rebate facility.

After Nyatoti failed to declare his assets, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) made a court application for civil forfeiture in terms of the amended Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act.

The High Court then ordered forfeiture of the mansion and the car.

Police recovered the forfeited assets and subsequently handed them over to the Zimra asset management unit.

Previously, the State could only apply for forfeiture after a conviction for a corruption-related offence.

However, the law now allows the State to apply for forfeiture under civil rules even without instituting criminal proceedings.

“We need a lifestyle audit for all border stakeholders.

While as Zimra, we conduct lifestyle audits for our staff, others seconded at the ports of entry are not conducting lifestyle audits,” he said.

“In fact, you have someone deployed at Beitbridge border and shockingly, within a short period of time, they are now driving posh cars and building mansions.

We need to fight corruption to the end.

We are, therefore, saying all people deployed the ports of entry should be subjected to lifestyle audits.”

Mr Mapfeka said most of the assets are being recovered through inter-agency collaborations and involvement of the NPA through prosecutor-guided investigations.

“We don’t have a centralised property database where all properties can be looked at.

For instance, if you go to the Deeds Registry, they have what they have,” he said.

“Similarly, if you go to the land developers and councils, it is same story hence when it comes to investigations, it is a challenge.”

Mr Mapfeka said when they conduct a lifestyle audit, they expect a person to explain his or her source of wealth.

“There is nothing wrong in owning properties, but there is something terribly wrong if you can’t explain your source of wealth either.

Anything that is acquired using ill-gotten wealth is tainted property,” he said.

Mr Mapfeka said a lifestyle audit is one of the critical tools that they use in as far as dealing with corruption is concerned.

“Assets are checked against the asset declaration form.

When you are recruited by Zimra, the first thing you are required to do, is to complete an asset declaration form that will form the basis of any lifestyle audit,” he said.

“If the loss control division is going to carry out a lifestyle audit, they will use that as a baseline. Proof of source of wealth should be produced in all lifestyle audits and we continue to record success stories.”

Mr Mapfeka said Zimra set up an integrity committee in 2019 including an in-house corruption diagnosis tool, which was developed to measure corruption.

“In the past, we used to measure corruption based on the number of prosecutions, but we realised that we were not getting the intended results.

We are now measuring our efforts in fighting corruption and we come up with a corruption index every quarter,” he said.

“We are now using the Integrated Results-Based Management and every employee of Zimra is measured on the level of corruption at the end of every quarter.

On lifestyle audits, we also do recruitment vetting, parallel financial investigations and asset forfeiture and recovery.”

Zimra also has a hotline, which is managed by a third party for people to use to report corruption.

Before it was stopped last December, the revenue collector had a whistle-blower facility where Zimra would pay the whistle-blower 10 percent of the recoveries.

Zimra acting Commissioner for Revenue Assurance Mr Edward Phiri said as part of efforts to fight the scourge, they have launched anti-corruption campaign dubbed “#I‘m for zero campaign” to promote zero tolerance to corruption.

The Zimra Revenue Assurance Investigation Division carries out criminal investigations regarding alleged violations of the tax and customs laws.

“We have been going around the country doing ‘I am for zero campaigns’, which we have done in Mutare, Beitbridge, Bulawayo and Harare and this week we will be in Masvingo.

This is an initiative that we have taken as we try to address this scourge,” said Mr Phiri.

“The revenue assurance division, which has an anti-money laundering unit, has the responsibility to deal with offences that spill from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s Financial Intelligence Unit, Zacc, police and other law enforcement agents.”

It also emerged during the meeting that out of 254 cases being handled by NPA, a majority of them are from Harare.

A total of US$50 million was also recovered from conviction-based asset forfeiture in 2021 and police say they arrested 495 suspects for corruption-related cases in the same year.-standard

By A Correspondent- Government has failed to pay contractors under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) for the past five months, slowing down the road rehabilitation initiatives.

Government launched ERRP in 2021 after President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared the country’s roads a national disaster.

