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
By A Correspondent| The Harare Magistrates court has ordered authorities to pay ZWL200 000 to a teacher who was arrested, tortured and abused by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers three years ago.
Munyaradzi Masiyiwa, who is employed as a teacher and is the Deputy Secretary-General of Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), was arrested by ZRP officers on 16 August 2019 at Market Square bus terminus in Harare as he was waiting to board a commuter omnibus to go to his residence.
The ZRP officers mistook Masiyiwa, who was wearing a red-shirt for an opposition MDC party supporter on a day when the Nelson Chamisa-led party had organised an anti-government protest to press President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to arrest the country’s worsening economic crisis.
ZRP officers handcuffed Masiyiwa and bundled him into their truck and severely assaulted and tortured him while he lay on his abdomen with truncheons all over his body before instructing him to make coital movements and simulate as if he was having sexual intercourse with the ZRP vehicle.
The law enforcement agents then detained Masiyiwa at Harare Central Police Station in a small and overcrowded cell, where they continued assaulting him and also denied him food before charging him with committing public violence.
Upon arrival at Harare Central Prison after he was remanded in custody, Masiyiwa was ordered by prison officers to strip naked and to jump up and down with his hands in the air.
While in prison, the ARTUZ leader was also denied food by prison officers such that when he returned to court on 19 August 2019 he collapsed during court proceedings and was only allowed to have food at that point. He was eventually cleared of the public violence charges on 7 October 2019.
This prompted Masiyiwa to engage Tinashe Chinopfukutwa of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, who sued ZRP Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Hon. Kazembe Kazembe, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Hon.
Ziyambi Ziyambi and Commissioner-General of Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Moses Chihobvu and a police officer only identified as Jambaya for ZWL200 000 in damages for pain and suffering, trauma, contumelia, embarrassment and humiliation.
During trial, Masiyiwa argued that he had been severely abused and humiliated by the conduct of ZRP and ZPCS officers.
This resulted in Harare Magistrate Victoria Mashamba ordering Matanga, Kazembe, Ziyambi, Chihobvu and Jambaya to pay ZWL200 000 as compensation for the ill-treatment of Masiyiwa broken down as ZWL100 000 for pain and suffering and ZWL100 000 for embarrassment, affront to dignity, humiliation and contumelia.
By A Correspondent- There is a bloodbath in the financial services sector, with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Monday shutting down yet another foreign currency dealership, Access Forex.
The company announced in a statement it has been directed to suspend operations with immediate effect.
This comes only a few days after the RBZ suspended Metbank from operating as a forex dealer and banned Simbisa Brands’ Innbucks money transfer platform which had become popular with clients.
In a notice to its clients, Access Forex management said international transfers between South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK) and Zimbabwe will not affected by the suspension.
Following communication from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe concerning our domestic money transfer service, Access Forex will be suspending local money transfers effective Friday, 22 April 2022,” the company said.
“While we are engaging the relevant authorities with the hope of resuming the service soon, we will therefore not be accepting any cash-inns in any of our branches or partners offices. Any client wishing to collect money sent to them from a local source (within Zimbabwe) before 22 April 2022 will be able to do so by visiting any of our branches or trusted partners countrywide,” it said.
“Please note that international money transfers between South Africa and Zimbabwe and between the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe are not affected by the directive and remain available,” the notice reads.
Access Forex is a Zimbabwean owned money transfer platform operating in the UK.
Watchers say the move by the RBZ is an insufficient and piecemeal attempt to solve the country’s economic crisis underlined by runway inflation.
By-Elections for the Zanu PF Mashonaland West youth league on Sunday did not proceed after delegates turned violent.
The elections were to 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.
He threatened to beat the elections supervisor, provincial affairs minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka, who doubles as Zanu PF provincial chairperson.
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.
By A Correspondent- A Harare woman, Happygill Muyengwa, is suing her husband’s girlfriend, Elmina Kusikwenyu, US$15 000 for adultery.
She argues that Kusikwenyu has been involved in an extramarital affair with her husband since 2014 and they now have a child.
The court was told Muyengwa’s husband has also paid lobola for Kusikwenyu and they have since moved in together.
In summons filed with the High Court, Muyengwa claimed US$15 000 for loss of companionship and consortium.
She also demanded ZW$15 000 adultery damages.
Muyengwa said she warned Kusikwenyu that she was his wife but she continued the illicit affair.
However her bid to sue hit a brick wall due to a technical error.
High Court judge, Justice Catherine Kate Bachi-Mzawazi removed her case from the roll for being defective after she made requests in United States currency and local currency in the same summons.
Muyengwa did not cite the name of her husband.
In addition nothing on the papers illustrated that the address the summons were served on is the residential or domicilium stand of the defendant.
The judge advised her to seek legal representation to help her with the lawsuit.
“I removed the matter from the roll for the reasons that Muyengwa, in her summons couched her claim as firstly, ZW$15 000 for adultery damages and secondly US$15 000 for loss of companionship and consortium. In my view she had not properly pleaded her claim as she then tried to do in her affidavit of evidence,” Justice Bachi-Mzawazi said.
“In my view, that made the summons defective. I felt that the defect in the summons cannot be cured.
“Even though this was an application for default judgment, it was based on defective summons. For these reasons, I advised the applicant to approach legal aid organisations so that she may be assisted.
“As a result, instead of dismissing or striking off her application I simply removed it from the roll giving her a leverage or opportunity to reset the matter once her papers have been put in order,” said the judge.
By-Zanu PF has cancelled its Mashonaland West youth league elections in Chinhoyi after the event had turned violent.
The elections were to 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.
He threatened to beat the elections supervisor, provincial affairs minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka, who doubles as Zanu PF provincial chairperson.
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.
Below is an excerpt of the exclusive interview on 3rd April 2010 with the MDC Alliance renegade, Thokozani Khupe in which she announced how she is taking over President Nelson Chamisa’s seat.
Are you going to inherit @nelsonchamisa's challenge against @edmnangagwa over the 2018 elections? Khupe replies:"why would I challenge when I don't have evidence? He challenged and was asked to produce evidence…why should I waste my time? Unfortunately I'm not understanding…" pic.twitter.com/PiuNUNAvft
Simba Chikanza: Are you going to inherit Nelson Chamisa’s challenge against Mnangagwa over the 2018 elections?
