Hon President @DMwonzora, I don't want to see a member of parliament who supports Chamisa, a provincial council who supports Chamisa, … and no mayor in this country who supports Chamisa – @MKomichi pic.twitter.com/OTTxIt7k3h

— ZimEye (@ZimEye) September 12, 2021

By A Correspondent- Twp police officers who were investigating a murder case in Mudzi were left injured after the suspect, Steven Nyakarenda, attacked them with an axe and stones before he fled.

The officers had received information that Nyakarenda (37) had killed his two-year-old son in Mudzi. They responded to the report and proceeded to his home to investigate. Allegations are that when the two officers arrived at his house and asked him to accompany them to Nyamapanda police station for further questioning, Nyakarenda rushed into his house and came out with an axe and a stone he used to attack them, injuring them instantly.

National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the attack and reminded the public that it was a serious offence to attack officers while they are carrying out their duties. He said the Zimbabwe Republic Police was concerned with the conduct of some criminals who were resorting to attacking police officers while in the process of effecting arrests.

“In this regard, the police will brook no nonsense in dealing with such criminals who attack police officers,” said Asst Comm Nyathi. “The public is reminded that according to the country’s laws, attacking police officers whilst they are performing constitutional responsibilities is punishable with imprisonment once one is taken to court.

“The recent attack on two police officers by a murder suspect, Steven Nyakarenda (37) on 2 September 2021 in Mudzi will be fully investigated. Police in Nyamapanda received information that the suspect had killed his two-year-old son at Mafuta Village, Mudzi.

“A team of police officers reacted and went to Nyakarenda’s homestead to investigate the matter. On arrival, the team informed the suspect of the allegations and told him to accompany them to Nyamapanda Police Station for further inquiries. The suspect then went inside his hut and came back armed with an axe. He picked a stone and struck Constable Shiri on the head.” Asst Comm Nyathi said the suspect went on to strike Assistant Inspector Kugotsi with an axe on the head and shoulder before fleeing from the scene.

“He is currently on the run,” he said. “Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact any nearest police station or national complaints desk.

By A Correspondent- MDC Alliance national spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere has slammed Education Ministry Permanent Secretary Ms Thumisang Thabela for mocking teachers …

Thabela said teachers who do not have money for transport should borrow from their friends.

Such utterances are reckless, according to Advocate Mahere.

“We need a Govt that pays teachers a living wage instead of mocking them for their penury and telling them to borrow from friends to make ends meet.”

Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe national coordinator Harison Mudzuri described the remarks as shocking…

“We heard the Permanent Secretary for Education in Zim Ms Tumisang Thabela mocking teachers in Zimbabwe for borrowing money for them to go to work and she sarcastically urged them to continue to do so. Teachers you heard for yourself.

The Zim gvt finds it ridiculous for teachers to report for duty under the current working conditions,” fumed Mudzuri.

By A Correspondent- Controversial socialite Mai Titi has a written an epistle to Mrs Auxillia Mnangagwa seeking to join what she described as “philanthropic work across the country.”

Political analyst say Mrs Mnangagwa has already launched campaign programmes on behalf of her husband and Mai Titi is seen as a vital cog in the whole process.

Observers say the purported hypothesis that Mai Titi wrote a letter to Mrs Mnangagwa is meant to justify her role in the Zanu PF President and his wife’s desperate bid to cling to power …

“Mai TT wrote a letter to me saying she wants to work with me and l was happy to see the letter, she has many followers on social media and l want them to join us,” claimed Mrs Mnangagwa.

Mai TT’s followers on social media are not happy with her association with ZANU PF.

By A Correspondent- Norton MP Temba Mliswa last week took Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe to task in parliament for causing the unlawful detention of former liberation warfighters.

A handful of war veterans were arrested and briefly detained in Harare last week after they staged a demonstration against their pension pay-outs.

Mliswa wanted Kazembe to answer why the police did not take the arrested and detained war veterans to court.

By A Correspondent- Police in Filabusi have arrested a 33-year-old man for murder which occurred at Thandabantu, Village, Avoca on Thursday this week.

Sikhumbuzo Nkomo allegedly fatally assaulted his 13-year-old son with a knobkerrie while punishing him for playing in the bedroom.

In an unrelated development, police in Mashonaland Central Province have arrested a man suspected of stealing ZESA copper cables while four of his accomplices are still at large.

Police said they arrested Tonderayi Marumahoko on Friday at a roadblock at Chioko point along Mazowe-Muzarabani Road.

Chioko, who was driving Honda Airwave vehicle with four passengers on board, was stopped at a roadblock and was found in possession of electric copper windings, transformer bushes, bolt cutter as well as copper cables, in the boot of his car. Police posted on Twitter:

On 10/09/21, police officers deployed at a roadblock at Chioko point along Mazowe-Muzarabani Road arrested Tonderayi Marumahoko for theft of ZESA copper cables.

The suspect who was driving a Honda Airwave vehicle with four passengers on board was stopped at the roadblock site by the police who searched the boot and found three electric copper windings, transformer bushes, bolt cutter as well as copper cables.

The other suspects ran away. Investigations are in progress.- Pindula News

Zim Army is the best in Africa, says Matinyarare | | TRUE or FALSE?

— ZimEye (@ZimEye) September 12, 2021

TEN REASONS ZIM ARMY IS THE BEST ARMY ON THE CONTINENT.

By Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare | The Zimbabwe National Army, affectionately known as the ZNA, is the most successful, effective, battle-hardened military on the continent because of the shear number of successful military campaigns they have conducted in hot spots that no other African nation wants to go.

More important are the outcomes of their military campaigns that have seen them save civilian lives, bring peace and stability to hopeless trouble hotspots, on a continent where most African nations are so strategically inept that they are protected by foreign western armies.

This article seeks to tell the story of this formidable army of brave men and women who are respected by even their western foes because they have done more than any other African country, to earn Africa respect and pride through self defense.

