By James Gwati-A popular erectile dysfunctional Kadoma Gold dealer, Calvin Obert (28), has deserted his wife and now stays with a local slay-queen.

Calvin deserted after his wife had complained that they should seek spiritual divine to save their three-year.

According to the disgruntled wife, Calvin has a severe erectile dysfunctional problem and uses s*x enhancement tablets for an erection.

She said she discovered Calvin’s problem the same week they got married.

The two got married in 2020 and have a one-and-a-half-year-old baby girl.

The wife said since 2020; she has been engaging her inlaws, but with no assistance.

“I discovered this the same week we got married and asked him why he did not tell me that he had such a problem. We stayed like that since 2020, and he never satisfied me in bed. Every time we wanted to make love, his manhood shrunk; for those years, I resorted to masturbating to relieve myself. He could get an erection only after taking some pills, but again, he could not ejaculate. We stayed like that for a year, with one knowing this, until I decided to go and tell his Mother. But surprisingly, she did not take any action. She only said that they would sort it out, and that was that,” she said.

” The problem worsened, and this time he started to have wet dreams and could only ejaculate in his sleep, and this made me believe that this was spiritual. I advised him that we should seek for prayers, but his Mother insisted on going ku N’anga, which also made the problem even worse,” she said.

Calvin’s wife said the situation deteriorated, and instead of paying attention to the problem, Calvin started cheating with a local girl named Lisa Chivende (pictured with Calvin).

” He used the same tricks of taking s*x enhancement pills and started seeing Lisa. I confronted him and his girlfriend, and they both apologised and promised they were ending their relationship. He stopped seeing Lisa for a week, and they re-engaged again. I told his Mother about this, and she said I had become too fat and too big for her son. This broke my heart, considering it was two years of staying without s*x with their son. I stood with him faithfully, hoping that one day it would work, but his family thanked me with these insults. I told them they should take me back to my parents if they no longer loved me, and they refused. I went back home for almost six months, and we slept in different rooms,” she narrated.

The betrayed young woman said she later decided to return to her parents after seeing that their relationship had become irreconcilable.

Contacted for comment, Calvin said he was busy to give an immediate response.

” Is that what she told you? Right now I am busy r as I am travelling to the mine. We clashed on several issues, and I will talk to you when I have time,” he said before terminating the call.

The two are still legally married.

By A Correspondent- The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has said late Vice President Joshua Nkomo’s decision to turn down an chance at splitting Zimbabwe into two, on tribal lines, is partly to blame for the murder of some 20 000 mainly Ndebele speaking people during the Gukurahundi genocide.

Late President Robert Mugabe’s North Korean trained 5th Brigade butchered civilians in the Midlands and Matabeleland provinces under the guise of searching for dissidents between 1983 and 1987.

Speaking at a rally in Khame, Plumtree, MRP president Mqondisi Moyo said the former Zapu president, Nkomo, refused an offer to split the nation, at the Lancaster House conference in 1979, as he thought he was going to win the country’s first one-man-one-vote election in 1980.

“I feel sad because we had the opportunity to separate ourselves from Zimbabwe during the Lancaster House talks of 1979 but the late Zapu leader Nkomo refused, he said he wanted the two countries combined because he thought he was going to win not knowing that Mugabe and his colleagues had finished with him,” said Moyo.

Three years down the line, Ndebele people started being brutally murdered in the hands of Mugabe. If Nkomo had agreed to that option during the talks, there was not going to be a thing called Gukurahundi.

“If only he had not called  for a cease fire in 1982, we were going to defeat Shonas once and for all. I always wonder why Nkomo took his ZPRA troops for training in Russia, Cuba, Algeria and Egypt only call for cease fire.

“This is very saddening because Mugabe and his friends did their homework, it is like they were two steps ahead of Nkomo in terms of thinking because immediately after he called for cease fire and they knew his army no longer had weapons, they stroke.”

MRP is a political party pushing for reconstitution of the Mthwakazi nation through cessation from the greater Zimbabwe.

Moyo’s rally, which was attended by hundreds, was themed, “Coming back for our land, political power, borders; restoration and prosperity for all.”

By A Correspondent- Government Spokesman Nick Mangwana has using a graphic red line strike on a piece of paper, apologised over his embarrassing comments alleging that the murdered CCC activist Moreblessing Ali was killed by a former boyfriend.

ZimEye revealed last month that the murder suspect Pius Jamba has never at anytime been her boyfriend and he is even younger than her own son, Innocence.

Writing after 3 weeks of posting falsehoods, Mangwana for the first time sounded out that he only commented based on information not his own, but that of government functionaries who made announcements based on word to lips witness allegations.

Moreblessing Ali (46) was killed and her body dismembered on the night of the 24th May 2022 in Nyatsime and the police for over 3 weeks, spent more time publishing political apologetics than performing any arrest.

Commenting, Mangwana, highlighted the erroneous allegation in red and then said,

“We work with available information from our institutions who also work with what they are informed by witnesses.”

Meanwhile at the weekend, Jamba’s brother Simba Chisango announced alleging that even his own mother is guilty.

He briefly spoke to ZimEye via phone as he communicated this.

By A Correspondent- The bail ruling for incarcerated CCC senior members Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole has been postponed to 22 June 2022.

Sikhala and Sithole spent the weekend behind bars following their arrest last week in connection with the violence that erupted in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza at a memorial service of slain CCC activist, Moreblessing Ali with authorities accusing the two of inciting the violence.

The duo were hauled to court in leg irons Monday morning.

Prosecutors Michael Reza, Chris Mutangadura and Lovemore Masuku allege that Sikhala, who is also the Ali family lawyer, urged Zimbabweans to avenge Ali’s murder.

Sithole is charged with participating in inciting violence and arranging lorries which allegedly transported CCC activists who attacked the homes of ZANU PF supporters.

Both denied the charges through defence lawyers Jeremiah Bamu and Alec Muchadehama who said the charges against their clients were a creation by the state.

Bamu last week said that Sikhala is not the one who posted the video in which he is alleged to have incited violence and that he did not utter any statements inciting violence.

Said the CCC in a tweet:

“They’re being persecuted for demanding justice for Moreblessing Ali.”

Party Spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere lamented the selective treatment of the duo by the state and said:

“Today, Hon @JobSikhala1 & Hon Godfrey Sithole have been brought to court in leg irons.

There is no lawful basis for this cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.

There’s also no basis for them to be held at Chikurubi instead of Remand Prison.

This persecution must stop!”

More details follow ….

By A Correspondent- A 46 year old Chitungwiza woman is facing culpable homicide charges after she ran over a policeman last Tuesday who was manning a roadblock along the Kadoma-Patchway Road in Kadoma.

Sergeant Oscar Kanjute who sustained severe injuries after being hit by the speeding white Toyota Hiace (AFL 8048), died upon admission at Kadoma General Hospital.

Kanjute was one of the officers conducting traffic enforcement duties at the roadblock.

The Herald reports that the woman, Dadirai Sixpence (46) of Chitungwiza had six passengers on board when the incident occurred.

It is alleged that she was driving the commuter omnibus (kombi) when another vehicle in front of her car was waived to stop at the roadblock but Sixpence did not stop and swerved to the right, hitting the policeman who was stopping cars coming from the opposite direction.

The policeman was dragged for a few metres and sustained serious injuries. The vehicle has since been taken to Kadoma VID for investigations. 

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed the incident on Tuesday saying investigations were underway. Read the ZRP update:

The ZRP reports a sad incident that occurred on 14/06/22 at around 1245 hours, where a police officer, Sergeant Kanjute Oscar, was run over by a motorist while on traffic enforcement duties at a roadblock along the Kadoma-Patchway Road, Kadoma. He sustained severe injuries and died upon admission at Kadoma General Hospital.

A number of cases where police officers manning roadblocks were run over by vehicles have been recorded since last year.

By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) commissioner Gabriel Chaibva has denied ownership of a Twitter account in his name which recently carried an offensive tweet.

This came after the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) threatened to file a US1 million defamation lawsuit against him over the alleged tweet.

The tweet implied that the human rights body was organising civil unrest

“I regret to advise that this is one of the many social media platforms which purport to be me when, in fact, they are ghost accounts,” Chaibva said in a letter to the ZLHR.

“I am advised that they have been many more handles which have been opened in my name with old pictures of me. The picture appearing on the Twitter handle complained of was taken in 2008 and appeared in a news broadcast on ZBC TV when I was interviewed. It is on the internet.

“The other pictures which have appeared on the Twitter handle were taken in July 2019 at the State House swearing ceremony, while those pictures are of me; it is not my Twitter handle. Therefore, be informed that the Twitter handle you are complaining of is a ghost account and I am not in any way associated with it,” he added.

In the alleged offensive tweet, Chaibva is said to have claimed that civil society groups such as the Crisis Coalition Zimbabwe, Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe and ZLHR were planning engage politically motivated violence in the coming few days.

ZLHR, through lawyer Tinomuda Shoko, said: “The information you posted in your tweet is false in every respect and is calculated as it damages the reputation and standing of the ZLHR.