Thokozani Khupe: “How? Why would I challenge when I don’t have evidence? He challenged and was asked to produce evidence…why should I waste my time?”
Simba Chikanza: I am saying there is evidence, there are LIVE broadcast videos beginning with the 15th Dec 2017, ZBC video clearly showing the deployment of the army to change election results. There are other videos right up to election day…. You are avoiding all this evidence simply because a court verdict said so?
By Farai D Hove | The late former Prime Minister Ian Smith left behind a fully functioning water supply system that ensured clean water went into every house in the capital city, Harare.
Fast forwards 44 years later, state president Emmerson Mnangagwa is promising boreholes, let alone supplying them. The elected ZANU PF MP, Zalerah Makari on Tuesday morning spoke loudly of the ZANU PF leader saying:
“We want to thank His Excellency President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa who took his time to spent the day with the people of Epworth.
“He also addressed key issues in Epworth such as the drilling of 14 solar powered boreholes. As Epworth we are that we’re not left behind!”
By- Citizens Coalition for Change has shifted its focus to training polling agents who will be monitoring the ballots in the next year’s elections.
Posting on the party’s twitter account, Tuesday, the CCC secretary general, Charlton Hwende, said they had main three focus areas before the next year’s elections.
He tweeted: We are less than 12months before an election and the 3 critical priority areas are 1. Voter registration 2. Candidates selection and Polling Agents training 3. Fundraising. Let’s not be distracted from these 3 key areas that will guarantee us a landslide victory in 2023.
We are less than 12months before an election and the 3 critical priority areas are 1. Voter registration 2. Candidates selection and Polling Agents training 3. Fundraising. Let’s not be distracted from these 3 key areas that will guarantee us a landslide victory in 2023
— Chalton Hwende MP Chairperson Public Accounts (@hwendec) April 25, 2022
Mr Robber, how would you feel if you were the one getting 4 bullets into your head?
Aaron Machona, how would you feel if you were the one getting 4 heavy bullets into your head?
A suspected serial robber and murderer, who committed a spate of robberies in Harare, appeared in court yesterday following his dramatic arrest on Friday.
Aaron Machona, was not asked to plead when he appeared before Harare magistrate, Yeukai Dzuda, who remanded him in custody.
In the first charge of murder and armed robbery, the court heard that on March 9, at around 1am, Jubilee Utsiwegota was asleep in her bedroom.
Her mother, Mavis Utsiwegota, and four other children were also sleeping in the house when Machona broke into the premises.
He was allegedly armed with a CZ pistol and started assaulting the elderly Mavis Utsiwegota demanding money.
The late Jubilee confronted Machona and tried to stop him from assaulting her mother.
Machona allegedly fired four shots into her head leading to her death.
He stole two cellphones and US$60.
In another count, Machona broke into Kelvin Mutandwa’s house using an unknown object.
When Mutandwa heard the noise, he saw Machona wearing a balaclava, pointing a pistol at him.
Machona ordered Mutandwa to lie down and he tied his hands and legs and he stole US$2 that was in the drawer and a cellphone.
He ordered Mutandwa’s wife to lead him to the other tenant’s bedroom.
Hilary Marufu (22) opened the door and Machona confronted him with a pistol and ordered him to lie down.
Machona allegedly stole watches and cellphones and drove away in Marufu’s car, which he later dumped in Chitungwiza.
He is also facing attempted robbery charges after he allegedly broke into Mario Pepa’s house and demanded money.
He threatened to shoot both Pepa and his wife.
Pepa allegedly wrestled with Machona and he fired a shot before escaping from the scene.
Machona is then alleged to have broken into Shamiso Nhera’s house.
She was awoken by barking dogs and saw him in the corridor armed with a pistol.
He allegedly forced her back into her bedroom where he blindfolded her and took her phones and ransacked the house.
He ordered her to carry a safe, which had US$36 000, and accompany him outside.
Machona was also charged for unlawful possession of a firearm.
Allegations are that on April 22, detectives received information that he was involved in a spate of robberies, and he had been seen at Chigovanyika Shopping Centre in Chitungwiza.
Machona became suspicious and drove off at high speed and a chase ensued in which the police fired warning shots.
He was eventually cornered at a fuel station leading to his arrest.
When police searched his house, they found a pistol and a magazine with one round of ammunition.
A HARARE man stripped his wife in public as a way of settling a property dispute.
The matter came to light after Pantience Bekerwa appeared before the Harare Civil Court seeking a protection order against her husband Norest Nyakutanda.
Pantience told the court she was being abused by her husband who even stripped her in public
“This man is abusing me both physically and emotionally, he has a tendency of stripping me in public.
“He treats me like crap at my own house and to make matters worse the property he is claiming is mine.
“I bought it with my own money.”
However, Norest claimed his wife was lying before the court so that she could gain sympathy from the judge, at the expense of justice.
“I am the one who is suffering at the hands of this woman.
“She stole my property and left me with an empty house.
“Now, I don’t even have even a blanket to cover myself during the night, I sleep on cardboards yet I once had blankets,” he said.
Magistrate Tamara Chibindi granted the protection order in favour of Pantience and advised both parties to maintain peace while solving their challenges. H Metro
LOCAL Government Minister July Moyo has said kombis are not coming back.
Minister Moyo reiterated that only ZUPCO buses, or those under the ZUPCO franchise, are allowed to ferry passengers.
Government banned private kombis at the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020.
“Private kombis are not coming back, President Mnangagwa is working very hard to purchase ZUPCO buses which will be enough to cater for the commuting public,” Minister Moyo said.
The police also warned the public not to board mushika-shika transport as they risk being robbed or killed.
For the past few months, police has been recording cases in which people were raped, robbed or killed.
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) reiterates that members of the public must avoid boarding mushikashika vehicles or use their private vehicles as pirate taxis as they risk falling prey to robbers,” police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Nyathi said.
Zimbabwe Passengers Association president, Tafadzwa Goriyati, said passengers were facing a transport crisis as ZUPCO was ending its evening operations earlier than expected.
