By Knowledge Hakata-Political Analyst | With less than a year and two months before Zimbabwe holds its highly anticipated 2023 Presidential elections, President Mnangagwa has of late turned for support from self-styled Prophets and Papa’s in the much flocked charismatic churches in Zimbabwe. The late former President and African strongman Robert Mugabe was usually known for flocking the white garments churches such as Mwazha Sect, Johanne Marange, Mugodhi and he could as well go as far as Zaoga and ZCC. Politically Zanu Pf has managed to keep its political muscles intact through dishing large pieces of land to these denominations and most of their leaders have proclaimed their allegiance to Zanu Pf especially the likes of Ezekiel Guti, Nehemiah Mutendi, Ndanga ,Wutaunashe, the Noah Taguta just to name a few.
By appointing Uebert Angel as the Ambassador at Large to the Americans and Europe, Mnangagwa made a bold move in capturing one of the most followed Zimbabwean Prophet who at one time prophesied that Zanu Pf will not be removed from power anytime soon. Considering that most of his followers in Zimbabwe are gullible and unsuspecting that this man of cloth is just after taking all their hard earned money through manipulating the gospel. His appointment was a clever move by Mnangagwa as the prophet will be used to spread propaganda through the pulpit that will cause many not to register to vote as well as loosing interest in voting at all costs, however one should bear in mind that these prophets they don’t just endorse Zanu Pf without massive benefits.
Walter Magaya is undoutly a staunch Zanu Pf sympathizer, whom at one point had to part with thousands of dollars just to buy Former First lady Grace Mugabe book when the then powerful First Lady turned 50 years. In his words Prophet Magaya said he was happy to meet the First Family and he would continue to support the First Lady’s philanthropic work. During his then crusade in Botswana, Prophet Magaya indicated that it was his wish to meet the then and late President Mugabe. Considering his large following at his Waterfalls base Magaya has never criticized the current regime for its violations of Human Rights either has he ever opened his mouth about the looting and corruption that is practiced by the Harare regime. He is one of these self-styled prophets who have received large chunks of land and mines at the hands of Zanu Pf, whilst thousands of his followers they are walloping in abject poverty.
Comedian and Flamboyant thief Prophet Passion Java was appointed by Mnangagwa to mislead the youths not to register to vote. Java has been campaigning for Mnangagwa and has been following the President at all Zanu Pf events. The self-styled thief has also been recruiting some popular socialist to support Mnangagwa and Robert Mugabe became his latest victim. The fake prophet has also been bankrolling local artist as to spread Mnangagwa propaganda and Roki has been one of his mouth piece through his music. The young prophet has also received his portion of hard cash as well as mining claims, while Zimbabwean hospitals have no cancer machines and thousand are dying every day.
The highly respected and teacher of the word Prophet Makandiwa became Mnangagwa’s latest man of the cloth to endorse the Harare regime when Munangagwa and his Deputy Chiwenga attended his highly packed Easter Conference in Chitungwiza. Makandiwa was quoted saying ‘’It is never the responsibility of the government to create jobs for you’’. The creation of an environment is their responsibility so that you and I prosper and we have that opportunity in Zimbabwe. There is something wrong with a citizen who keeps complaining and shifting blame, Makandiwa said “. However the same government he says should not create jobs has itself been promising those jobs. One hopes that religion is not going to be used by preachers, whom people are following in good faith, to shield the government from accountability and delivery of public services in line with electoral promises. The recent endorsement of Manangagwa by Makandiwa became the final nail on all the famous pastors and preachers in Zimbabwe on which how Zanu Pf has managed to capture all of them.
However Zimbabweans should not lose sleep about how all these prophets are endorsing Mnangagwa one after the other as this is normal in a game of politics, rather Zimbabweans should continue to heed the call by renowned journalist Hopewell Chin‘ono to continue to register to vote in numbers.
Knowledge Hakata can be contacted on [email protected]
Police in Harare Metropolitan Province on Wednesday, 27 April launched an operation targeting pirate taxis and illegal kombis (mushikashika) and illegal vendors.
The operation will also target unregistered cars, street kids controlling traffic and vendors at intersections.
In a statement, Harare Province Deputy Provincial Police Spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Webster Dzvova said:
The Zimbabwe Republic Police, Harare Province, will conduct an operation to restore sanity and decongest the Harare Central Business District and greater Harare.
The operation will include our stakeholders, including ZINARA, VID, Ruwa Local Board, Chitungwiza Town Council, Epworth Local Board, Harare City Council and the Department of Social Welfare.
The operation will be conducted in all Harare Police districts.
Asst Insp Dzvova said Mushikashika vehicles are contributing to congestion during peak hours in Harare’s central business district. He said:
As Harare Province, we are worried about the congestion during peak hours, and a number of criminal cases emanating from these mushikashikas, and non-ZUPCO commuter omnibuses and buses.
He also warned members of the public against boarding Mushikashika as they may fall prey to robbers. Said Asst Insp Dzvova:
A number of robberies, rape and theft cases have occurred in which victims fall prey to these illegal transporters who misrepresent themselves as transporters, through mushikashika.
We have declared war against these mushikashikas.
We will continuously impound the mushikashika and arrest the drivers. We, hereby, appeal to commuters to avoid mushikashika. Only ZUPCO buses and omnibuses are allowed to operate.
Those with private vehicles are encouraged and warned against picking up strangers as passengers as they may end up being robbed of their motor vehicles.
Motorists should adhere to the rules and regulations of the road like stopping at traffic lights.- H- Metro
By- A butchery operator, in Kadoma has been kicked out of his rented shop for supporting the CCC party.
Nicholas Marufu claimed that he had been evicted from rented premises at Tandara Shopping Centre in Kadoma for allegedly hosting Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists.“The problem started after CCC supporters were seen buying meat from my butchery while wearing party regalia on April 23. After that, Memory Simango gave me notice to vacate the property by the end of the month,” Marufu said. Simango owns the premises. “She had verbally given me notice to terminate the lease, but I told her I was not accepting the termination of the lease agreement on political grounds.” However, Simango dismissed Marufu’s claims, accusing him of being a bad tenant. “In fact, he must be negotiating with me because he has not been paying rent for four months. Marufu is supposed to pay US$50 as rent, but he is failing. I was away last week and I was phoned by people asking me if I knew anything about the political meeting being held at the shop and I said I was not aware,” Simango said. “They said it was not safe and right for business premises to be used for political gatherings. I called him to discuss, but he failed to turn up. I later locked the fridge at the shop hoping that he would come to meet me so that we could talk, but he did not. He instead shamelessly went to the shop and broke the fridge lock. He is just a problem and worse he has no butchery or shop licence, he rides on mine.” In a written response to Simango, Marufu said he wanted compensation for improvements to the premise. “I need full compensation for those developments. I also need a full calendar year notice for such termination of lease. I agreed on a five-year lease agreement with you when I commenced operation on these premises,” Marufu wrote to Simango. “Take note, during the COVID-19 lockdowns, I continued paying rentals although I was not operating. The rent I was paying was for future business operations. It is not fair to evict me on political grounds less than six months after we resumed operations. Newsday
Tinashe Sambiri|Unity is key to development in Africa, Citizens’ Coalition For Change leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.
According to President Chamisa, Africans are one big family.
“HAPPY FREEDOM DAY MZANSI.
May the nation build on the solid foundations that exist and continue to shine on the African soil.
We stand together united and indivisible for Africa’s greatness.We are ONE Africa with a shared history and a common destiny.Let freedom ring in Africa,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
On the formation of CCC President Chamisa said:
“IT’S A TOTAL SHIFT ON EVERYTHING!!Don’t miss it. We are not our past!! A total shift in leadership culture, manners and values.
A total shift in structure. A total shift in strategy. A total shift in politics, policies and programs. Let’s Go!!#fakapressure.”
Sabbath School Summary
BY ELDER DR MASIMBA MAVAZA
All Nations and Babel
Lesson 5
Memory Text: “Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth” (Genesis 11:9, NKJV).
Introduction.
After the Flood, the biblical account shifts from a focus on the single individual, Noah, to his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The particular attention on Ham, the father of Canaan (Gen. 10:6, 15), introduces the idea of “Canaan,” the Promised Land (Gen. 12:5), an anticipation of Abraham, whose blessing will go to all nations (Gen. 12:3). However, the line is broken by the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9). Once again, God’s plans for humankind are disrupted. What was supposed to be a blessing, the birth of all nations, becomes another occasion for another curse. The nations unite in order to try to take God’s place; God responds in judgment on them; and, through the resulting confusion, the people get scattered throughout the world (Gen. 11:8), thus fulfilling God’s original plan to “fill the earth” (Gen. 9:1, NKJV).
In the end, in spite of human wickedness, God turns evil into good; He has, as always, the last word. The curse of Ham in his father’s tent (Gen. 9:21, 22) and the curse of the confused nations at the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:9) will, eventually, be turned into a blessing for the nations.
SABBATH: Since Creation, God’s will has been interrupted by Man’s will. The Antediluvians carried on the sins that led to the Fall. God chose to bless Noah & his 3 sons, specially Ham (father of Canaan) whose name implied the Promised Land, where all nations would be blessed through Abraham (Gen. 10:6, 15, 12:3, 5). By the Tower of Babel, the line to bless all nations was broken (Gen. 11:1-9; 9:1).
SUNDAY: Ham saw his father’s sin a tale to relate to others & he was cursed (Gen. 9:18-27). The sin of Noah echoes Adam’s sin in Eden; eating of the fruit, nakedness, a covering, a curse, & a blessing. He lost self-control, got naked & Ham “saw” him (Gen. 3:6). Unlike Ham, his brothers covered Noah (Exod. 20:12, Eph. 6:2). Amid the curse on “Canaan” was a blessing (Dan. 9:27, Isa. 66:18-20, Rom. 11:25).
MONDAY: The age of Noah makes him a link between the pre-Flood & the post-Flood civilizations. Noah likely heard stories from his father, Lamech, about Adam & could relay the stories to his line prior & after the Flood. Bible genealogy 1. gives history about real people 2. builds a link between past & present & 3. tells the fatal effect of sin (Gen. 10, Luke 3:23-38, see also Gen. 46:27, Exod. 24:9, Deut. 32:8, Luke 10:1).
TUESDAY: Those who lived after the Flood decided to build a city & in it a Tower to take the place of God & unite in one body. God had told them to replenish & disperse (Gen. 11:1-4). Their actions echo that of God in Creation (Gen. 11:3, 4; Gen. 1:6, 9, 14, & 26). Satan led them to build a tower to escape another flood (Isa. 14:14). Nations unites to fight God in Daniel (Dan. 1:2, 2:43, 11:43-45; Rev. 16:14-16).
WEDNESDAY: No man can reach up to God, save through Christ. In the Tower of Babel, we find any human attempt to replace God & declare oneself as self-righteous as folly. While men were going up, God had to come down to them. Only God can save, Jesus indeed came down to us (Gen. 11:5-7, Ps. 139:7-12, 2:4, Luke 1:26-33, PP, p. 123). God confused the builders to stop more evil. He cares for us!
THURSDAY: One aim of the Tower was to stop people from scattering abroad. Their act was an attack on God’s charge for them to disperse, replenish, & subdue (Gen. 11:8, 9, 9:1, 1:28). They sought to use their united power for evil. The fame they sought ended in shame (PP, p. 123). “Babel” means “door of God” & relates to “balal” (means confuse). In trying to replace God (reach His door) came confusion.
FRIDAY: Artisans of the Tower of Babel hoped that their city would be the metropolis of a universal empire. They had disobeyed God by refusing to disperse, replenish, & subdue. The tower was to be a testimony to the wisdom & power of its makers. The men doubted God that He would not again bring a flood. Some linked the Flood to nature & not God. The tower was an escape from any danger.
—Ellen G. White, “The Tower of Babel,” pp. 117–124, in Patriarchs and Prophets.
Keywords
PP- Patriarchs and Prophets
Canaan- It’s from the verb kana‘, meaning “subdue.” It is through the subduing of Canaan that God’s people, the descendants of Shem, will enter the Promised Land and prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah who will enlarge Japheth “in the tents of Shem” (Gen. 9:27).
Curse on Ham- It is a gross theological mistake & ethical crime to use this text to justify racist theories against anyone. The prophecy is restricted to Canaan, Ham’s son. The Canaanites engaged in corrupt practices (Gen. 19:5–7, 31–35).
Genealogy- There’s a direct link between Adam and the patriarchs (Matt. 1:1-17). The mention of 70 nations foreshadow the 70 members of the family of Jacob (Gen. 46:27) and the 70 elders of Israel in the wilderness (Exod. 24:9). Along the same line, Jesus sends 70 disciples to evangelize (Luke 10:1).
Lamech- He was Noah’s father & was 56 years old when Adam died. He must have told stories about Adam to his son.
Captions
SUNDAY- The Curse of Ham
MONDAY- The Genesis Genealogy
TUESDAY- One Language
WEDNESDAY- “Let Us Go Down”
THURSDAY- The Redemption of the Exile
Discussion Questions
? What example do we have from history, or even the present, of the trouble that can come from those who seek to make a name for themselves?
? How can we, as a church, avoid the danger of seeking to build our own Tower of Babel? What are ways we might actually be seeking to do this, even subconsciously?
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe,ARTUZ @ARTUZ_teachers · 32m ARTZ SG @robohchere has been abducted in Guruve by a car registered ABT 7760.The captors are said to be members of the Central Intelligence Organisation. The SG was conducting a #SaveOurEducationZw consultation cum planning meeting at Guruve growth point. @zimlive
ZUDAC STATEMENT ON THE CURRENT PUBLIC TRANSPORT CRISIS IN ZIMBABWE.
We hope to find you well. Our transport situation has failed to improve and it has been for decades. We appreciate the efforts being made by the government to address the crisis. The Covid pandemic forced the government to suspend all private kombi operators from offering transport service.
Whilst we agree that the government had to act to protect the public from the Covid 19, we feel that the suspension of private Kombies has now made the situation worse than before as such it needs a review.
Zupco should not be disbanded but we need a supplementary transport system from private Zimbabwean operators.
Zupco must be given routes to operate and private operators the same.
It is important to note that private operators include pensioners, war veterans, war detainees, war collaborators, disabled people, general Zimbabwean citizens and drivers.
The bringing back of Kombies is going to bring a positive impact on our economy. The first signs will be the government’s revenue generation and the income per capita.
