By- A Zimbabwean male citizen has gone missing in South Africa.
Brian Tswatswa was last seen on 28 May 2022 in Krugersdorp, South Africa.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts could contact the nearest police station of call this number:
+27 63 548 9829.
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|Dr Alex Tawanda Magaisa has left a legacy of active citizenship, according to CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa.
President Chamisa attended Dr Magaisa’s memorial lecture at the Celebration Church in Borrowdale, Harare on Thursday night.
“Thank you Fellow Citizens for continuing to celebrate and honour The Citizens Hero-Dr Alex Tawanda Magaisa.
At the memorial….Celebrating a legacy of Active Citizenship-The life of Dr Alex Magaisa,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
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.
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.
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.
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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- A Zimbabwean male citizen has gone missing in South Africa.
Brian Tswatswa was last seen on 28 May 2022 in Krugersdorp, South Africa.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts could contact the nearest police station of call this number:
+27 63 548 9829.
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.
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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
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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.
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 Farai D Hove | The CCC party’s prolific Harare Councillor Denford Ngadziore’s father, has died.
Mr. Simon Manyepedza Ngadziore (99) passed on a few months before reaching 100.
Councillor Ngadziore made the revelations saying: “I’ve just lost my father Simon Manyepedza Ngadziore.
“Born in 1922, we were supposed to celebrate his 100 yrs birthday in October.
“As you might know, in 2019 l lost my mother Nokwase Dzingeni Ngadziore after a long illness in Harare.
“It’s hard to lose both parents. Painful.
NB : Funeral arrangements & updates will be shared in due course.”
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.”
Tinashe Sambiri|Dr Alex Tawanda Magaisa has left a legacy of active citizenship, according to CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa.
President Chamisa attended Dr Magaisa’s memorial lecture at the Celebration Church in Borrowdale, Harare on Thursday night.
“Thank you Fellow Citizens for continuing to celebrate and honour The Citizens Hero-Dr Alex Tawanda Magaisa.
At the memorial….Celebrating a legacy of Active Citizenship-The life of Dr Alex Magaisa,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
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.
-Newsday
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.
-Newsday
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.
-ZRP
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.
-Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
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
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/r9Asew4Drw pic.twitter.com/t6vwfYSgQh
— Simba Chikanza (@schikanza) June 10, 2022
“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 ?@crisiscoalition @ZLHRLawyers @accountlabzw https://t.co/r9Asew4Drw
— Simba Chikanza (@schikanza) June 10, 2022
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.
-State Media
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.
By- Police have denied authorising the launch of a pro-democracy company initiative in Harare.
Organisers of Zimbabwe We Want Campaign, Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition posted on Twitter Friday announcing the police’s decision.
Posted Crisis:
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.
Is Mudenda after VP position?
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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.
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.
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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
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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
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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.
She will serve the remaining 16 months in jail.
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
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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
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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.
Also see statement below:
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.
Also see statement below:
Tinashe Sambiri|CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa has urged the nation to celebrate the achievements of the people’s hero, Dr Alex Magaisa.
A memorial lecture for Dr Magaisa is scheduled for today.
“We must celebrate Citizens Heroes..Let’s all do it for Our Champion,” said President Chamisa.
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
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
By A Correspondent| After suffering back to back and embarassing defeats in all the by-elections held since the formation of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Douglas Mwonzora has avoided participating in the Kariba Ward 5 by-elections.
This has left CCC to battle it out with Zanu PF to replace the seat that fell vacant the recall of seating Councillor by Mwonzora.
According to a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) notice following the closing of nominations, CCC will be represented by Tonderai Chikwati while Zanu PF’s candidate will be Kudakwashe Mafusire.
The by-elections have been set for Saturday 23 July 2022 and voting will take place at only one polling station which is the Catholic Church tent.
Below is the ZEC notice published in terms of Section 125(4) of the Electoral Act Chapter 2:13
The Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) has made a public relations that could put the management in hot soup with the military establishment after they appeared to celebrate the death of army boss the late Major General Godfrey Chanakira who was declared a national hero.
In its condolences message published in The Herald, TSCZ concluded with Makorokoto, Amhlope, Congratulations raising questions if the are celebrating his death instead of mourning.
The mistake was also not picked by the newspaper editors.
Below is the TSCZ:
Chanakira was previously declared a provincial hero below the military element including Vice President Constantino Chiwenga reportedly forced Mnangagwa into declaring him a national hero in what proved deep factional fights between the two.
By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe’s new leader is not coming from the MDC or its mutations, President of a newly launched political party Zimbabwe Transformative Party, Parere Kunyenzura has said.
Kanyenzura said because the current President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s days were numbered and his reign was coming to an end, Zimbabweans should prepare for a new leader.
.Speaking to the media at the launch of his political party in Harare, Kunyenzura said the country’s next leader was not coming from Zanu PF either.
