Notorious Magistrate Refuses To Recuse Self Against Joana, Cecilia

By A Correspondent | The CCC party duo, Joana Mamombe and Cecillia Chimbiri apeeared in Court 14 on Wednesday at Rotten Row. The Defense Counsel filed an Application for the Recusal of the Presiding Magistrate, Faith Mushure. The outline emanates from the jurist’s ‘biased attitude and Conflict of interest against the Accused’s Rights as prescribed in Chapter 4 Section 69 of our Constitution.’

The accused’s Defense Counsel in no uncertain described and explicitly expressed the conflict of interest, prejudice, bias and the complete disregard of sections 68 snd 69 under chapter 4. The violation of Rights is on Record and as herein mentioned is biased.

Therefore if a judicial Officer is not biased, should just Recuse self. There is no need for antagonism and refusal to recuse oneself for non-partisan and fair justice.

The current magistrate, has fast-tracked the trial case under protest from the accused persons in an unconstitutional manner without lawyers being given copies of trial records.

Mamombe and Chimbiri, in their application for Mrs Mushure’s recusal, said the court ruled against them and allowed the State to call back a witness, who was used to tender into the record exhibit documents that they had objected to.

The duo also said that they have filed five applications in the High Court where Mrs Mushure is a respondent rendering her ineligible to continue presiding over their matter.

The State led by Mr Michael Reza opposed the application saying it was not guided by any provisions of the law.

Mr Reza said the two were suing the application as one of their many ways to stall trial progress.

“He (Muchadehama) never stated the law in which he’s making the application. Every application must be guided by sections or provisions of a statute. He said he is applying for your recusal based on no law and for no reason at all. However, the reason for this application is to further delay this trial.

It has happened before and even if this court recuses itself, the next judicial officers would be asked to recuse themselves. They raised a point that the duo’s rights are being abused. If there’s a person or persons infringing on their rights, it is not this court nor the State, but the accused persons themselves.

“This trial has been fair but has not been speedy and has not been heard in reasonable time because of them. It has been application after application,” he said.

Mr Reza told the court that Mamombe and Chimbiri knew very well that their applications lack merit, but they continue making them for purposes of delaying trial proceedings. Additional reporting state media

April 13, 2022April 12, 2022

Government Agents Abduct CCC Member

Tinashe Sambiri|Suspected government agents abducted a member of President Nelson Chamisa’s Citizens’ Coalition For Change.

This happened less than 48 hours after President Chamisa’s visit to Masvingo.

Government agents are desperate to counter President Chamisa’s activities across the country.

On Tuesday morning, CCC’s Denford Ngadziore wrote on Twitter:

“Alert alert! Am receiving disturbing report this hour 0200hrs that our change champion SG Gwarazimba for Masvingo West has been forcibly abducted at his home by a group of unknown people.
Lets make noice about it.”

In a statement Media Centre Masvingo said:

“CCC interim SG for Msv West Denson Gwarazimba allegedly adbucted by unknown assailants suspected at around 2am at his Village 12 homestead in Mushandike area.

His abduction comes after a visit by CCC leader Nelson Chamisa in Msv town over the weekend.”

April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

Zimbabwe Quickly Sells USD4Billion Lithium Mine To Chinese for Paltry USD5,000

By Baba Jukwa | This Paul Chimbodza is my very long time friend and he had during the GNU even approached Morgan Tsvangirai about this deal: but unfortunately the trade unionist was not interested in business. He told his family, “vazukuru ngatimbobvisa Mugabe then we talk about this later.”

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This is how dumb we are.

“ So now, back to the story: 2 Zimbabweans, Professsor Kingston Kajese and Paul Chimbodza get a lithium claim. They, in turn, sell 87% of the claim to an Australian company (Prospect Resources). So far, no mining is done .
The Australian company then sells the lithium mine to a Chinese firm.
The Chinese mine, Huayou pays $422 million for the mine. Of the $422 million, $388 goes to the Australian mine and $44 million shared between Chimbodza and Kajese. Someone at the top approves the deal.

In one move, Zimbabwe has just sold one of the most strategic minerals to the Chinese with no gain for the country ( Australia gains USD388 million while 2 Zimbabweans get USD44 million). All the Zimbabwean public through the government get is no more than USD5,000, being licensing and other fees.
Now, here is why, as a country, we are stupid. The future is electric cars and solar energy, both of which require lithium.
The price of lithium is now USD17 000 per tonne.

