By Simba Chikanza | Another Zimbabwean teacher has been investigated after assaulting a male student at St Benedict’s High School in Mash East.

“Tapotsa taurayirwa mwana at this school,” the abused lad’s father tells ZimEye. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=314&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FZimEye%2Fvideos%2F569131027537087%2F&show_text=false&width=560&t=0

The teacher, a Mr Manjoro, has to date been recorded apologising over the abuse.

As ZimEye interviews the teacher, on Sunday morning, below is the father’s unedited report authored in Shona:

Zimbabwean teachers vajaira kurova vana zvisina tsarukano. The child in question is my son in Form 6. The headmaster, senior teacher and another teacher came into their dormitory at night android found some students using laptops & cellphones; my son is a prefect, but at that time he was already fast asleep. Laptop computers are allowed at the school for Form 6 students, but they are not allowed in the dorms. The senior teacher beat my son by hands, choking his throat and threw him onto the bed, thereby hitting by neck on the metal base of the bed.

They searched him and found out that he had no cellphone or laptop. His fault was that he is prefect. They were saying he should have reported the use of the electronic devices. How could he do that; he was sleeping? To make matters worse, the school didn’t notify me or the mother of this incident from that Wednesday, 13/10/2021 till Saturday, 16/10/2021 nor did they take the boy for medical attention. I only came to know about the case on Saturday through other people who have links at the school. I had to phone the school and that’s when they started to apologise to me. The boy was only taken for medical attention after I asked them why they haven’t taken him for medical examination. I know children can be mischievous and may need to be spanked on their backs, hands or legs by a sjambok. Using open hands or fists is unacceptable. In this incident, many other children were also beaten.

Remembering Leonard Dembo : @ 25 years in Death but entertaining the living

…. as Dembo family invites the nation for a tombstone unveiling on 23 October 2021

By Dr Tinashe Gumbo

The 9th of April 2021 marked 25 years after the demise of one of Zimbabwe’s finest and most influential music artists, Leonard Tazvivinga a.k.a Leonard Musorowenyoka Dembomavara who was called to be with our Lord on the same day in 1996. Leonard Dembo has remained a household name in Zimbabwe and beyond because of his music. His music continues to entertain, comfort, encourage and influence the people of all ages on economic, social and cultural issues.

For me, Dembo is in the rare class of the likes of Karl Marx, Karl Polanyi, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Steve Biko, James Kone and other philosophers whose philosophies and ideologies have continued to influence our economic, political, and social lives. You will underrate Dembo’s message at your own peril! Dembo music speaks to the heart, spirit, mind and flesh!

He was 37 years old when he died in 1996. To his multitude of fans, Dembo remains a source of inspiration for them. In my previous pieces on Leonard Dembo, I have already argued that music is a fundamental channel of communication: it provides a means by which people can share emotions, intentions, and meanings. Thus, Leonard’s music has continued to communicate key messages to people of all ages beyond his fans. His message was deep but full of advice to the audience. I continue to be in deep conversation with Dembo through his music. At times my wife Angela does not understand me when I enter my room, play a single Dembo song for the whole day, trying to make sense of what he is communicating. I have deep passion for Dembo music and I will not rest until I fully understand his history and philosophy. Let me not divert you reader from the focus of this piece, which is about remembering our hero, on 23 October 2021.

The Dembo family has planned to formally remember one of its greatest members. Indeed, Leonard put the family name on the international forum. This noble idea has received maximum support from the entire Barura Express family. Leonard’s children and the entire Dembo family have done so well as this event will consolidate all the Dembo networks. We should all emerge from Chaka more coordinated and motivated to do more to cultivate the Dembo legacy.

I have been following with keen interest the preparations for the tombstone unveiling for our music hero and have been motivated further to remain focused on Dembo legacy. The death of Mbuya Dembo and Leonard’s mother in law (Eunice’s Mother) within a month was a major setback to the preparations for this great event. Surely, it would have been good to have these two ladies present during this upcoming moment of remembrance of our hero-their son and son in law respectively (May their souls rest in peace).

Here we are Reader-on 23 October 2021, the Dembo fans will join the late musician’s family in remembering Leonard’s life formally. The event will be held at his rural home at Chaka Centre in Chirumanzu in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. This is a great moment for the Barura and Dembo families.

While Leonard belonged to the Dembo family as a husband to Eunice and a father to Morgen, Tendai and Fenny, he became a national and international figure in the music industry. One cannot attempt to monopolise Leonard and succeed. His influence lives on in the unending consequences that flow from his life and character. The Barura Express family members now feel strongly attached to this figure and this explains their continued call to authorities to consider awarding him some official hero status. Of course, that will just be an official move, as the Dembo fans themselves have already awarded him such because of his heroic life in the music industry.

The Chaka event will be punctuated with the official unveiling of Leonard’s tombstone, songs and dance as well as reflection sessions on the life, philosophy and message of the man who has been described by his fans as their hero. Indeed, for me personally, Dembo is my hero hence, I will do all in my capacity to support his philosophy and ideology which he expressed through his music.

When Leonard passed on, we surely felt that his death was premature. He left us when we thought he was at his best. As the Barura Express family, we were shocked and we felt exposed then. We struggled to accept this reality that he had gone but there was nothing we could do. Thus, 25 years later, we gather at Chaka, not to mourn, but to celebrate our Hero’s well lived life. This calls for everyone who has an attachment with Dembo, to join us as we commemorate 25 years of the passing on of our Music Icon.

Supporting this event comes in various ways. Physical attendance will be a strong message that one is part and parcel of the Barura Express family. However, I know that we cannot all be there in person due to other commitments of life beyond our control. Thus, a single cent will make a difference-I will share the official contacts of the Event Organisers (Nicolas and January) who will advise on how we can channel our support towards the event. Kindly note that ONLY these two are the official organisers of our event.

The Dembo fans will be reminded of the Barura Express hits during the event. The list here only applies to the Barura Express projects where earlier songs with the Outsiders are not accounted for here: “Amai Nevana Vavo “ (1984) (this can only be confirmed once the birth day of the group Barura Express itself is ascertained),“Nhamo Moto” (1986), “Kuziva Mbuya Huudzwa” (1987), “Sharai” (1987), “Kukura Kwedu” (1988), “Ruva Rashe” (1989), “Kukura Hakutani” (1990, which was a 12-inch disc-we called it an LP for long play), “Chitekete” (1991), “Tinokumbira Kurarama/Madhiri” (1992), “Mazano” (1993), “Kutinya Marimba” (1993), “Nzungu Ndamenya” (1994),“Pawpaw” (1994), “Shiri Yakangwara” (1995) and “Babamunini” (1996).

23October2021KWACHAKA !

DemboOurHero !

For more information about the Tombstone Unveiling event kindly contact our Organisers on Nicolas : +263 773424685 or January : +263 732492942

For any feedback about this article ( NOT about the unveiling of the tommstone) and any other information about Dembo, contact me on Email: [email protected] or WhatsApp or Call: +263773 218 860 or follow me on @DrTinasheGumbo1

Chivhu – A man has been arrested and is being charged with murder after he struck and killed his friend with an iron bar following a misunderstanding over a woman that they were both allegedly in love with.

The incident happened at a bottle store in Beatrice last Monday.

Watmore Chikweye (22) of Chaitemura Street, Zengeza 1 Chitungwiza hit Daveen Chisepete (24) of 1917 Beatrice location with an iron bar several times on the chest and Chisepete died on the spot.

Mash East Police spokesperson Inspector Felix Chazovachii confirmed the case to The Mirror.

Sources said that the two were having a beer drink at a bottle store in Beatrice when they had a misunderstanding over Sibongile Muzanga whom they both were in love with.

They started fighting and Chikweye picked up an iron bar and struck Chisepete several times on the chest. The accused tried to flee from the scene but was apprehended by members of the public who handed him over ZRP Beatrice. Chisepete’s body was taken to Chitungwiza Mortuary for postmortem.- The Mirror

HEALTH professionals yesterday scoffed at government’s offer to stop mass resignations through the provision of non-monetary incentives such as WiFi and loans, saying their employer was focusing on trivialities which will not solve the brain drain problem dedevilling the health sector.

On Tuesday, during a post-Cabinet briefing, government said the country was experiencing massive brain drain in the health sector and would offer non-monetary incentives to abate the situation.

Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said an inter-ministerial committee identified measures to accelerate provision of non-monetary incentives such as staff accommodation, transport, vehicle loans, provision of meals and WiFi facilities.

Zimbabwe Senior Doctors Association president Shingai Nyaguse accused government of ignoring the salary issue, which he said was the real problem which was causing the brain drain.

“We remain concerned with suggestions that WiFi and canteens are incentives that will resolve the ongoing challenges,” Nyaguse tweeted on Thursday.

“The employer has been ignoring the elephants in the room, which includes issues of fair and commensurate remuneration, an enabling, conducive working environment and medical insurance for healthcare workers. The lack of consultative dialogue is glaring.”

Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enoch Dongo said: “It’s the employer’s responsibility to give Wi-Fi and canteen at workplaces as a courtesy, not allowance or incentive.

“The government offer was not supposed to be publicised since it’s their responsibly to do that. It is obvious the so-called incentive will not stop nurses from going outside the country whatsoever.”

Dongo said what health professionals want is a living wage and improvement of the working environment.

“Nurses do not take their children to school through WiFi or getting sadza at work,” Dongo said.

Doctors and nurses have gone on strike on several occasions since 2017 to pressure government to review their salaries, but their employer has been employing military tactics to force them back to work.- NewsDay

By A Correspondent- Zvimba East Member of Parliament, Tawanda Tungamirai punched and verbally assaulted a fellow Zanu PF youth member Saturday just before the party’s decisive meeting to pass a resolution to hold district elections.

The incident occurred at Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) grounds as party members converged for a provincial coordinating committee (PCC) meeting to give the green light to the conduct of polls, which had been put on ice to pave way for the completion of a restructuring exercise.
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Tungamirai assaulted Wonder Hutepasi from Banket in Zvimba South for allegedly denigrating him on social media, including a party WhatsApp group.

Tungamirai is the son of late national hero and former Air Force of Zimbabwe Air Chief Marshal Josiah Tungamirai.

This journalist witnessed the drama unfold as the temperamental lawmaker emerged from his Toyota Fortuner and confronted Hutepasi threatening to beat him up or hire thugs to “finish you off.”

The MP used vul_gar language as he unleashed his diatribe against a visibly shocked Hutepasi, who stood motionless among a small group of fellow party youths.

As if that was not enough, Tungamirai dragged by the hand a hapless Hutepasi closer to his vehicle in order to isolate him from the crowd and took the opportunity to punch him using a clenched fist once on the mouth.

Hutepasi only had deputy provincial commissar Nigel Murambiwa to thank who sprang to his defence when Tungamirai, who was shouting unprintable insults and poking his victim, was evidently not done yet.

Hutepasi later told a nlocal publication he spat blood following the assault by Tungamirai.

“I sustained a cut inside my mouth which was oozing out blood, l was spitting blood. I am shocked why he beat me up. This is dishonourable conduct by an MP,” said Hutepasi, adding senior party leaders counselled him against making a police report.

The violence happened in front of two Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) intelligence officers.

According to sources, Tungamirai was recently assigned by the party to verify grassroots structures in Zvimba South, where he reportedly raised a red flag over the eligibility of some listed members who are in Hutepasi’s faction.

This invited a backlash from the garrulous Hutepasi on Zanu PF social media platforms alleging Tungamirai was working with Zvimba district coordinating committee (DCC) chairman, Bywell Mbirimi to decimate their camp.

Mashonaland West grassroots structures were in shambles, a development that forced the postponement of internal elections to choose district leaders.

There are reports lists of relief food aid beneficiaries, non-members, expelled cadres, and uncleared returnees that were presented to the commissariat as bona-fide Zanu PF members.

This saw a delay in the holding of district elections scheduled for September.

District members constitute the Electoral College to choose provincial committee members, including the chairperson.