“While we appreciate that there is a constitutionally guaranteed right to petition peacefully, the organisation has never called or supported any protest, and the organisation’s communication portals are evident of such. There was no single incident where ZLHR has sent any information to any organisation or published any information calling for a stay away, and does not intend to do so.

“The information which you posted on your tweet is not only false, but highly defamatory in that it creates an impression in the minds of any reasonable person that the ZLHR are masterminds and instigators of political violence and civil unrest.”

ZLHR the demanded that Chaibva should retract the statement or face a US$1 million defamation lawsuit.

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By A Correspondent- Police on Wednesday last week opened a criminal docket against acting Prosecutor-General Nelson Mutsonziwa for reportedly destroying a court docket in 2014.

The docket was opened at the Harare Central Police Station under case number IR 061520 following a complaint by businessman Chemist Siziba.

In a statement issued to the police by the complainant and gleaned by NewsDay, Siziba said the allegations pertain to Mutsonziwa’s conduct as a public prosecutor in the then Attorney-General’s Office.

“The allegations made pertain to his conduct as a public prosecutor in the then Attorney-General’s Office. Sometime in 2014, I reported a criminal case to the police at Harare Central Police Station.

“The accused persons in that matter are Paul Rijk Peacy, Craig John William Danckwerts, Ray Kaukonde, Samson Edmare and Jeremy Brook to do with a forged CR14,” Siziba wrote.

He said police investigated the matter and arrested the suspects and brought them before a Harare magistrate who placed them on remand.

“Nelson Mutsonziwa, in his capacity as a public prosecutor stationed at the then Attorney-General’s Office, summoned the docket purportedly to review same. I am advised that he was entitled to do so. Mutsonziwa then summoned me to his office and instructed me to withdraw the complaint and threatened to send me to prison if I did not comply with his directive,” Siziba wrote.

“I filed a complaint against him in 2014. The docket has not been seen or returned to the Magistrates Court at Rotten Row Avenue since 2014. I have written to him asking him to account for the docket, but he has neglected/failed to account for the docket.”

Siziba further indicated that as a result of Mutsonziwa’s interference with the prosecution of the accused and non-availability of the docket, his complaint against Danckwerts has not been tried.

“I have since learnt that the accused under that docket were represented by one Mutsonziwa (now-deceased), who is the acting Prosecutor-General’s relative. I also learnt that Mutsonziwa has been in contact with the accused through proxies,” Siziba said, adding that his conduct was unlawful and inconsistent with his duties.

Allegations are that in December 1998, Siziba, through his firm Hawkhope Investments, purchased the entire share capital of Danckwerts’ two firms trading as Nyland Enterprises and Great-Insight Investments.

Both firms fell under Danckwerts’ holding company Danbro Holdings.

On August 25, 1999, Danckwerts, together with Peacey, resigned as directors of the two firms, leading to Siziba together with Margret Siziba and Bernadette Sekai Veteranwa assuming control of the two firms as the new directors.

However, sometime between 2011 and 2012, Danckwerts turned against Siziba and caused his arrest, accusing him of stealing his firms.

But police investigations revealed that Danckwerts had reportedly submitted a fraudulent form to the Registrar of Companies between February 2011 and May 2012 purporting to be still a director of the firms at the centre of the controversy.

Danckwerts allegedly later appointed former Mashonaland East Zanu-PF provincial chairperson Ray Kaukonde, Jeremy Brooke and one Samson as co-directors, but Kaukonde and Samson later resigned after noting Danckwerts’ arrest.

According to Siziba, Danckwerts was being represented by Mutsonziwa’s relative the late Arthur Mutsonziwa of Atherstone and Cook Legal Practitioners.-newsday

By A Correspondent- Ruling Zanu-PF party deputy youth secretary John Paradza yesterday threatened to unleash party youths against the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as political tempers flare ahead of the 2023 elections.

Paradza was addressing scores of youths in the capital yesterday.

The defiant Paradza said the party would unleash violence in defending the revolutionary party, adding that as youth, they were going to defend the party.

“We have noted that CCC is unleashing violence against us, but starting from today, I am unleashing my dogs,” he said.

“As youths, our mandate is to defend the revolutionary party and we are going to make sure we defend our party. CCC burnt houses in Chitungwiza and we are not going to fold our hands watching them unleashing violence,” he said.

Zanu-PF supporters and CCC activists clashed in Nyatsime over the death of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.

Tempers are rising ahead of the 2023 elections after a CCC rally was blocked in Chegutu over the weekend, with the opposition party blaming Zanu-PF for barricading Pfumojena Stadium where the rally was to be hosted.

Paradza added that President Emmerson Mnangagwa would unveil residential stands to the youth.

“I have met the President and he said he was going to unveil stands to the youths. It is the President’s vision to give youths stands and also to have employment,” he said.

Zanu-PF Harare central youth chairperson Emmanuel Mahachi also said they were going to defend the party.

“We are not going to fold our hands and we are going to defend our party through fighting because we rule this country,” Mahachi said

In his vote of thanks, youth secretary for administration Tendai Chiwetu said he was aware of ministers and legislators who were working against Mnangagwa.

“We have people who seem to like President Mnangagwa, but they don’t like him. We are going to make sure that they are not retained as central committee members as we approach the elections,” Chiwetu added.

CCC youth assembly spokesperson Stephen Chuma said: “We, as CCC, believe in non-violence approach to solving problems. It’s very unfortunate that in this modern era, we have a political party that believes in violence as a strategy.

“We are a peace-loving citizens’ movement, but that does not make us weak or cowards. No one has monopoly of violence and we want to send the message clear to Emmerson Mnangagwa, John Paradza and Zanu-PF thugs that any attempts to drive the nation into anarchy will be resisted.”

He added: “We know that Zanu-PF wants to use violence to drive this nation into anarchy so as to effect a state of emergency in order to postpone the upcoming general elections. They know they are going to lose elections so they are running scared and are now resorting to violence.”

Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said: “I will have to get the information from Officer Commanding Harare Province and get back to you on the matter. I was not at work today (yesterday).”-Newsday

By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe’s health workers Monday downed tools protesting poor salaries and working conditions.

They gave the government notice to down tools last week.

In a notice of incapacitation and withdrawal of service seen by Pindula News, the workers who are currently paid in the local currency have repeated their call to be paid in United States Dollars (USD).

The Zimbabwe dollar has been losing value since its reintroduction in 2019. 

Watch the video below for more:

The protest comes as the government has offered a 100% salary increment. 

Analysts say the government needs to realise that something is fundamentally wrong with this society, its economy and politics to address the vicious cycle and crisis. 

Workers have been periodically embarking on industrial action since 2019 demanding restoration of their pre-October 2018 salaries which were in United States dollars.

The government says it is incapacitated to pay all its workers in foreign currency. Some analysts say Zimbabwe has enough resources to take care of its workforce, “but the government has other priorities.”

By A Correspondent- Bulawayo residents under the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA), have written to the Bulawayo city council expressing displeasure over the local authority’s recent decision to levy rates in US dollars.

Last week council announced that residents will now pay their service charges and levies in US dollars at the prevailing bank rate with effect from June 1, 2022.

In a notice to residents and other stakeholders, Bulawayo town clerk Christopher Dube said the move had been necessitated by the depreciation of the Zimbabwe dollar.

BPRA have however blasted council over the issue and urged the local authority to find other ways of raising revenue.

“The reality on the ground is that a lot of residents are actually falling behind in paying council bills and rentals in local currency and there is no way that charging in US dollars will turn this reality around.

“A return to US dollar payments will actually worsen the plight of residents who live on out of pocket transactions.

“While we understand the challenges, council is faced with in providing service delivery, our key question remains; whose reality really counts,?  

“Is it that of council or that ordinary rate payers, the majority of whom are living in poor conditions and abject poverty,” reads part of BPRA’s letter.

The residents association has also accused council management of unilaterally coming up with the new payment regime without the approval of councilors.

Council has however called for a stakeholders meeting Monday to discuss the issue.

Residents have vowed to boycott the meeting until the local authority produces evidence in the form of full council minutes to indicate that due procedure was followed and a full council resolution was passed to effect the re-alignment of the tariff charges.

-NewZimbabwe

 By A Correspondent- A 27 year old Bulawayo woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on two counts of aggravated indecent assault.

Moderate Tichavavamwe (27), who had challenges of conceiving, raped a 15-year-old boy twice in an effort to conceive.

She, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges when she appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Dambudzo Malunga on Friday.

The magistrate, however, convicted and sentenced her to 12 years in prison at the close of the State case. But two years were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour.

Prosecutor Naison Chivayo said sometime in 2020, Tichavavamwe visited the 15-year-old boy’s mother in Kingsdale seeking assistance on ways to help her conceive and was charged US$25 for the services.

During the same month, Tichavavamwe summoned the 15-year-old boy to her home to repair the solar light and promised to pay him.

The boy repaired the solar light and was given eggs as payment for his services.

The court heard that sometime in March, the minor was again called by Tichavavamwe to her house where she invited him to her room and sexually abused him.

