President Nelson Chamisa exposes Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa’s lies in Epworth…

Watch video: Chief change champion President Chamisa addresses thousands in Epworth

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has responded to the threats made by President Emmerson Mnangagwa against secessionist movements that are pushing for the creation of a Mthwakazi Republic in Zimbabwe.

Addressing Zanu PF supporters at a campaign rally in Chitungwiza on Wednesday, Mnangagwa warned those pushing for the creation of a breakaway state in southwestern Zimbabwe that their lives will be shortened.

He singled out the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), one of several other pressure groups in the region which share the secessionist agenda of the movement.

Responding to the threats, MRP described Mnangagwa as a criminal who should be hauled before the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN).

The party said on its Twitter page:
The threat to Mthwakazi people’s restoration Movements by Emmerson Mnangagwa in his rally today at Chitungwiza is a travesty of Justice!
He, Mnangagwa is a criminal, not our people. Mthwakazi will be free at last.

The cries of the victims of Gukurahundi for Justice are confusing this president of Zimbabwe. His portion is at The Hague.
People in southwestern Zimbabwe complain of alleged marginalisation which they say include deliberate exclusion from the economic system and lack of equal opportunity in various areas as well unresolved issues around the Gukurahundi killings.- NewsDay/ ZimEye correspondent

President Nelson Chamisa exposes Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa’s lies in Epworth…

Watch video: Chief change champion President Chamisa addresses thousands in Epworth

As part of their commitment to support democratic development and promote credible, transparent, and accountable electoral processes in Zimbabwe, the Election Resource Centre (ERC) and Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) will deploy approximately 400 trained and accredited observers across 28 constituencies to observe the 26 March By-Elections.

ERC and ZESN will use complementary observation methodologies to provide citizens and key stakeholders with accurate, independent, timely, and credible information on the election process.

Further, ERC and ZESN seek to ensure that these elections are transparent, inclusive, and accountable and will observe on a nonpartisan basis for all Zimbabweans.

ERC and ZESN observers were carefully recruited from local communities following strict criteria and adhering to gender balance. These observers underwent a thorough training program on the conduct of the elections, direction on what to observe, and when to report on Election Day.

Additionally, observers signed a code of conduct acknowledging that they were non-partisan.

ZESN and ERC will produce statements, based on the verified reports of observers on the opening and set up of polling places as well as voting, closing and counting procedures.

During the pre-election period ERC and ZESN reported issues of intimidation, violence, and
partisan activities of state and traditional leaders.

Ahead of the 26 March By-Elections, ERC and ZESN call on all key stakeholders, including political parties, security actors, and voters to contribute to respect and uphold the political rights of all individuals which are enshrined in Section 67 of the Constitution including the right to make political choices freely and the right to vote in all elections and to do so in secret on election day.

ERC and ZESN recognise the unique contribution that all electoral stakeholders need to make in order for the 26 March by-elections to be successful and therefore urges the security forces to discharge their duties professionally and political parties to refrain from using language that may incite violence.

The ZEC is urged to administer the electoral day process in a manner that further promotes confidence and trust in the electoral process.

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned chiefs against supporting the opposition, saying traditional leaders must remain loyal to the ruling Zanu-PF party if they want to retain their positions.

He also threatened to sabotage development projects and frustrate service delivery in urban local authorities led by opposition councillors.

Addressing thousands of ruling party supporters in St Mary’s, Chitungwiza, Mnangagwa warned that the party would not hesitate to dethrone chiefs found hobnobbing with opposition officials.

“We liberated the country through war. Some men and women perished. We said we would work with chiefs and when you see a chief supporting the opposition, that chief should do a cleansing ceremony and ask his ancestors why they would have forsaken him,” Mnangagwa said.

The Constitution explicitly bars traditional leaders from dabbling in partisan politics.

Chapter 15 of the Constitution says “traditional leaders must not be members of any political party or in any way participate in partisan politics, act in a partisan manner, further the interests of any political party or cause or violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of any person”.

But Chiefs’ Council president Fortune Charumbira has on several occasions publicly declared his allegiance to Zanu-PF.

Late last year, Chief Charumbira told delegates at a Zanu-PF national conference in Bindura, Mashonaland Central province, that traditional leaders were the “owners and stokeholders of Zanu-PF”.

In December, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga read the riot act to Chief Murinye of Masvingo after the traditional leader warned Mnangagwa that he risked losing the 2023 presidential race if he continued surrounding himself with corrupt lieutenants.

In his address yesterday, Mnangagwa threatened to block development in opposition-led local authorities if the electorate votes for Nelson Chamisa’s Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors.

“If you want the government to listen to your concerns and address them, you will have to send them via channels which we recognise and not through the opposition,” Mnangagwa
said.

“Here is the opportunity to vote for people who submit your concerns to the leaders. You hear the young boy (Chamisa) saying if I win, he will make this country ungovernable. Let us make sure he won’t get into government.”

The opposition has accused Zanu-PF through the Local Government ministry of sabotaging service delivery in urban councils through late approval of budgets.

The ministry has in the past fired opposition councillors and replaced them with Zanu-PF-aligned commissioners.

Mnangagwa also said his government was determined to deregister non-governmental organisations that refused to toe the ruling party line.

The threat came at a time when the Zanu-PF administration has railroaded the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill through Parliament to regulate the operations of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civic, groups and trusts perceived to be anti-government.

According to civic groups, the Bill is a ploy to stop them from exposing misgovernance, corruption and human rights abuses.

“NGOs, which fail to stick to their mandate, I will push them out of the country, we can do without them, we don’t need them,” said Mnangagwa, before warning secessionists that they risked arrest.

“There are some Mthwakazi (members) who say they want Zimbabwe to be divided. They will speak, get old and die. Zimbabwe will remain a unitary State. No leadership in this world encourages its country to be divided. No one will divide it. If you want to do that you will leave shortly. Walk in the right path. We want peace, we want development. This country has its owners and it’s led by its owners. It can’t be led by people who get advice from whites,” he said.

Yesterday’s rally was probably Mnangagwa’s last before the country votes on Saturday to fill 28 parliamentary and 105 local government seats following recalls, deaths and diplomatic postings.