“In the evening, passengers are boarding anything which comes on the road because of the shortage of ZUPCO transport, people are being robbed of their possessions because of transport challenges,” he said
Patricia Mberi, who lives in Budiriro, said their area was being serviced by one ZUPCO bus.
“If you miss that bus, you will have to wait for another trip, commuting to town is very hard and expensive because you hike from here and you pay US$1 to the roundabout and board another car to town,” she said.-HMetro
By- Zanu PF has responded to allegations that the ruling party was planning to infiltrate the opposition CCC structure should the latter hold an elective congress.
The party’s director of communications Tafadzwa Mugwadi said that claims by CCC that the ruling party plans to infiltrate the opposition party’s elective congress showed that Zanu PF was ubiquitous.
This comes after CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Siziba recently claimed that CCC had no plans of holding a congress as Zanu PF plotted to infiltrate their movement.
Siziba was quoted as saying:
Let me clear this once and for all, some people are motivated by Zanu PF, to imagine and think that we are going for a congress.
Look we are a new political organisation, we do not hold congresses and we have no intention to hold a congress.
In CCC, the congress does not exist… it is in the headquarters of Zanu PF and CIO, who in their imagination think we are going to have a congress and they can deploy their people.
Mugwadi said CCC leaders are confused and paranoid, a legacy of their days at the helm of the MDC Alliance. Said Mugwadi:
Are they suggesting that with that claim they are also Zanu PF? Zanu PF will be glad to hear that the organisation which claims to be the biggest opposition is now claiming that it has Zanu PF membership within it.
But most importantly, it is their fear of leadership acrimony which continues to dog the organisation, the leadership acrimony which they carried from their old party MDC. They are clueless.
They don’t have a constitution, and they claim that the citizens are the structures, but surprisingly they carry the titles which they had when they were in the MDC Alliance.
Ironically, some political commentators with links to Zanu PF argue that CCC should hold a congress before the 2023 general elections.
Exiled former Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo dismissed CCC’s fears of infiltration. Moyo tweeted:
The CCC is saying no vacancies and no congress of any kind. CIO (Central Intelligence Organisation) wants to infiltrate us; maybe a people’s convention, get the nomenclature right.
But a citizen’s convention is better nomenclature. Wait, CIO can only infiltrate a congress; not a convention since it’s American, right.
Zimbabwe is not at all listed in Africa’s Highest Literacy Top 10 Rates, according to the Twitter based Africa Fact Zone. The microblog, run by a Nigerian African opinionator, Isima Odeh has small nations such as Swaziland and Libya, ahead of the once renowned Zimbabwe. The WorldBank UNESCO figures have Zimbabwe on 88,69 and yet the below has Swaziland’s 88,44 listed ahead of Zimbabwe.
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- Operation dudula activists are said to be hunting down Zimbabwean truck drivers living and working in South Africa .
The affected drivers said that the Dudulka thugs were accusing them of stealing trucking jobs from South Africans.
Richard Mudhara, a Zimbabwean truck driver working in Johannesburg, told GroundUp in an interview that he was abducted on 2 March a few kilometres from Durban by three men.
He said his abductors told him they were with the All Truck Drivers Foundation (ATDF) and Operation Dudula.
Mudhara alleged that the men had stopped his truck, smashed the windows and forced him out.
They then tied him up and held him at gunpoint in bushes while his truck was driven away. Said Mudhara:
My mind was racing. They told me they were after truck drivers from Zimbabwe.
They told me to comply or be killed so I prayed for them to let me live.
… I prayed for them to let me live because some who found themselves in similar circumstances, were reported dead.
He said his life was saved when the gunman received a phone call and left him there.
The drivers, with Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) permits, claim that rogue police are also extorting them for cash.
However, Operation Dudula, a rising anti-immigrant, vigilante-like group has distanced itself from the attacks.
Zandile Dabula, Operation Dudula’s secretary-general said they don’t fight people, but the government, adding that the movement was yet to focus on the trucking sector.
Not only Zimbabwean drivers are under attack, but other immigrant drivers from Zambia and Malawi are also targeted by xenophobic groups.
Vusimusi Sibanda from the African Diaspora Global Network claimed that 15 immigrant truck drivers were reported to have been killed over the past three years. He said:
People who attacked these truck drivers were not arrested, which is why we have more vigilante groups such as Operation Dudula and the ATDF.
Lives were lost and trucks were destroyed yet no one was ever held accountable and even the government has not done anything to stop these attacks.
Sibanda said the Network was pushing for SAPS and the SA government to intervene in the attacks against immigrant truck drivers.
SAPS spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Robert Netshiunda told GroundUp that they have made several arrests linked to attacks on truck drivers.
Netshiunda urged drivers to report any corrupt activities so that police can investigate them.
He said criminals are behind the spate of attacks on truck drivers three months ago and the attacks had nothing to do with vigilante groups.
Dynamos moved back to the top of the Castle Lager Premiership table after edging out Manica Diamonds 1-0 on Matchday 12 on Sunday.
The Glamour Boys are now on twenty-six points, level with Chicken Inn but separated with a superior goal difference.
The match had a pacey start but both sides struggled to create meaningful opportunities in the first quarter-hour of the game.
The hosts broke the deadlock on minute 25 after Bill Antonio’s cross was tapped home by Emmanuel Paga. The tempo slowed down in the following moments with Manica struggling to come back into the game.
The match went to the break with Dembare leading.
The introduction of Pascal Manhanga and Timire Mamvura early in the second improved the Gem Boys’ mobility in the front and brought some threats to Dynamos.
Nyasha Chintuli was the target man, as he created a couple of good chances including the deflected shot that was saved by the keeper. He also broke free and went clear at goal but took long to release the ball and was dispossessed.
With all good opportunities coming on their side, Manica failed to get the equaliser for the remainder of the game.
Dynamos, on the other end, played deep and were quiet for the better part of the half. They never threatened until the last stages of the game when they tried to take the pressure off.
Elsewhere, CAPS United lost 2-1 to Triangle United, while Bulawayo Chiefs edged Whawha 1-0. Herentals lost their match 1-0 to Cranborne Bullets. – Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Aston Villa midfielder Marvelous Nakamba marked his return from a long lay-off with a cameo appearance in the goalless draw at Leicester City on Saturday.