On another count during the same month while at Woodville, Bulawayo, the boy was sent by his father to Tichavavamwe’s home to collect his US$4 for the electric cable she had bought from him.

The woman invited the boy into her room and abused him again.

After the act, the woman gave the boy eggs, dried caterpillars and the US$4 he was sent to collect by his father.

The matter came to light after the boy was caught stealing sugarcane in Mahatshula garden and stated that he had been  sent by Tichavavamwe.

The teenager later opened up and told his father about the abuse.

The matter was reported at Queens Park Police Station, leading to her arrest.

-Newsday

By- Norton MP Temba Mliswa on Sunday displayed images of him and his children on social media and said that he was a responsible father.

Mliswa also dispels claims that he was not caring for his many children.

The Norton lawmaker has 18 Children.
https://twitter.com/TembaMliswa/status/1538765723056619520/photo/1

By A Correspondent- Norton legislator (Independent), Temba Mliswa has said Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo was stifling local government authorities through corruption.

He also said despite numeral calls, the government has not acted on reports of corruption against Moyo. He made the remarks in a series of Twitter messages in which he articulated issues overshadowing President Emmerson Mngagwagwa’s success stories.

He said:

Let’s face full-on the issues plaguing us on the ground. Councils are crying out against July Moyo who has a litany of corruption charges which haven’t been pursued. Local authorities are under siege from him and nothing is moving there.

How can we keep quiet in the face of such political profligacy? We have said Devolution is the way to go and yet the Minister is hoarding and abusing power. All these are issues which are detrimental to the positives and take off the glow of achievements elsewhere.

Failure to face and speak about these is actually a travesty that is dangerous to ED. There are a lot of social issues which Gvt has failed to respond to. As I have always argued any economic progress has to be felt in the day-to-day lives of the people!

Recently, Moyo was accused of super-imposing the Pomona Waste of Energy Project deal between the Harare City Council and Geoginix BV.

The deal, which was approved by Cabinet and reportedly forced on Harare City Council by Moyo, is racking up a daily bill of US$22 000 since being penned.

Critics say Moyo was violating the Constitution which states that local government authorities are semi-autonomous.

Most urban councils are run by the opposition and Moyo’s alleged interference is reportedly meant to cause local government authorities to fail to deliver expected public goods and services.  

By- Police in Marondera have summoned four members of the opposition CCC.

CCC posted on Twitter that the four were told to go to the police and answer questions on the violence that happened at Moreblessing Ali’s funeral.

Posted CCC:
CCC champions Misheck Guzha, Audious Makoma, Precious Jeche & Felix Biri have been summoned to attend at Law & Order Marondera. Zanu PF thugs burned their homes following the memorial prayer service for Moreblessing Ali who was murdered in cold blood by Zanu PF.

By- Zanu PF at the weekend disrupted the CCC celebration meeting in Chegutu.

CCC posted on Twitter, saying that the sad development happened in Pfupajena stadium.

Posted CCC:

Yesterday (Saturday), we were barred from using Pfupajena Stadium in Chegutu for our victory celebrations. The police had cleared our event had paid the venue in full but ZANUPF&some local municipality officials cordoned off the area & barricaded it with sealing tape used at crime scenes.

Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa took the dynamic rural outreach programme to Gokwe.

President Chamisa has pointed out that hope is everywhere.

The whole nation is hoping for great days ahead, according to the CCC leader.

” HOPE EVERYWHERE…It’s not easy to carry the hopes of all generations and the entire nation. Our parents in the rural areas are pinning their hopes on us.

The task is huge. Friends, help me to pray for wisdom and strength to deliver a New Great Zimbabwe!WIN we shall! Happy Sabbath #fakapressure #Godisinit

GOKWE is an interesting place! #fakapressure,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.

Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa took the dynamic rural outreach programme to Gokwe.

President Chamisa has pointed out that hope is everywhere.

The whole nation is hoping for great days ahead, according to the CCC leader.

” HOPE EVERYWHERE…It’s not easy to carry the hopes of all generations and the entire nation. Our parents in the rural areas are pinning their hopes on us.

The task is huge. Friends, help me to pray for wisdom and strength to deliver a New Great Zimbabwe!WIN we shall! Happy Sabbath #fakapressure #Godisinit

GOKWE is an interesting place! #fakapressure,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.

ZIMBABWE NEEDS A RESPONSIBLE & CARING FATHER..A father

loves,cares,unifies, provides,makes peace,reconciles and protects. Our Father, Who art in heaven,hallowed be Thy name;Thy kingdom come;Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven..Let us strive to please our Heavenly Father at all material times. God bless Zimbabwe. Happy #FathersDay2022

By A Correspondent- The family of the slain activist Moreblessing Ali has been forced to flee their home following sustained threats by suspected state agents and Zanu-PF activists for demanding justice.

The family said that they have abandoned Ali’s residence in Nyatsime because of the victimisation by suspected Zanu-PF activists, who have been threatening them.

“We want Zanu-PF to stop meddling and threatening our family. They have beaten some of our family members,” Washington said.

“Any threats or abuse, no burial. We want to do the final service in Nyatsime, and we don’t want the people who caused the chaos to be present.”

Ali’s son Silence said the family was grateful for the support it was getting from CCC.

“There have also been well-wishers who have been donating, I would like to thank them.”

Ali’s family made several demands before they could bury her, including the release of Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala, who is also their lawyer.

Sikhala was denied bail on Friday on charges of inciting violence following the clashes between Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and Zanu-PF activists at Ali’s funeral in Nyatsime last week.

He is charged alongside MDC Alliance MP Godfrey Sithole.

They are spending the weekend behind bars awaiting the continuation of their bail application on Monday.

“We want our family lawyer to be released so that he can continue helping us on this murder case and also the release of our search party leader Sithole. No release, no burial,” said Moreblessing’s brother Washington.

The family also demanded to see the exact place where Moreblessing was murdered, and demanded a forensic investigation.

Ali’s stepmother Judith Chisiiwa told The Standard the family does not know where  her body was being kept.

“They just told us that we are supposed to collect forensic results on Tuesday,” Chisiiwa said.

“We don’t even know where the body of our relative is.”

Ali went missing on May 24 after she was allegedly attacked and abducted by suspected Zanu-PF thugs among them Pius Jamba who was arrested in Hurungwe last week.

Zanu-PF has denied that Jamba is one of its members.

Ali was found dead on June 11.

Police said her body was cut into pieces and stuffed in a sack.

Her death has fuelled tensions between Zanu-PF and CCC, who have clashed in Nyatsime.

By A Correspondent- -Four suspected robbers allegedly pounced on a couple at Gibson gold base in Mazowe and the husband managed to flee leaving his wife being attacked.

The matter came to light at Bindura magistrates courts on Thursday.

Courage Utshani (23), Blessing Dzingai (23), Craby Matavu (25) and Peacemaker Simon (21) appeared before Joyleen Mugedhe.

The quartet was remanded in custody to June 20 for trial.

The state led by  Paidamoyo Muchakata alleged on March 31 the four were on a robbing spree at the base armed with knifes and switches they stormed at Ellen Chiromo ((35)  who was sleeping with her husband in the cabin.

When the suspects broke into the room Chiromo’s husband managed to flee leaving his wife at the hands of the suspects.

The suspects demanded gold, money and  cell phones before assaulting  Chiromo.

She surrendered her mobile phone and money  before sneaking away.

Chiromo rushed to the police base and filed a police report.

The police managed to arrest Simon who was hiding in the bush and he implicated his accomplices

By A Correspondent- State-run Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara), which has been red-flagged in multiple reports by the Auditor General (AG) and parliament for unbridled levels of corruption, looting and nepotism says it has reformed.

In her previous reports, the AG Mildred Chiri raised issues of corporate mis-governance, making the organisation a hub for corrupt activities.

In 2019, Parliament’s public accounts committee chaired by opposition legislator Tendai Biti also unearthed the mismanagement of funds scandal at the parastatal.

Their report exposed how Zinara was paying two salaries for the suspended Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa and acting CEO Mathlene Mujokoro.

The road authority was said to be spending thousands of United States dollars on hairstyle, food hampers, and gym allowances for managers.

It was reported that Zinara also spent more than US$60 000 on hairstyle allowance with one boutique pocketing more than US$25 000 on having hair done for its female managers.

The legislators were also notified that Zinara simultaneously spent US$4 000 on each director in buying and installing gym equipment at their residences, while paying monthly subscriptions for their gym at upmarket clubs in Harare.

But presenting at the African Parliamentarians Network against Corruption event in Bulawayo on Friday, Zinara  chairperson George Manyaya said the parastatal had embarked on a transformative journey.

“A new qualified, experienced and ethical board for Zinara has been appointed.

We have appointed qualified, vibrant and hardworking new executives and managers rolling over to 2021,” Manyaya said.

“Necessary approvals are obtained before any payments.

“All positions being advertised with adherence to minimum person specifications.

“Allowances (hairdo allowance and gym) are no longer being paid and no Christmas hampers are still being issued.”

Previous reports had also revealed that appointments were done through nepotism and not merit as no single position was advertised.

