By A Correspondent- A recent survey by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) has revealed that most urban dwellers are in support of incentives for teachers, while 63% of their rural counterparts are against any monetary or non-monetary benefit they have been getting.
Read the report:
Zimbabweans are divided on whether to ban the payment of monetary and non-monetary incentives to teachers for extra lessons. 51% favour a ban on such payments while 46% oppose such a ban.
In cities, 63% of respondents oppose banning incentive payments to teachers while in rural areas, 60% favour such a ban.
Some teachers have been surviving on extra lessons as a result of their poor wages. Government is yet to increase them although they have been devalued to less than US$100 by the country’s ravaging inflation.
The same survey has found that two in every three people are in support of reintroducing corporal punishment in schools which had been banned in 2019 by the High Court.
Corporal punishment was heavily supported by women while 63% of male respondents were against its reintroduction. Said the report:
Urban residents (74%) are more likely than their rural counterparts (61%) to disagree with a ban on corporal punishment in schools.
The report also further noted that almost seven out of ten Zimbabweans (69%) want pregnant girls to be allowed to continue their education.
Zimbabwe has experienced a surge in teenage pregnancies, according to child rights organisations, who blame COVID-19 lockdowns and closing of schools over the periods.
The survey was conducted between March 28 and April 10, 2022, by MPOI on behalf of the Afrobarometer Network on “The Quality of Democracy and Governance in Zimbabwe.”
after the village heads rally addressed by Mohady Kembo in Nyika today. The matter has been reported under RRB 5040480 https://twitter.com/CCCMasvngoYth/status/1535326660886659072
By- CCC said they are receiving reports of Zanu PF activists sending threatening messages to the missing Moreblessing Ali’s family members.
Moreblessing Ali was abducted by a known Zanu PF activist in Beatrice last month, and up to now, she has not been released.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has also confirmed that a well-known Zanu PF thug abducted Ali.
Posting on Twitter, CCC said they were worried by the Zanu PF threats on Ali’s family.
Posted CCC:
ZanuPF thugs are calling Moreblessing’s children & threatening them with harm. The family has now engaged a lawyer to take legal action to protect the children. There have also been unannounced visits by unknown people. This persecution must stop! #BringBackMoreblessing
⛔️#ALERT ZanuPF thugs are calling Moreblessing’s children & threatening them with harm. The family has now engaged a lawyer to take legal action to protect the children. There have also been unannounced visits by unknown people. This persecution must stop! #BringBackMoreblessingpic.twitter.com/by4eQy9qRw
— Citizens' Coalition for Change (@CCCZimbabwe) June 10, 2022
after the village heads rally addressed by Mohady Kembo in Nyika today. The matter has been reported under RRB 5040480 https://twitter.com/CCCMasvngoYth/status/1535326660886659072
By- Zimbabweans have shown their unwavering support for the Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change and dumped Zanu PF and MDC-T.
This came out in the recently released Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) survey.
The survey observed that Chamisa’s CCC enjoys 48% support, followed by Zanu PF at 44%.
MDC-T chairperson Morgen Komich accepted that his party was unpopular
Komichi said they have failed to keep the ruling Zanu PF on its toes as it used to do during the days of its founding leader, the late Morgan Tsvangirai. He said: The MPOI surveys normally do not lie. People have made their choice. MDC-T has lost its founding principles of opposing and opposing like what used to happen during the days of Tsvangirai. If the party is to regain its lost glory, it should return to its politics of opposing.
If you closely look at the MPOI results, you can see that there is need for a grand coalition to dislodge Zanu PF. That 1 % of other political parties can make a difference in the outcome of the elections. He also said while elections are constitutional, they are not the solution to the country’s socio-economic and political crises hence the need for the winner to engage with the losers in an endeavour to find long-lasting solutions.
Critic, Dr Masimba Mavaza writes accusing CCC leader Nelson Chamisa of stealing Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema’s yellow party colour when he formed a new political organisation in January this year.
Hakainde Hichilema
By Dr. Masimba Mavaza | A story is told of two neighbours who lived in Zengeza 3 Chitungwiza. Every morning one neighbour observed the other neighbours as they went off and came back from work. She confronted her husband and said have you ever taken time to see how the neighbours do? The husband is so romantic. He opens the door for his wife and closes it for her.
Yesterday he bought a brand new Toyota Corola for his wife. Still he opens the door for her. Why don’t you be like him. Ask him how he does it,” the husband was embarrassed he summoned courage and went to chat with his neighbour. That evening he sat with his wife and started “ my sweet dear wife, I would like to do what our neighbour does. I will start tonight.
Masimba Mavaza
But I need you to know how our neighbour became so romantic. He made his wife’s sister and the maid pregnant. So he is being nice to atone his sins. The Toyota was a sorry offering for having a child with his secretary and making the other receptionist pregnant. So in the morning i will pass through our maid’s room on my way to the car”
Sometimes copying our neighbours while we do not have any knowlledge of why they are where they are now.
This story reminds me of Chamisa and his party who celebrated the win of Zambia. Chamisa has copied everything HH of Zambia did to win Zambian elections, even to adopt yellow as a colour of the party. But behind all the excellence shown by HH and Zambia there was always America behind their backs.
HH was very correct when he said during one of his campaigns “ I will have America here with dollars as soon as I enter the office.” Chamisa even stole the same saying and repeated it verbatim in one of his rallies.”
But true to his word HH shocked Africa on April 25, the U.S. government announced the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) will open an Office of Security Cooperation at the U.S. Embassy in Zambia. Visiting AFRICOM Brigadier General Peter Bailey, Deputy Director for Strategy, Engagement, and Programs, made the announcement during a meeting with His Excellency President Hakainde Hichilema.
Building on the foundation of U.S.-Zambia shared security interests, the new Office of Security Cooperation will enhance military to military relations and expand areas of cooperation in force management, modernization, and professional military education for the Zambian security forces.
General Bailey commended President Hichilema and his New Dawn Administration for its steadfast commitment to regional peace and stability and stated the U.S. government looks forward to building on its strong bilateral ties with Zambia to enhance security cooperation. General Bailey also praised the Zambian Defence Force for its professionalism and contributions to United Nations peacekeeping missions.
During his visit, General Bailey will also meet with the Minister of Defense, Honorable Ambrose Lufuma, and will represent AFRICOM at the official opening ceremony for the start of pre-deployment training for the eighth Zambia Battalion (ZAMBATT VIII).
This is a thank you to America for assisting HH to beat Edger Lungu in the past General elections.
This is what Chamisa will do he will give part of the land to America and most of his handlers.
The opening of the Command centre in Zambia gives America an opportunity to spy on Zimbabwe without any problems. While U.S. embassies in Africa have been woefully understaffed for decades, the U.S. military presence has increased, serving as a crucial signal to African partners that the United States is a steadfast ally. This clearly means America now controls Zimbabwe by spying on it from the comfort of Zambia.
It is not a secret that America has a frosty relationship with Zimbabwe. Now stationed in Zambia America poses a serious security threat for. zimbabwe. This is what our neighbour has brought unto us.
You can see the seriousness of the matter.
While we are wondering as to what America will do next Zambia gets the envelope and claim that they are geniuses in economic management. But why the U.S. Military Presence in Africa is Vital Beyond Counterterrorism The most profound benefits to U.S. national security from military engagement in Africa have little to do with the headlines. The expansion into Southern Africa is a ploy to control and change governments which are deemed to be against America. With Zidera still warm in the oven there is no doubt that America is spreading its arms towards Zimbabwe. Foreign military motivations is not always good but it spells evil for those in the bad books.
Knowing that Zimbabwe is on its knees because of ZIDERA. It is clear that not only the Horn is the epicentre of foreign military activity in Africa. Foreign troops have been deployed there to counter threats to international peace, subdue terror groups and pirates, and support foreign security initiatives but there is really no reason to stretch to Southern Africa. Southern Africa is not known for terrorism or piracy. American presence in Zambia is a security concern for Zimbabwe.
The U.S. occupation of Africa has become self-justifying. The U.S. military now must stay in Africa to protect the interests of the U.S. military in Africa. This is how strange this is.
The current government of Zambia has clearly told us that it is better the devil you know than the one you do not know.
Past presidents of Zambia had resisted the American expansion. They realised the treachery America was employing, they realised that their own pleasures was not important than the freedom of Africa.
The heroes of African freedom are turning in their graves. You can imagine how Nkwame Nkurumah will feel on seeing the colonialism in a new shape being assisted by our own children. Liberation Heroes like Samora Machel,Kenneth Kaunda, Julius K Nyerere,Patrice Lumumba cde Robert Mugabe and many others.
The behaviour of Zambia is clearly a betrayal the nations give to the youth.
Zambia gives a very sharp warning to the Zimbabwean youth.
Do not say you have not been warned.
Tendai Biti even boasts that once he is in power he will start speaking in Oxford and Cambridge accents. He told Zimbabwe of people who will come and call him Mr Bhiti. Chamisa declared that he is a phone call away from flooding Zimbabwe with the white people. True to their word they do not have manifest or simply they do not have any plan except a phone call after they win elections. No constitution why bother the owners of the party will be taking over.
The role of the U.S. military in Africa isn’t clear to anyone. And that will only hurt American interests.
The U.S. military has been expanding its presence and operations in Africa over the past decade. In doing so, it has obscured the nature of its actions through ambiguous language and outright secrecy. It limits the amount of information available about the objectives of its operations, how those operations are carried out, the facilities it uses, and how it partners with governments in the region.
At times, this has involved subverting democratic processes in partner countries, an approach that runs counter to years of diplomatic engagement ostensibly designed to strengthen governance institutions. Zambia is simply giving Africa in the hands of America.
Zimbabweans should draw lessons from Zambia. Indeed the youth have been told that Zambia did it and Zimbabwe can do it too. What was there to be done. The youth was busy being sold a snake wrapped in a golden cloth.
America’s expansion is not a development for Zambia. It is a clear exploitation.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, U.S. military and security agencies have claimed an unlimited mandate to pursue what they deem terrorist threats. For the Zimbabwe’s neighbour the Americans are there to stay without limitation.
The new wave of the youth in government alone is a new destructive path Africa has been plunged in.
Having unprincipled people who have no respect of the values which made them people is a disaster.
When Zambians cried change in the streets of Zambia they never realised that they are selling their birth rights to America. Why foreign countries are scrambling to set up bases in Africa.
Recent media reports claim that a covert Kenyan paramilitary team is responsible for the unconstitutional killing of terror suspects in nighttime raids. The reports are based on interviews with US and Kenyan diplomatic and intelligence officials.
The team was trained, armed and supported by US and British intelligence officers.
It has been reported that since 2004, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) programme has been operational in Kenya without public scrutiny. For its part, the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) has played a key role in identifying, tracking and fixing the location of targets.
This has drawn renewed attention to the reality of widespread foreign security operations in Africa. This mechanism of unchecked military operations on those who are suspected of being terrorists will come back to haunt us.
In preparation of a blood bath in Zimbabwe the American and CIA sponsored party CCC has started labelling the Zimbabwean government as a terrorist government. This is a preparatory stage so that when the CIA trained Zambian or Zimbabwean snipers kill Zimbabwean citizens they will be justified since the government is already considered to be a terrorist government.
Are we listening are we seeing around us.
Several African governments are hosting foreign military bases. This is despite the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council’s ongoing concerns about the proliferation of foreign military bases on the continent. The AU is also concerned about its inability to monitor the movement of weapons to and from these military bases. Regardless, a host of bilateral agreements between AU member states and foreign powers underlie the spread of foreign military forces across the continent.
At least 13 foreign powers have a substantial military presence on the continent. The US and France are at the forefront of conducting operations on African soil.
For some observers it might seem like foreign governments are imposing their militaries on Africa, but, in fact, many African governments are keen to host them. This is the situation in Zambia. The so called new dawn government has posted the sun towards a wrong direction. There is no new dawn.
Bilateral agreements with major powers generate income for African states. So Zambia did not wait to think for others. It did not wait to give a thought to their actions. Their behaviour is very careless.
African countries are not agreed on how to regulate foreign security and military activities. The approach so far has been disjointed.
Though Africa’s peacekeeping capacity has increased significantly, the AU is still highly dependent on external funding and resources for its peacekeeping operations. It does not have the freedom to take independent strategic, operational and even tactical decisions in its operations.
As long as these shortcomings exist in Africa’s response to armed conflict, foreign militaries and intelligence services will continue to operate on the continent.
These are matters that have to be addressed before African states can heed the AU Peace and Security Council’s concerns about extensive foreign military involvement on the continent.
Zambia has effectively sold out and Zimbabwe must consider this as a serious warning. With general elections coming next few months our sovereignty is at stake.
Some African countries are so desperate for donations and are prepared to sell their soul for a song. Africa is poised to become one of the world’s most important economic regions. When the 54-country African Continental Free Trade Area is fully implemented, it will comprise the fifth-largest economic bloc in the world, representing a huge source of jobs, consumers, innovation, and power to shape the global economy.2021.
This explains why the West is stampeding to Africa. Leaders of African countries are naive and quickly surrender their birth rights for donations.
The choices made by Zambia are seriously hard to swallow. . The situation in crucial parts of the continent has taken a clear turn for the worse in the last four years, with earlier hopes for an “African renaissance” now replaced by the reality of spreading conflict and the impending devastation caused by AIDS. Attempts by the United States to mediate and promote negotiations in African conflicts have not brought peace anywhere, while gaining the country few friends but many enemies. Support for economic reform in Africa has led to growth in only a few countries, but has also created mounting resentment against externally imposed structural adjustment programs. Most seriously, such reforms have given renewed credibility in African countries to the same concept of inward-looking and state-controlled development that created their economic crisis in the first place. Governments that feel, and rightly so, that they have made much progress in restoring war-devastated countries feel unjustly criticized for not having done even more; efforts by international organizations to curb corruption are seen as attempts to distract attention from the failure of western-imposed economic reform programs, putting the blame instead on Africans. And the demands of activists from the industrialized countries seeking to protect workers’ rights or the environment are perceived by many Africans as manifestations of a new and insidious form of protectionism that can only hurt the poorest countries.