The Chinese mine has said it intends to mine 2.4 million tonnes a year . This translates to USD 4.1 billion a year or USD342 million a month .
Remember they bought the mine for $422 million. Within 1 month, the Chinese would have returned what they paid.

So why did our government allow such a stupid deal when in Zimbabwe we have to import lithium batteries from South Africa?

Why could our government not see the same potential the Chinese saw?
Instead, we could have easily partnered with Tesla to mine the lithium and manufacture lithium batteries in Zimbabwe while partnering local companies such as Exide.
Kajese and Chimbodza are the only 2 Zimbabweans to benefit from this.
Most of the employment generated will go to Chinese nationals. We will be left only with a destroyed and polluted environment.

How can we be so stupid as a nation? How could someone at the top endorse such a strategic mineral”

April 13, 2022April 12, 2022

CCC Namibia Statement On Brutal Murder Of Elvis Nyathi

Zimbabweans must act on degrading treatment!

CCC Namibia demands justice to Elvis Nyathi!

11 April 2022

Citizens Coalition For Change Namibia absolutely condemns the segregatory, discriminatory, brutal and inhumane treatment of foreign nationals in the neighbouring South Africa especially the desperate Zimbabweans who have become a laughing stock across the globe. The recent ruthless human butchery of a victim of ZanuPF gross misgovernance, Elvis Nyathi was exhibited on Wednesday night the 6th April 2022 in Diepsloot, South Africa. It was quite astonishing and infuriating to witness a fellow campatriot brutally attacked and set alight by a mob led by Nhlanhla Lux for not having a passport in his possession. Where is our Pan-African mentality? Black versus Black?
We need to have one love in Africa, fumed Rundu Branch Spokesperson Robson Ruhanya.

Yellow revolutionaries in Namibia are appealing to the world to assist them at home so that the sunken country will be liberated from ZanuPF Satanists. Citizens Coalition Change bears the responsibility to liberate us from these social and economic upheavals. We demand that SADC, African Union, European Union and United Nations should give Zimbabweans their long awaited solidarity against peaceful slavery. The whole world is cognisant that Zimbabweans are have become double sufferers from both ZanuPF thugocrats and Xenophobic attackers in South Africa. It has been 22 years of suffering in motherland under Zanupf oppression. We plead to the international community to serve us from the jaws of xenophobia and state sponsored violence on the citizens.

In addition to that,the South African government should know that Zimbabwe needs solidarity as an answer to these socio-economic challenges. Zimbabweans are mushrooming everywhere because they are escaping from artificial poverty brewed by the stomach politicians in ZanuPF. “For how long does the world have to comfortably sit and watch while South Africans carry such gruesome, barbaric and satanic attacks on foreign internationals?”, fumed the Citizens Coalition For Change Namibia Secretary General Simbarashe Ndoda.

Furthermore, the organiser Lawrence Chiduku made it very clear that it is now imperative for all Zimbabweans in the diaspora to start fighting for the betterment of the motherland especially with 2023 historic harmonised elections around the corner. He went on to urge all Zimbabweans in the diaspora to register to vote, vote for change in 2023 and defend the vote from serial election fraudsters. The executive meeting undertaken by Citizens Coalition For Change Namibia Rundu Branch on Saturday made it very clear that Zimbabweans at home and abroad must come together as citizens to act against corruption in Zimbabwe which is the major cause of the brain.

Moreover, Zimbabweans in the diaspora must register to vote in Zimbabwe whilst fighting for the diaspora vote which is likely to be resisted by those who still don’t believe in the change that delivers. “For how long shall Zimbabweans continue to be victims both home and abroad?”, Secretary General Simbarashe Ndoda continued to pose revolutionary questions to the citizens who still have hope in ZanuPF shenanigans. Citizens Coalition For Change (CCC) Namibia absolutely condemns this level of suffering and torture to innocent citizens abroad and at home.

Zimbabweans are urged to embrace dangerous freedom against peaceful slavery! In 2023, citizens should make sure that they vote for complete change under the astute leadership of President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. Citizens Coalition For Change Namibia believes that CCC is the only panacea to socio-economic transfiguration. In A New Great Zimbabwe, our citizens should go back to a peaceful and progressive country under the new God-fearing government led by none other than President Pastor Nelson Chamisa.

We demand justice to Elvis Nyathi! We demand justice to Mboneni Ncube who was butchered in cold blood in Kwekwe by ZanuPF thugs using machetes, bows and arrows! Zimbabwean lives matter! Watch out South Africa! Thanks to EFF President Julius Malema for the solidarity displayed against this barbarism. These are crimes against humanity! We demand justice! Perpetrators must be brought to book.