A follow-up Statutory Instrument (SI) 47 of 2021 was later gazetted, empowering the Transport and Infrastructural Development ministry to authorise the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to source funding for road rehabilitation.

At a dinner held in Gweru on Friday, Transport deputy minister Mike Madiro said: “I think it is important to understand the revenue flow pattern of government. Every end of year there are shutdowns, so in the first quarter there are dribs and drabs, but in the second quarter at least things start to flow. That needs to be recognised given the pressures which are on the government first.”

However, speaking on condition of anonymity, some of the contracted firms expressed fears that they would receive their money when it has already lost value to inflation.

“We find ourselves being paid late the money that we were supposed to be paid in January. This has reduced the value of our salary by a third,” a contractor said.

“It means if we were supposed to be paid US$150 000 equivalent, we are now being paid US$50 000. This money was supposed to be paid five to six months ago.”

Finance minister Mthuli Ncube recently said government was planning to pay contractors 50% of their receipts in United States dollars, and the other half in local currency. In February, Zinara said it was setting aside $17 billion for the ERRP programme this year. The roads authority disbursed $6 billion to local authorities in the first quarter of the year.

By A Correspondent- After hiding from the media and the public since his forced return from South Africa, Kudakwashe Mahachi had no choice but to appear at the Bulawayo Magistrates’ Court yesterday to answer charges of theft.

He arrived at court in the company of his lawyer, Nkosiyabo Sibanda of Tanaka Law Chambers and his best friend Zibusiso Hadebe.

Mahachi was suspended by South African Premier Soccer League side SuperSport United and returned to Zimbabwe to defend himself over allegations of scalding his four-year-old son with boiling water.

He has, however, avoided being seen in public ever since his return.

His expected morning court appearance was abortive, but he appeared before magistrate Maxwell Ncube with Karen Gundani prosecuting in the afternoon.

Gundani said Mahachi allegedly snatched and damaging his sister’s iPhone XR smartphone on June 13, as part of concerted efforts to destroy evidence nailing him for purportedly scalding his son.

According to Gundani, the midfielder unlawfully took the iPhone XR cellphone with a Econet sim card knowing that Meline Mahachi was entitled to own, possess or control the property or realising that there was a real possibility that Meline Mahachi might be deprived ownership or control of the smartphone.

Circumstances are that Meline Mahachi was called by her brother, Kudakwashe, who had parked his car outside her yard in the company of his wife, Rose Mahachi and friend Hadebe, who was driving the car.

He requested to use her phone to track his smartphone, which he claimed to have lost.

The state alleges that Mahachi took the black iPhone XR smartphone from the complainant and told Hadebe to start the ignition.

The complainant asked for her cellphone back, but Mahachi refused to return it.

He disembarked from the car and smashed it on the ground, saying he wanted to destroy evidence of photos and videos.

He picked up the damaged cellphone and walked away along Taylor Road towards Makokoba suburb.

The complainant made a police report leading to the arrest of the footballer.

The total value of the stolen phone is US$400 and nothing was recovered.

According to the State, Mahachi had no lawful right to act in the manner he did.

The prosecutor requested for a postponement to July 5, saying the State had not yet recorded witness statements needed for the matter to proceed to trial.

Meanwhile, Mahachi’s brother-in-law Paul Sixpence, the husband to Meline Mahachi, also appeared in court yesterday for allegedly assaulting Hadebe.

Sixpence (37) appeared before magistrate Nomagugu Maphosa.

Hadebe (35) from New Magwegwe alleges that Sixpence unlawfully assaulted him with fists several times and pulled him out of the car he was driving “intending to cause bodily harm on him and inflicted injuries on his body on the same day.

The State said Hadebe was sitting in the car while Mahachi was talking to his sister when Sixpence approached him saying “liyasijwayela” (you are undermining us) and punched him on the face several times and pulled him from the seat of the car.

Sixpence is alleged to have snatched the car keys and went into the house and returned them after some time.