It should be equally obvious that the military can’t be the foundation of U.S. relations with a rising Africa. So Zambia has no reason to have a command post established in their country. If the Pentagon may be able to provide weapons, training and vehicles to African militaries, why can it offer trade deals, infrastructure projects or advice on agriculture. The U.S. military may attempt, with varying levels of success, to professionalize African militaries, but it can’t work with civilian governments, political parties or social movements to promote democracy and human rights. Indeed, Washington’s obsessive counterterrorism focus in Africa has little positive to show for its efforts, and actually risks increasing unlawful removal of democratically elected African governments.
Simply put, the U.S. military is attempting to prepare African countries to fight an enemy they actually may not have (or at least not to the extent that Washington imagines), while the U.S. government is failing to help those same countries deal with the real killers — namely, poverty and corruption.
Zimbabwe has been put in a precarious position and its a pity these so called progressive movements are progressing towards reversing the fruits of independency.
We should be very thankful to Zambia for showing us that our future is bleak with these now now political parties.
This is the time to stand up and protect our country. We mudt never ever be carried away by the winds of CCC it is demonic and satanic. Zimbabwe is the only country we can call ours in the whole world. We must defend it. It is now for our country and for peace.
Do not envy what is coming from your neighbour what looks romantic stinks. Stand up Zimbabwe and be counted.
The new dispensation has made vital contributions across the nation to economic integration, security, democracy, climate, health, and more. Zimbabwe has made it under Zidera.
Zimbabwe’s strengths is undeniable a dynamic democracy, a robust economy, and a very powerful civil society.
The challenges we face are undeniable as well including the disruption and insecurity caused by sanctions and opposition which is controlled by the foreign powers.
Then there’s Zimbabwe’s cultural influence.
But in short, what happens here in Zimbabwe is felt around the world and this must never be threatened by actions of our neighbour. Zambia makes her decisions we can only complain but we should believe in ourselves. We are Zimbabweans we must be confused by the colour of the enemy.
We know that, on most of the urgent challenges and opportunities we face, Zimbabwe will make the difference.
Zimbabwe is not just a leaders, they are increasingly prominent around the world beyond this region, and they’re deserving of a prominent seat wherever the most consequential issues are discussed.
The United States must know that it’s time to stop treating Zimbabwe as a subject of geopolitics – and start treating it as the major geopolitical player it has become and a sovereign state.
Zimbabwe is a country of young people – energized, innovative, hungry for jobs and opportunity we must not be taken advantage of by the greediness of our neighbours.
Zimbabwe is going towards a highly contentious and likely tumultuous presidential election that could alter the future of the country’s political system if the Americans are allowed to take over the government through CCC. Zimbabwe will hold general elections to elect the president, members of the National Assembly and Senate, and various county positions.
However, the presidential ballot is shaping up to be a hotly contested race, with two political gladiators as frontrunners president Mnangagwa and Nelson Biden Chamisa.
The implications of the results of the elections on Zimbabwe could be far-reaching, especially if America wins through Chamisa. Zimbabwe has to trust in its people to succeed because many countries lime Malawi Zambia are already being controlled towards side lining Zimbabwe unless America wins through Chamisa.
Hichilema and President Lazarus Chakwera’s victories in Zambia last year and in Malawi in 2020 respectively changed the electoral narrative in the region where incumbents hardly lost power through polls. America assisted these parties by starving the citizens to rebellion. They applied the politics of stomach and the Pan African leaders were kicked out. It is only now the cat jumped out of the bed. We know why the Americans are interested in regime change in Zimbabwe.
Hichilema visited South Africa recently as an invited guest speaker at a book launch where he met Chamisa. He also paid a courtesy call on South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at his Mahlamba Ndlopfu official residence in Pretoria.
Hichilema was guest speaker at the launch of a book titled Expensive Poverty: Why Aid Fails and How it can work written by his friend Greg Mills, director of the Brenthurst Foundation, a Johannesburg-based organisation established by the Oppenheimer family in 2005 to promote new ideas and innovation to strengthen economic performance in Africa.
The same foundation has secretly sponsored CCC and they are the known funders of Hopewell Chin’ono.
We might have our eyes closed but we are awake.
It is not proper for America to play big brother to Zimbabwe or Africa at large simply because they are powerful.
America will not lose sleep if Zimbabwe is wiped off the face of the earth because that is exactly what they would want and being in Zambia is a step forward to their evil plans against Zimbabwe.
So Americans did not lose sleep when their lawmen spent long days and nights crafting the Zidera document, or perhaps they didn’t as Biti drafted it for them.
And so Americans don’t lose sleep if Zimbabwe is destroyed but lose sleep when Job Sikhala and Chin’ono are arrested or that Mamombe be allowed to demonstrate? America will not be a good neighbour especially where it is called ZAMBIA.
At the end of the century, nearly 40 percent of the world’s population will be African. Yet, instead of preparing to build a relationship that can grow with the continent, based upon diplomatic cooperation, the United States is doubling down on more than a decade of reliance on its military as the primary vehicle of engaging with Africa. The consequences, as one might expect, are overwhelmingly negative.
This growing military presence is displacing diplomacy. Military advisers outnumber diplomats in embassies across the continent. Career diplomats who focus on Africa are often ignored in favor of military commanders.
It should come as no surprise then that the aggressive U.S. military presence has done little to strengthen U.S.-Africa ties so Zambia must not expect anything better from allowing the American army to camp on Zambia. Protests against bases and troop deployments have taken place in Ghana, Niger, Cameroon, Liberia and several other countries. U.S. Africa Command is actually headquartered in Germany, largely because no African country wants to host it. The unease with American militarism is likely only to grow — particularly as countries become less dependent on U.S. aid, and as certain U.S. military missions potentially provoke an increase in violent extremism.
So the question remains. ZAMBIA PLEASE ZAMBIA WHY?
By- A recent survey has revealed that CCC leader Nelson Chamisa’s popularity is growing more than that of Zanu PF President Emerson Mnangagwa.
The survey by the country’s most respected political think tank, Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI), observed the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition being the most popular party in Zimbabwe.
The survey results follow the superb performance by Chamisa in the March 26 by-elections.
The survey observed that Chamisa’s CCC enjoys 48% support, followed by Zanu PF at 44%.
The same survey puts Douglas Mwonzora’s MDC-T at 1%.
By A Correspondent- A recent survey by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) has revealed that most urban dwellers are in support of incentives for teachers, while 63% of their rural counterparts are against any monetary or non-monetary benefit they have been getting.
Read the report:
Zimbabweans are divided on whether to ban the payment of monetary and non-monetary incentives to teachers for extra lessons. 51% favour a ban on such payments while 46% oppose such a ban.
In cities, 63% of respondents oppose banning incentive payments to teachers while in rural areas, 60% favour such a ban.
Some teachers have been surviving on extra lessons as a result of their poor wages. Government is yet to increase them although they have been devalued to less than US$100 by the country’s ravaging inflation.
The same survey has found that two in every three people are in support of reintroducing corporal punishment in schools which had been banned in 2019 by the High Court.
Corporal punishment was heavily supported by women while 63% of male respondents were against its reintroduction. Said the report:
Urban residents (74%) are more likely than their rural counterparts (61%) to disagree with a ban on corporal punishment in schools.
The report also further noted that almost seven out of ten Zimbabweans (69%) want pregnant girls to be allowed to continue their education.
Zimbabwe has experienced a surge in teenage pregnancies, according to child rights organisations, who blame COVID-19 lockdowns and closing of schools over the periods.
The survey was conducted between March 28 and April 10, 2022, by MPOI on behalf of the Afrobarometer Network on “The Quality of Democracy and Governance in Zimbabwe.”
By- MDC-T chairperson Morgen Komich has admitted that his party has lost its popularity.
Komichi said they have failed to keep the ruling Zanu PF on its toes as it used to do during the days of its founding leader, the late Morgan Tsvangirai.
Komichi made the remarks while commenting on the recent release of a Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) survey, which found out only 1% of Zimbabwe’s population still trusted the MDC-T. He said: The MPOI surveys normally do not lie. People have made their choice. MDC-T has lost its founding principles of opposing and opposing like what used to happen during the days of Tsvangirai. If the party is to regain its lost glory, it should return to its politics of opposing. The survey results follow the party’s poor performance in the March 26 by-elections, where it failed to win any council or a parliamentary seat. The survey observed that Chamisa’s CCC enjoys 48% support, followed by Zanu PF at 44%.
Komichi reiterated his calls for an opposition alliance to unseat ZANU PF as was attempted in 2018 by the MDC Alliance. He said: If you closely look at the MPOI results, you can see that there is need for a grand coalition to dislodge Zanu PF. That 1 % of other political parties can make a difference in the outcome of the elections. He also said while elections are constitutional, they are not the solution to the country’s socio-economic and political crises hence the need for the winner to engage with the losers in an endeavour to find long-lasting solutions.
Troubled opposition MDC-T’s decision to cosy up to Zanu-PF and failure to oppose some of the ruling party’s ills has lost them public support, chairperson Morgen Komichi has said.
Commenting on the recent release of a Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) survey which found out only 1% of Zimbabwe’s population still trusted the once powerful opposition party, Komichi said they had lost their founding principles after the death of Morgan Tsvangirai.
He said the party will only regain public support if it is to revert to themThe survey results follow an embarrassing loss at the March 26 by-elections, where it failed to win any council or parliamentary seat.
Theyy revealed that opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) enjoys 48% support, followed by Zanu-PF at 44%.
“The MPOI surveys normally do not lie. People have made their choice. MDC-T has lost its founding principles of opposing and opposing like what used to happen during the days of Tsvangirai.
“If the party is to regain its lost glory, it should return to its politics of opposing,” said Komichi.
The MDC-T, first under Thokozani Khupe, then Douglas Mwonzora, has been receptive to Zanu-PF overtures.
Both leaders have recognised President Emmerson Mnangagwa, been admitted into his Political Actors and Leaders Dialogue (POLAD), and enjoyed freebies that include top of the range vehicles and being flown for some of his events at the state’s expense.
Komichi’s statement also follows reported growing dissent within the opposition ranks, where many want Mwonzora to be replaced as leader after the poor showing.
Despite the clear lack of support, Komichi maintained his party’s 1% was very important and could make a difference at the upcoming polls.
Komichi reiterated his calls for an opposition alliance to unseat Zanu-PF as was attempted in 2018 by the MDC Alliance.
“If you closely look at the MPOI results, you can see that there is need for a grand coalition to dislodge Zanu-PF. That 1 % of other political parties can make a difference in the outcome of the elections,” he said.
“I still believe that elections are a Constitutional event but are not a solution to our problems. Elections cannot solve issues such as international relations, sanctions and the economic suffering affecting our people.
“The winner takes it all system is evil and we need to have a re look in the system.”
Despite already having been comparably less supported as compared to the then MDC Alliance under Nelson Chamisa, MDC-T lost considerable support when Douglas Mwonzora took over, suffering its worst defeat and withdrawing from upcoming by-elections as a result.
Mbizo legislator Settlement Chikwinya says Vice President Constantino Chiwenga should be reminded not to bring his militaristic nature to the civilian space.
According to Chikwinya, Chiwenga who doubles as Minister of Health and Child Care should not be allowed to command health workers as if they are in the military.
The Mbizo legislator argued that Chiwenga had militarised the Health Services Amendment Bill.
Speaking in the National Assembly, Chikwinya said: “The Bill promotes discrimination. As I was seated and listening to the presenter on behalf of the Committee, you can hear the militants in this Bill.
“You can hear the militarism of the Honourable Minister coming out now in a civil service space. He is trying to exercise his natural militaristic experience which he had in the army, trying to bring it to a civil space – it cannot be.
“Someone must be able to advise the Honourable Minister that he is now a civil servant leader and not a military leader. He used to be, and we respect him so much with whatever he did as a military leader, but he cannot bring military dictates to a civil space.
“You cannot order nurses and doctors not to go on strike. They are workers and they must be able to express themselves.
He said it was wrong for Chiwenga to order nurses and doctors not to be able to join a trade union or negotiate their salaries as if they were soldiers.”
He said if the Parliament is for the people, then it must listen to the concerns that were raised during the public consultations on the Bill.
The Bill is being crafted as several healthcare givers are leaving the country citing poor remuneration and working conditions.
By A Correspondent- Gangs of robbers wielding machetes are terrorising Bulawayo residents at their homes and business premises, police have raised alarm.
Fifteen cases have been reported in the last two weeks.
The latest victim is a 52-year-old man, Langelihle Dube from Lobengula West suburb who ran a tuck shop at his house and a car park in the suburb and was killed in cold blood by a machete gang and robbed of US$24.
Speaking during a press conference, Thursday, at Rose Camp, Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said the machete gangs are mostly targeting the western suburbs.
“When the robbers attacked Langelihle who is an owner of a carpark, they fought with him until his wife woke up trying to check what was going on, she was pushed back into the bedroom and the door closed,” said Inspector Ncube.
The robbers got away with US$24 and when the wife later got out of the bedroom to check on her husband, she found him seated on a sofa with a stable wound on the thigh, she called an ambulance and made a report to the police and when the ambulance came they rendered first aid but he died before he was taken to the hospital.”
