Tinashe Sambiri|Hard-hitting social media analyst, Mbuya Gudo from Dotito, has blasted the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa for stealing State resources at a frightening pace.
Mbuya Gudo, also known as @MamoyoT, argues Zimbabwe has been captured by Mr Mnangagwa and his sons.
According to Mbuya Gudo, Mr Mnangagwa’s grip on power spells disaster for the entire nation.
Below is Mbuya Gudo’s hypothesis:
Mbuya Gudo from dotito @MamoyoT…
If you want to do business in Zimbabwe, this is how it works:
You go to Collin Mnangangwa or any of the Mnangangwa’s sons, you pay them, then they take you to dad and boom business license pfee.
Corruption by Mnangangwa and his family is destroying Zimbabwe than colonial!
It will be catastrophic for Zimbabwe to have Mnangangwa,his sons and July Moyo for another 5 years. These guys are taking everything mercilessly from one of the most poorest nations in the world.
Mnangangwa will do anything to enrich himself and his greedy sons, the poor man ( Munatsi) died for Pomona deal.
Tinashe Sambiri| Citizens Coalition for Change vice chairperson, Hon Job Sikhala has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to release Moreblessing Ali with immediate effect.
The regime has threatened to arrest Hon Biti for demanding Moreblessing’s release.
However, the fearless politician says he is not afraid of taking on Mr Mnangagwa’s administration in the battle for fundamental human rights.
Hon Sikhala wrote on Twitter:
“Dear Zimbabweans: Since Tuesday last week, the details of Moreblessing Ali remain elusive.
I appeal to all of you to cause her story to go viral to all corners of the world.
This heinous crime by well known people can not go unpunished.
The police have been given the names. Action plz.
The level of anger here in Chitungwiza over the unexplained mysteries surrounding the failure to account for Moreblessing Ali whereabouts has reached fever pitch.
Citizens are contemplating a mass demonstration here in Chitungwiza until Moreblessing Ali’s whereabouts are known.
Yesterday the people’s MP Hon Tendai Laxton Biti Harare Mayor Clr Jacob Mafume & Ward 8 Clr Keith Charumbira held a fruitful meeting with Harare East residents at Greendale Sports Club in Ward 9, top of the agenda was Service delivery, Parliamentary feedback & CDF,in order to develop the Constituency.
Some of the challenges are being attended from today to eg: water challenges and refuse collection.
Legendary former Dynamos captain Memory Mucherahowa believes the Harare Derby between the Glamours Boys and city rivals CAPS United, has lost its flare and is no longer the exhilarating contest it used to be.
The two sides meet at the National Sports Stadium on Sunday with three points and bragging rights on offer.
Mucherahowa said any game pitting the two foes would put the capital to a standstill in the past but that is no longer the case because the clash is not as interesting as it was before.
Speaking to Soccer24 from his base in Slough, United Kingdom, Mucherahowa said: “Look, during our days, we would play every other game before the derby wholeheartedly but truth be told, we would be waiting for the game against CAPS United.
“That is the game everybody, including the supporters, would be waiting for. We would know the date of that game, a month before. We would play any other game, preparing for the Harare derby.
“I’m not sure if that is still the case with the current crop of players. Back in the day, we couldn’t afford to lose that game.”
He added: “Maybe the current crop of players feel the same way about the derby, but to us who will be watching, it’s now very different, it has simply lost its glare.
Mucherahowa tips his beloved Dynamos to win the game but warned against complacency.
” With the way things are at the moment, to be honest, I foresee Dynamos collecting maximum points but the Dembare players shouldn’t relax, CAPS might rise to the occasion simply because of the derby,” he said.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
The harmful impact of the tobacco industry on the environment is vast and growing adding unnecessary pressure to our planet’s already scarce resources and fragile ecosystems.
Tobacco kills over 8 million people every year and destroys our environment, further harming human health, through the cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumer waste.
Make the tobacco industry clean up their mess The tobacco industry is making profit by destroying the environment and needs to be held accountable for the environmental destruction and made to pay for the waste and damages, including to recover the cost of collecting these wastes.
Tobacco growing, manufacturing and use poison our water, soil, beaches and city streets with chemicals, toxic waste, cigarette butts, including microplastics, and e-cigarette waste. Don’t fall for the tobacco industry’s attempt to try and distract from its environmental harms by greenwashing their products through donations to sustainability initiatives and reporting on environmental “standards” they often set themselves.
Governments and policy makers should support tobacco farmers to switch to alternative, more sustainable livelihoods to reduce the environmental impact of tobacco growing, curing and manufacturing while continue to implement tobacco control measures.
By A Correspondent- A Chipinge businessman was arrested and charged with attempted murder after he severely assaulted and injured a Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officer who allegedly dated one of his eight wives.
Edmore Mwoyongewenyu (42) popularly known as Doda was arrested last Thursday for assaulting Shepherd Makwenjere (22), a soldier.
Mwoyongewenyu allegedly pointed a pistol at Makwenjere and had him handcuffed and his legs tied before unleashing 10 hired thugs on the soldier.
The businessman reportedly hired 10 hired men armed with iron bars and batons who severely assaulted Makwenjere, who is stationed at the Zimbabwe National Army 1.2 Battalion in Hwange.
Makwenjere is admitted at Victoria Chitepo Hospital in Mutare where he is in a serious condition.
Mwoyongewenyu has more than eight wives including Naume Makuyana (20) who was allegedly dating Makwenjere.
The businessman, who reportedly owns a fleet of trendy cars and several upmarket houses in Chipinge, is also married to Makuyana’s elder sister Evidence (23).
Allegations are that on 28 May 2022, at around 6 PM Makwenjere of House number 4180 Gaza E Chipinge proceeded to Doda’s homestead to see Naume who had invited him over the phone.
Makwenjere met Makuyana outside the house and was led into the bedroom.
A few minutes later, Doda entered the bedroom in the company of Mapuranga and Mazuku.
It was further alleged that Doda was armed with a pistol while the rest were armed with iron bars, a baton, handcuffs and a sjambok.
Doda allegedly pointed a pistol at Makwenjere and instructed him to lie down while Mazuku handcuffed him.
They also used a rope to tie Makwenjere’s hands and legs. They also tied him to some logs and then severely assaulted him.
It is alleged that the suspects assaulted the complainant for two hours. Doda is also alleged to have added salt to the fresh wounds on the complainant’s back and buttocks.
A ZNA Infantry Battalion vehicle later came and collected Makwenjere and ferried him to Victoria Chitepo Provincial Hospital.
Makuyana’s brother, Artwel Makuyana told Chipinge Times that Doda is married to his two sisters, Evidence (23) and Naume. He said:
Doda is married to my two sisters Evidence and Naume. Evidence has been married for seven years now and Naume got married in 2018.
THE ruling Zanu-PF has castigated a vocal United Kingdom lawmaker Jonathan Oates (Lord Oates), a British Liberal Democrat politician and member of the House of Lords, accusing him of being undemocratic and hobnobbing with the Zimbabwean opposition in pursuit of a regime change agenda.
Oates has been one of the many UK lawmakers who have consistently criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime, accusing the government of violating human rights and failing to observe the rule of law.
The UK lawmaker has also accused the government of targeting the opposition through arbitrary arrests while shrinking the democratic space but his position has angered the ruling Zanu-PF which described him on Wednesday as undemocratic.
“He is not democratically elected himself. He is a Lord by heredity,” Zanu-PF spokesperson Chris Mutsvangwa said.
“The opposition likes those people who are deviants in society. Why choose those friends? Spare us the Lord Oates of this world who are not democratic themselves,” Mutsvangwa added.
Oates recently told the Zimbabwean government to respect and uphold the country’s constitution or else it remains a subject of international scrutiny.
This came as Zimbabwe recently told the UK and United States officials to stop meddling in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs.
The British lawmaker recently triggered debate in the House of Lords on Zimbabwe’s alleged failure to uphold the constitution and respect human rights while also accusing Zanu-PF of actively undermining the country’s main opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC).
Mutsvangwa recently said Oates was a political toddler suffering from colonial hangover, saying he was an intelligence agent during his days in Zimbabwe under the guise of being a teacher.
But Oates dismissed Mutsvangwa’s allegations as desperate lies, insisting he was a teacher in rural Zimbabwe in the 1980s.
Oates has raised several issues of concern on Zimbabwe in the House of Commons including the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill and the proposed Patriotic Bill that he said will further shrink the democratic space under Mnangagwa.
The UK has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe over human rights abuses including the August 2018 shootings and the January 2019 fuel protests killings that saw Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Isaac Moyo, former Presidential Guard commander now Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Tanzania Anselem Sanyatwe and former State Security minister Owen Ncube being placed under sanctions.- Bulawayo24
By Justice Shereni | My message is premised on the fact that our beloved country is in a mess from all angles, economically, politically, socially, spiritually, morally, you name it and on the assumption that as a people we are committed to urgently find a way of coming out of it. We have come up with so many blue prints of how we can extricate ourselves from these myriad of problems but we have not succeeded.
It is not debatable that over 90% of our problems are tied to our contested political social contract which is the elephant in our room. What it then means is that we should focus our attention on this elephant. As a people, we have been rendered powerless and insignificant by a few through state capture. All state institutions have been captured but I will dwell on the Police, the State Security Services, the Military, Correctional and Prison Service and the Judiciary. In a normal country, these are the institutions which keep citizens safe but in our country they do the opposite. They do not only fail to protect the people but are used to rape, torment and kill the citizens who try to hold the authorities to account.
In the absence of functioning institutes which can protect the people, what can the citizens do?
The answer is that, citizens stop relying on those institutions on matters in which the state is the perpetrator, like abductions, disappearances, rape, torture and beating of those in state custody.
If one of us is being arrested, we will demand those who are arresting them to properly identify themselves, if they can’t, we will not allow them to take one of us away. If there are no many people around to stop the abduction or disappearance, we will quickly organise ourselves in large numbers and demand the immediate release of our member or else they incarcerate all of us. They will release our member because they will realise that we are serious and after all, they do not have the capacity to contain all of us. I understand that this has already worked for Makomborero Haruzivishe when they tried to abduct him at night.
In order for us to reach this level of unit and organisation we need to stop being selfish. The mentality that what is happening next door does not concern me or it will not affect me has to stop. We need a total culture change. The fact of the matter is that if you allow the abductor to take away your neighbour while you watch, it will be a matter of time before they come back for you or one of your family members. The best way of stopping this from happening to you or your loved ones is to fight and stop it from happening to your neighbour. I guess to arrive at this stage of awareness and consciousness, our people need leadership direction and mass conscientisation.
I have stated that our national institutions have been captured by a few political elites. They will remain captured as long as we do not take a bold stance to free them. How do we free them? The answer again is in the masses’ numbers and unity of purpose. Together, if we show the people in those institutions that we will not accept and tolerate the partisan way in which they execute their duties, they will begin to be professional. The majority of people who are employed in these institutions are also secretly and silently yearning for a better Zimbabwe and they are ready to stand with a determined people fighting to break from the past.
People naturally find it easy to go with where power is centred. It explains why nine or ten Zanu PF provinces voted to kick out Emmerson Mnangagwa out of the party and to only vote him to take the leadership of the party two weeks later after the coup. Morgan Tsvangirayi was revered and had massive influence in the early 2000s because he had the power to mobilise the people for demonstrations and stay aways. In Malawi, the judges ended up upholding the constitution of that country and ordering a rerun of the presidential plebiscite because they realised that the masses were determined to make sure that democracy prevailed. In 2018, during the election presidential result appeal, the judges in Zimbabwe got away with passing a skewed judgement because they knew they would get away with it. They will do it again come 2023, unless the citizens say enough is enough. I agree with Simba Chikanza that instead of waiting for 2023, let us start now demanding our rights as citizens. We have lost too many people through state managed disappearances and abductions in the past and we can not continue like that. My appeal to our progressive political, church and civic society leaders is that, please mobilise and organise our people to demand the immediate release of Moreblessing Ali now or else they will have to incarcerate us all.
Legendary former Dynamos captain Memory Mucherahowa believes the Harare Derby between the Glamours Boys and city rivals CAPS United, has lost its flare and is no longer the exhilarating contest it used to be.
The two sides meet at the National Sports Stadium on Sunday with three points and bragging rights on offer.
Mucherahowa said any game pitting the two foes would put the capital to a standstill in the past but that is no longer the case because the clash is not as interesting as it was before.
Speaking to Soccer24 from his base in Slough, United Kingdom, Mucherahowa said: “Look, during our days, we would play every other game before the derby wholeheartedly but truth be told, we would be waiting for the game against CAPS United.
“That is the game everybody, including the supporters, would be waiting for. We would know the date of that game, a month before. We would play any other game, preparing for the Harare derby.
“I’m not sure if that is still the case with the current crop of players. Back in the day, we couldn’t afford to lose that game.”
He added: “Maybe the current crop of players feel the same way about the derby, but to us who will be watching, it’s now very different, it has simply lost its glare.
Mucherahowa tips his beloved Dynamos to win the game but warned against complacency.
” With the way things are at the moment, to be honest, I foresee Dynamos collecting maximum points but the Dembare players shouldn’t relax, CAPS might rise to the occasion simply because of the derby,” he said.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwean trio of veteran goalkeeper Tapuwa Kapini, as well as strikers Evans Rusike and Charlton Mashumba, have been shown the exit door by DStv Premiership side Sekhukhune United.
The Gauteng-based side, announced today that the trio is part of 14 players they have released ahead of the 2022/23 season.
Kapini joined Babina Noko from Highlands Park in September 2020, while Mashumba arrived as a free agent in July 2021.
Rusike only joined the club in Janauary this year.
Sekhukhune is believed to be the next home of Zimbabwean tactician Kaitano Tembo, after he parted ways with SuperSport United.-Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|Hard-hitting social media analyst, Mbuya Gudo from Dotito, has blasted the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa for stealing State resources at a frightening pace.
Mbuya Gudo, also known as @MamoyoT, argues Zimbabwe has been captured by Mr Mnangagwa and his sons.
According to Mbuya Gudo, Mr Mnangagwa’s grip on power spells disaster for the entire nation.
Below is Mbuya Gudo’s hypothesis:
Mbuya Gudo from dotito @MamoyoT…
If you want to do business in Zimbabwe, this is how it works:
You go to Collin Mnangangwa or any of the Mnangangwa’s sons, you pay them, then they take you to dad and boom business license pfee.
Corruption by Mnangangwa and his family is destroying Zimbabwe than colonial!
It will be catastrophic for Zimbabwe to have Mnangangwa,his sons and July Moyo for another 5 years. These guys are taking everything mercilessly from one of the most poorest nations in the world.
Mnangangwa will do anything to enrich himself and his greedy sons, the poor man ( Munatsi) died for Pomona deal.