The nation of Zimbabwe is now subject to rape, robberies, murders and accidents. It is now evident that Zupco is now providing transport to less than 40 percent of our people and 60 percent from private illegal operators.
Further more the economy has been slowed down by the delays encountered by all workers on reporting for work. This is totally negative to the already struggling economy.
As Zudac we continue to urge the government to review the Covid pandemic statutory instrument of 2020. The statutory instrument makes it an offence for anyone to operate public transport business outside Zupco franchise. This program has exposed our government to a ZWL1, 2 billion debt.
The program has killed compliance for both drivers and vehicles. Vehicles are nolonger going for VID periodical examinations with drivers failing to renew their defensive and medical because they are no longer paid adequately. Inflation is always wiping out their salaries which are always late. The Zupco program has brought suffering to GVT, operators and public countrywide.
The Union engaged the President’s Office Utilities Committee, Local GVT Minister, Home Affairs ministry, Min of Transport and the Parliamentary portifo Committee for local government and transport. What surprises us is that it is taking time for us to get a respond on our submissions.
The transport crisis has lacked coverage from all our newspapers and radios as they are focusing more on politics and social media adultery affairs of celebrities.
The social media is also awash with non productive issues and sideling challenges facing communities. Zimbabweans we must spare time for progressive patriotic thinking.
The morale of Drivers and Conductors is very low because of poor salaries and bad working conditions.
Transport at Zupco is now being run by the wrong people who do not value safety of the public and welfare of workers.
Zupco is doing well on marketing but doing nothing on corruption, competence and welfare of operators and drivers.
As an organization we are there to give our government the right information for sound planning and policing.
Our enforcement is now caught in between poor planning and public disobedience on the transport policy. ZRP and VID are now finding it difficult to impound vehicles belonging to big Names. We know our President does not like this in any way.
Our police and VID must be allowed to execute their constitutional obligation thereby eliminating rogue elements.
We would want to convey our heartfelt condolences to all families of victims of Nkulumane and Chiremba road railway accidents. The accidents happened yesterday the 26 April.
We continue to urge all drivers to follow all road rules and regulations as they are for a reason.
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed and to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.
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A Long Life for All is not a promise, it’s an ambition.
Because everyone deserves a chance at a fulfilling life. One where we’re free to pursue happiness. And look back without wondering “What if?”.
Vaccines have been indiscriminately saving lives since 1796. The first Smallpox immunization was a fight back against disease.
For the first time, it gave everyone a chance. And hundreds of vaccines later, Across two and a quarter centuries. Billions of people have lived longer lives. Grown up to become firefighters. Doctors. Musicians. Fathers. Mothers. Brothers. Sisters. Vaccines might not get credit for that first kiss. That winning goal. That special day. That final hug. But their worth isn’t just measured in doses given. It’s in minutes given back. And lives prolonged.
Vaccines provide opportunity and hope for all of us to enjoy a more fulfilling life. And that’s something we should all be fighting for. Vaccines, in the pursuit of a long life well lived.
For years, the family of the late former President Robert Mugabe maintained a stand at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair for its company Gushungo Holdings.
The late veteran leader’s Alpha Omega Dairy company has since folded, and the famous stand has been taken over by the Health Services Board.
Mugabe’s empire started to collapse in 2017 when he was ousted from power after ruling the southern African country for 37 years.
Reports say Mugabe’s companies survived on patronage and nepotism as government departments stampeded to buy “expensive” products to secure favours from the first family.
As back as 2019, reports suggested that Alpha Omega Dairy was auctioning its several properties including vehicles and farm equipment.
The courts have also done less to help the situation as they have in most cases ruled against the Mugabes.
Resultantly, the former first family has been forced to vacate some properties or pay huge sums of money they owed to individuals and companies. – Pindula News
By- Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), leader Julious Malema has challenged Zimbabweans living in Africa should go home and vote out Zanu PF in the 2023 elections.
Malema said Zimbabweans should not feel too comfortable in South Africa but should know that a prosperous Zimbabwe is a solution to the problems of South Africa.
Speaking at the Freedom Day celebration in Tshwane on Wednesday, the former ANC youth leader said President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa are equally clueless.
Said Malema:
Mnangagwa is as clueless as (Cyril) Ramaphosa. They are Siamese twins. We are making a plea to all Zimbabweans living in South Africa that when you are here you are home and feel at home.
When they are elections go and vote and remove that nonsense and come back if you want.
The people of Zimbabwe must rise and go to vote for a proper government in Zimbabwe.
Let’s help each other so that we become one big happy family.
When they are elections go and vote and remove that nonsense and come back if you want.
The people of Zimbabwe must rise and go to vote for a proper government in Zimbabwe.
Let’s help each other so that we become one big happy family.
…Hopewell Chin’ono, at the time of writing his article to the Sunday Mail, had rational views about US led sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe…
By Dr Masimba Mavaza| Zimbabweans have seen a crop of people who stand and pledge to soil their country. We have seen people who are so dedicated to make Zimbabwe look evil in the eyes of the world.
Dr Masimba Mavaza
But on the top of the list of such subversive and treasonous acts comes Mr Hopwell Chin’ono who knows no other words but to vilify and insult Zimbabwe.
Hopewell has a vendetta against Zimbabwe and he actually dares the police to arrest him so that he gets some form of recognition where he will be portrayed like a hero.
In a way best described as treason, Hopewell vomited profane and perverted utterances against Zimbabwe. He did this to please his handlers and he knew his lies would earn him a cell in a jail. When he arrived home behaving like a witch who was caught during a session Hope was quiet, his tail between his legs, his tongue a bit taimed. He expected to be arrested or something bad happen after his rant, but he has been ignored and his handlers are in a quagmire. They don’t know how to react after Zimbabwe decided not to arrest this fork tongued journalist.
In a rare positive but real point, Dr Mzembi on Twitter said, “By the way I forgot to complement GVT of @edmnangagwa for showing extraordinary maturity over the prompting that was being done on these streets by some overzealous lot to arrest @daddyhope upon his return from an overseas trip . This is as it should be!”
Zimbabwe having a fair share of lunatics one fella and a known hooligan, Job Sikhala responded to Mzembi’s Twitter by saying “they aborted it not voluntarily, but the world clearly warned them not to cross that path. Don’t forget @daddyhope was at a UN organ summit. They were clearly told not to persecute him for exercising his right to speech at an international platform. These people are damn evil.”
One can obviously see that the bitterness in Job Sikhala’s tweet is as a result of a disappointment that the government did not waste time on a dare devil who dares the enforcement system to execute the law.
On the whole, it’s clear, that Hopeell Chin’onos sale by date is nigh.His behaviour has shown that he is schizophrenic and a mercenary, no principle!
In the past few years Mr Hopwell Chin’ono has been, with some measure of success in the eyes of the fickle and frail minded, succeded in re-enacting and modelling himself as a symbol of light in Zimbabwe’s politico-media arena.
Mr Chin’ono has intensely manufactured and branded his hitherto uninspiring image not just as a so- called campainer and advocate for human rights but also as “a martyr of incredible valour.”
Mr HC has, to the guilliable, been able to achieve this grafted and most unnatural image of himself through greed, self interest and above all through a vengeful spirit.
Chin’ono had tried to be given a very high post by the government of Zimbabwe. This he was doing so that he becomes a planted agent of the enemies of Zimbabwe.
In 2017 Hopewell Chin’ono tweeted in response to the late Dewa Mavhinga. “I am still shocked that there are Zimbabweans who are not political enough to know and understand that sanctions against Zimbabwe will not affect Emmerson Mnangagwa but their mothers and fathers in the townships and villages scattered around the country.
When a government is denied a line of credit and falls to raise foreign currency to import fuel it is ordinary Zimbabweans-that will sleep in fuel queues not Emerson Mnangagwa.
We are currently for diaspora’s bite to be granted so that our compatriots abroad can exercise their rights to vote. How do you expect a sitting president not allowed to go and campaign in the diaspora due to Zidera sanctions to grant that right.
I just couldn’t wrap my head aroundDewa Mavhinga’s request to the US government to retain the current foreign policy around Zimbabwe a foreign policy which is anchored on the The Zimbabwe Democracy and
Economic Recovery Act of 2001 which has punitive economic sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Dewa Mavhinga said and asked the US government to, and I quote him; “Maintain
existing US policy toward Zimbabwe until the
military removes itself from politics and the 2018 elections are legitimately assessed to be
peaceful, transparent, free and fair and that power is smoothly transmitted to the newly elected government.”
All the things he spoke of have been overridden by his request to maintain a foreign policy
which includes sanctions on Zimbabwe.
I would understand if Mr Biti and his gang had said that they had engaged the Zimbabwean
government and that the new President and his government did not respond positively.
They haven’t even engaged the new administration whose ministers have only been
in office for exactly eight working days.”
Hopewell at this time he was seeing sense or was he. Immediately after this Hopewell Chin’ono attacked the late Dewa Mavhinga a USA funded activist made to spread negativity about Zimbabwe. After this attack on Dewa, Hopewell approached the second highest office in the Republic promising to shed more light on how treacherous people like Biti and Chamisa were. The appointment was approved since every public office in the new dispensation government operates on *Open door policy mantra.
It’s at this meeting when he begged for a high post position at ZBC or Zimpapers. The answer he got was more or less similar to some morning dew chiefly because there was a need for security check on the persona of Hopewell Chin’ono. Resultantly, Hopewell failed the test. He took no time before he started to join hands with the same people he once had described as enemies of the State.
So it is clear that Hopwell Chin’ono is not only a liar but a bitter unpatriotic evil person and a witch among us.
Now if someone enters in the public arena and makes a living by scandalising his country and others he triggers people to scrutinise him. He has elected himself as a man of integrity and a moral giant fighting for Human Rights. He has elected himself as a freedom fighter.
If you scratch under the skin you will find out this is self interest and vindictiveness. It does not matter if he is telling the truth or not. The truth which is forged for a wrong motive is worse than the Lies. Hopewell’s truth is curved out of vindictiveness and bitterness.
Many would be acquainted with Mr Hopewell Chin’ono’s virulent criticism of the government of Zimbabwe of the new dispensation. Some will also be acquainted with his instiable appetite for cohabitating with the detractors of our country, particularly the West.
The natural product of his illicit relationship with the West is not only that he has become their distinct yoyo and mouthpiece but that more worryingly that he has trumpled over principle and patriotism to reach out to the funding of his handlers.
Mr HC is earning a livelihood by attacking not only the institutions of our country and some of its finest citizens but by also attacking the credibility of their characters, their programmes and their motivation.
While some may be hoondwicked or even convinced by Mr HC’s narratives and seducing antics, it is fair to let the nation see who he really is and what his motivations are.
Chin’ono is best described by who he is not, than the opposite. He is not a democrat. He is not a fighter for human rights. He is not even concerned about ordinary Zimbabweans. As a matter of fact he does not even believe an ounce of what he says and writes about Zanu PF or its leaders. In fact Hopeless Chin’ono is a man of no principled conviction. In the core of his character, behaviours and actions must be discerned a vile sense of greed and most unnatural selfishness. I would take three fundamental aspects of his commentary and purported convictions that graphically illustrate his breath-taking hypocrisy.
1. Commentary on foreign Issues:
On 13 December 2017 Mr HC wrote an article which was published by the Sunday May. He made the following remark on the the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the USA and the EU: “When a government is denied a line of credit and fails to raise foreign exhange to buy fuel, it is the ordinary citizens that sleep in fuel quees, not Emmerson Mnangagwa”.
In the same article and refering to Mr Dewa Mavinga ( an incorrigible and shameless US mouthpiece himself) stated: ” I just couldn’t wrap my head around Dewa Mavinga’s request for the US government to retain its current foreign policy around Zimbabwe…”.
Hopewell Chin’ono is a fairly intelligent man. His ideas on foreign and domestic policy were clear and logical when he wrote this article. He is at a remote place now, from where he was then. His grand departure from his previous position is only explicable on the basis of a most deplorable gymnastic and shattering hypocrisy.
Mr Hopewell Chin’ono, at the time of writing his article to the Sunday Mail, had rational views about US led sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe. He needs to explain himself to the Zimbabweans as to why and how the beautiful butterfly degenerated into an ugly caterpillar.
Hopewell had similarly rational and progressive views on domestic policy. For example, on the diaspora vote he wrote, in the same article “….how do you expect a sitting president not allowed to go and campaign in the disspora due to ZIDERA sanctions to grant that vote?”
Mr Chin’ono had unsparing and sharp views about the opposition. In the same article he appropriately becried “Biti and his gang” ‘s failure to engage the government of Zimbabwe in rushing to denigrate the country in the USA.
Clearly Hopewell knows and appreciates the values and virtues of engagement and collaboration which he touted in that article. Today Mr Chin’ono is the very opposite of an engager. He is an agitator.
Seemingly Mr Chin’ono has undergone transformation. In practice he is the same old selfish schemer. The article he wrote and the views he expressed, although logical and sane, were not driven by patriotism or by any decency at all. Mr Chin’ono designed and penned the article purely as a bait for a job at The Herald or ZBC. Therefore the Twitt was an insencere act in auditioning.
Soon after the publication of the article by the Sunday Mail, Mr HC approached the authorities for a job at The Herald . While the usual pre-employment checks were being conducted, Mr HC either took fright or he lost patience and abondoned his quest. There and then his old pretentious life ceased and a new feigned life commenced.
Mr HC’s new forms of hypocricy and insincerity are underpinned by a clear and profound spirit of vengenance against Zanu PF and against the government following his failure to get an automatic job at The Herald. The man has a childish sense of entitlement and he handles himself as if the country owes him a living.
Furthermore, in much the same way MrChin’ono tried to prostitute himself to Zanu PF for a position, he has found himself a home in the bed of Zimbabwe ‘s detractors where he is prostituting himself for fame and fortune.
The nation, therefore, must see Mr Hopewell Chin’ono for the man he is: a mercenary who will shamelessly make U turns while castibg himself as a valiant sacrifice.
It is a shame that we have many Zimbabweans who have been fooled by Hopewell Chin’ono the man who has destroyed people’s lives by his lying. The man who is not ashamed at all for plunging Zimbabwe in sanctions while he is paid thousands for demonising Zimbabwe.
But Chin’ono must remember that Zimbabwe is quenched in the blood of those who loved and died for it. Zimbabwe will never be defeated by a bunch if traitors posing as journalists or maybe pretending to be politicians.