-Newsday

A 39-YEAR-OLD Borrowdale woman who masqueraded as a nurse at Mvurwi hospital and defrauded a money changer of RTGS $205 000 has been arrested.

According to the police Juliet Musa is assisting police with investigations and is set to appear today at Guruve magistrates courts.

“We arrested Musa after she masqueraded as a nurse in Mvurwi on August 15 last year and duped the complainant of his money by requesting him to send money in her CBZ account purporting to be one sister Munetsi of Mvurwi hospital,said the police.

“The complaint complied and went the following day to see sister Munetsi who declined that she had requested him to send money a police report was filed and trasses were made through the bank.

She was only caught last week and it was established that she had dupped a lot of people around the country using the same modus operandi.-Bulawayo24

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned chiefs against supporting the opposition, saying traditional leaders must remain loyal to the ruling Zanu PF party if they want to retain their positions.
He also threatened to sabotage development projects and frustrate service delivery in urban local authorities led by opposition councillors.

Addressing thousands of ruling party supporters in St Mary’s, Chitungwiza, Mnangagwa warned that the party would not hesitate to dethrone chiefs found hobnobbing with opposition officials.

“We liberated the country through war. Some men and women perished. We said we would work with chiefs and when you see a chief supporting the opposition, that chief should do a cleansing ceremony and ask his ancestors why they would have forsaken him,” Mnangagwa said.

The Constitution explicitly bars traditional leaders from dabbling in partisan politics.

Chapter 15 of the Constitution says “traditional leaders must not be members of any political party or in any way participate in partisan politics, act in a partisan manner, further the interests of any political party or cause or violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of any person”.

But Chiefs’ Council president Fortune Charumbira has on several occasions publicly declared his allegiance to Zanu PF.

Late last year, Chief Charumbira told delegates at a Zanu PF national conference in Bindura, Mashonaland Central province, that traditional leaders were the “owners and stokeholders of Zanu PF”.

In December, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga read the riot act to Chief Murinye of Masvingo after the traditional leader warned Mnangagwa that he risked losing the 2023 presidential race if he continued surrounding himself with corrupt lieutenants.

In his address yesterday, Mnangagwa threatened to block development in opposition-led local authorities if the electorate votes for Nelson Chamisa’s Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors.

“If you want the government to listen to your concerns and address them, you will have to send them via channels which we recognise and not through the opposition,” Mnangagwa said.

“Here is the opportunity to vote for people who submit your concerns to the leaders. You hear the young boy (Chamisa) saying if I win, he will make this country ungovernable. Let us make sure he won’t get into government.”

The opposition has accused Zanu PF through the Local Government ministry of sabotaging service delivery in urban councils through late approval of budgets.

The ministry has in the past fired opposition councillors and replaced them with Zanu PF-aligned commissioners.

Mnangagwa also said his government was determined to deregister non-governmental organisations that refused to toe the ruling party line.

The threat came at a time when the Zanu PF administration has railroaded the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill through Parliament to regulate the operations of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civic, groups and trusts perceived to be anti-government.

According to civic groups, the Bill is a ploy to stop them from exposing misgovernance, corruption and human rights abuses.

“NGOs, which fail to stick to their mandate, I will push them out of the country, we can do without them, we don’t need them,” said Mnangagwa, before warning secessionists that they risked arrest.

“There are some Mthwakazi (members) who say they want Zimbabwe to be divided. They will speak, get old and die. Zimbabwe will remain a unitary State. No leadership in this world encourages its country to be divided. No one will divide it. If you want to do that you will leave shortly. Walk in the right path. We want peace, we want development. This country has its owners and it’s led by its owners. It can’t be led by people who get advice from whites,” he said.

Yesterday’s rally was probably Mnangagwa’s last before the country votes on Saturday to fill 28 parliamentary and 105 local government seats following recalls, deaths and diplomatic postings. -Newsday

The ruling ZANU PF will conduct its elective congress in October this year ahead of presidential, parliamentary and local government elections set for 2023.

This was announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is the party’s First Secretary while speaking at the 361st Politburo session on Thursday afternoon. He said:

As we convene at this session, it is also important that we remain alive to the fact that, this is the year our party is holding our elective conferences of the Women and Youth Leagues as well as the party Congress scheduled for October 2022.- State media

Tinashe Sambiri|Zimbabweans are ready to vote for change in the 2023 polls, Citizens’ Coalition For Change leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.

Commenting on the day of fasting and prayer, President Chamisa said Zimbabweans should expect the coming of a New Great Zimbabwe.

“THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN YESTERDAY’S PRAYER & FASTING PROGRAM.

MAY GOD BLESS YOU! It’s a matter of time..In the spirit the NEW is a done deal.

It has happened.The shift has already happened.Can’t wait to see this NEW GREAT ZIMBABWE happen.2023 We’re WINNING!!

It’s a landslide, a whitewash…Ezra 8:21 #CCC,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.

Tinashe Sambiri| A Zimbabwe Electoral Commission( ZEC) officer on Thursday barred Citizens’ Coalition For Change polling agents from attending a training programme in Mwenezi.

The ZEC officer, one Mrs A Moyo, turned away CCC polling agents without giving a satisfactory explanation.

ZEC has been criticized by political observers for fighting in Zanu PF’s corner.

“In Mwenezi at Negari Primary School, a ZEC Presiding Officer, Mrs. A. Moyo, turned away CCC polling agents from a training session and only allowed ZANU-PF polling agents into the training venue,” Team Pachedu said in brief statement.

Tinashe Sambiri|
Gutu-Banker and businessman Gift Gonese is a man with a strong passion for community development.

Gonese has unrolled several community projects in Gutu East Constituency. One such project is the revolving fund scheme – which seeks to empower business people in the constituency with working capital.

Gonese is an aspiring Citizens’ Coalition For Change MP for Gutu East Constituency.

He is working closely with Desire Tichazorwa, who is serving as his special assistant in the constituency.

“The revolving fund concept seeks to empower local businesspeople with working capital. The fund is distributed to business people at a specific system.This means the said businesspeople take turns to receive the funds,” said Gonese.

Tichazorwa said:

“The current programmes seek to popularise CCC and its leader President Nelson Chamisa. We are responding well to President Chamisa’s call for 6 million votes through interface and tangible projects in the communities.”