Even though the Zimbabwean army’s roots can be traced back to the two liberation armies of ZIPRA and ZANLA, which fought and defeated one of the most powerful colonial armies in Africa and her allies who included: 15000 mercenaries from apartheid South Africa, US, UK, Europe, Canada, Australia, Israel and Reza Shah’s Iran, all hellbent on preserving white supremacy in Africa. Today, I will only focus on the army forged out of the fire of the liberation struggle and independence.

1. As soon as Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980, the country faced immediate attacks by a joint alliance of apartheid South Africa soldiers, former Rhodesian soldiers, disgruntled liberation fighters and their western backers. In retaliation, just three years into independence, the fifth brigade of the ZNA was deployed in Operation Chinyavada (Operation Scorpion bites back or what some call Gukurahundi) against this rag-tag western sponsored coalition which was crossing into Zimbabwe from South Africa and Botswana, terrorizing civilians in Matebeleland, in an effort to spark a tribal war in that region.

The thinking behind the cross-boarder raids was to inflame passions and ignite a civil war that would deny ANC and PAC military wings, training bases or passage to launch raids on South Africa from Zimbabwe. But with mounting casualties on the rebel side, in 1987 a ceasefire was agree and a unity government of ZAPU and ZANU PF was born. Meanwhile, throughout Operation Chinyavada, MK and AZAPO militia would occasionally launch retaliatory cross-boarder bombings on Messina in South Africa, from safe zones established in Zimbabwe. This solicited bitter protests from the British government about Mugabe’s support for Azanian liberation forces, yet the same British never complained about apartheid SA sponsored raids on Zimbabwe.

2. In the east of the country, the CIA and apartheid government had also been funding RENAMO bandits and apartheid commandos to sabotage Zimbabwe’s fuel pipeline; Beira, Nyamapanda and Chicaulacaula road and rail corridors in Mozambique. So, in 1982 (two years after independence), the ZNA was deployed to repel this sabotage of Zimbabwean routes to port. On getting to Mozambique, Zimbabwe focused its troops on strictly the routes and pipeline, however, the Mozambican army was losing to RENAMO, putting the whole country at risk.

Consequently, the ZNA was forced to take a more offensive posture against the rebels, to secure joint security interests. Thus, in August 1995, the ZNA launched a daring raid on RENAMOs well fortified Gorongoza headquarters, in the battle of Casa Banana. In four hours, Zimbabwean paratroopers had taken the 15000 man base, killed and captured thousands of rebels and a bulk of their weapons.

RENAMO immediately retreated north into Zambezia, Tete and Malawi (Malawi was being used by the CIA to supply RENAMO) out of reach of the Zimbabweans. In turn, the ZNA went back to protecting the corridor, pipeline and Beira. However, it didn’t take long, for the rebels to regroup in northern Mozambique and begin to route demoralized Mozambican troops, to a point where Mozambique was on the verge of being divided in two. Once again, the ZNA was called upon and in 1987, they hit RENAMO’s new headquarters in Mutarara, killing and capturing many rebels and vast amounts of heavy weapons.

This last battle, reduced RENAMO into a mere gang or raiders, less than the once formidable army they were at the beginning. With this devastating blow, the SADF losing in Angola; apartheid South Africa was forced to negotiate, surrender, retreat from Angola, give up Namibia and abandon RENAMO. This was followed in short order, by negotiations with the ANC to prevent the inevitable SADC, Cuban allied counter on South African soil.

3. After the end of the Mozambican war, in 1993, Zimbabwe joined a UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia. The ZNA was tasked with clearing arms from Bakara Arms Market in Mogadishu, to stop the movement of weapons, end terror attacks on civilians, pave way for the Red Cross to move in, reestablish normalcy in the area and bring stability to Somalia. This they did with distinction and in addition to this they secured Mogadishu airport, which prevented the annihilation of a retreating US marine division after Blackhawk Down.
4. September of 1998, saw the deployment of 10 000 ZNA soldiers into Africa’s World War in Congo. Here, they prevented western sponsored Rwandan and Ugandan rebels and soldiers from overthrowing Kabila, installing their own puppet and having the UN divide Congo into five separate states for Kagame and Museveni to establish their tribalist Hima Tutsi Mpororo Empire, in which Tutsis would rule over the bantus of the Great Lakes.

The ZNA would drive the rebels and soldiers of Rwanda and Uganda, out of Kinshasa, back into the eastern territories boardering Rwanda. On failing their objective, the rebels and their governments were left with no choice but to sign the Sun City Accord, which left Kabila in power and Congo in one piece. After the accord, some Zimbabwean troops would stay to protect Joseph Kabila after his father’s death, while a number of displaced Hutu refugees, fearing reprisals from Kagame, were given asylum in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean government is currently considering giving these Rwandans citizenship in Zimbabwe as they do not want to return to face Kagame’s tyranny.

The west were livid with this outcome that stopped Congo from falling into the control of their golden boys Kagame and Museveni. In retaliation for this and Zimbabwe taking back land from former colonizers, the US, EU, UK, Canada and Australia imposed illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe.

5. In 2000, while the ZNA was still fighting in Congo, 2000 of its elite soldiers were airlifted from the DRC into Angola, where they assisted the Angolan army to push back Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA, to the eastern boarder of Angola after Executive Outcomes (SA mercenaries) had failed to dislodge them. In this operation, ZNA special forces were tasked with finding and capturing Savimbi, and in 2002, they successfully killed him in a battle in Moxico, bringing an end to Angola’s 40yr civil war.

The ZNA had killed a long time ally of the CIA, apartheid military establishment, Anglo America’s Oppenheimer and Johann Rupert and that’s why media owned by Rupert (eNCA) and papers owned by Anglo (Maverick, The Star, Business Times etc) have a vendetta against Zimbabwe and its army.

6. Shortly after, the ZNA found itself in another UN mission, protecting civilians in Sudan and Eritrea from ethnic cleansing and war respectively. These are operations which in part led to the creation of South Sudan and a ceasefire in Eritrea.
7. Another UN mission to protect civilians from warlords in Southern Chad would follow, and during this mission, the US government suddenly pressured the UN to cancel the mission. ZNA soldiers and their commanders refused to leave the area of operation because they were convinced that civilians were in danger of annihilation if they left before a settlement. With this refusal, US Africa Command, on behalf of the UN, evacuated other peacekeepers and then cut all air, road, food, ammunition and financial support.