He appealed to the members of the public to assist the police in tracking down the suspects.
“We have a number of community policing initiatives in place that we can utilize. We have hotlines that members of the public can use, even calling police stations,” said Insp Ncube.
“I recall two months ago, we managed to apprehend a serial rapist who had raped more than 25 victims because of participation from members of the public, we managed to apprehend that person and he is exactly where he belongs.”
Inspector Ncube appealed to residents to report any person who is in possession of dangerous weapons.
“We encourage and invite members of the public to come on board, contact us and we are going to be talking even through social media to say let’s come together and fight this crime,” he urged.
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF regime has arrested Zimbabwe Divine Destiny leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya for conducting a prayer programme.
Bishop Magaya was arrested in Harare on Friday morning for facilitating the # Zimbabwe We Want Campaign.
The cleric is visually impaired.
“I HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR PRAYING FOR MY COUNTRY,” Bishop Magaya posted on Facebook.
Zimbabweans have condemned the arrest of the clergyman.
“Zvakaoma.Be strong Bishop Ancelimo Magaya. No one is safe in this country, only change of government can stop this,” CCC Youth Assembly leader Netsai Marova said.
Solomon Bismack Bobosibunu wrote on Facebook: “Zimbabwe will be free Bishop it’s sad. The scene was terrifying to say the least. How would you take over 40 citizens kneeling and praying for their country and life.”
Blessing Simpson Madzima: “This can’t be true. What’s this regime trying to insinuate. This is more than persecution. It’s evil.”
JT Mun : “Ummmmm that was very unfortunate situation to tell the truth. Is praying a crime in Zimbabwe.”
ZANU PF activists in the Midlands province are fretting over the party’s perennial election losses to the opposition in Gweru Urban constituency since 2000, saying the party must re-look its candidate selection exercise to win the seats.
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The activists said candidates that had represented the party in previous elections in Gweru Urban and lost should never be given a second chance.
Brian Dube is the current Gweru Urban legislator, representing the MDC Alliance, while Amos Chibaya (Citizens Coalition for Change) is MP for Mkoba.
In 2018, Zanu PF candidate Esau Natare was beaten by Dube, while in the recent March by-election, the ruling party’s William Gondo lost by a wide margin to CCC’s Chibaya.
Zanu PF supporters frustrated by the party’s poor showing in the polls took to their WhatsApp groups demanding new strategies and an overhaul of the candidate selection process.
“We kindly ask for better, competitive candidates. I kindly ask our leadership to get into the candidates issue very closely because that is where the engine is not starting.
“Those in position and those who have contested twice and lost should give others a chance,” one activist said.
“If you are a leader and you fail to deliver, learn to resign and try others (because) mostly in Mkoba and Gweru Urban, we have no good results for the past 20 years.”
Another activist said the party was failing to consolidate its cell structures in urban areas, resulting in the election losses.
“As a party, we are forgetting cell structures and that is where the problem lies. Nelson Chamisa (CCC leader) has no solid cell structures, but his candidates go on to grab these seats,” the activist said.
Zanu PF Midlands provincial chairperson Larry Mavima, however, called for unity among party members to boost chances of winning the seats.
“We should be united as a party to ensure a resounding victory for our president, His Excellency Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa and that of the party in general in the 2023 elections,” he said.
Midlands province consists of 28 constituencies, with five urban constituencies — Gweru Urban, Mkoba, Kwekwe, Mbizo and Redcliff including the rural Chiwundura — all in the hands of the opposition. -Newsday
Police are investigating the mysterious death of prominent academic, Professor Itai Muhwati, who reportedly died on Monday at an apostolic shrine and was buried on the same day without the knowledge of his family and relatives.
Prof Muhwati used to work at the University of Zimbabwe and would at times participate in public debates.
His family said it was suspecting foul play as it was not notified of this death.
No burial order was obtained for his burial, as the late academic was reportedly buried a few hours after his death.
His body was exhumed yesterday and members of the apostolic sect who buried him were nowhere to be found.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said they had since launched investigations into the matter.
“We are conducting investigations with the view of finding out what actually transpired and we urge families, churches and members of the public that if something happens, especially of this nature (death), they should report to the police,” he said.
Prof Muhwati’s brother said they were suspecting foul play as they were not informed of his death.
“His body was supposed to go to Mhondoro because if they (members of the apostolic sect) had told us that he had passed away and he had told them that we were supposed to bury him, we would have agreed,” he said.
“The problem is they buried him without telling us. Members of his church know me and my siblings so they should have told us than to bury him without telling us as his family.”
Prof Muhwati’s ex-wife, Ms Eurita Tahwa, also suspected foul play as there were some blood stains on his clothes.
“What I have seen during the exhumation showed that he was beaten or something very bad happened to him,” she said.
Ms Tahwa said they were told that Prof Muhwati died after a severe headache. She then demanded justice to be served in the matter. —Herald
Following a string of deaths of Vice President Constantino Chiweng’s aides, ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa has promoted seven Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Lieutenant Colonels to the rank of Colonels.
The promotions were made in terms of Section 15 (1) (b) of the Defence Act (Chapter 11:02) and are effective from 27 May 2022.
7 Colonels promoted…but who are they?
The promoted Colonels are Banabas Simbarashe Tera, Anderson Chibvongodze, James Dumezweni Moyo, Passmore Taruodzera, Jabulani Mulambo, Edward Mataga, and Jones Matonda.
They were conferred with the new ranks by the Chief of Staff General Staff, Major General Kasirai Tazira at an investiture ceremony held at Josiah Magama Tongogara Barracks yesterday.
Standing in for Commander Zimbabwe National Army, Lieutenant General David Sigauke, Maj Gen Tazira commended the senior officers for diligently executing their duties, hence their promotion.
“Your promotion is a testimony that you possess the required qualities and attributes of military leadership at the senior level. Your recognition for such an esteemed rank and appointments is a result of a full-proof, thorough, and exhaustive assessment by the Command Element,” he said.
Maj Gen Tazira said the onus was upon the promoted Colonels to diligently and professionally discharge their duties in their new capacities and enhanced status.
On behalf of the promoted Colonels, Colonel Passmore Taruodzera thanked Lieutenant General David Sigauke for giving them well-deserved recognition.
He promised that they were going to remain loyal to both the organisation and the country. -State Media
The Government says it will soon provide funeral and medical assistance to village heads as some of them cannot afford medical care.
This was revealed by the Deputy Minister of Local Government and Public Works, Marian Chombo in Parliament on Wednesday while responding to questions on the welfare of village heads.
She said: “As a Ministry, with our department of traditional leadership, we have measures in place that make sure we assist traditional leaders.
However, I would want to point out that the type of assistance that we give mainly targets the chiefs.
Village heads are being given allowances and these allowances as of now do not include funeral assistance.
We envisage that very soon we should be in a position to assist as regards funeral and medical assistance.
Some of our village heads cannot access medical facilities because they do not have the resources.”
Chombo explained that traditional leadership had three tiers. The first tier is made up of chiefs selected by the community and appointed by the President.
The second tier is that of the headman, who is appointed by the chief and their name is submitted to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works who does the vetting. Added Chombo:
Then the village head is appointed in most cases by the headman or the chief and we will just be given the names but we are not the ones who install these village heads.
The headman and the village head earn different salaries. We are trying at the moment that the village heads also get good perks, as the headman and the chief.
Chombo also said the ministry was still waiting for legislation to come through Parliament so that chieftainships that were not resuscitated at the end of the liberation struggle can be revived. – CITE
The late constitutional law guru Alex Magaisa reportedly spurned Zanu PF attempts to lure him to support the ruling party following the 2017 coup.
Magaisa died from a cardiac arrest in the United Kingdom on Sunday at the age of 47.
Addressing guests at Magaisa’s memorial lecture held in Harare on Thursday, journalist-cum activist Hopewell Chin’ono said: “Contrary to the nonsense I was reading on social media, they (Zanu PF) approached Alex and I just felt that out of respect, after the period of mourning if they continue, I will set the record straight.”
“We know the people. We have got names and some of them came through me. But Alex said, ‘No. I am a Zimbabwean. If you do things right, you do not need Magaisa’s support. Do not look for individuals. Do the right thing and the whole country will support you’.”
Top human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said: “I believe that we should have regular lectures to celebrate each other. Alex was a vital core in the Constitution-making process which culminated in what we now have which I consider a decent Constitution.”
The Constitutional Law Centre, which he founded, declared Magaisa, the people’s national hero and set aside five days of mourning, with various activities including the Big Saturday march in remembrance of his famous blog the Big Saturday Read.
But police refused to sanction the Saturday candlelight commemoration that was scheduled for today in the Harare Gardens.
In a letter dated June 9, 2022, police said, Heal Zimbabwe, a civic society organisation that had sought authority for the march, had not complied with provisions of the Maintenance of Peace and Order. -Newsday
By ZimEye Correspondent | A controversial spiritualist from Guruve has said the head of the slain 8 year old Murehwa boy Tapiwa Makore is inside State House.
Speaking on live camera on Friday to sociallite Jacky Ngarande, Sekuru Tembo (real name not given) said the missing lad’s skull was taken away and given to ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.
He said:
“Tapiwa Makore’s head was taken away and given to the President of Zimbabwe. We are busy probing this matter spiritually. Tapiwa’s head is inside State House.
“You are in the media, so I won’t tell you much for now as it is unsafe, but I tell you that his head is inside State House.”
The spiritualist was speaking while commenting on the missing body of the slain Murehwa school child, Livingstone…..
The following were other comments he passed:
No matter what they may do, the glass will garrison everything, they won’t be able to take the child’s remains, says Sekuru Tembo
With your media, is there anyone who’s been able to say where the child is? I want to see that person who says such. You will see that there is not even one person who can say that because he was buried professionally. Teachers are trained. Police officers are trained.
People might say what they may, but they cannot tell where the child is. I want to see that person who says Sekuru Tembo is lying.
SEKURU, CAN YOU PLEASE PUT THE MAP INSIDE YOUR GLASS?
The country is going down, the future is bleak.
I wish Nelson Chamisa speaks with me because the country is going down the drain.
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) says the ruling ZANU PF party has been implicated in the harassment and abduction of opponents in the past two months.
In its May monthly report released this week, ZPP said ZANU PF is intimidating rural folk ahead of the 2023 general elections. Reads the report in part:
“The patterns of intimidation and harassment, abductions and assaults implicating the ruling party continue unabated.
It is of great concern that over the past two months, the ZANU PF government, which was the major perpetrator of the 2008 electoral violence and other forms of atrocities before that, is on a systematic drive to intimidate citizens, especially those in rural areas ahead of the 2023 elections.”
ZANU PF allegedly unleashed an orgy of violence targeting MDC-T supporters during the 2008 presidential election runoff between the late former President Robert Mugabe and the late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Tsvangirai eventually withdrew from the race citing violence against his supporters, leaving Mugabe to run a one-man race.
Meanwhile, ZANU PF director for information Tafadzwa Mugwadi dismissed the ZPP report saying the organisation is funded by the country’s detractors to tarnish the ruling party’s image. Said Mugwadi:
“We have no regard for ZPP and all those associated with it and its entire puppet discourses.
It is an organisation manned by neo-imperial elements funded to tarnish the people’s agenda as represented by ZANU PF.
They have no shame nor spine, no facts nor truth but vendetta-laden discourses tailored to salvage waning relevance in the non-governmental organisation sector and in the process, receive donor handouts. ZPP can safely go hang.” -NewsDay
By- A recent political popularity survey has revealed that Zanu PF President Emerson Mnangagwa’s support has dropped.
The survey by the country’s most respected political think tank, Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI), observed the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition being the most popular party in Zimbabwe.
The survey results follow the superb performance by Chamisa in the March 26 by-elections.
The survey observed that Chamisa’s CCC enjoys 48% support, followed by Zanu PF at 44%.
The same survey puts Douglas Mwonzora’s MDC-T at 1%.
By- The newly formed opposition Citizens Coalition for Change has increased popularity.
According to a recent survey by the country’s most respected political think tank, Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI), the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition is the most popular party in Zimbabwe.
The survey results follow the superb performance in the March 26 by-elections.
The survey observed that Chamisa’s CCC enjoys 48% support, followed by Zanu PF at 44%.
The same survey puts Douglas Mwonzora’s MDC-T at 1%.
By- MDC-T chairperson Morgen Komich has admitted that his party has lost its popularity.
Komichi said they have failed to keep the ruling Zanu PF on its toes as it used to do during the days of its founding leader, the late Morgan Tsvangirai.
Komichi made the remarks while commenting on the recent release of a Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) survey, which found out only 1% of Zimbabwe’s population still trusted the MDC-T. He said: The MPOI surveys normally do not lie. People have made their choice. MDC-T has lost its founding principles of opposing and opposing like what used to happen during the days of Tsvangirai. If the party is to regain its lost glory, it should return to its politics of opposing.
The survey results follow the party’s poor performance in the March 26 by-elections, where it failed to win any council or a parliamentary seat. The survey observed that Chamisa’s CCC enjoys 48% support, followed by Zanu PF at 44%.
Komichi reiterated his calls for an opposition alliance to unseat ZANU PF as was attempted in 2018 by the MDC Alliance. He said: If you closely look at the MPOI results, you can see that there is need for a grand coalition to dislodge Zanu PF. That 1 % of other political parties can make a difference in the outcome of the elections.
He also said while elections are constitutional, they are not the solution to the country’s socio-economic and political crises hence the need for the winner to engage with the losers in an endeavour to find long-lasting solutions.- Agencies
By-President Emerson Mnangagwa has promoted seven Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Lieutenant Colonels to Colonels.