Contestants eyeing the chairman post are reportedly financing the “rigging” of structures, where names of ineligible cadres appeared on provisional lists recently submitted to the Commissariat department for vetting.

Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka, Information deputy minister Kindness Paradza, acting Zanu PF provincial chairperson Abiel Mujeri and provincial Youth League chair Vengi Musengi are set to contest the impending provincial chairperson elections to replace Ziyambi, who was in June elevated to the Politburo.

Meanwhile, factional violence in Zanu PF has turned physical in the Midlands province, with senior officials exchanging blows in public last weekend in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s troubled citadel.

Preparations for the party’s congress next year, which are preceded by restructuring and elections from grassroots level, have been problematic and marred with intimidation and violence as a faction aligned to State Security minister Owen “Mudha” Ncube and incumbent chairman Daniel Mackenzie Ncube battle for party leadership.

Both factions claim loyalty to Mnangagwa.

Zanu PF Gweru district secretary for adminstration Slemani Kwidini was allegedly “heavily assaulted” by central committee member Wellington Magura at a restaurant in the Midlands capital on Saturday.

Kwidini is rallying behind Mudha Ncube while Magura is in the faction backing Mackenzie Ncube.

The matter has since been reported at Gweru Central Police station under CR number 88/10/2021 although none of the people involved are yet to appear in court.

Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko would neither deny nor confirm receiving such a report, saying police usually issue Press releases on fresh cases.

“Usually we issue Press releases when it is sought on fresh cases. For old stories we encourage journalists to take stories from the courts. There will obviously be (new) developments from the time of the reports,” Mahoko said.

Further investigations by this publication however showed that the matter is not yet before the courts.

ontacted for comment, Kwidini confirmed reporting the alleged assault at Gweru Central Police station.

The fist fight occurred at Milan entertainment joint.

Magura did not respond to questions sent to him via WhatsApp, although the messages had been delivered to his mobile number.

But two letters signed by two Milan directors, one Richard Murombedzi and Taleeb Mohamed and addressed to provincial party chairperson Mckenzie Ncube and Kwidini respectively, revealed the banning for three months of those involved in the scuffle at the restaurant.

“l look forward to meeting and demonstrating actions that took place that night (last weekend) with party officials that were witness to these events. Attached is our official letter barring from entry party cadres (involved in the scuffle),” part of the letter addressed to Ncube read.

Mackenzie Ncube, however, did not respond to enquires sent to him over the matter.

A letter sent to Kwidini reads:

“This has left us with no option but to inform you as an individual and your accomplices Mr Dominic and Mr Jassi. We do not condone such behaviour totally and your friends as such are not welcome on these premises for a period of three months. We feel the actions of this group have self-interests totally against the HE (Mnangagwa) mantra of Vision 2030, which we support,” the Milan management officials wrote.

According to party officials, Mackenzie Ncube has the backing of minister in the President’s office Joram Gumbo while Mudha Ncube’s allies include prominent figures like Local Government minister July Moyo.

“These fights are largely sparked by factional struggles,” a party insider said.

-Newshawks

By A Correspondent-MDC-Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa is planning to take his political meetings tour to Binga in Matabeleland North province.

Last week Chamisa was in Masvingo province, where he was welcomed by Zanu PF violence.

In his home province, the charismatic youthful opposition leader held several meetings with villagers and traditional leaders.

Chamisa got an overwhelming endorsement in the province.

Posting on his Twitter page Sunday, MDC-Alliance deputy spokesperson Gift Siziba said Binga was their next port of call.

“Cobuyala Chico chotebula” As compatriots in Binga Mat North prepare for change. Our rural mobilization program continues until victory. It’s time for citizens to unite and win Zimbabwe for change. #NgaapindeHakeMukomana

“Cobuyala Chico chotebula” As compatriots in Binga Mat North prepare for change. Our rural mobilization program continues until victory. It’s time for citizens to unite and win Zimbabwe for change. #NgaapindeHakeMukomana pic.twitter.com/L0LAMxUTx3

— Gift Ostallos Siziba (@Cde_Ostallos) October 17, 2021

By A Correspondent- A second attempt to abort a three-month-old preg_nancy turned fatal for a Kadoma woman.

The tragic incident happened on Wednesday morning.

Talent Makechemu, 24, of Munhumutapa died after visiting Mai Constance of Ndiweni Street for a backyard ab0rtion.

It is believed she died after taking a bleaching solution that was alleged to have been induced by Mai Constance to terminate the preg_nancy.

When H-Metro arrived at the backyard “clinic” along Ndiweni Street, scores of Rimuka and Munhumutapa residents had converged at the house to catch a glimpse of Talent’s lifeless body.

She was lying face down in a room used by Mai Constance.

It emerged that Talent had been vomiting while three bottles of a bleaching solution were seen in the room.

Some of the neighbours said they had been seeing Talent visiting Mai Constance’s “clinic” on numerous occasions.

Mai Constance is well known in the neighbourhood to be providing ab0rtion services.

“I’ve been seeing the girl from Munhumutapa coming to see Mai Constance on numerous occasions and I suspected that she was coming to the clinic.

“Mai Constance has a history of conducting preg_nancy terminations in her room and I don’t know what happened in that room. I later heard the news that the girl from Munhumutapa had died after some complications during the abortion process,” said one neighbour.

Another neighbour said four fetuses had once been found dumped in the area.

“The area had witnessed four dead fetuses being found around and most residents around this place know that Mai Constance was running an illegal backyard ab0rtion clinic charging US$20 but no-one had the guts to report her to the police,” said another neighbour

A friend to Talent said her late friend had terminated another preg_nancy previously.

“Talent was my friend. Early this year she terminated a two-month-old preg_nancy but I do not know what happened today.

“I just heard that she died at a house along Ndiweni street during another attempt to abort another preg_nancy.

“I am shocked with the news of death; it could have been better if she had given birth to the child than to die,” said the friend.

Zimbabwe Republic Police (Rimuka) attended the scene and took the body to Kadoma General Hospital mortuary.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is looking for Laurey Tafirei from Chivi who stabbed his wife’s lover to death over a love message on his wife’s phone.

The police said Tafirei used his wife’s phone to lure the deceased to a secluded place where he stabbed him.

“The ZRP is investigating a case of murder which occurred in Madungwe Village, Chivi on 15/10/21, where a Laurey Tafirei (25) stabbed his wife’s boyfriend (36) after seeing a love message on his spouse’s cellphone.

The suspect chatted using the wife’s cellphone inviting the unwary victim to a secluded place near a borehole and stabbed him on the back and chest.

Police have launched a manhunt for the suspect who is said to have disappeared after committing the offence.” – Pindula News

By A Correspondent- A Domboshava village head has been arraigned before the courts for allegedly trying to invade an apostolic sect shrine, which he wants to subdivide and sell as residential stands.

Wiriranayi Gwindi has been dragged to the Supreme Court by the Johanne Masowe Chishanu Esikiti, who claim that the shrine was given to them in 1988. They  accuse the village head of trying to benefit from the land which does not belong to him.

The apostolic sect that boasts of around 5 000 worshippers is being represented by its leader Anyplay Chasi who claims that they have been worshipping at the shrine for more than three decades before Gwindi claimed that the land was his.

The matter is set to be heard in the Supreme Court under SC261/20 after both parties failed to accept the outcomes of the magistrates and High Court judgements.

In their appeal of the judgement  handed down by Justice Esther Muremba, dated May 21, the apostolic sect leaders claimed that Gwindi had no right to claim that the worshipping place belongs to him.

“The court a quo erred by failing to consider that the respondent did not establish any rights in relation to the land in question and, therefore, there was no basis to make a ruling against the appellants who proved their rights in that they were given the land in question by Augustine Chaitezvi in 1986, which position was confirmed by the then chief Chinamhora on the 7th of April 1988,” argued the sect.

“The court a quo erred by confirming a finding by the magistrates court to the effect that the respondent (Gwindi) is the owner of the five pieces of land or contour ridges which is contradictory to another finding by the magistrates court that the land belong to Chaitezvi family.”

According to the letter dated April 7, 1988, attached to the court documents signed by the ward council identified as Gahadza and headman Alfred Gwindi, the apostolic sect was confirmed to be the occupiers of the 2ha piece of land.

“We have agreed that these can worship here since the law doesn’t allow people to gather everywhere.

“They have agreed that they will use one place. We urge the parties to be peaceful since these are people who approached us with a request,” read the letter.

The matter was also brought before chief Chinamhora.

Domboshava has become a hunting ground for home-seekers following reports that traditional leaders are selling out prime land at cheap prices.-standard

By A Correspondent- Prominent businessman Frank Buyanga has suffered a huge blow after the Supreme Court dismissed his appeal against a High Court ruling ordering him to return his six-year-old son to his estranged girlfriend.

Supreme Court judges Justices Elizabeth Gwaunza, Hlekani Mwayera and Thomas Masuku dismissed Buyanga’s case, accusing him of approaching the courts with dirty hands.

Lawyer Choice Damiso, who was instructed to represent Buyanga’s former girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa by Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA), said the court, as the upper guardian of all minor children, expressed concern that Buyanga had separated the boy from his mother for the past 18 months.

WLSA is an organisation that works to ensure that the law works for women.

“The court dismissed the appeal and said it would not hear the matter at all because Buyanga, by illegally removing the child from Zimbabwe, had approached the court with dirty hands,” Damiso said.

“That is to say that a person who is in continuing wilful violation of a court order cannot have the audacity to approach the court for a favourable judgement.

“He must first of all purge his violation and approach the court with clean hands.

“This is a universal legal principle applied in courts all over the world. It is actually based on common sense and rules of fair play.”

Muteswa, as the mother of the minor child, was sometime back granted sole custody of the child, with Buyanga having rights of access.

After some litigation between the parties, High Court judge Justice Jacob Manzunzu in June 2019 ruled in an urgent chamber application that Buyanga should not remove the child from Zimbabwe until the matter had been determined.

This was after Muteswa had approached the High Court challenging a ruling by the lower court that had granted Buyanga the right to take the child out of the country.

In violation of this court order, on March 26, 2020, Buyanga took the child to South Africa without the consent of either Muteswa or the court.

This forced Muteswa to approach the court again.

Manzunzu gave another order compelling the businessman to return the child within 24 hours or face contempt of court charges.

It was later discovered that Buyanga had used a “fake” order to gain access to the child’s passport that had been left in the custody of the registrar of courts.

Immigration records also showed that the child had been taken in and out of the country about six times.

After failing to return the child to the mother, Buyanga was put on the Interpol wanted list for violating a court order.

He appealed against Manzunzu’s ruling, but his case was dismissed by the Supreme Court last week.

“Citizens should know that the justice system is not a playground for bullies and judgments of courts are there to be obeyed and not played with,” Daniso said.-standard

By A Correspondent- Villagers in Dete, Hwange, have appealed to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development to erect visible traffic signs to control vehicles as well as the construction of speed humps at a “black spot” in the area where several people have been killed by speeding vehicles.

This comes after a police officer driving one of the newly commissioned service vehicles ran over and killed a 9-year-old Grade 3 female pupil before attempting to flee the scene on Friday.

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According to CITE, the incident happened at around 7 am as school children made their way to Ndangababi primary school from various villages.

The vehicle was part of a new fleet bought by the government for law enforcement and was destined for use by Dete police station.

Villagers who witnessed the accident said the speeding police vehicle was on its way from Hwange and the driver failed to see the deceased who was crossing the road.

Ward councillor, Cosmas Mwakiposa, said the villagers were deeply saddened by the incident which they say could have been avoided had the police officer been cautious. He said:

The community is angry and are complaining because this has been happening for some years without any action from the government.

What angered them the most is that such things could have been avoided had motorists exercised caution when passing through busy places such as this.

As the councillor l am appealing to authorities to put zebra crossing marks at areas where school children cross so extra caution is taken.

Mwakiposa said to date over 30 people including children had been killed while crossing the road at Cross Dete. He added:

The Ministry of Transport should act by setting up traffic signage and introduce speed humps to curb these accidents.

The number of people killed is frightening and we are surprised why authorities have not acted.