For months this small contingent of ZNA soldiers and special forces held on, defending civilians, while running the risk of being outflanked and overrun by the enemy who had numbers. Albeit, their adventurism was supported by ammunition and food columns that were sent by former-enemy-come-ally, Yoweri Museveni, until the situation was stabilized.

8. In 2004, Zimbabwe’s military intelligence intercepted and arrested a group of South African mercenaries led by British Mark Thatcher and Michael Mann. They were on their way to overthrow the Equatorial Guinea President and rumors have it that Mark Thatcher himself was also on the plane, but he was saved from jail by negotiations between Mugabe and his mother Margaret Thatcher, for his release. The story goes that the promise of badly needed supplies of fuel to Zimbabwe, eventually secured his release.
9. Since then, Zimbabwe is rumored to be maintaining military presence in Equatorial Guinea, to defend that nation from future attacks. In 2015, we saw Zimbabwe’s counter terrorism unit being deployed to ensure the safety of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
10. Due to this illustrious performance by the ZNA, in 2020, Donald Trump asked for Zimbabwe to take lead on the mission to deal with Amsar Al Sunnah rebels of Mozambique, but the Zimbabwean government asked for the US to remove sanctions first, before the shield of Africa could participate.

No other third world army anywhere else in the world, has had such an impact on their continent, protecting nations and civilians from tyranny and imperialism. And it is because of this counter hegemony against western hegemony, that the western world demonized Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe to put them under illegal sanctions.

It’s a pity that the story of the Zimbabwe National Army has not been told to the world in the past 41yrs, to make the world understand how this brave army, engenders the very virtues of soldiering: courage, self sacrifice, defense of the weak and love for humanity.

I urge the Zimbabwean government to stop betraying future generations of Africa, as they MUST invest resources into documenting, filming and immortalizing this legacy bequeathed to all of us by Africa’s guardians……..the ZNA.

I fight sanctions and tell the story of the ZNA from root tops, to protect this worthy contribution by our brave men and women. Tinokutendai!!!!!

By Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare.

By A Correspondent- MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the popular movement will thrash Zanu PF in the 2023 polls.

The legitimacy crisis is the country’s biggest problem, according to President Chamisa.

Speaking during an event to celebrate the Movement for Democratic Change’s 22nd anniversary, the popular leader said:

“The party is growing despite attempts by the regime to destroy it…

Actually the MDC is a culture, it is an unstoppable idea.

Mnangagwa is quaking in his boots because he knows that we will the coming elections resoundingly.”
Watch video below:

By A Correspondent- The Registrar General (RG’s) Office has reopened to the public after having scaled-down operations when the country recorded a rise in coronavirus infections.

At the peak of COVID-19 cases, the registry was mainly issuing burial orders.

Issuance of birth certificates, passports and IDs were suspended during the intensified lockdown as the Government had decongested the workplace to 20 per cent.

President Mnangagwa on Tuesday reviewed the national lockdown from Level Four to Level Two and among the new measures, the workplace operates with 50 per cent capacity.

The relaxation of lockdown regulations has seen the Civil Registry Department, commonly known as RG’s Office, increasing its services to the public and has started accepting passport applications, issuing births certificates and IDs.

In an interview with the Chronicle, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Deputy Minister Ruth Maboyi said the reopening of the RG’s Office to the public is in line with the reviewed lockdown measures. She said:

The RG’s Office had reduced its operations owing to the increase in COVID-19 cases. But since the cases have decreased it has reopened and we expect it to attend to as many people as possible and attend to their national documentation issues.

She said the RG’s Office would gradually increase its services to the public and attend to existing backlogs.

Meanwhile, passport seekers in Bulawayo expressed disappointment as only a handful of applicants were being attended to.

They said officials told them that they were screening and prioritising emergency cases among the documents’ seekers.

By A Correspondent- ZIFA has fired Logarusic. The association released a media statement today announcing the development.

We present the announcement by ZIFA in full:

ZIFA, LOGA PART WAYS

The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) would like to inform the football fraternity and the nation at large that it has amicably parted ways with Senior Men’s team coach Zdravko Logarusic. The decision was arrived at upon consideration by the full Executive Committee of all the various relevant circumstances pertaining to the coach’s contract.

The entire technical team has also been disbanded.

The appointment of the interim technical team shall be announced in due course as the Executive Committee has already set in motion the process.

For and on behalf of the Zimbabwe Football Association:

Xolisani Gwesela
Communications & Competitions Manager.

By A Correspondent- Civil servants say they will not be intimidated by government’s decision to invoke the no-pay, no-work policy and vowed to continue pressing for better working conditions.

Public Service Commission secretary Jonathan Wutawunashe on Friday announced that the Salary Service Bureau (SSB) will pay workers in accordance with their attendance at work.

He said heads of government departments will submit attendance registers to the SSB with those absent from duty being removed from the payroll.

Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions secretary-general David Dzatsunga said they were not consulted about the new policy that will have serious repercussions for civil servants.

Dzatsunga said the government was ignoring the need to engage its workers and address their concerns.

“This is an unexpected and unfortunate reaction to the incapacitated civil servants,” he said. “Government is intimidating the civil servants, rather than engaging them.

“Of late, we have noted unilateralism by the government on issues affecting workers.

“The public service should go back to the rules of engagement. It is not proper to impose policies unilaterally when there are established institutions to represent the workers.”

Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions secretary general, Japhet Moyo urged the government to respect workers’ rights.

“Where workers are engaging in sanctioned protests, they should receive their salaries and not be threatened,” Moyo said.

Zimbabwe Nurses Association president Enock Dongo said they would not allow government to impose unfavourable policies on them.

“The no work no pay policy is a clear indication that government is not concerned about the welfare of its workers,” Dongo said.

“Workers do not intentionally abscond from work, but they are forced by the circumstances.

“In this case, poor wages are forcing civil servants to abscond duty.