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF use the army to intimidate voters during elections.
The state media reports that the promoted Colonels are Banabas Simbarashe Tera, Anderson Chibvongodze, James Dumezweni Moyo, Passmore Taruodzera, Jabulani Mulambo, Edward Mataga, and Jones Matonda.
They were conferred with the new ranks by the Chief of Staff General Staff, Major General Kasirai Tazira at an investiture ceremony held at Josiah Magama Tongogara Barracks Thursday.
By -Police in Harare, Friday arrested Zimbabwe Divine Destiny leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya for conducting a prayer programme.
Bishop Magaya was arrested in Harare for facilitating the # Zimbabwe We Want Campaign.
“I HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR PRAYING FOR MY COUNTRY,” Bishop Magaya posted on Facebook. Zimbabweans have condemned the arrest of the clergyman. “Zvakaoma.Be strong Bishop Ancelimo Magaya. No one is safe in this country, only change of government can stop this,” CCC Youth Assembly leader Netsai Marova said. Solomon Bismack Bobosibunu wrote on Facebook: “Zimbabwe will be free Bishop it’s sad. The scene was terrifying to say the least. How would you take over 40 citizens kneeling and praying for their country and life.” Blessing Simpson Madzima: “This can’t be true. What’s this regime trying to insinuate. This is more than persecution. It’s evil.” JT Mun : “Ummmmm that was very unfortunate situation to tell the truth. Is praying a crime in Zimbabwe.”
By Dr Masimba Maavaza | The death of the learned friend Counsel Alex Magaisa has been met with a flood of tributes from senior members of the legal profession and Zimbabweans of all walks of life.
Magaisa who died last Friday aged 47 following a fight with heart problems was a lawyer a teacher and an advisor of no question.
I never agreed with his political beliefs but I admired his commitment to what he believed in so dearly.
The first Zimbabwean to be appointed to a tenure-track professorship in law at Kent University, Magaisa was the founder of the Big Saturday Read where he will persistently produce a well researched brief on current political and legal issues affecting Zimbabwe. Even though he was biased towards the opposition he would always say there will never be democracy without diversity.
I have grown to respect Alex Magaisa and his writings. He would write his article through morphine and needles. The pain he went through can never be explained by anyone but himself. I do understand the pain he went through.
Can you imagine his life each time he goes to the hospital he takes it as his last day. A life of never knowing whether you will see your family again after every visit to the hospital.
A life of knowing that the last person you will talk to before you die may be a nurse. The life of not knowing if this day is your last above all the life of pain. Instead of occupying his remaining time with the fear of death Alex turned to writing. That was a brave man. The nation had “lost a jurist of historic stature. The profession the has lost a cherished colleague and I have lost personally a cherished opponent.
I am confident that “future generations will remember Alex Magaisa as we knew him a tireless and resolute champion of justice.
Magaisa made vast and lasting contributions to the law and to the profession. He was a commanding voice as an advocate for gender equality and a tenacious protector of the rule of law even though his submissions were tainted with a misplaced support for CCC or MDC. It was because of him that “many people dared to become lawyers at a time when such a career path was viewed with scepticism”.
Shakespeare once said
“The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers”
Shakespeare’s Tribute to Trial Lawyers.
The great American trial lawyer Daniel Webster said: “Justice is the greatest concern of man on earth.” There is no greater professional calling than to stand as a lawyer at the bar of justice and breathe life into the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the statutory law and common law by defining, asserting and defending the rights of citizens. Lawyers play many vital roles on the world’s stage but none more important than preserving, protecting and perpetuating the rights of citizens, both individual and business. Magaisa was the master of it all.
One of the many enigmas to arise out of the corporate dominated decade of the eighties is the advent of lawyer bashing. The adversaries of our proud and noble profession continue to misquote the law, distort case results and unjustly attack the institutions in a mass media onslaught designed to silence the victim’s voice – the trial lawyers. Magaisa stood upright in the winds of such turbulence
Those who attack the works of Magaisa are as miserably misguided about the law as they are about the judicial system which they disdain so freely.
Magaisa spoke strongly against those who wanted to disrupt the judiciary and abrogate the common law, to the detriment of the rights of individual citizens, consumers, and injured persons who deserve competent representation and adequate redress for harm done to them.
I am hard pressed to think of an individual who more singularly elevated our collective aspirations than Alex Magaisa.
Alex Magaisa provided inspiration, and set a standard of excellence for all of us in the legal profession. He
led a life dedicated to the service of others and making this world a better place. He was a legal guru the best of the best he was “a giant among us mortals. Magaisa was fond of referring to ‘pathmarking’ precedents. He was the true pathmarker, a lawyer who broke barriers and served as a role model for so many. I count myself honoured to have debated with him issues affecting our lovely Zimbabwe. appeared in front of her.”
He was a “lawyer’s lawyer”. His success as an advocate took root in large measure in his discipline in selecting cases and in carefully reading precedent – both for what it included and what it omitted and putting it in his articles. The“shared respect for good legal craftsmanship was… a central, if largely overlooked, foundation for his friendship with the left.
Magaisa firmly believed that mature people could in good faith take different views on even the most important legal and political questions without being histrionic, or posing a threat to his adversary’s feelings.
. During the last weeks of his life, I sat with him twice debating Zimbabwe politics. It was always clear that his respect for the institution was exceeded only by his genuine affection for its citizens.
It is one of the great joys of my life that I was privileged to share a platform with Alex even though our meetings were brutal.
To be in his company and to share conversation with him was a delightful experience.
This remarkable, unique man of four score and seven never grew old, even as his body gave way to the cruelty of his condition. He was ever young and up to date, whether the subject be law, politics or other current events. He lived not in the past, except to apply its experience to the present and the future.
For better or worse, we have given our lives and such abilities as we have to furthering the great cause of justice… I think we are keepers of a dream for our time, one of the oldest, the best dreams of the human race, a dream that was old when the world was young, a dream that will never die, a dream of open courts dispensing equal justice, the dream of peace and good will through law.
Alex was committed to the rule of law, applied fairly and temperately to ensure equal justice for the meek as well as the mighty. This gentle man kept faith with the dream to which he was entrusted. He contributed mightily to the cause of peace and good will, and we would do well to pursue his example.
Now as he lies lifeless in the cold we pray that God will comfort his family.
Till we meet again Fare thee well Counsel. I wish we had built Zimbabwe together.
Kaitano Tembo has been appointed as the head coach of South African top-flight club Sekhukhune United.
The Zimbabwean, who left SuperSport United two months ago, takes over from Owen Da Gama who left the club over a week ago.
In a statement, the Gauteng-based club said: “Sekhukhune United FC is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr Kaitano Tembo to the technical team of Sekhukhune United.
“The former SuperSport United FC head coach will be working as a head coach for Babina Noko.”
Speaking after his appointment, Tembo said: “It’s my desire that Sekhukhune United must be up there fighting for silverware to make their supporters happy.
“I’m looking forward to have a long lasting working relationship with the management, players and members of the technical team.
“I cannot wait to start preparations for the next season.”
The club chairman Simon Malatji spoke about Tembo, saying: “I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome Mr Tembo to Babina Noko family.
“We’re very much excited to have Mr Tembo in our team, and we believe he will assist us in achieving the goals that we have set for ourselves as Sekhukhune United FC.
“We wish him well in this journey.”
Kaitano will link-up with fellow countryman Willard Katsande who joined the club last year.
Meanwhile, other Zimbabweans – Tapuwa Kapini, Evans Rusike and Charlton Mashumba – that were at Sekhukhune last campaign were released a few days ago.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Macclive Phiri is back in the country following his release at South African National First Division side Venda Football Club this week.
The defender is currently training with his former club Highlanders as he looks to restart his career.
Bosso’s spokesperson Nozibelo Maphosa confirmed to the NewsDay that Phiri was already training with the club.
“All I can confirm right now is that he is training with the team,” Maphosa said.
Phiri left Highlanders in 2020 to join the now-defunct Bidvest Wits but only spent a couple of months there.
He was released at the end of the season when the Clever Boys sold its top-flight franchise to Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila.
The former Warriors right back then sought to relaunch his career in the NFD with Sekhukhune. He was an integral part of the squad during their quest for promotion to the top league.
Unfortunately, the ex-Bosso man was deemed excess baggage upon the team’s promotion.
Phiri moved to Venda FC in 2021 but failed to reach top form, leading to his release.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF regime has arrested Zimbabwe Divine Destiny leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya for conducting a prayer programme.
Bishop Magaya was arrested in Harare on Friday morning for facilitating the # Zimbabwe We Want Campaign.
The cleric is visually impaired.
“I HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR PRAYING FOR MY COUNTRY,” Bishop Magaya posted on Facebook.
Zimbabweans have condemned the arrest of the clergyman.
“Zvakaoma.Be strong Bishop Ancelimo Magaya. No one is safe in this country, only change of government can stop this,” CCC Youth Assembly leader Netsai Marova said.
Solomon Bismack Bobosibunu wrote on Facebook: “Zimbabwe will be free Bishop it’s sad. The scene was terrifying to say the least. How would you take over 40 citizens kneeling and praying for their country and life.”
Blessing Simpson Madzima: “This can’t be true. What’s this regime trying to insinuate. This is more than persecution. It’s evil.”
JT Mun : “Ummmmm that was very unfortunate situation to tell the truth. Is praying a crime in Zimbabwe.”
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF regime has arrested Zimbabwe Divine Destiny leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya for conducting a prayer programme.
Bishop Magaya was arrested in Harare on Friday morning for facilitating the # Zimbabwe We Want Campaign.
The cleric is visually impaired.
“I HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR PRAYING FOR MY COUNTRY,” Bishop Magaya posted on Facebook.
Zimbabweans have condemned the arrest of the clergyman.
“Zvakaoma.Be strong Bishop Ancelimo Magaya. No one is safe in this country, only change of government can stop this,” CCC Youth Assembly leader Netsai Marova said.
Solomon Bismack Bobosibunu wrote on Facebook: “Zimbabwe will be free Bishop it’s sad. The scene was terrifying to say the least. How would you take over 40 citizens kneeling and praying for their country and life.”
Blessing Simpson Madzima: “This can’t be true. What’s this regime trying to insinuate. This is more than persecution. It’s evil.”
JT Mun : “Ummmmm that was very unfortunate situation to tell the truth. Is praying a crime in Zimbabwe.”
The Government says it will soon provide funeral and medical assistance to village heads as some of them cannot afford medical care.
This was revealed by the Deputy Minister of Local Government and Public Works, Marian Chombo in Parliament on Wednesday while responding to questions on the welfare of village heads.
She said: “As a Ministry, with our department of traditional leadership, we have measures in place that make sure we assist traditional leaders.
However, I would want to point out that the type of assistance that we give mainly targets the chiefs.
Village heads are being given allowances and these allowances as of now do not include funeral assistance.
We envisage that very soon we should be in a position to assist as regards funeral and medical assistance.
Some of our village heads cannot access medical facilities because they do not have the resources.”
Chombo explained that traditional leadership had three tiers. The first tier is made up of chiefs selected by the community and appointed by the President.
The second tier is that of the headman, who is appointed by the chief and their name is submitted to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works who does the vetting. Added Chombo:
Then the village head is appointed in most cases by the headman or the chief and we will just be given the names but we are not the ones who install these village heads.
The headman and the village head earn different salaries. We are trying at the moment that the village heads also get good perks, as the headman and the chief.
Chombo also said the ministry was still waiting for legislation to come through Parliament so that chieftainships that were not resuscitated at the end of the liberation struggle can be revived. – CITE
By ZimEye Correspondent | A controversial spiritualist from Guruve has said the head of the slain 8 year old Murehwa boy Tapiwa Makore is inside State House.
Speaking on live camera on Friday to sociallite Jacky Ngarande, Sekuru Tembo (real name not given) said the missing lad’s skull was taken away and given to ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.
He said:
“Tapiwa Makore’s head was taken away and given to the President of Zimbabwe. We are busy probing this matter spiritually. Tapiwa’s head is inside State House.
“You are in the media, so I won’t tell you much for now as it is unsafe, but I tell you that his head is inside State House.”
The spiritualist was speaking while commenting on the missing body of the slain Murehwa school child, Livingstone…..
The following were other comments he passed:
No matter what they may do, the glass will garrison everything, they won’t be able to take the child’s remains, says Sekuru Tembo
With your media, is there anyone who’s been able to say where the child is? I want to see that person who says such. You will see that there is not even one person who can say that because he was buried professionally. Teachers are trained. Police officers are trained.
People might say what they may, but they cannot tell where the child is. I want to see that person who says Sekuru Tembo is lying.
SEKURU, CAN YOU PLEASE PUT THE MAP INSIDE YOUR GLASS?
The country is going down, the future is bleak.
I wish Nelson Chamisa speaks with me because the country is going down the drain.
If "toe amputation" mythology was real, how many would this every-year lotto-winner Rusape man, get, in order to win all these? pic.twitter.com/81sFf55cHK
Tinashe Sambiri|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF bigwigs are mere headless chickens, CCC vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said.
According to Hon Biti, Mr Mnangagwa’s administration has dismally failed to transform the economy.
Mnangagwa has been caught by ” departure lounge” mentality, according to Hon Biti.
“They are now running around like headless chickens. The economy is out of control . Against their will the economy has self dollarised .
Inflation & shortages are amok. All they do is to LOOT and ASSET strip for the last time. It is a toxic departure lounge mentality .#SHAME
The chickens have come home to roost . Hyperinflation is back with a bang.The exchange rate is out of control hovering close to 1:600. Wages have collapsed&poverty is out of control .