Last month a man was killed after being run over by a haulage truck as he attempted to cross the road.

Two years earlier a grade 4 learner was crushed to death by a haulage truck while her friend survived by a whisker as they made their way to school.

National spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the death, saying investigations into circumstances surrounding the incident were underway but said the police officer was not hurt.

By A Correspondent- Controversial businessman Kuda Tagwirei on Sunday visited the Highlanders’ offices and pledged to spruce up the club’s administration residence beginning this Monday.

Tagwirei was in the company of his friend Tino Machakaire, who is the Deputy Minister of Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation Tino Machakaire.

Tagwirei, Machakaire and some of the Sakunda Holdings top brass met the Bosso executive and board following an invitation from the club last week.

Addressing the brief meeting, Tagwirei promised to immediately renovate the offices and pledged his continued support for the Bulawayo giants.

By A Correspondent- A Victoria Falls magistrate has acquitted a fish poacher who was shot and injured by Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers in Hwange.

The rangers claimed that Claudius Mhlanga (47) tried to attack them with a kitchen knife during the encounter which occurred on 12 September along the Deka River in the Siankali area.

Victoria Falls resident magistrate Lindiwe Maphosa acquitted Mhlanga this week after a full trial with the court ruling that the two Zimparks rangers that testified gave contradictory accounts of the incident.

In the first count, he was accused of unlawfully using fishing nets and fishing rods to catch fish without a permit.

The second charge related to accusations that he charged towards one of the rangers, Prosper Muleya, who was armed with an AK47 rifle, with a kitchen knife intending to stab him and the third charge was for possession of 50 grammes of cyanide poison.

During cross-examination by Prosecutor Arthur Chindedza, Muleya and his colleague were quizzed about how Mhlanga was shot and the circumstances leading to the discovery of the cyanide.

In her ruling, Maphosa said the state witnesses failed to give consistent accounts of what transpired during Mhlanga’s arrest. Said Maphosa:

The evidence led by the state with regards to count two is incredible and cannot be believed by this court.

The description of the two state witnesses that one man armed with a kitchen knife was advancing towards one of them to attack could actually qualify as an episode in an extremely fictitious movie or a comedy.

The evidence of the state witness in this regard is not true and inconsistent with the injuries sustained by the accused.

The accused’s version is reasonably possible when he says he tried to run, but he was shot when he tried to stop as he was shivering, he lifted his hands in surrender.

I find it that at no point did the accused resist arrest and if he had been advancing with a knife in his right hand then the injury would definitely not be at the back of the hand protruding to the palm.

There are consistent descriptions of the accused, which say he was surrendering with his hands up and was shot from behind and the bullet perforated to the inside, therefore, that charge falls away.

On possession of cyanide, Maphosa said she believed Mhlanga’s account.

Mhlanga had denied possessing cyanide, arguing the poison was planted in his bag by the rangers as he was only shown the substance at the Matetsi police base after he threatened to sue. The magistrate ruled:

I will believe the version by the accused person, which need not be true but reasonably true because the first witness in this evidence seemed to want to distance himself from answering until the prosecutor had to stop him from his meandering answer.

This court confidently proves that the state cannot prove this charge beyond a reasonable doubt, therefore, the accused is found not guilty and acquitted.

Mhlanga was, however, found guilty in the first count and he was handed a fine of $10 000 or three months imprisonment if he does not pay by November 1.

The other three months were set aside for five years on the condition that he does not commit any similar offence.

Maphosa ordered that Mhlanga must be given back his knife while the fish and cyanide were forfeited to the state.

-VicFallsLive

By A Correspondent- Police in Kutama have arrested a 10-year-old boy on allegations of stealing money that belonged to members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP).

According to the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, the boy was arrested on Saturday and assaulted by Kutama police.

The boy reportedly picked a plastic bag with US$140 which he handed over to his mother.

When police officers approached him asking for the money, the mother handed over the US$140. The police then claimed it was $200.

It is not clear where the cash was stolen from or why police officers stashed the money in a plastic bag.

Nyasha Machirori of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum is representing the minor.

By A Correspondent- Hackers have attacked the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) computer system and deleted students’ results and the institution’s payment history.

The university also said that the malware also made the student portal inaccessible to many other students.

The malware attack at NUST has left many students and lecturers in a lurch as ICT experts at the institution have so far been unable to fix the system.

A third-year student at the institution told The Chronicle that the university was working on resolving the situation, adding that the incident had a massive effect on students supposed to be going for attachment since NUST set deadlines for securing internships.
Another student expressed concern about the missing results, saying if the online system is not fixed, students will be forced to retake courses they have done already. Said the student:
I pray that our results will not change when the system is restored. When I managed to open my portal two days ago the results of my supplemented courses were no longer there.
I hope that can be resolved because if not I will have to re-register and re-write the same course again next year because special exams for final students this year have been written. It is my hope that the payment history does not get interrupted.

The university said that it is working flat out on rectifying the issue and fixing the online system, Navision. The institution added that mass registration for students and cleaning up exercise of their portals is underway. Said the institution:
To ensure a successful graduation ceremony and smooth running of blended teaching and learning, the university has moved to the old system of processing students’ results.
The university urged students to exercise patience adding that it will be updating students about progress through the university website.

By A Correspondent- The ongoing Zanu PF intra-party violence is clear evidence that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has lost control of the party.

The chaos has rocked all the provinces as warring factions in the former liberation movement are battling to secure influential positions in the provinces to ensure control of key party structures.

The infighting has been reported in Mashonaland West, Masvingo, Manicaland and Bulawayo, among other provinces.

Sources close to the developments told Zimbabwe Independent on Wednesday that aspiring candidates for the Mashonaland West chairperson position were battling to control lower structures, which constitute the Electoral College to choose provincial committee members.

Top Zanu PF provincial members eyeing the chairperson post are reportedly financing the “rigging” of structures, where names of non-members and expelled cadres have appeared on provisional lists recently submitted to the commissariat department for vetting.

Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka, Information deputy minister Kindness Paradza, acting Zanu PF provincial chairperson Abiel Mujeri and provincial youth league chairperson Vengi Musengi are vying for the provincial chairperson position to replace Ziyambi Ziyambi, who was elevated to the politburo in June this year.

Mujeri confirmed that all was not well.

“The reasons why the decision was made to restructure branches are just many. The basket system had not been observed in some instances,” he said.

“There were some people who contested as independent candidates in previous elections and still have pending matters while some had defected to other political parties. Those tasked with restructuring were not aware that such cadres were not eligible for any posts until their disciplinary cases were finalised.

“There were some areas where names of provincial and district committee members were sneaked onto lists when these people were ineligible. For instance, if one is in the provincial structure or district, they cannot go back and be part of lower rungs of the party.

“So all these were being fixed and we expect districts to start submitting the revised lists to the provincial office on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, so that on Sunday we convene the provincial coordinating committee (PCC) meeting to instruct members to go and hold elections to choose districts,” Mujeri added.

A meeting held in Chinhoyi a fortnight ago, in accordance with Article 12 of the Zanu PF constitution, turned the PCC into an elections directorate which resolved to postpone internal polls until finalisation of the ongoing restructuring of districts that were fraught with “ghost members”.

During the heated meeting, Ziyambi took aim at alleged G40 members, who he accused of strategically positioning themselves for influential posts in districts.

“l gather money is exchanging hands. We have received a report, the majority of G40 people decided to stay in Zanu PF and fund provincial members so that those who were dormant take positions then challenge the president (Emmerson Mnangagwa),” he said.

Ziyambi added that: “We want genuine cadres of Zanu PF to be on the lookout for these fake people and expose them.

“It’s better to delay completion of restructuring processes as we ensure that we build a firm foundation.

“We can always ask (acting national political commissar Patrick) Chinamasa to give us more time to build our structures, which will make us victorious in the 2023 elections.”

The turmoil has forced the ruling party to suspend district and provincial elections.

-The Independent

By A Correspondent- MDC-Alliance President Nelson Chamisa said the late former President Robert Mugabe had better election-winning tactics than Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Chamisa said Mnangagwa was nothing like the late statesman Robert Mugabe and that he would “beat him” if a snap election was called today.

He said Mugabe at least had a bag of tricks at his disposal to win people over, but Mnangagwa wasn’t in the same league.

“That brother of mine who likes wearing a scarf [Mnangagwa], I can beat him [electorally] in broad daylight. Mugabe would at least confuse people with English, but this one, he can’t. He also can’t read, he has no vision. He’s unpopular, he has no friends,” he said.

By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has opened up on the health of the former Primary and Secondary Education Minister Cain Mathema.

Mathema was two weeks ago moved from the Primary Education ministry and appointed minister without portfolio.

Evelyn Ndlovu replaced him.

Mnangagwa told people witnessing the commissioning of a Mutoko vegetable processing plant Last week that Mathema was ill.

“On schools, it is unfortunate that our Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Cain Mathema is not feeling well,” said President Mnangagwa.

Mathema has been ill for over two months now.

He was last seen in public in August in Bulawayo.

By A Correspondent- MDC-Alliance president Nelson Chamisa said he will beat Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa in the forthcoming elections.

Chamisa said Mnangagwa was nothing like the late statesman Robert Mugabe and that he would “beat him” if a snap election was called today.

He said Mugabe at least had a bag of tricks at his disposal to win people over, but Mnangagwa wasn’t in the same league.

“That brother of mine who likes wearing a scarf [Mnangagwa], I can beat him [electorally] in broad daylight. Mugabe would at least confuse people with English, but this one, he can’t. He also can’t read, he has no vision. He’s unpopular, he has no friends,” he said.

By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has spoken on the recent demotion of Cain Mathema.

Mnangagwa demoted Mathema from the Primary Education ministry and moved him to his office as a minister without portfolio.

He replaced him with Evelyn Ndlovu.

Mnangagwa told people witnessing the commissioning of a Mutoko vegetable processing plant Last week that Mathema was ill.

“On schools, it is unfortunate that our Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Cain
Mathema is not feeling well,” said President Mnangagwa.

Mathema has been ill for over two months now.

He was last seen in public in August in Bulawayo.

By A Correspondent- Hackers have attacked the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) computer system and deleted students’ results and the institution’s payment history.

The university also said that the malware also made the student portal inaccessible to many other students.

The malware attack at NUST has left many students and lecturers in a lurch as ICT experts at the institution have so far been unable to fix the system.

A third-year student at the institution told The Chronicle that the university was working on resolving the situation, adding that the incident had a massive effect on students supposed to be going for attachment since NUST set deadlines for securing internships.
Another student expressed concern about the missing results, saying if the online system is not fixed, students will be forced to retake courses they have done already. Said the student:
I pray that our results will not change when the system is restored. When I managed to open my portal two days ago the results of my supplemented courses were no longer there.
I hope that can be resolved because if not I will have to re-register and re-write the same course again next year because special exams for final students this year have been written. It is my hope that the payment history does not get interrupted.

The university said that it is working flat out on rectifying the issue and fixing the online system, Navision. The institution added that mass registration for students and cleaning up exercise of their portals is underway. Said the institution:
To ensure a successful graduation ceremony and smooth running of blended teaching and learning, the university has moved to the old system of processing students’ results.
The university urged students to exercise patience adding that it will be updating students about progress through the university website.

-State media

St Patrick’s Mission Hospital in Hwange has come under spotlight after management at the Catholic run health institution allegedly detained a still born for a month in the mortuary, demanding that the distraught parents raise mortuary fees.

It was only after the father of the child gave his refrigerator to the hospital that the body was released for burial.

At the centre of the storm is the hospital’s health service administrator Sister Rumbidzai Maverutse, with staff and community members served by the 72-bed Catholic-run health institution not happy with her management style.

Furthermore, despite the fact that the institution is part of the Civil Protection Unit, ambulances from St Patrick’s Hospital do not attend to any cases without payment upfront, sources said.

Workers  told Sunday News that this was not an isolated incident.

“Even villagers now know her. Even in the latest incident who knows the value of the refrigerator but what she tells people is that if your relative dies you pay US$5 per day.