JusticeToElvisNyathi

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Interim Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya

April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

Zimbabweans In South Africa Targeted

By Dr Masimba Mavaza| South Africa is not a virgin to Xenophobic attacks. And South Africans are not all after foreigners. There is a large chunk of good South Africans who cannot stand the barbaric attack against Zimbabweans. Some South Africans are demon possessed. violence in South Africa existed before the end of the apartheid in 1994 and there lacks evidence that it will end anytime soon. In view of the effects of xenophobic violence on foreigners in South Africa. It is true that what regularly happens in South Africa is a reflection of the challenges inherent in African countries, but the South Africans have exhibited a great hatred of their neighbour Zimbabwe. While South Africa has become ‘notorious’ for ‘failing to curb attacks on foreigners working and living in its country, this notion neglects the bigger picture. It is true that South Africa must do more to protect desperate people migrating from their native countries. But the crux of the matter is grounded on why South Africa is a favourite destination for many.

Overall, the South African leaders have failed to deliver on their promise of a peaceful and prosperous South Africa thus migration levels continue to soar as people naively search for greener pastures and security.
As usual the grass looks greener in another area.

South Africans barbaric behaviour rendered apartheid visible, helping to make the world aware of it and to spur resistance. Africa looks at South Africa to solve the plight of often persecuted migrants in South Africa, where they are blamed for social and economic ills.

For some strange reasons the Zimbabweans have become the most targeted migrants in South Africa.

There are many Zimbabweans in South Africa whose stories are told and others whose are obscured? Targets of xenophobia are subjected to the violence of estrangement. Xenos: the stranger, the outsider, the “alien”. To be called xenos, to be made xenos, is to be categorised as illegitimate – to be pushed beyond the bounds, beyond citizenship, beyond moral concern. Many foreigners are called illegal immigrants even if they are well documented.

Many Zimbabweans have been killed simply for being Zimbabweans.
Many people try to blame their country for not lifting a finger in this situation. We do have an embassy in South Africa but the
Embassies are locations in foreign countries where diplomats are based. They help citizens seeking to communicate with their home country and local nationals who wish to travel to the country the embassy represents. We again have a consulate in Cape Town. Consulates are branch offices of an embassy. It is not the duty if an embassy to protect or repatriate nationals. The embassy is open for assistance but we can not blame the embassy for not protecting its nationals. No person abroad is completely immune from unexpected and sometimes unfortunate events. So, if you find yourself in an emergency or life changing event, getting to know your home country’s embassy while abroad in the foreign country can help ease some of your worries. The embassy does not keep a list of its nationals who are in the foreign land it is the duty of an individual to contact his embassy.
On September 9 2019 at
Tsolo Community Hall in Johannesburg’s Katlehong township,around 250 people, were hosted after being displaced by anti-foreigner violence that hit South Africa’s financial capital. This violence did not stop. What we see is institutionalised xenophobic attacks. Violence targeted at foreign nationals and their properties in South Africa has left hundreds of them displaced from their homes. Nearly 200 of them, including children, were housed at the Tsolo community hall, in Katlehong Township in the city of Ekurhuleni east of Johannesburg. The embassy sent its staff to monitor the situation. As long as the host country is acting according to their law the embassy can not interfere in a lawful action of its host.
Where the action is unlawful the embassy can only contact the host and present a complaint and appeal for the law to be followed..
Zimbabweans are struggling to accept that they are now destitute and have to depend on the mercy of well-wishers.
The pain of seeing your child or husband roasting in the flames with cheering South Africans pouring more petrol is not bearable.
The actions of these South Africans is caused by lack of action by their leaders. They come to justify enactments of violence against bodies that are present, that are real, that are living, but do not belong.
A Zimbabwean fights the flames engulfing a shack in Ramaphosa who finally found his voice and condemned the behaviour of the thugs running the Dudula project. Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans have been displaced, their shops looted and burnt down in the weeks of violence that swept the country without a word feom senior official from ANC.
South Africa has experienced brutal cycles of xenophobic violence. These have led to horrific murders, and to displacement of thousands of cross-border migrants, mostly from our own continent, Africa. Worse, they have led to fear and suspicion and terror. They have torn at the cloth of our constitutional inclusiveness, shredding and tattering it.
The most recent wave began in late January There is a resurgence of anti-migrant protests, looting of foreign businesses and assaults: bodies stoned, beaten, burned and killed. Children orphaned women widowed and raped all this os aimed at Zimbabweans. He rejects what he calls lame excuses given by the locals for chasing them away.
Mathew Ncube a Zimbabwean victim of the Xenophobic attacks said “They came to us and they said, we don’t want Zimbabweans here because you cause problems as foreigners. You are committing crimes and taking our women. They said, you took our wives. You took our jobs and you do nothing here.” Ncube feels trapped because he can mot go home now. His business has been destroyed.
Many Zimbabweans are living in fear. Once they see locals gathering in the streets ready to attack those who are Zimbabweans they run leaving behind all they have worked for.
They will observe from a distance as their property is looted. John Banda a Zimbabwean said “the trauma he experienced on the night he escaped the angry residents will haunt him for life.
Another Zimbabwean woman said “I’m a married woman. So, I had to carry my baby, in my hand to run away during the night around two o’clock mid-night because it was just like we are in a war zone.”
Others weren’t able to escape. Gabriel Ziwewera from Zimbabwe was cornered by the locals while trying to run away. He was beaten to a pulp and left for dead with all bones broken. He could only utter one word which came out of the swollen lips bandaged head. He only managed to say WHY? He repeated this several times. “It’s better I rather die in my country than dying in your South Africa country like if I’m crazy. I’m not crazy. I’m not happy the way South Africa is treating us. They are treating us bad. I lost my cars. I lost my shop, even my equipment. I lost everything.” Matemba Kida said.
The South African government has condemned the attacks and vowed to bring them to an end. Few have been arrested. However, for most of these foreign nationals, this is too little too late.
The government is “dragging its feet” over xenophobic attacks and is failing to make it a priority,
In this situation the de ministers should come up with a “coherent strategy” to combat xenophobia. tackling xenophobia should be a “top priority” It is surprising that there is no planning to see what more could be done to eradicate racial and social inequality.
“There are lots of people from Zimbabwe who need supporting and for that reason a coherent xenophobic strategy is a top priority and the South African government must act urgently.
South African government is dragging its feet.
They seek to understand it xenophobia but are they taking action and is this a top priority?
“We can not keep quiet any longer. South African government must take this case seriously.
Zimbabweans must be careful we only live once in this world.
As a nation we will never forget what these thugs are doing. Our country is getting better.