Manyaya added: “New qualified, experienced and ethical board for Zinara has been appointed.

” Zinara has been realigned to its statutory mandate.

“There has also been an introduction of a consequences management system – various employees were dismissed after disciplinary hearings.

“Also established an integrity ethics committee in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission.

“A skills audit is underway. We have developed a performance measurement system.”-standard

By A Correspondent- People living with HIV/AIDS will soon have anti retroviral (ARV) medication delivered to their homes under a programme meant to reduce cases of defaulting and enhance uptake.

The programme, which will initially be rolled out in rural communities before being progressively expanded to urban centres, has already had  successful trials in Makoni District, Manicaland Province.

During the two-year-long trials in Makoni, incidents of default among those initiated on anti retroviral therapy (ART) have been reduced from around 10 percent to almost zero.

National AIDS Council (NAC) chief executive officer Dr Bernard Madzima said preparations for the roll-out were advanced.”Under the Community Antiretroviral Treatment Care Facilitator (CATCF) programme, a health worker collects ARVs for a household or community and goes around distributing them to our patients,” he said.

“The clinics ensure that the clients do not go to the clinics but the ARVs are brought to the homesteads.

“This means they can easily pick up on defaulters.”The programme, he said, ensures that data about a particular area is easily sent to the district, province and national data centres, meaning people can quickly take action if there are challenges.

NAC plans to spread the programme countrywide.

“It, however, requires financial and technical resources,” he added.

“There is need to train the community health workers, engage staff at the clinics, procure medication and ensure the system works.

“This is the way we want to move, especially in view of Covid-19, where we want minimum interaction and also decongest clinics.”An estimated 1,3 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe.

According to the 2020 Zimbabwe Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (ZIMPHIA) survey, 97 percent of HIV-positive people are on ART, while about 93 percent have a suppressed viral load.

NAC’s Makoni District AIDS coordinator Mr Spencer Banguza said the pilot was a huge success.

“We are covering seven facilities comprising six clinics and a hospital,” he said. “In terms of performance as a district, we have been doing quite well in terms of viral load suppression and ensuring that the clients take their ARVs every day and on time. “Our trained cadres assist clients with their refills, how to take their ARVs, the time and dates they should have their viral loads checked.”

He said the programme has assisted those who may not want to travel to a health facility for refills.

“The programme has seen a decrease in defaulters and suppressed viral load, hence it should be rolled out across the country.”-statemedia

By A Correspondent- The family of a man who was found hanging from a tree in Woodlands, Bulawayo on Wednesday has disputed the results of the post-mortem revealing that he had committed suicide and is demanding a fresh autopsy.

According to the post-mortem report that was issued on Thursday, Jack Nyathi (45) who had been missing for 18 days died of asphyxia and hanging even as the family insists that he may have been killed.

The report put the date and time of death as between 28 May and 14 June.

When Sunday News spoke to the deceased’s brother, Mr Emmanuel Nyathi, he disputed the findings and said his family felt that his brother may have been murdered.

Mr Nyathi said his brother would be buried today, but the family was preparing to petition the State to allow them to exhume the body as soon as possible for another post-mortem.

“The post-mortem report stated that my brother died as a result of suicide and no foul play was suspected. However, when we went to the site where his body was found today (yesterday), we found traces of blood and an iron bar which we think may have been used to assault or torture my brother.

“We have no choice but to bury him tomorrow (today), but we are exploring the possibility of having his body exhumed as soon as possible and seek a second opinion from another pathologist as to the cause of death,” Mr Nyathi said.

According to Mr Nyathi, his brother went missing on the night of 28 May after he had called his boss, telling him that he was tied up and people were threatening to kill him.

The employer then called the police on the same night before accompanying the deceased’s brother to Bulawayo Central Police Station to report the matter.

“I received a call from my brother’s boss on the night of May 28 and he said Jack had called him at around 10 or 11pm that same night and told him that some people had tied him and threatened to kill him.

“We made a formal report with the police the following day. We tried to look for him for 18 days and even went through the same bush a few times. At one point we asked the police to use sniffer dogs to try and find him but this was not done until some men who were poaching sand in the area saw his body hanging from a tree.

“These people reported the matter at Hillside Police Station and also called me because one of them had heard that we were looking for Jack who was missing. I went to the police station and then accompanied them to the bushy area where we found my brother hanging,” Mr Nyathi explained.

Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed that no foul play was suspected and the official cause of death was suicide.

“We received reports that a body had been discovered hanging from a tree in a bushy area near the Woodlands Shopping Centre. According to the post-mortem report by the pathologist at United Bulawayo Hospitals, the deceased, Jack Nyathi died of asphyxia and hanging and we suspect no foul play. The body was found in a state of decomposition,” Insp Ncube said.

Insp Ncube also urged the public to seek help from family members, counsellors and churches before electing to take their own lives.-statemedia

Zanu PF’s Simba Chisango has threatened to harm Simba Chikanza of ZimEye.com.

Chisango said:” You are very very stupid…

Tirikutokutsva iwewe, tirkukutsvaga and tichakuwana( we are looking for you and we will find you.”

By A Correspondent- A housemaid was jailed for three years on Wednesday after she was convicted of the attempted murder of her employer’s two-year-old daughter.

Tesla Nyengerai hit the baby with a stone in Eastview, Harare, rendering her unconscious.

The Harare Magistrates Court heard Nyengerai was previously jailed for two years after almost killing another toddler in Chitungwiza, where she worked previously. She was released in 2020 as a beneficiary of a presidential pardon.

Harare magistrate Noticia Shanje said Nyengerai was “unrepentant and a danger to the society” as she sentenced her to one year in prison. She also added her previous two-year sentence because Nyengerai breached the terms of her parole release – that she would not commit a similar offence within five years.

The National Prosecuting Authority proved that on February 15 this year, Nyengerai was left at home taking care of her employer’s two-year-old daughter. Said Hazvinei Chiota-Rukande, prosecuting:

The victim’s mother went to the fields and came back around lunchtime.

When she was about to get home, she met her young son who told her Nyengerai had attacked his sibling with stones, leaving her unconscious.

Nyengerai had fled from the scene but was later caught.

Prosecutors said the toddler was rushed to hospital and police were called. – ZimLive

By A Correspondent- The ruling Zanu-PF in Matabeleland South has been plunged to mourning following the death of Evelyn Mpofu who was the vice-chair in the provincial Women’s League.

Mpofu, who passed on Friday was 38 years old. Zanu-PF Matabeleland South provincial chairperson Nqobizitha Ndlovu confirmed the death of Mpofu describing it as a heavy blow to the party.

“Mpofu just coughed twice and collapsed while walking with other colleagues at Habane Township in Esigodini. She was quickly rushed to Esigodini District Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

“She is one person who worked tirelessly for the party and I must say one thing I am grateful for is she kept the revolutionary party’s orientation until she passed on. I worked with her while we were both in the youth provincial leadership and in the National Executive. She had risen through the ranks to occupy the vice-chairperson post in the provincial Women’s League,” said Ndlovu.

Mpofu was born on 24 September 1984 at United Bulawayo Hospitals and did her early primary education at Reigate School in Bulawayo up to Grade Five before transferring to Mvuthu Primary School in Habane, Esigodini.

She did her secondary education at Mvuthu High School in the same area.

Mpofu became actively involved in politics in 1998. She then joined the National Youth Service at Border Gezi Training Camp in 2001 and graduated in the same year. Upon her graduation she was referred to Mbalabala School of Infantry for the instructor training (training of trainees).

In 2002 she was posted to Dayadaya Training Camp as drill instructor. She then moved to the Ministry of Youth as a youth officer in 2004.

She became a member of the National Executive of the Youth League in 2013 and became the Secretary for Information and Publicity as well as a Central Committee member up to 2018.

Mpofu was re-elected as the Deputy Secretary for Transport and Welfare in the National Executive of the Youth League until 2021 when she was elected into the Matabeleland South Provincial Women’s League executive as the vice-chair.

Zanu-PF Matabeleland South Provincial Youth chair, Moses Langa mourned the late provincial member and said:

“It is on a sad note that the province at large has lost one of the longest serving cadres in the Youth League who had recently graduated to the Women’s League. She helped the party from early 2000s and rose through the ranks up to national level as she was well dedicated. The province has really lost a hard-working cadre and well dedicated to the ruling party.”

Mpofu was part of the delegation that toured Russia in 2017 and Zimbabwe Senior Cadre Investigation tour in Zhaotong, China in February 2019. Mourners are gathered at House Number 410 Dark City, Habane Township in Esigodini.

By A Correspondent- The late Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member Moreblessing Ali’s alleged killer Pius Mukandi alias Jamba wanted to flee the country after committing the heinous crime, a Harare magistrate’s court heard yesterday.

Jamba (31) appeared in court yesterday before magistrate Dennis Mangosi.

According to police investigations, after committing the crime, Mukandi fled to his mother’s home area in Hurungwe’s  Chidamoyo area.

Mukandi wanted to sell a grinding mill to raise transport money to Zambia or Mozambique, but was later arrested with the help of the community who got wind of his presence.