The head doctor and the pharmacist have tried to seek audience with the Bishop to tell him what is happening here,” said a worker at the institution.Sunday News caught up with the father of the still born that was detained at the institution.

Mr Thomas Mukuli said he had found his child’s body “dumped in a tray” when he went to the hospital for a visit after hearing that his wife had suffered some complications during child birth.

“My wife was admitted to the institution when she was supposed to give birth. I was called and told that the baby was stillborn. When I got there, I was told that my wife had been transferred to Bulawayo because she couldn’t even talk.

“But what shocked me the most was that when I arrived, they had not put the body in the mortuary but they left it on a tray. I then asked them to at least put the body in the mortuary so I could rush to see my wife in Bulawayo.

“At the time, they said there was no charge for that. When I returned from Bulawayo and asked for the body, the sister said I should pay because the body was in the mortuary for days and electricity was not for free,” he said.

Mr Mukuli said Sister Maverutse only agreed to release the body after he offered to compensate the hospital with his refrigerator.

“They asked me to pay US$450 for everything including my wife’s medication. They subtracted US$200 and I was asked to pay the rest but I did not have money at the time.

“So, I waited and the body was in the mortuary for at least a month.I was then asked if I had any livestock and I said I did, but my rural home was a bit too far. So, I was told to list all the property I had and they chose the fridge. I actually switched it off for five days waiting for them to come and get it. I switched it back on but three days later they came to take it. When they took my fridge, it still had ice.They used an ambulance to come and get it. I only learnt later, as a person who does not know the law, that expecting mothers are not supposed to pay,” he said.

A general hand at the hospital, Mr Joseph Ncube, said at one point he went for 18 months without pay as Sister Maverutse froze her pay for unspecified reasons. When he was eventually paid, he said, the money had lost its value.

“All in all, I went for one and half years without getting paid because she had frozen my salary. At first, she did some consultations and when she asked around, senior doctors told her that she could not unilaterally freeze my salary.She went and asked the provincial leadership about the same issue and they also told her the same thing. Yet she still went ahead and suspended my pay and this went on for 18 months.In the end, I was compensated for the months I had gone without pay and I was eventually given my money. The only problem is that it had lost value because of inflation and I had accumulated debts that put me in a difficult position. I’m still at St Patrick’s but I’m seeking a transfer away from here,” he said.

A former senior worker at the hospital (name withheld) reportedly quit as they clashed with Sister Maverutse.

“I eventually left the institution because it was impossible to work with her,” the former worker said.

The worker also alleged that  community members were shocked by the behaviour of Sister Maverutse, a Catholic nun, as she had run the institution with an iron fist ever since she joined in 2013.

“The community has not benefitted from the things they were meant to benefit from in a long time. I get calls from people in the community who say they are not getting any aid even from donors anymore. Someone has to explain what is going on at the hospital.”

Sister Maverutse refused to comment when Sunday News got in touch with her.

“I have no comment. I do not want to talk about these things,” she said before slamming down the phone.

-State Media

HEALTH professionals yesterday scoffed at government’s offer to stop mass resignations through the provision of non-monetary incentives such as WiFi and loans, saying their employer was focusing on trivialities which will not solve the brain drain problem dedevilling the health sector.

On Tuesday, during a post-Cabinet briefing, government said the country was experiencing massive brain drain in the health sector and would offer non-monetary incentives to abate the situation.

Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said an inter-ministerial committee identified measures to accelerate provision of non-monetary incentives such as staff accommodation, transport, vehicle loans, provision of meals and WiFi facilities.

Zimbabwe Senior Doctors Association president Shingai Nyaguse accused government of ignoring the salary issue, which he said was the real problem which was causing the brain drain.

“We remain concerned with suggestions that WiFi and canteens are incentives that will resolve the ongoing challenges,” Nyaguse tweeted on Thursday.

“The employer has been ignoring the elephants in the room, which includes issues of fair and commensurate remuneration, an enabling, conducive working environment and medical insurance for healthcare workers. The lack of consultative dialogue is glaring.”

Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enoch Dongo said: “It’s the employer’s responsibility to give Wi-Fi and canteen at workplaces as a courtesy, not allowance or incentive.

“The government offer was not supposed to be publicised since it’s their responsibly to do that. It is obvious the so-called incentive will not stop nurses from going outside the country whatsoever.”

Dongo said what health professionals want is a living wage and improvement of the working environment.

“Nurses do not take their children to school through WiFi or getting sadza at work,” Dongo said.

Doctors and nurses have gone on strike on several occasions since 2017 to pressure government to review their salaries, but their employer has been employing military tactics to force them back to work.- NewsDay

Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa is sponsoring violence and acts of hooliganism.

President Chamisa’s vehicles were attacked by Zanu PF thugs while there was an attempt to assassinate him in Chiredzi on Tuesday.

The MDC Alliance leader described the attack on party members as stone age hooliganism.

He wrote on Twitter:
THE RISE OF VIGILANTISM IN ZIMBABWE..Zpf vigilante groups have immunity & impunity.They’re state assisted & protected in their acts of terrorism & unlawful operations.The stoning of cars,violence &barricading of roads is criminal,stone-age& primitive hooliganism.Peace is fragile!

How is this possible in an ‘independent country’ with a ‘liberated people?

Below an MDC Alliance official relates how Zanu PF hooligans attacked him…

How is this possible in an ‘independent country’ with a ‘liberated people’? https://t.co/Ox66tRINke

— nelson chamisa (@nelsonchamisa) October 16, 2021

Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa is sponsoring violence and acts of hooliganism.

President Chamisa’s vehicles were attacked by Zanu PF thugs while there was an attempt to assassinate him in Chiredzi on Tuesday.

The MDC Alliance leader described the attack on party members as stone age hooliganism.

He wrote on Twitter:
THE RISE OF VIGILANTISM IN ZIMBABWE..Zpf vigilante groups have immunity & impunity.They’re state assisted & protected in their acts of terrorism & unlawful operations.The stoning of cars,violence &barricading of roads is criminal,stone-age& primitive hooliganism.Peace is fragile!

How is this possible in an ‘independent country’ with a ‘liberated people?

Below an MDC Alliance official relates how Zanu PF hooligans attacked him…

How is this possible in an ‘independent country’ with a ‘liberated people’? https://t.co/Ox66tRINke

— nelson chamisa (@nelsonchamisa) October 16, 2021

This is degrading treatment.This is what abducted #MDCAlliance members @arnold_batirai and others were made to do by @ZANUPF_Official members in Masvingo @rashidmahiya1 @PacheduZW @usembassyharare @crisiscoalition @UKinZimbabwe @zenzele @dewamavhinga @PacheduZW pic.twitter.com/gv3wV351ja

— Heal Zimbabwe Trust (@HealZim) October 16, 2021

By A Correspondent- Health professionals yesterday scoffed at the government’s offer that is meant to stop mass resignations saying their employer was focusing on trivialities.

The government offered to provide non-monetary incentives such as staff accommodation, transport, vehicle loans, provision of meals and WiFi facilities to reduce brain drain in the health sector.

Speaking during a post-Cabinet briefing on Tuesday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said an inter-ministerial committee identified measures to accelerate the provision of the incentives.

Zimbabwe Senior Doctors Association president Shingai Nyaguse accused the government of ignoring the salary issue, which he said was the real problem that was causing the brain drain. Nyaguse tweeted on Thursday:

We remain concerned with suggestions that WiFi and canteens are incentives that will resolve the ongoing challenges.

The employer has been ignoring the elephants in the room, which includes issues of fair and commensurate remuneration, an enabling, conducive working environment and medical insurance for healthcare workers. The lack of consultative dialogue is glaring.

Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enoch Dongo said: “It’s the employer’s responsibility to give Wi-Fi and canteen at workplaces as a courtesy, not allowance or incentive.” He added:

The government offer was not supposed to be publicised since it’s their responsibility to do that. It is obvious the so-called incentive will not stop nurses from going outside the country whatsoever.

Dongo said health professionals want a living wage and improvement of the working environment. He said they have other needs including schools fees for their children that cannot be paid for through “ WiFi or getting sadza at work.”

Doctors and nurses have gone on strike on several occasions since 2017 to pressure the government to review their salaries, but their employer has been employing military tactics to force them back to work.

https://youtu.be/eMg2s2vIMyg

https://youtu.be/eMg2s2vIMyg

By A Correspondent| The sun has set for legendary preacher and former Radio 2 presenter, Gift “The Praying Mantis” Mabhaudi.

Mabhaudhi was 68.

According to family sources, Mabhaudhi died on Friday morning.

His son, Rowdy, posted on Twitter:

My father Mufundisi Mabaudhi, most of you know him from radio programmes, Zvidzidzo Zvebhaiberi, ChiKritsu neTsika, Sunday Morning Service. He is no more. I’m not okay!”

ZCC secretary-general Kenneth Mtata described Mabhaudhi as a highly celebrated indigenous clergyman whose messages inspired thousands.

By A Correspondent- An alleged philandering man from Chivi died after he was stabbed to death by his lover’s husband. The suspicious husband lured the cheating man into an elaborately planned ambush before pouncing on him and stabbing him several times, leading to his death.

iHarare has learned from the Zimbabwe Republic Police that the alleged killer has been identified as 25-year-old Laurey Tafirei from Madungwe Village in Chivi. The deceased’s identity has not yet been released. The police only confirmed that he was 36-years-old.

According to the police, Tafirei suspected that his wife was having an adulterous affair with the deceased. He then plotted to lure him into an ambush in order to exact his revenge.

Tafirei then took control of his wife’s phone and impersonated her in text messages with her alleged lover. While pretending to be his wife, he informed the now deceased that he wanted to spend some quality time with him.

He then directed the deceased to a secluded place for the illicit rendezvous. The deceased, who was unsuspecting, duly showed up at the rendezvous spot where Tafirei was lying in wait.

Tafirei allegedly stabbed him several times. After killing the cheating man, Tafirei went on the run and is yet to be apprehended.

In an update on the crime, the police said,

The ZRP is investigating a case of murder which occurred in Madungwe Village, Chivi on 15/10/21, where a Laurey Tafirei (25) stabbed his wife’s boyfriend (36) after seeing a love message on his spouse’s cellphone.

The suspect chatted using the wife’s cellphone inviting the unwary victim to a secluded place near a borehole and stabbed him on the back and chest. Meanwhile, Police have launched a manhunt for the suspect who disappeared after committing the offence.

By A Correspondent| Fifteen police officers, who were arrested on Wednesday, have been taken to court for allegedly disrupting a Zanu PF meeting and assaulting party members in Bindura, Mashonaland Central province, two weeks ago.

The 15 were taken to court yesterday to answer to a charge of public violence. They were thrown into cells in police uniform, according to police sources.

Dick Wisdom Mhonda (38), Munyaradzi Mwaka Marowa (32), Tatenda Bradwell Makuvaza (28), Ndlela Madhenkosi (29), Darlington Tsikai (34), Evidence Kusemwaenda (33), Yeukai Beatrice Guvamombe (36), Allex Zviramwa (43), Raymond Guveya (35), Trymore Nyambo (37), Tawanda Chakanyuka (32), Martin Mutize (32), Victor Sibanda (34), Emmanuel Timoti (39) and Brian Hlahla (41) are all from Bindura Rural Police Station.

Part of the charge sheet read: “On October 5, 2021, at Mupandira Business Centre, Musana, Bindura, the accused, who are police officers and their accomplices, who are still at large, went to the place of occurrence armed with batons and tear canisters.

“The accused also had two police dogs and were driving in three private motor vehicles, a Honda Fit, a Nissan Vanette belonging to Lloyd Chiropa, who is still outstanding, and a Nissan Sunny belonging to accused number one.

“The accused were numbering 18. Upon arrival at the business centre, the accused, without being provoked, disembarked from the motor vehicles and indiscriminately assaulted the complainants using batons.”

The charge sheet further read: “The accused also set the police dogs and released tear smoke on the complainants which caused pandemonium at the business centre. By so doing, the accused forcibly and, to a serious extent, disturbed peace, security or order of the public and invaded the rights of the complainants.