He said:
“To avoid ambiguity, this David is not coming from the MDC group, with their various mutations that encompass the CCC brand, just in case some fanatics in this division may start to prematurely celebrate; neither is this successor David coming from within the ZANU PF stable.
What I am saying is the mind of God; and it will happen irrespective of the amount of resistance or opposing force. Should I hide the fact that God has appointed me the David? By no means! Certainly not! If I do, I would be a liar like most of them, which is sin. God did not even hide this fact from King Saul.”
We publish below the full text of the statement by Kunyenzura:
26 May 2022 Press Conference
Who we are
We are a newly formed political party called the Zimbabwe Transformative Party. We are not a puppet of the West, as some would like to accuse others of, neither are we of the East, to whom the accusers would like to incline, but we are a puppet of God, and in God we do believe.
Our slogan
Baba: Ndimi muchatimiririra kupinda mu Canaan. Asi chivimbiso chatitambudza.
Nkosi: Nguwe ozasimela ekungeneni kwethu e Canaan. Kodwa isithembiso sakho sesisihlupha.
Kanda vote yako: Pamuchinjikwa ipapo. Pamupostori ipapo. Pagemenzi ipapo.
Phosa i vote yakho: Esiphambanweni khonapho. Kumpostoli khonapho. Kugemesi khonapho.
What we stand for
Problem definition
If a problem is wrongly defined, there is a tendency to proffer wrong solutions to that particular problem. For example, when Mugabe was forced to resign, behind the scenes, through a military coup, every Zimbabwean was fooled and mobilised into believing that Mugabe was the problem.
The solution to that “problem” was the ascendancy of Mr Mnangagwa. But look, we have more and deeper problems now than we had with Mugabe, and there are more criminals surrounding the President now than there were surrounding Mugabe. Do not forget that teachers and the generality of civil servants were earning around US$540 per month when Mugabe was there, and what are they earning now?
What about the War Veterans pensions; and all pensions in general? What are civil servants getting in retirement packages and gratuities? So, Mugabe was not the problem, but the whole system of political governance, of which he was party to. If he alone was the problem, then by removing him, we could definitely have solved the problem, and by now we should have been flying on planet Mars! Alas; we are now in the abyss—and a self-inflicted one for that matter!
So, what then is our problem as Zimbabweans? The problem that Zimbabwe as a country faces today is that of a leadership that does not fear God. This type of leadership only pays lip service to their allegiance to the Almighty. In typical Pharisaic behaviour, they proclaim at the top of their voices that they are God-fearing; and even go on to attend worship assemblies and crusades by the day, yet under the cover of darkness they violate God’s moral law with impunity. Some of them have the temerity or audacity to violate God’s laws even during the daytime. If their assertion is true that they are God-fearing, then Zimbabweans pause to ask:
Thus given the foregoing, our problem in Zimbabwe today is entrusting in positions of authority political leaders who do not fear the Lord. They are a god unto themselves. This set of a leadership does not know God.
They are a leadership that is insensitive to the plight of the generality of Zimbabweans; a leadership that is indifferent to the needs of the people, a leadership that is inward-looking, a leadership that is self aggrandising and a leadership that lacks empathy.
This type of leadership is sinful. Lest we forget, if anyone knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, is sin [James 4:17]. So a good number of our leaders are sinful today in that they know that people are starving due to the meagre wages they earn; they know that people are dying due to lack of medication and proper staffing levels in public hospitals; they know that many basics like transport, food, shelter and education are beyond the reach of many Zimbabweans, but they fail to redress or remedy the situation. Therefore, if leaders know the right thing that needs to be done, but they ignore or fail to do it; they are definitely sinning against God.
Thus given our definition of the problem at hand, the following are, therefore, not the problems, but they are mere symptoms of the problem. They are the results of a problem. They flow naturally from the problem. They are the economy’s direct response to the problem.
Symptoms of the problem
Thus given the above plethora of symptoms, Zimbabweans need a new page; a new beginning and a new approach to governance. Leaders should morph up into new creatures that are fearful of the Lord God. They need to undergo transformation. Leaders should be good stewards of God’s people.
True wisdom begins when people begin to fear the Lord. The psalmist hammered the point home when he said, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practise it have a good understanding. [Ps.111:10; ESV]. Solomon adds, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.” [Prov.1:7; ESV].
Again he says, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.” [Prov. 9:10; ESV]. Thus the quest for wisdom begins when a man begins to fear God. Consequently, intellectualism outside of God is being non-intellectual. What then does it mean to fear God? To fear God is not to be afraid of him. To fear God is to obey him, to respect him, and to live in accordance with the dictates of his commandments.
submission to the Lord is critical to the attainment of real understanding. Thus wise counsel comes from the Lord Jesus Christ; for he is the Wonderful Counsellor [Isaiah 9:6]. If one disobeys him, one will never know real peace. All things will fall apart under one’s nose if one disobeys God.