The Zimbabwean spent four months on the sidelines due to a knee injury suffered in December and missed fifteen games.
The 28-year-old tore his medial collateral ligament (MCL) and had to undergo surgery to treat it.
After recovering, Nakamba was included in the Villa matchday squad in the previous round against Tottenham but did not feature. He was introduced in the added time at King Power and appeared on the pitch for two minutes before the referee blew the final whistle.
Meanwhile, the goalless result ended Villa’s four-match losing run in the league.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
MWENEZI – Election officers who presided over the March 26, 2022 by-elections are yet to be paid, The Mirror has heard.
Sources said the officers were supposed to be paid US$40 per day from the day of training until the end of the voting process.
The officers who spoke on condition of anonymity said that officers in other areas have been paid.
The Mirror contacted officers in Bikita and Gutu who confirmed that they have been paid.
They said that they were paid on April 12, 2022.
Charles Dasva the Zec Mwenezi District Election Officer professed ignorance on the non-payment and said he was going to check with the provincial accountant.
He referred further questions to Zec spokesperson Jasper Mangwana.
Mangwana said he could not talk because he was in a meeting and requested to communicate via text messages.
He however, did not respond to the questions send to his mobile phone via text messages. Further efforts to get a comment from Mangwana hit a brick wall as his mobile went unanswered.- Masvingo Mirror
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-South African who murdered Elvis Nyathi, a Zimbabwean national on 6 April are expected back in the Randburg Magistrates Court, in Johannesburg this morning.
The seven face charges of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, robbery, and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
The accused appeared in court on Friday last week where the matter was postponed to Monday.
They are expected to apply for bail this morning when they return to the dock.
On Friday, one of the accused delayed court proceedings as he requested time to get legal representation from legal aid.
The accused’s lawyer told the court that she would be recusing herself, citing a lack of communication with her client.
The late Elvis Nyathi Banajo Mbodazwe was born on 14 February 1979, at Brunapeg Hospital to parents Mfanyana Nyathi and Sipho Ndlovu.
He grew up at Tshatshe, Sewula in Kezi, and did his primary education at Sewula Primary School in Matabeleland South Province.
Nyathi’s family moved to Insuza and in 2006 he left for South Africa, where he was a gardener until his death.
In South Africa, he lived in Diesploot Extension One where he was beaten, stoned and set alight metres from his home.
Nyathi was currently building his own home in Ntabazinduna, Umguza District, Matabeleland North Province.
He leaves behind his wife Nomsa Tshuma and four children.
Tinashe Sambiri|Citizens’ Coalition For Change leader President Nelson Chamisa’s support base is increasing in the rural areas.
On Saturday President Chamisa was in Chirumanzu, traditionally known as Emmerson Mnangagwa’s stronghold.
Watch video below: https://twitter.com/nelsonchamisa/status/1517918585255079938?s=20&t=qlVao6BJKCtvSdXT-mb69A
CCC also held a successful fundraising event in Namibia on Saturday:
Citizens Coalition For Change Namibia Windhoek held a successful fundraising event at Katutura Youth Centre.
The idea is to raise funds for the 7 May by-elections. Change champions in Namibia, Windhoek pledged to prosecute the yellow revolution to its logical conclusion.
Special thanks to the Chairperson Elisha Chambara and his entire leadership team. The message to go and register to vote on 2023 was at the centre.
Victory is certain with participatory democracy.- CCC Namibia
MWENEZI – Election officers who presided over the March 26, 2022 by-elections are yet to be paid, The Mirror has heard.
Sources said the officers were supposed to be paid US$40 per day from the day of training until the end of the voting process.
The officers who spoke on condition of anonymity said that officers in other areas have been paid.
The Mirror contacted officers in Bikita and Gutu who confirmed that they have been paid. They said that they were paid on April 12, 2022.
Charles Dasva the Zec Mwenezi District Election Officer professed ignorance on the non-payment and said he was going to check with the provincial accountant. He referred further questions to Zec spokesperson Jasper Mangwana.
Mangwana said he could not talk because he was in a meeting and requested to communicate via text messages.
He however, did not respond to the questions send to his mobile phone via text messages. Further efforts to get a comment from Mangwana hit a brick wall as his mobile went unanswered.
French President Emmanuel Macron has won a second term in office, defeating his far-right rival Marine Le Pen by a comfortable margin in a runoff election.
His supporters erupted with joy on Sunday as the results appeared on a giant screen at the Champ de Mars park by the Eiffel tower. Leaders in Berlin, Brussels, London and beyond welcomed his defeat of the nationalist, eurosceptic Le Pen.
With nearly all votes counted, Macron was on course for a solid 58.6 percent of the vote, according to interior ministry figures.
Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National Rally party (Rassemblement National or RN), received 41.4 percent of the votes, the highest in her last three unsuccessful presidential bids.
In his victory speech, Macron acknowledged that many had only voted for him only to keep Le Pen out and promised to address the sense of many French that their living standards are slipping.
“Many in this country voted for me not because they support my ideas but to keep out those of the far-right. I want to thank them and know I owe them a debt in the years to come,” the 44-year-old said.
He also promised to address the “anger and the disagreements” that led to many French voters choosing the extreme right, saying “This will be my responsibility and that of those around me.”
“No one in France will be left by the wayside,” he continued, pledging to be a “president for all”.
Macron is the first French president to win a second term for two decades, but Le Pen’s result also marks the closest the far-right has ever come to taking power in France and has revealed a deeply divided nation.
Le Pen, who at one stage of the campaign had trailed Macron by just a few points in opinion polls, was quick to concede defeat. But she hailed her result as a “brilliant victory” and vowed to keep up the fight with parliamentary elections in June.- Al Jazeera
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 leader President Nelson Chamisa’s support base is increasing in the rural areas.
On Saturday President Chamisa was in Chirumanzu, traditionally known as Emmerson Mnangagwa’s stronghold.