Hadebe made a report to the police report leading to the arrest of Sixpence.

Hadebe sustained no visible injuries and did not seek any medical attention.

By A Correspondent- The state has been accused of engaging individuals who are giving false witness statements in order to augument their baseless charges accusing three CCC activists Cecilia Chimbiri, Joana Mamombe and Netsai Marova of communicating and publishing falsehoods.

The trio were abducted by suspected state security agents.

Said a source:

The police tampered with the car. Baseless witnessing has just been called to try and finish the made up puzzle in which the state is accusing the trio of publishing or communicating falsehoods.

On the witness stand, the state called the owner of the Mercedes Benz which the trio was abducted in .

They tampered with the car. The state’s witness confirmed and said he doesn’t know who drove the vehicle into the police station from TM shop which is opposite Harare central police station.

The trio were forced to disembark from their car to go into the omnibus on that fateful day.

On cross examination, the state witness denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of the car except the fact that he was called to see it in the police parking lot. He claimed that he had learnt that the trio had been abducted from social media and this was days after 13, 14 and 15 May.

“My car had no special security features that include tracking anti hijack or alarm , I also do not remember the number plates of the car,“ he told the court.

He said this after state prosecutor continued asking him about the number plate which defence counsel said was leading the witness.

The state witness continued to say he is not sure of the registration number of the car as state was trying hard to force him to remember it.

How this particular witness would assist in confirming the trio communicated or published falsehoods prejudicial to the state or faked their abduction remains unclear.

Why he was called remains a mystery because nothing tangible seems to be coming out of his testimony except him confirming that he knows the two accused are his friends. He only also knows that his car was driven into the police station by who knows who.

Reza continues to call witnesses who are giving testimonies confirming that the trio were abducted .

The witnesses continue to tell the truth even after being coached.”

By A Correspondent- South Africa has adopted multi-pronged approaches to tackle the scourge of xenophobia through community dialogues and soccer matches between foreigners and locals, among other interventions, a government official said here on Monday.

These various measures are aimed at enhancing social cohesion and nation-building, Poso Makhado, manager of community mobilization and empowerment at the National Department of Social Development, told Xinhua, noting that soccer legends from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana and a team of Somalians joined recent soccer matches.

He condemned “opportunistic individuals” who force foreigners to pay protection fees, saying poverty, inequality and unemployment in South Africa force some local people to resort to crimes and foreigners happen to be the “soft targets.”

Some locals are also complaining that there are many undocumented foreigners coming into the country, he added.

South Africa records more than 50 xenophobic incidents every year, a result of competition for limited job and business opportunities, according to Silindile Mlilo, a doctoral researcher and project manager at African Center for Migration and Society of University of Witwatersrand.

However, International Organization of Migrants’ Chief of Mission in South Africa Lily Sanya believed that migration is beneficial if well managed.

She suggested setting quotas on migrant workers in the region so that countries can exchange skilled personnel and manage migration, adding that the exchange of skills would result in economic growth.

The South African government is also in discussion with Zimbabwe on how to tackle xenophobia.

“We were raising awareness that we are one people … We are concerned, alarmed and stressed about these attacks against African brothers,” said Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to South Africa David Hamadziripi.

By A Correspondent- Former Gweru Urban Member of Parliament (MP), Roderick Rutsvara has died.

Rutsvara, aged 48 died at a Gweru private hospital on Saturday due to a kidney ailment.

The development was confirmed by brother to the late Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) former lawmaker, Kumirai Rutsvara who said:

A dark cloud has fallen in our family as we have been robbed following the death of my brother who was a pillar of strength and a unifier in the family.

His death is a huge blow to the family and has left a vacuum which is difficult to fill.

He will be buried in Zvavahera, Gutu district in Masvingo Province on Tuesday.

The late former legislator was born in 1974 in Gutu, Masvingo.

He did his Secondary education at Mutero High School in Gutu before proceeding for his tertiary education in South Africa where he studied Business Management at ABS College in South Africa.