It also emerged from the investigating officer identified in court as A Dimimbo that Ali was not Mukandi’s girlfriend, and that it was the first time for Mukandi to see the deceased.

After Ali’s body was discovered on June 11, government officials described the murder as a crime of passion after it emerged that Mukandi was in the company of a cousin, Simba Chisango, who is said to be a well known Zanu-PF terror gang leader in Chitungwiza.

Police also issued a statement saying the murder was not politically motivated as the two were allegedly lovers.

Mukandi was remanded in custody to July 1, and advised to apply for bail at the High Court.

The accused, who was not asked to plead, told the court that he needed a lawyer.

Allegations are that on May 24 this year around 10:30pm at Chibhanguza Night Club, Nyatsime, Beatrice, Ali was in the company of her dog and a friend, Kirina Mayironi .

Unprovoked, Mukandi told the deceased that her dog was disturbing his peace.

The deceased later went out of the nightclub, and was followed by Mayironi who saw her lying on the ground with the suspect dragging her.

Mukandi attacked Mayironi with a catapult, and she fled back into the nightclub.

Other patrons failed to save her as Mukandi pelted them with stones.

Prosecutors  alleged that Mukandi took the now deceased from the vicinity of  the night club to an unknown secluded place and struck her with an unknown object, before strangling her to death and cutting her body into three pieces.

Mukandi took the dismembered body parts to Plot 321 Dunnotar Farm in Beatrice, which belongs to his mother Laina Mukandi where he dumped them into a disused well before disappearing from the area.

On June 11, Laina Mukandi discovered the body of the now deceased after a strong stench emanated from the well.

She advised police, leading to the discovery of the dismembered body.

On June 14, a post-mortem was conducted on the remains of the now deceased at Parirenyatwa Hospital, Harare by a forensic pathologist identified in court papers as Dr Mayedo, who said Ali was already dead when her body was chopped into pieces.-standard

By A Correspondent- Former vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko has revealed how the army seized Zimbabwe’s biggest platinum reserves, saying he was threatened with dismissal by unnamed generals for questioning the deal while he was still the country’s ambassador to Russia.

Mphoko was in Moscow in 2005 when businessman Elexander Chepic paid him a visit, and expressed interest in a joint deal with the Zimbabwe Defence ministry to mine platinum at Darwendale.

In a statement published by CITE, an online content producer, the former VP who was removed from officer following the military coup against the late Robert Mugabe in 2017, gave a glimpse of how some of the government’s so-called mega deals are put together.

According to Mphoko, Chepic was referred to him by Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube.

Mphoko said he raised the red flag after he uncovered that the deal was murky, with the “investors” allegedly using the mine for speculative purposes amid indications that there was no capital for the project.

Army generals wanted him fired, only to be saved by Mugabe until he was posted to South Africa in 2010, Mphoko said.

To date, the US$6 billion platinum mining project has failed to take off and the Russian “investor” recently pulled out of the deal.

“They (Russian) requested that instead of Section 43, Section 40 which was in Darwendale where the platinum reserves were found on the surface and were worth more than US$6 billion dollars, should be allocated to them,” Mphoko narrated the events leading to the deal in his exposé.

“He (Chepic) emphasised that if Section 40 was allocated to them, by September of 2006, the company would be operational.

“The president (Mugabe) gave specific instructions that whoever was there, should be removed and Section 40 be given to the joint venture Russian company.

“This is how the Darwendale Platinum mine ended up being allocated to the Russian company.”

Trouble started when Mphoko approached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for the relations to be upgraded, the former VP said.

“In the meantime, some big Russian mining chief executives were enquiring with the embassy because a Russian company was selling shares in Zimbabwe, to raise capital for the project,” Mphoko wrote.

He added: “The ambassador decided to invite Mr Chepic for a meeting for an explanation following revelations that they were now using the concession for speculative purposes by selling shares to raise capital to invest in Zimbabwe.

“Mr Chepic arrogantly refused to meet the ambassador and informed him that he was dealing directly with their partners in Harare, the minister of Defence and the army.”

At the time, Mphoko said he had gathered information that there was a push to have him removed from foreign service.

“When Ambassador Mphoko insisted on meeting Chepic, there was a push from Harare that he should be withdrawn from Moscow.

“Vice-president Joseph Msika (late) was roped into the campaign and was assigned to convince President Mugabe to replace Ambassador Mphoko.

“The minister of Defence Dr Sydney Sekeramayi was putting pressure on Foreign Affairs minister Mumbengegwi, and the generals were also putting pressure on Joey Bimha the permanent secretary in the ministry of Foreign Affairs for the withdrawal of Mphoko from the Russian Federation.

“Ambassador Mphoko was then summoned to Harare as the pressure had reached an alarming level.

“President Mugabe was very clear as to why there were such calls for the withdrawal of Ambassador Mphoko coming specifically from the Ministry of Defence.

“The president had received certain facts about the said Russian company directly from the Russian prime minister’s office, which was then under Vladimir Putin.

“President Mugabe confronted Vice-President Msika, with those facts and dismissed the calls for Mphoko’s recall.”

According to a report by the Centre for Natural Resource Governance, Russia’s Machitskiy’s Vi Holding, which has a 50% stake, is reluctant to continue investing after years of delays.

Darwendale, if built, could potentially produce 860 000 ounces of platinum group metals a year and the deposit could be exploited for four decades, Great Dyke has said.

Output was initially expected to begin in 2021, but Russian links and a lack of capital aren’t the only things that have delayed the project.

By- The court has exposed the Zimbabwe Republic Police’s lies that Moreblessing Ali’s killer was her boyfriend.

The investigating officer, identified in court as A Dimimbo told the court that Ali was not Jamba’s girlfriend, and that it was the first time for Jamba to see the deceased.

Ali’s body was discovered on 11 June in a disused well, in the Nyatsime area in Beatrice.
Police issued a statement saying the murder was not politically motivated as the two were allegedly lovers.
Jamba was remanded in custody to 1 July and advised to apply for bail at the High Court.

The court also revealed that Pius Mukandi alias Jamba wanted to flee the country after committing the crime.
Jamba reportedly fled to his mother’s home area in Hurungwe’s Chidamoyo area after committing the crime.
He wanted to sell a grinding mill to raise transport money to Zambia or Mozambique.
He was, however, arrested by the police on Thursday, with the help of the community who became aware of his presence in the area.

By-Pius Jamba has admitted to killing CCC’s Moreblessing Ali activist.
He confessed when he appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi on Saturday.

He was remanded in custody to July 1.
Representing the state, Prosecutor Tapuwanashe Zvidzai told the court that Ali was murdered on the night of May 24. The court heard:
On 24 May 2022, at around 2220 hours, the accused person was at Chibhanguza Night Club, Nyatsime, Beatrice where the now deceased Moreblessing Ali was in the company of Kirina Mayironi.
The now-deceased was also accompanied by her brown dog. The accused was armed with a catapult.
Without being provoked, the accused then alleged that the now-deceased’s dog was disturbing him of free movement and it was also responsible for the loss of his money.
Zvidzai added:
1). Ali and her friend Mayironi then left Chibhanguza Night Club and were about to head home when Mukandi dragged Ali.
2). Mayironi attempted to save Ali leading to Mukandi striking her with a stone propelled by a catapult and hitting her chin leaving an open wound.
3). Mayironi fled back into the Nightclub where other revellers rushed out to investigate what was happening. Jamba shoot stones from the catapult and threw bricks directed at the nightclub, and nobody could apprehend him or rescue Ali.

4. Jamba took Ali from the vicinity of Chibhanguza Night Club to an unknown secluded place where he struck her using an unknown instrument. He also strangled her using her trousers thereby causing her death.
   5). Jamba then used an unknown instrument to cut Ali’s body into three pieces consisting of the upper torso and two legs.
   6). He then took the mutilated body parts to Plot 321 Dunnotar Farm, Beatrice belonging to his mother Laina Mumukandi where he dumped them into a disused well.
   7). Thereafter the accused person went on the run.
   Ali’s body was discovered on 11 June 2022 by Mukandi’s mother after a strong stench emanated from the disused well.
   She advised police leading to the recovery of the now deceased’s dismembered body.

However, postmortem conducted on 14 June 2022 at Parirenyatwa Hospital, Harare by Forensic Pathologist Doctor Mayedo could not establish how Ali died.
However, the doctor concluded that the death might have been caused by strangulation. He further indicated that the Ali was chopped after she was already dead.
Jamba was arrested on 16 June 2022, while on the run in Chidamoyo, Hurungwe, Mashonaland West Province.
He then voluntarily made indications to police showing them how he kidnapped, assaulted and killed Ali.

He also showed them the scene where he dismembered her body before dumping it.
Jamba also led police to the recovery of a knife he allegedly used to cut Ali’s body.
He also showed the police Ali’s Huawei Honor cell phone, brown jacket, black trousers, pair of shoes and pants.
All these will be produced as evidence.

By-Zanu PF Matabeleland South Women’s League vice chair lady Evelyn Mpofu has died.
Mpofu collapsed on Friday evening near her home in Esigodini.