The blood of those being killed for nothing will not dry until it is avenged.

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April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

Why Zimbabwe Voted NO To Expelling Russia from UN

By Patrick Guramatunhu | On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The world has witnessed yet another horror story of death and destruction, the barbarism and inhumanity man.
Last week the United Nations (UN) General Assembly voted on resolution expressing “grave concern at the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine”. The resolution to expel Russia from the UN Human Rights Council and it passed with 93 YES, 24 NO and 58 abstentions. This was the first time ever in the UN’s history that a member nation has been expelled from one of the UN organs.
Some people would have wanted Russia expelled from UN body altogether. This would have required a unanimous YES vote by the Security Council; impossible in this case since Russia is one of the five permanent members who wield a veto.
Zimbabwe was one of the 24 nations that voted NO.
“In his first public comments over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said it (invasion) was a “robust” response by President Vladmir Putin to “provocation” by NATO, a military alliance of 30 countries including the United States and Britain,” commented Zimlive in Bulawayo 24.

“Our activities in the past two months, and going forward, should be understood from that broad, regional, continental and global perspective,” quoting President Mnangagwa.
“Zimbabwe, itself already a victim of western unilateralism, is in the full glare of all these global headwinds. Against NATO’s provocative eastward expansion in Europe, and the Russian Federation’s robust response to that threat of encirclement by NATO, a new situation has arisen which requires that we re-map the world with a view to finding our own place and securing our interests.