“The complainants sustained varying degrees of injuries and were referred to hospital for treatment. The medical
reports can be produced as evidence.”

They appeared before Bindura magistrate Tinashe Ndokera with prosecutor Clement Kuwanda saying the 15 did not deserve bail because as police officers they were conversant with the country’s porous borders, which makes them potential flight risks.

They were remanded in custody to today for bail ruling.

Some of the complainants, the police said, were old and disabled, hence the moral blameworthiness of the accused was very high.

According to police sources, the 15 were arrested for bashing Zanu PF supporters who were at a district restructuring meeting at the business centre.

This was after three of their members had been beaten up by ruling party supporters while trying to arrest a suspect, who is believed to be a Zanu PF member.

“Three police officers went to arrest a wanted person and upon arresting, people from the village including the accused began to attack the police, leading to one of the police officers getting seriously injured,” a police source said.

“The other police officers then reacted in a bid to arrest the culprits, so in the process interrupted a Zanu PF meeting. Now the police are under fire for reacting and disrupting Zanu PF elections. Things have turned nasty.”- NewsDay

By A Correspondent- Civil servants who defied government’s order to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should not report for duty starting Monday, their employer said yesterday.

The civil servants will also be denied their salaries and allowances.

Though it could not be immediately established how many civil servants will be affected by the order, there are fears that thousands have not been vaccinated due to logistical challenges, religion and other factors.

Government, through a gazette of September 17, gave its workers until yesterday to get jabbed, failure which will result in them being barred from work, forfeiting their salaries and allowances.

COVID-19 chief co-ordinator in the President’s Office, Agnes Mahomva, said no unvaccinated civil servants would be allowed at work starting Monday until they get their doses.

She said the move was not meant to punish, but to protect the general public.

“Everybody is following Statutory Instrument 234 of 2021 and legally, that is what is binding everyone. So, whether there are any other decisions that come later but for now, everybody is bound by the law,” Mahomva said.

“People might appeal, talk about this and so on but within the timelines of the law, that is what is on the ground now. It’s like saying someone should have a licence, but have someone saying he or she is appealing not to have one.

“As long as that law is there, it is the one speaking to what is on the ground. We just need to abide by the law and if the people haven’t, they stay home according to the law and if something changes, it will be communicated as usual.

“It is really genuinely trying to say, look, you have to be protected, not to say, we want people not to work as punishment. Government is taking health as a priority.”

Information permanent secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana said the civil servants who refuse to be vaccinated would be subjected to disciplinary action.

“D-Day for civil servants (as) today is the deadline for civil servants to get vaccinated or be barred from the workplace and not get paid while so barred,” Mangwana said.

“Those who refuse to be fully vaccinated shall be subject to disciplinary action for refusing to obey a lawful instruction,” he added.

But civil servants described the move as grossly unfair.

Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions secretary-general David Dzatsunga described the move as victimisation.

“When it comes to workers, it should be a product of dialogue. Let us sit down and agree on how this can be administered so that we don’t have victimisation,” he said.

“You cannot just make pronouncements that affect people without involving them. You cannot use a counterproductive command approach on such issues. It can have a disruptive effect and is clear victimisation.”

Last month, government said it would force unvaccinated civil servants and teachers to resign in a bid to ramp up the uptake of COVID-19 jabs.

Meanwhile, Mahomva told a Science Café in Harare that Zimbabwe’s vaccination programme has been marred by setbacks despite being viewed as one of the best in Africa.

She said the challenges were mainly technical with human resources leading the toll.

“The vaccination programme has been doing much better but it has its own challenges, we will never lie about it. We have challenges with human resources,” she said.

There has been widespread criticism of the programme which started in February this year as a control measure to the deadly global pandemic that has been ravaging the world since December 2019.

“In terms of our resources, we said we need to look at financing mechanisms that are innovative. We had budgeted for US$100 million but we have used more than that. I’m glad to say we have used more than US$127 million and we did wait on donors, though we did some paperwork for that,” she said.

More than 2,4 million people are fully vaccinated against a set target of 10 million.- NewsDay

Source : MDC Alliance

1)Ezra Chadzamira lorry was used by Cde Shangwa to ferry makorokoza and m*hure from Mashava to Charumbira area.

These are the people who were mainly at Gwengavi intersection where President Nelson Chamisa’s entourage was stoned.

2)Godfrey Mukungunugwa Chivi RDC chairman.He was seen organising and instructing Youth at Zaoga church ward 5 in Masvingo City.

These are the youths whose pictures were awash on social media. He bought bread , cold drinks and hotstaff for the youths

3)Clr Mahwende of ward 6 Masvingo City was seen distributing placards at Pangolin tower light. He personally visited Mr Sitemere’s house to disturb Executive meeting.He contributed beer and drinks.

4)Clr Manyanga ward 10 Masvingo City.He was the “recruitment officer” of youths in Masvingo City. He identified the hardcore violence masters from the 10 wards and he assembled the killing machine.

5)Nhamoinesu Nemanwa a village head near Chirichoga Secondary school in Charumbira area. He was responsible for recruiting hardcore violence masters from Manyama and surrounding gold panning mines in the area.He was the commander of the biggest group of violence team stationed at Nemanwa turnoff in Charumbira area.

6)Mai Shangwa a horrible , cruel and violent hardened Chief Charumbira area villager.She is a Chadzamira righthand woman.Very unpopular in Chief Charumbira area .

7)Givhasi a rankmarshal at Croco Masvingo Harare-Byo passanger pick up point.He stays in Ward 1 of Masvingo. Currently he sleep in an ironsheet and scrap metal framed shelter behind Shushine Garage.Very boastful of his violent behavior against MDC Alliance people.

8)Tonderai a Zicosu GZU student ZanuPF leader.He is a son of a Zimbabwe National Army father.He is beer patron at Majange Business Centre in Masvingo ward 6.He is like a son to ward 6 councilor Mahwende. Clr Mahwende fund his violent behavior by buying him beer.

List to be continued…

Below is the brief interaction between Simba Chikanza (SC) and an unwitting ZRP Provincial boss Assistant Commissioner Florence Marume, who ended up titling him her mother’s son.

https://youtu.be/8M6EFFAIwNI

This was early Thursday afternoon, concerning the violence against MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa.

SC: Hello, Hello, Ass Comm Marume.

AM: Makadini?

SC: I am in the hospital I have been given your message.

Have you phoned vaChinamasa, they are requiring information to understand the program against Nelson Chamisa, so it can be spread to the provinces

AM: Who am I talking to?

SC: Are you hearing me?

AM: I don’t know the person I am talking to.

SC: This phone, this phone. I’m in the hospital.

AM: Who am I talking to?

SC: I am in the hospital.

AM: Who is it?

SC: Ass Comm. Ass Comm.

AM: Who are you?

SC: Phone vaChinamasa, did you phone, phone vaChinamasa?

AM: Who are you?

SC: Ass Comm, you are not hearing me?

AM: But who are you?

SC: Comrade, comrade Marume, it’s Simba-neuta,

It’s Simba-neuta!

It’s Simba-neuta!

Do you not have my number in your phone?

AM: I don’t have it

SC: Phone vaChinamasa, he wants the program for Chamisa so to spread it to other provinces.

AM: Send me his numbers, send me his numbers.

SC: Did you hear him on ZBC, did you hear him thanking you for blocking Chamisa?

AM: Ehe-Yes.

Send me his numbers

SC: Check in your phone right now, just as you cut this phone call.

AM: Alright

SC: AssComm Marume, are you hearing me?

PHONE CUT.

Chikanza calls her again.

SC: Hello Ass Comm, did you find them did you find them?

Ensure that you phone him right now, he said that you must call him on his direct line, AssComm

AM: I heard you my mother’s son. Once you’ve sent me I will phone.

SC: AssComm.

AM: I heard you.

SC: It’s been said you must call him before 1 p.m. today.

AM: Alright let me phone.

SC: Also it’s been said that there are boys coming from ZBC to the Mucheke Hall today. So it’s been said you must be there because on that other plan of following Chamisa everywhere you must be there to coordinate information to all provinces, so they said you must not forget. They were actually busy at the time together with mukuru- the president.

AM: Let me actually jump into it right now.

SC: isn’t it? Have you seen the message?

AM: Once you’ve cut the phone I will check

SC: Okay.

SC: There is a video from ZBC in which he is thanking you for blocking Chamisa. If you watch it first on the internet or on your TV, you watch it so that when you do your program at the Michele Hall, your wording will be structured and you don’t make mistakes.

AM: Alright my mother’s son.

SC: Okay.

Ass Comm Marume!

AM: Yes

SC: Ass Comm Marume! I am called Simba Chikanza, I am a newsman at ZimEye, what you did to Chamisa what you admitted there, was actually a crime, so now I have put you on a live broadcast; so right now people are seeing your phone number and I’m going to advertise your,

-PHONE CUT-

SC: This is Ass Comm Marume, Assistant Commissioner Marume, and she is also in the Women’s League, so this is the Provincial Women’s League, executive, and this is her name that we see here.

She has just there confirmed she was responsible for sabotaging Nelson Chamisa. Secretary for Legal Affairs for ZANU PF party, and she is the Assistant Commissioner for the ZRP in Masvingo. That is who she is there. She has several cases before. She used to be in Mutare, where she served as Dispol for Mutate District and at one time she got someone charged for merely insulting her; over a WhatsApp insult.

And what I did there, I just called her and I’ve also displayed her number; legal experts may obtain this number and save this live video for legal purposes and also UN agencies may also use this live video as a reference. I’ve called assistant commissioner Florence Marume in the public interest due to the brutalities that happened and one person is in hospital right now; one of Nelson Chamisa’s aides and.. today is the 14th of October, it is 11:26 in the United Kingdom, in Zimbabwe it is 12:26.

And the type of operation that I’ve done there are you is one in which you simply talk to a sauce but one you have positively identified notified and you can show evidence that they are actually committing a crime…

– ZimEye.net

By A Correspondent- The High court nullified the self appointment of Alfred Mwazha and Paul Mwazha is to retain to his position as the Archbishop.

His brothers  filed an appeal at the Supreme court in a bid to restore peace and end the succession disputes that has been going on since last year.

The ruling  was delivered bythe supreme court judges Justices Susan Mavangira, Tendai Uchena and George Chiweshe.

Mavangira said:

“The  High Court’s decision is to be upheld as the note written by Mwazha did not specifically name Alfred as the successor”.

Alfred had publicly announced himself as the successor to Archbishop Paul Mwazha and purported to have taken over the reigns of the church, soures claimed.

By A Correspondent- Zanu-PF councillor Kiven Mutimbanyoka was yesterday sworn in as Chitungwiza deputy mayor at a colourful ceremony that was snubbed by opposition councillors.

He replaces Musa Mukweza who was recalled by the MDC-Alliance.

Clr Mutimbanyoka took the oath of office before Chitungwiza acting town clerk Mrs Evangelista Machona promising to make the town great again.

“I am glad to have been sworn in as the deputy mayor at a programme that was well attended without any glitches. I want to thank the people for having faith in me.

“Having bestowed all the trust in me I will do everything possible to make sure that the inhabitants of Chitungwiza are accorded the best in terms of service delivery,” he said.

Clr Mutimbanyoka said his focus was only on delivering, serving the people and to make Chitungwiza great again.

“My team and I are going to work tirelessly in making sure that things happen in Chitungwiza.

The culture of doing business at the council should change in a positive way such that our people will appreciate and feel compelled to pay the bills knowing fully well that the hard earned money is going towards service delivery,” he said.

The deputy mayor also pledged to work harmoniously with everyone willing and interested to make sure that the town changes for the better.

“We are here to serve and work for the people. Failure, we should be held accountable. I thank residents for the support they are rendering to us as the councillors.

“We need to just work together as a team, as a team we are definitely going to win,” he said.

Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo appointed Clr Mutimbanyoka saying the council had failed to do so, or had neglected to appoint a deputy mayor in terms of Section 104 of the Urban Councils Act.

With the lack of action by the council, with an MDC majority, the minister was then responsible for the appointment.