Yesterday the people’s MP Hon Tendai Laxton Biti Harare Mayor Clr Jacob Mafume & Ward 8 Clr Keith Charumbira held a fruitful meeting with Harare East residents at Greendale Sports Club in Ward 9, top of the agenda was Service delivery, Parliamentary feedback & CDF,in order to develop the Constituency.
Some of the challenges are being attended from today to eg: water challenges and refuse collection.
The harmful impact of the tobacco industry on the environment is vast and growing adding unnecessary pressure to our planet’s already scarce resources and fragile ecosystems.
Tobacco kills over 8 million people every year and destroys our environment, further harming human health, through the cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumer waste.
Make the tobacco industry clean up their mess The tobacco industry is making profit by destroying the environment and needs to be held accountable for the environmental destruction and made to pay for the waste and damages, including to recover the cost of collecting these wastes.
Tobacco growing, manufacturing and use poison our water, soil, beaches and city streets with chemicals, toxic waste, cigarette butts, including microplastics, and e-cigarette waste. Don’t fall for the tobacco industry’s attempt to try and distract from its environmental harms by greenwashing their products through donations to sustainability initiatives and reporting on environmental “standards” they often set themselves.
Governments and policy makers should support tobacco farmers to switch to alternative, more sustainable livelihoods to reduce the environmental impact of tobacco growing, curing and manufacturing while continue to implement tobacco control measures.
Tinashe Sambiri|Hard-hitting social media analyst, Mbuya Gudo from Dotito, has blasted the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa for stealing State resources at a frightening pace.
Mbuya Gudo, also known as @MamoyoT, argues Zimbabwe has been captured by Mr Mnangagwa and his sons.
According to Mbuya Gudo, Mr Mnangagwa’s grip on power spells disaster for the entire nation.
Below is Mbuya Gudo’s hypothesis:
Mbuya Gudo from dotito @MamoyoT…
If you want to do business in Zimbabwe, this is how it works:
You go to Collin Mnangangwa or any of the Mnangangwa’s sons, you pay them, then they take you to dad and boom business license pfee.
Corruption by Mnangangwa and his family is destroying Zimbabwe than colonial!
It will be catastrophic for Zimbabwe to have Mnangangwa,his sons and July Moyo for another 5 years. These guys are taking everything mercilessly from one of the most poorest nations in the world.
Mnangangwa will do anything to enrich himself and his greedy sons, the poor man ( Munatsi) died for Pomona deal.
By- Outspoken Norton lawmaker Temba Mliswa has said that he had in good authority that Local Government Minister July Moyo was planning to overthrow Emerson Mnangagwa.
July Moyo, is Mnangagwa’s family friend and personal advisor.
Close Mnangagwa associates claim that July Moyo knows ED’s private secrets, including his (Mnangagwa) extra-marital affairs and out of wedlock children.
This is why July Moyo, they say, had been relegated by the late former President Robert Mugabe.
In a series of tweets Saturday, Mliswa claimed that July Moyo was staging side shows to discredit Mnangagwa so that Zanu PF shuns him. Posted Mliswa: Besides corruption, July Moyo is at the centre of a conspiratorial plan to usurp Pres Mnangagwa from power. As we get into the second half of the year, it won’t be a surprise to see strange events unfolding as he seeks to cement his dreams of power.
The minister was still to comment on the allegations at the time of writing. The development however is two years old and another story that has remained unchallenged by the minister published by the exiled Prof Jonathan Moyo, alleges that at one time July Moyo donated to the ZANU PF leader a pair of shoes laced with withcraft poison so to kill his relative Emmerson Mnangagwa. The sensational allegations are still to be responded to for over 2 years.
Fading politicians, who have tried to extort Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Tino Machakaire without success, are now going after the firebrand youthful leader peddling falsehoods about his political and social life in a bid to bring him down.
The politicians, some who have been visiting his offices requesting for money, have sought the assistance of out of sorts Zimbabwe socialite Tatelicious (real name Tatenda Karigambe) in trying to tarnish Machakaire’s image.
Tatelicious, who is based abroad, has a penchant of tarnishing people’s images without profferring evidence yesterday claimed Cde Machakaire was bedding a number of socialites including Mai TT and Anna Honde.
Tatelicious even claimed that Machakaire had tried her luck on Bona Mugabe.
She didn’t give evidence to back her claims.
Both Mai TT and Bona yesterday dismissed the claims as “rubbish”.
According to sources privy to the goings on in the revolutionary party, Honourable Machakaire had become a “cash-cow” for fading politicians before the politicians pulled a stop to the demands of most of them.
“There are several senior politicians who survived on handouts from young politicians who have vibrant businesses, so when they don’t get what they used to get, it becomes a problem. So senior politicians will try by all means to discredit you,” said one politician on condition of anonymity.
Another source believes Machakaire is being targeted as a lot of blackmailing has been happening since the ZANU PF youth league conference and now they are engaging socialites to discredit him.
“You might want to understand why socialites such as Tatelecious have joined the bandwagon to smear the character of Hon Machakaire, it’s all sponsored by those who hate the rise of young politicians,” said the source.
From the sources, the campaign against Hon Machakaire is completely vengeance by fellow comrades who have nothing to depend on except politics.
The Deputy Minister of Sports Arts and recreation Honourable Tino Machakaire said he had no time to sanitize lies”I have a lot of serious things to deal with than responding to nonsense,” he curtly said.
By A Correspondent- Zanu-PF has confirmed growing fissures within the party ahead of the December elective congress while warning those using money in their plot to challenge the party leader that they will be dealt with.
Party spokesperson Chris Mutsvangwa says Emmerson Mnangagwa is the party’s sole candidate for the 2023 elections while warning any plotters that they will not succeed to topple the strongman.
Some party members say there was an agreement between Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga following the November 2017 military coup that the Zanu leader will serve only one term before handing over power to his deputy who played a crucial role in his rise to power. Mutsvangwa’s political warnings confirm that there is disharmony in the cockpit.
“He (Mnangagwa) is allowed two terms according to the constitution and the ruling party has endorsed him as sole candidate (ahead of the 2023 elections),” Mutsvangwa said.
“Zanu-PF is united behind him and organs of the party have endorsed him. The Women’s League conference is around the corner and will also likely endorse him.”
Mutsvangwa said Mnangagwa deserved a second term as he has managed to win the hearts of investors, particularly during his trip to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum that the Zanu-PF spokesperson described as “the United Nations of business”.
“Investors want certainty and he had this to offer in Davos,” Mutsvangwa said.
Mutsvangwa accused speculators of working to effect regime change in Zimbabwe, but he immediately warned that their scheming will flop.
“Speculators are thinking they can succeed where the opposition failed, where the trade unions failed. The President has weathered the storm. The economy is good and why only the currency?”
“We are winning that war. We won back our land and every war we have won, now we are left with the currency war,” he said.
Mnangagwa’s loyalists have already sharpened knives against those perceived to be working with Chiwenga, accusing them of plotting to challenge the Zanu-PF leader in the elective December congress.
Chiwenga is accused by Mnangagwa loyalists of working with exiled former political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere and other former party stalwarts to dislodge the strongman ahead of the 2023 elections.
Already, party divisions have been shown in the party’s youth league and this weekend’s provincial women’s league elections that have divided the party further as bigwigs line up their preferred choices Mutsvangwa has already insisted that all the organs are rallying behind Mnangagwa despite insiders saying some in the party had launched a whisper campaign calling for an elective congress where the party leader should be challenged.
Kasukuwere is accused of working with Sybeth Musengezi to challenge Mnangagwa’s rise to the helm of Zanu-PF following a coup in 2017 that led to the ouster of the late former President Robert Mugabe.
Musengezi is now under siege after he was arrested last week before he was granted bail for allegedly using a fake home address upon joining Zanu-PF.
He said ever since his release, he has been under the weather and has also been accosted by unknown assailants suspected to be state agents.
“They put me in jail, threatened, intimidated, inhumanely treated and harassed me and those close to me so as to break my spirit and force me into submission but that’s not going to happen,” he said on microblogging site Twitter.
“Mnangagwa has to respect us, this country belongs to us all not him and his associates alone. They wanted my current physical address and as much information they can get on me through the so-called “profiling” so they can put me under surveillance, follow, harass or make a raid on me anytime they want.”
There are fears, which were confirmed by women’s league boss Mabel Chinomona recently during a meeting at party headquarters, that a faction and some individuals were using money to infiltrate structures for their own sinister agendas.
This was in apparent reference to the G40 cabal that some within the ruling party suspect was working with Chiwenga.-Newshawks
By A Correspondent- Mazowe South Member of Parliament Fortune Chasi (ZANU PF) has castigated corrupt council officials at Mazowe Rural District Council (MRDC) who are allegedly getting protection from Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe.
Speaking at a provincial clean up campaign in Glendale today Chasi told Minister of State for Mashonaland Central province Senetor Monica Mavhunga that Kazembe’s allies were buying luxurious cars from graft stands.
“Resident Minister we are now taking advantage of your presence here to air out our griviences, people here have no place of residents and they are crowded there by living like rats,” Chasi said.
“Some of the Mercedes Benz you see here were bought out of corruption of stands and as an MP I will fight until people get residential stands.
Chasi is one the ZANU PF leaders in Mazowe who is fighting the alleged corrupt Kazembe faction.
Recently 11 MRDC employees linked to Kazembe were suspended after they illegally dished out stands to Kazembe’s supporters.
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) allegedly investigated the matter and left the investigations report to the council authority without explaining to the public the out come of their investigations as they reportedly feared to apprehend Home Affairs Minister’s allies.
By A Correspondent- More than US$20 million was illegally moved out of the country’s borders in murky deals involving blacklisted diamond dealer Jamal Ahmed in an opaque sale of one million carats of diamonds from the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) recently.
The matter is now subject to an active investigation by authorities following a damning report by whistle-blowers on the illicit financial flows rocking the diamond sector.
The externalisation scandal is being laid bare only a few weeks after the Zimbabwe Independent first reported that Ahmed dribbled past authorities to buy the gems using a relative as he is blacklisted.
Ahmed was once locked in a fierce court battle with former first lady Grace Mugabe over a US$1,5 million diamond ring.
But fresh details gathered by the Independent in recent weeks make startling revelations as some of the money from the diamond auction was never sent to Harare.
However, investigators are perusing documents, which show that some papers were stamped confirming that the money was brought to Zimbabwe although more details suggest it did not.
High level government investigators said funds were secured locally from known externalisers, who would then get their money in offshore accounts with Ahmed allegedly getting a 3-5% commission.
Banking documents and deposit slips in our possession show that some of the funds were jointly deposited into the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) bank accounts allegedly by Diamore DMCC and NRTS on March 23, 2022. At the Agribank branch, about US$3,5 million was paid in batches of US$2,3 million (US$100 notes); US$1,3 million (US$50 notes); US$990 000 (US$20 notes); US$1,5 million (US$10 notes); US$5 000 (US$5 notes); while US$1 000 was paid in US$1 notes.
Another deposit of about US$8 million was made at CBZ Bank on March 11, 2022, with almost identical notes and by the same depositor.
The quantum of the smaller notes deposited by the two companies allegedly linked to Ahmed raised eyebrows in government corridors, prompting an investigation into the matter.
“Some of the funds were deposited as US$10 notes and looking at the quantum of the funds, a serious suspicion emerged as to how the monies were transported from outside the country. There are strong indications that the funds were secured locally by people who wanted to externalise their funds to offshore accounts,” the source said.
“There is also suspicion that they were to get their cut deposited by the people behind these diamond buying companies who were eventually going to get 3% commission.
“That meant the country was selling diamonds at the same time losing about US$23 million through externalisation.
“The case is now subject to an investigation and one of the buyers NRTS is now afraid to set foot in the country and is claiming ignorance of what could have transpired,” the source added.
There are indications that the cash entry documents were stamped by customs officials after a suspected US$5 000 bribe. These stamps have been issued to the same customs official (name withheld), who is also under probe.
Indications are also that the last diamond buying firms allegedly linked to Ahmed had no documents from the country of origin to support that there was movement of money to Zimbabwe. This sparked suspicion that no money was brought into the country.
“There are reasonable grounds for an investigation and rather the dismissal of the MMCZ board and management for failure to do proper due diligence on the people buying diamonds,” another source said.
The last diamond sale was mired in controversy as the MMCZ board is failing to handle alleged malpractices around diamond sales.
Recently, 40 companies submitted bids and 15 were shortlisted but all the four parcels were won by two companies, Diamore DMCC (three parcels) and NRTS Diamonds Limited (one parcel). Each parcel was worth around US$14 million.
Sources say officials at the MMCZ then discovered that Diamore DMCC, which had won the three parcels allegedly had strong links to Ahmed.
There were reports that a relative to Ahmed was fronting one of the diamond buyers, triggering the intervention of authorities.
The Independent is further informed that the authorities then decided that the two companies should get one parcel each following the exposé on Ahmed while the other remaining two parcels will be re-tendered at the next sale.
There are allegations that against the norm, MMCZ also allowed the two buyers to pay in three instalments for each parcel.
“This is unheard of and the shocking thing is how they valued those diamonds, which were paid in instalments considering that a parcel will be intact. It is shocking how those valuations were made and it points to a need for an investigation,” a source close to the developments said.
There are further allegations that Diamore DMCC paid for all its diamonds in three instalments but NRTS only paid two instalments and the third is now subject to contestation after the NRTS client refused the third assortment citing quality issues.
That, according to sources, then opened a can of worms with further allegations that the client in question might have been Ahmed.
The scandal then reportedly triggered suspicion that NTRS might have selected gems from the parcel and paid for them leaving diamonds of poor quality, which according to sources, has sparked a rift between MMCZ and ZCDC.
Questions sent to Ahmed in writing had not been responded to. He did not respond to WhatsApp messages either.
Financial Intelligence Unit boss Oliver Chiperesa had not responded to questions sent to him by the time of going to print.
Ahmed was blacklisted this year from participating in the diamond auction as part of efforts to bust a diamond buying syndicate that had sucked in MMCZ.
Looking at the latest events, there are indications that there are officials within MMCZ who have strong relations with the diamond dealer who was recently threatened with deportation and imprisonment over his diamond dealings.
Sources further noted that there was a possibility of collusion at the auction of the diamonds which significantly enabled one buyer to exploit the market unfairly, resulting in the dealer enjoying an untenable monopoly over the country’s diamonds.
Ahmed has over the years alleged enjoyed the assistance of MMCZ top officials to the extent of buying all of the country’s diamond parcels. Ahmed has always denied the allegations citing that he was a clean buyer who just offered competitive bids.
The diamond trading industry in Zimbabwe has always been targeted by unscrupulous individuals with some accused of smuggling the precious mineral through Mozambique.
Three years ago, a Lebanese diamond dealer Hussein Robai was deported from Zimbabwe over allegations of illegal diamond dealings working in cahoots with former ZCDC executives.
The deportation of Robai came after there were consented efforts by officials at Foreign Affairs and ZCDC to protect the Lebanese. He was, however, deported only after the intervention of the Central Intelligence Organisation.