“Like in the case of Zimbabwe which has endured more than two decades of illegal sanctions, the conflict raging in Eastern Europe has made many nations realise how powerful nations and global interests still function on old and archaic notions of ‘spheres of influence’, and that they will not hesitate to use unilateral economic coercion to bully independent-minded states unwilling to kowtow to their whims and interests.”
What is Mnangagwa wittering about? It is Russia, not NATO and the West, which is “still functioning on old and archaic notions of spheres of influence”!
The economic and political of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) in 1989 marked the end Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact) as all the countries is Eastern Europe left in droves and abandoned the socialist system of government in favour of the Western Europe democratic system. USSR itself broke up as many groupings/regions demanded independence from Moscow.
Ukraine is one former USSR republics that broke away and has since abandoned socialism in favour of democracy and capitalism. It is the people of Ukraine who have been sorting closer ties with the West, they have already expressed interest in joining the European (economic and political) Union (EU) and then to join NATO (military alliance).
President Putin has objected to Ukraine, an independence and sovereign nation, joining NATO and is the one using brute force, bombing whole cities in Ukraine killing defenceless civilians, women and children.
President Mnangagwa did not condemn the murderous barbarism Russia in inflicting on the people of Ukraine because he got the wrong end of the story. He is supporting President Putin’s contemptuous disregard of rule of law and the freedoms and rights of Ukrainians to decide their own future and even the right to life because Mnangagwa too has no respect for rule of law and the freedoms and rights of others.
Ever since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have waged a war of attrition on the people in their resolve to retain absolute political power at all costs. The regime has murdered over 30 000 Zimbabweans for political gain in its 42 years reign of terror.
“Like in the case of Zimbabwe which has endured more than two decades of illegal sanctions!” The sanctions were imposed on a select few Zanu PF leaders for the regime’s repeated failure to hold free and fair elections and many other human rights violations.
The country is gearing for the 2023 national elections and there is already evidence of blatant vote rigging, of voters being frog marched to attend Zanu PF rallies and of wanton violence including beating and cold-blooded murder of political opponents.
Zanu PF is set to blatantly rig the 2023 elections. And, sadly for the country, the corrupt and incompetent opposition will participate in the flawed and illegal elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
The Western countries have imposed wide ranging economic sanctions of Russia and President Putin. It is time the West upgraded the sanctions imposed on Zanu PF leaders and add the sell-out opposition leaders to the list. The economic and political situation in Zimbabwe has reached crisis point, the nation is desperate for meaningful political change, for free and fair elections.
It is no surprise that Zimbabwe was one of the 24 nation who voted NO to the resolution to expel Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. President Mnangagwa and President Putin have many things in common including their contempt for rule of law, freedom and human rights including the right to life!- zimbabwelight.blogspot.com

April 13, 2022April 12, 2022

About Air Quality

Almost the entire global population (99%) breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits, and threatens their health.

A record number of over 6000 cities in 117 countries are now monitoring air quality, but the people living in them are still breathing unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide, with people in low and middle-income countries suffering the highest exposures.

The findings have prompted the World Health Organization to highlight the importance of curbing fossil fuel use and taking other tangible steps to reduce air pollution levels.

Released in the lead-up to World Health Day, which this year celebrates the theme Our planet, our health, the 2022 update of the World Health Organization’s air quality database introduces, for the first time, ground measurements of annual mean concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a common urban pollutant and precursor of particulate matter and ozone. It also includes measurements of particulate matter with diameters equal or smaller than 10 μm (PM10) or 2.5 μm (PM2.5).

Both groups of pollutants originate mainly from human activities related to fossil fuel combustion.

The new air quality database is the most extensive yet in its coverage of air pollution exposure on the ground.

Some 2,000 more cities/human settlements are now recording ground monitoring data for particulate matter – PM10 and/or PM2.5 – than the last update. This marks an almost 6-fold rise in reporting since the database was launched in 2011.

Meanwhile, the evidence base for the damage air pollution does to the human body has been growing rapidly and points to significant harm caused by even low levels of many air pollutants.

Particulate matter, especially PM2.5, is capable of penetrating deep into the lungs and entering the bloodstream, causing cardiovascular, cerebrovascular (stroke) and respiratory impacts.

There is emerging evidence that particulate matter impacts other organs and causes other diseases as well.

NO2 is associated with respiratory diseases, particularly asthma, leading to respiratory symptoms (such as coughing, wheezing or difficulty breathing), hospital admissions and visits to emergency rooms

WHO last year revised its Air Quality Guidelines, making them more stringent in an effort to help countries better evaluate the healthiness of their own air.

“Current energy concerns highlight the importance of speeding up the transition to cleaner, healthier energy systems,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “High fossil fuel prices, energy security, and the urgency of addressing the twin health challenges of air pollution and climate change, underscore the pressing need to move faster towards a world that is much less dependent on fossil fuels.”