According to Tichazorwa, CCC will win of all wards in Gutu East.

Gonese was born in 1971 and grew up in Rwodzi Village under Chief Chimombe in Gutu. He attended Gomba Primary School and Chingombe 2 Alheit High School.

He did his tertiary education at the University of Zimbabwe and graduated with a Masters in Business Studies. He is doing a PHD.

He started working as a Banker in 1996, working for First Capital Bank. He owns a successful capital funding company and is running a junior private school.

RESPONSE BY THE ZIMBABWE ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO VARIOUS ALLEGATIONS RAISED ON ISSUES RELATED TO THE 26TH OF MARCH 2022 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND LOCAL AUTHORITY BY-ELECTIONS
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission wishes to respond and to set the record straight on various allegations that have been made against it by certain stakeholders regarding its mandate and other issues related to the 26th of March 2022 National and Local Authority by-elections.

The Commission is concerned that some stakeholders have gone on an overdrive to peddle misinformation and falsehoods in order to scuttle the smooth conduct of the by-election concerned.

Contrary to allegations that have been extensively reported both in some of the print media and the social media the correct state of affairs is as follows:

1. Changing of Party Symbols

The Commission categorically denies changing any symbol of any political party and wishes to advise all stakeholders concerned to dismiss these assertions with the contempt they deserve.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has always printed party symbols and pictures of candidates on ballot papers for elections in black and white.

All candidates have always been treated the same with no exception. This is done to ensure fairness to all and that no candidate is prejudiced or given an unfair advantage over others.

As already stated before, there is no law that obliges the Commission to print ballot papers or party symbols or candidate pictures in colours that correspond to contesting candidates or parties.

In conducting elections, the Commission is guided by a given legal framework and not by logic. The Commission is not averse to any changes in the law that will accommodate their concerns but it would be quick to remind them that they are the responsible parties for the enactment of laws in this country through their representatives in Parliament.

They are therefore encouraged to use the correct channel in so doing and not to allot blame where it should not be simply because certain legal positions do not satisfy their expectations.

Currently, the law only obliges the Commission to distinguish the colour of ballot papers where two elections coincide in line with Section 5 of the Electoral Regulations, 2005, SI 21 of 2005 and this has been the practice all along.

The assertion that ZEC has changed a political party symbol is therefore false and misleading.

2. The Voters Roll
   The voters roll that will be in use during the forthcoming National Assembly and local authority by-elections scheduled for the 26th of March 2022 are those that closed in line with the provisions of Sections 26A and 121A(3) of the Electoral Act [chapter 2:13].

The voters’ rolls for the National Assembly by-elections closed on the 8th of January 2022 in line with the Presidential Proclamation No. 1 of 2022 while the closure for local authorities’ voters rolls varied depending on as and when the vacancies for the respective wards arose in line with the stated provisions.

For the avoidance of doubt and to clear the matter once and for all regarding the issue raised by a certain candidate and which has been extensively discussed on social media, the Commission confirms that she is a registered voter and this has already been communicated to her.

However, the Commission is still awaiting her submission of the voters roll allegedly furnished to her by the Commission wherein her name is missing. Despite numerous requests made to her, nothing has been furnished.

3. Alleged stringent requirements for Polling Agents
   The Commission has indeed received a complaint from a stakeholder that it has received information to the effect that it will be recording names of polling agents for the purposes of contact tracing in the event of COVID-19 cases and that it has barred the bringing of cellphones, pens, notebooks and torch cells in the polling stations by polling agents.

The Commission wishes to place it on record that indeed names of people visiting or deployed at the polling stations will be recorded.

However, such recording will not be restricted to polling agents only but to every person who visits the polling station for whatever reason.

This is to enable contact tracing in the event of any detected cases of COVID-19 pandemic and the Commission has enlisted the help of the Red Cross Society of Zimbabwe and other qualified health personnel to assist in that endeavour.

Further, it is also important for the public to know that all polling officials, visitors, observers and polling agents are always recorded in the protocol register during polls and this has been the practice even prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With regards to the second allegation, the Commission has written back to the stakeholder concerned indicating its ignorance of the source of the instructions it purportedly issued.

The stakeholder concerned has failed to disclose the source of its information and the Commission has also verified with its respective offices which have indicated that no such instructions were ever issued.

The prohibition of the use of cellphones in the actual polling station has always been a standing procedure as this may lead to disruptive activity in the polling station if not controlled.

However, agents or other electoral officials are not prohibited from using their gadgets outside the polling station.

4. Alleged Ballot Box in the hands of ZRP St Peters in Murewa South
   There is also a story doing rounds concerning an alleged ballot box that is now in the hands of the ZRP St Peters in Murewa South. We urge the Zimbabwean public to ignore the story.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission does not use such ballot boxes for election purposes. The country has been using translucent ballot boxes since 2008.

Those who have voted since 2008 are now familiar with the ballot boxes that are being used for purposes of elections in this country. We urge the public not to view the story seriously.

It is critical for stakeholders to disseminate accurate and correct information to their supporters. Collectively, we are all nation builders and it is critical to exercise responsibility in whatever we do.

It is in the national interest for all stakeholders to promote a conducive political environment that will result in peaceful electoral processes.

By Lenin Ndebele

Robert Mugabe Junior is on his way into the party….certainly one faction in the party is dead worried about this. It might get worse one day when Bona throws in her hat.

One thing certain within Zanu PF is that no one is bigger than the party. A friend told me “If you wanna fight against or for Zanu PF as a member or former member, be as close to it as you can be.”
Kasukuwere is busy on the parameter fence, he says one thing today and the other tomorrow. But the one constant is that “he’s plotting a comeback.”

So the Robert Mugabe junior issue must be a cause of concern for the leadership. A man’s father dies in misery after you take away power from him and then think he’s gonna be fine sitting with you on the same table?

This could be one of many things to surprise us before the Zanu PF elective congress at the end of 2023.
Zanu PF is a tricky beast. It’s proven in the past that it goes beyond personalities.

Ndabaningile Sithole the founder was pushed out it survived.
Hebert Chitepo was assassinated in 1975 it lived on.