The Department of Immigration deported Robai over illegal diamond dealing convictions in India. He also faced allegations of diamond smuggling in the country
By-CCC leader Nelson Chamisa said that he was ready to occupy the state house and give the country a new lease of life.
The youthful opposition leaders posted on Twitter Saturday that his government would respect the liberation war veterans and hive them their space.
He posted:
Our generation is now ready to take over and give full effect and meaning to the LIBERATION DREAM. Ours is the TRANSFORMATION TASK! We’re the Transformation generation. We honour the outgoing liberation generation. All hands on deck!
Our generation is now ready to take over and give full effect and meaning to the LIBERATION DREAM. Ours is the TRANSFORMATION TASK! We’re the Transformation generation. We honour the outgoing liberation generation. All hands on deck! pic.twitter.com/L24xHuVPhG
By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe’s biggest platinum project, Darwendale, struggling to get off the ground for the past two years, has new challenges.
It is reported that a major stake held by a Russian tycoon is scaring off potential financiers for the $3 billion mine
According to a report by Zimbabwe’s Centre for Natural Resource Governance, initial development work on the Darwendale deposit began in early 2020, but operations at the project were soon halted because of a lack of capital.
The site has been abandoned since early last year.
Vitaliy Machitskiy’s Vi Holding, which has a 50% stake, is reportedly reluctant to continue investing after years of delays asking not to be identified as the talks aren’t public.
But Kuvimba Mining House Ltd., which owns 50% of the project and which the government says it controls, has been unable to attract fresh investment because European platinum buyers don’t want to enter into purchase agreements with an entity with Russian shareholders.
The fear of running up against sanctions stemming from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine means it’s also harder to borrow money to develop the project.
Simba Chinyemba, Kuvimba’s chief executive officer told Bloomberg that the Darwendale project is “ongoing” and the mine plan is being remodelled. He added:
What I can tell you for a fact is that the project is going ahead.
Kuvimba and VI Holding each hold half of Great Dyke Investments Ltd., which owns the Darwendale deposit.
Darwendale brief history:
a). Darwendale has been tied to Russia since 2006, when former Zimbabwe president, Robert Mugabe, took the concession from a local unit of South Africa’s Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. and handed it to Russian investors.
b). The first venture to try and tap the deposit was named Ruschrome Mining which included a state-owned mining company, the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corp., Russian defense conglomerate Rostec, Vnesheconombank and Vi Holding.
c). The venture later became Great Dyke, and Vi Holding remained the sole investor from Russia.
d). Machitskiy, who was born in Irkutsk in Siberia, is a childhood friend of Sergey Chemezov, chief executive of Rostec and close ally of President Vladimir Putin, with whom he once worked in Germany. Chemezov is sanctioned by the US, EU and UK.
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.
More challenges:
Output was initially expected to begin in 2021, but there are more challenges in addition to Russian links and a lack of capital.
i). Zimbabwe’s government says it controls Kuvimba, but its assets, including the stake in Great Dyke, are the same as those owned until at least late 2020 by Sotic International Ltd., a company linked to Kudakwashe Tagwirei.
Tagwirei is sanctioned by the US and UK governments over corruption allegations.
ii). The government hasn’t said how it acquired the assets or disclosed the identities of the private shareholders who own the 35% of Kuvimba not held by the state.
iii). Impala snubbed an approach from Great Dyke because it was concerned about its ownership, people familiar with the situation said in February.
iv). That opacity of its ownership has also complicated relations between Great Dyke’s shareholders.
v). The Centre for Natural Resource Governances said the project has also been hampered by “mismanagement and mistrust,”
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president, Nelson Chamisa, claims that the army is now fed up with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and is ready to replace him in the coming 2023 elections.
Addressing party supporters during a thank you rally for CCC Kwekwe MP, Judith Tobaiwa, on Sunday, Chamisa said Mnangagwa’s days at State House were numbered.
“What I want to tell you today is that Mnangagwa is gone. Come 2023, we will be the ruling party while Zanu-PF will be the opposition,” Chamisa said.
“Everywhere we are going in the country, people are speaking about change.
“Change is on the horizon and the country is ready for change.
“Civil servants are saying I must take the reigns of power. The students, ordinary citizens, and the army are saying the same,” he said.
Chamisa added, “The army is prepared to ditch Mnangagwa in the coming elections.
“If we are to have an election today, I will have more support from the army than Mnangagwa,” he said.
Mnangagwa rose to State President on the back of a military coup in 2017, with then army commander and now Vice President, Constantino Chiwenga leading the former President Robert Mugabe’s takeover.
Chamisa said with the worsening economic situation, the army appears to be dissatisfied with Mnangagwa.
“We are preparing for the next government,” said Chamisa.
He added, Zanu-PF now no longer stands a chance in Matebeleland, and Manicaland provinces. “Our focus is now in Mashonaland Central. Change is imminent, change is coming.”
Chamisa said his party would not allow Mnangagwa a chance to rig the polls.
“This time around, no poll is going to be rigged.
” We are currently working on reforms and we are going to force reforms on Zanu-PF,” he said.
By-CCC youth leaders and Harare West MP, Joanna Mamombe and Cicilia Chimbiri were back in court Friday, where they exposed a police officer for lying.
Posing on social media, CCC said Mamombe and Chimbiri are true heroines:
Our Change champions are back in court again for the trial of publishing falsehoods. Witness number 3, a police officer, in Witness stand says he was also manning the show ground roadblock on 13 May 2020
By- Tafadzwa Mugwadi, the Zanu PF director of information has said that Mnangagwa and Chiwenga were not fighting.
He posted: They can write all they want all day, quoting their fingers as anonymous sources in ZANUPF, produce fake headlines alleging disaffection between the three, but hear this from me, you will be tired.
Hon Moyo, since ZIDA opposes rhe Pomona deal and Doug Munatsi died opposing the contract, which was granted outside tender procedures, how does Harare Council become your subsidiary?"No I didn't say of my office, of govt. It's a lower tier…that's the constitutional position…" pic.twitter.com/zjr2yu1lMz
By- The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said it had removed the names of 32 010 dead people on the voters’ roll.
According to the state media, the list of the deceased persons was published in the Government Gazette under General Notice 1197 of 2022 by the chief elections officer, Mr Utloile Silaigwana.
“The names of those persons will be removed from the voters roll unless notice of appeal is given to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. By means of this notice, notification is made to any voter on the First Schedule who may be alive to lodge an objection at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Mahachi Quantum, 1, Nelson Mandela Avenue, corner Kaguvi Street and Jason Moyo Avenue, Harare, and at the respective Commission Provincial Offices, to the inclusion of his or her name in the First Schedule using the form prescribed in the Second Schedule no later than seven days from the date of publication of this notice,” Mr Silaigwana said. In an interview, ZEC spokesperson Mr Jasper Mangwana said the electoral body adheres to its constitutional mandate and always removes names of dead people from the voters’ roll. “The commission has always been gazetting names of the deceased persons to ensure that if there is any objection to the removal of these people from the voters’ roll it is brought to the attention of the Commission”. He said this is a continuous process that the commission has always been doing when it receives a list of deceased persons from the Registrar General.
“We then check for those that are on the voters’ roll and we then advertise that if there is any objection considering that these days there are issues of identity theft. If someone objects to the removal of the deceased persons from the roll because they are alive, that is corrected. “This is just the process the Commission does after the gazetting. If there’s no objection then the Commission will proceed to remove this person from the voters’ roll”. With such due diligence followed, Mr Mangwana said issues around ghost voters are merely sideshows. “How do they vote if they are not alive? Who is going to approach a polling station if they are dead? So the process is very clear and promotes the integrity of the voters roll”. However, there are challenges for the Commission because not everyone is interested in obtaining a death certificate, thus in some instances the names of deceased persons might not be struck off from the voters’ roll. “The Commission is allowing other stakeholders or relatives to bring to our attention deaths of individuals that can assist us to have a clean roll,” said Mr Mangwana.
By Dr Masimba Mavaza | Midlands Corby UK | Again history was made today when Corby town celebrated the Corby Poll Fair marking the Queens Platinum Jubilee. The sun is shining, the crowds were up with the larks and the Corby Pole Fair got under way without a hitch at 6am sharp.
The bells of St John the Baptist Church in Corby Old Village had been ringing since 5am to signal the start of the 2022 Corby Pole Fair.Hundreds of locals turned out to hear the first Charter Reading by the Parliament Stone outside the church. Rev Paul Frost – as is tradition – was given the honour of reading the Charter granted to the village in 1585 by Queen Elizabeth I.
Tafadzwa Chikoto
Afterwards, Rev Frost, Zimbabwean born mayor Tafadwa Chikoto and the village’s oldest resident June Thomson were lifted aloft and carried through the streets of the village where the charter was again read outside the White Hart and in The Jamb.
The Pole Fair is a major community celebration, which took place today Friday 3rd June 2022. This date links the original granting of the Royal Charter to Corby by Queen Elizabeth I in 1585 with the Platinum Jubilee bank holiday weekend, created to celebrate the long years of service by Queen Elizabeth II.
This unique tradition comes around only every 20 years, attracting large crowds to enjoy outdoor attractions, entertainment and of course, the reading of the Royal Charter at the three entrances to the village at dawn.
There are lots of historical stories associated with the Pole Fair, from its evolution as a small Viking settlement, to the right to hold fairs granted by King Henry III in 1226, and the story of why Elizabeth I granted the Corby Charter after an accident in a bog. This year’s event was telling these stories through a variety of engaging activities, including a pageant, a living history encampment as well as Open Days at Corby Heritage Centre for visitors to explore Pole Fair archives dating back to 1902.
There are numerous other traditions that take place at every fair, including floral gateways to the old village area of Corby, a greasy pole competition and a roast ox. Previous fairs have also included markets, performances, historical re-enactments and a large fun fair.
All visitors to Corby village are also expected to pay a small toll to enter the fair on the day, or risk ending up in the village stocks! The fair was being organised by a steering group of local volunteers and cultural organisations.
The Corby Pole Fair celebrates the granting of Corby’s Royal Charter in 1585 by Queen Elizabeth I as well as celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. There was a community breakfast, a picnic, music, dance, walkabout performers, a carnival parade, funfair and lots lots more!
Mayor Chikoto carried the Zimbabwean flag high as he was carried by four brave men around the Corby village to wild cheers and celebratory claps from the people.
As part of entertainment the
Academy students put on a spectacular pageant bringing to life the story of Corby’s charter.
The pupils told the tale of how Elizabeth I had an accident in woodland near Corby and was rescued by villagers. She later granted a charter to the village.
The play is from an original script by Elspeth Robb, written in 1947.
Corby is proud to have a diversity of leadership in its council.
Exiled minister Walter Mzembi says the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has a good chance of winning the 2023 polls, but its leadership lacks the courage of the late opposition supremo Morgan Tsvangirai.
He, however, told NewsDay in an interview with the Alpha Media Holdings editor-in-chief, Wisdom Mdzungairi, that Zanu-PF will not surrender power easily, and that the ruling party had “solid structures” to mount an effective campaign ahead of the polls.
“Can they (CCC) win? Yes, they can… The ground for that to happen is as fertile as it was in 2008, but they probably lack the courage of Tsvangirai. He was not a lawyer and, therefore, his calculation of risk was different,” Mzembi said.
“If you want to win a battle emphatically, you change battleground like the eagle when it is preying on a snake, it picks it up, spins it in the air where it has no balance. The current team love the courts, but then again they are lawyers, yet they forget who is in charge of the courts.”
The Nelson Chamisa-led CCC contested for the first in the March 26 by-elections after its launch in January and won 19 of the contested 28 parliamentary seats. But Zanu-PF retained its rural constituencies.
Analysts said the polls were a precursor to the 2023 elections.
“A discipleship of lawyers in the executive can be a source of paralysis, but then again you have got to love their temerity, branding and unpredictability. On the other hand, Zanu-PF, in my estimation, is based on being battle-hardened, foxy and its mass mobilisation strategies often dismissed as vote-buying, particularly in rural areas, will not go without a real hard fight,” Mzembi added.
“Its presidential candidate may be older and less appealing, but it has solid structures that outperform its rivals, notwithstanding who leads.”
Mzembi also said the late President Robert Mugabe missed a “Mandela” moment by staying in power too long until he was ousted in 2017.
“Mugabe had all the intelligence on the impending events, but somehow he was in denial. He never imagined his liberation war colleagues would take him out by force given their journey back in the struggle together and how they had taken care of each other,” Mzembi said.
“On reflection, he also overstayed his welcome, and it’s a lesson to us all on legacy management. You got to leave when people still want you, but power is sweet, you really have to be a ‘Mandela’ to leave the stage after one term!”
Bulawayo giants Highlanders have appointed Brazilian Baltemar Jose De Oliveria Brito as their new head coach.
Bosso have been under assistant coach Joel Lupahla on an interim basis, following the sacking of Mandla ‘Lulu’ Mpofu after their abandoned league match against arch-rivals Dynamos last month.
“Highlanders Football Club is pleased to announce Baltemar Jose De Oliveira Brito as the new coach of the club’s first team, taking over from coach Mandla Mpofu who recently parted ways with the club on mutual consent,” reads a statement from the club.
“He will be in charge of the team up to December 2023.
“Brito is a UEFA Pro coaching license holder with vast experience, having worked as Jose Mourinho’s assistant coach at FC Porto in Portugal, Chelsea in England, and Inter Milan in Italy.
“Brito has won two UEFA Champions League titles, one UEFA Cup, two English Premier League titles, two Portuguese League titles, two Italian Championships, and one FA cup among other cups in his coaching career.
“Brito comes with an assistant coach Antonio Joao Martins Leao Torres from Portugal who is a holder of a UEFA B coaching licence.
“The entire structure of the current technical team will be announced in due course. We wish the coaches the best of luck.
It was not confirmed whether the new coach will be in the dugout when Bosso host Harare City at Babourfields Stadium on Sunday.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
THE ruling Zanu-PF has castigated a vocal United Kingdom lawmaker Jonathan Oates (Lord Oates), a British Liberal Democrat politician and member of the House of Lords, accusing him of being undemocratic and hobnobbing with the Zimbabwean opposition in pursuit of a regime change agenda.
Oates has been one of the many UK lawmakers who have consistently criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime, accusing the government of violating human rights and failing to observe the rule of law.
The UK lawmaker has also accused the government of targeting the opposition through arbitrary arrests while shrinking the democratic space but his position has angered the ruling Zanu-PF which described him on Wednesday as undemocratic.
“He is not democratically elected himself. He is a Lord by heredity,” Zanu-PF spokesperson Chris Mutsvangwa said.
“The opposition likes those people who are deviants in society. Why choose those friends? Spare us the Lord Oates of this world who are not democratic themselves,” Mutsvangwa added.
Oates recently told the Zimbabwean government to respect and uphold the country’s constitution or else it remains a subject of international scrutiny.