Steps governments can take to improve air quality and health
A number of governments are taking steps to improve air quality, but WHO is calling for a rapid intensification of actions to:

adopt or revise and implement national air quality standards according to the latest

WHO Air Quality Guidelines;
monitor air quality and identify sources of air pollution;
support the transition to exclusive use of clean household energy for cooking, heating and lighting;
build safe and affordable public transport systems and pedestrian- and cycle-friendly networks;
implement stricter vehicle emissions and efficiency standards; and enforce mandatory inspection and maintenance for vehicles;
invest in energy-efficient housing and power generation;
improve industry and municipal waste management;
reduce agricultural waste incineration, forest fires and certain agro-forestry activities (e.g. charcoal production); and
include air pollution in curricula for health professionals and providing tools for the health sector to engage.

WHO’s Air Quality Guidelines

The evidence base for the harm caused by air pollution has been growing rapidly and points to significant harm caused by even low levels of many air pollutants. Last year, the WHO responded by revising its Air Quality Guidelines to reflect the evidence, making them more stringent, especially for PM and NO2, a move strongly supported by the health community, medical associations and patient organizations.

The 2022 database aims to monitor the state of the world’s air and feeds into progress tracking of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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April 13, 2022April 12, 2022

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April 13, 2022April 12, 2022

Man Fatally Stabs Friend Over Woman

Police in Shurugwi have launched a manhunt for one Hardlife Mudzingwa who allegedly fatally stabbed his friend following a misunderstanding over a woman.

Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson in Midlands Province Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko said Mudzingwa stabbed Blessing Mxotshwa who was his friend after he discovered that they were dating the same woman. Said Insp Mahoko:

Zimbabwe Republic Police is investigating a case of murder where a man was stabbed to death over a girlfriend in Shurugwi.

Hardlife Mudzingwa, aged 30, and Blessing Mxotshwa, aged 30, of Village 14 Tokwe 3 Valley, Shurugwi, were friends.

Hardlife, the suspect, in this case, discovered that they were in love with the same woman, aged 24.

Insp Mahoko said on Friday last week at around 7.50 PM, Mudzingwa allegedly visited his girlfriend at her home and she refused to open the door for him. Added Insp Mahoko:

This did not go down well with the suspect who forcibly gained entry, through a broken dining room window, and discovered that she was with Blessing Mxotshwa.

An argument arose between the suspect and Blessing Mxotshwa.

The suspect produced a knife and stabbed Blessing Mxotshwa once in the neck and fled the scene. – H- Metro

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

Chebundo Sells Mnangagwa Dummy

By- Former MDC-T legislator Blessing Chebundo has reportedly lost respect among President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters in Kwekwe after the ZANU PF candidates for Kwekwe Central (John Mapurazi) and Mbizo (Vongai Mupereri) were defeated by CCC candidates in the 26 March by-elections.

Chebundo had promised Mnangagwa that he will use his vast influence in former MDC structures to deliver the two urban seats to ZANU PF.

ZANU PF lost to Settlement Chikwinya (Mbizo) and Judith Tobaiwa (Kwekwe Central) despite Chebundo’s promises to the ruling party. Speaking in an interview before the by-elections, Chebundo said:

Over 1 000 people defected from the opposition to join ZANU PF in Kwekwe. It is because these people had seen that ZANU PF is the only party that is going to take us to Canaan.

There is no way the opposition is going to win Mbizo and Kwekwe, I declare that I am taking Kwekwe Central to its rightful owners, which is ZANU PF.

I have no doubt that ZANU PF has what it takes and has a chance to win both Kwekwe Central and Mbizo.

I am going to work and make sure that we achieve what we target, to have those two seats going back to ZANU PF.

It’s the confidence that is making me say that and also looking at the kind of individuals fielded by the opposition and when I assess them l don’t see that they have the stamina to defeat ZANU PF.

Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya (CCC) said Chebundo has no influence within the opposition party.

He said Chebundo is seeking protection from ZANU PF officials after he broke the law.

More: The NewsHawks

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

Kelly Khumalo Milks Mai TT

By- South African musician Kelly Khumalo has left local comedian and social-lite, Mai TT bankrupt.

Khumalo was invited to perform at Mai TT’s wedding on Saturday and gobbled the larger part of her so-called US$100 000 budget.

Posting on her Facebook page this Tuesday, Mai TT said having Khumalo at her wedding is one of the things she will cherish forever. She wrote:

One of the expensive things at our wedding was bringing Kelly Khumalo here. It was worth it at the end of the day as it was my daughters’ dream just to hug her.

I’m also a huge fan of hers, I fell in love with her on Empini. Dear Kelly, you left us bankrupt, but it’s ok sisi, it was worth it.

Having you grace our wedding is a memory we will cherish. Thank you.

Mai TT also explained why she invited the award-winning South African songtress to perform at her wedding. She said:

We were not just looking for entertainment but we were telling a story through our wedding, that is why we had this powerful vocal goddess on our wedding.