Watch video below: https://twitter.com/nelsonchamisa/status/1517918585255079938?s=20&t=qlVao6BJKCtvSdXT-mb69A
CCC also held a successful fundraising event in Namibia on Saturday:
Citizens Coalition For Change Namibia Windhoek held a successful fundraising event at Katutura Youth Centre.
The idea is to raise funds for the 7 May by-elections. Change champions in Namibia, Windhoek pledged to prosecute the yellow revolution to its logical conclusion.
Special thanks to the Chairperson Elisha Chambara and his entire leadership team. The message to go and register to vote on 2023 was at the centre.
Victory is certain with participatory democracy.- CCC Namibia
By- Police in Zvishavane have arrested 15 people in connection with public violence that erupted at the weekend at Mandava Stadium, Zvishavane, when FC Platinum Football Club hosted Highlanders Football club in a Premier League Soccer Match.
Below is a full police statement detailing the violence:
The match started at 1500 hours and about 1 200 fans were in attendance. Members from DUB, SU, CID and Canine were on deployment under Zvishavane DHQ Operation Order Number 13/22. In the 81st minute, FC Platinum was awarded a penalty and Highlanders players led by Peter Muduwa shirt number 21 disputed the decision. Supporters on the Eastern stand who were predominantly in black and white regalia and supporting Highlanders reacted to the penalty decision by throwing missiles in the form of water bottles and stones into the pitch toward players, match officials and the police that had formed a barricade forcing the match officials to stop the match.
The rowdy supporters moved in, scaled the perimeter fence and charged toward the police who retreated to allow the Highlanders captain, Highlanders marshals and the police command to intervene with dialogue. The mediation took about 20 minutes. As the Highlanders captain Ariel Sibanda, marshals and the police were engaging with the Highlanders supporters to calm down, the Highlanders Team manager Vezigama Dlodlo [NFPK] withdrew the captain and when the players were about to resume playing, the Highlanders supporters became more provoked and the situation degenerated into violence. The Highlanders supporters intensified throwing missiles, invaded the pitch and tore advertisement billboards.
They also started throwing missiles at FC Platinum supporters on the western grandstand. One Police Dog Ceaser, number PD1215 on deployment from Gweru Canine was struck by a stone. The Police Dog sustained minor injuries and is limping. FC platinum team bus, Scania, green in colour registration mark FC Plats was struck with a stone on its right side window panel. It was parked behind the VIP grandstand. The bus sustained a shattered right side window panel consisting of a large hole in the middle of the panel. ZRP Zvishavane RRB number 5068641 refers. Upon realising that the situation was getting out of hand, police created escape routes on the eastern, western and main gates and repelled the advancing mob with tear smoke after dialogue had failed and the threat was increasing. After having been driven out of the stadium, the Highlanders supporters went on terrorising motorists from the stadium up to the CBD. In the CBD, a Blue Horizon bus registration number AEG 1054 being driven by Christopher Mutupo a male aged 42 years Nr 83-098612C-83 of 6256 Chikanga township, Mutare and plying the Bulawayo-Chiredzi route was struck by a stone seemingly by the Highlanders supporters heading towards Bulawayo.
The bus sustained a shattered right side window panel. Value damaged to be established. ZRP Zvishavane RRB number 5068639 refers. No causalities were recorded as the mob was repelled by Police with tear smoke. A total of 15 accused persons were arrested and detained for “disorderly conduct as defined in section 41 of the Criminal law [Codification and Reform] Chapter 9.23. ZRP Zvishavane 1049/22-1063/22 refers. See Annexture “A” attached. Investigations are in progress. ZRP ZVISHAVANE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
By- Citizens Coalition for Change President, Nelson Chamisa has sent a congratulatory message to the French President-elect- Emmanuel Macron following his victory in the European country’s Presidential election run-off.
In his message, Chamisa said it’s the time for the young generation to lead.
on this historic re-election.This is such an inspiration and reminder to all the young people across the world that it’s doable!. Going forward, France is a strategic ally and a key player in addressing global challenges,” tweeted Chamisa.
Congratulations to the 44 year-old @EmmanuelMacron on this historic re-election.This is such an inspiration and reminder to all the young people across the world that it’s doable!. Going forward, France is a strategic ally and a key player in addressing global challenges. pic.twitter.com/dO64JYbfKz
By- Zanu PF has responded to allegations that the ruling party was planning to infiltrate the opposition CCC structure should the latter hold an elective congress.
The party’s director of communications Tafadzwa Mugwadi said that claims by CCC that the ruling party plans to infiltrate the opposition party’s elective congress showed that Zanu PF was ubiquitous.
This comes after CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Siziba recently claimed that CCC had no plans of holding a congress as Zanu PF plotted to infiltrate their movement.
Siziba was quoted as saying:
Let me clear this once and for all, some people are motivated by Zanu PF, to imagine and think that we are going for a congress.
Look we are a new political organisation, we do not hold congresses and we have no intention to hold a congress.
In CCC, the congress does not exist… it is in the headquarters of Zanu PF and CIO, who in their imagination think we are going to have a congress and they can deploy their people.
Mugwadi said CCC leaders are confused and paranoid, a legacy of their days at the helm of the MDC Alliance. Said Mugwadi:
Are they suggesting that with that claim they are also Zanu PF? Zanu PF will be glad to hear that the organisation which claims to be the biggest opposition is now claiming that it has Zanu PF membership within it.
But most importantly, it is their fear of leadership acrimony which continues to dog the organisation, the leadership acrimony which they carried from their old party MDC. They are clueless.
They don’t have a constitution, and they claim that the citizens are the structures, but surprisingly they carry the titles which they had when they were in the MDC Alliance.
Ironically, some political commentators with links to Zanu PF argue that CCC should hold a congress before the 2023 general elections.
Exiled former Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo dismissed CCC’s fears of infiltration. Moyo tweeted:
The CCC is saying no vacancies and no congress of any kind. CIO (Central Intelligence Organisation) wants to infiltrate us; maybe a people’s convention, get the nomenclature right.
But a citizen’s convention is better nomenclature. Wait, CIO can only infiltrate a congress; not a convention since it’s American, right.
By- A Zimbabwean teacher has won a case in which he was seeking compensation from the state for being tortured in prison.