This came as Zimbabwe recently told the UK and United States officials to stop meddling in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs.
The British lawmaker recently triggered debate in the House of Lords on Zimbabwe’s alleged failure to uphold the constitution and respect human rights while also accusing Zanu-PF of actively undermining the country’s main opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC).
Mutsvangwa recently said Oates was a political toddler suffering from colonial hangover, saying he was an intelligence agent during his days in Zimbabwe under the guise of being a teacher.
But Oates dismissed Mutsvangwa’s allegations as desperate lies, insisting he was a teacher in rural Zimbabwe in the 1980s.
Oates has raised several issues of concern on Zimbabwe in the House of Commons including the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill and the proposed Patriotic Bill that he said will further shrink the democratic space under Mnangagwa.
The UK has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe over human rights abuses including the August 2018 shootings and the January 2019 fuel protests killings that saw Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Isaac Moyo, former Presidential Guard commander now Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Tanzania Anselem Sanyatwe and former State Security minister Owen Ncube being placed under sanctions.- Bulawayo24
By- A female Masvingo police officer has been arrested for stealing body lotion and hair products from a local OK Zimbabwe supermarket.
A police memo said the total value of stolen goods is ZWL $10 555-00 and all were recovered.
Reads the memo:
MEMO :970/2022
DATED : 29 MAY 2022
SUBJECT :
THEFT INVOLVING MEMBER OF THE POLICE SERVICE [ZRP MASVINGO CENTRAL]
INFORMANT
NAME
: TOZVIREVA SANNIWELL
NR : 77-067594-Y-83
SEX : MALE
AGE : 36
RES ADD : 503 VAROZVI STREET, MUCHEKE A, MASVINGO.
BUS ADD : OK SUPERMARKET, MASVINGO.
ACCUSED
NAME :
MOYO PRECIOUS
F/N : 993465 J
RANK : CONSTABLE
NR : 03-157919-K-03
SEX : FEMALE
AGE : 28 YEARS
RES ADD : 2243 HILLSIDE, MAJANGE, MASVINGO.
BUS ADD : ZRP CHIKATO, MASVINGO.
DATE : 26 MAY 2022
TIME : 1300 HOURS
CIRCUMSTANCES
On 26 May 2022 and at around 1300 hours, the accused person entered Ok Supermarket, Masvingo, took 60 mls of Nivea cream, 100 mls of dark and lovely, a pencil sharpener and hides them in her handbag. The accused person left the supermarket at around 1330 hours without paying for goods. The informant who is a CCTV operator noticed that the accused had stolen the goods after she had already left.
2. On the same day at around 1730 hours, the accused person entered Ok Supermarket again and took 31 grams gamucho gums. 02 x queen cakes, 01 x long doughnut. 05 x 50 grams farm style tomato paste, 01 x body spritzer, 07 x tinned fish and hides them in her handbag.
3. The informant was monitoring the accused person’s movements from the time she entered the supermarket. The accused passed all till points without paying for the goods and was stopped by a security guard at the exit point. She was searched and found in possession of goods which were in her handbag without proof of payment and she was arrested.
4. Total value of stolen goods is ZWL $10 555-00 and all was recovered.
5. A report was made at ZRP Masvingo Central and scene was attended. Accused was arrested and detained.
6. ZRP Masvingo Central RRB number 5050823 refers.
Today the people’s MP Hon Tendai Laxton Biti with some residents spend the day cleaning up Kamfinsa shopping center & removing garbage . Over the years we have analyzed economies & written countless , State of the Economy Addresses or State of the State Reports. – Tendai Biti Campaign
Truth is the true state of the State , lies in the garbage . The garbage is the true measure of State Failure or buoyancy. You can’t rig dump the site .
The mountains of garbage in this once pristine neighborhood is shocking .
Next week we’re cleaning Chisipite shopping centre. Fellow Citizens together we can make Harare East #Great again.
Tinashe Sambiri| Citizens’ Coalition for Change Namibia has urged young people to fight for a bright future by registering to vote.
In a statement on Wednesday, CCC Namibia challenged young people to support President Nelson Chamisa’s New Great Zimbabwe vision.
Read full statement below:
Those who did not fight the liberation struggle should vote for the young leadership”, new Slogan has gone viral.
01 June 2022
The vigorous slogan has become viral! There are goons in the politically inept ZanuPF government and party who claim to have ownership of the motherland because they went to war. It is quite ironic that those who went to war are fewer than those who did not fight the liberation struggle. If we go by their philosophy, they will obviously lose the elections before the polls commence.
The most active generation are the unemployed youths in Zimbabwe. The youths constitute more than 50% of the population plus those graduands in their 40s and 50s, it will be a disaster for our ZanuPF opponents.
Change champions are very fortunate that they are automatically going to be joined by some veterans of the liberation struggle who were frustrated by ZanuPF’s perennial failure to revamp the economy. It is now our revolutionary obligation to fulfil the dreams and aspirations of the liberation struggle led by none other than the organic, pragmatic and vibrant President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. We urge all Zimbabweans to register to vote for the Yellow Revolution in 2023. Lets all vote for a leadership with full capacity to put the economy on a sounder footing.
It is now imperative to vote for those who did not go to war since ZanuPF has betrayed everyone because of its corruption and gross misgovernance. Crackdown on voices of dissent through arbitrary arrests, long pre-trial detentions, forced disappearances of change champions, senseless and barefaced corruption, abuse of journalists and human rights defenders are signs of a government’s dismal failure to govern.
Furthermore, today we have reached 7 days after Moreblessing Ali, our change champion was severely beaten and bundled into car of the Chisango boys with a well known ZanuPF leadership in Nyatsime. The perpetrator who is in hiding was identified as Pius Jambo, we demand the immediate release of our champion, Moreblessing Ali.
ZanuPF must respect the sanctity of life, we urge the architects of politically motivated abductions and state sponsored forced disappearances to halt forthwith. All these are reasons why those who went to war are going to be humiliated by the Change Champions in 2023.
Our people are tired of unemployment and poverty in the motherland and the diaspora. We demand considerable respect to the voice of the people through their votes. People’s votes should count, we castigate rigging and we demand justice to the people’s will. As we embrace the slogan encouraging those who went to war to vote each other, I absolutely doubt that they will reach 1/4 of the population in the motherland. It was a generational consensus and it shall remain one until President Advocate Nelson Chamisa is given his chance in 2023 to lead us into Canaan.
In a nutshell, ‘vakaenda kuhondo vakavhoterana Mukomana Anopinda zvakanakisa”. We encourage people to register to vote in their astronomical numbers for a resounding victory in 2023. Polling agents at every polling station, well trained and fully equipped with alternative communication. All V11s are needed from our agents undiluted. We should avert disputed elections without enough evidence and numbers should not allow ZanuPF to have hope in any elections.
Tinashe Sambiri| Citizens’ Coalition for Change Namibia has urged young people to fight for a bright future by registering to vote.
In a statement on Wednesday, CCC Namibia challenged young people to support President Nelson Chamisa’s New Great Zimbabwe vision.
Read full statement below:
Those who did not fight the liberation struggle should vote for the young leadership”, new Slogan has gone viral.
01 June 2022
The vigorous slogan has become viral! There are goons in the politically inept ZanuPF government and party who claim to have ownership of the motherland because they went to war. It is quite ironic that those who went to war are fewer than those who did not fight the liberation struggle. If we go by their philosophy, they will obviously lose the elections before the polls commence.
The most active generation are the unemployed youths in Zimbabwe. The youths constitute more than 50% of the population plus those graduands in their 40s and 50s, it will be a disaster for our ZanuPF opponents.
Change champions are very fortunate that they are automatically going to be joined by some veterans of the liberation struggle who were frustrated by ZanuPF’s perennial failure to revamp the economy. It is now our revolutionary obligation to fulfil the dreams and aspirations of the liberation struggle led by none other than the organic, pragmatic and vibrant President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. We urge all Zimbabweans to register to vote for the Yellow Revolution in 2023. Lets all vote for a leadership with full capacity to put the economy on a sounder footing.
It is now imperative to vote for those who did not go to war since ZanuPF has betrayed everyone because of its corruption and gross misgovernance. Crackdown on voices of dissent through arbitrary arrests, long pre-trial detentions, forced disappearances of change champions, senseless and barefaced corruption, abuse of journalists and human rights defenders are signs of a government’s dismal failure to govern.
Furthermore, today we have reached 7 days after Moreblessing Ali, our change champion was severely beaten and bundled into car of the Chisango boys with a well known ZanuPF leadership in Nyatsime. The perpetrator who is in hiding was identified as Pius Jambo, we demand the immediate release of our champion, Moreblessing Ali.
ZanuPF must respect the sanctity of life, we urge the architects of politically motivated abductions and state sponsored forced disappearances to halt forthwith. All these are reasons why those who went to war are going to be humiliated by the Change Champions in 2023.
Our people are tired of unemployment and poverty in the motherland and the diaspora. We demand considerable respect to the voice of the people through their votes. People’s votes should count, we castigate rigging and we demand justice to the people’s will. As we embrace the slogan encouraging those who went to war to vote each other, I absolutely doubt that they will reach 1/4 of the population in the motherland. It was a generational consensus and it shall remain one until President Advocate Nelson Chamisa is given his chance in 2023 to lead us into Canaan.
In a nutshell, ‘vakaenda kuhondo vakavhoterana Mukomana Anopinda zvakanakisa”. We encourage people to register to vote in their astronomical numbers for a resounding victory in 2023. Polling agents at every polling station, well trained and fully equipped with alternative communication. All V11s are needed from our agents undiluted. We should avert disputed elections without enough evidence and numbers should not allow ZanuPF to have hope in any elections.
By A Correspondent | ANALYSIS | The silent war between Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga has increased volume with the former’s supporters loudly denouncing the man’s deputy at the funeral of Chiwenga’s secretary, in what has worsened rumours suggesting Godfrey Chanakira was murderered.
The usual funeral songs are always respectful and spiritual. But a different kind of melody is being sung. Instead of a dirge, it’s an abusive war cry, as ZimEye reveals.
THE LYRICS OF THE SONG DENOUNCING VP CHIWENGA AT OWN SECRETARY’S FUNERAL WERE AS FOLLOWS:
“Hondo hatidi hondo. Vaudzei vavhotere paMasvingo [Mnangagwa], hondo hatidi” (meaning to avoid war, vote for Mnangagwa). https://t.co/ZEGLAO5Lz7
The person leading the singing was Mnangagwa frontman, Taurai Kandishaya.
Traditionally Masvingo is Mnangagwa’s other name, as his presidency is known as a Masvingo one (even though he comes from Zvishavane). This is despite the fact of Masvingo ruins being the ZANU PF emblem.
The Nov 2017 coup that removed the late president Robert Mugabe, is known as a rebellion of the Masvingo Province against the Zezuru tribe. Mangagwa’s deputy Constantino Chiwenga comes from the Zezuru grouping, and the ongoing loud singing at the burial of Chiwenga’s personal secretary is a political slap in the face, at a time when calls have grown louder to replace Mnangagwa with Chiwenga.
Mnangagwa’s family has traditional roots in Masvingo and his uncle, Ephias Munodawafa is holds ancestral Kingship over a large area in the province.
Chiwenga’s secretary Gen Godfrey Chanakira died last week and he was denied national hero status, only to be granted following internal party protestations.- ZimEye
Real Madrid have signed Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger on a free transfer.
The Germany international, 29, has agreed on a four-year contract at the Bernabeu and will join when his deal at the Premier League club expires on June 30.
A Chelsea statement said:
Chelsea thanks Toni for his contribution to our success over the last five years and wishes him well in his future career.
Rudiger, who will be presented as a Madrid player on July 20, spent five seasons at Chelsea winning the FA Cup in 2018, the Europa League in 2019 and the Champions League in 2021.
He rejected the club’s offer of a contract extension.
Madrid were impressed by the centre-back’s performances in their Champions League quarterfinal tie in April when Rudiger scored in a 3-2 second-leg win at the Bernabeu which saw Chelsea eliminated 5-4 on aggregate.
The LaLiga club had been contacted by the defender’s representatives earlier in the season but ruled out a move at that point due to the likely costs involved.
Their position changed after the Champions League second leg, and a deal was concluded swiftly, with Rudiger’s desire to play for Madrid and a drop in his wage demands viewed as key.
Rudiger’s signing is the second time in successive seasons that Madrid have taken advantage of the availability of a top-level defender on a free transfer, after signing David Alaba from Bayern Munich last year.
Rudiger, Alaba and Eder Militao will compete to be Madrid’s first-choice centre-back pairing, although the versatile Alaba could also switch to left-back.- Pindula News
By- MDC-T, Douglas Mwonzora has replaced two proportional representation MPs, Visitor Ndebele and Florence Nyika.
The two take up vacancies left byThokozani Khupe and Nomvula Mguni.
Khupe and Mguni were fired from the party and subsequently joined The Nelson Chamisa led CCC.
Mwonzora notified ZEC Friday about these changes through the below-posted letter:
Notice of Appointment of Members of the National Assembly: Ndebele Visitor and Nyika Florence
IT is hereby notified, in terms of section 39(7)(a) of Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13], that Ndebele Visitor and Nyika Florence, registered voters of Bulawayo Metropolitan Province, who were nominated by the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A) party to fill the vacancies in the National Assembly that occurred following the recall of Honourable Nomvula Mguni and Honourable Thokozani Khupe have been appointed as members of the National Assembly for Bulawayo Province by virtue of section 124(1)(b) of the Constitution with effect from the 27th May 2022.
The appointment of these members of the National Assembly was published in the Government Gazette, General Notice 1174 of 2022 dated 27 May 2022.
By-CCC youth leaders and Harare West MP, Joanna Mamombe and Cicilia Chimbiri were back in court Friday, where they exposed a police officer for lying.
Posing on social media, CCC said Mamombe and Chimbiri are true heroines:
Our Change champions are back in court again for the trial of publishing falsehoods. Witness number 3, a police officer, in Witness stand says he was also manning the show ground roadblock on 13 May 2020.
?Our Change champions are back in court again for the trial of publishing falsehoods. Witness number 3, a police officer, in Witness stand says he was also manning the show ground roadblock on 13 May 2020. @JoanaMamombe@ceechimbiri2pic.twitter.com/yZFMVXFVL0
— Citizens' Coalition for Change (@CCCZimbabwe) June 3, 2022
By-MDC-T, Douglas Mwonzora has replaced two proportional representation MPs, Visitor Ndebele and Florence Nyika.
The two take up vacancies left byThokozani Khupe and Nomvula Mguni.
Khupe and Mguni were fired from the party and subsequently joined The Nelson Chamisa led CCC.