The late Edgar “Two Boy” Tekere the second and LAST Secretary-General was frustrated left to form ZUM, it lived and he came back in 2006 and was told “You will not exercise your right to be elected to any office in the party for five years. You will be required to uphold all the duties of a member listed in Article 3, Section 18 of the amended Zanu PF constitution” he left again.

At one time Joice Mujuru was a key player in the party, she left and the beat went on.

Emmerson Mnangagwa was fired, nothing stopped the party from evolving, and finally, it went for the head of the Tormentor In Chief Robert Mugabe.

All along, it seemed like Bob was really in charge of his Wailers until a “Peter Tosh” decided to take him out. This led to a big Generation 40 casualty but the G40 chaps too are equally capable and probably as the youngest bloc understand that in history “Zanu evolves” and hence they are still in the game.

Robert Junior’s arrival can be interpreted in many ways from protecting his family wealth to finding his own footing but the most interesting take is what his closeness to power now means for Zanu PF and its factional evolution.

The MDC died with Tsvangirai.

That shows you how much of an institution Zanu PF is despite many leadership coups and twists. CCC should translate their euphoric movement into a strong institution and that will easily make sure Zanu PF is kept away from power for many more years to come.

Tinashe Sambiri| A Zimbabwe Electoral Commission( ZEC) officer on Thursday barred Citizens’ Coalition For Change polling agents from attending a training programme in Mwenezi.

The ZEC officer, one Mrs A Moyo, turned away CCC polling agents without giving a satisfactory explanation.

ZEC has been criticized by political observers for fighting in Zanu PF’s corner.

“In Mwenezi at Negari Primary School, a ZEC Presiding Officer, Mrs. A. Moyo, turned away CCC polling agents from a training session and only allowed ZANU-PF polling agents into the training venue,” Team Pachedu said in brief statement.

Tinashe Sambiri| A Zimbabwe Electoral Commission( ZEC) officer on Thursday barred Citizens’ Coalition For Change polling agents from attending a training programme in Mwenezi.

The ZEC officer, one Mrs A Moyo, turned away CCC polling agents without giving a satisfactory explanation.

ZEC has been criticized by political observers for fighting in Zanu PF’s corner.

“In Mwenezi at Negari Primary School, a ZEC Presiding Officer, Mrs. A. Moyo, turned away CCC polling agents from a training session and only allowed ZANU-PF polling agents into the training venue,” Team Pachedu said in brief statement.

Tinashe Sambiri|
Gutu-Banker and businessman Gift Gonese is a man with a strong passion for community development.

Gonese has unrolled several community projects in Gutu East Constituency. One such project is the revolving fund scheme – which seeks to empower business people in the constituency with working capital.

Gonese is an aspiring Citizens’ Coalition For Change MP for Gutu East Constituency.

He is working closely with Desire Tichazorwa, who is serving as his special assistant in the constituency.

“The revolving fund concept seeks to empower local businesspeople with working capital. The fund is distributed to business people at a specific system.This means the said businesspeople take turns to receive the funds,” said Gonese.

Tichazorwa said:

“The current programmes seek to popularise CCC and its leader President Nelson Chamisa. We are responding well to President Chamisa’s call for 6 million votes through interface and tangible projects in the communities.”

According to Tichazorwa, CCC will win of all wards in Gutu East.

Gonese was born in 1971 and grew up in Rwodzi Village under Chief Chimombe in Gutu. He attended Gomba Primary School and Chingombe 2 Alheit High School.

He did his tertiary education at the University of Zimbabwe and graduated with a Masters in Business Studies. He is doing a PHD.

He started working as a Banker in 1996, working for First Capital Bank. He owns a successful capital funding company and is running a junior private school.

The leading opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Bulawayo province has refused to work with MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe after she offered to rally behind Nelson Chamisa’s candidates in the weekend by-elections and 2023 polls.

Khupe made the announcement at a Press conference in Bulawayo on Monday.

The province said Khupe’s previous association with Zanu PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa made it difficult for them to trust her.

The development is threatening to divide the party, after the CCC national leadership embraced Khupe.

The party leadership also pointed out that the party was new and leadership positions would be decided by citizens.

CCC Bulawayo spokesperson Swithern Chirowodza said “if Zanla freedom fighters did not accommodate Morris Nyathi who was accused of selling out the liberation struggle, why should CCC entertain Khupe?”

On August 9, 1976, Rhodesian Selous Scouts aided by former Zanla commander Nyathi attacked a Zanla camp at Nyadzonia in Mozambique, killing hundreds of Zimbabwean political refugees.

“There is no need for diplomatic talk with an enemy. We will call a spade a spade. Zulu king Tshaka, a victorious military general, taught his warriors never to forgive an injured enemy lest the enemy heals, gathers courage and jumps to slit your throat,” Chirowodza said.

“We are Bulawayo, the headquarters of Matabeleland. We will not accept to be led by a person who run Mnangagwa’s schemes. The ink has not dried on the paper on which she wrote to two senators in the United States pleading with them to lift sanctions. This is the same Mnangagwa who was the State Security minister during the Gukurahundi era.”

“This is the same Mnangagwa who was commander-in-chief of the army (Zimbabwe Defence Forces) that shot and killed six Zimbabweans on August 1, 2018. We will not drink with Khupe. She is political poison,” Chirowodza said.

Khupe said her decision to support Chamisa emanated from talks between the two parties. Recently, she was seen posing for pictures with CCC interim vice-president Welshman Ncube and member Abednico Bhebhe.

In 2018, opposition supporters accused Khupe of dividing the opposition vote, scuttling Chamisa’s chances of winning the presidential elections. She garnered around 45 000 votes.

Her decision to rally behind Chamisa came a few months after she was fired from the MDC Alliance by Douglas Mwonzora where she was vice-president. She then declared herself leader of the MDC-T. – Newsday

Inside the Fourth Chimurenga

*Women Undersiege…

Two Years Of Hell For Chimbiri, Mamombe and Marova*
By Stephen Sarkozy Chuma

Abducted from a police station, tortured, brutally assaulted physically and sexually, dumped at Muchapondwa shops, arrested in hospital beds, sent to Chikurubi Maximum Prison and in and out of court for two years!

That is the tears dropping story of Cecillia Chimbiri, Joana Mamombe and Netsai Marova – the three young female leaders of CCC who have seen all kinds of abuse from Emmerson Mnangagwa’s fascist regime.