Thus leaders need the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD [Isaiah 11:2]; all of which are the hallmarks of our Lord Jesus Christ. The book of James caps it all when it says , “…the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.” [James 3:17-18; ESV].
So wisdom from God is pure, peace-loving, not violent [gentle], willing to listen to sensible or logical thinking, willing to forgive those towards whom one has the power to punish or harm, full of good produce, unbiased and free from pretence or deceit.
Can anyone deliver Zimbabweans from bondage except God?
Now given our current problem and its corresponding symptoms, where can Zimbabweans turn to? Who can save them? Is it the West? Not really! Can it be the East? Not really too. Nobody can save Zimbabweans from their predicament altogether.Absolutely no one, except the Lord Almighty! God is the only one hope remaining. He is that one hope that has never failed to save humanity in its entire history.
Under such trying times, Zimbabweans have never ceased crying to God their Maker. We would like to salute all Zimbabweans for their resilience and tenacity under these very difficult circumstances. Everyone has suffered including even most veterans of the armed struggle. No one has been spared.
They have suffered in the hands of their taskmasters. They have suffered in the hands of those in positions of political leadership. Is God deaf and dumb? By no means! God does not keep quiet when his creation is being tormented. God will fight in his people’s corner. He will fight on behalf of the Zimbabweans.
As a reminder, no single Zimbabwean has title deeds to the land of Zimbabwe. The whole universe is God’s creation. So no one has entitlement to Zimbabwe, including those in ZANU PF. It is God who created and allocated the various geographical regions to people upon which to live.[Acts17:26]. Therefore, every Zimbabwean is a stakeholder to the motherland called Zimbabwe.
Now, we would like to assure our fellow country men and women, that the true God towards whom you directed your prayers day and night, is not dump and deaf, neither does he sleep. God does not enter into the voice mail mode. Thus, this true God has sent us, to deliver Zimbabweans from the jaws of a monster, and this monster, unequivocally, is the ZANU PF political leadership and its administration.
We are not delusional; nor are we suffering from any hallucination. We are simply putting on record what is in the mind of God. For the avoidance of doubt, this is not our project, but God’s, in much the same way as the deliverance of Israel from the Egyptian bondage was not Moses’ or Aaron’s project, but God’s.
We are not hiding from anyone the fact that God has truly heard the prayers of Zimbabwe’s citizenry and has thus sent us as executors of his plan. We are his vessels who are ready to execute this plan on his behalf. He is the author of this project.
When God called Moses, he said to him, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey,……
And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” God said, “But I will be with you…” [Exod. 3:7-12: ESV].
Even if God is omnipresent, that is, even if he is available at all places at the same time, for he is in heaven, his dwelling place, as he is on earth, he “descended” from heaven in a special way to deliver his people from the Egyptian bondage.
Zimbabwe today is comparable to the Egypt of yesteryear. Zimbabwe’s citizens are living in the yesteryear “land of Goshen in Egypt”; where oppression was the order of the day. Zimbabweans can no longer breathe. Democratic space has been squeezed by an authoritarian, totalitarian, autocratic, despotic and tyrannical political system of the ruling elite.
Her citizens have been oppressed and abused left, right and centre. Her political leaders were supposed to be good stewards and shepherds of God’s people. However, to our surprise, today’s political leaders have cannibalized God’s people and consequently, they have scattered them. Cannibalized them?
Yes, because as of now, a lot of Zimbabweans have perished in the hands of those who are supposed to look after and care for them. Some have been abducted and disappeared outright. There has been continued and systematic subjugation of the will of the people.
Scatter them? Yes, because over four million Zimbabweans are now livingin the diaspora, some as political refugees fleeing from political persecution, while others have fled the country as economic refugees looking for greener pastures because political leaders have committed economic genocide of exponential proportions.
Thus Zimbabweans have been crying for a very long period of time, and God has heard their cry, and has responded due to his abundant grace. Therefore, we have been sent by God as the Moses of today.
Political hurdles will stand in our way, but God will prevail
In directing us to take this political route, God is not oblivious to the fact that this journey will not be a stroll in the park. We have no illusions whatsoever about the troubles that are lurking ahead of us. God did not promise us that the journey will be trouble-free. Far be it. However, what he promised us is that even under trying times; he will not leave us alone as orphans.
He will always be with us; just as he promised his disciples that he would be with them always right up to the end of age [Matt. 28:20]. God is quite cognisant of the bumpy political road that lies ahead of us, and of the political hurdles that besiege this racing track. We are, therefore, fully aware of the political terrain on which we have now begun to tread. Notwithstanding these challenges, let us hasten to say that we are tempted to remind people that we have never seen or heard of a man or woman, in the entire history of mankind, who has waged a war against the Almighty and prevailed.