Mwonzora notified ZEC Friday about these changes through the below-posted letter:
Notice of Appointment of Members of the National Assembly: Ndebele Visitor and Nyika Florence
IT is hereby notified, in terms of section 39(7)(a) of Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13], that Ndebele Visitor and Nyika Florence, registered voters of Bulawayo Metropolitan Province, who were nominated by the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A) party to fill the vacancies in the National Assembly that occurred following the recall of Honourable Nomvula Mguni and Honourable Thokozani Khupe have been appointed as members of the National Assembly for Bulawayo Province by virtue of section 124(1)(b) of the Constitution with effect from the 27th May 2022.
The appointment of these members of the National Assembly was published in the Government Gazette, General Notice 1174 of 2022 dated 27 May 2022.
By Simba Chikanza | FEATURE | Just focus on registering to vote, forget about ‘finishing the sports,’ because State Power only comes through the ZEC database, ZANU PF increases the decible, in a message it daily communicates; and yes, it is true that there have been 2 live grenade attack attempts against Emmerson Mnangagwa’s deputy Constantino Chiwenga. This was between April 2018 and June of that year. The first attempt was reported on the 28th April. Impeccable sources cited by the exiled Prof Jonathan Moyo said on the ‘Wed night as Chiwenga took off his shoes in his bedroom to store them away; the shoes hit an object which rolled and made a metallic sound. To his horror, the object was a grenade. He summarily dismissed domestic staff and got security detail detained.”
The second grenade exploded against the man’s wife on the 23rd June 2018, and the VP was missed by a whisker at the White City Stadium in Bulawayo.
All these horrors caught on camera were relived this week when it emerged Emmerson Mnangagwa blocked the granting of hero status to Chiwenga’s late secretary, Gen Godfrey Chanakira, and only did so after a second consideration.
How safe is Chiwenga? And how clear is the path to taking over state power seeing that Mnangagwa’s crew are not politicians at all; they are mere professional saboteurs? The opposition will have to think and act faster than saboteurs.
#STATE POWER NOW
As the upcoming by election draws near, the necessity to do a security briefing, under the topic ‘State Power Now’ is more than vital, Thomas Mapfumo reveals.
Mapfumo in his latest interview with me, says if Nelson Chamisa is entering these polls on the wrong foundation, this will be disaster. Is he safe, and what must be done to attain safety?
If he calls Emmerson Mnangagwa, president, he has already lost State House; he will never make it and it will take him another 500 years to remove him because Mnangagwa is a terrorist.
What does this analogy make clear? It speaks to the subject of “State Power Now.” Over the last 3 years I have spent this entire time focusing on establishing state of power now: not only publishing, but demonstrating it.
What exactly is State Power now? It is the instant application of UN level legal powersto do things such as regime change.
Simba Chikanza
This is all done while crushing traditional bottlenecks, hindrances that keep repeating over centuries of despotiques.
I have demonstrated this application several times in my fight against the fake news directed against my work while I was being told, first that there was no coup in November 2017, and after the 2018 elections, I and other scribes must honour the self boasting genocide criminal, Emmerson Mnangagwa, with the title, “President.” 3 years ago, I broke the norm, and refused, and today, I have proven that State Power Now works.
Dictators don’t want you to know that you have State Power, because upon its implementation, they are swiftly removed. When is State Power obtained, in the coming election? In 2023? No, it is taken today, now, by simply recognising it and instantly exercising it. There is no other way it comes.
There are numerous ways State Power Now can be exercised, without breaking any laws, and without conducting either a coup or a demonstration. No noise is necessary because State Power is powerful enough. Authority does not require noise or excessive effort. In a country like Zimbabwe, this happens to be the most feasible option to ending institutionalised crime and repeating state capture.
It can also be implemented in phases. Where struggles are at their worst, one of these ways is imposing State Power Now in layers; this is in country scenarios that are the most difficult. Creating a parallel police force on the international arena is one of these ways. Another is creating a second electoral commission operating in the international airspace. I tried the first method, in phases, and at present, Chief Felix Ndiweni is implementing the second one, through the MyRightToVote campaign, a brilliant initiative that will get the Mnangagwa family controlled Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, squared off.
The masses should not wait to get law and order tomorrow, because a delay means it will never happen. State Power is only exercised now; if you wait for it, it will never come. If the opposition cannot for instance run its own CID law and order department in the diaspora, so that whenever someone commits a crime inside Zimbabwe, they will be met with instant justice upon flying out of the country, it will be very difficult to remove the monster that daily terrorises citizens. In this proposed model, dockets will be assembled every day by members of his organisation stationed outside the country working with those inside. When I travelled to Serbia in 2019, this is what I was on about to not only publish but demonstrate State Power Now. State power has to be not only talked about, it has to be demonstrated and it can only be exercised in the now, not futuristically.
Number two: you also need to set up your own structures of government. You need to do this figuratively and you may need at the same time physically. Such preparation strengthens you so when the moment arrives, you are ready to take over power, and in Chamisa’s case, it goes beyond graphics, it is a matter of legal reality, because there is clear demonstrable evidence that he won the 2018 elections.
When Edgar Lungu switched off the internet after losing the 2021 election, I spent the whole night studying how to drop the bombshell question. I had to ensure that words are loaded with state power. While in the act of throwing my questions to him, if you listen to the construct of my discourse, you will notice how I managed to totally dislodge him before opening his mouth.
One can notice from the 22minute interview, that I was exercising state-power-now. I made it very clear to him that he is no longer the president of Zambia, even though in reality he was still controlling the instruments of power legally as President until a handover; and even though I have never visited thar country, I made it clear to him that even I myself would be in a position to throw him into jail same day. State power now, has to be exercised in this way with confidence, firmness, and with now-ness.
At this time, the man was preparing to use the state security against his citizens and then hold onto power illegally through an excuse that his opponents have committed terrorism. He was just about to create chaos and then declare a state of emergency, all for the convenience of his political nuisance. The only way to stop him was to use State-Power-Now, and it worked.
If Chamisa and his members cannot upgrade themselves to this level of State Power Now, they are wasting the masses time, because Mnangagwa has made it clear that the election game is a mere elimination (killing) operation.
While the opposition is hoping on only one method – voting, trusting that the rogue soldiers running the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission will transform into civilians, Mnangagwa is operating outside the rules of a real election and under such an approach, there are 15 million ways he is disappointing Chamisa. He has state powers to use every and any citizen against the opposition through violence and afterwards blame them for it.
What Chamisa now needs after the Zambia election victory, is to utilise a facility in the UN, AU, and SADC charters, that deregisters politicians who obtain power through a coup.
Chamisa needs to supervise the suing of the former and the current president of Zambia on the basis that that country’s presidency participated in operationalising the Aug 2018 military coup, the unconstitutional overthrowal of the government led by Nelson Chamisa, at its foundations, between the 1st and 10th of August 2018. Both need to be sued so that they announce official apologies to the UN SADC and the AU, that they regret that Zambian state resources were used to overthrow a constitutionally elected government led by Nelson Chamisa, at its foundations between the 1st and 10th of August 2018.
The deportation of Tendai Biti through the help of Zambia, was a violation of a High Court order being furthermore a war crime, as it was part and parcel of the military coup against Nelson Chamisa.
If Biti and Chamisa do not do this, they have betrayed the people of Zimbabwe as 2023 is going to be worse militarised. – MORE IN NEXT WEEK’S POWERTOID ON STATE POWER NOW
By- The Nelson Chamisa led CCC said it was ready for another Kariba by-election scheduled for July 23rd.
CCC said it was confident that it would grab the council seat.
CCC posted Friday on social media:
We have another by-election coming in Kariba urban. Tonderai Chikwati has been duly nominated to represent the citizens in the upcoming July 23rd by-election. Until victory #NgaapindeHakeMukomana
By- The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said it had removed the names of 32 010 dead people on the voters’ roll.
According to the state media, the list of the deceased persons was published in the Government Gazette under General Notice 1197 of 2022 by the chief elections officer, Mr Utloile Silaigwana.
“The names of those persons will be removed from the voters roll unless notice of appeal is given to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. By means of this notice, notification is made to any voter on the First Schedule who may be alive to lodge an objection at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Mahachi Quantum, 1, Nelson Mandela Avenue, corner Kaguvi Street and Jason Moyo Avenue, Harare, and at the respective Commission Provincial Offices, to the inclusion of his or her name in the First Schedule using the form prescribed in the Second Schedule no later than seven days from the date of publication of this notice,” Mr Silaigwana said. In an interview, ZEC spokesperson Mr Jasper Mangwana said the electoral body adheres to its constitutional mandate and always removes names of dead people from the voters’ roll. “The commission has always been gazetting names of the deceased persons to ensure that if there is any objection to the removal of these people from the voters’ roll it is brought to the attention of the Commission”. He said this is a continuous process that the commission has always been doing when it receives a list of deceased persons from the Registrar General.
“We then check for those that are on the voters’ roll and we then advertise that if there is any objection considering that these days there are issues of identity theft. If someone objects to the removal of the deceased persons from the roll because they are alive, that is corrected. “This is just the process the Commission does after the gazetting. If there’s no objection then the Commission will proceed to remove this person from the voters’ roll”. With such due diligence followed, Mr Mangwana said issues around ghost voters are merely sideshows. “How do they vote if they are not alive? Who is going to approach a polling station if they are dead? So the process is very clear and promotes the integrity of the voters roll”. However, there are challenges for the Commission because not everyone is interested in obtaining a death certificate, thus in some instances the names of deceased persons might not be struck off from the voters’ roll. “The Commission is allowing other stakeholders or relatives to bring to our attention deaths of individuals that can assist us to have a clean roll,” said Mr Mangwana.
By- President Emerson Mnangagwa has been implicated in the illegal parcelling of housing stands.
NewZimbabwe.com reports that the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) was investigating a case in which Manyame Rural District Council (RDC) leaders alleged that Mnangagwa gave them the authority to sell land to desperate home seekers.
Some of the named politicians, who include a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor, are said to be claiming that their actions have been sanctioned by the Central lntelligence Organisation (CIO).
Mnangagwa is said to be desperately trying to distance himself from the mess and has since instructed the President’s office to investigate and arrest those tarnishing his name.
Officials from the ministry of local government have also been sucked into the shady land deal.
Some of the leaders who are allegedly involved in the land grabbing scandal include Nelson Bhobho, Tawanda Bhobho, Courage Gondokondo, CCC councillor Tichaona Munhunepi, Zanu PF vice chairman for Mashonaland East province Neffery Mutizira, Brighton Garwa among other youths making up the “cartel.”
Manyame RDC chief executive officer (CEO), Farirayi Guta, is reportedly preparing a consolidated report on the land invasions and preparing a list of key people involved.
RDC planner, Murepa, confirmed the investigation but directed all questions to Guta, whom he said he had given all the information.
“l have given all the necessary information regarding this issue to the CEO. You can contact her for any information regarding that,” said Murepa.
The culprits are grabbing lands in areas like Murisa Rural Service Centre, Kuora Village and Chinhanga Village.
In Chinhanga Village, party youths allegedly pegged residential stands in the dead of the night on May 28, 2022, the same day that Mash East youth leaders and Seke District DCC also invaded land in Kuora Village.
Guta’s phone went unanswered after several attempts to get hold of her.
A Chief Security Officer (CSO), Kavhai, said he was busy at some council function and was not able to give a comment.
Kavhai was also reportedly tasked by the CEO to investigate and provide a detailed report on the invasions. -NewZimbabwe
Murandakadzi uyu anonzi akasungiswa nezuro nemuIndia waashandira achipomerwa mhosva yekuchengeta magic ring iyo inonzi iri kunyangarisa mari dzemurungu uyu dzichiwanikwa dzakazara muma bag asisi Chenai
Nerumwewo rutivi Chenai anoti magic ring yakaita kuti apiwe mari zhinji nezvikomba zvake, anotizve muIndia uyu akabirwa mari iyi karesa asi akazongofungira kuti ndiye mushure mekuwana mari inoita one million rands iri muma bag ake pamwe chete ne magic ring
Saramusi rema ring ririkuitwa namuzvinamapipi weMasvingo anonzi Isaac Makomichi uyo anova anozikamwa nemipfuhwira uye kupfumisa vanhu nemasaramusi ema ring ayo anonzi atekeshera muJoni
Chenai anonzi akatorerwa mari iyi sehumbowo,uye achamiswa pamberi pedare
By A Correspondent | ANALYSIS | The silent war between Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga has picked volume with the former’s supporters loudly denouncing the man’s deputy at the funeral of Chiwenga’s secretary, in what has worsened rumours suggesting Godfrey Chanakira was murdered.
The usual funeral songs are always respectful and spiritual. But a different kind of melody is being sung. Instead of a dirge, it’s an abusive war cry, as ZimEye reveals.
THE LYRICS OF THE SONG DENOUNCING VP CHIWENGA AT OWN SECRETARY’S FUNERAL WERE AS FOLLOWS:
“Hondo hatidi hondo. Vaudzei vavhotere paMasvingo [Mnangagwa], hondo hatidi” (meaning to avoid war, vote for Mnangagwa). https://t.co/ZEGLAO5Lz7
The person leading the singing was Mnangagwa frontman, Taurai Kandishaya.
Traditionally Masvingo is Mnangagwa’s other name, as his presidency is known as a Masvingo one (even though he comes from Zvishavane). This is despite the fact of Masvingo ruins being the ZANU PF emblem.
The Nov 2017 coup that removed the late president Robert Mugabe, is known as a rebellion of the Masvingo Province against the Zezuru tribe. Mangagwa’s deputy Constantino Chiwenga comes from the Zezuru grouping, and the ongoing loud singing at the burial of Chiwenga’s personal secretary is a political slap in the face, at a time when calls have grown louder to replace Mnangagwa with Chiwenga.
Mnangagwa’s family has traditional roots in Masvingo and his uncle, Ephias Munodawafa is holds ancestral Kingship over a large area in the province.
Chiwenga’s secretary Gen Godfrey Chanakira died last week and he was denied national hero status, only to be granted following internal party protestations.- ZimEye
Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has broken silence on the Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid in Paris last week.
All eyes were on the Egyptian winger at the Stade de France after he had claimed Jurgen Klopp’s men wanted ‘revenge’, following their defeat to Los Blancos in the 2018 final in Kiev.
Despite Liverpool having more chances to score, it was Brazilian winger Vinicius Junior, whose solitary goal just before the hour mark decided the game and Salah admitted the result hurt them.
“I cannot express in words how much we wanted to bring that trophy back to Liverpool but in the end, we couldn’t. I cannot thank the fans enough for your support. It has been a very long season but a part of me wishes the next one starts again tomorrow,” he wrote on microblogging site Twitter.
Salah’s comments before the game have come under scrutiny from France and Arsenal legend Thierry Henry, who reckons the former Roma man should have done the talking on the pitch instead.
“I always say something: don’t talk before a final. When you speak before a final, you have to win it,” Henry said on BT Sport.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
By A Correspondent| Popular Harare traditional healer, Sekuru Banda has weighed in on the trending issue alleging that Zimbabweans are selling their toes in return for large amounts of money.