Zimbabwe is the only country we can call ours in the whole world so we must defend it with the last drop of our blood.
By-The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator to Zimbabwe, Edward Kallon, has urged the Government to create a conducive environment that allows Zimbabweans who have emigrated to return home and contribute to the development of the country.
Kallon also implored western countries to remove targeted sanctions that they imposed on Zimbabwe at the turn of the millennium.
Kallon made the remarks while speaking at a media briefing in Bulawayo on Tuesday 26 April on the backdrop of the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace, celebrated annually on April 24
He said Zimbabwe should address human rights abuses and ensure free fair credible elections, among other things. Said Kallon:
I don’t think any Zimbabwean wants to go to another country and I would end by also encouraging the government to make sure they have an enabling environment facilitated for Zimbabweans to come back and rebuild this beautiful country.
You have the human resources, brilliant Zimbabweans who have common interests and natural endowment.
You need foreign direct investment but it is not going to come in the volumes required to push this country forward if sanctions are in place.
That’s why we are saying review sanctions. We call on the government to address human rights abuses, ensure free fair credible elections, open up civic space and encourage civic participation.
I’m sure Zimbabwe will be the Zimbabwe it used to be, a country so strategic with an endowment that it can make its people live a very, very comfortable life.
In response, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana deplored xenophobia, saying Zimbabwe is ready to assist its nationals in South Africa. Said Mangwana:
It’s really sad (that) we at this stage of African solidarity, unity, multilateral approach and borderlessness, I would say the affairs and situation where Africans are discriminated against by Africans.
It’s tragic that these xenophobia sentiments are being whipped and in some cases politicians.
Should there be any of our nationals who want any other type of support they should approach our embassy in South Africa and they will arrange to give the support that is needed.
Earlier this month, Zimbabwean Elvis Nyathi was brutally murdered by a mob in Diepsloot, Johannesburg, for not having a passport.
South Africans blame foreigners for the high levels of crime and unemployment in that country.
By- The Nelson Chamisa led Citizens Coalition for Change has said it was too broke to hold an elective congress before the 2023 elections.
The party’s interim secretary-general, Chalton Hwende said that the opposition party cannot hold an elective congress before 2023 harmonised elections because it doesn’t have the funds for the event.
This comes barely a week after CCC interim deputy spokesperson, Gift Siziba claimed they will not hold a congress because they feared infiltration by Zanu PF and State security agents.
However, Hwende said CCC doesn’t have the huge sums of money needed to hold a congress as well as for election campaigns. Said Hwende:
The two biggest cost centres in a political party are: 1. Congress 2. General Elections.
There is no sane party that holds both events in the same year because to have a congress for CCC you need US$2 million and an election, a minimum of US$150 million. Politics is a very expensive game.
We are less than 12 months before an election, and the three critical priority areas are 1. Voter registration 2 Candidates selection and polling agents training 3. Fundraising.
By- The regional coordinator of Operation Dudula in Rustenburg, Rollance Mabula, said that their members were patriotic, and not xenophobic.
The anti-migrant group was expected to launch its North West branch in Rustenburg on Wednesday.
The vigilante-like group claims it is targeting drug dens, unregistered businesses and undocumented foreign nationals who they accuse of engaging in criminal activities and stealing jobs from South Africans. Said Mabula: We are having a problem with illegal immigrants occupying job positions that are supposed to be occupied by South Africans. How should I feel when I see people from out of this country coming to make our children prostitutes here? Members of Operation Dudula sing songs that have derogatory lyrics to refer to foreigners but Mabula insists the group is not xenophobic. Operation Dudula members arrive at the Rustenburg bus rank (Image Operation Dudula has been blamed for the death of Zimbabwean Elvis Nyathi who was lynched by a mob in Diepsloot, a township in Johannesburg earlier this month.
By- The Nelson Chamisa led Citizens Coalition for Change has said that they needed US$2 Million for them to hold an elective congress.
The party’s interim secretary-general, Chalton Hwende said that the opposition party cannot hold an elective congress before 2023 harmonised elections because it doesn’t have the funds for the event.
This comes barely a week after CCC interim deputy spokesperson, Gift Siziba claimed they will not hold a congress because they feared infiltration by Zanu PF and State security agents.
However, Hwende said CCC doesn’t have the huge sums of money needed to hold a congress as well as for election campaigns. Said Hwende:
The two biggest cost centres in a political party are: 1. Congress 2. General Elections.
There is no sane party that holds both events in the same year because to have a congress for CCC you need US$2 million and an election, a minimum of US$150 million. Politics is a very expensive game.
We are less than 12 months before an election, and the three critical priority areas are 1. Voter registration 2 Candidates selection and polling agents training 3. Fundraising.
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe,ARTUZ @ARTUZ_teachers · 32m ARTZ SG @robohchere has been abducted in Guruve by a car registered ABT 7760.The captors are said to be members of the Central Intelligence Organisation. The SG was conducting a #SaveOurEducationZw consultation cum planning meeting at Guruve growth point. @zimlive
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe,ARTUZ @ARTUZ_teachers · 32m ARTZ SG @robohchere has been abducted in Guruve by a car registered ABT 7760.The captors are said to be members of the Central Intelligence Organisation. The SG was conducting a #SaveOurEducationZw consultation cum planning meeting at Guruve growth point. @zimlive
UD Llanera goalkeeper Martin Mapisa was a victim of racist abuse during a Spanish Segunda B Division match against CD Palencia Cristo Atletico on Saturday.
The Warriors international, who is on loan from Zamora CF, was at the receiving end of shouts by the home team’s (Palencia) supporters, who repeatedly yelled at him expressions like monkey and macaque during the match.
The incident was brought to the attention of the match officials who warned the fans over the stadium’s public address system to stop that behaviour.
Palencia Cristo has now formally apologised to Mapisa for the racist insults received. The club also said it is investigating the incident to identify the perpetrators and take action, and is even considering closing the north end of the stadium for the next match.
“From CD Palencia Cristo Atlético we want to show our outrage and “strongly condemn the outrageous racist insults” that occurred in last Saturday’s match,” the club said in a statement.
“First of all, our apologies to Martín Mapisa, on behalf of the club and all our fans, nobody deserves these insults that do not represent our club or our fans.
“There is no place in sport or in society for any kind of discriminatory behaviour. Such repulsive behavior goes against the sports spirit, the values of our club and a total lack of respect for all the people who, with their work and effort, try to make football serve as a benchmark of union between different communities, social sectors and countries around the world.
“These incidents only reinforce our club’s commitment to fighting all forms of discrimination, the club will take action in this regard by applying the harshest possible punishment to all those responsible.”
The statement continues: “From the club we hope that the requested collaboration takes effect and the identification of the person in charge is completed, otherwise the club cannot fail to act accordingly and in the absence of identification of the person in charge, the fund sector will be closed north (among other measures) from which these repulsive and intolerable behaviors took place, for the next meeting in La Balastera.
“Our fans must understand that if action is not taken there is no point in showing a conviction in writing as it would be forgotten, in these cases everyone must act, we the first to show an example, those who have heard it They must identify it because the facts harm the club, it harms the responsible fans who are the vast majority and above all it harms our city and the sporting spirit.”- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Carlo Ancelotti admitted Real Madrid must improve for their second leg against Manchester City next week, and will need the ‘magic’ of the Bernabeu to help them reach the Champions League final.
City lead Real 4-3 after a brilliantly entertaining first leg at the Etihad on Tuesday, but the Blues let two-goal leads slip three times as Ancelotti’s men gave themselves a fighting chance at the Bernabeu next week. Karim Benzema scored a brilliant double either side of Vinicius Jr’s solo goal in a game of high quality between the leaders of the Premier League and La Liga.
After the game, Ancelotti was full of praise for City but said Real’s defending was below what he would expect.
He told BT Sport: “As a supporter of football, it was a fantastic game, but as a manager of Madrid… we scored three important goals but didn’t defend so well, we could have defended better. We conceded two goals so early. We were able to react, we did well to keep the game open. We have a great dream to play the second game in the Bernabeu. We hope we can have chance to go to the final.
“This team, these players are able to not lose mind when things aren’t good. We did the same, the first 20 minutes were really difficult. After that, slowly, we came back into the game and kept the qualification open.
Asked if Real will need some ‘magic’ at the Bernabeu next week to reach the final, Ancelotti said: “We need it because we are going to play a really strong team, they showed fantastic quality today. We competed but we have to compete more in our stadium.”
Meanwhile, Karim Benzema, echoed his manager’s calls for magic in Madrid as he told Movistar: “We are going to say we lacked a bit of everything in this game – a bit of ambition, pressure, confidence.
“A defeat is never good because we are really excited about the Champions League. The most important thing is we never lay down our arms, we are all in this until the end.
Now we have to go to the Bernabéu and we will need our fans like never and we are going to do something magical, which is win.- Manchester Evening News
Tinashe Sambiri|Unity is key to development in Africa, Citizens’ Coalition For Change leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.
According to President Chamisa, Africans are one big family.
“HAPPY FREEDOM DAY MZANSI.
May the nation build on the solid foundations that exist and continue to shine on the African soil.
We stand together united and indivisible for Africa’s greatness.We are ONE Africa with a shared history and a common destiny.Let freedom ring in Africa,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
On the formation of CCC President Chamisa said:
“IT’S A TOTAL SHIFT ON EVERYTHING!!Don’t miss it. We are not our past!! A total shift in leadership culture, manners and values.
A total shift in structure. A total shift in strategy. A total shift in politics, policies and programs. Let’s Go!!#fakapressure.”
Tinashe Sambiri|Unity is key to development in Africa, Citizens’ Coalition For Change leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.
According to President Chamisa, Africans are one big family.
“HAPPY FREEDOM DAY MZANSI.
May the nation build on the solid foundations that exist and continue to shine on the African soil.
We stand together united and indivisible for Africa’s greatness.We are ONE Africa with a shared history and a common destiny.Let freedom ring in Africa,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
On the formation of CCC President Chamisa said:
“IT’S A TOTAL SHIFT ON EVERYTHING!!Don’t miss it. We are not our past!! A total shift in leadership culture, manners and values.
A total shift in structure. A total shift in strategy. A total shift in politics, policies and programs. Let’s Go!!#fakapressure.”
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe,ARTUZ @ARTUZ_teachers
ARTZ SG @robohchere has been abducted in Guruve by a car registered ABT 7760.The captors are said to be members of the Central Intelligence Organisation. The SG was conducting a #SaveOurEducationZw consultation cum planning meeting at Guruve growth point. @zimlive
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed and to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.
WHO works with countries across the globe to raise awareness of the value of vaccines and immunization and ensures that governments obtain the necessary guidance and technical support to implement high-quality immunization programmes. The ultimate goal of World Immunization Week is for more people – and their communities – to be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.
This World Immunization Week 2022 campaign page will be updated regularly in the lead up to and during World Immunization Week.
A Long Life for All is not a promise, it’s an ambition.
Because everyone deserves a chance at a fulfilling life. One where we’re free to pursue happiness. And look back without wondering “What if?”.
Vaccines have been indiscriminately saving lives since 1796. The first Smallpox immunization was a fight back against disease.
For the first time, it gave everyone a chance. And hundreds of vaccines later, Across two and a quarter centuries. Billions of people have lived longer lives. Grown up to become firefighters. Doctors. Musicians. Fathers. Mothers. Brothers. Sisters. Vaccines might not get credit for that first kiss. That winning goal. That special day. That final hug. But their worth isn’t just measured in doses given. It’s in minutes given back. And lives prolonged.
Vaccines provide opportunity and hope for all of us to enjoy a more fulfilling life. And that’s something we should all be fighting for. Vaccines, in the pursuit of a long life well lived.
Former Premier Soccer League referee Ruzive Ruzive believes the penalty incident which led to violence at Mandava Stadium between FC Platinum and Highlanders, was the correct call.
Referee Kuzivakwamwari Jaravaza pointed to the spot in the 82nd minute after Peter Muduhwa was adjudged to have brought down Walter Musona.
The incident led to violence, after a section of Bosso fans invaded the pitch in protest, and police reacted by firing teargas, leading to the match being abandoned.
Speaking on ZTN weekly show The Couch, Ruzive said Jaravaza made the right decision.
“If the holding, pulling of the shirt started outside the box and ended inside the box, then it is a penalty,” said Ruzive.
“So if it is clear that there was holding in this scenario, which I’m seeing from that angle, I’m seeing holding of the shirt.”
“There was a pulled shirt starting from outside the box, and ended up inside, so what it means is, the decision was correct,” he added.
By A Correspondent- A United Methodist Church pastor was allegedly robbed, drugged and gang-raped by four men from Epworth who had broken into her house in Dema in September 2021.
The accused persons are Ronald Mambo (32), Palace Gwinhi (30), Tinashe Nyamayaro (34) and Cuthbert Homakoma (32).
The suspects pleaded not guilty when they appeared before Chitungwiza regional magistrate Clever Tsikwa facing two counts of robbery and rape.
The trial is expected to continue on 4 May with the complainant giving her account.
Prosecutor Trinity Nyandebvu alleged that on 16 September 2021, at around 11 pm, the accused persons broke into the complainant’s house.
They reportedly threatened to assault her with iron bars and knobkerries if she tried to call for help.
It is further alleged that the assailants demanded valuables and they ransacked the house and robbed the complainant of US$250 cash.
The suspects also stole an Acer laptop, two Tecno cellphones, a car battery, five blankets, an exhaust sealer and groceries among other things.
The four men then ordered the complainant to drink a sour substance from a wild cat container and the complainant felt weak.
Homakoma allegedly forcefully raped the complainant twice without using protection.
The court further heard that the complainant made a report to the police and was referred to the hospital where she was medically examined.
Meanwhile, on 8 December 2021, Mambo and Gwinhi were arrested on other charges and after interrogation, they implicated the other two accomplices leading to their arrest.
On 9 December 2021, the four accused persons were placed on a formal identification parade which was recorded by a static camera.-statemedia
The complainant positively identified Homakoma as the one who raped her on the day in question.
By A Correspondent- In a bizzare development, a recent guest on Tilda Live Zim (Zvinotyisa) confessed he was responsible for the death of his parents, wife, kids, several relatives, neighbours and workmates.
The man was a farmworker in Glendale and he thought of finding favours from his employers and gain power and wealth.
He then approached a certain sangoma who gave him some muthi and other things he would use to achieve his goal.
He said things were working out perfectly well at first but after some time misfortunes started happening in his family.