“Where there are issues of concern among civil servants, government has always blamed the workers for the discontent, which is not the way they should address the issues.”

Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe leader, Masaraure described the government’s decision as “an empty thereat” vowing teachers will continue demanding better wages.

“The teachers are not bothered by the threats of no pay president no work,” Masaraure said.

“Deducting a portion from the peanuts being earned by teachers will not substantially change anything. Government should focus on capacitating teachers to save our education.

“Meanwhile, teachers will remain at home waiting for government to play ball.”

Zimbabwe National Teachers’ Union chief executive officer Manuel Nyawo said the policy was likely to widen the rift between government and its workers, which was detrimental to the welfare of the general citizens.

“It is not time to be intimidated by individuals, who speak from the comfort of their offices and have nothing to lose.” Nyawo said.

“Such loose, reckless, damaging and toxic talk by a politically sensitive government will soon cost it and the repercussions will be too ghastly to contemplate.

“Government should instead address the no pay no work principle that we have adopted as workers.”

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By A Correspondent- Parents of children learning at the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA)-run Ezekiel Guti Primary School in Bulawayo, have accused the institution of charging astronomical fees that are beyond the reach of many.

The parents also claim there is limited development at the school in Cowdray Park to warrant such high fees.

“I am a parent and one of the founder members of the school,” said a parent on condition of anonymity.

“After having convinced our founder Ezekiel Guti to have a school in Matabeleland, we established this school.

“However, we were kicked out after being framed by the new school board committee members.

“We cannot blame president Guti because he is now an old man.”

Another parent complained that on top of the $8 500 school fees, they were forced to pay a 33% top-up fee this term.

“The school was built about five years ago, running from Grade Zero up to grade six.

“There has not been any tangible development to talk about.

“This school must be closed or we will transfer all our children because we have seen that it was established only to enrich other people.

ZAOGA primary schools director Aaron Moyana refused to comment on the matter.

“Sorry, I cannot comment because I have not received any information,” he said.

-Statemedia

By A Correspondent- The outbreak of prolonged fires at the Ngozi Mine dumpsite in Bulawayo have worried the Matabeleland  Institute for Human Rights which has since started to engage stakeholders over measures to curb the problem which is blamed for polluting the air with poisonous gasses.

“Ngozi Mine dumpsite has been burning for days. The recent development follows other sporadic dumpsite fires that have been a constant feature over the past 3 months,” said MIHR coordinator Khumbulani Maphosa in a statement.

He said as MIHR  they urged the responsible authorities to swiftly act and convene a dialogue meeting with Ngozi Mine slum dwellers and waste pickers in order to find a solution to this serious matter.

He said Ngozi Mine dumpsite fires lead to the environmental and human rights concerns such as the noxious smoke and gases which cause high levels of air pollution affecting environment, health and dignity rights for nearby suburbs such as Cowdray Park, Emakhandeni, Luveve 5 and Richmond.

“The toxic gases and smoke released contribute to greenhouse gas emissions worsening global warming and climate change effects.  Some materials dumped at Ngozi Mine are aerosols and can explode if subjected to heat. This is dangerous to waste pickers, council workers and passersby,” Maphosa said.

He said there is a lot of electric and electronic waste (e-waste) being dumped at Ngozi Mine and most e-waste, once burnt, becomes hazardous substances that are dangerous for humans, environment and wildlife.

“The fires are destroying valuable waste materials which could have been collected by waste pickers and either recycled or reused thus creating employment and livelihood sustainability for over 1 200 waste pickers and their families who depend on the dumpsite for economic survival,” he said.

“We visited Ngozi Mine for observations and interaction with waste pickers and we are convinced that the fires can be solved through dialogue and civic engagement with the Ngozi Mine waste pickers and the various stakeholders.”

He said they proposed civic engagement does not in any-way imply the recognition of Ngozi Mine slum settlement as a formal settlement but it is in recognition of the Constitutional mandate to enhance human rights protection for the greater Bulawayo community, the Ngozi waste pickers themselves and Council workers operating in that area.

Over 250 families are resident at the squatter camp with no proper shelter and ablution facilities.

Bulawayo Environmental Management Agency Provincial Manager Sithembisiwe Ndlovu said they did an inspection of the place and took measurements and we are engaging the council to upgrade the place and we will enforce the law as soon as processes are complete.

“This fire started sometime in May and it has been on and off and we are working on measures so that this should not escalate.  We are worried about the environment and the health of the people so we are trying to follow a legal route to address the issue,” she said.

Zanu-PF has released a statement on its relationship with Zambia’s ruling party UPND. In the statement Zanu-PF, through its secretary of administration Obert Mpofu said it respect Zambia’s sovereignty.

Said the statement:

“From the outset, His Excellency, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, gave outright support to an absolute constitutional execution of the recent Zambian election. To this end, the First Secretary and President of ZANU PF, Cde ED Mnangagwa, was an instrumental arbiter in influencing the then incumbent Cde Edgar Lungu to concede to the winds of change.

Guided by our President’s symbolic gestures in endorsing the will of the people in Zambia, it would be remiss for anyone to think that ZANU PF has an unexpressed sense of resentment about the outcome of Zambia’s recent plebiscite.

It must be underscored that ZANU PF is a pro-democracy adherent party.

Also worth underscoring is our total respect for the sovereignty of other fellow African nations.

Our consistency in this respect has a clear historical track record anchored on the diplomatic relations, which Zimbabwe has enjoyed between the interval political epochs of Father Kenneth Kaunda and Edgar Lungu’s reign.

We have been consistent in meeting all our diplomatic obligations with the Republic of Zambia with no bias exertions on any of Zambia’s Heads of State over the years.

Our seasoned political experience would never permit us to be drawn to the narrow preferential sentimentalism on whoever is the President of Zambia or not.”

There have been suggestions that the election of Haikande Hichilema in Zambia had unsettled Zanu-PF. 

Recently UPND spokesperson Joseph Kalimbwe said that his party was being attacked by ZANU PF on social media which he said was “scandalous”.

In May this year, before Hichileman’s election as president, Zim’s presidential spokesman George Charamba referred to him as a sellout. Charamba repeated this following Hichilema’s victory in August. MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa and Haikande HIchilema are reportedly close associates.