A massive food shortage looms as country runs out of grain.They have failed in absolute terms.”
Tinashe Sambiri|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF bigwigs are mere headless chickens, CCC vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said.
According to Hon Biti, Mr Mnangagwa’s administration has dismally failed to transform the economy.
Mnangagwa has been caught by ” departure lounge” mentality, according to Hon Biti.
“They are now running around like headless chickens. The economy is out of control . Against their will the economy has self dollarised .
Inflation & shortages are amok. All they do is to LOOT and ASSET strip for the last time. It is a toxic departure lounge mentality .#SHAME
The chickens have come home to roost . Hyperinflation is back with a bang.The exchange rate is out of control hovering close to 1:600. Wages have collapsed&poverty is out of control .
A massive food shortage looms as country runs out of grain.They have failed in absolute terms.”
By ZimEye Correspondent | A controversial spiritualist from Guruve has said the head of the slain 7 year old Murehwa boy Tapiwa Makore is inside State House.
Speaking on live camera on Friday to sociallite Jacky Ngarande, Sekuru Tembo (real name not given) said the missing lad’s skull was taken away and given to ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.
He said: “Tapiwa Makore’s head was taken away and given to the President of Zimbabwe. We are busy probing this matter spiritually. Tapiwa’s head is inside State House.
“You are in the media, so I won’t tell you much for now as it is unsafe, but I tell you that his head is inside State House.”
The spiritualist was speaking while commenting on the missing body of the St Mathias Tsonzo High School student Livingstone Sunhwa (19).
The following were other comments he passed as per the following ZimEye part transcript:
“No matter what they may do, the glass will garrison everything, they won’t be able to take the child’s remains, says Sekuru Tembo.
“With your media, is there anyone who’s been able to say where the child is? I want to see that person who says such. You will see that there is not even one person who can say that because he was buried professionally. Teachers are trained. Police officers are trained.
“People might say what they may, but they cannot tell where the child is. I want to see that person who says Sekuru Tembo is lying. ”
A comment from State House could had not been made at the time of writing.
SEKURU, CAN YOU PLEASE PUT THE MAP INSIDE YOUR GLASS?
“The country is going down, the future is bleak.
“I wish Nelson Chamisa speaks with me because the country is going down the drain.”
Sungura musician, Gift Amuli, who recently branched into hip-hop, has revealed that he is now a full-time traditional healer.
Speaking to a local publication, Amuli, who made a name as a sungura musician with his hit song Wamatuka confirmed that he is now a traditional healer.
“It took a long journey for me to become a traditional healer,” he said.
“I had a lot of disturbing issues in my life until I was told that there is no way except being initiated into traditional healing. I am not ashamed of it that is why I publicise it, and I am happy too,” the Zvishavane Stars frontman said.
While many of his family members have accepted his decision, others who are Christians are still in denial.
Amuli, who is operating from his Zvishavane home added: “When it comes to my music career I’m still deciding on how to balance both because I love doing music and also I am now a full-time sangoma. People should come in their numbers because this month I’m dealing with divorce cases.”
Amuli started off with the Zig Zag band in the 1980s and in 2002 he did his first solo project, a five-track album titled Wedangwe which did not do well on the market. In 2003, he produced Munozvigona Sei, which catapulted him into the limelight. He once featured on a hip-hop track Svikiro together with Leefire and Tatman.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa admitted that the country is experiencing a food price hike crisis, but blamed it on saboteurs and supply chain monopolies.
Addressing scores of Zanu PF supporters at Murewa centre, Mnangagwa promised villagers that his administration would deal with the food crisis.
“I know you are suffering because of price issues, especially in the food sector. They are doing this to sabotage us; they want you to turn against us. This is because we have few companies and they monopolise the food sector.”
“As government we are doing much to break this monopoly, especially on the supply side. One of the remedies is to suspend import duty on basic goods,” he added as the villagers interjected saying they were really feeling the pinch of the country’s economic hardships.
Zimbabwe is currently experiencing massive food shortages coupled with frequent price increases and a poor 2021/22 agricultural season due to low rainfall.
Prices of basic commodities like bread and other foodstuffs have gone beyond the reach of many. Bread now costs as much as $945.
Mnangagwa promised that the bread price issue will be solved soon because the country will be producing enough wheat.
“We found out that we need 470 000 metric tonnes of wheat in this country per year. We used to produce wheat that would last for two months while importing the rest. We then came up with ideas to increase wheat productivity, and our wheat is now lasting us 11 months, hence the remainder is imported. We are going to have wheat that lasts us 13 months next month. It will be sufficient, hence bread prices will go down,” he said.
Mnangagwa addressed the villagers soon after officially opening a Registrar-General’s office at Murewa centre, whose construction started about 17 years ago.
Promising the villagers free food handouts to deal with food insecurity, Mnangagwa said: “We had erratic rains in some areas this past season. We are aware that because of drought some areas are experiencing food shortages. We will liaise with your Minister of State in Mashonaland East (Aplonia Munzverengwi) and ensure that you will get free food (maize).”
He also added that the country would soon be harvesting enough maize due to interventions which saw the establishment of irrigation schemes to mitigate climate change effects.
Police in Harare are investigating four cases of robbery involving commuters that occurred between June 7th and June 9th, 2022. In one of the incidents on 08/06/22 at around 2100 hours, a 22-year-old man was robbed of US$50, a cell phone, and some personal documents after boarding an unregistered Honda Fit destined for Harare CBD at Puma service station along Ardbernie Road.
The vehicle had four occupants, one man and, three women. Along the way, the suspects diverted the route before robbing the complainant of his valuables and forcing him to have sexual intercourse with one of the female suspects.
In the second incident on 09/06/22, a man (50) lost US$500 cash, a cellphone, and bank cards to 10 suspects, six women and four men, after boarding an unregistered white Toyota Hiace near ZUPCO garage forcing him to have sexual intercourse with one of the female suspects.
In the second incident on 09/06/22, a man (50) lost US$500 cash, a cellphone, and bank cards to 10 suspects, six women and four men, after boarding an unregistered white Toyota Hiace near ZUPCO garage along Glen Eagles Rd, going to the CBD. The 3rd incident occurred in Marlborough on 07/06/22 at about 1000 hours.
The victim, a man (20), was robbed of US $40, a wallet and a cell phone after he was offered a lift in a Honda Fit vehicle which had five occupants, two men and three women, destined for Avonlea, Harare. The suspects kidnapped the complainant and took him to an unknown house where they slept together and later released him on 08/06/22 at about 1500 hours.
According to Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, Police have besieged the Zimbabwe Divine Destine offices in Harare after banning the Zimbabwe we want Campaign prayer meeting. Bishops who were present at the offices have been arrested.
Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda was on Wednesday barred by State security agents from attending a crucial Zanu PF politburo meeting as the ruling party hounds him over his recent call for a diaspora vote and the appointment of a second vice-president.
Mudenda courted the ire of Zanu PF when he said the Constitution should be amended to allow millions of Zimbabweans outside the country to vote in the 2023 elections.
He also called for a speedy appointment of a second vice-president in the spirit of the 1987 Unity Accord after former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi resigned following a messy sex scandal.
Only Zimbabweans on diplomatic missions and civil servants outside the country are allowed to vote and Mnangagwa has been evasive about the appointment of the second VP.
There are also claims that Mudenda is reportedly positioning himself to replace Mohadi.
Party fanatics have been circulating pictures of Mudenda allegedly dining with foreign embassy officials, saying he is compromised and not serving party interests.
“Mudenda was barred from attending the politburo meeting by some State security agents because people in the party are not happy with the diaspora vote which he called for recently,” a Zanu PF source said.
When contacted for comment, Mudenda curtly said: “That’s nonsense,” before dropping the call.
Zanu PF political commissar and acting spokesperson Mike Bimha said: “He (Mudenda) was asked to be excused from the politburo by the President Emmerson Mnangagwa since he had a question-and-answer session in Parliament. President Mnangagwa realised that Hon Mudenda was in the politburo when we started the meeting at 2pm, the time the question-and-answer session starts in Parliament.”
But on Wednesday, Mnangagwa read the riot act to Mudenda during the politburo meeting, saying personal views should not be paraded in the public as party policy.
“We are a party united by our shared ideology and common values. All of us are subject to the collective wisdom of the party. The correct party line must be adhered to once a collective decision has been made. Personal views and opinions must never be smuggled to assume the status of being a party policy,” Mnangagwa said.
Last week, Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa chastised Mudenda saying: “It’s okay for Parliament, as the electorate of the sovereign people of Zimbabwe, to express their certain views.
“We also belong to a party and we have the majority. It’s unbecoming when some of our members express views in Parliament about certain issues. We have a caucus at the party. Why would somebody from the ruling party want to go and express things about the diaspora or express things about when the President should be electing a vice-president?”
“We should discuss them here. To go out and start talking out of turn is not the Zanu PF way. There is no problem in having variant views, but let’s discuss them if you are a party member. As the spokesperson of the party, I appeal for discipline from our party members.”
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba later called Mudenda to order saying he had overstepped his mandate as Speaker of the National Assembly.
By A Correspondent | The Government Spokesperson, Nick Mangwana has passed an announcement that invalidates future elections in Zimbabwe by saying the opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s supporters belong to the cemetery.
Mangwana who is also a British nurse, issued the death threat saying, by failing to stop his supporters, Nelson Chamisa is now the leader of a party of people who belong to the cemetery.
His comments follow those of his boss, Emmerson Mnangagwa who says all election winners are corpses and Zimbabwe’s majority belong to the world of the dead. (video)
Said Mangwana:
Since Ian Smith's remains are at a farm, not a cemetery, Ndabaningi Mangwana, a British nurse, has sent to @nelsonchamisa's followers a death threat per his boss Mnangagwa’s policy that all election winners are corpses from day one, so he's invalidated @ZECzim polls https://t.co/r9Asew4Drwpic.twitter.com/t6vwfYSgQh
“If I were a leader of an opposition political party and my supporters were busy pouring libation to the spirit of Ian Smith, I would know I have failed to inspire them.
“They have failed to get a political home except a cemetery.”
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commissio was still to comment over the matter at the time of writing-
What do you say about the Govt spokesman's death threat that invalidates future elections @mangwana_jasper@ZECzim ?
An audio of Zimbabwe Warriors star Kudakwashe Mahachi telling his former mother-in-law that he did a paternity test in 2019 that confirmed that he is the biological father of his four-year-old son who is currently battling for his life at Mpilo Central Hospital after he was allegedly scalded with boiling water by the embattled footballer has emerged.
The DNA test, done at the University of Science and Technology (Nust), also revealed that the girl Mahachi was raising as his daughter was not his biological child.
The audio contradicts widespread social media reports that allege that Maritha Ndlovu, the mother of the scalded boy, had committed paternity fraud.
“I am sorry mama for calling you while you are at work.
How are you feeling today?
I thought I should inform you, lest you think that I am neglecting my children, that in 2019 I did a DNA test at Nust and it proves that I have one child, not two.
The child I thought was my daughter is not my daughter.
“The DNA proves that the boy is my son and not the girl.
I sent Maritha the proof.
I thought you should know and I want to send elders to visit you so that we discuss the issue,” Mahachi is heard telling his speechless former mother-in-law.
The audio also captures Mahachi volunteering to do another paternity test to prove the validity of the results to his doubtful former mother-in-law.
He said: “I wanted you to know what is happening so that you don’t wonder why I am taking care of my son and not the girl.
If they want me to do another DNA test, I will do it.
I just don’t want this child to have my surname because she is not my daughter.
“I have been good to the girl but she is not my child and I thought it is prudent for everyone to know that she is not my child.
I don’t want to have bad luck by taking care of a child that is not mine.”
Mahachi’s lawyer, Nkosiyabo Sibanda of Tanaka Law Chambers, refused to comment.
Maritha Ndlovu dismissed the paternity fraud allegations on social media as false and malicious.
“I don’t think it’s true that a DNA test has been done recently.
That is just a rumour that is being spread by people who just want to be malicious. It is also.
I am ready for a DNA test any day to prove that Kuda is the father of my son,” she said.
By A Correspondent- President Nelson Chamisa has congratulated high flyer Marjorie Ngwenya, a British born Zimbabwean actuary appointed a member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee.
The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee.supervises banks and investment firms.
Said President Chamisa:
Well done Marjorie! We have our eyes on all these brilliant & bright sparks in preparation for taking off in a New Great Zimbabwe. Brilliant Zimbabweans are leading everywhere, in Africa, Europe, Asia and America but Zimbabwe is not leading. This must and will change!
Ngwenya is a former president of the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has turned to ex-combatants to lead mass mobilisation campaigns as fears of a possible electoral defeat in the 2023 elections send tremors down Zanu PF corridors.
Government on Wednesday announced a number of freebies for the ex-combatants to oil them for what many dread would be a campaign of terror reminiscent of the 2008 re-run horror spearheaded by the former freedom fighters.
“The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association is challenged to scale up mobilisation programmes for the upcoming 2023 election. All party wings have a role to play for the realisation of five million votes. Together we are stronger,” Mnangagwa said on Wednesday ahead of the party’spolitburo session.
He said Zanu PF was not leaving anything to chance, saying the party’s election machinery should be sharpened, with structures told to also target first-time voters.
“Most importantly, there must be increased visibility of the party, cell by cell, branch by branch, district by district,” the Zanu PF leader said.
The growing trend by Zanu PF to turn to war veterans for support towards the elections coupled with government freebies has prompted critics to accuse the ruling party of selfishly abusing the former guerrilla war fighters to remain in power.