From the man’s narration, it appears it was a case of rituals that went wrong and he could not open up to his family.
He said his only option was to kill his father first and he made him collapse after he did certain rituals on a grave.
His mother’s death came soon after his father’s demise, followed by his other two siblings leaving him and his other sister.
He also confessed to being responsible for the death of other farm workers.
He said he became jealous whenever their employer appeared to be showing favours to others and this led him to perform rituals against them as well.
According to the man, he killed his wife and four kids
By A Correspondent- Veteran gospel singer Dr Deborah Fraser, who is now using a wheelchair for mobility, has pleaded with South Africa to pray for her because of her illness.
Dr Deborah Fraser (56) has had diabetes for many years now and she revealed that this could be why she is now in a wheelchair. From February to March 2021, she was hospitalised after falling ill on her way to a gig at Klerksdorp in the North West.
I was unconscious, even the artists that came there said I should be transported to hospital. I still cannot walk. I think it’s because I was in bed for a long time, but I don’t know for sure. It’s stressful to live a life that you’re not used to. I’m asking for love, I’m asking for prayers.
The gospel doyen shed more light on her immobility:
I went to different doctors and they said it does happen and it’s just a matter of time, so I am waiting for that. It will take time for me to go back to walking. If there isn’t a major problem. They have to check it thoroughly. If nobody is supporting me and I don’t walk slow, I fall. Even the way you place me on a couch, you need to be careful. I can’t walk alone and can’t try to walk because I lose direction. When I have to go to the left I go to the right and vice versa. I get dizzy
Dr Fraser said despite being in the wheelchair, she would not drop the microphone and stop singing. She added that her voice and hands are not affected, so she will continue singing.
Watch her speak about her condition earlier this month.
A senior city of Harare employee is accused of corruptly distributing land to desperate residents, swindling the local authority of thousands of dollars in the process.
Following a letter we published on the 12th of March titled: “https://www.zimeye.net/2022/03/12/exposed-city-council-boss-corruptly-distributing-land-via-own-ben-10/ “ Our journalists managed to investigate into the tip and it all came out as had been stated.
Principal town planner Miss Rita Chipo Barbara Mugocha (45) is indeed involved in the corrupt parcelling out of land through her part time live-in boyfriend and Ben 10 one Kudzai Elton Mawondo (33).
On the 13th of December, Mawondo approached Mugocha with information that his boss, Kuziva Mamvura had alerted him that they as City Council Of Harare had stated that there is available land along Samora Machel.
Mugocha, over the phone, admitted that indeed the land was available but she needed her money first for deposit to institute action into processing the land for them.
She gave a figure 1500USD and stated that her cut from the deal was 10 percent which meant she would get 150USD.
Kudzai Mawondo then further went on to connive with her to put the figure at 2500USD so that in the event the boss was to negotiate they would end up settling at 2200USD as the last figure.
He enquired if it was achievable and she assured him as long she got her cut that was attainable.Before closing the deal she then asked what percentage she was getting from the extra mark up to which he offered 30 percent and she declared she wanted 40percent from the 1000USD that was the extra mark up.
The two lovebirds later settled for 35 percent and Mawondo went on to inform his boss.
There seemed to be a misunderstanding as Mugocha was not willing to engage “a surveyor “ unless she had received her share and Mawondo then assured her that she would be handed the money at the site directly and he was not being given the money first in such a way that she would assume he would con her over the deal.
With corroborating chats that followed; Mawondo then tried to have the exact location of the said land and Mugocha refused to budge wanting her money first as Mawondo had conned her in the past in other deals and also on a personal level.In her exact words she highlighted “Pay me first and the work will be done, you will appreciate you have conned me in our business deals before and twice on a personal level, I would be anything but naive to trust you now” Mawondo assured her he had changed and likened himself to Paul who was once a glorified sinner as Saul.When he then went to her office at Cleveland land and contacted her after he found her office closed she then informed him she was home down with COVID and he could gladly drop the money at her house.
There seemed to be tensions until Mawondo gave in to giving her 800USD and him taking home 200USD from the extra mark up.
On the 30th of December 2021 the two lovebirds proceeded to inform each other of another meeting the Boss Kuziva Mamvura had instituted at his offices and there lay another 750USD that Mugocha was to collect.Mawondo informed her to prepare so they could go together to which she responded she was already heading out to town.
Mawondo felt betrayed as the point person between this deal but she assured him she wasn’t going to leave him out.The two then liased to meet at Chance shops.
The meeting went ahead as planned and money exchanged hands and the two congratulated each other on a job well done of their illicit deals and Mawondo concerned ; urged his sugar mama to put snuff “bute” on the money so they could do something meaningful on all these transactions and it wouldn’t waste away.
She then assured him that now the buck lay on pushing her paperwork as principal town planner and all they had to do was wait.For a job that would normally require 3 months she assured as the “Boss” at Council she would have it done in 3 weeks.
These transactions carried on until 2 stands were specifically created for Kuziva Mamvura and ZimEye.com has all the evidence to cement this.
As corruption is a deep root and a lot of names were dropped in the conversations Who is Conrad? How deep also is the District Surveyor implicated in this?Have investigations been instituted or COH is covering up for Mugocha?How many deals of this sort has she done and gotten away with yet trusted with the public to hold such an office.
We will be proceeding with airing live some of the conversations and audios.
Both Mugocha and Mawondo were not immediately available to give their side of the story pertaining to the allegations.
Internationally acclaimed South African actress, Connie Ferguson is set to visit Zimbabwe on the 6th of May for an interface with local entrepreneurs and creatives.
The visit is part Connie Ferguson’s regional tour and will see the revered actress, filmmaker, producer and businesswoman interact with local entrepreneurs and creatives.
“Connie is a force to reckon with not only in South Africa. She is a successful actress and businesswoman who has a lot that local creatives and entrepreneurship can learn from. We want to tap into her expertise in as far as business is concerned,” said Conrad Mwanza, Connie Ferguson’s local representative.
Zodwa Mkandla, the event organiser, said, “There will be a dinner gala to welcome her on Friday, a day we will hold women in business meeting on Saturday. She will interact with local entrepreneurs and actresses.”
Ferguson, who rose to fame after starring as Karabo Moroka on South Africa’s most popular soap, Generations till her exit in 2010, co-founded a production powerhouse, Ferguson Films with her late husband, Shona.
The 51-year-old multi-award-winning creative is also famed for her roles in productions like The Wild, Solly Loves Kina, Soul City, Rock Ville and The Queen, which all received massive following in South Africa and beyond.
By Robert Mukondiwa| It begins with a C. It isn’t Clive or Chigubu. It’s cancer. That he was in pain and couldn’t get medical attention should never escape our minds.
That he had been booked for an appointment and arrived to see the place closed should be scandalous to ‘normal’ people in ‘normal’ circumstances.
Early detection where no interventions exist doesn’t save lives, its a death sentence.
That he fell ill and could only see the ENT (ear, nose and throat specialist) on a Friday because they are available one day a week should anger you….but it doesn’t. Because death by cancer is not a priority.
Medical equipment to give cancer patients a fighting chance is not important is it? Clive has just made his final joke and it’s that our health system (system indeed) is itself a joke. But nobody is laughing.
His death won’t move anyone into action. He’s not a priority. He’s just another young Zimbabwean whose life has been cut short by cancer.
He has ceased to be Clive and become a statistic. Another brick in the wall. I’d planned to see him on Thursday.
To me he was not just another Zimbabwean comedian. He was the best in the business by a country mile.
Now he has dropped the mic in the cruelest fashion and his most sadistic joke. He leaves a 5 year old girl confused at being fatherless. Now it is a funeral that I’ll have to attend. And like thousands of dead Zimbabweans he died nowhere near a radiotherapy machine.
An accident of geography found him being born in our piece of the world and like millions dead from cancer before him, we let him down. Clive; forgive us!
By A Correspondent- Five people were burnt beyond recognition after being involved in a road accident along Masvingo-Mbalabala Road on Tuesday afternoon.
According to police, a Toyota Mark X from Masvingo collided with a Toyota Corrolla which was coming from the opposite direction.
The accident happened a few hours after another horrific accident killed 6 people in Bulawayo where a kombi crashed against at haulage truck and another one which happened in Harare where 2 people perished after a Honda fit was crashed by a train.
By A Correspondent- Zimpapers Television Network (ZTN) journalist Robert Mukondiwa has bemoaned the sorry state of cancer treatment in Zimbabwe following the death of stand-up comedian Clive Chigubhu from the disease.
Chigubhu passed away on Wednesday, 27 April around 5 AM after he was diagnosed with Diffuse Large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), a type of cancer.
DLBCL is a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a cancer of the lymphatic system.
Mukondiwa also lost his mother to the disease after she failed to get treatment at local hospitals.
In a post on his Facebook page, Mukondiwa said Chigubhu, just like thousands of dead Zimbabweans, died nowhere near a radiotherapy machine. He wrote:
t begins with a C. It isn’t Clive or Chigubu. It’s cancer. That he was in pain and couldn’t get medical attention should never escape our minds.
That he had been booked for an appointment and arrived to see the place closed should be scandalous to ‘normal’ people in ‘normal’ circumstances. Early detection where no interventions exist doesn’t save lives, its a death sentence.
That he fell ill and could only see the ENT (ear, nose and throat specialist) on a Friday because they are available one day a week should anger you….but it doesn’t. Because death by cancer is not a priority.
Medical equipment to give cancer patients a fighting chance is not important is it? Clive has just made his final joke and it’s that our health system (system indeed) is itself a joke. But nobody is laughing. His death won’t move anyone into action.
He’s not a priority. He’s just another young Zimbabwean whose life has been cut short by cancer. He has ceased to be Clive and become a statistic. Another brick in the wall. I’d planned to see him on Thursday.
To me he was not just another Zimbabwean comedian. He was the best in the business by a country mile. Now he has dropped the mic in the cruelest fashion and his most sadistic joke. He leaves a 5 year old girl confused at being fatherless.
Now it is a funeral that I’ll have to attend. And like thousands of dead Zimbabweans he died nowhere near a radiotherapy machine.
An accident of geography found him being born in our piece of the world and like millions dead from cancer before him, we let him down.
Former Mutare mayor, Blessing Tandi was last Friday labeled a traitor and barred from attending a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) provincial assembly meeting presided over by party president Nelson Chamisa.
Sources who attended the meeting revealed that Tandi was barred by security after a directive was given by the party’s provincial leadership.
“Despite being recalled by Mwonzora for secretly working with Chamisa, Tandi was barred by security at the gate. They told him he was not allowed to attend Chamisa’s meeting with the provincial leadership. Trinity Manjengwa was one of the leading CCC’s securities who chased away Tandi, who could be heard begging to be allowed entry,” said the source.
The source added that security was given a directive by CCC Manicaland Chairperson, Prosper Mutseyami and senator Keresencia Chabuka to block Tandi from getting inside the venue where the national leadership was addressing.
CCC Manicaland spokesperson David Panganayi expressed ignorance over Tandi’s predicament.
He said if Tandi was refused access to the meeting it was on grounds that he currently does not hold any position within the party.
“I am not aware of his being barred from the provincial assembly. What interim position does he currently hold? It is unfortunate that he was barred from a meeting he was not invited,” said Panganayi.
He added that a provincial assembly is a meeting for particular positions within the party and invitations were sent accordingly.
Panganayi distanced Mutseyami from the chaos, indicating the provincial chairperson and women’s chairperson were not responsible for selecting people who attend meetings.
“No such directive was given. When we inform police of our intention to hold any public gathering, they require us to give them in writing all the expected guests. How was Tandi’s name going to be included when he was not invited?” he said.
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For starters, BTC has a longer history than any of its competitors. It was the first of its kind in 2009 and essentially spawned the growth of an entirely new form of money.
Not only is bitcoin easy to buy and sell, but consumers can also spend it, save it, store it, accumulate it in accounts, lock it into digital cold wallets, and stash it into retirement accounts for long-term growth potential.
As the only market leader the sector has ever had, bitcoin’s success has had a deep impact on the performance of hundreds of its competitors.
Opportunities
If you trade any alt-coin as a part-time or full-time endeavor, it’s critical to be aware of the opportunities within the asset class during the 2020s, which could turn out to be a golden age for cryptos.
In addition to virtually unlimited upside potential for the price, all current signs are pointing toward widespread acceptance within the next several years. Among consumers, traders, and investors, demand is growing.
One reason BTC’s capitalization total increases regularly is higher demand. All it takes to calculate capitalization is to multiply the price by the number of coins owned by all holders. Even amid huge swings in value, capitalization rises consistently.
There’s another factor behind rising demand. What investors call stacking is the simple accumulation of an asset, like gold or bitcoin, for the sole purpose of long-term appreciation.
They aren’t interested in short-term trends, financial news, or current events. They merely wish to acquire their preferred asset and stow it away for the future. It’s an old-fashioned way of doing things but can offer potentially massive payoffs for those who have the discipline to follow the method. One other component of demand is the recent trend toward staking.
Right now, BTC does not pay interest on staked assets, but it might do so in the near future. Ethereum and other coins do offer staking rewards, which are close to earning interest on the cash you put in a savings account.
Risks
Everything comes with risk, and digital currency is no different. Note that for many investors, the potential rewards of ownership clearly outweigh the risks. Otherwise, the asset would not be so popular. Risks include extreme price volatility, pyramid schemes, potentially strict government regulation, the loss of anonymity for users, and tax reporting requirements that could take a number of burdensome forms.
For New Traders
What are BTC’s pros and cons from the viewpoint of traders? Accounts are easy to set up, and the top brokerage firms allow multiple ways to own, trade, and invest cryptos. Account holders can buy alt-coins directly, acquire shares of crypto-backed funds, or use CFDs (contracts for difference) to speculate on price moves without owning the underlying asset.
Fortunately, brokers work hard to deal with some of the challenges that come with owning a digital asset. Because it’s not so easy to understand the technology behind alt-coins, most brokers offer extensive educational resources that include library access, trading simulators, and webinars.
By A Correspondent- The recent increase in mealie meal prices by 50% has irked consumers across Zimbabwe who are saying it has become unaffordable due to poor incomes they are earning while most of them are not formally employed.
The mealie meal retail price increase saw a 10kg bag of roller meal going up from $1 099 to $1 665, equivalent to US$11,10 according to the official exchange rate.
Most consumers said they do not have stable jobs and have huge families
Save Mlambo said the government must review mealie meal prices as a basic commodity as many families are starving due to unreasonable prices.