She held various positions within the ruling party’s youth structure from provincial to national level before being elected vice chairlady.
Matabeleland South Women’s League chairlady, Sindisiwe Nleya said Mpofu’s death is a huge blow to the league and party. She said:
I learnt with shock about the passing of Cde Evelyn Mpofu. She was a very dedicated member of the party and she served the league well. She received training under the national youth service which is a clear indication of her patriotism and dedication. She also held various posts under the youth structure.
Mourners are gathered at her home in Esigodini.
-State media

By- Former Zanu PF Chivi South MP Killer Zivhu has said that people will dump Zanu PF in 2023.

Posting on Twitter, Sunday Zivhu said party structures do not matter.

Posted Zivhu:

Structures in politics don’t work, 2023 people are going to vote for their jobs, food, fees, salaries and etc not structures , garayi muma structures eyu iwawo muri kwamuri ikoko

By-Zanu PF is pressing for the persecution of CCC organising secretary Amos Chibaya.

Posting on Twitter this weekend, Zanu PF lies that said Chibaya incited violence in Nyatsime. But the truth is that it is Zanu PF who beat up CCC supporters at the funeral of Moreblessing Ali.

Posted Zanu PF:

@ChibayaCCC

 coordinated the violence in Nyatsime, we hope the 

@PoliceZimbabwe

 will soon call him for questioning.

By-At least 120 people working at Gushungo Dairy Estates have lost their jobs after former first lady Grace Mugabe closed the business entity.

Grace sold about 700 dairy cows worth about US$1.4 million to a prominent butcher, rendering about all the workers at Gushungo Dairy jobless.

The Independent reports that the company had a US$20 million debt, which forced the entity to auction some of its equipment to pay creditors.

The estate, formerly known as Foyle Farm before the property was parcelled to the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA) by the then Agriculture ministry, measures 1 200 hectares.
It was later taken by the late former president Robert Mugabe who set up a state-of-the-art dairy plant in Mazowe — about 40km north of Harare. Over 80 newly resettled farmers in Mazowe were forcibly removed to pave way for Mugabe’s business venture.

Gushungo Dairy equipment was imported from South Africa for about US$15 million at a time when Mugabe was ruling Zimbabwe. The company Alpha Omega Dairy (Pvt) Ltd under the Gushungo Estates produced milk, yoghurt, cheese and ice cream.
Sources told the Zimbabwe Independent this week that Grace Mugabe failed to run the business resulting in the sale of 700 dairy cows to a local butcher.
At market value, each dairy cow costs around US$$2 000, but the butcher could have bought them at a lesser price as the cattle were meant for beef. Said the anonymous source:
Gushungo Dairy is closed. Workers have been sent home; about 120 of them. Just a few were left doing menial jobs.
According to the Independent, the dairy equipment is lying idle as a millionaire businessman who is renting the farm has not yet started producing.
Apart from the collapsed Gushungo Dairy, a 1 000 pig and 6 000 chicken project at Mugabe’s rural Kutamba village home, suffered a natural death as Grace neglected the projects.

Mugabe left a huge business portfolio mainly in farming with 21 farms which were acquired when his government touted the one-man-one-farm land policy.
Signs of financial problems started showing in May 2019 after Gushungo Dairy Farm auctioned five combine harvesters, five Toyota Hilux pick-up trucks and other farm equipment. Mugabe later died on September 6, 2019.

By-Gushungo Dairy Estates has closed shop after former first lady Grace Mugabe sold about 700 dairy cows worth about US$1.4 million to a prominent butcher, rendering about 120 workers jobless.

The Independent reports that the company had a US$20 million debt, which forced the entity to auction some of its equipment to pay creditors.

The estate, formerly known as Foyle Farm before the property was parcelled to the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA) by the then Agriculture ministry, measures 1 200 hectares.
It was later taken by the late former president Robert Mugabe who set up a state-of-the-art dairy plant in Mazowe — about 40km north of Harare. Over 80 newly resettled farmers in Mazowe were forcibly removed to pave way for Mugabe’s business venture.

Gushungo Dairy equipment was imported from South Africa for about US$15 million at a time when Mugabe was ruling Zimbabwe. The company Alpha Omega Dairy (Pvt) Ltd under the Gushungo Estates produced milk, yoghurt, cheese and ice cream.
Sources told the Zimbabwe Independent this week that Grace Mugabe failed to run the business resulting in the sale of 700 dairy cows to a local butcher.
At market value, each dairy cow costs around US$$2 000, but the butcher could have bought them at a lesser price as the cattle were meant for beef. Said the anonymous source:
Gushungo Dairy is closed. Workers have been sent home; about 120 of them. Just a few were left doing menial jobs.
According to the Independent, the dairy equipment is lying idle as a millionaire businessman who is renting the farm has not yet started producing.
Apart from the collapsed Gushungo Dairy, a 1 000 pig and 6 000 chicken project at Mugabe’s rural Kutamba village home, suffered a natural death as Grace neglected the projects.

Mugabe left a huge business portfolio mainly in farming with 21 farms which were acquired when his government touted the one-man-one-farm land policy.
Signs of financial problems started showing in May 2019 after Gushungo Dairy Farm auctioned five combine harvesters, five Toyota Hilux pick-up trucks and other farm equipment. Mugabe later died on September 6, 2019.

Tinashe Sambiri|A member of the British House of Lords has urged the international community to act on the political crisis in Zimbabwe.

On Friday Lord Jonathan Oates denounced the arrest and persecution of perceived government opponents in Zimbabwe.

Hon Job Sikhala and Hon Job Sikhala were arrested for assisting Moreblessing Ali’s family.

ARTUZ leader Obert Masaraure was arrested for a trumped up murder charge.

“The international community should act on the escalating political violence in Zimbabwe and demand that
@edmnangagwa
and
@PoliceZimbabwe
end the violence and protect the public.

All parties should commit themselves to peace and to upholding the constitution,” Lord Oates said.

Tinashe Sambiri|Zanu PF hooligans mounted an illegal roadblock and stoned CCC vice president Hon Tendai Biti’s vehicle in Muzarabani on Friday.

This was said by Hon Btii’s aide Emmanuel Zellers Gumbo.

“In its primitive nature, Zanu PF( thugs) attacked Vice President Tendai Biti in Muzarabani at Adage where they mounted an illegal block and stoned his vehicle. After blocked to proceed to Dande, Dotito and surrounding areas welcomed the yellow revolution.

FakaPressure,” Gumbo posted on Facebook.

CCC also condemned Zanu PF barbarism:

“Suspected ZANUPF thugs have attacked CCC MP Hon
@BitiTendai
& other CCC leaders as they were driving through Adage in Muzarabani. The thugs mounted an illegal roadblock before stoning & damaging his vehicle. We condemn this persecution. #NoToViolence.”

By A Correspondent- Government’s Gold Incentives Scheme (GIS) has come under scrutiny amid indications it is largely benefitting politically connected persons, mainly President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s close ally Pedzisayi “Scott” Sakupwanya – a Zanu-PF councillor – and his Better Brands Jewellery (BBJ) company which pocked US$460 million in revenues last year at the expense of artisanal and small-scale miners.

While Sakupwanya is minting money through gold, artisanal and small-scale miners are struggling to survive. They say they are not reaping the rewards of the government’s much-hyped gold incentives.

Gold is central to Zimbabwe’s economic fortunes and politics. Those who know the sector’s ins and outs – its labyrinth of structures and dynamics – say whoever controls that industry runs the country.

It is not just a source of livelihood for thousands, but also a feeding trough for the politically connected and a centre of crony political patronage for Zanu-PF and its shadowy economic networks.

The incentive scheme, which was introduced early last year to boost gold deliveries to Zimbabwe’s sole authorised gold buyer, Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), has left artisanal and small-scale operators at the mercy of big gold buyers who are making a killing at their expense.

This comes against reports that Zimbabwe continues to lose US$100 million a month through gold smuggling.

Development experts say if the country was well-run and managed, the abundant gold alone could form the basis of an economic rise, while its valued-added chains of production and cross-chain activities could become a catalyst for progress.

City states like Singapore and other Asian Tigers became economic giants without the natural resources that African countries like Zimbabwe are endowed with. They only had vision, leadership and development plans.

Last year, Zanu-PF councillor Sakupwanya’s Better Brands Jewellery pocketed US$460 million after delivering more than seven tonnes of gold to Fidelity, a move that saw him being named the Best Gold Buyer of the Year at the recently held mining industry awards at State House in Harare.

Sakupwanya, who is also chairperson of the National Gold Buyers’ Association, an affiliate of the controversial Henrietta Rushwaya-led Zimbabwe Miners’ Federation, has close links with Mnangagwa and his children, as well as other politically connected elites.

Rushwaya, who was arrested in October 2020 trying to smuggle 6kg of gold to Dubai, is related to Mnangagwa and is a major dealer in the gold business.

A delivery of 20kg of gold within a period of 30 days is eligible for a 5% incentive, a tonne 7% and one to three tonnes 9%.