“In terms Section 104 of the Urban Council’s Act I hereby appoint Kiven Mutimbanyoka ward 13 councillor as the deputy mayor for Chitungwiza Municipality with immediate effect,” he said.-statemedia

By A Correspondent- A Harare magistrate has deferred to Monday the ruling on whether Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s former wife Marry Mubaiwa is fit to stand trial on allegations of fraudulently acquiring a marriage certificate while her husband was bedridden.

On Monday, the State claimed doctors who examined Mubaiwa said she was fit to stand trial, a claim denied by her lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa.

Magistrate Lazini Ncube summoned Mubaiwa’s personal doctor to give a second opinion on her health condition.

Mubaiwa is accused of trying to fraudulently obtain an upgraded marriage certificate without Chiwenga’s consent while he was bedridden.

The couple had been married for eight years under Zimbabwe’s customary law.

Supreme Court judge Justice George Chiweshe, who is a retired soldier, and former chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi, who is now a High Court judge, are witnesses in the matter.-newsday

By A Correspondent- The High Court has released land developer Felix Munyaradzi from remand in a case in which he was accused of defeating the course of justice.

The complainant in the matter was police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza.

Munyaradzi had challenged his placement on remand after being accused of interfering with witnesses in the case Makodza had reported him for fraud.

Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guvuriro had dismissed the application challenging placement on remand, forcing Munyaradzi to seek a review of her ruling.

But Justice David Mangota ordered that Muchuchuti-Guvuriro’s ruling be set aside.

“It is ordered that the decision of the first respondent (Muchuchuti-Guvuriro) delivered on the 20th March 2021 under CRB HRE 1893/21 be and is hereby reviewed and set aside. The placement of the applicant on remand be and is hereby revoked and each party to bear its own costs,” Justice Mangota ruled.

Allegations were that sometime in July 2020, Makodza made a report of fraud against Munyaradzi after he resold stand number 1315 Sandton Mt Hampden, Harare, which he had sold to the complainant.

Munyaradzi was arrested and taken to court, where he was released on bail by the High Court.

His bail conditions were not to interfere with State witnesses, but according to the State, in January this year, on a date unknown to the prosecutor, Munyaradzi allegedly sent some people including Shadreck Homera to influence the complainant to withdraw the charges and have an out of court settlement in the fraud case.

Justice Mangota absolved Munyaradzi.

Last week, Munyaradzi was also acquitted by the High Court on a charge of bribery.

By A Correspondent| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa is sponsoring violence and acts of hooliganism.

President Chamisa’s vehicles were attacked by Zanu PF thugs while there was an attempt to assassinate him in Chiredzi on Tuesday.

The MDC Alliance leader described the attack on party members as stone age hooliganism.

He wrote on Twitter:
THE RISE OF VIGILANTISM IN ZIMBABWE..Zpf vigilante groups have immunity & impunity.They’re state assisted & protected in their acts of terrorism & unlawful operations.The stoning of cars,violence &barricading of roads is criminal,stone-age& primitive hooliganism.Peace is fragile!

How is this possible in an ‘independent country’ with a ‘liberated people?

Below an MDC Alliance official relates how Zanu PF hooligans attacked him…

How is this possible in an ‘independent country’ with a ‘liberated people’? https://t.co/Ox66tRINke

— nelson chamisa (@nelsonchamisa) October 16, 2021

By A Correspondent- The Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministry founder Walter Magaya is facing a fresh headache as rape charges takes new twist. 

This comes after the Supreme Court has thrown away the appeal made by the clergy man that sought to stop investigation into his rape cases by the Zimbabwe Gender Commission. 

In a land mark ruling handed by the Supreme Court Judge, Justice Patel, the Zimbabwe Gender Commission is authorized by the constitution to investigate any cases that the Commission feels have impact on gender, sexually harassment or similar cases in the event that complainants with draw. 

Sometime in 2018 several rape cases were reported against the clergyman, with most of those cases dying a natural death after witnesses and victims withdrew the cases. 

It was that point that the Zimbabwe Gender Commission sought to pursue the courts to go ahead with the investigations. 

At that point Prophet Magaya approached the Supreme Court to stop the commission from investigating him. 

However the Supreme Court has now ruled in favor of the commission. 

“The  court a quo concluded that the Commission, had, under s 7 of the Act, the power to conduct an investigation and, where the investigation reveals systemic barriers prejudicial to gender equality, etc, after informing the Minister, make a report to Parliament  on its findings. The court a quo found that there was no immediate impact on the appellant from the investigation as contemplated by the Commission,” read part of the judgement.

The clergyman is not new to court rooms as he has over the time being held in deck in connection with sexual harassment of his congregates.

By A Correspondent- Opposition MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is nothing like the late statesman Robert Mugabe and that he would “beat him” if a snap election was called today.

MDC Alliance leader Chamisa said that Mugabe at least had a bag of tricks at his disposal to win people over, but Mnangagwa wasn’t in the same league.

Though rallies are outlawed in the country because of Covid-19 lockdown measures, Chamisa seized an opportunity to visit Charumbira village in Masvingo to see the family of Joseph Mutema, a veteran member of his party who died in August this year. Addressing the gathering, Chamisa said:

That brother of mine who likes wearing a scarf [Mnangagwa], I can beat him [electorally] in broad daylight. Mugabe would at least confuse people with English, but this one, he can’t. He also can’t read, he has no vision. He’s unpopular, he has no friends.

Chamisa had a hard time getting to Mutema’s house as his convoy of 13 cars was attacked by unidentified assailants.

MDC Alliance claims it was Zanu-PF hooligans, with the help of the police, who were responsible.

Zanu-PF claimed the former ICT minister was attacked as he forced himself on “Villagers (who) did not want to be addressed by him [Chamisa] for obvious reasons.”

Sources in Zanu-PF told TimesLIVE there would be a fact-finding mission to establish how Chamisa managed to penetrate the area.

But information secretary Nick Mangwana said he found it strange that the political violence happens just a week before the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of sanctions on the enjoyment of human rights is expected in Zimbabwe.

This is happening as Zimbabwe prepares for the 2023 elections.

By A Correspondent- The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has reported students’ results and payment history were deleted from the institution’s computer system after hackers injected malware into the system.

The malware also made the student portal inaccessible to many other students.

The malware attack at NUST has left many students and lecturers in a lurch as ICT experts at the institution have so far been unable to fix the system.

A third-year student at the institution told The Chronicle that the university was working on resolving the situation adding that the incident had a massive effect on students supposed to be going for attachment since NUST set deadlines for securing internships.

Another student expressed concern about the missing results, saying if the online system is not fixed, students will be forced to retake courses they have done already. Said the student:

I pray that our results will not change when the system is restored. When I managed to open my portal two days ago the results of my supplemented courses were no longer there.

I hope that can be resolved because if not I will have to re-register and re-write the same course again next year because special exams for final students this year have been written. It is my hope that the payment history does not get interrupted.

The university said that it is working flat out on rectifying the issue and fixing the online system, Navision. The institution added that mass registration for students and cleaning up exercise of their portals is underway.

Said the institution:

To ensure a successful graduation ceremony and smooth running of blended teaching and learning, the university has moved to the old system of processing students’ results.

The university urged students to exercise patience adding that it will be updating students about progress through the university website.-statemedia

By A Correspondent- Police in Harare have busted a social media criminal syndicate which has been targeting and luring schoolboys for sodomy.

Addressing journalists in the capital yesterday, national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the perverts were using social media to induct young boys to sodomy and gay activities.

Nyathi said one of the suspects, Emmanuel Chatikobo alias Lemmie Gwaku (48) had been arrested and arraigned before the courts.

He said the other suspect, Richard Padzarondora (44), who was linked to the group passed away while police were still conducting investigations.

“The future of young stars is at stake and is threatened by this social media where we now have a group which is waylaying children at schools. In the process, boys are being abused and initiated into sodomy activities and gay activities,” Nyathi said.

Police said the case of a 16-year-old schoolboy (name withheld), who was kidnapped in Mbare, Harare, on June 29, 2021, opened the can of worms.

He said the boy was located by the Criminal Investigations Department detectives in Bulawayo on October 13, 2021, after being hidden by a member of the social media group, but has since been reunited with his parents while awaiting medical examinations and counselling.

“The group comprises both young and old who communicate mostly through Facebook and WhatsApp,” Nyathi said.

“The communication is discreet and leads to dating where sexual activities are conducted at certain lodges and houses. This group has some people who own businesses, people who live in these flashy suburbs and some people who live in towns throughout the country.”

Nyathi called on stakeholders, including parents and the community, to provide the police with information that could help them to the arrest of more suspects.-Newsday

By A Correspondent- Bessie Ndlovu of Pumula South suburb is facing tough times at the hands of her daughter Monalisa Mabeza who labels her a witch and accuses her of having bewitched her.

Her wayward and furious daughter threatens to kill her.

Bessie said Monalisa comes home late at night and when she asks her where she would have been, Monalisa would hurl insults at her while telling her straight to her face that she was a witch and she bewitched her causing her to suffer bad luck.

Monalisa has an eight-month-old child and most of the times she does not sleep at home, she would come home on the following day at around 9am. When her mother asks her why she leaves the child unattended the whole night, she gets violent while threatening to assault her to death.

Fearing for her life, Bessie engaged the Western Commonage Civil Court so that her daughter would reform.

“I am applying for a protection order against my daughter Monalisa Mabeza. She accuses me of having bewitched her causing her to have bad luck and fail to make money.

The other problem with her is that she leaves behind her eight-month-old child and spends the night somewhere and would come in the following day at around 9am. When I ask her where she would have been, she insults me and threatens to kill me.

She even steals my clothes and plates and sells them,” she said.

The presiding magistrate Jeconia Prince Ncube granted Bessie a protection order against her troublesome daughter.

Monalisa was ordered to refrain from verbally and emotionally abusing her mother.

And was ordered not to steal her mother’s plates and clothes.-BMetro

By Court Reporter | In a historic case, the Supreme Court Of Zimbabwe has ruled over the abuse of women involving the late Nigerian preacher, TB Joshua, that the investigation on his mentee, Walter Magaya must go ahead.

TB Joshua was in 2016 recorded while trying to subvert the court of justice on one of the Magaya victims in the verified-case of Zimbabwean woman, Angela Charakupa, and in Nigeria he himself had up to the time of his death, piles of children and older women who are complainants against him.

A long list of other women are complainants in cases reported on ZimEye since the unexplained sudden death of one of Magaya’s girlfriends in 2014, Chipo Chakanyuka. Following the latest three cases, Walter Magaya had taken the Gender Commission Of Zimbabwe to the Supreme Court.

On the 23rd August 2019, the Commission issued General Notice 1444 of 2019 on Walter Magaya which it published in the Government Gazette. The General Notice authorized the respondent to conduct an investigation into complaints of sexual abuse generally made against the appellant.

In response, on 3 September 2019, Magaya filed an application with the High Court for a review of the decision by the respondent to launch the investigation pursuant to the General Notice. He followed this up with an urgent chamber application in which he sought by way of interim relief an interdict against the conduct of the investigation by the respondent.

On 22 October 2019, the High Court dismissed the urgent chamber application with costs.

Magaya then appealed to the Supreme Court against that judgment.

He contended that he had good prospects of succeeding on the review and that his rights from the review process would be rendered nugatory if the investigations were not halted pending the review. His stance was that neither the Constitution nor the Act afforded the Commission the authority to conduct the contemplated investigation. To that extent, any investigation by the Commission constituted an illegality. He contended further that what the Commission intended from the published notice was outside its statutory mandate and as a result, Magaya was entitled to the protection of the law which he was seeking from the court.

But ruling against him, Supreme Court justices, Gowora, Patel and Uchena stated as follows:

I have read the lead judgment of my learned sister Gowora JA and consider it necessary to briefly analyse and address the nature of the relief sought by the appellant in the proceedings a quo.