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairman Tafadzwa Musarara said the decision to hike prices came after the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) increased the price of white maize by 50% from $50 000 to $75 000 per metric tonne.
“The new price structures will further push ailing Zimbabweans into deep hardship, considering that many are still earning salaries that are way below the Total Consumption Poverty Lines, amid research findings establishing that 49% of the country’s population is living in extreme poverty,” Musarara said
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has confirmed an accident that occurred in Bulawayo after a commuter Omnibus (kombi) collided with a haulage truck Tuesday morning.
Six people were killed and 11 others hospitalised.
The kombi was coming from Pumula South carrying commuters when it collided with the moving heavy goods truck at the intersection of Khami Road and Masiyephambili, close to the Nkulumane Complex.
National police spokesman Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said:
The ZRP confirms a fatal road traffic accident which occurred at the intersection of Masiyephambili and Khami Road today at 5AM where six people died while 11 others were injured.
A non-Zupco Toyota Hiace kombi with 17 occupants went through a red robot (traffic light) and rammed into a moving truck before it was trapped between the horse and trailer and dragged for about 30 metres.
The kombi landed on its roof.
Six people were already dead when the Bulawayo Fire Brigade arrived at the scene at 5.55 AM, 10 minutes after getting the call, a spokesman said. The spokesman said:
The Brigade extricated the trapped and the commuter omnibus was turned to stand on its wheels using a winch.
Three ambulances ferried the injured to Mpilo Central Hospital.
Kombis are banned from carrying commuters, except for those registered with monopoly transporter ZUPCO, but the government’s failing public transport system forces many to use “mshika-shika” – unlicenced transporters to get to work.
By A Correspondent- One person dies while seven others among them five family members from Cowdray Park cheated death by a whisker when a Toyota Vitz collided head on with their Mazda Familia at a 70km peg along Harare- Bulawayo road.
Bulawayo City Council Acting Chief fire officer Lynos Phiri confirmed the accident.
“The driver of the Toyota Vitz, Hove Mackerel (31) from Mpopoma died on the spot after he was found trapped inside his car. Five out of the seven people that were injured are Mushevedzi family members from Cowdray park but had no injuries sustained, while details of the two more victims were not yet obtained and were all conveyed to Mpilo hospital,” Phiri said.
He said one vehicle might have encroached on the line of the oncoming traffic and collided head on resulting in serious damage.
Phiri said the vehicles were thrown to the sides of the road as a result of the impact, indicating that ages of the Mushevedzi family members varied between 3 to 32 years.
By- Two armed robbers have been shot dead by the police in Kadoma.
In a statement, ZRP said the shootout occurred after police reacted to a report of an armed robbery that occurred at Innez Mine in Kadoma.
Reads the statement : The ZRP confirms a shooting incident which occurred at James area, Patchway, Kadoma Tuesday at about 0800 hours between Police detectives and eight armed robbery suspects. Following a robbery incident which occurred at Innez Mine, Kadoma on 25/04/22 at 2300 hours, the Police crack team on armed robbery intercepted the suspect’s Nissan Caravan vehicle (AFH6988) which was used during the robbery and flagged it stop. The suspects tried to attack police officers with machetes and a shootout ensued resulting in the arrest of three suspects. Two of the suspects later died upon admission at Kadoma General Hospital due to the injuries sustained during the shootout. The gang is linked to a series of armed robbery cases which occurred in Kadoma, Norton and Chegutu. The police did not specify if the robbers had other weapons besides machetes. It is also not clear if the suspects had managed to get away with anything from the Mine.
By A Correspondent- Clements Momberume, the brother of the late Johane Marange Apostolic church leader Noah Taguta has been granted an interim interdict barring the sect from using the sacred burial shrine in Mafararikwa Village, Mutare where Taguta was buried.
The legal challenge could result in the exhumation of his remains from the sacred Chinyamukumba Mountain in Marange.
Momberume was granted a prohibitory order by Mutare High Court last Wednesday.
He filed the application through his lawyers, Maunga Maanda and Associates, under case number 353/22, on the basis of the separation of family and religious affairs.
The order was filed and awarded last week Wednesday, which is on the same day Taguta was buried at the church’s shrine, amid squabbles between church leaders and Momberume who also runs a splinter group dubbed the Johane Marange (Simon Branch).
The first and second respondent includes Saratiel Taguta and Titos Taguta respectively, brothers to the late High Priest.
Mutare magistrate, Langton Carter, granted an interim relief order and further hearing on the matter is set for April 29. Reads the order:
The 1st and 2nd respondents, their agents or proxies, are barred from interfering with the gravesite of the late Johane Muchabaya Momberume at the southwestern side of Chinyamukumba Mountain Range in Taguta Village, Headman Mafararikwa, Chief Marange.
Pending the return of this matter, the 1st and 2nd respondents, their agents and proxies be, and are hereby barred from pointing, marking, preparing for burial site of the late Johane Machabaya Momberume, which is at the south-western side of Chinyamukumba Mountain Range in Taguta Village, Headman Mafararikwa, Chief Marange.
The interim order further barred respondents from burying Noah Taguta at the sacred summit of the Chinyamukumba Mountain Range.
The Johane Marange sect violated the interim order, as in the past, where it went against a number of court orders by Momberume, a direct sibling of the late Johane Marange Momberume, who was the founder of the apostolic sect.
There has been a longstanding brotherly feud between late Noah and Momberume.
By- A Kadoma butchery operator, has been evicted for supporting the CCC party.
Nicholas Marufu claimed that he had been evicted from rented premises at Tandara Shopping Centre in Kadoma for allegedly hosting Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists.“The problem started after CCC supporters were seen buying meat from my butchery while wearing party regalia on April 23. After that, Memory Simango gave me notice to vacate the property by the end of the month,” Marufu said. Simango owns the premises. “She had verbally given me notice to terminate the lease, but I told her I was not accepting the termination of the lease agreement on political grounds.” However, Simango dismissed Marufu’s claims, accusing him of being a bad tenant. “In fact, he must be negotiating with me because he has not been paying rent for four months. Marufu is supposed to pay US$50 as rent, but he is failing. I was away last week and I was phoned by people asking me if I knew anything about the political meeting being held at the shop and I said I was not aware,” Simango said. “They said it was not safe and right for business premises to be used for political gatherings. I called him to discuss, but he failed to turn up. I later locked the fridge at the shop hoping that he would come to meet me so that we could talk, but he did not. He instead shamelessly went to the shop and broke the fridge lock. He is just a problem and worse he has no butchery or shop licence, he rides on mine.” In a written response to Simango, Marufu said he wanted compensation for improvements to the premise. “I need full compensation for those developments. I also need a full calendar year notice for such termination of lease. I agreed on a five-year lease agreement with you when I commenced operation on these premises,” Marufu wrote to Simango. “Take note, during the COVID-19 lockdowns, I continued paying rentals although I was not operating. The rent I was paying was for future business operations. It is not fair to evict me on political grounds less than six months after we resumed operations. Newsday
By- The Citizens Coalition for Change opposition political party has intensified its voter registration blits spreading the programme to the rural areas.
The Nelson Chamisa led party announced this on its tweeter account:
The 2nd voter registration blitz is currently on until the 30th of April 2022. Carry your ID & proof of residence to get registered to vote. The mobile centres will open from 0700 to 1730hrs. Visit your nearest voter registration centres.
By- Citizen Coalition for Change President, Nelson Chamisa, said his government would introduce a new political culture after winning the 2023 elections.
Chamisa posted this on his Tweeter account:
IT’S A TOTAL SHIFT ON EVERYTHING!!Don’t miss it. We are not our past!! A total shift in leadership culture, manners and values. A total shift in structure. A total shift in strategy. A total shift in politics, policies and programs. Let’s Go!!#fakapressure
IT’S A TOTAL SHIFT ON EVERYTHING!!Don’t miss it. We are not our past!! A total shift in leadership culture, manners and values. A total shift in structure. A total shift in strategy. A total shift in politics, policies and programs. Let’s Go!!#fakapressure
Paul Pogba has reportedly told his teammates that he will be leaving Manchester United with PSG and Real Madrid being potential destinations.
There have also been rumours that the France international could rejoin Juventus in Italy.
The French midfielder, who is not expected to play for United again this season after picking up an injury, entered his final six months of his current deal at Old Trafford, and negotiations for a new contract between the 29-year-old’s representatives and United have stalled.
The EPL club offered the player a new contract last year but nothing has been agreed on yet.
According to the Daily Mirror, it’s now certain Pogba is leaving United and has already told his teammates that he is on his way out. The midfielder is even said to have left the WhatsApp player group the squad uses to stay in touch.
Meanwhile, Jesse Lingard, Nemanja Matic, Edinson Cavani and Juan Mata are also expected to leave the club on free transfers during the summer window.
This is happening as Old Trafford has announced that Ajax coach, Erik ten Hag will be joining the struggling club at the end of the season.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
By- The Zimbabwe dollar has continued to lose value against the US dollar on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe forex auction market.
Yesterday the weighted average fell to US$1: 159.3482 ZWL$ from US$1: ZWL$155.1419 which was reported by the RBZ on 20 April.
In total, US$30.4 million was allotted this week, with the bulk of the allotment going to raw materials followed by machinery and equipment, the same as last week.
920 bids were received on the Small to Medium enterprises forex auction, with 869 accepted and 51 disqualified. The total number of bids allotted was869.
On the main forex auction, a total of 428 bids were received, 392 were accepted and 36were disqualified. The total number of bids allotted was 392.
The RBZ said bids with overdue CDIs, outstanding Bills of Entry (BOEs), and those with sufficient FCA balances were also disqualified.
By- Robert Junior Mugabe has said that his father , the late former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, died a painful death after being sick for a decade.
Robert Jnr told a local interview with local media in an interview.
My dad was sick for a long time – over 10 years.
It was a matter of time. So, for those 10 plus years, we knew as a family that dad was sick and [at] any time the doctor can tell us he has a couple of days or months to live.
But that day never came. So I guess within those 10 plus years, a lot was going on; emotional rollercoasters, so we spent as much time with him.
He (Mugabe) came to Singapore for his treatment and that’s when he stayed a couple of months
But those five to six months when he was there, that’s when he was most ill. He wasn’t coming out of bed, he wasn’t walking and he didn’t want to eat. He was sick to the point [where] he was in a wheelchair.
My mom would bath him and I would, at times, come help. It’s a lot seeing someone who used to take care of you at a point where they can’t take care of themselves. It’s painful.
Mugabe Junior’s remarks likely represent the first time a family member has opened up about the veteran leader’s struggle with failing health which was a closely guarded secret during his long reign.
Mugabe died in September 2019 aged 95 at the specialist Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore, some three years after being toppled by a military coup.
While in power, the veteran leader would draw criticism from the opposition and commentators over the cost of his regular annual trips to Singapore for medical checkups.
At the time foreign media claimed that the Zimbabwean strongman was receiving treatment for prostate cancer. Gleneagles Hospital is renowned for its specialist cancer services.
Mugabe was buried at his rural home in Zvimba, Mashonaland West against the government’s wish to have him interred at the National Heroes’ Acre in Harare.
The below video is from the incident when the former ZB Bank chief executive Ronald Mutandagayi (59) was filmed by his step daughter bashing his wife last year, the video which quickly went viral
'DELETE THIS VIDEO,' Ronald Mutandagayi's family backers have demanded, saying they are concerned of the reputation damage to the ZB bank CEO. ZRP Cops today arrested Loveness Mutandagayi. "The police, my dad pulled a fast one on her. Obviously paid them," said the 16y old daught pic.twitter.com/Jih9bmWlaC
The ex-CEO has since dragged his wife to court, accusing her of perpetrating domestic violence, after earlier saying the footage was old and lacks full context.
Mutandagayi, whose video of him bashing his wife, Loveness (48) went viral last year, is accusing her of assaulting him with a wooden spoon and unlawfully disposing of their property worth US$100 000.
Last year, Mutandagayi issued a statement saying:
“I have noted with regret that there is video footage circulating on social media suggesting that I assaulted my estranged wife. Whilst the circumstances of the event cannot be attributed to me alone, it is important in that regard to put the record straight.
“The unfortunate circumstances surrounding the incident occurred on 2 January 2021 after three consecutive days of severe assault and harassment on my person. It is surprising that only two months later is when such footage is issued. The bona fides of such action is questionable.
“Further, it is regrettable that the video footage only shows a certain portion of the incident obviously meant to sell a certain narrative. Nonetheless, I am mindful of my right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Since the matter is currently pending before the Courts, I shall let the law take its course.”
Loveness appeared before magistrate Tafadzwa Mhiti and was remanded to May 17 for trial on free bail.
The State alleges that between January 14 and 28 this year, Loveness disposed of the couple’s property worth US$100 000, taking advantage of the complainant’s poor health.
The State alleges that the couple’s domestic worker confirmed to him that his wife had taken a number of household items.
It is alleged that Loveness bashed Mutandagayi with a wooden spoon after confronting him over a missing car steering wheel.
Mutandagayi later locked himself in a room. Loveness allegedly instructed one Samantha Mamvura to capture the fight with her husband on video.
It is alleged that their relationship turned hostile, prompting the banker to seek alternative accommodation.
While he was away, Loveness disposed of more household property worth US$95 000.
Tinashe Sambiri|Citizens’ Coalition For Change spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi has mocked the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa over frantic attempts to rig the economy.
Despite Mr Mnangagwa’s empty bravado, the economy is dwindling with each passing day.
Commenting on the pathetic state of the economy, Mahere said:
“Economy haina chitsotsi. Njuga dzarema…”
“Vakamboti heee mapera, hamuna plan. Now moto urikubvira and they want to direct which log goes where. Hanzi furidzai makadai moto wenyu unyatsobvira.”
Schools will reopen for the second term on Tuesday next week under strict compliance with Covid-19 prevention and management protocols to ensure a safe environment for learners.
Monica Mutsvangwa
In January, Government came up with a school calendar with 184 learning days following a long break from classes in 2021 owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw many outbreaks being reported in schools.
The second term is opening 26 days after schools closed on April 7 and will run for 69 days until August 4.
Speaking at a post-Cabinet briefing yesterday, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister, Monica Mutsvangwa, said learning institutions will open on May 3 as scheduled.
“The nation is further being informed that the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is currently preparing for the safe reopening of schools on May 3, 2022 in full compliance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the Prevention and Management of Covid-19 as well as other Influenza-like illnesses,” she said.