Harare Magistrate Victoria Mashamba ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) and two cabinet ministers to pay ZWL$200 000 to Munyaradzi Masiyiwa, who is employed as a teacher and is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ).
According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Masiyiwa 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.
By- Operation dudula activists are said to be hunting down Zimbabwean truck drivers living and working in South Africa .
The affected drivers said that the Dudulka thugs were accusing them of stealing trucking jobs from South Africans.
Richard Mudhara, a Zimbabwean truck driver working in Johannesburg, told GroundUp in an interview that he was abducted on 2 March a few kilometres from Durban by three men.
He said his abductors told him they were with the All Truck Drivers Foundation (ATDF) and Operation Dudula.
Mudhara alleged that the men had stopped his truck, smashed the windows and forced him out.
They then tied him up and held him at gunpoint in bushes while his truck was driven away. Said Mudhara:
My mind was racing. They told me they were after truck drivers from Zimbabwe.
They told me to comply or be killed so I prayed for them to let me live.
… I prayed for them to let me live because some who found themselves in similar circumstances, were reported dead.
He said his life was saved when the gunman received a phone call and left him there.
The drivers, with Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) permits, claim that rogue police are also extorting them for cash.
However, Operation Dudula, a rising anti-immigrant, vigilante-like group has distanced itself from the attacks.
Zandile Dabula, Operation Dudula’s secretary-general said they don’t fight people, but the government, adding that the movement was yet to focus on the trucking sector.
Not only Zimbabwean drivers are under attack, but other immigrant drivers from Zambia and Malawi are also targeted by xenophobic groups.
Vusimusi Sibanda from the African Diaspora Global Network claimed that 15 immigrant truck drivers were reported to have been killed over the past three years. He said:
People who attacked these truck drivers were not arrested, which is why we have more vigilante groups such as Operation Dudula and the ATDF.
Lives were lost and trucks were destroyed yet no one was ever held accountable and even the government has not done anything to stop these attacks.
Sibanda said the Network was pushing for SAPS and the SA government to intervene in the attacks against immigrant truck drivers.
SAPS spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Robert Netshiunda told GroundUp that they have made several arrests linked to attacks on truck drivers.
Netshiunda urged drivers to report any corrupt activities so that police can investigate them.
He said criminals are behind the spate of attacks on truck drivers three months ago and the attacks had nothing to do with vigilante groups.
By-The Nelson Chamisa’s CCC political outfit has been warned against choosing not to hold an elective congress.
The warning has been issued by political analysts who said that the party risked t tarnishing its democratic credentials if it avoids holding an elective congress before the 2023 general elections. CCC interim deputy spokesperson Gift Siziba recently said that the party was not going to hold any elective congress before the 2023 national elections.
Siziba said that the party will have a people’s convention, and not a congress. However, political analyst Methuseli Moyo argued that CCC needs to hold a congress for its legitimacy. Said Moyo: A congress is what constitutes a party, appoints persons into position to exercise power and administration of party affairs. One wonders how CCC will constitute itself and delegate authority to office-bearers. Without a congress, CCC remains a collection of friends deploying each other into positions.
As such, they would be handicapped to challenge ZANU PF on any issue to do with democracy and procedure. In a nutshell, CCC must go to Congress before elections to legitimise itself. It can’t take over power when it has not been mandated by anyone. As things stand, CCC is a party in the making, and only a congress can constitute a party. Another political analyst Vivid Gwede said holding an elective congress is a cornerstone of democracy. Gwede said: It is true that a congress may be divisive for CCC ahead of the 2023 elections. But the quest for political change should not trump the imperative for elected leadership as the cornerstone of representative democracy. Exiled former ZANU PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo downplayed CCC’s fears of infiltration and insisted the party should hold an elective congress. Moyo tweeted: The CCC is saying no vacancies and no congress of any kind. CIO (Central Intelligence Organisation) wants to infiltrate us; maybe a people’s convention, get the nomenclature right. But a citizen’s convention is better nomenclature. Wait, CIO can only infiltrate a congress; not a convention since it’s American, right?
By- Police in Harare have arrested a 37-year-old suspected lone armed robber who shot and killed a Waterfalls woman during an armed robbery before committing a spate of other criminal cases has been arrested in Chitungwiza.
The notorious armed robbery suspect Aaron Fransisco Machona (37) committed a series of armed robbery cases in Harare from December 2021 to April 2022.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest. “The suspect would operate alone while targeting cash or electrical accessories and would fire to subdue identified victims. On 9th December 2021 at about 0200 hours, the suspect stormed a house in Uplands Waterfalls, Harare and captured two complainants while armed with a pistol and wearing a balaclava. He stole property worth US$4 160 and drove away in the complainant’s silver BMW 318 vehicle (ACW 4417). “On 30th January 2022, the suspect invaded another home along Ruwa Avenue Waterfalls, Harare where he attacked a couple whom he threatened to shoot with a pistol before he fired one shot into the roof. The suspect later ran away after noticing some light rays filtering through the room before stealing anything,” he said. On March 9, 2022, the suspect who was armed with an unidentified pistol while covering his face with a balaclava, stormed another house in Uplands Waterfalls, Harare through an unlocked door and attacked three occupants while demanding cash.
The complainants surrendered US$60, Itel 16 and Huawei cellphones, however the suspect kept on demanding for more cash while assaulting one of the complainants aged 78 all over the body with a stick. One of the victims Jubilee Utsiwegota (30) tried to stop the suspect resulting in Machona drawing a pistol before shooting her once on the head. Utsiwegota died instantly. “On 13th April 2022, the suspect broke into a house in Uplands Waterfalls, Harare and tortured three complainants while armed with a pistol and wearing a balaclava. The suspect stole property worth US$ 1 302 and left the complainants locked up in a wardrobe. “On 22nd April 2022, Police detectives spotted Machona’s silver Toyota Runx vehicle (AFD 6503) and pursued him resulting in a high speed chase. The suspect was eventually arrested at Chigovanyika St Mary’s, Chitungwiza,” Asst Comm Nyathi said. Police searched the suspect’s house in Unit C Chitungwiza and recovered a CZ P-10 pistol with a magazine of one round, Samsung cellphone, four purses, three plastic flippers used to open windows, catapult, screwdriver, Hp laptop, Mobicel laptop, Compaq black laptop, black satchel and black laptop bag. Police investigations have revealed that the CZ P-10 pistol was stolen by means of theft from a motor vehicle in Kadoma on November 25, 2021 and the recovered Samsung cellphone was stolen by means of robbery in Uplands Waterfalls, Harare on April 13, 2022.