Absolutely no one! Just as God promised Moses that he will be with him, he indeed promised us that he will not leave us alone in this project. When a man’s actions are in conflict with God’s commandments, we will endeavour not to please man, the creature, but to please God, the Creator. As ambassadors of the Gospel of Christ, we do not trust in chariots and horses of war, but in the name of the Lord [Ps. 20:7].
Even if some of us may perish along the way, the resolve within us will not be extinguished; for we are prepared to endure on this route, and we will endure up to the end [Heb. 3:14]. We will suffer together with Christ in this project, in order that we may also be glorified with him when he returns [Rom. 8:17].
Our position on other main political parties
We acknowledge the role played by the MDC group and their mutable variants, especially from the days of its founding and iconic president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai; for the democratic struggle that they have undertaken for almost 23 years now. Their efforts are quite cherished.
However, they have been in the dugout, they have been in the trenches for far too long. In fact, their struggle has been longer than the ZANU PF’s struggle itself of 17 years [1963-1980]. Zimbabweans are tired and desperate. Tired? Yes; because they have fought this war for over two decades now. Desperate?
Yes; because they are not quite sure if ever their landslide voting patterns will ever translate into them getting the power they so vigorously have been fighting for. Mugabe, by his own admission, said in one of their meetings that Morgan Tsvangirai had clobbered ZANU PF in the then Presidential election by winning 74% of the votes, only to be “corrected” by those in attendance to the effect that it was 47% of the votes and not 74. I hadn’t heard Mugabe as truthful as this before—a very honest statement from the geriatric! Very truthful indeed! So one is tempted to conclude that the MDC have been winning since the 2002 Presidential elections, but they have not been ruling.
On the contrary, we are here, in the name of God, to wrap up this struggle. We are here, in the name of God, to bring this chapter to its closure. We are here, in the name of God to bring it to its logical conclusion.
We also acknowledge the role played by the original and true cadres of the armed struggle, both in ZANU PF and PF ZAPU. They put up a brave and bitter armed struggle that culminated in the attainment of our independence that was epitomized by the raising of our Zimbabwean flag on 18 April 1980, ending a colonial system that officially had stretched from the midnight of 12/13 September 1890 when the Union Jack was raised on our soil; in the then Salisbury.
This legacy by the veterans of the armed struggle cannot be underestimated, neither can we downplay it. Their cause was, is and will still continue to be a well cherished cause. As Zimbabweans, we do not deny our indebtedness to this worthy cause, for which a lot of blood was shed. We salute all the gallant fighters of the armed struggle—both living and departed. However, this rich legacy has gradually been eroded by the shenanigans of the ZANU PF political actors, on whom they had bestowed the trust to lead Zimbabwe’s citizenry.
This rich legacy has wrongly been used as a license to maim people, as a licence to butcher and kill people; as a licence to pay a blind eye to the rule of law, as a licence to disrespect property rights, as a licence to pay a blind eye to revenue accountability and the general accountability of those in Government to the electorate, as a licence to loot and plunder national resources with impunity, as a licence to pay a blind eye to the violation of human rights, as a licence to suffocate media and journalistic space, as a licence to squash democratic space; as a licence to embark on political intolerance, and as a licence to violate the Constitution willy-nilly and to the whims and caprices of the ruling elite.
God forbid! All these vices are quite in sharp contrast to the ethos, values, cause and ideological thrust of the armed struggle. Today’s political actors in the ruling party have abused the trust and power which was vested in them by the stalwarts of the armed struggle. Not surprisingly, everyone is crying, including these stalwarts of the armed struggle because of the self-centredness of those upon whom they entrusted the stewardship of the country.
Our position on land
One of the key triggers of nationalism in Zimbabwe that subsequently led to the taking up of arms was the unjustifiable dispossession of the natives of their land and other resources without compensation. Section 72 of the 2013 Constitution; subsection 7; paragraphs (a) and (b); is quite explicit about this fact. Hence, according to section 72, subsection 3, paragraphs (a) and (b); and section 295, subsection 3, subject to section 295 subsections 1 and 2 of the same Constitution, no compensation is payable in respect of its acquisition, except compensation for improvements effected on the land before its acquisition, and no court may entertain any such application, for according to section 72 subsection 3 paragraph (c) of the Constitution, the acquisition may not be challenged on the ground that it was discriminatory in contravention of section 56 of the Constitution.
Thus Statutory Instrument 62 of 2020 was also promulgated with the same spirit of compensating such farmers only for improvements effected on their farms. Note that all “agricultural land” as defined by section 72 subsection 4; paragraphs (a) and (b) of the Constitution continues to be vested in the State, and no compensation is payable in respect of its acquisition except for improvements effected on it before its acquisition.