By A Correspondent- Zipra veterans in Matabeleland North have demanded that Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu must visit the province to show them some Zipra properties, which he claims he bought in Nyamandlovu.

This follows the death of Zipra war veteran Stanley John Wolfenden, who was the custodian of Zipra properties.

Wolfenden had challenged Mpofu over ownership of some of the properties, including farms, which he claimed to be his.

Wolfenden, who passed on on Saturday, was the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo’s aide.

At independence in 1980, Nkomo advised former Zipra combatants to contribute $50 each to acquire Nitrum Investments Holdings, which owned a number of farms and buildings.

Nitrum chairman Walker Mathe said he was saddened by Wolfenden’s death as he was the custodian of the Nyamandlovu Zipra assets.

“Mpofu claimed to have bought the properties, but Wolfenden was opposing his claims. His (Wolfenden) death will now cause us to ask Mpofu to come and explain to us how he bought the properties since the witness who knows more about them has passed on,” Mathe said.

“As far as we know, these properties still belong to Zipra. We want a solution to this before next year’s elections.”

Mpofu dismissed the claims by Zipra cadres.

“Which properties are they talking about? Do not ask me stupid things,” Mpofu said before dropping the call.

In 2020, Zipra veterans engaged President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeking the return of their properties that were confiscated by the late former President Robert Mugabe during Gukurahundi in the mid-1980s.

Some of the Zipra properties grabbed by government included Castle Arms Motel and Nest Egg building in Bulawayo, Ascot Farm in Solusi, Wood Glen Farm in Nyamandlovu and Hawton Farm in Gweru.

The late former Midlands governor Cephas Msipa reportedly resettled people from Sogwala at Hawton Farm in Gweru.

Zipra properties in Harare included Nijo Farm, Salisbury Motel and Snake Park.

The Zipra ex-fighters also lost over 4 000 head of cattle during seizure of their properties by the government.

By A Correspondent- An unlicenced police officer has been convicted for negligent driving after he lost control of his speeding vehicle and rammed into a traditional leader’s car.

Nomatter Enock (35), who is at ZRP Camps and Hostels, Chinhoyi, recently appeared before magistrate Langton Ndokera facing two counts of violating the Road Traffic Act chapter 13:11, relating to driving negligently and driving without a valid driver’s licence.

The complainant is the State representing Chief Zvimba, born Stanley Wurayayi Mhondoro.

On the first count, Enock was slapped with a ZW$40,000 fine or 40 days imprisonment.

The police officer was also prohibited from driving any class of motor vehicle within the next 24 months.

On second count, accused person was ordered to deposit $30,000 fine or alternatively spend 30 days in jail.

The State’s case, led by Tendai Tapi, was that on September 13, 2020 at around 7:15pm, Enock was driving a Mazda B25 registration number ACM6016 along Harare-Chirundu highway towards Chinhoyi.

The court heard that upon approaching the 102 kilometre peg along the said road, the cop lost control of his vehicle and encroached into the right lane of an oncoming Isuzu KB250 being driven by Chief Zvimba.

Court heard that Enock was driving at an excessive speed thereby failed to navigate the car.

Noone was injured in the accident while both cars sustained moderate damages.

By A Correspondent- The Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial leadership says many ruling party members were seeking transfers from urban to rural areas.

Addressing members at a provincial co-ordinating committee meeting in Marondera at the weekend, provincial secretary for administration, Felix Mhona said most transfers were from Harare province.

“We are getting transfers of members, mainly from Harare to this province. They are so many. Some of them took part in the 2018 election, but failed to win any seats,” he said.

Zanu-PF has been struggling to make inroads in urban areas where the opposition controls local authorities.

“The province should work hand in hand with the district on vetting and accepting such members,” Mhona added.

The ruling party commands a huge following in Mashonaland East province, especially in constituencies such as Uzumba, Maramba and Pfungwe.

The opposition won two out of the 23 constituencies in the 2018 polls.