She said the country had been registering a continued decline in Covid-19 cases due to the policies put in place by the Government and the compliance by citizens, making the reopening of schools on time possible.
The Standard Operating Procedures are minimum terms of operation set by the Government last year to ensure all schools operate in a safe environment without risking a spike in new infections.
They prohibit hugs, handshakes and sharing of desks in schools, while break and lunch times are staggered to prevent crowding.
Sporting activities were also banned and classrooms were only allowed to accommodate a maximum of 35 pupils to allow for social distancing.
Zimbabwe National Association of School Heads president Mr Munyaradzi Majoni said all systems were now in place for schools to receive learners.
“On our side as heads, preparations are at an advanced stage for the reopening of schools. Before we closed, some schools had already received PPE from the Government while in other schools, parents were procuring PPE for their children.
“Schools are doing a lot to make sure that we have a safe environment for the learners in terms of Covid-19. Schools are working with SDCs to ensure the provision of adequate protective clothing and equipment,” he said.
Mr Majoni expressed hope that after the negotiations between the Government and teachers, there would not be a repeat of the industrial action which affected the learning process at the beginning of last term.
Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education spokesperson Mr Taungana Ndoro said all protocols for the safe reopening of schools were in place.
“All Covid-19 protocols for the safe reopening of schools remain in place as we anticipate the second phase of the vaccination blitz by the Ministry of Health and Child Care.
“Parents and guardians are advised to prepare their children for returning to school next week so that we contribute to the socio-economic development of the nation,” he said.
The opening of schools, however, will coincide with the winter season which is usually associated with a spike in Covid-19 cases as well as flu-like illnesses as evidenced by the rise in cases in the past two winters.
Zimbabwe entered the third and worst wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in July last year and the Government has been pushing to ensure that all eligible citizens get vaccinated against the disease.
The inclusion of the 14 to 15-year-old age group in the vaccination programme helped to ensure that most learners in secondary schools and some in Primary schools were protected.
Since the launch of the vaccination blitz last month, over two million vaccines have been administered bringing the cumulative numbers for vaccination to 5 835 047 for the first dose, 3 646 916 for the second jab and 588 440 for the third dose as of yesterday.
Up to yesterday, Zimbabwe has recorded 247 667 Covid-19 cases with 241 500 recoveries and 5 469 deaths.- Herald
THREE men are suspected to have committed suicide in separate incidents in unclear circumstances in Harare and Bulawayo while another man has also been arrested on allegations of killing his wife following a misunderstanding in Centenary as murder cases rise countrywide.
The man from Centenary Edward Chizombe (32) struck his wife with a log several times all over her body and she died on the spot.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incidents.
“On April 24, 2022, police in Centenary arrested Edward Chizombe aged 32 for murder after he fatally assaulted wife Cathrine Masiye aged 45 at Mwedziwendira Village, Chief Makope, Cheweshe on April 23, 2022.
“The suspect struck the victim with a log several times all over the body after a misunderstanding,” he said.
Meanwhile, police in Khumalo recorded a sudden death incident which occurred along Sadie Avenue Park View, Bulawayo where a body of a man was found hanging from a tree last Friday. Police did not observe any visible injuries on the body.
Similarly, on Sunday police in Waterfalls also attended a sudden death scene in Retreat Farm, Harare where a body of another man was found hanging from a tree. No visible marks were noted on the body.
“On April 24, 2022, police in West Commonage recorded another sudden death report which occurred at Silver Crescent premises in Bulawayo where a man’s body was found hanging from a tree. Police did not observe any injuries on the body,” Asst Comm Nyathi said.
Police in Avondale recorded a murder case where Wayne Darimani (41) fatally assaulted his brother Leonard Karombo (46) after a misunderstanding at a drinking binge at Lagoon shops.
Darimani is alleged to have pushed the victim and he fell down becoming unconscious. The victim was taken to hospital where his condition deteriorated until he passed on.
In Mbare, police in Matapi are also investigating a sudden death incident which occurred at an open ground adjacent to Chishawasha Flats, Mbare last Wednesday were a body of a man adult was found lying on the ground.
Police did not observe any visible injuries on the body and it was conveyed to Sally Mugabe Hospital for post-mortem.
Asst Comm Nyathi said in Chitungwiza, police are investigating a case of attempted murder which occurred near Katanga Bar in St Mary’s, where a 38-year-old suspect shot a complainant aged 24 on the neck after a misunderstanding.
Police have since recovered the Star pistol with a magazine of eight rounds and referred the victim to Chitungwiza Hospital for treatment.
In Mabelreign, police are investigating a case of infanticide which occurred at RBZ Sports Club in Harare on Sunday, where a body of a day-old female infant was found dumped outside a precast wall. Herald
By A Correspondent| Rotary club chairman, Walter Nyamurima, has emphasized the need to instill a reading culture in school children from an early age to foster creativity and innovation.
Speaking at the Glenview library in Harare on Tuesday in commemoration of World Book and Copyright Day, Nyamurima stressed that the foundation of a reading culture begins at a young age.
“The important message that I have for the children is twofold: one, we need to promote the reading culture because knowledge is power. Once you have knowledge, nobody can take that away from you,” Nyamurima remarked.
He emphasized, “What we are witnessing here is the manifestation of the abiding passion that we have as Zimbabweans for matters pertaining to education.”
Nyamurima highlighted the necessity for Zimbabwe to have more knowledgeable individuals, stating, “So, it’s important to engage these kids early and instill in them this reading culture and the importance of acquiring knowledge.”
Memory Mungana, the project manager of Glenview Library, conveyed their efforts to raise awareness among children regarding acknowledging the authors of the material they read.
“What we want to do is bring awareness to the children. While we encourage them to develop a culture of reading, we also want them to be aware that the material they are reading actually belongs to somebody else; it’s an idea that somebody put on paper,” Mungana explained.
She added, “We want them to read and have an opportunity to open their own minds to their own ideas. They must always be aware that when they are writing or quoting anything from a book, they must acknowledge the author.”
Mungana expressed gratitude to the Rotary Club for the generous book donations to the library.
For years, the family of the late former President Robert Mugabe maintained a stand at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair for its company Gushungo Holdings.
The late veteran leader’s Alpha Omega Dairy company has since folded, and the famous stand has been taken over by the Health Services Board.
Mugabe’s empire started to collapse in 2017 when he was ousted from power after ruling the southern African country for 37 years.
Reports say Mugabe’s companies survived on patronage and nepotism as government departments stampeded to buy “expensive” products to secure favours from the first family.
As back as 2019, reports suggested that Alpha Omega Dairy was auctioning its several properties including vehicles and farm equipment.
The courts have also done less to help the situation as they have in most cases ruled against the Mugabes.
Resultantly, the former first family has been forced to vacate some properties or pay huge sums of money they owed to individuals and companies. – Pindula News
Whose Twitter account is this? The ZANU PF usurper, Emmerson Mnangagwa who rushed to congratulate the re elected French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped with a cold denial, ” I am not your friend” on Twitter.
Emmanuel Mnangagwa at a recent EU Africa summit on stage with Emmanuel Macron (extreme right) pic: Agencies
Mnangagwa had at the time announced by calling Macron, “my good friend.”
Macron has won the just ended polls by 58%.
The identity of the Twitter user, who is not at all the French president, could not be ascertained at the time of writing. The obvious jest comes at a time when the debate rages on that Mnangagwa who used the army to rig the 2018 elections, has already rigged the upcoming 2023 polls.
Tinashe Sambiri|Citizens’ Coalition For Change vice president Hon Tendai Biti says the Zanu PF regime has intensified efforts to seize land from hapless Chilonga villagers.
Mr Mnangagwa wants to allocate the land to his personal friends.
Biti described the move as callous…
“The Hlengwe Shangaan Community of Chilonga in Chiredzi is under renewed attack from the regime & #Dendairy who are determined to take over their land.
2compliant headman have been appointed as Chiefs& same are working in cohorts with regime against the Hlengwe. Let’s #SAVEChilonga,” Hon Biti wrote on Twitter.
CCC has also bemoaned the worsening state of the country’s economy:
“The continued rise in prices for basic commodities is a great cause for concern.
Civil servants are still earning a slave wage.
CCC govt will honour civil servants by bringing back the US$ salaries to civil servants.”
Tinashe Sambiri|Citizens’ Coalition For Change spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi has mocked the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa over frantic attempts to rig the economy.
Despite Mr Mnangagwa’s empty bravado, the economy is dwindling with each passing day.
Commenting on the pathetic state of the economy, Mahere said:
“Economy haina chitsotsi. Njuga dzarema…”
“Vakamboti heee mapera, hamuna plan. Now moto urikubvira and they want to direct which log goes where. Hanzi furidzai makadai moto wenyu unyatsobvira.”
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed and to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.
WHO works with countries across the globe to raise awareness of the value of vaccines and immunization and ensures that governments obtain the necessary guidance and technical support to implement high-quality immunization programmes. The ultimate goal of World Immunization Week is for more people – and their communities – to be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.
This World Immunization Week 2022 campaign page will be updated regularly in the lead up to and during World Immunization Week.
A Long Life for All is not a promise, it’s an ambition.
Because everyone deserves a chance at a fulfilling life. One where we’re free to pursue happiness. And look back without wondering “What if?”.
Vaccines have been indiscriminately saving lives since 1796. The first Smallpox immunization was a fight back against disease.
For the first time, it gave everyone a chance. And hundreds of vaccines later, Across two and a quarter centuries. Billions of people have lived longer lives. Grown up to become firefighters. Doctors. Musicians. Fathers. Mothers. Brothers. Sisters. Vaccines might not get credit for that first kiss. That winning goal. That special day. That final hug. But their worth isn’t just measured in doses given. It’s in minutes given back. And lives prolonged.
Vaccines provide opportunity and hope for all of us to enjoy a more fulfilling life. And that’s something we should all be fighting for. Vaccines, in the pursuit of a long life well lived.
Harare Magistrate Victoria Mashamba has ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) and two cabinet ministers to pay ZWL$200 000 to a teacher who was arrested, tortured and abused by police and prison officers two years ago.
According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Munyaradzi Masiyiwa, who is employed as a teacher and is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), was arrested on 16 August 2019 in Harare.
He was arrested at Market Square bus terminus in Harare as he was waiting to board a commuter omnibus to go to his place of residence.
Police officers who arrested Masiyiwa allegedly mistook him for an opposition MDC party supporter as he was wearing a red shirt.
The arrest took place on the day when the then Nelson Chamisa-led party had organised an anti-government protest over the country’s worsening economic crisis.
The police officers who arrested Masiyiwa handcuffed, bundled him into their truck and severely assaulted and tortured him while he lay on his abdomen.
They used truncheons to assault Masiyiwa all over his body before instructing him to make coital movements and simulate as if he was having sexual intercourse with the ZRP vehicle.
He was taken to Harare Central Prison where he was remanded in custody and further assaulted.
Masiyiwa was allegedly ordered by prison officers to strip naked and jump up and down with his hands in the air and was also denied food.
He was eventually cleared of the public violence charges on 7 October 2019.
Masiyiwa engaged ZLHR’s Tinashe Chinopfukutwa who sued ZRP Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and ZPCS Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu and a police officer only identified as Jambaya.
Masiyiwa demanded ZWL$200 000 in damages for pain and suffering, trauma, contumelia, embarrassment and humiliation.
He told the court that he had been severely abused and humiliated by the conduct of ZRP and ZPCS officers.
Magistrate Mashamba ordered Matanga, Kazembe, Ziyambi, Chihobvu and Jambaya to pay ZWL$200 000 to Masiyiwa as compensation for the ill-treatment.
The penalty was broken down as ZWL$100 000 for pain and suffering and ZWL$100 000 for embarrassment, affront to dignity, humiliation and contumelia. – Pindula News
By- The Citizens Coalition for Change opposition political party has intensified its voter registration blits spreading the programme to the rural areas.
The Nelson Chamisa led party announced this on its tweeter account:
The 2nd voter registration blitz is currently on until the 30th of April 2022. Carry your ID & proof of residence to get registered to vote. The mobile centres will open from 0700 to 1730hrs. Visit your nearest voter registration centre.
By- Two armed robbers have been shot dead by the police in Kadoma.
In a statement, ZRP said the shootout occurred after police reacted to a report of an armed robbery that occurred at Innez Mine in Kadoma.
Reads the statement : The ZRP confirms a shooting incident which occurred at James area, Patchway, Kadoma Tuesday at about 0800 hours between Police detectives and eight armed robbery suspects. Following a robbery incident which occurred at Innez Mine, Kadoma on 25/04/22 at 2300 hours, the Police crack team on armed robbery intercepted the suspect’s Nissan Caravan vehicle (AFH6988) which was used during the robbery and flagged it stop. The suspects tried to attack police officers with machetes and a shootout ensued resulting in the arrest of three suspects. Two of the suspects later died upon admission at Kadoma General Hospital due to the injuries sustained during the shootout. The gang is linked to a series of armed robbery cases which occurred in Kadoma, Norton and Chegutu. The police did not specify if the robbers had other weapons besides machetes. It is also not clear if the suspects had managed to get away with anything from the Mine.
By- Local Government minister July Moyo has reversed a decision by Harare City Council Councillors to elect an Acting Mayor saying the meeting was illegal and so are any decisions made at that gathering.
In a letter, by Local Government Secretary, L Mudyiwa, said councillor Mutizwa will continue acting until Mayor Jacob Mafume has been cleared by the courts. Reads the letter:
ACTING MAYOR-CITY OF HARARE
The above matter refers. Reference is made to the letter dated 20 April 2022 by the Honourable Minister. It has come to my attention that on 22 April 2022, an illegal meeting was convened where an Acting Mayor was elected. We have observed that this meeting which purportedly elected an Acting Mayor was not properly convened as there was no declaration of vacancy and no notice by the Chamber Secretary to convene the meeting, hence it was an illegal. Therefore, whatever decisions and resolutions made during that meeting are null and void.
Councillor Mutizwa who has been the Acting Mayor must continue in that Acting capacity until Jacob Mafumes Issues are finalised by the Court and or Tribunal.
L. Mudyiwa Acting Secretary for Local Government and Public Works
Cc: Minister of Local Government and Public Works
Minister of State for Provincial Affairs- Harare Metropolitan Province
Deputy Minister of Local Government and Public Works
Permanent Secretary Ministry of Local Government and Public Works
Secretary- Harare Metropolitan Province Acting Mayor- City of Harare
By- The ZRP are investigating a robbery incident which occurred along Second Street, Budiriro 1, Harare where five complainants in a Toyota Granvia vehicle were robbed of cash and cellphones valued at US$ 7 025.