By A Correspondent- Khanyi Mbau seems unresentful on the way she dumped her Zimbabwean boyfriend, Kudzai Mushonga.

The star even composed a song on it and it has been receiving mixed reactions from people.

While on stage, Khanyi was heard chanting: “Shiya indoda e Dubai … phuma ngathi uyabuya”.

Roughly translated it means dump him in Dubai, leave like you are coming back.

By A Correspondent- The arrest of the Minister of State for Masvingo Province and Zanu PF provincial chairperson Ezra Chadzamira is a direct result of escalating factional battles in the former revolutionary party.

Chadzamira was arrested for fraudulently distributing sugarcane plots.

Chadzamira also controls mining claims around Masvingo Province.

Party insiders told ZimEye.com, a faction aligned to Zanu PF vice president Constantino Chiwenga is plotting Chadzamira’s downfall.

According an impeccable source, party stalwarts held a secret meeting in Gutu District, days before Chadzamira’s arrest.

“Former police officer Robson Mavhenyengwa and Masvingo North MP Davies Marapira are eyeing Chadzamira’s position.

The two are determined to remove Chadzamira from office as they feel he has become too powerful and his wings have to be clipped,” said the source.

“Things are not well, the whole thing emanates from the internecine battle between ED and Chiwenga,” claimed a senior Zanu PF official.

“Party stalwarts want to crush Chadzamira’s Team Bholato that has risen to the summit of political events in Masvingo Province,” said another Zanu PF official.

By A Correspondent- Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo has unceremoniously disappeared from the public space and has been replaced by Mike Bimha.

The Zanu PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu announced the replacement of Khaya Moyo on Sunday.

By A Correspondent– A South African court has convicted and sentenced a 32 year- old Zimbabwean man to 23 years for committing fraud cases of over R1. 6 million. 

Arthur Moyo was found guilty and sentenced by the Emalahleni Regional Court last Friday.

Moyo was Convicted for four counts of fraud and one count of contravening Sec18(1) and Sec18 (2) of the Identification Act Act 68 of 1997. He was sentenced to 23 years imprisonment, however, the  Court ruled that accused will serve 15 years effectively.

Moyo’s Conviction came after he went to Nel Auto Mazda  Witbank and Ford in Nelspruit and used counterfeit bank statements, Salary slips, counterfeit ID documents bearing his photo to made applications for vehicle finance in November 2017. After the applications were approved he collected the said vehicles.

The same Modus Oparandi was used at Klerksdorp  Motor Smart on 17 November 2016. Again in Polokwane Galactic Auto on 13 January 2017. Lastly in Rustenburg, Leons Rustenburg Ford on 13 January 2017. The total value suffered by the banks is over R1. 6 Million. 

The Provincial Head for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation Major General Zodwa Mokoena welcome the sentence. She further applauded the investigating team for securing a successful conviction on multiple cases in all three provinces which are Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng. 

A Correspondent- Zanu PF has reached out to the new Zambian President, Haikaende Hichilema, and apologised for denouncing the then neighbouring country’s opposition leader.

Zanu PF senior officials, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba, recently made headlines denouncing President Hichilema for his allegiance to the MDC-Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa.

Charamba, early this year, posted on his Twitter handle pictures of Hichilema and Chamisa and labelled them sell-outs.

Charamba has never retracted his statement against Hichilema even though the then Zambia’s opposition leader is now the head of state of Zambia.

In a statement Sunday, Zanu PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu said his party respects Hichilema as the legitimate President of Zambia.

https://twitter.com/DrObertMpofu/status/1436944780311900165/photo/2

By A Correspondent-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s fleet of presidential helicopters has depleted following the crashing of another chopper in April. 

Information gathered by The NewsHawks indicates that the Augusta Bell 412, which crashed in April, killing two pilots, a technician and a child on the ground, was on a test flight for presidential use.

A source told The NewsHawks that the helicopter was on a training mission, manned by two pilots and a technician when it disappeared from the radar. Said the source:

The late Wing Commander Thomas Tinashe Manyowa had experience in flying VVIPs such as former President Robert Mugabe, and at the time of the accident, he was training Flight Lieutenant Anita Mapiya, who had recently been promoted to fly VVIPs.

The chopper crashed on the house in Arcturus, a farming area some 30 km east of the capital Harare. It killed a child and injured another.

Before this crash, Manyowa and Mapiye trended on social media platforms after they flew one of the helicopters that transported senior government officials to the opening ceremony of a new bridge in Mashonaland Central province.

Last month, Mnangagwa’s presidential helicopter was dramatically forced into an emergency landing over 60 kilometres southwest of Harare on a Sunday afternoon due to technical failure.

The chopper, which was flying from Mnangagwa’s Kwekwe farm, landed at a farm owned by a ministry of Finance official.

-NewsHawks

By A Correspondent- The Public Service Commission has said that a memo suggesting organized shopping trips to South Africa is fake.

The memo has been circulating on social media purporting to be from the PSC. 

Said PSC today in a tweet:

False and misinformation!! The Public Service wishes to inform the Public and stakeholders that there is a fake memo circulating on social media purporting that there will be organized shopping trips to South Africa.

This is a scam and should be condemned. 

The memo itself read:

FROM : Public Service Commission
To : All Government Departments/Ministries
Date : 9 September 2021

SUBJECT: PROVINCIAL MONTH-END SHOPPING TRIPS TO SOUTH AFRICA

We intent to introduce month-end shopping trips for civil servants. The trips will be determined by the response from interested members.

May you please kindly submit names of interested members to this office by not later than 10 September 2021.

By A Correspondent- Norton MP Temba Mliswa last week took Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe to task in parliament for causing the unlawful detention of former liberation warfighters.

A handful of war veterans were arrested and briefly detained in Harare last week after they staged a demonstration against their pension pay-outs.

Mliswa wanted Kazembe to answer why the police did not take the arrested and detained war veterans to court.

By A Correspondent-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s fleet of presidential helicopters has been involved in a spate of crashes, resulting in the Zimbabwean leader being left with no private air transport.