Historically, successive segregationist pieces of legislation were enacted that paved the way for inequalities in land ownership in Zimbabwe between whites and blacks. This philosophy of moving blacks off their land began immediately after the 1893 War of Dispossession which saw the defeat of the Ndebele. It continued for the next 84 years through to 1977.
It was a dual process of alienation [taking land from the original and rightful owners] and moving the original Zimbabwean inhabitants to less fertile and less well-watered Tribal Trust Lands or Native Reserves. From 1893 to 1977, there were seven Land Commissions that were set up by the settler authority to deal specifically with the land question, for example, the 1894 Land Commission, the 1902 Land Commission, the 1914 Land Commission and the 1925-26 Morris-Brown or the Carter Commission.
Thus the first land commission was set up in 1894 which specifically dealt with the aftermath of the defeat of the Ndebele. As a result of this defeat; the British South African Company [BSAC] claimed ownership of all land occupied by the Ndebele. Since the Ndebele, by right of conquest, had dominated most parts of Zimbabwe, this means that the white settlers, by extension, resultantly claimed the ownership of all land in Zimbabwe.
The 1894 Commission recommended the creation of “reservations/reserve areas” for the displaced Ndebele; and in 1895, two reserves namely Gwai and Shangani were established in a dry, semi-arid region hundreds of miles north of the centre of the Ndebele kingdom. In making such evictions, the Land Commission was not concerned about the economic and social well-being of the displaced people.
No wonder why the forced removal of the Ndebele to Gwai and Shangani as well as the hardships of living in that harsh environment, were among the primary causes of the 1896 Ndebele rebellion that culminated into the 1896-7 First Chimurenga/Umvekela, that became a national war.
The Carter Commission of 1926 recommended the segregation of all land on a virtually permanent basis between Blacks and Whites. The attitude of the Carter Commission is summarised in the following quote from their Report, “Until the Native [Black person] has advanced very much further on the path of civilisation, it is better that the points of contact between the two races should be reduced.”
Therefore, based on the Carter Commission’s Report, the need to divide the land between Blacks and Whites brought about the Land Apportionment Act of 1930. Hence, the division of the land as a result of the Land Apportionment Act produced the following outcomes in land ownership: Whites 51% of the land; Native Reserves 22%; Native Purchase Areas 7.8%; Forest Area 0.6%; Undetermined land 0.1%; Unassigned land 18.5%. Due to the Land Apportionment Act, about 1.5% of the population [whites], owned 51% of the land, while 98.5% of the population [blacks]; owned only 29.8% of the land.
As a consequence of this and subsequent Acts, the best land, for example along the Highveld was allocated to whites. Along the Highveld, temperatures were good and the rainfall pattern good too. On the other hand; the Native Reserves where ecologically fragile. These Reserves had poor agricultural soils, had erratic rainfall patterns and unfavourable climatic conditions.
They were also not quite suitable even for grazing. They were also “buffer zones” for wild animals like pigs, baboons and monkeys which fed on and destroyed their field crops, not forgetting lions and hyenas that preyed on their livestock. Note that the Land Apportionment Act made it illegal for Africans to purchase land outside of the established Native Purchase Areas.
Then there was the Native Land Husbandry Act of 1951, which was amended in 1969; which was enacted to achieve the following: regulate conservation measures; ensure good farming practices; relate the stocking levels of each area to its carrying capacity; allocate grazing rights to individuals; redistribute arable land into compact and economic units; and to register each individual’s holding of the land.
Do not forget that by this time, blacks were already overcrowded in what was called the Native Reserves or the Tribal Trust Land as a result of earlier pieces of legislation such as the Land Apportionment Act. This made the native areas become high population density homelands.
Then the Land Tenure Act No. 54/69, as amended in 1977; was another segregationist law that superseded the Land Apportionment Act. Its purpose was to ensure that each race would have its own area. Thus the interests of each race was to be paramount in its area and no race could own or occupy land in the area of the other race, except by permit, which permit was issued or refused by a Minister of Government, who was white. So these two Acts, namely the Land Apportionment Act and the Land Tenure Act; were not different in intention or effect. They were practically the same.
Let us not forget that by 1891, before Southern Rhodesia was established as a territory [Responsible Government was in 1923]; there were about 1,500 whites residing in the country. This number grew phenomenally especially after the Second World War which ended on 2 September 1945.
This number grew to about 75,000 by the end of 1945. In the decade 1945 to 1955, the white population doubled to 150, 000. So, in bid to cater for this ever growing population due to immigration, during this decade, over 100,000 farming black people had to be forcibly evicted and resettled away from the farmland that had been designated by whites, for white ownership. The white population in Zimbabwe continued to grow and it reached a peak of 300,000 in 1975-6; representing about 8% of the population.