According to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya, Fidelity received a total of 29 629.61 tonnes of gold, 18 470 tonnes of which came from small-scale miners.

“A total of 29 629.61kg of gold was delivered to Fidelity Gold Refinery in 2021. Large gold producers delivered 11 159kg, whilst small-scale producers contributed 18 470kg,” Mangudya said.

“Small and large gold producers have delivered a total of 29 629,61kg of gold to Fidelity Gold Refinery (FGR) in 2021, a 55,5% increase from the 19 052,65kg delivered in 2020.”

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has hailed the GIS introduced by the government for increasing the precious mineral’s output and deliveries by 55.5% after recent years of successive decline in production. Small-scale miners also maintained the lead in production ahead of large producers.

However, a survey by The NewsHawks revealed artisanal and small-scale miners, who constitute a bigger percentage of Zimbabwe’s current gold deliveries, are receiving between one to 1.5% from the current gold incentives, with some getting nothing at all.

“We just hear that gold buyers are given an extra 5% when they deliver our gold to Fidelity. No one that I know is given that extra money after our gold is sold. We are usually given beer and permission to mine peacefully without hinderances from other mining gangs that control the claims as incentives,” Bruce Chimbwanda, an artisanal miner based in Mazowe, said.

In Zimbabwe, the majority of the working population can be found in the informal sector. And in mineral-rich areas of the country, people are continuously risking their lives digging underground in search of gold, hoping to make enough money to take them out of poverty.

However, the reality is different. While the politically connected like Sakupwanya make millions, artisanal and small-scale miners are wallowing in poverty amid violence in the volatile sector.

Said another artisanal miner, Tonderai Mutasa: “As artisanal and small-scale miners, it’s our wish to become registered and use state-of-the-art equipment that does not put our lives at risk. But the money we are getting from the gold buyers does not enable us to do so. My colleagues and I get an extra something from the gold buyers ‘who are our bosses’ in the literal sense and we rejoice. However, the extras we get are nothing compared to the huge amounts of money that we hear they are getting from Fidelity.”

Amid an economic meltdown, a surge of attacks linked to Zimbabwe’s growing artisanal mining sector has killed hundreds of poor miners.

Gold Miners’ Association of Zimbabwe chief executive Irvin Chinyenze said the GIS is mostly benefitting gold-buying agents, considering that most small-scale miners are not able to single-handedly produce 20kgs of gold per month as per the incentive’s requirement.

“The 5% incentive is not in our view for small-scale miners if you consider that it’s given for a minimum delivery of 20kgs per month. That threshold is high. So, in essence the major beneficiaries of that are not so much the miners but the buying agents and of course a few who might have that kind of capacity,” Chinyenze said.

“The reason why that incentive is there is to try and buttress delivery and through an upward review of the price indirectly in the form of a royalty. If we have a pricing regime that is consistent with what’s obtaining on the world market, we will not need any more incentives beyond that”.

But Sakupwanya, who has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the incentive, defended the policy.

“The government has availed incentives that have made us attractive to gold miners who now prefer to sell the gold to us, instead of selling it to smugglers,” he said.

Sakupwanya declined to comment on charges that small-scale miners were not benefitting from the scheme as much as they should.

Current policy approaches, including the criminalisation of artisanal gold mining by the Zimbabwean authorities, have failed to address effectively the persistent challenges such as land rights conflict, violence, environmental degradation and smuggling.

Mining experts say if the costs of imperfect regulations are to be mitigated, new approaches are required, including improved regulations and interventions to formalise the sector. It is important, they say, that the conflict-ridden relationship between artisanal and small-scale miners and large-scale commercial miners be transformed into an inclusive stakeholder arrangement framed by mutual interests and co-operation.

Gold is central to Mnangagwa’s economic revival plans. In October 2019, Mnangagwa and Mines minister Winston Chitando announced plans to expand the government’s gold revenue to US$4 billion per year by 2023, an ambitious fourfold increase in four years.

The government has been saying it has a target of a US$12 billion mining sector economy by 2023. Mining contributes about 2.6% of Zimbabwe’s rebased US$25.8 billion economy.

The gold sector does not consist exclusively, or even mostly, of big business.

Artisanal miners – poverty-stricken men and women who toil on their own or in small groups using little or no machinery – and small-scale mining, which involves slightly larger operations with some mechanisation, produce the majority of Zimbabwe’s gold.

In 2019, artisanal and small-scale miners combined were responsible for 63% of reported gold production, although it is unclear whether artisanal or small-scale mining is the bigger contributor of the two.

Amid the collapsing economy, an estimated 1.5 million people have turned to artisanal mining as a safety net. This trend has grown in the post-Covid-19 era which has brought compounded hardship amid renewed economic implosion, currency and exchange volatility and inflation.

By A Correspondent- Cooking oil producer, Cangrow Trading, received the bulk of foreign currency at the  Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign currency auction system in the month of  May 2022.

This was revealed by RBZ Governor, Dr  John Panonetsa Mangudya, in his update on foreign exchange auction allotments for May 2022 and foreign exchange payments for the period January to May 2022.

Below is the table showing the 64 biggest beneficiaries for the month of May 2022:

Foreign Exchange Auction System Allotments Under the Main Auction for May 2022

Foreign Exchange Auction System Allotments Under the Main Auction for May 2022

By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is investigating a robbery case in which unknown assailants attacked a motorist, and stole his money, computer, printer and the vehicle along Masvingo – Mbalabala road. Police say the incident happened on Thursday evening. Reads the police report:

ZRP Mashava is investigating a case of robbery which occurred on 16/06/22 at around 1800 hours along Masvingo-Mbalabala Road near the Great Zimbabwe Campus turnoff.

Five unknown suspects attacked a motorist and stole a white Toyota Virgo twin cab vehicle, AEK 3890, a desktop computer, printer, as well as US$300 and ZWL$3000 cash. The motorist had offered the suspects a lift in Zvishavane.

The suspects also stole two bags containing a variety of clothing from two other passengers on board. Anyone with information should contact any nearest Police Station.

Cases in which motorists are being robbed by the passengers whom they would have offered a lift are on the rise in the country.

Meanwhile, there are cases where motorists are robbing the passengers they would have offered tranport.

By A Correspondent- Harare City Council has advised home seekers to be alert as some bogus agents are fraudulently selling residential stands in the name of the local authority.

In a statement, the city fathers said they had received several reports of land sales in Highlands, Bloomingdale, Westlea, Glaudina and Belvedere townships by the bogus agents. Reads the statement:

NOTICE TO ALL HOME SEEKERS

We would like to advise all home seekers that we are not selling any residential stands in Harare and we did not contract any agents to sell land on our behalf.

Council has received several reports of land sales in Highlands, Bloomingdale, Westlea, Glaudina and Belvedere townships by bogus agents who are purporting to be working in conjunction with the City.

The city does not have such agreements in place with any person or agent hence any homes seeker dealing with the bogus agents risk losing their hard-earned cash.

THE ACTING TOWN CLERK TOWN HOUSE HARARE

Over the years, local authorities around the country demolished hundreds of houses accusing owners of erecting their structures on undesignated sites or acquiring the land illegally. 

By A Correspondent- A South African civic group has filed an application challenging that country’s Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s decision to terminate permits for Zimbabwean immigrants in the neighbouring country.

According to media reports, the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) wants the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs) extended beyond December 31, 2022.

The permits expired on 31 December 31, 2021, but permit holders were given a 12-month grace period to regularise their stay or face deportation.

“It is not the position of HSF that those migrants who are in South Africa unlawfully should not be entitled to remain, nor even that the ZEP must continue in perpetuity,” the foundation said.

Rather, our position is that those who have scrupulously observed South Africa’s laws in order to live and work here, under the ZEP, cannot have such permits terminated without fair process, good reason and a meaningful opportunity to regularise their status. It is what our constitutional order demands.”

The foundation added: “This special dispensation regime has offered legal protection to approximately 178 000 Zimbabwean nationals, allowing them to live, work and study in South Africa. It has prevailed for well over a decade, meaning that permit holders have built lives, families and careers here, and contributed to South Africa and its
economy.

“They will be put to a desperate choice: to remain in South Africa as undocumented migrants with all the vulnerability that attaches to such status or return to a Zimbabwe that, to all intents and purposes, is unchanged from the country they fled.

“There are thousands of children, who have been born in South Africa to ZEP holders during this time, who have never even visited their parents’ country of origin.”-newsday

By A Correspondent- The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has accused Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands and Agriculture chairperson Justice Mayor Wadyajena of abusing his position to grab its grain and inputs transportation deal.

GMAZ made the claims in its application filed at the Harare High Court on Tuesday seeking a review of the committee’s inquiry proceedings.

The association said they were ambushed by the committee, adding their chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara was being bullied by Wadyajena, a Zanu-PF legislator.

“The applicants apply in terms of the provisions of the High Court Act Chapter 7:06 as read with the provisions of the Administrative Justice Act Chapter 10:28 and the common law for the review of the proceedings relating to the funds distributed by the 6th respondent (RBZ) to the 1st applicant (GMAZ) for procurement of wheat…” the application read in part.