Information gathered by The NewsHawks indicates that the Augusta Bell 412, which crashed in April, killing two pilots, a technician and a child on the ground, was on a test flight for presidential use.

A source told The NewsHawks that the helicopter was on a training mission, manned by two pilots and a technician when it disappeared from the radar. Said the source:

The late Wing Commander Thomas Tinashe Manyowa had experience in flying VVIPs such as former President Robert Mugabe, and at the time of the accident, he was training Flight Lieutenant Anita Mapiya, who had recently been promoted to fly VVIPs.

The chopper crashed on the house in Arcturus, a farming area some 30 km east of the capital Harare. It killed a child and injured another.

Before this crash, Manyowa and Mapiye trended on social media platforms after they flew one of the helicopters that transported senior government officials to the opening ceremony of a new bridge in Mashonaland Central province.

Last month, Mnangagwa’s presidential helicopter was dramatically forced into an emergency landing over 60 kilometres southwest of Harare on a Sunday afternoon due to technical failure.

The chopper, which was flying from Mnangagwa’s Kwekwe farm, landed at a farm owned by a ministry of Finance official.

By A Correspondent- Police in South Africa have impounded a truck carrying more than 100 bodies at the N2 near Somerset West on Saturday afternoon.

Western Cape Transport and Public Works MEC Daylin Mitchell told News24 the truck was overloaded.
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The Western Cape health department said it was awaiting final confirmation on whether the more than 100 corpses found in a truck that was stopped at a weighbridge in Somerset West on Saturday were those of people who died of Covid-19.

Department spokesperson Mark van der Heever said the undertaker’s truck was stopped by traffic officials.

“It was found that all the paperwork to transport the bodies to the Eastern Cape for cremation was in order. As a result, the undertaker was allowed to continue his journey.”

Van der Heever added the department did not anticipate any risk to the public as the necessary permits were presented to traffic officials.

Transport and Public Works MEC Daylin Mitchell told News24: “The officers stopped a truck at the Somerset weighbridge on the N2 in Somerset West on Saturday afternoon. When it was discovered that the truck was overloaded, the driver informed the officers he was transporting dead bodies to the Eastern Cape.”

Mitchell said provincial traffic officials immediately closed the weighbridge and handed the site over to the department and police for further investigation.

Police spokesperson Colonel Andre Traut confirmed police officers were on the scene to investigate the incident.

“We are probing the circumstance,” said the police detail.

-News24

Parents of children learning at the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA)-run Ezekiel Guti Primary School in Bulawayo, have accused the institution of charging astronomical fees that are beyond the reach of many.

The parents also claim there is limited development at the school in Cowdray Park to warrant such high fees.“I am a parent and one of the founder members of the school,” said a parent on condition of anonymity.

“After having convinced our founder Ezekiel Guti to have a school in Matabeleland, we established this school.“However, we were kicked out after being framed by the new school board committee members.

“We cannot blame president Guti because he is now an old man.’’

Another parent complained that on top of the $8 500 school fees, they were forced to pay a 33% top-up fee this term.

“The school was built about five years ago, running from Grade Zero up to grade six.

“There has not been any tangible development to talk about.

“This school must be closed or we will transfer all our children because we have seen that it was established only to enrich other people.

ZAOGA primary schools director Aaron Moyana refused to comment on the matter.“Sorry, I cannot comment because I have not received any information,’’ he said.

-The Standard

By Paul Ndou| Chickens have come home to roost for ZANU PF Masvingo Provincial Chairperson, Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira as he drags Vice President Constantine Chiwenga into the mud in a bid to shrug off the abuse of office and corruption hood threatening to dramatically end his political career. 

It surely never rains but pours for ZANU PF Masvingo Provincial  Chadzamira  as it seems his ancestors have deserted him at a time when he needed them most. As was once prophesied by an anonymous audio recording that went viral last year 2020, the quest for power by the former MDC Activist Chadzamira has left tongues wagging in Masvingo Province as his insatiable thirst and desire for power has seemingly coroded his brains and succesfully drove him into a no return crocodile infested pool. 

The “notorious” ZANU PF provincial Chairman for Masvingo Province doubling as the resident Minister has gone berserk devouring everyone whom he perceives to be against his foiled and unbridled ambition to succesfully form his own party within the mighty ZANU PF party.

Together with his brigade of politically hungry and greedy mafia of hooligans, Chadzamira’s movements have been following a well defined trajectory which can be summarised in the following points where ultimate objective was to get to the highest office by all means available.

1. Demonizing, pacifying, name-calling and sidelining of senior party authorities in Masvingo Province and ZANU PF at large.

Chadzamira has recently stirred up a hornet’s nest when he publicly claimed that the investigations being carried out on him by ZACC are being sponsored by a faction linked to the  Second Secretary for ZANU PF, Vice President Rtd General Constantine Chiwenga.

The public insinuations by the Resident Minister imply that he has chosen to directly fight the office of HE  by misleading HE and hoodwink him into believing his frivolous and baseless claims that  VP Chiwenga is leading a faction in Masvingo when he Chadzamira is the one at the thick of forming his own politocal party well known as Team Bholato in Masvingo province.

Chadzamira deliberately chose to drag the loyal VP into his dirty tracks so that he can buy another term in the sacred ZANU PF Chairmanship position by misleading the otherwise unsuspicious First Secretary of ZANU PF, HE Cde Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. 

Thus, in a bid to get off the hook, Chadzamira went on a brazen attack on the Hon Vice president publicly claiming that he is the sponsor of all his political woes when the truth of the matter is that his evil past was now following him up and haunting him on a daily basis. Cde Chadzamira has long been pressing the self destruction button through his extreme corrupt tendencies together with a lot of rumour mongering, backbiting and backstabbing of fellow Cdes in the struggle. 

Cde Chadzamira quickly forgets that his meteoric rise to power has been based on these three crude tactics as mentioned before and these can only sustain a political career for a short period of time.What Hon Vice President Rtd CGDN Chiwenga is suffering today has been the life of the likes of Cdes Josiah Dunira Hungwe, Paul Mangwana, Lovemore Matuke(politburo members) , the Late Clemence Makwarimba and Minah Mandava all central committee members who have been pauperised by Chadzamira and reduced to trash.