Posted ZRP on Twitter:
The driver pulled off the road after realizing a tyre puncture on his vehicle before 4 unknown suspects in an unmarked blue Honda Fit vehicle stopped on the pretext that they wanted to assist. They brandished an unidentified pistol & demanded valuables from all the occupants.
B- The Zimbabwe Republic Police have announced the death of seven people in a road acccident that occurred in Bulawayo today.
Posting on their tweer hanndle, ZRP said thaccident left 11 injured.
Poste ZRP: B1/2 The ZRP confirms a fatal RTA which occurred at the intersection of Masiyephambili and Khami Rd today at 0500 hours where six people died while 11 others were injured.
1/2 The ZRP confirms a fatal RTA which occurred at the intersection of Masiyephambili and Khami Rd today at 0500 hours where six people died while 11 others were injured.
— Zimbabwe Republic Police (@PoliceZimbabwe) April 26, 2022
By- Local Government minister July Moyo has reversed a decision by Harare City Council Councillors to elect an Acting Mayor saying the meeting was illegal and so are any decisions made at that gathering.
In a letter, by Local Government Secretary, L Mudyiwa, said councillor Mutizwa will continue acting until Mayor Jacob Mafume has been cleared by the courts. Reads the letter:
ACTING MAYOR-CITY OF HARARE
The above matter refers. Reference is made to the letter dated 20 April 2022 by the Honourable Minister. It has come to my attention that on 22 April 2022, an illegal meeting was convened where an Acting Mayor was elected. We have observed that this meeting which purportedly elected an Acting Mayor was not properly convened as there was no declaration of vacancy and no notice by the Chamber Secretary to convene the meeting, hence it was an illegal. Therefore, whatever decisions and resolutions made during that meeting are null and void.
Councillor Mutizwa who has been the Acting Mayor must continue in that Acting capacity until Jacob Mafumes Issues are finalised by the Court and or Tribunal.
L. Mudyiwa Acting Secretary for Local Government and Public Works
Cc: Minister of Local Government and Public Works
Minister of State for Provincial Affairs- Harare Metropolitan Province
Deputy Minister of Local Government and Public Works
Permanent Secretary Ministry of Local Government and Public Works
Secretary- Harare Metropolitan Province Acting Mayor- City of Harare
By-Zanu PF Mashonaland West youth league on Sunday threatened to beat up the provinces minister, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka before they disrupted an event meant select candidates that will represent the province at next week’s crunch youth league conference.
The riotous situation saw Zanu PF Chinhoyi district chairman Job Mavata, locking the door to prevent his rivals from accessing the command centre where election results were being announced.
Provincial youth league chairman, Tapiwa Masenda was also targeted for victimisation.
By the time the situation turned violent, polls to elect representatives for Chegutu and Kadoma were yet to be conducted.
Masenda confirmed the skirmishes when contacted by NewZimbabwe.com for comment. He said: Yes, there was commotion caused by one or two unruly elements. You would appreciate that even during elections to choose a village head, things can get heated. This was an election just like any other poll where tempers will be running high. Nonetheless, districts, specifically Chegutu and Kadoma, yet to choose their youth representatives will do so during polls to be held tomorrow (Tuesday). Results of elections that were conducted: a). Valerie Makonza defeated Chipo Tagwirei and Sthembeni Madzima in elections to choose a female representative. b). Shepherd Marime was elected unopposed for Hurungwe/Kariba district. c). Decide Manhanzva won the Zvimba/Makonde polls after defeating Godknows Muzhandamuri and Admire Muronzi, who is brother-in-law to information permanent secretary Nick Mangwana. Elections to choose Chegutu and Kadoma youth representatives who will attend and cast ballots at the National Youth Conference that kicks off on May 4 are pending. The polls were initially scheduled for Norton, but were later set for Zanu PF provincial offices in Chinhoyi, a move designed to manage skirmishes that could disrupt the polls again.
Kaitano Tembo has reportedly ruled out any move to the Castle Lager Premiership following his sacking a South African side SuperSport United.
According to the Citizen newspaper, the 51-year-old is not be interested in coaching in the local top-flight, but can take a national team job if the vacancy arises.
A source close to Tembo’s camp told the publication: “The standard of the Premier Soccer League is very high and it would be taking a step back if Tembo goes to Zimbabwe.
“The only offer we might entertain is if the job is that of being the head coach of the Zimbabwean national team.”
Meanwhile, as reported Tembo recently went for an interview for the co-head coach job at Sekhukhune United, but lost out on the post to Owen Da Gama.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Real Madrid travel to Manchester and will undergo a test at the Etihad Stadium Real Madrid travel to the Etihad Stadium to face Manchester City in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday night.
Both Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola will be looking to guide their sides back into the Champions League final, and a nail-biting tie is in store.
Ruben Dias made his return to City’s starting XI in their comfortable 5-1 victory over Watford on Saturday, and Guardiola will hope to be able to call on Kyle Walker following his ankle injury.
However, City will be without Joao Cancelo, who is suspended after picking up his third booking of the tournament at the Estadio Wanda Metropolitano in the last round against Atletico Madrid.
Real Madrid have a number of injury concerns, as David Alaba is a doubt after coming off with a thigh issue against Osasuna, while Casemiro and Ferland Mendy are also doubtful. It is expected that Alaba and Casemiro will undergo a test at the Etihad to determine if they are fit enough to play.
Man City vs Real Madrid predicted line-ups Manchester City’s predicted line-up (4-3-3): Ederson; Kyle Walker, Aymeric Laporte, Ruben Dias, Oleksandr Zinchenko; Bernardo Silva, Rodri, Kevin De Bruyne; Riyad Mahrez, Phil Foden, Raheem Sterling.
Real Madrid’s predicted line-up (4-3-3): Thibaut Courtois; Dani Carvajal, Eder Militao, Nacho Fernandez, Marcelo; Toni Kroos, Eduardo Camavinga, Luka Modric; Fede Valverde, Karim Benzema, Vinicius Junior.- Marca
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed and to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.
WHO works with countries across the globe to raise awareness of the value of vaccines and immunization and ensures that governments obtain the necessary guidance and technical support to implement high-quality immunization programmes. The ultimate goal of World Immunization Week is for more people – and their communities – to be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.
This World Immunization Week 2022 campaign page will be updated regularly in the lead up to and during World Immunization Week.
A Long Life for All is not a promise, it’s an ambition.
Because everyone deserves a chance at a fulfilling life. One where we’re free to pursue happiness. And look back without wondering “What if?”.
Vaccines have been indiscriminately saving lives since 1796. The first Smallpox immunization was a fight back against disease.
For the first time, it gave everyone a chance. And hundreds of vaccines later, Across two and a quarter centuries. Billions of people have lived longer lives. Grown up to become firefighters. Doctors. Musicians. Fathers. Mothers. Brothers. Sisters. Vaccines might not get credit for that first kiss. That winning goal. That special day. That final hug. But their worth isn’t just measured in doses given. It’s in minutes given back. And lives prolonged.
Vaccines provide opportunity and hope for all of us to enjoy a more fulfilling life. And that’s something we should all be fighting for. Vaccines, in the pursuit of a long life well lived.
Tinashe Sambiri|Citizens’ Coalition For Change spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi has mocked the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa over frantic attempts to rig the economy.
Despite Mr Mnangagwa’s empty bravado, the economy is dwindling with each passing day.
Commenting on the pathetic state of the economy, Mahere said:
“Economy haina chitsotsi. Njuga dzarema…”
“Vakamboti heee mapera, hamuna plan. Now moto urikubvira and they want to direct which log goes where. Hanzi furidzai makadai moto wenyu unyatsobvira.”
Tinashe Sambiri|Citizens’ Coalition For Change vice president Hon Tendai Biti says the Zanu PF regime has intensified efforts to seize land from hapless Chilonga villagers.
Mr Mnangagwa wants to allocate the land to his personal friends.
Biti described the move as callous…
“The Hlengwe Shangaan Community of Chilonga in Chiredzi is under renewed attack from the regime & #Dendairy who are determined to take over their land.
2compliant headman have been appointed as Chiefs& same are working in cohorts with regime against the Hlengwe. Let’s #SAVEChilonga,” Hon Biti wrote on Twitter.
CCC has also bemoaned the worsening state of the country’s economy:
“The continued rise in prices for basic commodities is a great cause for concern.
Civil servants are still earning a slave wage.
CCC govt will honour civil servants by bringing back the US$ salaries to civil servants.”
Tinashe Sambiri|Citizens’ Coalition For Change vice president Hon Tendai Biti says the Zanu PF regime has intensified efforts to seize land from hapless Chilonga villagers.
Mr Mnangagwa wants to allocate the land to his personal friends.
Biti described the move as callous…
“The Hlengwe Shangaan Community of Chilonga in Chiredzi is under renewed attack from the regime & #Dendairy who are determined to take over their land.
2compliant headman have been appointed as Chiefs& same are working in cohorts with regime against the Hlengwe. Let’s #SAVEChilonga,” Hon Biti wrote on Twitter.
CCC has also bemoaned the worsening state of the country’s economy:
“The continued rise in prices for basic commodities is a great cause for concern.
Civil servants are still earning a slave wage.
CCC govt will honour civil servants by bringing back the US$ salaries to civil servants.”
Former United States President Trump will not return to Twitter, even as Elon Musk purchases the social media company and reinstates his account, instead using his own TRUTH Social as the sole platform for his voice.
Twitter, on Monday afternoon, announced it agreed to be acquired by Musk for $44 billion.
The former president told Fox News Monday that he will formally join his own TRUTH Social over the next seven days, as planned.
“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,” Trump told Fox News. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH.”
Trump told Fox News he will begin “TRUTHing” over the next week.
The Trump Media & Technology Group social media platform, TRUTH Social, formally launched last month and has been up and running under its brand-new cloud services for four days, after having beta-tested since February. Former Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is the company’s CEO.
“We’re taking in millions of people, and what we’re finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter,” Trump said. “Twitter has bots and fake accounts, and we are doing everything we can.”
He added: “The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter.”
Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat following the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Twitter deemed a number of his tweets connected to the violent protests as inflammatory and warned of “the risk of further incitement of violence.”
When asked whether a Musk-owned Twitter could be competition to TRUTH, Trump said that he feels it would be a positive development in the social media space.
A screengrab of former President Trump’s suspended Twitter page.
“I think it is good. We want liberty and justice and fairness in our country, and the more we can have open, the better,” Trump said. “But no, I don’t view that as a competition for what I am doing.”
“This is a platform for my voice. TRUTH is a platform for my voice and for my supporters,” Trump said. “But I want everybody to come over to TRUTH—conservatives, liberals, whatever.”
The former president said Twitter “became very boring because conservatives were thrown off or got off the platform when I left.”
“It became boring because there was no interaction,” Trump said. “The interaction on TRUTH has been amazing.”
He added: “We want everybody.”
“TRUTH Social will be a voice for me,” Trump continued. “And that’s something nobody else can get.”
The former president would not comment on whether he has been in contact with Musk.
A source familiar told Fox News that Trump and Musk have a very good relationship and are friendly. The source cited Trump coming to Musk’s defense in 2018 after the Tesla CEO was charged with securities fraud over misleading tweets about a potential transaction to take Tesla private.
Musk, on Monday, tweeted:
“I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means,” Musk tweeted.
Meanwhile, TMTG CEO Devin Nunes told Fox News Monday that TRUTH Social has an “uncancellable architecture now that is working flawlessly and lightening-quick.”
“What President Trump started with this company really is a movement, that has led us to a point where now Elon Musk is saying, hey, this is a problem,” Nunes said. “And we’re glad he is saying it is a problem.”
The topic of content moderation has come under scrutiny from critics on the right, who have argued that tech giants should no longer benefit from protections of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act if they censor certain viewpoints.
President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable discussion on the Federal Commission on School Safety report, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The provision has been pivotal to the rise of today’s social media giants by allowing not only Internet service providers – but also Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and others –to be shielded from liability from content posted on their platforms by third parties, in most cases.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act currently states that “no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
Trump Media & Technology Group first launched in October. The company said last month that the partner has agreements for $1 billion in capital from institutional investors.
TMTG’s plan is to become a publicly listed company through a merger with the publicly traded Digital World Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company whose sole purpose is to acquire a private company and take it public.
The Director Of Human Rghts Watch, Kenneth Roth has resigned. He announced he is stepping down after 30 years of serving the institution.
Said Roth: “I am privileged to have headed Human Rights Watch for three decades.
“With my colleagues and our supporters, we have built a global organization and a powerful defender of people’s rights. But it is time to pass the baton. I will be leaving @HRW in August. “
I am privileged to have headed Human Rights Watch for three decades. With my colleagues and our supporters, we have built a global organization and a powerful defender of people's rights. But it is time to pass the baton. I will be leaving @HRW in August. https://t.co/KnvSFaNsuGpic.twitter.com/IB70PNpski
EFFICIENCY has improved at the Registrar General’s office with more than 50 000 e-passports having been issued within a period of three months.
The ZBC News crew visited the Harare Passport Office and witnessed a number of people collecting their passports and the Registrar-General, Mr Henry Machiri explained the latest development.
“We have issued 50 080 passports as of Friday last week at our two sites, that is Harare and Bulawayo,” said Mr Machiri.
A lady who had applied for her e-passport and had come to collect it expressed her joy saying, “I did my application under one roof and the process is smooth unlike before. I applied and after seven days my passport was ready for collection and I have just collected it.”
People from Bulawayo have also commended efficiency at the Registrar General’s Offices after the launch of the e-passport system, with chaotic long queues which promoted corruption now a thing of the past. Those who have accessed the much needed travelling document say the passport acquiring process has become seamless. “We say kudos to this new system, I just applied successfully for my passport using the new system. It’s hustle-free,” said one Bulawayo resident. “Everything is done under one roof, I have applied for my passport and I came to collect today,” said another. For some successful e-passport applicants, the convenience ushered in by the new system has eliminated unnecessary third parties and chances of corruption. “The online platform is easy to use, it takes you from one stage to the other. It’s you and the machine, before this system, we struggled and we will be forced by circumstances to produce bribes. But now it’s a seamless process,” another said. In line with government policy of leaving no one and no place behind, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage is targeting to extend the biometric passport system to all the ten provinces of the country before moving to district level.