            As regards this aspect, Gowora JA quite correctly observes that in the review application the principal relief sought is that the decision of the Commission in issuing the General Notice be set aside. Again, the provisional order sought in the urgent chamber application simply prays for the intended investigation of the appellant by the Commission in terms of the General Notice to be stayed. It is only in the final order sought that the appellant prays that the General Notice be declared null and void and of no force or effect. Consequently, my learned sister concludes that the appellant cannot seek to police lawful conduct through an interdict, given that the validity of the General Notice, which is presumed to be valid until it is set aside, has yet to be determined. In keeping with the case authorities cited and relied upon by Gowora JA, I fully agree that an interdict cannot ordinarily be granted against conduct that is prima facie lawful.

            Regrettably for the appellant, he has tactically miscalculated the nature of the relief that he sought in the urgent chamber application before the court a quo. He has also failed to correlate and align the draft order in the chamber application with the relief sought in the application for review pending before the High Court.

            In the final analysis, the applicant has failed to take into account the formidable hurdle presented by the rule that an interdict cannot in principle be granted against conduct that is prima facie lawful and carried out in terms of an extant statutory instrument that is presumed to be valid until it is duly set aside by a competent court that is properly seized with the question of its validity. In any case, as a matter of procedural correctness, the validity of the impugned General Notice could not properly have been an issue before the court a quo until the return day had arrived. By the same token, it cannot be properly ventilated before and determined by this Court on appeal against the judgment a quo. For these essentially technical reasons, I would agree with Gowora JA that the present appeal should not be allowed.     

By A Correspondent- A Chitungwiza woman was barred from her husband’s funeral which was moved from her house to the in-laws’.

Margaret Chinogurei, 44, was humiliated and ordered to watch her hubby’s burial from a distance.

Chinogurei’s mother in-law Annastancia Rhoda Bando was reported to have hurled vul_gar words that startled mourners and went on to accuse the former of bewitching her late son Vengai ‘Rambo’ Bando, 59.

Gogo Chinogurei went on to demand a beast and a goat from Chinogurei as fine so that she attends her husband’s funeral wake at the in-laws’ house.

Rambo, as he was affectionately known in soccer circles, was found dead at his house along Gunguwo Street in Zengeza 2 and postmortem results showed high blood pressure as cause of death.

Narrating her ordeal to H-Metro, Chinogurei said she was humiliated and pained as she was not allowed to take any part in her husband’s funeral proceedings.

“Ndakachemedzwa zvekufunga kuti dai ndakabereka mwana mukomana angadai akandirwira uye kumira neni,” said Chinogurei.

“My health has not been sound for some time and when I went to a pharmacy for medication, I found my husband dead.

“His relatives teamed up against me accusing me of bewitching my husband.

“We built the house together but his relatives decided to address mourners that they were changing place for mourning.

“I was ordered to remain outside gate at my mother-in-law’s house where they took my husband’s body to.

“They accused me of calling Gogo Bando a witch and asked me to pay a beast and a goat as fine to be allowed to enter her gate.

“After paying a goat they denied me access to the house but instead hired a woman they claimed was my husband’s second wife to be by Rambo’s coffin side.

“The woman was paid to mock me and I became a laughing stock at my own husband’s funeral.

“They went on to buy new clothes to dress the body describing me as a witch,” said Chinogurei.

The late Rambo’s neighbours told H-Metro that they had been denied access to the house and their contributions were not welcomed for sympathising with Chinogurei.

“Takaimbirwa karwiyo zvichinzi hatidi makunguwo pano vabva kunaGunguwo Street ngavabve pano pane zvipfukuto,” said one of the neighbours.

Rambo’s younger brother Tawanda Bando confirmed the differences that marred the funeral saying Chinogurei was fined for labelling Gogo Bando a witch.

“There was drama and Gogo Bando was not comfortable to attend her son’s funeral at my late brother’s house considering her differences with Chinogurei,” said Tawanda.

“Gogo Bando claimed that Chinogurei had called her a witch and she was fined for the utterances.

“She has gone to Mutoko to attend another funeral and is expected back later today,” said Tawanda.

Bando was laid to rest at Unit L cemetery in Chitungwiza.-HMetro

By A Correspondent- Civil servants who have not been vaccinated for unjustifiable reasons, today face an uncertain future with government insisting they should not report for duty because they may infect those who have been vaccinated.

Government last month gave October 15 as the deadline for all its workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Under Statutory Instrument (SI) 234 gazetted on September 17, unvaccinated civil servants will be fired from work and their salaries frozen.

Asked how many civil servants have complied with the order, Agnes Mahomva, the chief co-ordinator of COVID-19 response in the Office of the President and Cabinet, yesterday said she was yet to get the figures.

“I don’t know how many have been vaccinated or not, the relevant ministries will tell us tomorrow (today) to see those who would have reported for work and those who haven’t,” Mahomva said on the sidelines of a science cafe organised by the Health Communicators Forum and the Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre.

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions recently filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court challenging compulsory vaccination as companies force employees to be inoculated, but the High Court said the matter was not urgent. The case is still pending.

Mahomva, however, defended compulsory vaccination of the civil servants, saying they were given ample time, adding that those not yet jabbed were unwilling to do so.

“The requirement (of having all civil servants to be vaccinated) was announced way back and people have been given ample time to make sure they get vaccinated,” she said.

“For those not yet vaccinated, it means they do not want to do so. This has nothing to do with barring people from work; the government wants people to come to work, but we have to protect others.

“It is really about public health and safety in the workplace. You also have to understand that there are exemptions for extenuating circumstances from the SI which are very reasonable.”

The move will likely be a litmus test for government, which is likely to clash with its restive 300 000 employees.

A majority of government workers were not yet vaccinated by the time of the gazetting of the SI.

However, the SI gives excuses to those who have convincing reasons.

Those not vaccinated, according to the SI, should produce COVID-19 test results, which will be expensive and not practical since the tests expire after 72 hours. Tests range from US$30-$40.

-newsday

By A Correspondent-Zanu PF director of information, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, has admitted that Zimbabweans do not believe in his party’s sanctions propaganda.

Posting on his Twitter handle Mugwadi said they wanted the laws to allow the arrest and incarceration of citizens who deny the existence of the western imposed economic embargoes.

“Deep in thought…. I never knew that after 20 years of sanctions, there is still a third of our population that supports those who called for and lobby for more sanctions. I think we are not doing enough to teach them a lesson. Our laws should not be too lenient,” he posted.

https://twitter.com/TafadzwaMugwadi/status/1449015669631168522/photo/1

By A Correspondent| Former Zaka Central MP Harison Mudzuri says MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa is the right man to lead the country to prosperity.

Harison, who has flatly refused to be swayed by his uncle, Elias Mudzuri, believes the People’s President will romp to victory in 2023 polls.

Mudzuri told ZimEye.com on Wednesday the wave of change was unstoppable.

“What we have seen is impressive- President Chamisa is the right man to lead the country to prosperity.

We are appalled by the behaviour of State security agents here.

They tried in vain to block President Chamisa from holding key meetings with stakeholders.

The level idiocy that we have witnessed is shocking,” said Mudzuri.

He added:” We are not looking back at all, Cyclone Chamisa is unstoppable.”

By A Correspondent- A Beitbridge based senior police officer has been jailed for stealing smuggled goods.

Inspector Elias Mawomba (47), and his subordinate, Assistant Inspector Dickson Siakwimbi have been jailed for an effective 15 months for diverting two vehicles from offloading smuggled goods inside the Beitbridge Border Post.

Mawomba and Siakwimbi, who were deployed to Beitbridge to conduct security and anti-smuggling duties to the country’s border with South Africa under operation “No to Cross-border Crimes’’ were arrested in July.

The state told the court that the duo was on 18 July assigned to escort two vehicles carrying an assortment of smuggled goods that had been intercepted along the Limpopo River soon after smuggling the goods from South Africa.

The contraband included, 250 boxes of MAQ washing powder and 57 boxes (12 by 400ml) Nivea body lotion creams at Panda Mine security checkpoint some 60km east of Beitbridge town.

The two police officers connived with the drivers to offload part of the contraband in a bushy area near the Zinwa water treatment pump.

Some members of the public spotted them and informed border security officials leading to their arrest soon after offloading 175 boxes of washing powder and 53 others of Nivea body lotion.

Insp Mawomba of the ZRP Support Unit Mike Troops Buchwa was immediately arrested, while Siakwimbi disappeared. It’s not clear how Siakwimbi was eventually arrested

By A Correspondent| Fifteen police officers, who were arrested on Wednesday, have been taken to court for allegedly disrupting a Zanu PF meeting and assaulting party members in Bindura, Mashonaland Central province, two weeks ago.

The 15 were taken to court yesterday to answer to a charge of public violence. They were thrown into cells in police uniform, according to police sources.

Dick Wisdom Mhonda (38), Munyaradzi Mwaka Marowa (32), Tatenda Bradwell Makuvaza (28), Ndlela Madhenkosi (29), Darlington Tsikai (34), Evidence Kusemwaenda (33), Yeukai Beatrice Guvamombe (36), Allex Zviramwa (43), Raymond Guveya (35), Trymore Nyambo (37), Tawanda Chakanyuka (32), Martin Mutize (32), Victor Sibanda (34), Emmanuel Timoti (39) and Brian Hlahla (41) are all from Bindura Rural Police Station.

Part of the charge sheet read: “On October 5, 2021, at Mupandira Business Centre, Musana, Bindura, the accused, who are police officers and their accomplices, who are still at large, went to the place of occurrence armed with batons and tear canisters.

“The accused also had two police dogs and were driving in three private motor vehicles, a Honda Fit, a Nissan Vanette belonging to Lloyd Chiropa, who is still outstanding, and a Nissan Sunny belonging to accused number one.

“The accused were numbering 18. Upon arrival at the business centre, the accused, without being provoked, disembarked from the motor vehicles and indiscriminately assaulted the complainants using batons.”

The charge sheet further read: “The accused also set the police dogs and released tear smoke on the complainants which caused pandemonium at the business centre. By so doing, the accused forcibly and, to a serious extent, disturbed peace, security or order of the public and invaded the rights of the complainants.

“The complainants sustained varying degrees of injuries and were referred to hospital for treatment. The medical
reports can be produced as evidence.”

They appeared before Bindura magistrate Tinashe Ndokera with prosecutor Clement Kuwanda saying the 15 did not deserve bail because as police officers they were conversant with the country’s porous borders, which makes them potential flight risks.

They were remanded in custody to today for bail ruling.

Some of the complainants, the police said, were old and disabled, hence the moral blameworthiness of the accused was very high.

According to police sources, the 15 were arrested for bashing Zanu PF supporters who were at a district restructuring meeting at the business centre.

This was after three of their members had been beaten up by ruling party supporters while trying to arrest a suspect, who is believed to be a Zanu PF member.

“Three police officers went to arrest a wanted person and upon arresting, people from the village including the accused began to attack the police, leading to one of the police officers getting seriously injured,” a police source said.

“The other police officers then reacted in a bid to arrest the culprits, so in the process interrupted a Zanu PF meeting. Now the police are under fire for reacting and disrupting Zanu PF elections. Things have turned nasty.”- NewsDay

By A Correspondent- UANC President Rev Dr Gwinyai Muzorewa has said opposition political parties in POLAD are captured and not genuine saying only those opposing Zanu Pf outside POLAD are the genuine alternative.

In an interview on ZimEye, President Muzorewa said the opposition will win the 2023 elections.

“There is need for reforms. But if Zimbabweans vote in their numbers, there is no room for rigging. The onus is on real opposition political parties to mobilise the people to vote. Zimbabweans are now fed up with the ruling Zanu Pf and it is about time,” he said.

Watch the interview below………

https://streamyard.com/etd654cvp6

By A Correspondent-The Supreme Court has dismissed an application by Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya that sought to nullify a 2019 High Court ruling that authorised investigations on allegations of sexual abuses levelled against him.

The High Court had allowed the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) to investigate the preacher.