She reasonates with my life in so many ways but still she Rises. One of the strongest woman I know and respect.

More: Pindula News

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

Corrupt Mnangagwa Ally Buys George Shaya A House

By- President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s business front man Kuda Tagwireyi has officially handed over a house to Agnes Shaya, the wife of the late Dynamos football legend George Shaya.

Tangwirei made the promise to give a house to Shaya’s widow in September last year, a month after the death of the football legend.

Tagwirei officially handed over the house in his capacity Sakunda Holdings’ chief executive officer.

He handed over the house to Shaya’s widow Agnes this Tuesday.

The house is located in the gated community of Madokero Estates west of Harare’s central business district.

Sakunda Holdings had asked Agnes to select a house with a value of US$120 000 but she chose the three-bedroomed house worth US$100 000.

She decided to deduct some of the money towards conveyance fees, and water and electricity systems.

Tagwirei said he decided to honour Shaya in appreciation of the part he played in developing football in the country.

He also gave Agnes an open cheque to buy furniture of her choice for the house.

Meanwhile, Sakunda Holdings has also honoured other football legends Moses Chunga (Dynamos) and Madinda Ndlovu (Highlanders).

Chunga and Ndlovu were each given houses worth US$90 000 by the same company.

More: NewsDay

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

Chamisa Promises Honey & Milk After 2023

By- CCC President Nelson Chamisa has promised a good living for all citizens, should he win the next year’s elections.

Posting on his Twitter page Tuesday, Chamisa said he had solutions to the two decades-long economic and social turmoil Zimbabwe is experiencing.

“We are ready! We will deliver Transformation, Dignity, Opportunity & Prosperity. I feel it. I know it and I sense it. A New Great Zimbabwe is loading…Fellow Citizens,#RegisterToVoteZW,” posted Chamisa.

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

Chamisa Launches Special Rural Mobilisation Programme

By- The Nelson Chamisa led CCC has embarked on a nationwide rural mobilisation exercise code-named Mugwazo, as the newly-formed party tries to make inroads in areas considered Zanu PF strongholds.

In an interview with NewsDay on Monday, CCC interim secretary for rural mobilisation, Happymore Chidziva, said senior party leaders have been to Murewa, Mutoko and Uzumba in Mashonaland East Province. Said Chidziva:

We have launched a massive recruitment and mobilisation exercise called Mugwazo. We are meeting ordinary citizens in rural areas.

This is a nationwide programme where we are mobilising people to register to vote and recruiting them to the CCC party.

We are targeting every district in Zimbabwe. Right now, I am in Hwedza together with leaders from Mashonaland East, Charlton Hwende (interim CCC secretary-general) and Murisi Zwizai (Harare Central MP).

We have been distributing fliers. Chamisa has highlighted the need to amplify the CCC rural strategy and stressed that CCC’s major thrust would be to grow the rural vote, with an immediate inundation strategy of rural areas to mobilise youths to register to vote.

ZANU PF thrives on intimidation and instils fear in rural folks. The party has been winning elections through coercion.

We are telling rural folks that their vote is a secret and if they really want their lives to be improved, they should join CCC.

Meanwhile, ZANU PF director for information Tafadzwa Mugwadi said the ruling party is not bothered by what opposition political parties do. Said Mugwadi:

We are not going to lose sleep over what MDC or CCC does. We are the governing party. Our focus is on winning the elections in 2023.

Our focus is to fulfil the promises we made to our people. Our focus is to improve the lives of ordinary people in Zimbabwe.

More: NewsDay

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

40 People Perish In KZN Floods

By- At least 40 people (20) are reported dead and scores are missing following heavy rains and flooding in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province.

This was confirmed by Kwazulu Natal Premier, Sihle Zikalala, this afternoon.

He said police had not yet reached some areas and therefore the number of casualties may rise as the day progresses.

He urged residents to stay indoors and avoid crossing flooded bridges if they need to leave home.

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has forecasted more rainfall for most of Tuesday. SAWS said in a notice:

A Cut-Off Low-pressure system is situated over the eastern parts of the country and a surface low is to the east along the KZN coast, advecting low-level moisture and resulting in scattered showers and rain over the south-eastern parts of KZN tomorrow (today).

Significant amounts of rainfall have already been received in most places along the south coast and more rain is still expected to fall tonight and tomorrow.

The soil is already saturated and some drainage systems are already full, so widespread flooding can be expected to continue tonight into tomorrow over the south-eastern parts of KZN.