In the application, GMAZ, Drotsky (Pvt) Limited and Musarara were the applicants.

They cited the parliamentary committee, its chairperson Wadyajena, Parliament of Zimbabwe, Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda, Clerk of Parliament, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube as respondents, respectively.

GMAZ noted that while the law allows the committee to order any person to appear before it, the same law does not permit its chair to prepare and adopt reports.

“Second respondent (Wadyajena) is an interested party in the proceedings in that he operates a fleet of trucks which he owns under the company called Mayor Logistics. This company was awarded contracts to ferry agricultural inputs, grain, cotton and other crops on behalf of the government,” GMAZ submitted.

The association indicated that Wadyajena failed to declare his interests in the matter, but went on to preside over the inquiry despite him being conflicted.

“The result of the failure by 2nd respondent to declare that he is conflicted is that he presided over a committee that has oversight over the grain value chain business in which he is an interested party benefiting through his company Mayor Logistics, which is a clear breach of the Administrative Justice,” GMAZ submitted.

“The 2nd respondent displayed he had nefarious motives calculated to harass, embarrass  and portray 1st applicant (GMAZ) in bad light by passing gratuitous and sarcastic comments against the applicant on social media at the time when the proceedings were pending or ongoing under his chairmanship.”

GMAZ appealed to the court to set aside the committee’s findings.

In his founding affidavit, Musarara said Wadyajena’s conduct during the proceedings were reckless and unprofessional

“The reckless and unprofessional conduct of 2nd respondent manifested itself in relation to a separate enquiry in respect of funding by the 1st applicant (GIMAZ) to the Grain Marketing Board. 1st applicant wrote a letter of complaint against 2nd respondent to 5th respondent on the conduct of (Wadyajena) that he was on witch hunt against 1st applicant,” he submitted.

By A Correspondent- Senior Agronomist Lazarus Gatawa has urged tobacco farmers  to plan thoroughly and elevate their agricultural practices as mitigation measures to counter unpredictable rainfall seasons created by climate change occurrence. 

Gatawa said Climate change is a consequence of rising average global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas to produce energy along with other human activities like cutting down of trees and veld fires. 

He stated various effects of Climate change.

“Some of the devastating impacts of climate change that directly affect tobacco farmers include extreme heat, mid season drought spells and incessant rainfall that may cause water logging in the fields.”

The impacts of unpredictable incessant rainfall such as that  experienced during the 2021-2022 rain season affect the tobacco plant expected growth, yield and quality,” Gatawa said.

“Waterlogged fields will lead to severely constricted root growth respiration due to oxygen deficiency in the soil zone. Farmers should seek advice from Extension officers on how best they can open up contour ridges. Tobacco ridges should be put at 45⁰ angle in order to drain off excess water if rainfall is excessive and dam-ridges should be put along these ridges to hold water if rainfall is low. Farmers with fields that are prone to waterlogging should make big ridges that are more raised for the plant roots to be situated away from the ground level. Farmers should select North facing slopes as seedbed sites as these receive more solar radiation and seedbeds as such should be fenced off using thatch grass in order to regulate the inside temperature.”

“Tobacco farmers are also being advised to plan and do the following operations earlier; destruction of tobacco stalks as stipulated by the law, maintenance of farm  implements, early ploughing, early liming, early seedbeds and early planting so that their crop will have a longer growing period to build leaf body before the incessant rains come. Early payment of farm workers and all their dues related to the current season will buttress the preparedness of the farmers for the next season.”

“If tobacco farmers follow these climate change proofing agricultural practices they will be able to attain a  yield of 3 tonnes per hectare and a profitable average price of  USD$3 per kg without major challenges. 

Farmers without irrigation facilities should consult their nearest Field officers on the best earliest seedbed establishment and planting dates suitable for their respective areas,” he added

By A Correspondent- Kwekwe Central MP Judith Tobaiwa (Citizens Coalition for Change) has called on authorities to take action against gold panners  causing environmental degradation at a primary school in the gold mining city.

School buildings at Globe and Phoenix Primary School are in danger of collapsing from mining tunnels and pits dug underneath the school infrastructure.

“Mining and law enforcement authorities should react on time and solve this issue,” Tobaiwa said.

“If no quick interventions are made, facilities including schools will be affected and as a community, we would not like to see the situation reaching a boiling point.”

Tobaiwa made the call during a visit to inspect environmental damage caused by panners at the school.

The headmaster Isaac Bvupajena said: “The situation at my school is worrying, so a solution to end what we are experiencing should be put in place in no
time.”

Cases of illegal miners invading school grounds in the Midlands province are common.

Last year, illegal miners boasted that they would dig anywhere in the country as long as their metal detectors detect gold deposits, adding that they would even dig under people’s property.

In Silobela, Midlands province, the Roman Catholic Church-run Loreto Mission’s infrastructure is being destroyed by illegal gold miners who are digging large pits in search of the yellow metal inside the school premises.

Classroom blocks at the school face possible collapse, while people and livestock are also at risk.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Thursday morning, announced the arrest of Pius Jamba.

Jamba is the prime suspect in the murder of Moreblessing Ali. Making the announcement on Twitter, the ZRP said it would release a detailed statement during the course of the day.

This is what ZimEye so far knows about Ali:

Jamba is a member of Zanu-PF. Zanu PF says Jamba is not in the party structures thus he is not their member.

The ZRP claims that Jamba was once in a romantic relationship with the late Moreblessing Ali.

Pius Jamba’s mother is Linah Mukandi. She is the one who allegedly discovered Ali’s mutilated body.

Jamba is related to Zanu PF leader Simbarashe Chisango.

It was at Chisango’s homestead where Ali’s body was retrieved.

Reports suggest Jamba is Chisango’s half-brother.

By A Correspondent- Salary talks between government and its restive workers ended in a deadlock yesterday ahead of a full-blown strike action by health professionals and teachers beginning Monday.

It has emerged that civil servants rejected a 100% salary increase offered by government, which would have seen the lowest paid State employee earning $36 000, up from around $18 000.

A salary offer of $36 000 is equivalent to about US$60 using the parallel rate of US$1:$600.

Public Service Commission secretary Jonathan Wutawunashe confirmed the deadlock.

“The meeting adjourned without any consensus and the parties will reconvene next week for further discussions. The situation is, however, not dire,” Wutawunashe told NewsDay Weekender.

In a statement, the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions said: “The employer requested time to consult their principals on the workers’ proposals and to properly interrogate the altered position brought about by the workers.”

The development means the country faces a crippling civil service strike action from Monday after teachers and health workers gave notice that they would not be able to report for duty citing incapacitation.

Teachers have announced a one-week job boycott starting Monday running until Friday to press their employer for United States dollar wages.

Yesterday, 23 health worker representatives that included senior and junior doctors, nurses, pharmacists, radiographers and nurse aides met at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals and resolved to withdraw their labour.

On Thursday, nurses issued a notice to immediately down their tools.

In a letter dated June 17, 2022, directed to Health Service Board (HSB) chairperson Paulinus Sikhosana, the health workers said the employer had closed room for negotiations since 2021.

“Following our meeting on June 17, 2022 at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, attended by the health worker association representatives, it was unanimously agreed that as the government health workers, represented by the health workers associations leaders, here undersigned, after having made numerous attempts to engage the employer with no success, do hereby notify your office of our state of incapacitation and the subsequent withdrawal of service the government health workers effective Monday June 20, 2022,” a letter by the Zimbabwe Health Apex Council read.

“The decision to withdraw our service is not taken lightly, but the workers are without means to execute their mandate.”

In another letter to the public, the health professionals wrote: “To date, we have written more than five letters over the last 14 months requesting meetings, to engage on how to improve the conditions of service and improve the moral of the healthcare workers. Yet to date, we’ve not had a single meeting with the Health Service Board in 14 months.

“Other civil servants have enjoyed the company of their minister but this is not the case with the health workers. As workers, there has not been a single meeting with the Minister of Health and Child Care (Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga) since his appointment. The Health Service Board chairperson has also been hostile to health workers and has repeatedly refused our calls to engage with him.”

Civil servants are demanding pre-2018 United States dollar salaries as the local currency keeps losing value in the face of skyrocketing prices of basic goods and services.

HSB executive director Angelbert Mbengwa said he was aware of the letter, but referred the NewsDay Weekender back to Sikhosana for a comment.

“I have heard about the letter, but I have not considered it,” Mbengwa said.

“It is directed to Dr Sikhosana, so he is better placed to respond to your questions.”

Sikhosana was unreachable for comment.

Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya early this week said government had no capacity to meet US dollar salary demands.

Prices of basic goods and commodities have been skyrocketing as inflation also bites, topping 131% as of May up from 96% recorded in April.

National Employment Councils have since directed private sector employees to pay part salaries in US dollars to cushion workers against the vagaries of the harsh economic climate.

Critics have said the enduring economic crisis evokes memories of the 2008 hyper-inflationary era which resulted in the country dumping the Zimbabwe dollar.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa re-introduced the Zimbabwe dollar in 2019 after a decade of relative stability.