Regardless of the fact that all these mentioned Cdes above played a pivotal role on the rise of the then novice Chadzamira who defected from MDC in 2011, Chadzamira took every opportunity to backstab everyone of these Cdes and made sure noone of them remained standing or relevant in Masvingo Province.

It is reported that Chadzanira would go to HE the First Secretary of ZANU PF and backstab every one of them in a bid to gain political relevance and become the godfather for Masvingo Province.

The whole idea by Chadzamira and his cronies was to create a fertile ground for the launch of their own political outfit within ZANU PF and this almost manifested during the recently held DCC elections. Instead of Chadzamira honoring up his shortcomings and accept that he has become very unpopular with the electorate especially due to his dictatorial tendencies manifesting through the mantra *Chairman havabvunzwi*, Chadzamira erroneously and ignorantly goes on to attack the personality of senior party officials including the VP and politburo members in a way to try and confuse HE and get away with it as he has been doing so in his entire political career. 

2. Extreme Corruption and abuse of office

Whilst it has become synonymous with many political leaders in our country, Chadzamira’s corrupt tendencies have left the whole province holding their hearts in their hands. His corrupt tendencies have gone to levels never seen before. Below is a summary of very clear corruption activities leveled against Chadzamira’s head.

i). The contentious Kilimanjaro Sugar Cane Plots allocations.

These plots have been used as a weapon for mass destruction as Chadzamira has been allocating these to his close cronies with some being sold out for a lot of money used to fund their nefarious political activities across the province.Ample evidence is there clearly showing that both government and political offices are being brazenly abused. 

ii). Mining Scandals

Among many others,Old Dove Mine and King Mine form some of the well documented mining scandals which are known to everyone across Masvingo province.Whilst these are just a tip of the iceberg, Cde Chadzamira has been known to be havibg a propensity to grab any mining opportunity that presents itself across the whole province and tge people of Masvingo have had enough of his shenanigans. One fundamental question which has been raised by Masvingo Province residents is whether Chadzamira has become the law himself since he publicly insinuates tgat”chi ZACC chenyu hachindisunge ichi” when there is clear evidence and V11s that the guy is very corrupt and abuses both government and party offices. 

iii). The selling of pfumvudza and presidential inputs together with the recently released mealie-meal and social welfare commodities and presidential rice

When one traces back to 2018, you will find out that Chadzamira and his close allied have been hoarding stuff meant for the people and feeding their own shops where inputs meant for the general populace would be sold out to the same beneficiaries for which the stuff was initially meant to be parcelled out free of charge.

To make matters worse, we have well known public places where these are sold whilist we also have hoards and hoards of rice decaying in their backyards. The rice was meant to be used during crucial campaigns such as the dustrict and provincial elections. The level of looting witnessed among Chadzamira’s political brigade is unparalleled and never seen before. 

iv). The Masvingo Provincial Development Trust(MPDT)

This is a trust which is supposed to be run by an established board that runs its affairs independently. As it stands, the MPDT is being run unilaterally by Chadzamira and G Mukungunugwa and with reports that Triangle ltd has been partenered to grow sugar cane on behalf of the trust, several questions are being raised on who exactly is accounting for either the losses or profits of the trust? Who is really in charge of the financial activities of the trust? Only Chadzamira and Gody Mukungunugwa knows better. 

3. Formation of a deadly and powerful strategic alliance with the former ZANU PF National Political Commisar, Cde V. Matemadanda and Cde Chadzamira.

The coming together of the then NPC and Provincial Chair for Masvingo Province was a significant step towards the successful formation of a faction famously known as Team Bholato in Masvingo Province. The two powerful Cdes were very tight friends and Matemadanda’s involvement was meant to give Hon Chadzamira leverage in every party process that was going to be held under the tutelage of the then mighty NPC.

The duo successfully installed several of their own DCC structures accross Masvingo Province including that of Masvingo, Zaka, Chivi, Chiredzi and Bikita Districts among others. Masvingo DCC election was one of the most shambolic and chaotic internal elections ever to be held in ZANU PF and has left the party in complete disarray.

Regardles of the complaints and noise over these elections, Matemadanda made sure that their imposed DCC candidates stood as winners even when everyone in ZANU PF knew that a rerun was the way to go in the whole of Masvingo province.

The main reason why these were imposed was to make sure that Chadzamira personally controlled the whole province through this installed powerful but puppet structure. 

4. Using DCCs to create the core for Team Bholato or Chadzamira faction and party.

Cde Chadzamira and his cronies who include Hon C Maronge of Masvingo south Constituency, Hon F Musikavanhu of Chiredzi, Councillor S. Manyanga (Masvingo Provincial Youth PC), Councilor G. Mukungunugwa (ProviciaChair Youth League) and Hon Svuure of Zaka were hyperactive in the formation and establishment of the newly installed DCCs across the province.

Their major objective was to make sure that Chadzamira’s handpicked DCC candidates would be installed across the whole province regardless of whether the candidates were popular by way of votes or not.These would then plslay a pivotal role in  future restructuring exercises as is the current scenarion in many districts especially in Masvingo District among others.

The Chadzamira installed DCC candidates have been causing chaos and pandemonium as they have been creating parallel and fake structures(cells and branches) all of which are sorely meant to swindle both district and provincial elections in Chadzamira’s favour thus making sure that Chadzamira clandestinely retains the chairmanship post at all costs so that his political shenanigans can live another day.

5. Purging and suspension of well known loyalist of HE Cde ED Mnangagwa on frivolous charges and cooption of questionable characters into PEC and PCC

In a bid to create and succesfully installbis puppet PCC structure where his factional decisions are not queried, Chadzamira has been on a continuous drive to purge and replace all of HE’s loyalists while name calling anyone seen to be opposing their sinister political agenda to create their own party within ZANU PF.