“We are now decentralising and this is work in progress. By June 30, we will be issuing passports in other provinces. We will be also cascading to districts such as Murehwa, Zvimba and Beitbridge,” he said.
The e-passport was launched in January this year after government entered into a partnership with a Lithuanian company, Garsu Pasaulis for the production of passports that meet modern international standards.
By A Correspondent- A lone armed robber who stole US$36 000 from a Harare home and used US$10 000 to pay lobola for his wife appeared in court on Monday.
Prosecutors alleged that for several months, Aaron Franscico Machona, 37, terrorised residents of Waterfalls in Harare – including shooting a woman in the head in front of her children.
Machona was charged with murder, attempted robbery, armed robbery and money laundering when he appeared before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda.
Dzuda remanded him in custody to May 8 after advising him to apply for bail at the High Court.
Anesu Chirenje, for the National Prosecuting Authority, alleged that:
i). on December 9, 2021, at around 2 AM, Machona broke into a house on Woodlands Road in the Uplands area of Waterfalls, pointed a gun at Kelvin Mutundwa, 29, who had woken up to investigate the noise disturbance.
ii). He tied Mutundwa’s hands and legs before stealing US$2 which was in a drawer and three mobile phones. Machona ordered Mutundwa’s wife, Faith Muhuwa, to knock on one of the tenants’ bedrooms and pretend her child was having a medical emergency.
iii). the tenant, Hilary Marufu, 22, opened the door, and found a gun pointed at his head. Machona allegedly demanded valuables and made off with a mobile phone, two wristwatches, necklaces and two bucket hats
iv). Machona also seized keys to a BMW 3 Series parked outside which he used as his gate-away car. It was later found dumped in Chitungwiza.
v). At around 1.45 AM on January 30, 20222, Machona allegedly broke into Mario Pepa’s home on Ruwa Avenue in Waterfalls, demanded cash from Pepa and his wife. Pepa wrestled Machona who shot through the asbestos roofing as a warning. Machona fled after seeing lights from an approaching vehicle.
vi). That same morning, at around 4 AM, pounced at another property at Picnic Park in Waterfalls where 43-year-old Shamiso Nhera – a housemaid – was alone. Nhera heard the dog barking and woke up to investigate only to be confronted by an armed man in the passage.
Machona allegedly force-marched Nhera to the bedroom where he blindfolded her. Machona allegedly stole: a). two mobile phones, b). two laptops c). expensive perfumes. d). a safe containing US$36,000 which was mounted inside a fitted wardrobe.
Machona removed Nhera’s blindfold and ordered her to carry the safe out of the house and she complied. After walking some 200 meters, Machona allegedly ordered Nhera to put down the safe, return to the house and never look back.
vii). On March 9, 2022, at midnight, Machona pounced on another house in Uplands, Waterfalls, where 31-year-old Jubilee Utsiwegota, her mother Mavis Utsiwegota, 78, and four children were sleeping. He violently assaulted Mavis with her own walking stick while demanding cash. She handed over US$60 and two mobile phones but Machona kept on the assault until Jubilee tried to restrain him. Machona shot her in the head and she died instantly.
viii). On April 13, around 2 AM, Machona broke into a house on Forbes Road in Uplands, pointed a gun at 50-year-old Archibald Nyikadzino and demanded cash. Nyikadzino handed over US$102. He ordered Nyikadzino to lead him to another room where 39-year-old Clifford Nyakudya was sleeping. He ordered both Nyikadzino and Nyakudya to lie on the floor before taking three mobile phones and US$17. Machona then force-marched the two men into a third bedroom where Jorum Nyikadzino, 35, was sleeping. He took US$70 and a mobile phone.
ix). Machona used some of the proceeds of his crimes to pay lobola for his wife who has a Mozambican father and Zimbabwean mother. Machona travelled to Mozambique for the event, paying out US$10 000.
x). He also allegedly purchased a Toyota Runx vehicle and a residential stand at Unit C in Seke on which he built a three-roomed house.
Machona was arrested after police received information that he had been seen with a gun. When he was interrogated, he allegedly gave up information on his months-long one-man crime wave.
By A Correspondent| Government has reinstated six traditional leaders to their positions as village heads after rescinding their illegal and unceremonious dismissal which took place seven years ago.
The six village heads namely Member Mutinha, Patrick Manjonjo, Aleck Munava, Morgan Gora, Nobo Mahobho and Taurai Machipisa of Ward 17 in Hurungwe District in Mashonaland West province were unfairly dismissed by Chief Nyamhunga (born Boniface Chinehasha) between April and May 2015.
They were also stripped of their entitlements and replaced by six village heads namely Emmanuel Mutinha, Clever Hwenda, Insuarance Kapamara, Simbarashe Kaponda, Dzumbunu Paratema and Pasipanodya Manjonjo.
The dismissal took place during the run-up to the Hurungwe West constituency parliamentary by-election held on 10 June 2015, which was contested by the late Keith Guzah representing ZANU PF party and Temba Mliswa, who stood as an independent candidate after he had been expelled as the ruling party’s provincial chairperson for Mashonaland West province.
Although the village heads made several efforts to seek clarity regarding their dismissal, they were later advised by the Hurungwe West District Administrator (now District Development Co-ordinator (DDC) that their positions had been filled and their cases sealed adding that the benefits and stipends they used to receive had also been withdrawn.
After their dismissal, Mutinha, Munava, Gora, Mahobho, Machipisa and Manjonjo engaged Webster Jiti of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, who filed an application at the High Court, challenging the decision to dismiss them without preferring any charges against them nor convening any disciplinary hearing for them.
In the application, the village heads argued that they had complied with the provisions of Section 281 of the Constitution which provides that traditional leaders should not “act in a partisan manner or further the interest of a political party or cause”.
Now Mutinha, Munava, Gora, Mahobho, Machipisa and Manjonjo are heaving a sigh of relief as they were recently reinstated to their positions by Zvinechimwe Churu, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works, who stated that they had been unfairly dismissed and withdrew the appointment of the six people who had assumed their roles and duties.
The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works represented by one E. Chitombo advised the District Development Coordinator for Hurungwe District that Churu had reinstated the six village heads as from 17 August 2021 in terms of the provisions of the Traditional Leadership Act.
Chitombo ordered the District Development Coordinator to process payment of the village heads’ monthly allowances.
By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe will be introducing electronic courts, also known as e-courts, starting May 1.
The announcement was made through Statutory Instrument (SI) 78, 79 and 80 of 2022 published in the Government Gazette Friday.
The new regulations apply to the Constitutional Court, High Court and the Supreme Court respectively.
“It is hereby notified that the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has, in terms of section 26(2) of the Constitutional Court Act [Chapter 7:22], approved the following rules made by the Chief Justice. These rules may be cited as the Constitutional Court (Amendment) Rules, 2022 (No. 1),” reads one of the notices.
“The Constitutional Court Rules, 2016, published in Statutory Instrument 61 of 2016 (hereinafter called the principal rules), are amended as follows, rule 2 of the principal rules is amended in subrule by the insertion of the following definitions and Interpretations…IECMS account” means Integrated Electronic Case Management that is a litigant’s account accessed through the internet which enables him or her to access the IECMS platform,” reads part of the notice.
The IECMS will introduce electronic case filing, automatic case allocation to judicial officers, electronic case tracking and management from filing to finalisation and virtual hearings.
The e-courts have been introduced in line with new technologies and the need for efficiency in the delivery of justice with consistency and collective effort by all justice delivery players.
Giving his State of the Judiciary Address (SOJA) early this year Chief Justice Luke Malaba said efficiency is connected to justice delivery as justice must not be delayed.
He further lamented the access to justice challenges that the nation continues to face due to the persistent Covid-19 pandemic.
To address the challenges, and in line with the 2022 legal year theme, Malaba promised that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) will adopt technological measures that are earmarked to reform and transform the current operations in the justice delivery sector.
All players in the justice system including judges and magistrates and court staff and the JSC itself, legal practitioners, the National Prosecuting Authority, the Office of the Attorney-General, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service have received training from the JSC ICT team.
By A Correspondent- Chief Magistrate Faith Mushure has said the Judiciary Services Commission (JSC) is investigating misconduct and corruption allegations among rogue magistrates.
She was speaking during the swearing in of 11 new magistrates in Harare Friday.
Mushure said a vibrant committee will be set up to help fight any form of corruption within the justice system.
“We have a vibrant complaints handling system in place. Whenever we receive complaints of corruption we don’t slip anything under the carpet, we ensure that appropriate investigations are carried out. Currently we have a member who is undergoing investigations and trial for forging some deceased’s estate documents so we take cases and corruption reports seriously,” she said.
“We have also adopted the same attitude of zero tolerance at corruption which has been adopted at national level so the gospel is the same, we are putting hands together against corruption as the JSC. We are making sure that all cases of corruption against magistrates are investigated and we will leave no stone unturned,” said Mushure.
She said the JSC is also working on upgrading and expanding its courts across the country.
Various projects are being carried out in Lupane the court is about to be completed soon, in Gwanda we also have projects being administered and Glennorah, Epworth we have engaged the City of Harare to provide the land so that we can build more courts,” Mushure said.
She said that they have opened regional courts in Zvishavane, Mt Darwin and are also increasing regional magistrates in all the areas that have regional courts.
Mushure also said the JSC has been experiencing shortages of magistrates with some stations operating with only one magistrates.
“There has been shortages of Magistrates in various stations such as Mberengwa, Lupane and Mwenezi and the newly appointed Magistrates has been deployed to such stations,” she said.
“Each station is now going to be run by more than one Magistrate unlike before where one station would be run by just one Magistrate.
“These 11 new magistrates will bring the total to 247 magistrates in Zimbabwe. We now have two or more magistrates per station as we used to have one magistrate per some stations like Lupane, Mberengwa and Mwenezi,” Mushure said.
She also said some of the magistrates left work for greener pastures, which explains why the JSC is calling for better remuneration for its workers.
By A Correspondent- The bail application of the seven people accused of the murder of Elvis Nyathi, has been postponed to today at the Randburg Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg. Nyathi, a Zimbabwean national, was beaten and burnt to death in Diepsloot on 7 April.
One of the accused in the Elvis Nyathi murder case says police did not explain why he was being arrested.
The 41 year old father of two and six other accused are applying for bail in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg.
Nyathi, a Zimbabwean national, was beaten and burnt to death in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg earlier this month.
The seven men are facing charges of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, assault, robbery and extortion.
Accused number one says he intends to plead not guilty as he was not involved in any criminal acts on the day Elvis Nyathi was killed.
He says he is well known in the community as he is active in political structures and a CPF member. He says on April 7, 2022, he was attending a community meeting addressed by the Minister of Police at Diepsloot police station.
He says police arrived at his house late one night over the Easter weekend and arrested him without explaining why he was being arrested. He denies the crimes he is accused of, stating he has a strong alibi confirming he was home during the mob act.
The party called on the South African government and the ruling party to seek lasting solutions to high number of crimes in communities.
It says law enforcement agencies should bring to book those committing crimes in the communities regardless of their nationalities.
The party says it reiterates that it doesn’t condone any criminality by any Zimbabwean nationals.
The Nyathi family has since been evacuated out of the area to a place of safety.
ZANU-PF’s SA spokesperson Kennedy Mandaza has pleaded with South Africans, especially the people of Diepsloot, to respect the rule of law.-sabc
Two people died on the spot, while three were injured when a Honda Fit was hit by a train at a rail crossing in Harare’s Hillside area this morning, Zimbabwe Republic Police national spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has confirmed.
The Honda Fit vehicle that was hit by a train in Hillside Harare early morning today
By A Correspondent- A Chinese mechanic turned cook is set to be deported from Zimbabwe after he was jailed for violating the terms of his residence permit.
Li Changfeng (24), was selling Chinese traditional dishes to locals in Bulawayo’s Old Luveve suburb.
Changfeng’s culinary skills attracted the attention of immigration officials who then looked into his work status in the country.
It was the established his work permit stipulated that he was employed as a mechanic by Dongxin Machinery, a firm in Kadoma that specialised in mining machinery.
Changfeng had resigned from the company but he failed to notify immigration officials as was legally required.
He was therefore found to have broken the law as he continued using the existing permit.
Changfeng appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Gamuchirai Gore, facing charges of violating the terms of his employment permit as outlined in the Immigration Act.
He was convicted and fined R500, and detained at Khami medium prison, awaiting deportation from Zimbabwe.
By Showbiz Reporter | The so called, “mbinga,” who the Controversial preacher, Panganai Java yesterday announced as his friend, Obert Karombe’s girlfriend has spoken for the first time in hospital.
The woman, spoke to a live video audience narrating how the accident happened. She said(video):
ARMY TRUCK ACCIDENT SURVIVOR SPEAKS ON LIVE: We had a head on, and my man's died on the spot…We were in… Beatrice Road… we were coming back to Harare…I needed to book a flight, because my birthday is tomorrow, I need to start preparing and go compare certain things. pic.twitter.com/eZV4au7V8a
Hey are you Okay? I am trying I am fighting. Guys this is supposed to be white. But its full of blood. What happened? So, we had a head on, and my man’s died on the spot…We were in… Beatrice Road… we were coming back to Harare… I needed to book a flight, because my birthday is tomorrow, I need to start preparing and go compare certain things. So, yeah. I am so sorry, it’s okay, it’s okay. Guys my ear was sewed back on, I didn’t have my ear, like, my ear was literally sewed back on. I don’t know, I will show you things, but yeah, thank God you’re okay. Yeah, we all thank God, but tomorrow it’s my birthday guys…I don’t know how I am going to get through that but God knows…
Meanwhile, the ZANU PF activist Passion Java spoke glowingly of the man said to be a rich mbinga saying he was his good friend.
7 months ago, Java announced him as the last Zimbabwean mbinga in South Africa. Mbingas are people who reveal sudden riches obtained from criminal sources after engaging in Satanic rituals.
The accident happened along Beatrice Road and it was a head on collision with the army truck. Details trickling in suggest that the army lost control and swerved into his lane causing the crash.
Obert, who was referred to as a ‘mbinga’, had recently engaged for marriage, one Kumbirai Ellen Bosha, fondly known as African Goddess.
He is survived by his wife and 2 children.
Passion Java: REST IN PEACE my good Friend, South Africa will not be the same without you. pic.twitter.com/puHdjCSx9e