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

Bad Weather Crashes Mai TT Chopper

By- The helicopter that crashed after flying comedienne Mai TT, real name Felistas Murata, to her wedding venue in Harare on Saturday, could have been affected by bad weather.

The accident claimed the pilot who has since been identified as Captain Peter Chirimuuta.

The helicopter crashed in Mhondoro while Captain Chirimuuta was flying back to Harare from Kwekwe.

Captain Chirimuuta worked for Chikopokopo Helicopters. He was alone at the time of the incident.

Zivanai Chakwenya, one of the engineers of the helicopter who had worked together in Captain Chirimuuta’s other weekend flights, said the crash could have been caused by bad weather.

The client, which the helicopter had gone to pick up in Kwekwe on the ill-fated return flight, is said to have decided to come to Harare by road. Said Chakwenya:

I am yet to believe the death of my workmate and friend.

The crash could have been caused by bad weather considering that the helicopter crashed away from the intended route.

Flying from Kwekwe could not lead to a crash on the Mhondoro side but bad weather could have forced him to keep the safest route.

We spent the better part of Saturday together when he dropped Mai TT at her wedding held in Chisipite.

From there, we took another client to Macheke, where we had fun with our client.

His trip to Kwekwe is the only one I did not accompany him and, hey, I have been badly affected considering that he was still young and was expecting to join his family in Hwedza for the Easter Holidays.

A Chikopokopo Helicopters official, only identified as Lloyd, told H-Metro that investigations to establish the cause of the crash have commenced. He said:

We are yet to receive information on what exactly happened.

Captain Chirimuuta had gone to pick up our client but the client changed his mind and he returned alone.

The Civil Aviation team and the police have since begun investigating the cause of the crash and details will be released.

Mourners are gathered at Chirimuuta’s home in Glen View 7.

Captain Chirimuuta is survived by his wife and two children.

More: H-Metro

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

Zim Political Environment Remains Hostile To The Opposition

By Josephine Jombe| We are about a year or so away from the 2023 General Election, and there is an atmosphere of hope that we are on the cusp of history being made in Zimbabwe. The recent by-election success for the Citizens Coalition For Change (CCC) led by Nelson Chamisa and the positive response to the ongoing mass campaign to get people to register to vote show that things are moving in the right direction.

However, despite the positivity in the Zimbabwean public, there is hard to ignore evidence that the political environment remains hostile to the opposition. It seems everywhere the CCC goes to campaign, they are faced with intimidation and hostilities from the police and a range of other agent provocateurs.

Madzibaba veShanduko in hospital after being assaulted while in police custody

While campaigning for the by elections, CCC supporters were attacked at a rally in Kwekwe by ZanuPF supporters who came disguised wearing CCC regalia. This attack resulted in the death of Mboneni Ncube, a CCC supporter. It has been reported that at least 37 CCC supporters were arrested just for campaigning for the party.

The CCC party were also banned from campaigning in Marondera and Gokwe. There are numerous other examples of the state using police and faceless agents of chaos taking the law in their hands and attacking CCC supporters dressed in yellow. It seems the colour yellow has become a red rag to a bull for these people.

No matter how pathetic these people are i.e ZRP and the dollar for hire hooligans, they represent an intention by Zanu to make it has hard as possible for the CCC to compete in the election next year; an intention to frustrate CCC supporters and the public at large; an intention to hold on to power.

We as a people need to continue drawing attention to this hostile environment and intimidation of opposition members and supporters.

The eyes of the world need to see this. The political environment is more hostile now than it was going into the 2018 general election.

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

Mapeza Bemoans Dearth Of Quality In Zim Football

Norman Mapeza has bemoaned the diminishing standards of local football and bled club owners for steering the rot.

The FC Platinum coach made the claims after watching his youthful side dispatch Bulawayo City 2-0 in a league match at the weekend.

“I have to be honest, the quality of football has gone down massively,” he was quoted as saying by NewsDay.

“Of course, there are teams that have been winning, but their performances … most teams in the league can’t play three, four or five passes. It’s just two passes, ball forward, two touches and then ball forward.”

Mapeza believes the rot is being caused by club owners who demand immediate results at the expense of quality.

“Maybe the problem is with us coaches as well. Maybe we are too much oriented with the results. Our mentality is much about the results. Maybe club bosses are also demanding results, but do we have an identity as a nation? What type of football do we play in Zimbabwe?”- Soccer24 Zimbabwe

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