Note that after the war in 1980, the land ownership imbalances where such that about 70% of arable land was in the hands of about 220 000 white people [with about 4 500 farmers amongst them]; while about 7.2 million black Zimbabweans [with close to 800 000 farmers amongst them]; directly or indirectly shared and depended on the remaining 30% of arable land. This imbalance was despite the fact that even by the early 1970s, total blacks outnumbered total whites by a ratio of 22:1.
Not surprisingly, due to the imbalances in land ownership that was engineered by successive pieces of segregationist legislation, the land question was the bedrock upon which a bitter and protracted armed struggle was premised. Land was the prime goal of King Lobengula’s War of dispossession as he fought the British encroachment in his dwelling area in 1893-4. Land was the principal grievance for the Ndebele and Shona uprising in the period 1896-7.
Land was also the overriding grievance that triggered the Second Chimurenga. Land was the fundamental grievance too that caused the Third Chimurenga. In all these wars, the objective of the wars was to right a historical wrong. Thus the land question was a primary cause of each and every Chimurenga/umvekela that was fought in Zimbabwe.
Given the foregoing, it would, therefore, be quite myopic for anyone to wish that blacks would once again be “moved off” their land, from which land they were originally evicted by colonial settlers without compensation. Never lose sight also of the fact that even well before the segregationist pieces of legislation were enacted, blacks were systematically being marginalised by the colonial settlers.
Thus in an effort to correct the historical wrong or the land ownership imbalances, there came the 1985 Land Acquisition Act. It gave a policy framework for land redistribution exercise by identifying and assessing farming areas that were not being efficiently utilized; determining the fair price for compensating the current owners of the underutilized land, which owners were primarily Europeans, and selecting rural dwellers that would be provided farming areas in the resettlement zones.
Then soon after the expiration of the 1980-1990 willing buyer-willing seller clause of the Lancaster House Agreement, came the 1992 Compulsory Land Acquisition Act. It sought to compulsorily acquire land. This Act was amended in 2000 [Fast Track Land Reform]; and further amended in 2005 to put all non-urban and non-communal land under state ownership.
The land redistribution exercise was meant to give back to the blacks their God-given inheritance; the land. Do not lose sight of the fact that the mainstay of the Zimbabwean economy has been and is land, upon which agriculture is based.
Notwithstanding the above facts, we do not condone the violent manner in which whites were removed from the land. We also do not condone a system of greed whereby the ruling elite eventually became multiple farm owners. In this regard, a rationalization of the land is needed and will be carried out. Zimbabwe should stick to the principle of one man one farm, in much the same way the veterans of the armed struggle advocated for a one man one vote.
Non-productive farms should be downsized and reallocated to those with competency in farming, because farming is and should be viewed as a business. White farmers who are still willing to cohabitate, farm and live symbiotically with black Zimbabweans should also not be left out in the rationalization exercise. They should also be allocated a piece of land on which to farm and earn a living, for land is a vital factor of production; that was given to humanity by God.
Our position on sanctions
Sanctions are a resultant child of ZANU PF’s maladministration. They are an illegitimate child born by ZANU PF from their shenanigans out of wedlock. Notwithstanding this fact, sanctions are not good for our people. They hurt the ordinary man on the street the most. They hit hardest the less privileged members of our society. It is true that they were enacted as targeted sanctions, for they were meant to target certain individuals and organisations with associations to such individuals.
However, when the assets of such targeted individuals were frozen, some of these individuals, if not all, entered into the mode of wrong compensatory behaviour. They wrongly responded by increasing their marginal propensity to loot and plunder national resources. To illustrate my point, for example, when a person’s US$1 billion was frozen; the person in question would loot first US$1 billion to cover the gap.
Then, he would also loot an additional US$1 billion as a “safety net” or as an “insurance sum”; ‘just in case’. The net effect is that the national assets are cleaned up. Therefore, it would not be surprising to find that there are no drugs in hospitals, let alone basics like bandages and painkillers. Given this background, the net loser was not the targeted politician, but the net loser became the ordinary man on the street who was meant to benefit from the embezzled national resources. No wonder why even if a loaf of bread costs US$100, these targeted individuals are so filthy rich that they can afford to buy several loaves of bread per day for the rest of their lives. Thus the response by the West of imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe was off the mark, it missed the target because it ended up hitting hardest the unintended target.
Please note that the “sanctions mantra” has been used rhetorically by the ruling party as a scapegoat for poor economic performance. Sanctions should never be used as a cover up for maladministration. The “sanctions mantra” is simply empty rhetoric and it is hyperbolic. People should not lose sight of the fact that as soon as Ian Douglas Smith announced a Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965, Southern Rhodesia was immediately slapped with an economic embargo by virtually all countries, save for apartheid South Africa and until 1974, Portugal.