The ex-combatants themselves have also acted like mercenaries by not hesitating to holding the nation to ransom by perennially demanding compensation.-Newsday
By A Correspondent- The number of people who died in a road accident in South Africa when a Harare-bound bus overturned near Makhado in Limpopo Province last week has risen from five to seven after two more people succumbed to injuries incurred during the accident.
It is reported that the driver of the Mutambara owned Chihwa bus that was travelling from Cape Town to Harare lost control along the N1 highway and it overturned killing five people on the spot.
Twenty of the passengers were critically injured, while 41 escaped with minor wounds and have been treated and discharged.
The country’s Consul-General to Johannesburg, Mrs Melody Chaurura said yesterday that two more people who had been in a critical condition later died in hospital.
She said their consular team on the ground had identified the remains of Elfa Danha (49), Wilson Kumbirikai (66), Sydney Moyo (31), Tendai Ngirandi (31), Amanda Tafadzwa Muzhewe (30), Everjoy Makwara (29) and Linda Ruvanda (29).
“Following the tragic accident, we sent a consular team on the ground to assist with the identification of the deceased, verification of documents, and tracing of the deceased relatives,” said Mrs Chaurura.
“So, it has been established that the deceased and all the injured people are Zimbabweans.
“Currently, we are working assisting relatives of the deceased with the repatriation process. The process is at varying stages.”
She said the bus was carrying 66 passengers when tragedy struck.
Mrs Chaurura extended condolences to the grieving families and wished those injured a speedy recovery.
She said so far 10 others were in critical condition and admitted to various health facilities in Limpopo Province.
has banned the launch of The Zimbabwe We Want Campaign which was slated for today. They have gone on to threaten the Dutch Reformed Church with unspecified action should the launch proceed
By- President Emerson Mnangagwa has conferred the late Major-General (Retired) Sikhulile Simpson Nyathi with national hero status.
Zanu PF National Political Commissar Mike Bimha confirmed the development last night.
“The Politburo this afternoon (yesterday) applauded the decision made by President Mnangagwa to confer national hero status to the late Major General (Rtd) Simpson Nyathi. “The public will be advised on the burial arrangements in due course,” said Bimha
Maj-Gen Nyathi died on Sunday morning at the Josiah Magama Tongogara Barracks Referral Hospital in Harare. He was 61.
By- The State-controlled Herald has apologised for printing and publishing a congratulatory message on an advert consoling the death of a senior Army official.
Below is the Herald’s embarrassing apology:
Reference is made to an advertisement by the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe offering condolences on the passing of Major General (Retired) Godfrey Chanakira which appeared in The Herald today. In signing off the advert, an error was made in which Makorokoto, Amhlophe, Congratulations was printed on the condolence message. This is regrettable and unfortunate. We unreservedly apologise to the family of Maj Gen (Rtd) Chanakira, the Zimbabwe National Army, the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe and the entire nation for the error.
By-Zimbabwe Consul-General to Johannesburg, Mrs Melody Chaurura, said the number of people who died in a road accident in South Africa when a Harare-bound bus overturned near Makhado in Limpopo Province last week has risen to seven (7). It is reported that the driver of the Chihwa bus that was travelling from Cape Town to Harare lost control along the N1 highway, and it overturned, killing five people on the spot. Twenty of the passengers were critically injured, while 41 escaped with minor wounds and have been treated and discharged. Mrs Chaurura said their consular team on the ground had identified the remains of Elfa Danha (49), Wilson Kumbirikai (66), Sydney Moyo (31), Tendai Ngirandi (31), Amanda Tafadzwa Muzhewe (30), Everjoy Makwara (29) and Linda Ruvanda (29). “Following the tragic accident, we sent a consular team on the ground to assist with the identification of the deceased, verification of documents, and tracing of the deceased relatives,” said Mrs Chaurura. “So, it has been established that the deceased and all the injured people are Zimbabweans.
“Currently, we are working assisting relatives of the deceased with the repatriation process. The process is at varying stages.” She said the bus was carrying 66 passengers when tragedy struck. Mrs Chaurura extended condolences to the grieving families and wished those injured a speedy recovery. She said so far 10 others were in critical condition and admitted to various health facilities in Limpopo Province.
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) says the ruling ZANU PF party has been implicated in the harassment and abduction of opponents in the past two months.
In its May monthly report released this week, ZPP said ZANU PF is intimidating rural folk ahead of the 2023 general elections. Reads the report in part:
“The patterns of intimidation and harassment, abductions and assaults implicating the ruling party continue unabated.
It is of great concern that over the past two months, the ZANU PF government, which was the major perpetrator of the 2008 electoral violence and other forms of atrocities before that, is on a systematic drive to intimidate citizens, especially those in rural areas ahead of the 2023 elections.”
ZANU PF allegedly unleashed an orgy of violence targeting MDC-T supporters during the 2008 presidential election runoff between the late former President Robert Mugabe and the late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Tsvangirai eventually withdrew from the race citing violence against his supporters, leaving Mugabe to run a one-man race.
Meanwhile, ZANU PF director for information Tafadzwa Mugwadi dismissed the ZPP report saying the organisation is funded by the country’s detractors to tarnish the ruling party’s image. Said Mugwadi:
“We have no regard for ZPP and all those associated with it and its entire puppet discourses.
It is an organisation manned by neo-imperial elements funded to tarnish the people’s agenda as represented by ZANU PF.
They have no shame nor spine, no facts nor truth but vendetta-laden discourses tailored to salvage waning relevance in the non-governmental organisation sector and in the process, receive donor handouts. ZPP can safely go hang.” -NewsDay
By-The Zimbabwe Republic Police have denied Heal Zimbabwe authority to hold a candlelight commemoration of the late academic Alex Tawanda Magaisa in the Harare Gardens on 11 June.
In a letter dated 9 June 2022, the Officer Commanding Harare Central District Superintendent G Moyo advised Heal Zimbabwe that he would not sanction the event saying the organisers did not comply with provisions of the Maintenance of Peace and Order. Wrote Superintendent Moyo: Your notification letter dated 9 June 2022 to hold a candle lighting commemoration of Dr Alex Magaisa on the 11th of June 2022 at Harare Gardens from 1200 hours to 1500 hours has been noted. I am not in a position to sanction the gathering. You did not comply with Section 7 (1) (a) of the Maintenance of Peace and Order Chapter 11:23. Magaisa died on Sunday at Margate Hospital in the United Kingdom after suffering a cardiac arrest. The former advisor to late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai worked at the University of Warwick, the University of Nottingham and since 2007, he was based at Kent Law School, the University of Kent at the time of his death on 5 June 2022.
His main area of teaching and research was company and financial services law.
Tinashe Sambiri| The wicked flee when nobody is pursuing them, goes the biblical saying…
The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa, fearing a military coup, has elevated his son to the rank of major general in the army.
Mr Mnangagwa is desperate to remain in office in the wake of the deepening economic abyss.
Read NewsDay Zimbabwe article below:
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son, Sean has reportedly been promoted to the post of army major, raising speculation that the Zanu-PF party leader is consolidating his power within the army as he prepares for the 2023 watershed elections.
Mnangagwa came to power in November 2017 after toppling his mentor, the late former President Robert Mugabe in a coup.
“Sean was a lieutenant before he was promoted to the position of captain in the Presidential Guard, a position which he currently holds,” a source said.
“He (Sean) is set to be appointed an army major after passing a course. Sean is also a businessman and is a disciplined person. At the moment he is one of Mnangagwa’s key pillars in politics,” the source added.
On Sean’s elevation, Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Alphios Makotore said the President’s son was still captain, but had passed a junior staff course.
“It is true that he passed a junior staff course, he is a captain in the army and has not been promoted. After passing the course, and just like anyone else, everyone needs progression in life. There was a picture of him circulating on social media saying he is now an army major. He was just celebrating passing a junior staff course just like any individual would do after being successful,” Makotore said.
Political analyst Methuseli Moyo said there was no reason to scandalise progression of the Mnangagwa’s son in the army.
“So far no one has brought forward any reason why he should not be promoted, except that he is the President’s son. As to whether his upcoming promotion has a bearing on issues in Zanu-PF, I think it is farfetched. Again, to imagine that the President can consolidate power through his son in the army is stretching issues a bit too far,” Moyo said.
Another political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya said: “I think he (Sean Mnangagwa) does not have an influence in the army as he does not have any war credentials.”- NewsDay Zimbabwe
A Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officer stationed at Infantry 4.1 Brigade has appeared in court on allegations of stealing cerevita and some biscuits from a shop.
Milton Mutumbi (30) appeared this week before Masvingo Magistrate Ritaiswe Silaigwana charged with theft.
Mutumbi and his alleged accomplice, Wilson Kambeva (36) of Dambiro street Mucheke A, are jointly charged for the crimes.
Prosecuting, Nixon Chamisa, said on 10 February 2022, at around 5 AM, Mutumbi and Kambeva broke into the complainant McDonald Tava’s shop at Mucheke Rank through a window.
The duo allegedly took 20×500g boxes of cerevita porridge, 2×250g loose biscuits, 10×500g biscuits and a box of cornflakes and hid them at a secluded place.
The court further heard that one Tanaka Mufamba who was at the working place on night duty witnessed the burglary.
The accused persons allegedly shared the loot and gave some to Mufamba so that he would not reveal the offence.
Mufamba was arrested by the police after receiving a tip-off. Mufamba then exposed the other two.
Police recovered 1 box of cerevita, 2×500g biscuits and one box of cornflakes from Mutumbi.
Silaigwana remanded the matter to 22 June 22 2022 for the continuation of the trial.
COSAFA has picked Peter Ndlovu as one of the best ever players to feature in the COSAFA Cup tournament.
Ndlovu, now retired,was at one point Zimbabwe’s all time leading scorer with eight goals in the competition.
The regional body has named the ex-Warriors captain among the the ten players who have lit up the COSAFA Cup tournament and etched their names into the tournament’s history over the last 25 years.
COSAFA said: “Ndlovu was at one stage the greatest goal-scorer for Zimbabwe in the history of the COSAFA Cup, having netted eight goals during his time in the competition.
“Ndlovu always made himself available for the COSAFA Cup despite playing in the big leagues in England and his goals return was impressive, stretching over some seven seasons. His hat-trick in 2004 against eSwatini were the final goals he scored in the regional championship.
“He started his career with hometown club Highlanders in Bulawayo, before moving to England with Coventry City. He also played for Birmingham City, Sheffield United and Huddersfield, before returning to Africa to play for Mamelodi Sundowns, where he is currently acting as team manager.”
Other players to make the list include: Deon Hotto (Namibia), Brian Baloyi (SA), MaKersley Appou (Mauritius), Fabrice Akwa (Angola), Manuel ‘Tico-Tico’ Bacuane (Mozambique), Felix Badenhorst (Eswatini), Rotson Kilambe (Zambia), Lehlohonolo Seema (Lesotho), and Dipsy Selolwane (Botswana).- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) says the ruling ZANU PF party has been implicated in the harassment and abduction of opponents in the past two months.
In its May monthly report released this week, ZPP said ZANU PF is intimidating rural folk ahead of the 2023 general elections. Reads the report in part:
“The patterns of intimidation and harassment, abductions and assaults implicating the ruling party continue unabated.
It is of great concern that over the past two months, the ZANU PF government, which was the major perpetrator of the 2008 electoral violence and other forms of atrocities before that, is on a systematic drive to intimidate citizens, especially those in rural areas ahead of the 2023 elections.”
ZANU PF allegedly unleashed an orgy of violence targeting MDC-T supporters during the 2008 presidential election runoff between the late former President Robert Mugabe and the late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Tsvangirai eventually withdrew from the race citing violence against his supporters, leaving Mugabe to run a one-man race.
Meanwhile, ZANU PF director for information Tafadzwa Mugwadi dismissed the ZPP report saying the organisation is funded by the country’s detractors to tarnish the ruling party’s image. Said Mugwadi:
“We have no regard for ZPP and all those associated with it and its entire puppet discourses.
It is an organisation manned by neo-imperial elements funded to tarnish the people’s agenda as represented by ZANU PF.
They have no shame nor spine, no facts nor truth but vendetta-laden discourses tailored to salvage waning relevance in the non-governmental organisation sector and in the process, receive donor handouts. ZPP can safely go hang.” –
By-The State has called for a custodial sentence against convicted former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye when the court sentences her today.
Kagonye was yesterday remanded in custody for sentencing after she was found guilty of stealing 20 laptops that were meant to benefit schools in her constituency in Goromonzi South, Mashonaland East province. In convicting Kagonye, Harare regional magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro said the former minister failed to account for the laptops donated to her in 2020 during the course of the trial.
Mrs Guwuriro also said Kagonye failed to outline in her defence how she accounted for the laptops that were donated by the then Minister of Information Communication and Technology, Postal and Courier Services, Supa Mandiwanzira, through the e-learning project. “Her defence that she donated them to less privileged is a far-fetched argument that does not make any sense. “It was in her mind to think they were for less privileged ones. She failed to account for other 17 and accounted for three, which does not tally with the explanation she gave in court. “According to documentary evidence, 20 (laptops) were for two schools and they were left in the hands of accused for distribution.
“She sent the first begging bowl saying that she wanted to donate the laptops to schools and the court is in a quandary as to what makes the targeted beneficiaries to change,” said Mrs Guwuriro in her judgment. Mrs Guwuriro also indicated that she was surprised to note that Kagonye was ignorant of the fact she was supposed to account for the laptops considering that they were bought using public funds. The court said Kagonye was seized with the obligation to account for the laptops, which she totally ignored. “The computers were being given under the e-learning programme and the ICT handover form indicated that the beneficiaries had to submit it after 30 days. “The receiver had a duty to account for the laptops and provide the list to POTRAZ (Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe). To her (Kagonye), she said the laptops were to be given to the needy and was not actively involved in their distribution. “She never insisted on the need to account for the beneficiaries and claiming that the obligation never existed. It appears that out of ignorance she never signed the handover form.