Sekuru Banda discouraged Zimbabweans against seeking short-cut routes to richness which he said will always backfire later.
Since last week, social media has been awash with claims that some Zimbabwean men especially those based along Angwa Street, previously known as Ximex Mall were buying top of the range cars after trading their toes.
In an interview with ZimEye, Sekuru Banda discouraged young people against trading their body parts for money.
“I am a traditional healer and perhaps the most qualified person to speak on this issue, it is indeed happening and very worrying because as much as it brings immediate riches, it will definitely backfire.
“I would like to encourage our youths to work hard, things are hard at the moment but there is no shorter route to success, it comes at a price,” said Sekuru Banda.
He appealed to government to put in place laws that promote human dignity while punishing those involved in such trades.
Sekuru Banda added that the issue was painting a wrong picture about Zimbabwe citing a story that appeared on BBC news early this week as an example of how the issue has escalated and tarnishing the image of the country.
This issue is painting a very sad picture about Zimbabwe, the dignity of Zimbabweans has gone down the drain, maybe when we go out, people will label us those who sold their toes for money, what a shame,” fumed Sekuru Banda.
Tinashe Sambiri| Citizens’ Coalition for Change Namibia has urged young people to fight for a bright future by registering to vote.
In a statement on Wednesday, CCC Namibia challenged young people to support President Nelson Chamisa’s New Great Zimbabwe vision.
Read full statement below:
Those who did not fight the liberation struggle should vote for the young leadership”, new Slogan has gone viral.
01 June 2022
The vigorous slogan has become viral! There are goons in the politically inept ZanuPF government and party who claim to have ownership of the motherland because they went to war. It is quite ironic that those who went to war are fewer than those who did not fight the liberation struggle. If we go by their philosophy, they will obviously lose the elections before the polls commence.
The most active generation are the unemployed youths in Zimbabwe. The youths constitute more than 50% of the population plus those graduands in their 40s and 50s, it will be a disaster for our ZanuPF opponents.
Change champions are very fortunate that they are automatically going to be joined by some veterans of the liberation struggle who were frustrated by ZanuPF’s perennial failure to revamp the economy. It is now our revolutionary obligation to fulfil the dreams and aspirations of the liberation struggle led by none other than the organic, pragmatic and vibrant President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. We urge all Zimbabweans to register to vote for the Yellow Revolution in 2023. Lets all vote for a leadership with full capacity to put the economy on a sounder footing.
It is now imperative to vote for those who did not go to war since ZanuPF has betrayed everyone because of its corruption and gross misgovernance. Crackdown on voices of dissent through arbitrary arrests, long pre-trial detentions, forced disappearances of change champions, senseless and barefaced corruption, abuse of journalists and human rights defenders are signs of a government’s dismal failure to govern.
Furthermore, today we have reached 7 days after Moreblessing Ali, our change champion was severely beaten and bundled into car of the Chisango boys with a well known ZanuPF leadership in Nyatsime. The perpetrator who is in hiding was identified as Pius Jambo, we demand the immediate release of our champion, Moreblessing Ali.
ZanuPF must respect the sanctity of life, we urge the architects of politically motivated abductions and state sponsored forced disappearances to halt forthwith. All these are reasons why those who went to war are going to be humiliated by the Change Champions in 2023.
Our people are tired of unemployment and poverty in the motherland and the diaspora. We demand considerable respect to the voice of the people through their votes. People’s votes should count, we castigate rigging and we demand justice to the people’s will. As we embrace the slogan encouraging those who went to war to vote each other, I absolutely doubt that they will reach 1/4 of the population in the motherland. It was a generational consensus and it shall remain one until President Advocate Nelson Chamisa is given his chance in 2023 to lead us into Canaan.
In a nutshell, ‘vakaenda kuhondo vakavhoterana Mukomana Anopinda zvakanakisa”. We encourage people to register to vote in their astronomical numbers for a resounding victory in 2023. Polling agents at every polling station, well trained and fully equipped with alternative communication. All V11s are needed from our agents undiluted. We should avert disputed elections without enough evidence and numbers should not allow ZanuPF to have hope in any elections.
Tinashe Sambiri| Citizens’ Coalition for Change Namibia has urged young people to fight for a bright future by registering to vote.
In a statement on Wednesday, CCC Namibia challenged young people to support President Nelson Chamisa’s New Great Zimbabwe vision.
Read full statement below:
Those who did not fight the liberation struggle should vote for the young leadership”, new Slogan has gone viral.
01 June 2022
The vigorous slogan has become viral! There are goons in the politically inept ZanuPF government and party who claim to have ownership of the motherland because they went to war. It is quite ironic that those who went to war are fewer than those who did not fight the liberation struggle. If we go by their philosophy, they will obviously lose the elections before the polls commence.
The most active generation are the unemployed youths in Zimbabwe. The youths constitute more than 50% of the population plus those graduands in their 40s and 50s, it will be a disaster for our ZanuPF opponents.
Change champions are very fortunate that they are automatically going to be joined by some veterans of the liberation struggle who were frustrated by ZanuPF’s perennial failure to revamp the economy. It is now our revolutionary obligation to fulfil the dreams and aspirations of the liberation struggle led by none other than the organic, pragmatic and vibrant President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. We urge all Zimbabweans to register to vote for the Yellow Revolution in 2023. Lets all vote for a leadership with full capacity to put the economy on a sounder footing.
It is now imperative to vote for those who did not go to war since ZanuPF has betrayed everyone because of its corruption and gross misgovernance. Crackdown on voices of dissent through arbitrary arrests, long pre-trial detentions, forced disappearances of change champions, senseless and barefaced corruption, abuse of journalists and human rights defenders are signs of a government’s dismal failure to govern.
Furthermore, today we have reached 7 days after Moreblessing Ali, our change champion was severely beaten and bundled into car of the Chisango boys with a well known ZanuPF leadership in Nyatsime. The perpetrator who is in hiding was identified as Pius Jambo, we demand the immediate release of our champion, Moreblessing Ali.
ZanuPF must respect the sanctity of life, we urge the architects of politically motivated abductions and state sponsored forced disappearances to halt forthwith. All these are reasons why those who went to war are going to be humiliated by the Change Champions in 2023.
Our people are tired of unemployment and poverty in the motherland and the diaspora. We demand considerable respect to the voice of the people through their votes. People’s votes should count, we castigate rigging and we demand justice to the people’s will. As we embrace the slogan encouraging those who went to war to vote each other, I absolutely doubt that they will reach 1/4 of the population in the motherland. It was a generational consensus and it shall remain one until President Advocate Nelson Chamisa is given his chance in 2023 to lead us into Canaan.
In a nutshell, ‘vakaenda kuhondo vakavhoterana Mukomana Anopinda zvakanakisa”. We encourage people to register to vote in their astronomical numbers for a resounding victory in 2023. Polling agents at every polling station, well trained and fully equipped with alternative communication. All V11s are needed from our agents undiluted. We should avert disputed elections without enough evidence and numbers should not allow ZanuPF to have hope in any elections.
By A Correspondent | ANALYSIS | The silent war between Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga has increased volume with the former’s supporters loudly denouncing the man’s deputy at the funeral of Chiwenga’s secretary, in what has worsened rumours suggesting Godfrey Chanakira was murderered.
The usual funeral songs are always respectful and spiritual. But a different kind of melody is being sung. Instead of a dirge, it’s an abusive war cry, as ZimEye reveals.
THE LYRICS OF THE SONG DENOUNCING VP CHIWENGA AT OWN SECRETARY’S FUNERAL WERE AS FOLLOWS:
“Hondo hatidi hondo. Vaudzei vavhotere paMasvingo [Mnangagwa], hondo hatidi” (meaning to avoid war, vote for Mnangagwa). https://t.co/ZEGLAO5Lz7
The person leading the singing was Mnangagwa frontman, Taurai Kandishaya.
Traditionally Masvingo is Mnangagwa’s other name, as his presidency is known as a Masvingo one (even though he comes from Zvishavane). This is despite the fact of Masvingo ruins being the ZANU PF emblem.
The Nov 2017 coup that removed the late president Robert Mugabe, is known as a rebellion of the Masvingo Province against the Zezuru tribe. Mangagwa’s deputy Constantino Chiwenga comes from the Zezuru grouping, and the ongoing loud singing at the burial of Chiwenga’s personal secretary is a political slap in the face, at a time when calls have grown louder to replace Mnangagwa with Chiwenga.
Mnangagwa’s family has traditional roots in Masvingo and his uncle, Ephias Munodawafa is holds ancestral Kingship over a large area in the province.
Chiwenga’s secretary Gen Godfrey Chanakira died last week and he was denied national hero status, only to be granted following internal party protestations.- ZimEye
Today the people’s MP Hon Tendai Laxton Biti with some residents spend the day cleaning up Kamfinsa shopping center & removing garbage . Over the years we have analyzed economies & written countless , State of the Economy Addresses or State of the State Reports. – Tendai Biti Campaign
Truth is the true state of the State , lies in the garbage . The garbage is the true measure of State Failure or buoyancy. You can’t rig dump the site .
The mountains of garbage in this once pristine neighborhood is shocking .
Next week we’re cleaning Chisipite shopping centre. Fellow Citizens together we can make Harare East #Great again.
Harare City has announced a temporary closure of some roads in the central business district (CBD) to allow for the commemoration of World Bike Day. The closure is scheduled to start at 6 am and end at 12 pm on Saturday the 4th of June.
A statement seen by this publication says motorists should use alternative roads.
Reads the statement issued by the acting Town Clerk:
TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURES OF ROADS IN HARARE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT
LOCATION: 1. The following route will be used by cyclists and pedestrians in commemoration of the World Bike Day:
Start at Africa Unity Square Corner Sam Nujoma / George Silundika, turn left into Jason Moyo, turn left into 3rd Street, turn left into Nelson Mandela, turn left into Inez Terrace, turn left into Robert Mugabe Way, turn left into Sam Nujoma then turn right into Jason Moyo.
Please take note that vehicles will not be permitted on all the sections of roads enclosed by the above route.
DURATION: Saturday 4th June 2022 from 0600Hrs-1200Hrs
REASON: To allow for the commemoration of the World Bike Day.
ROUTES: Alternative routes will be recommended by the use of informative signs
WARNING: Traffic approaching closed and ZRP controlled intersections should do so with due care.
Tinashe Sambiri| A member of President Nelson Chamisa’s CCC party, John Mupanduki, has been acquitted of a charge of “making a false abduction report.”
Mupanduki was acquitted by Masvingo Magistrate Farai Gwitima who described the State case as weak and inconsistent.
Advocate Martin Mureri represented Mupanduki.
Mupanduki said in a brief statement: ” We are celebrating victory over Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s dictatorship. Mr Mnangangwa cannot arrest change.”
CCC Member John Mupanduki Acquitted
CCC Member John Mupanduki has been acquitted of making a false abduction report. He was acquitted by Masvingo Magistrate Farai Gwitima on Friday morning. He was represented by Advocate Martin Mureri pic.twitter.com/KPbXEDGGTF
Tinashe Sambiri| A member of President Nelson Chamisa’s CCC party, John Mupanduki, has been acquitted of a charge of making a false abduction report.
Mupanduki was acquitted by Masvingo Magistrate Farai Gwitima who described the State case as weak and inconsistent.
Mupanduki was arrested for ” making a false abduction report.
Advocate Martin Mureri represented Mupanduki.
Mupanduki said in a brief statement: ” We are celebrating victory over Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s dictatorship. Mr Mnangangwa cannot arrest change.”
CCC Member John Mupanduki Acquitted
CCC Member John Mupanduki has been acquitted of making a false abduction report. He was acquitted by Masvingo Magistrate Farai Gwitima on Friday morning. He was represented by Advocate Martin Mureri pic.twitter.com/KPbXEDGGTF
We are holding a stakeholders meeting over various issues besetting our town. In attendance are Norton Town Council, Councillors, EMA, Norton Miners Associaton, Neighbourhood Committees, Chegutu RDC, traditional leaders and other residents. pic.twitter.com/POD1uP8xfv
— Sabhuku Temba P. Mliswa (@TembaMliswa) June 3, 2022
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly set to appoint Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda as his second vice president.
This claim was made on Thursday by self-exiled former Information minister Jonathan Moyo.
Mnangagwa’s second VP, Kembo Mohadi resigned in March last year following a sex scandal.
Moyo also claimed that Air Marshal Elson Moyo, the Air Force of Zimbabwe commander, would succeed Sibanda.
He tweeted on Thursday:
In what will be a double whammy to his political detractors in & outside ZanuPF ahead of the party’s 2022 Congress & the 2023 polls, @edmnangagwa is set to appoint CDF Philip V Sibanda as State VP, to replace Mohadi & will replace Sibanda with Air Marshal Elson Moyo, as CDF!
General Sibanda’s appointment as State Vice President is imminent. Preparations to setup his VP office, including staff recruitment, are already underway. Sibanda’s appointment as State VP will endanger Mohadi’s position as one of the two VPs and Second Secretaries of ZanuPF!
Moyo’s claims could not be independently verified, but it is believed he maintains contacts with senior ZANU PF officials and some elements in the military.
Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba last week said the ZANU PF leader would not be stampeded into announcing Mohadi’s successor.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda recently called upon the president to appoint a second VP who has traditionally been appointed on the basis that they are former members of ZAPU as per the terms of a 1987 ‘unity accord’ between ZANU and ZAPU.
Sibanda fought in the 1970s war of independence on the side of ZIPRA, whose political arm, ZAPU, has held one of the two vice president positions since 1990.
If Moyo’s predictions are accurate, Mnangagwa would have a vice president and ZDF commander all hailing from Mberengwa – his home district.
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has said the force is investigating possible trafficking of human body parts, following reports that people are selling their toes in exchange for riches to people who use them for ritual purposes.
There have been reports on social media suggesting that some members of the public were selling their toes in exchange for cars such as Toyota Hilux GD6s.
Unverified screenshots spreading around on WhatsApp, Twitter, and Facebook suggest that some sell their toes for as much as US$40 000 for the big toe, US$25 000 for the middle toe and US$10 000 for the tiny toe.
Bongani Ndlovu, a Zimpapers reporter cites police national spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi as saying investigations were already underway. Nyathi said:
Police are conducting investigations and we shall issue a comprehensive report in due course. The public must do things according to the laws of the country, especially when it comes to human body parts. That is why we are saying as the police we are monitoring the situation.
The laws of the country are very clear, when it comes to the issue of health and body parts, in terms of movement. The selling of human body parts in the country is illegal, whether people are advertising, soliciting, offering in terms of the country’s law as espoused by the Criminal Law and Codification and Reform Act, Chapter 9:23 is very clear. Even the Constitution of the country is very clear in terms of human safety. Whoever is advertising or soliciting for human body parts for various reasons, they should be careful because they risk being arrested.