Machona had acquired a stand and built a three roomed house in Chitungwiza, bought a vehicle and paid US$10 000 lobola for his wife through the proceeds of armed robbery cases.
By- Zanu FF Matabeleland South province has said that they might lose more seats if their party does not intensify to campaign in the next year’s elections.
They said their party should campaign to get more people to register to vote before the delimitation exercise as the province risks losing over five constituencies.
Delimitation, which is carried out after a population census and is provided for in Sections 160 and 161 of the Constitution, refers to the dividing of the country into constituencies and wards for the purposes of elections and involves coming up with a minimum threshold of registered voters in each of the country’s 210 National Assembly constituencies. The exercise could see some constituencies with a low number of registered voters being merged with others while some could be split into more than one, subject to the number of registered voters. The region, which is least represented in Parliament, has 38 parliamentary seats out of 210 constituencies. Bulawayo has 12 seats with Matabeleland South and Matabeleland North having 13 each. The remainder of the seats are spread across the other seven provinces outside the Matabeleland region. It has been previously reported that the Matabeleland region has the least number of registered voters countrywide, a development that could eventually result in the loss of constituencies ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections if the trend remains the same. According to statistics released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) recently, Bulawayo has the lowest number of registered voters with 254 630 followed by Matabeleland South with 259 689 registered voters and Matabeleland North standing at 335 851. Speaking during a provincial coordinating committee (PCC) meeting in Gwanda yesterday, Zanu-PF Matabeleland South provincial chairman, Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu, said the party has the capacity to retain its seats in the province. He, however, said more needs to be done to ensure that people register to vote. “The country is going through three major activities which include the mobile registration exercise, which is being conducted by Civil Registry Department, the biometric voter registration exercise and the population and housing census. “These are very important exercises and Matabeleland South province however, stands to lose between five to seven constituencies if the voter registration numbers don’t improve,” said Ndlovu. “We are a stronghold of Zanu-PF and if we don’t take action now to correct the trend we are seeing, we would have let our party down.” Ndlovu called on party members to encourage the masses to obtain birth certificates and national identity documents for them to be able to register to vote. “The dispensation that we have been given by President Mnangagwa has relaxed the requirements for obtaining national identity documents. If we don’t take action to correct the trend of low voter registration, we would have let our President down,” he said. “Let us therefore try as much as we can to save our constituencies in this province.” Ndlovu said the ruling party has the responsibility to make sure that development initiatives are delivered to the people. “President Mnangagwa has made sure that provinces have power through devolution. The party constitution confers adequate powers for us to monitor implementation of Government programmes and propose policies for implementation,” he said. -State media
Tinashe Sambiri|Citizens’ Coalition For Change leader President Nelson Chamisa’s support base is increasing in the rural areas.
On Saturday President Chamisa was in Chirumanzu, traditionally known as Emmerson Mnangagwa’s stronghold.
Watch video below: https://twitter.com/nelsonchamisa/status/1517918585255079938?s=20&t=qlVao6BJKCtvSdXT-mb69A
CCC also held a successful fundraising event in Namibia on Saturday:
Citizens Coalition For Change Namibia Windhoek held a successful fundraising event at Katutura Youth Centre.
The idea is to raise funds for the 7 May by-elections. Change champions in Namibia, Windhoek pledged to prosecute the yellow revolution to its logical conclusion.
Special thanks to the Chairperson Elisha Chambara and his entire leadership team. The message to go and register to vote on 2023 was at the centre.
Victory is certain with participatory democracy.- CCC Namibia
By A Correspondent| Harare East legislator, Tendai Biti has renewed his bid to have Harare Regional Magistrate Wongai Muchuchuti Guwuriro recused from presiding over his case citing her alleged bias and constant infringement on his rights as an accused person.
He is facing allegations of verbally assaulting a Russian national, Tatiana Aleshina outside Harare Magistrates Court in November 2020.
Biti was last year made to stand trial without his lawyer of choice Alec Muchadehama who was reported to be at the Master of High Court however, Magistrate Guwuriro proceeded with trial.
Previously, Biti filed for both recusal and review of Guwuriro’s judgments at High Court with Justice Tawanda Chitapi dismissing the application, he has since filed a notice of appeal of the Chitapi ruling at the Supreme Court.
“Your Worship I make this application with great respect for you. The reasonable fear that I hold today is that justice will not be done in my case. I also state the point that the issue is not whether you are biased but I have a suspicion
“I ask that you recuse yourself, on the 26th of March 2022, I was remanded in this court after the Chitapi J judgement. We lodged an appeal at the supreme court of Zimbabwe. You go to rule against an appeal for the superior Court, that ruling frightened me. The principal of noting an appeal is an elementary principal of law, Your Worship its elementary law it’s been taught in first year at Law school,” Biti told the court
He added “The decision to Justice Chitapi was cancelled by our appeal which was noted by the Supreme Court. The appeal is a Constitutional right of an accused person according to a fair trial in section 69 of the Constitution. The right to review and the right to appeal. The Chitapi J ruling remains extant until it has been appealed, it is the common law.
“This Court is biased your Worship, I say this with great respect and it pains me to say this. I want to address things happen on the 14th. On the 11th of April Mr Muchadehama applied for record of proceedings of 13th of October 2021. Several things happened where I was alone without my legal counsel.
“You can’t sit in my case Your Worship. I have sued you many times your Worship. It’s only fair your Worship if you recuse yourself, it’s high time you leave and have someone to be a referee. Your Worship I appeal to you that this is not personal but it’s about justice. Your Worship with the great respect I have lost confidence in you.”
The matter was remanded to 9 May 2022 for continuation.
Highlanders have blasted the police following the violent scenes that marred their match against FC Platinum.