Today, the 24th of March 2022, Mamombe and Chimbiri will be back in the dock in Court 14 at Rotten Row Magistrate Courts in Harare for continuation of a strange trial that kicked started on the 15th of March. Yes strange, in the sense that the victims will be standing in the accused’s dock while the perpetrators, the state will be on the witnesses’ stand.

Such is the kind hyena justice inside Mnangagwa’s Second Republic!

Next month will mark exactly 2 years of torture and torment of our brave female cadres since that fateful day when the were abducted from police custody.

They have been nailed by the police! Crucified by state institutions like Potraz, ZBC and The Herald! The loose-mouthed nurse cum government spokesman, Nick Mangwana has already hanged them!

Will the courts hang them too?

The general sentiment among the public is that our courts are captured. The courts therefore have a big decision to make. Either to further drag its image down the mud together with Mnangagwa’s soiled image or repair its tattered image in the court of public opinion.

From the French Revolution to the First Chimurenga, women have always been involved or played a pivotal role in popular protests in removing dictators.

If this horrendous abuse of Chimbiri, Mamombe and Marova can not move you as a citizen, then what will move you?

President Nelson has already set the pace by declaring this year as a year of Citizens Action for Change. Today calls for Citizens Action – fill up Rotten Row’s Court 14 in solidarity with our girls.

DefyOrDie

FillUpTheCourts

VoteCCC

Tinashe Sambiri|
Gutu-Banker and businessman Gift Gonese is a man with a strong passion for community development.

Gonese has unrolled several community projects in Gutu East Constituency. One such project is the revolving fund scheme – which seeks to empower business people in the constituency with working capital.

Gonese is an aspiring Citizens’ Coalition For Change MP for Gutu East Constituency.

He is working closely with Desire Tichazorwa, who is serving as his special assistant in the constituency.

“The revolving fund concept seeks to empower local businesspeople with working capital. The fund is distributed to business people at a specific system.This means the said businesspeople take turns to receive the funds,” said Gonese.

Tichazorwa said:

“The current programmes seek to popularise CCC and its leader President Nelson Chamisa. We are responding well to President Chamisa’s call for 6 million votes through interface and tangible projects in the communities.”

According to Tichazorwa, CCC will win of all wards in Gutu East.

Gonese was born in 1971 and grew up in Rwodzi Village under Chief Chimombe in Gutu. He attended Gomba Primary School and Chingombe 2 Alheit High School.

He did his tertiary education at the University of Zimbabwe and graduated with a Masters in Business Studies. He is doing a PHD.

He started working as a Banker in 1996, working for First Capital Bank. He owns a successful capital funding company and is running a junior private school.

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has bullishly told his supporters that he is winning in 2023 and cannot wait to see the new great Zimbabwe happen.

Posting on Twitter Thursday morning, Chamisa thanked the people who heeded his party call for his prayer and fasting program claiming that in the spiritual realm, the new Zimbabwe is a done deal.

“THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN YESTERDAY’S PRAYER & FASTING PROGRAM. MAY GOD BLESS YOU! It’s a matter of time..In the spirit the NEW is a done deal. It has happened.The shift has already happened.Can’t wait to see this NEW GREAT ZIMBABWE happen.2023 We’re WINNING!!
It’s a landslide, a whitewash…Ezra 8:21 #CCC,” said Chamisa.

The youthful politician called for prayer and fasting ahead of Saturday’s by-elections where his party is contesting in the 28 vacant parliamentary seats and 105 local council slots.

Chamisa has been on a whirlwind touring the country’s 10 provinces holding rallies which were all well attended. He only faced challenges with the police on his Marondera and Gokwe rallies which were not sanctioned by the police despite a High Court order not to interfere.

By A Correspondent| Emelda Karenga sits on the doorstep of her makeshift house pondering her next move.

She is sombrely thinking about the uncertainty and calamity that is about to befall.

“I don’t know what to do. I have four children and I don’t know where to go with them,” she said wetting her eyes, adding that “this has been my home for the last sixteen years.

Just a stone throw away, Jasper Mugoni is tendering his maize field.

“This could be my last year farming in this field. Actually, this might be my last crop,” he said with resignation written all over his furrowed face.

Karenga and Mugoni are just two of several families that are going to be evicted after High Court ruled that they have illegally settled on a land belonging to Pfugari Properties in Whitecliff.

The Zimbabwe government had promised to compensate the property developer but reneged on its promise.
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga promised Whitecliff Residents that no one was going to be evicted while campaigning in 2018.

“We are in talks with the private land owner and no one is going to be evicted,” Chiwenga said amid applause at a rally in 2018.

However, talks have stalled and Pfugari Properties have activated the writ of execution.

Councillor Luckson Maronga pleaded with government to compensate the land developer.

“As local leadership, we can not blame Pfugari because it’s their land. There is no land for free in Zimbabwe.

“Government is the one that settled people here and should compensate Pfugari,” he said.

The evictions and probably demolitions comes at a time people have already built properties; they want to safeguard their assets.

RESPONSE BY THE ZIMBABWE ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO VARIOUS ALLEGATIONS RAISED ON ISSUES RELATED TO THE 26TH OF MARCH 2022 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND LOCAL AUTHORITY BY-ELECTIONS
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission wishes to respond and to set the record straight on various allegations that have been made against it by certain stakeholders regarding its mandate and other issues related to the 26th of March 2022 National and Local Authority by-elections.

The Commission is concerned that some stakeholders have gone on an overdrive to peddle misinformation and falsehoods in order to scuttle the smooth conduct of the by-election concerned.

Contrary to allegations that have been extensively reported both in some of the print media and the social media the correct state of affairs is as follows:

1. Changing of Party Symbols

The Commission categorically denies changing any symbol of any political party and wishes to advise all stakeholders concerned to dismiss these assertions with the contempt they deserve.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has always printed party symbols and pictures of candidates on ballot papers for elections in black and white.

All candidates have always been treated the same with no exception. This is done to ensure fairness to all and that no candidate is prejudiced or given an unfair advantage over others.

As already stated before, there is no law that obliges the Commission to print ballot papers or party symbols or candidate pictures in colours that correspond to contesting candidates or parties.