“The court does not believe that she does not know that she had the obligation to submit the names of beneficiaries to POTRAZ, an organisation that deals with public funds,” she said. The State led by Mr Zivanai Macharaga, when presenting aggravating submissions, called for a custodial sentence saying by stealing public funds, Kagonye committed a serious offence. “Accused is accused of stealing public funds which is a very serious offence and Zimbabwe’s ranking on corruption is very bad and the reputation of misappropriating public funds is very bad. “These laptops were meant for rural schools in Goromonzi South where the poorest of the poor learn and she was responsible for social welfare. “The people of Zimbabwe had entrusted the welfare of the poor into her hands and she was the last hope of the poor. She took advantage of that trust and stole from the poor. I have not seen, possibly in our society, that a minister responsible for the poor steals from the poor,” he said. Through her lawyer Mr Rungano Mahuni, Kagonye begged for leniency saying she was a first offender and a breadwinner in her family. Mr Mahuni insisted that Kagonye never stole the laptops in question saying they were donated to the intended beneficiaries. In denying stealing the laptops, Kagonye said she ceased to be a minister of Government in 2018.
She said it was not true that POTRAZ or anyone from that department contacted her at her home and requested an explanation over the computers, which she failed to provide. Circumstances leading to Kagonye’s arrest and subsequent conviction are that she wrote to then ICT Minister Mandiwanzira in 2018, who in turn wrote to POTRAZ asking that they facilitate a donation of computers through the e-learning project to schools in Goromonzi South Constituency. Twenty computers were then donated and were collected by Kagonye’s brother, Evans, on her behalf. Officials from POTRAZ made follow-ups on the donation and Kagonye failed to account for the computers leading to her arrest. -Herald
The Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda was on Wednesday barred by State security agents from attending a crucial Zanu PF politburo meeting as the ruling party hounds him over his recent call for a diaspora vote and the appointment of a second vice-president.
Mudenda courted the ire of Zanu PF when he said the Constitution should be amended to allow millions of Zimbabweans outside the country to vote in the 2023 elections.
He also called for a speedy appointment of a second vice-president in the spirit of the 1987 Unity Accord after former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi resigned following a messy sex scandal.
Only Zimbabweans on diplomatic missions and civil servants outside the country are allowed to vote and Mnangagwa has been evasive about the appointment of the second VP.
There are also claims that Mudenda is reportedly positioning himself to replace Mohadi.
Party fanatics have been circulating pictures of Mudenda allegedly dining with foreign embassy officials, saying he is compromised and not serving party interests.
“Mudenda was barred from attending the politburo meeting by some State security agents because people in the party are not happy with the diaspora vote which he called for recently,” a Zanu PF source said.
When contacted for comment, Mudenda curtly said: “That’s nonsense,” before dropping the call.
Zanu PF political commissar and acting spokesperson Mike Bimha said: “He (Mudenda) was asked to be excused from the politburo by the President Emmerson Mnangagwa since he had a question-and-answer session in Parliament. President Mnangagwa realised that Hon Mudenda was in the politburo when we started the meeting at 2pm, the time the question-and-answer session starts in Parliament.”
But on Wednesday, Mnangagwa read the riot act to Mudenda during the politburo meeting, saying personal views should not be paraded in the public as party policy.
“We are a party united by our shared ideology and common values. All of us are subject to the collective wisdom of the party. The correct party line must be adhered to once a collective decision has been made. Personal views and opinions must never be smuggled to assume the status of being a party policy,” Mnangagwa said.
Last week, Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa chastised Mudenda saying: “It’s okay for Parliament, as the electorate of the sovereign people of Zimbabwe, to express their certain views.
“We also belong to a party and we have the majority. It’s unbecoming when some of our members express views in Parliament about certain issues. We have a caucus at the party. Why would somebody from the ruling party want to go and express things about the diaspora or express things about when the President should be electing a vice-president?”
“We should discuss them here. To go out and start talking out of turn is not the Zanu PF way. There is no problem in having variant views, but let’s discuss them if you are a party member. As the spokesperson of the party, I appeal for discipline from our party members.”
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba later called Mudenda to order saying he had overstepped his mandate as Speaker of the National Assembly. –Newsday
The ex-wife of Zimbabwe’s former controversial minister Ignatius Chombo, Marian, has announced saying the fraudulent Pomona contract is above board.
Marian Chombo
The Pomona dumpsite contract was passed outside the tender procedures per the laws of Zimbabwe and in the deal an armed robber enlist, Mr. Delish Nguwaya and his entire group of directors, previously part of the embarrassing COVID money scandal, are charging the Harare City council a whopping USD40,000 per day for disposing the municipality’s garbage while not investing anything.
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€304 million joint venture deal between Harare City Council and German investor, Geogenix BV, to set up a massive waste-to-energy project at Pomona dumpsite in Harare, was done in line with the country’s laws.
The project is expected to generate up to 22MW of electricity.
In her presentation in the National Assembly yesterday, Local Government and Public Works Deputy Minister Dr Marian Chombo gave a background of how Harare had since 2016, been looking for investors to set up a waste management plant at Pomona and had received various expressions of interest from many players including Geogenix BV.
“In 2020, Geogenix resubmitted its proposal to council for a joint venture waste to energy plant. The proposal was presented to the Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency which is a statutory body responsible for the promotion, entry, protection and facilitation of investment in Zimbabwe,” she said.
Deputy Minister Chombo said Geogenix was an international company which needed to follow laid down investment procedures as laid out by the ZIDA Act.
She added that ZIDA forwarded the proposals to the Cabinet Committee on Joint Ventures, which in turn presented the proposals to Cabinet for approval.
Deputy Minister Chombo said Cabinet was the highest executive authority in the country and the Harare City Council had an obligation to implement Cabinet decisions, which they did when they entered into a contract with the German company.
She, however, said on May 3, Mr Allan Markham, Harare North legislator and others, sued the Minister of Local Government and Public Works, July Moyo, Harare City Council and Geogenix at the High Court seeking the nullification of the contract.
Deputy Minister Chombo said the contract had many benefits that include power generation, employment creation and waste management adding that its implementation would continue unless the Courts rule otherwise.
Following her presentation, Speaker Advocate Jacob Mudenda ruled that because of the lawsuit, debate on the matter could not proceed resulting in the ejection of CCC legislators Tendai Biti and Charlton Hwende from the National Assembly chamber for their rowdy behaviour. – Herald
Tinashe Sambiri| Sensing defeat in the coming polls, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is threatening to withdraw resettled farmers’ offer letters.
“The land reform program is irreversible. Zanu PF must stop using land as a tool for forced political mobilization.
In the new Zimbabwe, farmers will get title deeds, land tenure will be secure & land won’t be controlled by politicians or the political mood of the day,” CCC spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere said.
Tinashe Sambiri| The wicked flee when nobody is pursuing them, goes the biblical saying…
The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa, fearing a military coup, has elevated his son to the rank of major general in the army.
Mr Mnangagwa is desperate to remain in office in the wake of the deepening economic abyss.
Read NewsDay Zimbabwe article below:
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son, Sean has reportedly been promoted to the post of army major, raising speculation that the Zanu-PF party leader is consolidating his power within the army as he prepares for the 2023 watershed elections.
Mnangagwa came to power in November 2017 after toppling his mentor, the late former President Robert Mugabe in a coup.
“Sean was a lieutenant before he was promoted to the position of captain in the Presidential Guard, a position which he currently holds,” a source said.
“He (Sean) is set to be appointed an army major after passing a course. Sean is also a businessman and is a disciplined person. At the moment he is one of Mnangagwa’s key pillars in politics,” the source added.
On Sean’s elevation, Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Alphios Makotore said the President’s son was still captain, but had passed a junior staff course.
“It is true that he passed a junior staff course, he is a captain in the army and has not been promoted. After passing the course, and just like anyone else, everyone needs progression in life. There was a picture of him circulating on social media saying he is now an army major. He was just celebrating passing a junior staff course just like any individual would do after being successful,” Makotore said.
Political analyst Methuseli Moyo said there was no reason to scandalise progression of the Mnangagwa’s son in the army.
“So far no one has brought forward any reason why he should not be promoted, except that he is the President’s son. As to whether his upcoming promotion has a bearing on issues in Zanu-PF, I think it is farfetched. Again, to imagine that the President can consolidate power through his son in the army is stretching issues a bit too far,” Moyo said.
Another political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya said: “I think he (Sean Mnangagwa) does not have an influence in the army as he does not have any war credentials.”- NewsDay Zimbabwe
SuperSport United CEO Stan Matthews has confirmed that the club will not renew the contract of Zimbabwean winger Kudakwashe Mahachi.
The diminutive former Chicken Inn star is currently suspended by SuperSport, who have advised him to attend to the child abuse allegations he is facing and clear his name.
Mahachi is being accused by his ex-wife Maritha Ndlovu of scalding their 4-year old son Diego Mahachi, with hot water.
His contact with the Pretoria-based side expires on June 30 and Matthews says it won’t be renewed.
“He’s been on suspension, I’ve met with him personally and his lawyer, and we’ve just decided that from our part as a football club this matter is a serious matter, that he needs to go and attend to, and see to his family and his priorities,” Matthews told South African radio Power 98.7.
“We suspended him from all football activities at that time, he remained suspended. His contract expires on the 30th of June, so there won’t really be any further action on our part.
“We’ve encouraged him to focus on clearing his name, and making sure his child gets the best-rehabilitated care as possible, given the current situation.”
“That is something you’d need to speak to Kuda about, as from a club perspective, his contract expires at the end of the month, it won’t be renewed. He remains on suspension until all these issues between himself and his personal family situation are resolved,” he added. – Soccer24 Zimbabwe
A 17-year-old Chipinge boy died on Saturday after he was struck with a log on his head for allegedly fondling a 14-year-old girl’s breasts without her consent.
Kudakwashe Nyamunda of Chidzvururwi Village was attacked by Bornface Madhumbu (39) of the same village under Chief Musikavanhu in Chipinge.
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson in Manicaland Province Inspector Nobert Muzondo confirmed the incident and said police have since arrested the suspect.
Allegations are that on Saturday, 4 June 2022 at around 4 PM, Madhumbu’s niece who cannot be named because of her age (14) told him that Nyamunda had fondled her breasts on her way from the borehole.
Madhumbu allegedly went to search for Nyamunda and found him at his uncle Munoonei Muyambo’s place in the same village.
It is further alleged that Madhumbu struck Nyamunda once with a log on the head.
Nyamunda escaped and ran away while Madhumbu returned to his homestead.
At 11 AM the following morning, Muyambo stumbled upon Nyamunda’s body lying lifeless in a bush about 100 metres from his homestead.
Muyambo notified the village head Partson Muyambo who reported the matter to the police leading to the arrest of Madhumbu.
The deceased’s body was taken to St Peter’s Mission Hospital for a postmortem.- Chipinge Times
By- President Emerson Mnangagwa has conferred the late Major-General (Retired) Sikhulile Simpson Nyathi with national hero status.
Zanu PF National Political Commissar Mike Bimha confirmed the development last night.
“The Politburo this afternoon (yesterday) applauded the decision made by President Mnangagwa to confer national hero status to the late Major General (Rtd) Simpson Nyathi. “The public will be advised on the burial arrangements in due course,” said Bimha
Maj-Gen Nyathi died on Sunday morning at the Josiah Magama Tongogara Barracks Referral Hospital in Harare. He was 61.
By-Zimbabwe Consul-General to Johannesburg, Mrs Melody Chaurura has released the names of people who died in a road accident in South Africa when a Harare-bound bus overturned near Makhado in Limpopo Province last week. It is reported that the driver of the Chihwa bus that was travelling from Cape Town to Harare lost control along the N1 highway, and it overturned killing five people on the spot. Twenty of the passengers were critically injured, while 41 escaped with minor wounds and have been treated and discharged. Mrs Chaurura said their consular team on the ground had identified the remains of Elfa Danha (49), Wilson Kumbirikai (66), Sydney Moyo (31), Tendai Ngirandi (31), Amanda Tafadzwa Muzhewe (30), Everjoy Makwara (29) and Linda Ruvanda (29). “Following the tragic accident, we sent a consular team on the ground to assist with the identification of the deceased, verification of documents, and tracing of the deceased relatives,” said Mrs Chaurura. “So, it has been established that the deceased and all the injured people are Zimbabweans.
“Currently, we are working assisting relatives of the deceased with the repatriation process. The process is at varying stages.” She said the bus was carrying 66 passengers when tragedy struck. Mrs Chaurura extended condolences to the grieving families and wished those injured a speedy recovery. She said so far 10 others were in critical condition and admitted to various health facilities in Limpopo Province.
By-The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has declined to grant a request by Heal Zimbabwe to hold a candlelight commemoration of the late academic Alex Tawanda Magaisa in the Harare Gardens on 11 June.
In a letter dated 9 June 2022, the Officer Commanding Harare Central District Superintendent G Moyo advised Heal Zimbabwe that he would not sanction the event saying the organisers did not comply with provisions of the Maintenance of Peace and Order. Wrote Superintendent Moyo: Your notification letter dated 9 June 2022 to hold a candle lighting commemoration of Dr Alex Magaisa on the 11th of June 2022 at Harare Gardens from 1200 hours to 1500 hours has been noted. I am not in a position to sanction the gathering. You did not comply with Section 7 (1) (a) of the Maintenance of Peace and Order Chapter 11:23. Magaisa died on Sunday at Margate Hospital in the United Kingdom after suffering a cardiac arrest. The former advisor to late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai worked at the University of Warwick, the University of Nottingham and since 2007, he was based at Kent Law School, the University of Kent at the time of his death on 5 June 2022.