The President of the Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association Mr George Kandiero told The Chronicle that they were disturbed by reports saying they tarnish the image of traditional practitioners.
He added that the practice, known as kuchekeresa locally, has always been there and has negative effects on the whole family and many generations to come hence the need for members of the public to avoid such practices
By A Correspondent| Social and economic justice pressure group, the Progressive and Patriotic Citizens of Zimbabwe (PAPCOZ) has raised concerns over the skyrocketing prices of basic commodities it believes some business cartels are manipulating at the expense of ordinary citizens.
PAPCOZ treasurer Agnes Chikondo told a news conference in the capital that recent “unjustified” price increases in basic commodities required an immediate solution.
“The Citizens and consumers of Zimbabwe under PAPCOZ note with grave concern the appalling and unjustified increase in commodity prices.
“Such price increases coupled with a skyrocketing parallel market rate is not only of concern but has become cancerous to an extent of needing both diagnosis and urgent prescription.
“Since the resumption of the foreign currency Auction rate after its suspension last year, we have noted with concern the mismatch between the central Bank Auction facility and the parallel market rate,” said Chikondo.
The price of basic commodities in the country recently skyrocketed worsening the plight of cashless ordinary citizens.
Bread, cooking oil, and milk all saw price increases of more than 100% in the local currency.
Chikondo accused business cartels for being behind the price hikes and skyrocketing parallel market which has negatively impacted the livelihoods of ordinary citizens.
“It is worrisome that there are oligarchies, cartels and economic saboteurs in our midst who are operating in dark corridors, fighting government efforts to destabilize the economy.
“We are aware of these oligarchies and cartels and want to warn you in the strongest of terms that your time is up.
“There are businesses that are thriving because of the existence of the auction facility and yet we are now aware that these same entities are part of the cartels driving the parallel market for greedy purposes while fueling arbitrage,” said Chikondo.
Chikondo added the same businesses that “were benefiting from the auction rate were the same culprits charging goods using the parallel market rate.”
“Moving forward we are going to engage the financial intelligence Unit, all other law enforcement and security agencies to expose these oligarchies, cartels and all those involved in foreign currency shoddy deals.
“We shall ensure through our advocacy and non-confrontational methods that all these economic terrorists are brought to book and face the full wrath of the law.
“This important and urgent operation and campaign shall also push for the seizure of licenses of those businesses who are found on the wrong side of the law,” concluded Chikondo.
By A Correspondent- The bus was reportedly travelling from Cape Town to Harare and it is yet to be confirmed how many people were on board.
It was involved in an accident yesterday 2 June 2022 but the number of fatalities w2as also yet to be confirmed since social media users posted varying figures ranging between 5 to 8.
We publish below pictures from the accident scene.
By- The Nelson Chamisa led CCC said it was ready for another Kariba by-election scheduled for July 23rd.
CCC said it was confident that it would grab the council seat.
CCC posted Friday on social media:
We have another by-election coming in Kariba urban. Tonderai Chikwati has been duly nominated to represent the citizens in the upcoming July 23rd by-election. Until victory #NgaapindeHakeMukomana
Prominent Chipinge businessman Edmore Mwoyongewenyu (42) popularly known Doda has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a soldier, Shepard Makwenjere (22) whom he suspected of having an affair with his 18-year-old wife.
Manicaland Police spokesperson Inspector Nobert Muzondo confirmed the arrest of Mwoyongewenyu that happened this afternoon over the assault that happened on Saturday.
Makwenjere of House number 4180 Gaza E, Chipinge is admitted at Victoria Chitepo Hospital in Mutare after he was allegedly assaulted with a belt on the buttocks on Saturday. He was first admitted at Chipinge District Hospital on Saturday and transferred to Victoria Chitepo on Monday.
“We have arrested Mwoyongewenyu in connection with a crime he committed on Saturday. Mwoyongewenyu of House number 6531 Low density beat Makwenjere with a rubber belt alleging that he was having an affair with his wife. Other accused persons are still at large. We are still investigating the case,” said Muzondo.
In videos seen by Chipinge Times Makwenjere claims that he was tired to poles and was assaulted with hammers and baton sticks by some 10 men hired by Mwoyongewenyu. He also claims that Doda’s wife told him that she was his daughter.
Two years ago, Doda’s 13-year-old son made headlines for driving his father’s vehicles without a driver’s license, running over a friend in the process. The case died a natural death.
JUST IN- Minister July Moyo has moved in to restore the armed-robbery-enlist Delish Nguwaya's Pomona contract, saying of the Harare City Council which cancelled it, "a lower organ cannot violate the principle of subsidiarity." pic.twitter.com/MD3Wak4IdM
In his statement, the minister falsely claimed the Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency authorised the deal to go ahead, when the facts are that ZIDA has always opposed the untendered contract and it was only passed through after the sudden death of the ZIDA Director, Douglas Munatsi. July Moyo said:
We understand that, on 2nd June 2022, a resolution was passed by Harare City Councillors, led by Councillor J. Mafume to suspend the Pomona Waste to Energy Joint Venture Agreement between the City of Harare and the investor, Geogenix B.V. It is surprising that Councillors went ahead to deliberate on the matter and some members in the City and the Ministry are being sued. We wonder why the Chamber Secretary and a lawyer would proceed to make such a decision. With respect to the project, we wish to advise that all procedures were followed. The City and the investor agreed on terms as to how to execute the joint venture while the investment appraisal was done by the Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (ZIDA) and also recommended to the Joint Venture Committee. All the recommendations from this process went to Cabinet, which is the highest executive authority, for approval and a lower organ cannot violate the principle of subsidiarity. Following Cabinet’s approval, the joint venture agreement was closely analysed by Government lawyers, including the Attorney General’s office before it was signed. The waste management project, amongst other benefits, will create employment, generate power and assist in refuse management. Government wishes to advise that, in consummating this transaction, rigorous processes to ensure that Council and the country at large derive maximum benefits were undertaken. It is confounding that a group of councillors have decided to, once again, appraise this project and in the process causing needless delays and, with it, the risk of jeopardising investor appetite. We condemn this conduct which amounts to cheap political grandstanding at the expense of the country and it is therefore necessary to state that the project will not be stopped unless done so by judicial action. Again, we state that the matter i that some members were mentioned in the legal pape 0
By- The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said it had removed the names of 32 010 dead people on the voters’ roll.
According to the state media, the list of the deceased persons was published in the Government Gazette under General Notice 1197 of 2022 by the chief elections officer, Mr Utloile Silaigwana.
“The names of those persons will be removed from the voters roll unless notice of appeal is given to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. By means of this notice, notification is made to any voter on the First Schedule who may be alive to lodge an objection at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Mahachi Quantum, 1, Nelson Mandela Avenue, corner Kaguvi Street and Jason Moyo Avenue, Harare, and at the respective Commission Provincial Offices, to the inclusion of his or her name in the First Schedule using the form prescribed in the Second Schedule no later than seven days from the date of publication of this notice,” Mr Silaigwana said. In an interview, ZEC spokesperson Mr Jasper Mangwana said the electoral body adheres to its constitutional mandate and always removes names of dead people from the voters’ roll. “The commission has always been gazetting names of the deceased persons to ensure that if there is any objection to the removal of these people from the voters’ roll it is brought to the attention of the Commission”. He said this is a continuous process that the commission has always been doing when it receives a list of deceased persons from the Registrar General.
“We then check for those that are on the voters’ roll and we then advertise that if there is any objection considering that these days there are issues of identity theft. If someone objects to the removal of the deceased persons from the roll because they are alive, that is corrected. “This is just the process the Commission does after the gazetting. If there’s no objection then the Commission will proceed to remove this person from the voters’ roll”. With such due diligence followed, Mr Mangwana said issues around ghost voters are merely sideshows. “How do they vote if they are not alive? Who is going to approach a polling station if they are dead? So the process is very clear and promotes the integrity of the voters roll”. However, there are challenges for the Commission because not everyone is interested in obtaining a death certificate, thus in some instances the names of deceased persons might not be struck off from the voters’ roll. “The Commission is allowing other stakeholders or relatives to bring to our attention deaths of individuals that can assist us to have a clean roll,” said Mr Mangwana.
A Herald columnist has said the late Prime Minister Ian Smith can in no way be better than the current leadership.
Drawing several parallels, Reason Wafawarova said Ian Smith won’t recognise Harare today if he was to wake up today.
Ian Smith
He said in full:
Two thirds of morden day Harare wasn’t there during Ian Smith time. Rhodesia had 166 secondaty schools countrywide. Zimbabwe has no less than 3000 secondary schools today.
Ian Smith had one university only. Zimbabwe has more than ten universities.
Rhodesia had 120 clinics countrywide. Zimbabwe has a clinic within each 20 km of populated area.
There is no single surviving high way of the colonial era. Masvingo Mutare was redone after independence and so was Harare Mutare, Harare Bulawayo, Harare Beveridge etc.
Ian Smith wouldn’t recognise an inch of Harare if he rose from the dead today.
Anyone who thinks Ian Smith was good for Zimbabwe is saying the Liberation war was unjustified or misdirected at a hero.
I take exception to that with all the wrath, fury anger and irateness ever possible.
Please do not insult our resolve, bravery and ideological greatness just because you were born in a completely useless generation only good at dancing in halls at night, sleeping around and spending your entire life on social media.
This revisionist nonsense about the greatness of Ian Smith or Rhodesia must stop or we will stop it the very way we stopped Ian Smith.
By- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired his Deputy Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Minister, Douglas Karoro.
Karoro is facing charges of stealing farming inputs from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB).
Karoro allegedly stole the inputs from Mushumbi Pools GMB depot worth US$73 300.
The inputs include fertilizer, maize seed and horticulture kits, which were meant for the Presidential Inputs Scheme for Mbire farmers.
Emmerson Mnangagwa has with immediate effect, removed Deputy Agriculture Minister Douglas Karoro (MP) over theft of fertiliser. Chief Sec to the President And Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda said Minister Karoro has been removed for conduct inappropriate for a Deputy Minister. pic.twitter.com/Mik1asZk9b
Unidentified woman threatens @daddyhope saying she'll descend onto the journo's home to "teach you that we as women might be dark skinned, but we bath." The veiled threat follows abuses by Linda Masarira, who has made several harmful allegations against victims of state violence pic.twitter.com/5VssCLqNdO
Delish Nguwaya (3rd from left) during his day’s of the COVID money loot, infamously known as Draxgate
Harare Mayor @JMafume yesterday took leadership by announcing the decision of the city's CCC led councillors who resolved to cancel the Pomona Waste To Energy Contract granted the 'armed robber' listing, Mr Delish Nguwaya's so called Netherlands based, Geogenix BV company. pic.twitter.com/4hlurlDbPc
Harare Mayor @JMafume yesterday took leadership by announcing the decision of the city's CCC led councillors who resolved to cancel the Pomona Waste To Energy Contract granted the 'armed robber' listing, Mr Delish Nguwaya's so called Netherlands based, Geogenix BV company.
By A Correspondent | ANALYSIS | The silent war between Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga has increased volume with the former’s supporters loudly denouncing the man’s deputy at the funeral of Chiwenga’s secretary, in what has worsened rumours suggesting Godfrey Chanakira was murdered.
The usual funeral songs are always respectful and spiritual. But a different kind of melody is being sung. Instead of a dirge, it’s an abusive war cry, as ZimEye reveals.
THE LYRICS OF THE SONG DENOUNCING VP CHIWENGA AT OWN SECRETARY’S FUNERAL WERE AS FOLLOWS:
“Hondo hatidi hondo. Vaudzei vavhotere paMasvingo [Mnangagwa], hondo hatidi” (meaning to avoid war, vote for Mnangagwa). https://t.co/ZEGLAO5Lz7
The person leading the singing was Mnangagwa frontman, Taurai Kandishaya.
Traditionally Masvingo is Mnangagwa’s other name, as his presidency is known as a Masvingo one (even though he comes from Zvishavane). This is despite the fact of Masvingo ruins being the ZANU PF emblem.
The Nov 2017 coup that removed the late president Robert Mugabe, is known as a rebellion of the Masvingo Province against the Zezuru tribe. Mangagwa’s deputy Constantino Chiwenga comes from the Zezuru grouping, and the ongoing loud singing at the burial of Chiwenga’s personal secretary is a political slap in the face, at a time when calls have grown louder to replace Mnangagwa with Chiwenga.
Mnangagwa’s family has traditional roots in Masvingo and his uncle, Ephias Munodawafa is holds ancestral Kingship over a large area in the province.
Chiwenga’s secretary Gen Godfrey Chanakira died last week and he was denied national hero status, only to be granted following internal party protestations.- ZimEye
By- Zanu PF President Emerson Mnangagwa has revealed that factionalism was alive in his political movement.
Addressing supporters while commissioning three boreholes in Glen View, Harare, last week, Mnangagwa, however, observed factionalism in the ruling party but did not state the factions.
Mnangagwa’s deputy Constantino Chiwenga is leading a faction planning to remove him from office. Mnangagwa said the party’s Harare provincial chairperson; Goodwills Masimirembwa, struggled to contain factionalism in the province. He said: Here in Harare, there is a lot of factionalism. Masimirembwa is struggling to contain factionalism in the province, and we don’t want that in the party. Zanu PF does not belong to individuals. “If you want to be promoted, work hard and we don’t want people who use money to get positions in the party. We are also against land barons. If you are caught on the wrong side of the law, you will be arrested. We will continue to rule this country as we have a two-thirds majority in Parliament and nothing will stop us from ruling this country.
Real Madrid have signed Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger on a free transfer.
The Germany international, 29, has agreed on a four-year contract at the Bernabeu and will join when his deal at the Premier League club expires on June 30.
A Chelsea statement said:
Chelsea thanks Toni for his contribution to our success over the last five years and wishes him well in his future career.
Rudiger, who will be presented as a Madrid player on July 20, spent five seasons at Chelsea winning the FA Cup in 2018, the Europa League in 2019 and the Champions League in 2021.
He rejected the club’s offer of a contract extension.
Madrid were impressed by the centre-back’s performances in their Champions League quarterfinal tie in April when Rudiger scored in a 3-2 second-leg win at the Bernabeu which saw Chelsea eliminated 5-4 on aggregate.
The LaLiga club had been contacted by the defender’s representatives earlier in the season but ruled out a move at that point due to the likely costs involved.
Their position changed after the Champions League second leg, and a deal was concluded swiftly, with Rudiger’s desire to play for Madrid and a drop in his wage demands viewed as key.
Rudiger’s signing is the second time in successive seasons that Madrid have taken advantage of the availability of a top-level defender on a free transfer, after signing David Alaba from Bayern Munich last year.
Rudiger, Alaba and Eder Militao will compete to be Madrid’s first-choice centre-back pairing, although the versatile Alaba could also switch to left-back.- Pindula News
By- President Emerson Mnangagwa is hunting down all government officials who had close links with the former President Robert Mugabe and former Vice President Joice Mujuru, Zimeye.com has learnt.