In conducting elections, the Commission is guided by a given legal framework and not by logic. The Commission is not averse to any changes in the law that will accommodate their concerns but it would be quick to remind them that they are the responsible parties for the enactment of laws in this country through their representatives in Parliament.

They are therefore encouraged to use the correct channel in so doing and not to allot blame where it should not be simply because certain legal positions do not satisfy their expectations.

Currently, the law only obliges the Commission to distinguish the colour of ballot papers where two elections coincide in line with Section 5 of the Electoral Regulations, 2005, SI 21 of 2005 and this has been the practice all along.

The assertion that ZEC has changed a political party symbol is therefore false and misleading.

2. The Voters Roll
   The voters roll that will be in use during the forthcoming National Assembly and local authority by-elections scheduled for the 26th of March 2022 are those that closed in line with the provisions of Sections 26A and 121A(3) of the Electoral Act [chapter 2:13].

The voters’ rolls for the National Assembly by-elections closed on the 8th of January 2022 in line with the Presidential Proclamation No. 1 of 2022 while the closure for local authorities’ voters rolls varied depending on as and when the vacancies for the respective wards arose in line with the stated provisions.

For the avoidance of doubt and to clear the matter once and for all regarding the issue raised by a certain candidate and which has been extensively discussed on social media, the Commission confirms that she is a registered voter and this has already been communicated to her.

However, the Commission is still awaiting her submission of the voters roll allegedly furnished to her by the Commission wherein her name is missing. Despite numerous requests made to her, nothing has been furnished.

3. Alleged stringent requirements for Polling Agents
   The Commission has indeed received a complaint from a stakeholder that it has received information to the effect that it will be recording names of polling agents for the purposes of contact tracing in the event of COVID-19 cases and that it has barred the bringing of cellphones, pens, notebooks and torch cells in the polling stations by polling agents.

The Commission wishes to place it on record that indeed names of people visiting or deployed at the polling stations will be recorded.

However, such recording will not be restricted to polling agents only but to every person who visits the polling station for whatever reason.

This is to enable contact tracing in the event of any detected cases of COVID-19 pandemic and the Commission has enlisted the help of the Red Cross Society of Zimbabwe and other qualified health personnel to assist in that endeavour.

Further, it is also important for the public to know that all polling officials, visitors, observers and polling agents are always recorded in the protocol register during polls and this has been the practice even prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With regards to the second allegation, the Commission has written back to the stakeholder concerned indicating its ignorance of the source of the instructions it purportedly issued.

The stakeholder concerned has failed to disclose the source of its information and the Commission has also verified with its respective offices which have indicated that no such instructions were ever issued.

The prohibition of the use of cellphones in the actual polling station has always been a standing procedure as this may lead to disruptive activity in the polling station if not controlled.

However, agents or other electoral officials are not prohibited from using their gadgets outside the polling station.

4. Alleged Ballot Box in the hands of ZRP St Peters in Murewa South
   There is also a story doing rounds concerning an alleged ballot box that is now in the hands of the ZRP St Peters in Murewa South. We urge the Zimbabwean public to ignore the story.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission does not use such ballot boxes for election purposes. The country has been using translucent ballot boxes since 2008.

Those who have voted since 2008 are now familiar with the ballot boxes that are being used for purposes of elections in this country. We urge the public not to view the story seriously.

It is critical for stakeholders to disseminate accurate and correct information to their supporters. Collectively, we are all nation builders and it is critical to exercise responsibility in whatever we do.

It is in the national interest for all stakeholders to promote a conducive political environment that will result in peaceful electoral processes.

RESPONSE BY THE ZIMBABWE ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO VARIOUS ALLEGATIONS RAISED ON ISSUES RELATED TO THE 26TH OF MARCH 2022 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND LOCAL AUTHORITY BY-ELECTIONS
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission wishes to respond and to set the record straight on various allegations that have been made against it by certain stakeholders regarding its mandate and other issues related to the 26th of March 2022 National and Local Authority by-elections.

The Commission is concerned that some stakeholders have gone on an overdrive to peddle misinformation and falsehoods in order to scuttle the smooth conduct of the by-election concerned.

Contrary to allegations that have been extensively reported both in some of the print media and the social media the correct state of affairs is as follows:

1. Changing of Party Symbols

The Commission categorically denies changing any symbol of any political party and wishes to advise all stakeholders concerned to dismiss these assertions with the contempt they deserve.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has always printed party symbols and pictures of candidates on ballot papers for elections in black and white.

All candidates have always been treated the same with no exception. This is done to ensure fairness to all and that no candidate is prejudiced or given an unfair advantage over others.

As already stated before, there is no law that obliges the Commission to print ballot papers or party symbols or candidate pictures in colours that correspond to contesting candidates or parties.

In conducting elections, the Commission is guided by a given legal framework and not by logic. The Commission is not averse to any changes in the law that will accommodate their concerns but it would be quick to remind them that they are the responsible parties for the enactment of laws in this country through their representatives in Parliament.

They are therefore encouraged to use the correct channel in so doing and not to allot blame where it should not be simply because certain legal positions do not satisfy their expectations.

Currently, the law only obliges the Commission to distinguish the colour of ballot papers where two elections coincide in line with Section 5 of the Electoral Regulations, 2005, SI 21 of 2005 and this has been the practice all along.

The assertion that ZEC has changed a political party symbol is therefore false and misleading.

2. The Voters Roll
   The voters roll that will be in use during the forthcoming National Assembly and local authority by-elections scheduled for the 26th of March 2022 are those that closed in line with the provisions of Sections 26A and 121A(3) of the Electoral Act [chapter 2:13].

The voters’ rolls for the National Assembly by-elections closed on the 8th of January 2022 in line with the Presidential Proclamation No. 1 of 2022 while the closure for local authorities’ voters rolls varied depending on as and when the vacancies for the respective wards arose in line with the stated provisions.

For the avoidance of doubt and to clear the matter once and for all regarding the issue raised by a certain candidate and which has been extensively discussed on social media, the Commission confirms that she is a registered voter and this has already been communicated to her.

However, the Commission is still awaiting her submission of the voters roll allegedly furnished to her by the Commission wherein her name is missing. Despite numerous requests made to her, nothing has been furnished.