The influx of urban members has, however, divided opinion in rural areas, and sowed divisions among party members.

By A Correspondent- Former ZRP boss Augustine Chihuri secured some relief Tuesday after the High Court gave him back a luxury Harare mansion valued at US$7 million.

Chihuri, reportedly now based in South Africa, is accused of stealing some US$32 million in public funds while at the helm of the country’s police service.

He was head of the ZRP for some 25 years before being sacked after backing the losing side in the 2017 military coup which brought President Emmerson Mnangagwa to power.

Chihuri initially moved to Malawi but is now understood to be based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

His vast wealth was placed under management in 2020 after the State slapped him with unexplained wealth orders which required explanation of the sources of his various businesses and properties.

However, in a High Court ruling delivered Tuesday, Justice Pisirayi Kwenda varied the orders, directing the return of some of Chihuri’s property.

The property included the luxury Gletwyn mansion which reportedly features 16 en-suite bedrooms, seven lounges, nine garages, a helipad and a fishing dam.

Chihuri had denied owning the property in 2017, warning that; “Let the nation be warned that police will not fold hands in dealing with those misusing social media to settle their issues.”

Meanwhile, also returned to the former ZRP chief were five vehicles, several houses as well as equipment for his two farms in Chinhoyi and Shamva.

Chihuri’s lawyers led by Harare attorney Addington Chinake, had wanted the judge to consider the validity of the unexplained wealth orders.

The State accuses Chihuri of using his authority as head of the police to fleece million of dollars in public funds which were channeled to five companies linked to family members and relatives.

The companies reportedly received US$32 million to supply various goods and materials to the police.

Chief law officer and head of assets forfeiture unit Chris Mutangadura represented the State in the case.

By A Correspondent- Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube Tuesday told reporters during a post-Cabinet media briefing that the government was willing to ensure that part of workers’ salaries was in United States dollars.

His remarks come as workers have since 2019 periodically embarked on industrial action demanding USD-denominated salaries and better working conditions. They say their Zimbabwe-dollar-denominated salaries have been eroded by rising inflation. 

NewsDay’s Privilege Gumbodete and Pride Mzarabani cite Ncube as saying:

I cannot comment on ongoing negotiations and details between civil servants and government as yet … As government, we are sensitive to the plight of all the civil servants and we will do whatever we can to make sure we can accommodate the demands, obviously within the budgetary constraints we face.

As you know, the government is offering US$175. So on that part, we have already shown we are willing to make sure that part of the salaries is in United States dollars, but as to the recent request from civil servants, all those things are under consideration, under discussion.

Civil servants recently rejected a 100 per cent government wage increase with effect from July 1.

Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions secretary-general David Dzatsunga said: “We want US$840.”

Meanwhile, economists have said it would be unwise for workers across all sectors to accept salary increments in the local currency given its continued devaluation due to inflation. They say the increment will worsen inflation.

By A Correspondent- Mberengwa Rural District Council allegedly spent over US$6 000 on Thursday last week on a meeting which never happened.

The Midweek Watch’s Bridget Mutukwa reports that all the 37 councillors refused to hold a full council meeting despite constituting a quorum because technocrats and chiefs were not present.

The Council pays for the allowances and all other related costs for the 37 councillors of Mberengwa which is one of the biggest rural districts in the country.

Councillors argued that they wanted the technocrats to be in the meeting so that they guide them on technical issues although there is no law that provides for their mandatory presence in ordinary full council meetings.

Acting chief executive officer, Percy Mwedzi reportedly persuaded councillors to go ahead with the meeting to reduce costs for the RDC which is facing serious financial problems, but the majority of councillors vehemently refused.

Mwedzi argued that the council will fork out another US$6000 for councillors to reconvene the meeting. The meeting was postponed to June 24, 2022. Pleaded Mwedzi to no avail:

The error has been noted and I suggest that we go ahead as the Act allows us to do so in the absence of the technocrats. All the councillors are present which means there is a quorum and the heads of departments will be invited in the next meeting as there are so many issues that need to be addressed in the council.