Sources within Mnangagwa’s government said ED was confident that Mugabe and Mujuru associates were now working with his deputy Constantino Chiwenga to topple him.
They said the firing on Wednesday of Munesu Munodawafa from being the Ministry Tourism permanent secretary position was only the beginning of more such purges ahead.
Raphael Tayerera Faranisi replaced Munodawafa.
Mr Munodawafa served as the former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s principal director for more than ten years.
In a statement Wednesday, Misheck Sibanda, Mnangagwa’s chief secretary, did not disclose reasons for dumping Munodawafa.
He only said the former Mujuru’s long-serving official would be reassigned elsewhere.
Mnangagwa and Mujuru ran competing factions fighting to take over power from Robert Mugabe during the tenure of the country’s long time ruler.
Mnangagwa faction prevailed after the controversial death of Joice’s husband, General Solomon Mujuru, in an inferno in August 2011.
General Mujuru was a Zanu PF kingmaker and could approach Mugabe and challenge his political decisions.
For this reason, many still suspect that Mnangagwa killed Mujuru to weaken Joice’s political powers.
By-A Grade Four pupil at a primary school in Harare brought a gun into his class, and another pupil recorded a video of the weapon via a smartphone.
The child allegedly produced the gun in the class, when the teacher was out. The incident, which shocked parents, happened on Monday last week.
The video was posted on a WhatsApp group and one of the parents with a child at the school raised the alarm.
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, confirmed the incident, adding investigations were in progress. He said:
Police are investigating a case involving a minor reported to have been found with a gun at a local school.
Details will be released upon completion of investigations.
One of the parents told H-Metro that school authorities made sure that the name of the culprit would not be revealed. Said the parent:
The incident exposed children to danger. Imagine such a young boy has the knowledge of handling a firearm from home to school and posting a video on social media. It’s unacceptable.
By- Zanu PF President Emerson Mnangagwa has revealed that factionalism was alive in his political movement.
Addressing supporters while commissioning three boreholes in Glen View, Harare, last week, Mnangagwa, however, observed factionalism in the ruling party but did not state the factions.
Mnangagwa’s deputy Constantino Chiwenga is leading a faction planning to remove him from office. Mnangagwa said the party’s Harare provincial chairperson; Goodwills Masimirembwa, struggled to contain factionalism in the province. He said: Here in Harare, there is a lot of factionalism. Masimirembwa is struggling to contain factionalism in the province, and we don’t want that in the party. Zanu PF does not belong to individuals. “If you want to be promoted, work hard and we don’t want people who use money to get positions in the party. We are also against land barons. If you are caught on the wrong side of the law, you will be arrested. We will continue to rule this country as we have a two-thirds majority in Parliament and nothing will stop us from ruling this country.
Classified records have revealed Iran has sentenced 51 people to death by stoning for adultery with the victims set to have rocks hurled at their heads while trapped in sand.
Leaked documents smuggled from inside the country’s prisons say 23 women and 28 men as young as 25 await their brutal executions.
Those sentenced to death by stoning have previously been wrapped and bound in a white sheet.
Victims in the past have been buried up to their neck or waist in the ground before stones were hurled at them.
In the past, it has sometimes taken several hours for the victim to die.
The records, obtained by The Sun Online from sources of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), include the names, ages, sentencing body, and location of imprisonment of the accused.
It is the first time an official list of individuals sentenced to stoning by the Iranian Judiciary has been acquired from within the regime.
Death by stoning came into force in Iran after the 1979 revolution, and despite the judiciary placing a moratorium on the vile practice in 2002, many are still condemned to the wicked punishment.
Under Iranian laws, rape, adultery, armed robbery, and murder are among crimes that can lead to the death penalty – which law enforcers in the country have long argued is essential for maintaining public security.
Iran’s Penal Code even has specific instructions for how the execution should be carried out, stating: “The size of the stone used in stoning shall not be too large to kill the convict by one or two throws and at the same time shall not be too small to be called a stone.”
Victims first have their hands bound before being covered in a sheet, which is tied in several places including around the neck, waist, and ankles.
They are then buried in a ditch filled with sand – with women having just their shoulders and head left above the ground, while men are exposed from the waist up.- Pindula News
By Simba Chikanza | FEATURE | Just focus on registering to vote, forget about ‘finishing the sports,’ because State Power only comes through the ZEC database, ZANU PF increases the decible, in a message it daily communicates; and yes, it is true that there have been 2 live grenade attack attempts against Emmerson Mnangagwa’s deputy Constantino Chiwenga. This was between April 2018 and June of that year. The first attempt was reported on the 28th April. Impeccable sources cited by the exiled Prof Jonathan Moyo said on the ‘Wed night as Chiwenga took off his shoes in his bedroom to store them away; the shoes hit an object which rolled and made a metallic sound. To his horror, the object was a grenade. He summarily dismissed domestic staff and got security detail detained.”
The second grenade exploded against the man’s wife on the 23rd June 2018, and the VP was missed by a whisker at the White City Stadium in Bulawayo.
All these horrors caught on camera were relived this week when it emerged Emmerson Mnangagwa blocked the granting of hero status to Chiwenga’s late secretary, Gen Godfrey Chanakira, and only did so after a second consideration.
How safe is Chiwenga? And how clear is the path to taking over state power seeing that Mnangagwa’s crew are not politicians at all; they are mere professional saboteurs? The opposition will have to think and act faster than saboteurs.
#STATE POWER NOW
As the upcoming by election draws near, the necessity to do a security briefing, under the topic ‘State Power Now’ is more than vital, Thomas Mapfumo reveals.
Mapfumo in his latest interview with me, says if Nelson Chamisa is entering these polls on the wrong foundation, this will be disaster. Is he safe, and what must be done to attain safety?
If he calls Emmerson Mnangagwa, president, he has already lost State House; he will never make it and it will take him another 500 years to remove him because Mnangagwa is a terrorist.
What does this analogy make clear? It speaks to the subject of “State Power Now.” Over the last 3 years I have spent this entire time focusing on establishing state of power now: not only publishing, but demonstrating it.
What exactly is State Power now? It is the instant application of UN level legal powersto do things such as regime change.
Simba Chikanza
This is all done while crushing traditional bottlenecks, hindrances that keep repeating over centuries of despotiques.
I have demonstrated this application several times in my fight against the fake news directed against my work while I was being told, first that there was no coup in November 2017, and after the 2018 elections, I and other scribes must honour the self boasting genocide criminal, Emmerson Mnangagwa, with the title, “President.” 3 years ago, I broke the norm, and refused, and today, I have proven that State Power Now works.
Dictators don’t want you to know that you have State Power, because upon its implementation, they are swiftly removed. When is State Power obtained, in the coming election? In 2023? No, it is taken today, now, by simply recognising it and instantly exercising it. There is no other way it comes.
There are numerous ways State Power Now can be exercised, without breaking any laws, and without conducting either a coup or a demonstration. No noise is necessary because State Power is powerful enough. Authority does not require noise or excessive effort. In a country like Zimbabwe, this happens to be the most feasible option to ending institutionalised crime and repeating state capture.
It can also be implemented in phases. Where struggles are at their worst, one of these ways is imposing State Power Now in layers; this is in country scenarios that are the most difficult. Creating a parallel police force on the international arena is one of these ways. Another is creating a second electoral commission operating in the international airspace. I tried the first method, in phases, and at present, Chief Felix Ndiweni is implementing the second one, through the MyRightToVote campaign, a brilliant initiative that will get the Mnangagwa family controlled Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, squared off.
The masses should not wait to get law and order tomorrow, because a delay means it will never happen. State Power is only exercised now; if you wait for it, it will never come. If the opposition cannot for instance run its own CID law and order department in the diaspora, so that whenever someone commits a crime inside Zimbabwe, they will be met with instant justice upon flying out of the country, it will be very difficult to remove the monster that daily terrorises citizens. In this proposed model, dockets will be assembled every day by members of his organisation stationed outside the country working with those inside. When I travelled to Serbia in 2019, this is what I was on about to not only publish but demonstrate State Power Now. State power has to be not only talked about, it has to be demonstrated and it can only be exercised in the now, not futuristically.
Number two: you also need to set up your own structures of government. You need to do this figuratively and you may need at the same time physically. Such preparation strengthens you so when the moment arrives, you are ready to take over power, and in Chamisa’s case, it goes beyond graphics, it is a matter of legal reality, because there is clear demonstrable evidence that he won the 2018 elections.
When Edgar Lungu switched off the internet after losing the 2021 election, I spent the whole night studying how to drop the bombshell question. I had to ensure that words are loaded with state power. While in the act of throwing my questions to him, if you listen to the construct of my discourse, you will notice how I managed to totally dislodge him before opening his mouth.
One can notice from the 22minute interview, that I was exercising state-power-now. I made it very clear to him that he is no longer the president of Zambia, even though in reality he was still controlling the instruments of power legally as President until a handover; and even though I have never visited thar country, I made it clear to him that even I myself would be in a position to throw him into jail same day. State power now, has to be exercised in this way with confidence, firmness, and with now-ness.
At this time, the man was preparing to use the state security against his citizens and then hold onto power illegally through an excuse that his opponents have committed terrorism. He was just about to create chaos and then declare a state of emergency, all for the convenience of his political nuisance. The only way to stop him was to use State-Power-Now, and it worked.
If Chamisa and his members cannot upgrade themselves to this level of State Power Now, they are wasting the masses time, because Mnangagwa has made it clear that the election game is a mere elimination (killing) operation.
While the opposition is hoping on only one method – voting, trusting that the rogue soldiers running the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission will transform into civilians, Mnangagwa is operating outside the rules of a real election and under such an approach, there are 15 million ways he is disappointing Chamisa. He has state powers to use every and any citizen against the opposition through violence and afterwards blame them for it.
What Chamisa now needs after the Zambia election victory, is to utilise a facility in the UN, AU, and SADC charters, that deregisters politicians who obtain power through a coup.
Chamisa needs to supervise the suing of the former and the current president of Zambia on the basis that that country’s presidency participated in operationalising the Aug 2018 military coup, the unconstitutional overthrowal of the government led by Nelson Chamisa, at its foundations, between the 1st and 10th of August 2018. Both need to be sued so that they announce official apologies to the UN SADC and the AU, that they regret that Zambian state resources were used to overthrow a constitutionally elected government led by Nelson Chamisa, at its foundations between the 1st and 10th of August 2018.
The deportation of Tendai Biti through the help of Zambia, was a violation of a High Court order being furthermore a war crime, as it was part and parcel of the military coup against Nelson Chamisa.
If Biti and Chamisa do not do this, they have betrayed the people of Zimbabwe as 2023 is going to be worse militarised. – MORE IN NEXT WEEK’S POWERTOID ON STATE POWER NOW
Tinashe Sambiri| CCC leader, President Nelson Chamisa is not happy with the pace at which the Zimbabwe Republic Police is investigating the abduction of Moreblessing Ali.
Moreblessing was abducted by known Zanu PF hooligans last week.
President Chamisa says violence against women is totally unacceptable.
“Violence against defenseless citizens, esp women, is a crime against humanity.
Enforced disappearance is a serious crime and police ought to be prompt,thorough & professional with the investigation.
Police must just do enough & more!Citizens;an injury to one is an injury to all,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
Tinashe Sambiri| CCC Youth Assembly spokesperson, Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has described the Zanu PF leader, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa as a threat to civilian peace.
According to Chuma, citizens are not safe as long as Mr Mnangagwa is in power.
“Citizens are not safe as long as @edmnangagwa is at helm of state power. Yesterday it was Itai Dzamara, then @ceechimbiri2 , @JoanaMamombe & @MarovaNetsai
. Today it’s Moreblessing Ali. Tomorrow is any other citizen. The only way to end this is to remove Mnangagwa! Citizens are hungry and angry! Govt is just watching as people die of hunger. Colonialism no! But when you see your people nostalgic about an oppressive system of the past, then that tells you the current govt of @edmnangagwa has failed dismally,” Chuma argued.
By Farai D Hove | The ZANU PF leader having promoted armed robbers to top security and business postings, is a stranger to accountability, but pressure over the allegations of fertiliser theft against his Deputy Agriculture Minister Douglas Karoro, has led him to fire the govt officer.
Mnangagwa has with immediate effect, removed Douglas Karoro (MP) over theft of fertiliser. Chief Sec to the President And Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda said Minister Karoro has been removed for conduct inappropriate for a Deputy Minister.
Emmerson Mnangagwa has with immediate effect, removed Deputy Agriculture Minister Douglas Karoro (MP) over theft of fertiliser. Chief Sec to the President And Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda said Minister Karoro has been removed for conduct inappropriate for a Deputy Minister. pic.twitter.com/Mik1asZk9b
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Tinashe Sambiri| President Nelson Chamisa’s supporters who were jailed in 2019 have been released from prison.
This was said by Marondera Central MP, Hon Caston Matewu.
See statement below:
Update on the CCCSIX Champions from Hon Caston Matewu
Evening Champions
I am happy to inform you that the Marondera 5 who were arrested during the Jan 2019 Demos were released yesterday after spending 3 years I prison for a crime they did not commit.
They are relieved to be out and are grateful to all those who went to see them and contributed to thier welfare. They also gave me an assurance that they will work hard for President Chamisa to be in State House next year.
I will be meeting them tomorrow.
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In a stranger than fiction story, a traditional leader “escaped” a lightning attack that had been meant to kill him for enforcing customary law in his area of jurisdiction.
Chief Siachilaba, born Nonah Mungomba, told B-Metro that he is lucky to be alive after a lightning bolt struck a hut in his homestead moments after walking out to answer a phone call.
Some societies in Zimbabwe believe that lightning can be used for evil deeds such as killing an enemy.
It’s believed to be used as part of witchcraft practices.
Chief Siachilaba said he was targeted for enforcing customary law in his area.
But he vowed to keep exercising his duties even if it meant he will be a target of such witchcraft practices.
“I invited a popular Bulawayo prophet to come to my area to help sick people and also get rid of evil creatures that some community members are using for witchcraft purposes.
“It appears that the invitation did not sit well with some people and I was a victim of a lightning attack, which luckily I survived.
“My hut was burnt to the ground and the person responsible said he wanted me dead for acting out my traditional leadership roles,” said Chief Siachilaba.
How did he know who was responsible for the attack?
“Last week, Prophet Mutumwa was in Binga and he told me that he was ready to name that person in order to get rid of the muthi that he uses to target his enemies,” he said. Mutumwa has been on a tour of Binga praying for the ailing.
“I won’t mention that person but I’m happy that he agreed to let the prophet get rid of the muthi,” he added.
Mutumwa said it’s true that lightning can be used to target perceived enemies.
“It’s not uncommon for lightning to be used to kill people and those that believe in its power go to great lengths to own such muthi.
“The Chief asked me to come back to his area and pray for sick people there,” said Mutumwa.— B Metro