3. Alleged stringent requirements for Polling Agents
   The Commission has indeed received a complaint from a stakeholder that it has received information to the effect that it will be recording names of polling agents for the purposes of contact tracing in the event of COVID-19 cases and that it has barred the bringing of cellphones, pens, notebooks and torch cells in the polling stations by polling agents.

The Commission wishes to place it on record that indeed names of people visiting or deployed at the polling stations will be recorded.

However, such recording will not be restricted to polling agents only but to every person who visits the polling station for whatever reason.

This is to enable contact tracing in the event of any detected cases of COVID-19 pandemic and the Commission has enlisted the help of the Red Cross Society of Zimbabwe and other qualified health personnel to assist in that endeavour.

Further, it is also important for the public to know that all polling officials, visitors, observers and polling agents are always recorded in the protocol register during polls and this has been the practice even prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With regards to the second allegation, the Commission has written back to the stakeholder concerned indicating its ignorance of the source of the instructions it purportedly issued.

The stakeholder concerned has failed to disclose the source of its information and the Commission has also verified with its respective offices which have indicated that no such instructions were ever issued.

The prohibition of the use of cellphones in the actual polling station has always been a standing procedure as this may lead to disruptive activity in the polling station if not controlled.

However, agents or other electoral officials are not prohibited from using their gadgets outside the polling station.

4. Alleged Ballot Box in the hands of ZRP St Peters in Murewa South
   There is also a story doing rounds concerning an alleged ballot box that is now in the hands of the ZRP St Peters in Murewa South. We urge the Zimbabwean public to ignore the story.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission does not use such ballot boxes for election purposes. The country has been using translucent ballot boxes since 2008.

Those who have voted since 2008 are now familiar with the ballot boxes that are being used for purposes of elections in this country. We urge the public not to view the story seriously.

It is critical for stakeholders to disseminate accurate and correct information to their supporters. Collectively, we are all nation builders and it is critical to exercise responsibility in whatever we do.

It is in the national interest for all stakeholders to promote a conducive political environment that will result in peaceful electoral processes.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has dismissed misleading allegations circulating on social media platforms relating to ballot papers, voters roll and perceived stringent requirements for polling agents.

In a statement yesterday, Zec said the allegations were not only false but malicious as they have an effect of disturbing the smooth running of the by-elections set for this Saturday.

“The Commission is concerned that some stakeholders have gone on an overdrive to peddle misinformation and falsehoods in order to scuttle the smooth conduct of the by-election concerned.

Zec categorically denies changing any symbol of any political party and wishes to advise all stakeholders concerned to dismiss these assertions with the contempt they deserve,” said Zec..

It said it has always printed party symbols and pictures of candidates on ballot papers for elections in black and white and all candidates have always been treated the same with no exception.

“This is done to ensure fairness to all and that no candidate is prejudiced or given an unfair advantage over others,” said Zec.

The electoral body said there is no law that obliges the Commission to print ballot papers or party symbols or candidate pictures in colour that correspond to contesting candidates or parties.

“In conducting elections, the Commission is guided by a given legal framework and not by logic.

The Commission is not averse to any changes in the law that will accommodate their concerns but it would be quick to remind them that they are the responsible parties for the enactment of laws in this country through their representatives in Parliament,” said Zec.

Regarding the voter’s roll, the Commission said the documents to be used on Saturday polls are in line with the Presidential Proclamation No. 1 of 2022 while the closure for local authorities’ voters rolls varied depending on as and when the vacancies for the respective wards arose in line with the stated provisions.

“The Commission has indeed received a complaint from a stakeholder that it has received information to the effect that it will be recording names of polling agents for the purposes of contact tracing in the event of Covid-19 cases and that it has barred the bringing of cellphones, pens, note books and torch cells in the polling stations by polling agents,” read the statement

Zec said it wishes to place it on record that indeed names of people visiting or deployed at the polling stations will be recorded.

“However, such recording will not be restricted to polling agents only but to every person who visits the polling station for whatever reason.

This is to enable contact tracing in the event of any detected cases of Covid-19 pandemic and the Commission has enlisted the help of Red Cross Society of Zimbabwe and other qualified health personnel to assist in that endeavour,” it said.

Zec said it was important for the public to know that all polling officials, visitors, observers and polling agents are always recorded in the protocol register during polls and this has been the practice even prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The prohibition of use of cellphones in the actual polling station has always been a standing procedure as this may lead to disruptive activity in the polling station if not controlled.

However, agents or other electoral officials are not prohibited from using their gadgets outside the polling station.”

Zec also set the record straight regarding an alleged ballot box in the hands of ZRP St Peter’s in Murewa South saying the Commission does not use such ballot boxes for election purposes.

“The country has been using translucent ballot boxes since 2008.

Those who have voted since 2008 are now familiar with the ballot boxes that are being used for purposes of elections in this country.

We urge the public not to view the story seriously.

It is critical for stakeholders to disseminate accurate and correct information to their supporters,” it said.

Zec also called on all stakeholders to promote a conducive political environment that will result in peaceful electoral processes. -Chronicle

SERIAL fraudster Henessy Dube has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, wholly suspended on condition he performs 210 hours of community service at the Western Commonage Magistrates’ Court.
Dube (40) of Entumbane allegedly masqueraded as a top Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer and close protection for President Mnangagwa before duping Ingwebu Breweries of 375 litres of fuel and $1 200.

He was alleged to have met Ingwebu Breweries managing director Mr Dumisani Mhlanga and allegedly produced a fake CIO identity card before identifying himself as a director of operations in the CIO.

He then offered to assist the company recover money from its debtors purportedly using his influence by virtue of being in the President’s Office.

Dube was, however, acquitted of impersonating a public officer and convicted for theft, fraud and making a false statement to deceive a registration officer in violation of Section 10 (1) (b) of the National Registration Act by

Bulawayo magistrate Mr Shepherd Mjanja.

In acquitting Dube of the charge of masquerading as a CIO officer, Mr Mjanja said no tangible evidence was presented before the court by the President’s Department disowning him.

On the second count of fraud, Dube was fined $14 000 or 13 months in jail. He was given up to April 8, 2022, to pay the money.

On the third count of violation of Section 10 (1) (b) of the National Registration Act, Dube was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, of which four months were suspended for three years on condition that he does not commit a similar offence within this period.