The incident occurred when referee Kuzivakwamwari Jaravaza awarded the hosts a penalty in the 82nd minute, after Peter Muduwa was adjudged to have fouled Walter Musona in the box.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Dynamos moved back to the top of the Castle Lager Premiership table after edging out Manica Diamonds 1-0 on Matchday 12 on Sunday.
The Glamour Boys are now on twenty-six points, level with Chicken Inn but separated with a superior goal difference.
The match had a pacey start but both sides struggled to create meaningful opportunities in the first quarter-hour of the game.
The hosts broke the deadlock on minute 25 after Bill Antonio’s cross was tapped home by Emmanuel Paga. The tempo slowed down in the following moments with Manica struggling to come back into the game.
The match went to the break with Dembare leading.
The introduction of Pascal Manhanga and Timire Mamvura early in the second improved the Gem Boys’ mobility in the front and brought some threats to Dynamos.
Nyasha Chintuli was the target man, as he created a couple of good chances including the deflected shot that was saved by the keeper. He also broke free and went clear at goal but took long to release the ball and was dispossessed.
With all good opportunities coming on their side, Manica failed to get the equaliser for the remainder of the game.
Dynamos, on the other end, played deep and were quiet for the better part of the half. They never threatened until the last stages of the game when they tried to take the pressure off.
Elsewhere, CAPS United lost 2-1 to Triangle United, while Bulawayo Chiefs edged Whawha 1-0. Herentals lost their match 1-0 to Cranborne Bullets. – Soccer24 Zimbabwe
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Nick Mangwana tells me "there are 10 British Lords I was instructed by the State Security Minister to work with because their properties in Zimbabwe are secured, they will never be touched." WHO ARE THESE LEGISLATORS @nickmangwana@CatharineHoey @oatesjonny ? pic.twitter.com/vKg4nWieFj
Tinashe Sambiri|A video clip of a heavily drunk Zanu PF activist during the ongoing census programme has gone viral on social media.
Zanu PF seized the key programme last week, replacing thousands of civil servants with known party stalwarts.
In the video clip, the Zanu PF activist is seen in a drunken stupor.
The clip was posted on Twitter by Citizens’ Coalition For Change vicechairperson Hon Job Sikhala…
Statistics Agency Rusape .
Be advised one of your Census official is stuck at Rilly Shop Vengere just next to Vengere Clinic.
The lady is a local ZANUPF DCC member is drunk can’t stand ,Tablet is broken,Official Census Satchel bag is packed with Kitoko beer ,,Cap haachina
Statistics Agency Rusape .
Be advised one of your Census official is stuck at Rilly Shop Vengere jus next to Vengere Clinic.
The lady is a local ZANUPF DCC member is drunk can't stand ,Tablet is broken,Official Census Satchel bag is packed with Kitoko beer ,,Cap haachina. pic.twitter.com/CbYUNaKzLk
French President Emmanuel Macron has won a second term in office, defeating his far-right rival Marine Le Pen by a comfortable margin in a runoff election.
His supporters erupted with joy on Sunday as the results appeared on a giant screen at the Champ de Mars park by the Eiffel tower. Leaders in Berlin, Brussels, London and beyond welcomed his defeat of the nationalist, eurosceptic Le Pen.
With nearly all votes counted, Macron was on course for a solid 58.6 percent of the vote, according to interior ministry figures.
Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National Rally party (Rassemblement National or RN), received 41.4 percent of the votes, the highest in her last three unsuccessful presidential bids.
In his victory speech, Macron acknowledged that many had only voted for him only to keep Le Pen out and promised to address the sense of many French that their living standards are slipping.
“Many in this country voted for me not because they support my ideas but to keep out those of the far-right. I want to thank them and know I owe them a debt in the years to come,” the 44-year-old said.
He also promised to address the “anger and the disagreements” that led to many French voters choosing the extreme right, saying “This will be my responsibility and that of those around me.”
“No one in France will be left by the wayside,” he continued, pledging to be a “president for all”.
Macron is the first French president to win a second term for two decades, but Le Pen’s result also marks the closest the far-right has ever come to taking power in France and has revealed a deeply divided nation.
Le Pen, who at one stage of the campaign had trailed Macron by just a few points in opinion polls, was quick to concede defeat. But she hailed her result as a “brilliant victory” and vowed to keep up the fight with parliamentary elections in June.- Al Jazeera
Tinashe Sambiri|A video clip of a heavily drunk Zanu PF activist during the ongoing census programme has gone viral on social media.
Zanu PF seized the key programme last week, replacing thousands of civil servants with known party stalwarts.
In the video clip, the Zanu PF activist is seen in a drunken stupor.
The clip was posted on Twitter by Citizens’ Coalition For Change vicechairperson Hon Job Sikhala…
Statistics Agency Rusape .
Be advised one of your Census official is stuck at Rilly Shop Vengere just next to Vengere Clinic.
The lady is a local ZANUPF DCC member is drunk can’t stand ,Tablet is broken,Official Census Satchel bag is packed with Kitoko beer ,,Cap haachina
Statistics Agency Rusape .
Be advised one of your Census official is stuck at Rilly Shop Vengere jus next to Vengere Clinic.
The lady is a local ZANUPF DCC member is drunk can't stand ,Tablet is broken,Official Census Satchel bag is packed with Kitoko beer ,,Cap haachina. pic.twitter.com/CbYUNaKzLk
MWENEZI – Election officers who presided over the March 26, 2022 by-elections are yet to be paid, The Mirror has heard.
Sources said the officers were supposed to be paid US$40 per day from the day of training until the end of the voting process.
The officers who spoke on condition of anonymity said that officers in other areas have been paid.
The Mirror contacted officers in Bikita and Gutu who confirmed that they have been paid. They said that they were paid on April 12, 2022.
Charles Dasva the Zec Mwenezi District Election Officer professed ignorance on the non-payment and said he was going to check with the provincial accountant. He referred further questions to Zec spokesperson Jasper Mangwana.
Mangwana said he could not talk because he was in a meeting and requested to communicate via text messages.
He however, did not respond to the questions send to his mobile phone via text messages. Further efforts to get a comment from Mangwana hit a brick wall as his mobile went unanswered.- Masvingo Mirror