After the opening remarks by the Council chairperson, Nyembesi Shumba, Mberengwa District Development Coordinator, Vafias Hlabati raised a point of order and asked why heads of Government departments were not invited.

The question sparked a heated debate between councillors and Council staff led by the acting CEO, with the majority of councillors concurring to postpone the meeting.

By- President Emerson Mnangagwa has demoted the Minister of State in the Office of the President and Cabinet in charge of Monitoring the Implementation of Special Agricultural and Related Programmes, Davis Marapira and deployed him to the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development.

 Below is a statement issued by Misheck Sibanda which announces the development:

His Excellency, the President, has in terms of Section 104 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe of 2013 transferred the Minister of State in the Office of the President and Cabinet in charge of Monitoring the Implementation of Special Agricultural and Related Programmes, Honourable Davis Marapira, to the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development to be responsible for Agricultural Colleges, Water Resources and Irrigation Development, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.

He will report to Honourable Minister, Dr. Anxious J. Masuka.

The appointment is with immediate effect.

The social, political and economic transformation of Zimbabwe can only take place when there is change, peace, tolerance and dialogue. We need to build this nation and transform the lives of its people for the better.

— Sen Douglas Mwonzora (@DMwonzora) June 22, 2022

By- Hundreds are expected today at the CCC deputy chairman and party’s MP for Chitungwiza North Godfrey Sithole bail hearing.

The two are back in court today after spending almost a week in remand prison.

They were arrested last week at the funeral of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.

CCC posted Tuesday urging its supporters to attend the two’s court hearing.

CCC posted: 

Our MPs 

@JobSikhala1

 & Godfrey Sithole will appear at the Harare Magistrate Court 

@1400hrs

 tomorrow for their bail ruling . Let’s come & show solidarity with our champions who’re being persecuted for demanding justice for Moreblessing Ali. #freejobsikhala #FreeGodfreySithole

By- CCC deputy chairman and the party’s MP for Chitungwiza North Godfrey Sithole are expected back in court today.

The two were arrested last week at the funeral of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.

CCC posted Tuesday urging its supporters to attend the two’s court hearing.

CCC posted: 

Our MPs 

@JobSikhala1

 & Godfrey Sithole will appear at the Harare Magistrate Court 

@1400hrs

 tomorrow for their bail ruling . Let’s come & show solidarity with our champions who’re being persecuted for demanding justice for Moreblessing Ali. #freejobsikhala #FreeGodfreySithole

By- Harare Tuesday lifted the COVID-19 midnight curfew citing “satisfactory progress” in the containment of the global pandemic.

Acting Information Minister Jenfan Muswere announced this during a post-Cabinet media briefing.

He said business hours for the hospitality industry are now from 8 am to 3 am the following day.

Muswere said:
While enforcement of Covid-19 regulations must continue, the curfew which is currently running from 12 midnight to 5:30 am has been lifted.
The curfew was introduced at the height of the pandemic as a precautionary measure to control the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
Part of the reasoning behind abolishing movements at night was to minimise social contact during the hours with minimum authority supervision.

As of 20 June 2022, Zimbabwe had 254 919 confirmed cases, including 247 649 recoveries and 5 536 deaths. A total of 6 264 867 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Meanwhile, neighbouring South Africa is also considering lifting COVID-19 regulations as cases and deaths have been declining in recent weeks.
South Africa is the most affected African country with more cases and fatalities.

By- Teachers’ salaries have been eroded and reduced to US$42.

CCC President Nelson Chamisa made the calculations in a tweet Tuesday when he was analysing inflation that has reached an alarming rate.

He said teachers would gain respect under the opposition’s government in 2023.

Posted Chamisa”

14/16 Civil servants were earning US$540 but teachers are now taking home ZWL$30,000 which is equivalent to US$42 …Hospitals are now death traps …women are being asked to buy consumables for them to be registered to give birth;