A further four months were suspended on condition that Dube restituted $19 524,24 through the clerk of court by April 8, 2022.

The remaining 10 months were suspended on condition that he performs 350 hours of community service.

Prosecuting, Mr Milton Moyo said sometime at the beginning of May 2019 during the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair, Dube hatched a plan and went to Ingwebu Breweries head office in Bulawayo intending to see management.

During that time, Ingwebu Breweries was facing operational challenges, some of which emanated from a failure by its debtors to honour their commitments.

“The accused person approached the company’s managing director Dumisani Mhlanga and introduced himself as the director of operations at the CIO based in Harare.

He told Mhlanga that he was in Bulawayo as part of a team of President Mnangagwa’s close security aides during the ZITF period,” Mr Moyo said.

He said Dube produced a fake CIO identity card bearing the names Majaha Julian Dube.

“The accused person indicated to the Ingwebu Breweries managing director that he had picked information pertaining to the ill-treatment of workers and war veterans by management, including the impending retrenchment of workers,” said Mr Moyo.

The court heard that Dube told Mr Mhlanga that the President was not amused and due to his misrepresentation, Mr Mhlanga was convinced and he briefed Dube on the goings on at the company, with the accused person promising to render assistance.

A few days later, Dube returned to Ingwebu Breweries and offered to use his authority to pressurise the company’s debtors, which included companies contracted on beerhall franchise, to pay their debts and management agreed.

Some debtors reportedly paid up after Dube’s intervention.

Mr Moyo said Dube further pressurised management at Ingwebu Breweries to employ his friends under the guise that they were students on attachment from the CIO.

Their contracts were signed by management and they were given tasks to spy within the company’s various departments.

It was later established that the accused person was not employed by the CIO and due to his misrepresentation, Dube benefited in the form of 375 litres of fuel allocation and $1 200 among other undisclosed benefits.

It also emerged in court that on December 7, 2012, Dube acquired a national identity card under the names Henessy Dube NR 08-682325-J-53 bearing his portrait.

On June 3, 2017, Dube allegedly took another identity card NR 08-719040-R-53 with his picture, but under the names Majaha Julian Dube.

“Checks with Registrar-General’s Office showed that the names Majaha Julian Dube and all the particulars, including the portrait belonged to his brother who is now based in South Africa and suspected to have acquired citizenship of that country,” said Mr Moyo.

He said armed with his brother’s identity card and his academic certificates, Dube applied for a teaching post in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education.

He was subsequently employed as a teacher and deployed in Tsholotsho in Matabeleland North under EC Number 5710690W.

He, however, unceremoniously breached the contract and absconded. Chronicle

Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa has challenged ZEC to execute its duties objectively.

The CCC leader said ZEC should be objective, transparent and accountable.

” ZEC,ZEC,ZEC …you are a referee not a wing of any political party. Why can’t you just do business the correctly? Be transparent, accountable, professional, independent, constitutional and honourable. Let the voice, vote and will of the Citizens count and matter. Don’t force us as Citizens to demand your disbandment! And we have that power,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.

He also took a swipe at Zanu PF for forcing citizens to attend Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rallies.

“I don’t understand some political parties and politicians.. how do you bus or ZUPCO people from rural areas including as far as Rusape, Murehwa and even Gokwe to attend and address them in St Marys, Chitungwiza??”

Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa has challenged ZEC to execute its duties objectively.

The CCC leader said ZEC should be objective, transparent and accountable.

” ZEC,ZEC,ZEC …you are a referee not a wing of any political party. Why can’t you just do business the correctly? Be transparent, accountable, professional, independent, constitutional and honourable. Let the voice, vote and will of the Citizens count and matter. Don’t force us as Citizens to demand your disbandment! And we have that power,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.

He also took a swipe at Zanu PF for forcing citizens to attend Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rallies.

“I don’t understand some political parties and politicians.. how do you bus or ZUPCO people from rural areas including as far as Rusape, Murehwa and even Gokwe to attend and address them in St Marys, Chitungwiza??”

Public officials urged community members, especially the youth to desist from political and electoral violence.

Speaking during the conflict management and peace building awareness campaigns held by the Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development (COTRAD) in Masvingo province, traditional leaders, elected officials and COTRAD peace committee members’ expressed grave concerns over the resurgence of politically motivated human rights violations mainly perpetrated by the youth.

The Zaka district ward 19, councillor and COTRAD peace committee member Mr. Imbayarwo implored the youth to resist manipulation by politicians in furthering their party interests through intimidating, harassing and beating their political opponents.

He added that, the politicians themselves do not risk themselves by engaging in direct political violence activities but employ the youth to secure their political power through violence. Therefore, he argued that, if the youth desist from political violence automatically there will be a conducive environment for peaceful elections since the elderly politicians are not energetic to partake in violence activities.

Councillor Imbayarwo added that, the public officials should also cease to sponsor political violence but should ensure and strengthen social cohesion. He calls upon all public officials to serve their communities impartially, ensure fair distribution of aid and facilitate the execution of government programs in a nonpartisan way.

It is everyone’s responsibility to guard against the disease of violence so that Zimbabwe remains a peaceful country. COTRAD calls on the youth to abstain from all forms of political violence, encouraged them to peacefully mobilize community members to register to vote. COTRAD also urged the political party members to mobilize their support in a peaceful manner.

Section 67 of the constitution is clear that every citizen has the right join and participates in the activities of a political party of their choice and campaign freely for a political party or cause.
The general principles of the electoral code of conduct for political parties and candidates encourages all political parties and candidates and their supporters to promote democratic tolerance in which political activities take place without fear of intimidation or reprisals. political parties and their members and supporters must accept that others have the right to present their political principles and ideas in a peaceful environment without intimidation or fear of reprisal, and must respect that right.

COTRAD is currently embarking on peace building activities through community working together (Nhimbe) and peace sports tournaments in the province to spread the gospel of peace.- COTRAD Information

BACK TO FIGHT AHEAD: MADZIBABA GRANTED BAIL.
Our Citizens’ leader Madzibaba has been granted bail.
He was represented by Daug Coltart, we thank Zimbabweans for standing shoulder to shoulder in this fight for a democratic society. Solidarity is what keeps us going, together we are one.
Thank you!!!!