In her judgment, Justice Anne-Marie Gowora said the High Court’s decision should be upheld arguing that barring the ZGC from conducting investigations would be a violation of the law. Ruled Justice Gowora:

The premise of the interdict was that the intended investigation was illegal from several bases, the first being the want of jurisdiction to conduct an investigation and the alleged illegal exercise of that jurisdiction by the Commission. It was the intention of the appellant to subject the decision to issue the Notice to a review process.

It is pertinent to point out that for every law that is gazetted there is a presumption of validity and appropriate legal mechanisms have been put in place in terms of the law where one intends to challenge the validity of a legal instrument. Until it has been set aside, the General Notice has the force of law and anything done under it is presumed to be lawful and valid. An application for an interdict is not and cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered as one of those mechanisms.

Many people have in the past accused Magaya of sexually abusing them.

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By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s business partner, Kudakwashe Tagwirei’s company Fossil Contracting fronted by Obey Chimuka will share a US$85 million funding facility for the Mbudzi interchange flyover.

Fossil Contracting which specialises in civil works, contract mining, road construction, earth works, building, structural works and plant hire, will share the Mbudzi interchange flyover cake in a consortium called TEFOMA.

TEFOMA consortium consists of Tensor Construction, Fossil Contracting and Masimba Holdings.

Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister, Felix Mhona described the companies as reputable.

However, the three companies appeared in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s foreign currency externalization list released in 2018 and it remains unclear whether the companies “returned what belongs to Caesar.”

The dirty list of externalises siphoned billions of dollars to off shore accounts during former president Robert Mugabe’s era.

Meanwhile, Mhona signed the US$85 million loan facility framework funding for the project with Fossil Contracting Managing Director Obey Chimuka at his offices in Harare yesterday.

“As part of the loan facility, the financier will offer technical and construction facilities, hence a contractor, TEFOMA joint venture, will be appointed the engineering procurement and construction contractor for the project.”

Mhona added that as part of “financial inclusion, other local contractors will be subcontracted to perform certain works. The loan facility indicatively US$85 million,” he said.

Mhona said all affected parties “will be compensated as provided for by the law and I appeal to all members of the public to be cooperative.”

“In Hopley residential area, all those who were residing within the road reserve were served with notices and most have complied and started demolishing their structures and relocating,” he said. Minister Mhona said diversion routes will be required to carry traffic during the construction of the Mbudzi interchange as the site will be closed to traffic,” he continued.

Mhona further told ZBC’s Current Affairs Programme Face the Nation that actual construction works will begin in December and expected to be completed within 12 months.

Mhona assured Zimbabwe that funding for the project has been secured and once construction begins there will be no obstructions until completion.

Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told a post-Cabinet briefing on Tuesday that “for the Mbudzi Interchange, designs have been completed as well as the selection of the detour roads namely, Chimhanda, Stoneridge, Amalinda and Forbes.”

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By A Correspondent- Controversial preacher and socialite Passion Java held a private meeting with the head of the Zanu PF Junta and Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri.

The junta meeting was discussing Muchinguri’s today Mutasa district visit.

Muchinguri will be the guest-of-honour at the Nyanga-Mutasa district sports tournament launch at Mutasa DC sports ground.

Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry is part of the event.

Writing on his Instagram account dubbed; @prophetpassion, Java confirmed holding a “successful” one-hour meeting with Muchinguri. He also uploaded photos posing with the Defence Minister.

By A Correspondent- Masvingo villagers have exposed police officers who forced them to denounce Nelson Chamisa, the leader of opposition MDC Alliance.

This came out at one of Chamisa’s meetings with villagers in Masvingo, which succeeded after several attempts to block it by Zanu PF activists.

Zanu PF mobs blocked roads for his aides and vandalised their cars while at some point, he was forced to leave the scene after the mobs moved to attack him.

One of the MDC Alliance activists posted a video on social media that said the police assaulted him along Gutu-Harare Highway.
He said the police forced him and others to denounce Chamisa. Watch the video below for more.
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He added that the development is an indication that there will be violence during the 2023 elections. He said it was a sign that president Emmerson Mnangagwa was motivated to do anything to retain power.

By A Correspondent- Controversial preacher and socialite Passion Java, Friday attended a Zanu PF junta meeting with Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri.

The junta meeting was discussing Muchinguri’s today Mutasa district visit.

Muchinguri will be the guest-of-honour at the Nyanga-Mutasa district sports tournament launch at Mutasa DC sports ground.

Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry is part of the event.

Writing on his Instagram account dubbed; @prophetpassion, Java confirmed holding a “successful” one-hour meeting with Muchinguri. He also uploaded photos posing with the Defence Minister.

Prophet Passion later uploaded a video on his Instagram account announcing officials from the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) and a business lobby group, the Affirmative Action Group (AAG) would also grace the maiden district sports tournament.

He jokingly questioned why some people are ungrateful for development projects initiated under President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s “New Dispensation”.

“Gafa Prophet Passion Java, I am together with Honourable Minister Muchinguri and AAG cash for team is here to tell you that this coming Saturday there will be Mutasa-Nyanga sports tournament.

“Minister of Sports will be available as well as ZIFA, whilst AAG will make cash rain on the top competitors.

” So why would you deny things which are developing in our country that belongs to President E D Mnangagwa?” Passion said, urging the public to attend the sports tournament or watch the event online.

In the video, Java was flanked by AAG president Mike Chimombe who is also Zanu PF youth empowerment secretary.

At the AAG Chimombe is deputised by Java and others.

NewZimbabwe

ZANU PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa’s dramatic Press conference on Tuesday represents everything rotten about the leadership of this country.

From arrogance, insatiable appetite for violence and the careless statements, Chinamasa represents everything bad in Zanu PF. He simply reminded Zimbabweans that the ruling party is out for the blood of anyone who thinks differently.

Blocking opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa from meeting villagers in Masvingo with the aid of riot police stinks. Chinamasa and his ilk are behaving like street thugs.

Infact, what Chinamasa and Zanu PF are simply saying is that the use of violence in political contestation is acceptable and the abuse of police should be standard.What we hear Chinamasa and Zanu PF saying is that the opposition will be barred from campaigning across the country, especially in rural areas ahead of the 2023 elections.

It is apparent also that Zanu PF will have the aid of the police to block opposition meetings and that the State media will neither see nor hear any evil.Why bar Chamisa from his interactive meetings as if he is inconsequential and an outcast? If he has no plan? If he is useless? If he is not a threat to the status quo? Did we not see MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora and NCA’s Lovemore Madhuku traversing Masvingo on political campaigns freely the previous week and the silence from the usual quarters was defeaning.

Chamisa is a Zimbabwean politician who got nearly 2,2 million votes in the 2018 elections — according to official count, (President Emmerson) Mnangagwa only managed 300 000 more — and, therefore, Chamisa deserves the freedom guaranteed in the Constitution, including protection from State-sponsored hooligans and security agents.

For someone like Chinamasa, who lost in his constituency in the 2018 elections to come up with imprudent justifications for a wrong is a new but an unsurprising low for Zanu PF in general and its leadership in particular.

Zanu PF’s “moments of madness” are far from over, starting from the Gukurahundi atrocities, the 2000 violent farm invasions, the 2008 election runoff murder spree, the post-2018 elections killings, the 2019 fuel riot murders and now a preview of the likely mayhem the party is plotting for 2023 election.

How the police, Zanu PF and its hired goons are treating Chamisa is exactly how Zambian former President Edgar Lungu, State security and the Patriotic Front did to then opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema before the election in that country and the results were there for all to see.

Zanu PF cannot go to town about being a new dispensation when it has people like Chinamasa, who have lost all sense of shame.

Clearly, these are individuals working hard against Mnangagwa, derail his programmes and then push him out sooner rather than later, yet they claim otherwise.

Health professionals yesterday scoffed at government’s offer to stop mass resignations through the provision of non-monetary incentives such as WiFi and loans, saying their employer was focusing on trivialities which will not solve the brain drain problem dedevilling the health sector.

On Tuesday, during a post-Cabinet briefing, government said the country was experiencing massive brain drain in the health sector and would offer non-monetary incentives to abate the situation.

Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said an inter-ministerial committee identified measures to accelerate provision of non-monetary incentives such as staff accommodation, transport, vehicle loans, provision of meals and WiFi facilities.

Zimbabwe Senior Doctors Association president Shingai Nyaguse accused government of ignoring the salary issue, which he said was the real problem which was causing the brain drain.

“We remain concerned with suggestions that WiFi and canteens are incentives that will resolve the ongoing challenges,” Nyaguse tweeted on Thursday.

“The employer has been ignoring the elephants in the room, which includes issues of fair and commensurate remuneration, an enabling, conducive working environment and medical insurance for healthcare workers. The lack of consultative dialogue is glaring.”

Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enoch Dongo said: “It’s the employer’s responsibility to give Wi-Fi and canteen at workplaces as a courtesy, not allowance or incentive.

“The government offer was not supposed to be publicised since it’s their responsibly to do that. It is obvious the so-called incentive will not stop nurses from going outside the country whatsoever.”

Dongo said what health professionals want is a living wage and improvement of the working environment.

“Nurses do not take their children to school through WiFi or getting sadza at work,” Dongo said.

Doctors and nurses have gone on strike on several occasions since 2017 to pressure government to review their salaries, but their employer has been employing military tactics to force them back to work.

-Newsday

CIVIL servants who defied government’s order to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should not report for duty starting Monday, their employer said yesterday.The civil servants will also be denied their salaries and allowances.

Though it could not be immediately established how many civil servants will be affected by the order, there are fears that thousands have not been vaccinated due to logistical challenges, religion and other factors.

Government, through a gazette of September 17, gave its workers until yesterday to get jabbed, failure which will result in them being barred from work, forfeiting their salaries and allowances.

COVID-19 chief co-ordinator in the President’s Office, Agnes Mahomva, said no unvaccinated civil servants would be allowed at work starting Monday until they get their doses.

She said the move was not meant to punish, but to protect the general public.

“Everybody is following Statutory Instrument 234 of 2021 and legally, that is what is binding everyone. So, whether there are any other decisions that come later but for now, everybody is bound by the law,” Mahomva said.

“People might appeal, talk about this and so on but within the timelines of the law, that is what is on the ground now.

It’s like saying someone should have a licence, but have someone saying he or she is appealing not to have one.“As long as that law is there, it is the one speaking to what is on the ground.

We just need to abide by the law and if the people haven’t, they stay home according to the law and if something changes, it will be communicated as usual.

“It is really genuinely trying to say, look, you have to be protected, not to say, we want people not to work as punishment. Government is taking health as a priority.”

Information permanent secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana said the civil servants who refuse to be vaccinated would be subjected to disciplinary action.

“D-Day for civil servants (as) today is the deadline for civil servants to get vaccinated or be barred from the workplace and not get paid while so barred,” Mangwana said.

“Those who refuse to be fully vaccinated shall be subject to disciplinary action for refusing to obey a lawful instruction,” he added.

But civil servants described the move as grossly unfair.Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions secretary-general David Dzatsunga described the move as victimisation.

“When it comes to workers, it should be a product of dialogue.  Let us sit down and agree on how this can be administered so that we don’t have victimisation,” he said.

“You cannot just make pronouncements that affect people without involving them. You cannot use a counterproductive command approach on such issues. It can have a disruptive effect and is clear victimisation.”

Last month, government said it would force unvaccinated civil servants and teachers to resign in a bid to ramp up the uptake of COVID-19 jabs.

Meanwhile, Mahomva told a Science Café in Harare that Zimbabwe’s vaccination programme has been marred by setbacks despite being viewed as one of the best in Africa.

She said the challenges were mainly technical with human resources leading the toll.

“The vaccination programme has been doing much better but it has its own challenges, we will never lie about it. We have challenges with human resources,” she said.

There has been widespread criticism of the programme which started in February this year as a control measure to the deadly global pandemic that has been ravaging the world since December 2019.

“In terms of our resources, we said we need to look at financing mechanisms that are innovative. We had budgeted for US$100 million but we have used more than that. I’m glad to say we have used more than US$127 million and we did wait on donors, though we did some paperwork for that,” she said.

More than 2,4 million people are fully vaccinated against a set target of  10 million.

-Newsday