The sanctions stretched for 14 solid years up to their revocation in December 1979 during the ceasefire period, when Southern Rhodesia had reverted to become a British Colony during the Lancaster House Talks. Please take note that despite the fact that Smith was fighting a bitter war to repel the gallantly ZANLA and ZIPRA combatants; Southern Rhodesia went on to post some budget surpluses in some of the years in the 1970s. As if that was not enough, sanctions gave the Rhodesian manufacturing sector a major stimulus. These sanctions obliged Rhodesian industries to diversify and create many import substitution undertakings to compensate for the loss of traditional sources of imports. The processing of local raw materials also increased rapidly.
Major growth industries included steel and steel products, heavy equipment, transportation equipment, ferrochrome, textiles and food processing. Thus the economy of Southern Rhodesian sustained international sanctions for over a decade following UDI under a very tough guerrilla war situation. As if that was not enough, in 1980, when the Union Jack was lowered and the Zimbabwean flag was moved in the opposite direction, the cross rate of the British Pound to the Rhodesian Pound was almost 1:1.The Unites States dollar, now the envy of many Zimbabweans was a pale shadow in strength to the Rhodesian dollar. The rand and the pula, we did not even look at them.
Hence, Smith was operating under a worse economic embargo than we are witnessing today, yet his economy grew phenomenally. From the aforesaid, we can authoritatively conclude that the current administration is merely using sanctions as a cover up for poor economic performance and deteriorating living standards. Sanctions have been used as a scapegoat for poor economic performance in much the same way as the Russo-Ukrainian war is now blamed for a spate of price increases in Zimbabwe, even if we know quite well that Russia illegally invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, and by then, we were already in a hyperinflationary environment.
We are not denying the fact that exogenous factors like the war in Ukraine is contributing to the death of a child called Zimbabwe. They are playing a part. However, this child was already in the intensive care unit well before 24 February 2022. Therefore, the harm was triggered by endogenous factors, whilst the exogenous factors are merely finishing off the child.
Is funding Zimbabwe’s major handicap? Why is it that some of the richest nations in terms of natural resource endowment rank among the poorest?
Funding is not Zimbabwe’s major setback, but political will is. Political will, which is the determination of political actors to say and do things that will produce a desired outcome, is the main handicap. Put differently, in our context, political will is the extent to which key political decision-makers are committed to supporting a particular policy solution to a particular problem.
Thus political will exists when a sufficient set of decision-makers with a common understanding of a particular problem on the formal agenda, is committed to supporting a commonly perceived, potentially effective policy solution. If political will is non-existent, it does not follow suit that richer countries in terms of natural resource endowment automatically become richer countries economically. Look at Zimbabwe as an example. She is home to over 60 minerals, only 10 of which are actively being mined.
Zimbabwe has also the second highest grade of chromium ore in the world after South Africa, amounting to about 12 billion tonnes, which is about 12% of the global total. As if that is not enough, Zimbabwe has also the third largest deposits of platinum ore after South Africa and Russia, amounting to 6.83% of the global total. The Great Dyke is home to vast mineral resources, yet Zimbabwe is the 22nd poorest nation in the world. Lest we forget, in Chiadzwa, one simply needed a pick and a shovel, unlike the diamond mines in Kimberley; South Africa; where one needs to dig 20 km deep in order to get these gems. Who benefited from the discovery of these gems in Chiadzwa? Did the Chiadzwa diamonds benefit the generality of Zimbabweans? The answer is in the negative.
Let us also look at the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the richest country in the world in terms of natural resource endowment. It has over 1,000 minerals, and has a surface area equivalent to that of Western Europe, and the second largest rainforest in the world; with untapped deposits of raw materials amounting to US$24 trillion; yet the DRC is the 17th poorest country in the world according to the United Nations Human Development Index [2019 Report].
According to the World Bank, DRC has the 3rd largest population of poor people globally. In 2018, it was estimated that 73% of the Congolese population, equalling about 60 million people, lived on less than US$1.90 a day, which US$1.90 is the international poverty rate. Therefore, almost 14% or one out of seven people living in extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa lives in DRC.
Let us contrast the above with Japan, for example. Japan, one of the most highly developed countries in the world, has virtually no natural resources like gas, oil, gold, coal, copper and iron. It largely depends on imported raw materials and energy. Do not forget that its nuclear power plants were closed some years ago due to incessant earth quakes and tsunamis. Japan is the largest importer of liquefied natural gas and coal, and the second largest importer of oil in the world, yet she ranks as one of the most developed economies.
Other than agricultural land, of which only 20% of total land is suitable for cultivation, and its fisheries; Japan has negligible mineral resources under her seabed. Note also that 40% of her total forests are planted forests. Despite all these setbacks, Japan ranks among the highly developed countries on planet earth. So to have or not to have natural resources is not the main determinant of economic prosperity/wealth/funding, neither is it the main determinant of poverty/human welfare.