His main area of teaching and research was company and financial services law.
By- CCC leader Nelson Chamisa has attended the memorial service of the late Alex Magaisa.
The memorial service is taking place at Celebration Centre in Harare.
Magaisa died on Sunday morning after years of battling a heart ailment. He succumbed to a heart attack at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Kent, southeast England.
Posted Chamisa on Twitter:
At the memorial….Celebrating a legacy of Active Citizenship-The life of Dr Alex Magaisa.
By A Correspondent- An advert by the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe mourning the death of Major General Godfrey Chanakira has gone viral on the internet after the institutiojn mistakenly included the words Makorokoto, Amhlophe, Congratulations.
Chanakira was Permanent Secretary in Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s Office.
He retired from active military service in 2018, joining VP Chiwenga’s Office as a senior staffer.
By- Former Cabinet Minister Petronella Kagonye has been sentenced to 36 months imprisonment.
Kagonye was caged after being convicted for stealing 20 laptops t meant for schools in the Goromonzi South constituency.
Harare regional magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro had initially sentenced Kagonye to 36 months in prison before setting aside 12 months for five years on condition of good behaviour.
A further eight months were set aside on the condition that she restitutes US$10 000, equivalent to the laptops she stole.
By- The European Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen, has challenged the Government to investigate reported cases of enforced disappearances and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Speaking to NewsDay after the fourth EU-Zimbabwe Dialogue meeting in Harare on Tuesday, Olkkonen said:
Zimbabwe, unfortunately, has a history of forced disappearances. We still have reports of disappearances of people.
We encouraged the Government to take these allegations seriously and transparently look into them.
We want Zimbabwe to report on its findings and bring the culprits to justice. It needs to be addressed seriously so that the facts behind all the alleged cases are brought to daylight.
We have differences of opinion on how a number of human rights issues are addressed. We hope that Zimbabwe would make more progress on those matters.
However, Foreign Affairs and International Trade ministry secretary James Manzou who co-chaired the fourth EU-Zimbabwe Dialogue meeting said there are no human rights violations in the country. Manzou said:
Zimbabwe doesn’t have any human rights violations. Of course, they would cite certain issues.
Yes, there are areas where we had different views. Even in your family, you have different views, but you sit down and discuss them.
So we used this opportunity to outline the reforms that we are undertaking such as media and electoral reforms.
This was an opportunity to tell them that this is what we are doing.
Olkkonen’s concerns on enforced disappearances came after CCC activist Moreblessing Ali was allegedly abducted by suspected ZANU PF members in Chitungwiza on 24 May.
However, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) released a statement saying Ali’s disappearance had nothing to do with politics.
Police said Ali was having personal issues with her former boyfriend, Pius Jamba, who reportedly dragged her away from a local bar.
SuperSport United CEO Stan Matthews has confirmed that the club will not renew the contract of Zimbabwean winger Kudakwashe Mahachi.
The diminutive former Chicken Inn star is currently suspended by SuperSport, who have advised him to attend to the child abuse allegations he is facing and clear his name.
Mahachi is being accused by his ex-wife Maritha Ndlovu of scalding their 4-year old son Diego Mahachi, with hot water.
His contact with the Pretoria-based side expires on June 30 and Matthews says it won’t be renewed.
“He’s been on suspension, I’ve met with him personally and his lawyer, and we’ve just decided that from our part as a football club this matter is a serious matter, that he needs to go and attend to, and see to his family and his priorities,” Matthews told South African radio Power 98.7.
“We suspended him from all football activities at that time, he remained suspended. His contract expires on the 30th of June, so there won’t really be any further action on our part.
“We’ve encouraged him to focus on clearing his name, and making sure his child gets the best-rehabilitated care as possible, given the current situation.”
“That is something you’d need to speak to Kuda about, as from a club perspective, his contract expires at the end of the month, it won’t be renewed. He remains on suspension until all these issues between himself and his personal family situation are resolved,” he added. – Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri| The wicked flee when nobody is pursuing them, goes the biblical saying…
The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa, fearing a military coup, has elevated his son to the rank of major general in the army.
Mr Mnangagwa is desperate to remain in office in the wake of the deepening economic abyss.
Read NewsDay Zimbabwe article below:
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son, Sean has reportedly been promoted to the post of army major, raising speculation that the Zanu-PF party leader is consolidating his power within the army as he prepares for the 2023 watershed elections.
Mnangagwa came to power in November 2017 after toppling his mentor, the late former President Robert Mugabe in a coup.
“Sean was a lieutenant before he was promoted to the position of captain in the Presidential Guard, a position which he currently holds,” a source said.
“He (Sean) is set to be appointed an army major after passing a course. Sean is also a businessman and is a disciplined person. At the moment he is one of Mnangagwa’s key pillars in politics,” the source added.
On Sean’s elevation, Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Alphios Makotore said the President’s son was still captain, but had passed a junior staff course.
“It is true that he passed a junior staff course, he is a captain in the army and has not been promoted. After passing the course, and just like anyone else, everyone needs progression in life. There was a picture of him circulating on social media saying he is now an army major. He was just celebrating passing a junior staff course just like any individual would do after being successful,” Makotore said.
Political analyst Methuseli Moyo said there was no reason to scandalise progression of the Mnangagwa’s son in the army.
“So far no one has brought forward any reason why he should not be promoted, except that he is the President’s son. As to whether his upcoming promotion has a bearing on issues in Zanu-PF, I think it is farfetched. Again, to imagine that the President can consolidate power through his son in the army is stretching issues a bit too far,” Moyo said.
Another political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya said: “I think he (Sean Mnangagwa) does not have an influence in the army as he does not have any war credentials.”- NewsDay Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri| Sensing defeat in the coming polls, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is threatening to withdraw resettled farmers’ offer letters.
“The land reform program is irreversible. Zanu PF must stop using land as a tool for forced political mobilization.
In the new Zimbabwe, farmers will get title deeds, land tenure will be secure & land won’t be controlled by politicians or the political mood of the day,” CCC spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere said.
Tinashe Sambiri| Sensing defeat in the coming polls, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is threatening to withdraw resettled farmers’ offer letters.
“The land reform program is irreversible. Zanu PF must stop using land as a tool for forced political mobilization.
In the new Zimbabwe, farmers will get title deeds, land tenure will be secure & land won’t be controlled by politicians or the political mood of the day,” CCC spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere said.
By A Correspondent- Zimbabweans working as carers in some of United Kingdom’s health care centres are being charged a shock 31% of their initial wages over a period as administration fees by unscrupulous agents back home who would have facilitated their migration, ZimLive can reveal.
According to payslips published by Fresh In A Box chief executive Kudakwashe Musasiwa on Twitter, one payslip showed that one worker took home just 604 British Pounds after initially grossing 2 255.13 Pounds.
In the payslip, the worker was charged 700 Pounds, while paying 69.41 Pounds National Insurance and other deductions of 450 Pounds.
The agencies’ costs are normally referred to as Administration or Miscellaneous fees on payslips. UK regulations allow a creditor to pay up to 25% of one’s salary.
Another payslip revealed that a worker who earned 861 Pounds was charged 480 Pounds as miscellaneous fees. National Insurance deducted 7.75 Pounds and pension 34.47 Pounds.
Todd Maforimbo, a Zimbabwean resident in the United Kingdom warned his compatriots against cutting deals without due diligence.
“There’s just too much happening in the UK healthcare sector; please people make wise and informed decisions before coming to the UK as care/support workers,” Maforimbo said.
However, a worker who has since migrated to the UK told ZimLive that the charges were justified as the facilitation package often involved one’s flight tickets and accommodation for the first three months of their stay in the UK.
As per agreement, the worker said he was supposed to pay the agent US$5 000 over a period of 12 months. He said he paid $2 724 for skills assessment, $286 as English test fees and $2 179 for a four-year visa permit.
“We are a broken nation. Home and away…we don’t need white slave owners when we are happy to enslave each other comrades. We must do better,” said Musasiwa.
But responding to Musasiwa, Albert Mandebvu, a researcher in human rights and social justice said the agencies were correct in deducting the fees.
“It’s dangerous to put out a comment like that without all facts. Remember when someone is brought from Zimbabwe, there are tickets and visa processing costs involved.
“These are not freebies, they’ve to be paid back. There may have been agreement between the two to deduct huge amount.”ZimLive
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threatened to wield the axe on poorly performing Zanu-PF members and those deployed in government because they would cost the ruling party in the 2023 elections.
Mnangagwa made the remarks while opening a politburo meeting in the capital.
“It is unacceptable that those given positions of responsibility simply sit in offices with little to show (for it). Non-performers will face consequences,” Mnangagwa said, before admitting that factionalism was tearing the ruling party apart.
“The party remains the backbone of the nation. There is no room for mixed messaging within our party. We are a party of order with clear procedures. I challenge the party to courageously remove any cancerous cells that undermine the party unity and focus.”
The President also urged Zanu-PF members to roll out a massive election campaign to ensure a landslide victory next year.
“I, therefore, exhort us to proffer robust proposals that inject a new lease of life in the party and l want you all to know that we are all the servants of the party as we scale up our mass mobilisation for a resounding victory in the 2023 elections,” he said.
Zanu-PF is targeting to garner five million votes, with the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) setting its target at six million.
Mnangagwa, who has been endorsed as the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, is likely to square off against CCC leader Nelson Chamisa for the second time after he won the 2018 polls with a slim margin.
“Corruption in all ugly forms at every level, we are dealing with decisively and we will continue to fight corruption,” he added.
Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro was arrested recently for stealing presidential farming inputs meant for communal farmers. Former Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye was yesterday convicted of corruption and awaits sentencing today.
By A Correspondent- A Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officer stationed at Infantry 4.1 Brigade has appeared in court on allegations of stealing cerevita and some biscuits from a shop.
Milton Mutumbi (30) appeared this week before Masvingo Magistrate Ritaiswe Silaigwana charged with theft.
Mutumbi and his alleged accomplice, Wilson Kambeva (36) of Dambiro street Mucheke A, are jointly charged for the crimes.
Prosecuting, Nixon Chamisa, said on 10 February 2022, at around 5 AM, Mutumbi and Kambeva broke into the complainant McDonald Tava’s shop at Mucheke Rank through a window.
The duo allegedly took 20×500g boxes of cerevita porridge, 2×250g loose biscuits, 10×500g biscuits and a box of cornflakes and hid them at a secluded place.
The court further heard that one Tanaka Mufamba who was at the working place on night duty witnessed the burglary.
The accused persons allegedly shared the loot and gave some to Mufamba so that he would not reveal the offence.
Mufamba was arrested by the police after receiving a tip-off. Mufamba then exposed the other two.
Police recovered 1 box of cerevita, 2×500g biscuits and one box of cornflakes from Mutumbi.
Silaigwana remanded the matter to 22 June 22 2022 for continuation of trial.-TheMirror
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By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe still has a long way to go to clear a deficit of over 25 000 teachers as only 3 904 teachers have been recruited so far this year.
The deficit may balloon as teachers are quitting the profession citing poor remuneration.
In a Ministerial Statement presented to legislators in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Evelyn Ndlovu said:
The Public Service Commission authorised 10 000 posts initially and reduced that number to 5 000 posts for the year 2022 with Treasury concurrence.
Of the 5 000 posts, 3 904 have been filled and the balance of 1 096 will be filled in September 2022. In addition to this, another 1 454 attrition posts have since been filled.
At present, there are 10 100 schools in the country with an enrolment of more than 4.6 million pupils and an establishment of 136 000 teachers.
The teacher-pupil ratio for ECD is 1: 25 pupils, junior school, 1:40, lower to secondary 1:33, O level 1:30, and A’ level, 1:20.
However, an acute shortage of classrooms and teachers has meant that the recommended teacher-pupil remains a mirage.
The Government had announced that it would recruit 10 000 teachers in 2022 only to later revise the figure to 5 000.-Cite
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son, Sean has reportedly been promoted to the post of army major, raising speculation that the Zanu-PF party leader is consolidating his power within the army as he prepares for the 2023 watershed elections.
Mnangagwa came to power in November 2017 after toppling his mentor, the late former President Robert Mugabe in a coup.
“Sean was a lieutenant before he was promoted to the position of captain in the Presidential Guard, a position which he currently holds,” a source said.
“He (Sean) is set to be appointed an army major after passing a course. Sean is also a businessman and is a disciplined person. At the moment he is one of Mnangagwa’s key pillars in politics,” the source added.
On Sean’s elevation, Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Alphios Makotore said the President’s son was still captain, but had passed a junior staff course.
“It is true that he passed a junior staff course, he is a captain in the army and has not been promoted. After passing the course, and just like anyone else, everyone needs progression in life. There was a picture of him circulating on social media saying he is now an army major. He was just celebrating passing a junior staff course just like any individual would do after being successful,” Makotore said.
Political analyst Methuseli Moyo said there was no reason to scandalise progression of the Mnangagwa’s son in the army.
“So far no one has brought forward any reason why he should not be promoted, except that he is the President’s son. As to whether his upcoming promotion has a bearing on issues in Zanu-PF, I think it is farfetched. Again, to imagine that the President can consolidate power through his son in the army is stretching issues a bit too far,” Moyo said.
Another political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya said: “I think he (Sean Mnangagwa) does not have an influence in the army as he does not have any war credentials.”-Newsday