So it is not simply a question of funding or of having a lot of assets or natural resources that triggers a country towards economic prosperity and economic independence. It is more to do with the political will to harness and appropriate the resources in question for the betterment of everyone’s living standards. Why, for example, is it that a good number of billionaires in the world today rise up like islands in a sea of poverty in poor third world countries? We should look no further than the unchecked access to the looting and plundering of state resources for our answer!
Hence, our problem in the developing world is not to do with funding or resources, but the mismanagement of the funds or resources is symptomatic of the problem. Leaders who do not fear God are the problem. How can we explain why Japan, which does not have a significant mineral resource, is an advanced economy? Human capital is not the only factor, for this can be acquired by Africa too, for example, through partnerships and knowledge transfers.
The answer is greed political leaders who are not made to account for their actions. These political leaders craft agreements with foreign investors, not for the benefit of their counties, but for the betterment of their families at the expense of their nation. This obviously shrouds the political will to advance their economies, since national benefits or resources become like private fiefdoms, which are meant to feed their families and friends at the expense of the rest of the populace.
No wonder why as Africans, we are always holding a begging bowl in our hands, yet Africa has a rich endowment in natural resources. These leaders do not exploit and appropriate the resources for the advancement of everyone’s living standards, but for their personal gain largely.
By failing to honour God, Belshazzar engineered his own downfall
When Belshazzar, son and successor to King Nebuchadnezzar was feasting and celebrating, he ordered that the utensils that his father had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem during his conquest of the same, be brought in before him at the party. He and his lords, his wives and his concubines put wine in them and drank the wine; and he praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but he did not honour the true God in whose hand was his breadth. Then as he drank the wine, a hand that came from the presence of God wrote on the wall in front of him. The inscription read: MENE MENE TEKEL and PARSIN. The interpretation, as revealed by God to Daniel was that:
This scenario is analogous to our Zimbabwean situation today. We have a similar message to the political leadership of the ruling party in government, that is, the administration of His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, the Head of State and Government and Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Cde ED Mnangagwa. The message is that:
To avoid ambiguity, this David is not coming from the MDC group, with their various mutations that encompass the CCC brand, just in case some fanatics in this division may start to prematurely celebrate; neither is this successor David coming from within the ZANU PF stable. What I am saying is the mind of God; and it will happen irrespective of the amount of resistance or opposing force. Should I hide the fact that God has appointed me the David? By no means! Certainly not! If I do, I would be a liar like most of them, which is sin. God did not even hide this fact from King Saul.
Last but not least, I urge my sisters, brothers, mothers and fathers in the Security Services of Zimbabwe [the Defence Forces, the Police Service, the Intelligence Services and the Prisons and Correctional Service]; that they should remain apolitical as per section 208 subsections 2 and 3 of our Constitution. This is purely a political contest; and politics should be left to civilian rule.
A better Zimbabwe will be better for everyone, including you too. Lest I be misquoted and be charged with either treason or subversive speech; let me put it on record that we do not seek to overthrow the government through undemocratic and unconstitutional means. That is not Godly, and more so, we do not subscribe to that sort of philosophy. Our hands cannot kill even a cockroach. Our overriding principle is that we will get into power through the ballot box, democratically.
Like a dove, I come in peace and in peace I sign off.
AMEN.
PARERE KUNYENZURA
PRESIDENT: ZIMBABWE TRANSFORMATIVE PARTY.
By-Former Minister in the late President Robert Mugabe cabinet, Petronella Kagonye has been found guilty of stealing 20 laptops meant to benefit schools in the Goromonzi South constituency.
Harare regional magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro Wednesday convicted the former minister.
She said Kagonye failed to account for the laptops during the course of the trial and her explanation as to what happened to the laptops was not reasonable.
Kagonye was convicted after a full trial.
By- CCC leader Nelson Chamisa is seen in a picture paying extra attention to senior citizens.
Posting the picture and commenting on the same, CCC deputy spokesperson Ostallos Siziba, said Chamisa is a listening leader.
Posted Siziba:
This time unopinda! Uyangena! Says magogo.Wise counsel and wisdom from the elderly
By-Former DStv Premiership side head coach Kaitano Tembo has been confirmed new Sekhukhune United head coach.
In a statement, Sekhukhune United said Tembo would take over from McDonald Makhubedu following the latter’s appointment as senior coach.
Reads the statement:
Sekhukhune United Football Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr Kaitano Tembo to the Technical Team of Sekhukhune United FC.
The former Supersport United FC Head Coach will be working as a Head Coach for Babina Noko.
Mr Tembo takes over the Head Coach position of the team following the appointment of Mr McDonald Makhubedu as the Senior Coach.
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