Surprisingly, Chadzamira’s girlfriends were seen putting status that was running aciuntdown to the big day where they purportedly claimed that Chadzamira was going to assume the Vice Presidency of the country and Party but was quickly removed when the death of the Late rtd Lieutenant General SB Moyo was announced.

How that was going to happen remained a mystery to the people of Masvingo.

While the circular to stop all cooptions made after April 2021 was issued out to all provinces, Masvingo Province led by Chadzamira and J Masosota has chos3n to ignore the circular and they create their own circulars to counter the NPC circulars and one wonders where Chadzamira and his cronies obtain their power from.

As to make this point clear, before the NPC office had issued a circular allowing the party to start branch restructuring, Chadzamira and his DCC cronies had almost completed the formation of party branches even before the circular was issued.

Chadzamira and his cronies would go on to install their own preferred branch structures so that they can go on to install their own district structures which will then vote them back into office during the upcomig provincial elections.

It remains to be seen how the Chadzamira-ZACC saga shall come to an end as as he battles for survival and  has taken a very solid stance that they better go down fighting the ZANU PF system rather than throw in the towel.

Interestingly, several of Chadzamira’s perceived close allies have effectively jumped ship joining the masses,the influential war veterans, several other king pins including more than two thirds of Masvingo province legislators, central committee members and politburo members who have cut ties with Chadzamira accusing him of destroying the party from within.

Chadzamira has been left fighting a lone battle which his few cronies believe can only be sustained through manipulation of the crucial party branch structures together with the impending district structures as Chadzamira, his DCC and his close allies hold critical positions in the party which has allowed them to come up with fake cells and branches which are meant to be used for formulating fake  districts accross the province.

By Nelson Chamisa

Two decades ago, a diverse range of people and groups came together to build a glorious movement that would play a significant role in shaping the governance of our country.

At the time, Zimbabwe was still in its teenage years, but it was facing serious challenges. Signs of stunted growth were already evident in the social, economic, and political spheres.

The men and women who had valiantly led the fight for our independence had reached the limits of their capabilities. The ship was running aground, and it needed to be rescued.

It was in this context that the People’s movement was born on 11 September 1999 to carry out this historic mission.

The journey was never going to be simple, but the People’s movement has stood firm and equal to the task. Given the magnitude of the resistance and repression from the forces of the establishment, it is no mean task the people’s movement remains alive and fighting.

This is so because the is a big idea of challenging repressive rule and promoting open, democratic, and transformative governance.

Those faithful to the idea have remained resolute and determined against numerous odds that would have buried any other ordinary political unit.

Over the years, the People’s movement has grown into something bigger than we could have imagined.Perpetual succession is a hallmark of enduring institutions. A strong institution must be able to survive its founders.

The leading lights of the People’s movement ’s founding era, luminaries like Morgan Tsvangirai, Gibson Sibanda and Isaac Matongo are no longer with us, but the institution has survived them.

This is a testament to the strength of their vision and leadership and to the durability of the idea whose seed they planted back in 1999.

For many of its faithful, the People’s movement has become a way of life; something that is woven into the social fabric of Zimbabwean society.

This is the reason why the idea has survived despite the enormous obstacles that have been thrown on its path since birth. The idea has retained persuasive value and authority among the people. Even its critics and detractors cannot afford to ignore it. Babies born in 1999, when we started, have since reached adulthood.

Their struggles have mirrored the struggles of the movement which resonates with their dreams and aspirations. It gives me enormous satisfaction seeing young Zimbabweans, some born shortly before or after its formation, taking ownership of the idea that it represents. They had the choice to take the easy path, becoming part of the gravy train.

But no, they chose the hard path, identifying with the movement that they know is dedicated to a more progressive way of governing the country bequeathed to them by their forebearers. The “Great” in Zimbabwe cannot be purchased by trinkets from the ruling establishment.

Over the past year, we have seen a sustained and determined effort by the people’s oppressors to undermine and destroy the movement.

This is because the oppressor despises a strong alternative. The oppressor prefers the outdated politics of the one-party state. The oppressor has used surrogates masquerading as opposition to impersonate us, usurp the People’s assets and to expel People’s lawfully elected political representatives from elected bodies.

They have even diverted public funds that we rightfully earned based on our performance in the 2018 elections. This money is dished out to their preferred opposition. The idea is to suffocate us politically and financially and drive us into extinction.

But they are suffering a fundamental delusion. They mistake buildings for institutions. They confuse money for votes. They erringly believe that a name and an idea are the same thing. They focus on materials, not ideas. They do not realise that the idea that holds us together transcends buildings, titles labels, entitlements, emoluments or money.

The painful reality, which they discover each time they stamp their hard boot upon us is that the movement that was established in 1999 is etched in the hearts and minds of the citizens. It does not die because a judicial officer has made a controversial pronouncement.

It is not erased from the hearts and minds of citizens because a partisan officer of Parliament has made an unfair decision to expel a duly elected MP.

It does not become redundant because a corrupted or partisan Minister has decided to divert resources to their favoured ones. It does not wither because some excitable ‘willing tools’ of the ruling party are wearing stolen robes.

It is a way of life that cannot be changed on the whim of a politician whose primary mission is to expunge a genuine opposition from the political landscape, replacing it with a government ‘created opposition’.

We are not the first in post-independent Zimbabwe. Indeed, we are not the first political party to have suffered an onslaught designed to cause extinction. There was ZAPU led by the iconic Dr Joshua Nkomo before us. Veteran nationalist Edgar Tekere formed the ZUM which challenged the attempt to establish a one-party state. Former Chief Justice Enoch Dumbutshena and his colleagues tried their hand at politics with the Forum party in the 1990s.

These parties were terrorized and ultimately swallowed or pummelled into submission by ZANU PF. We have stayed the course although much has been thrown at us. It is a mark of our resilience and collective believe that we have remained afloat. But we have not only survived.

We continue to challenge repression. The reason why the regime and its enablers continue their onslaught long after everything they have done to date is a mark of recognition of the political force that we are. Each time they knock us down using underhand blows, we rise and stand strong.

Not even the attempt to impersonate us will succeed. You can steal a label, but you cannot steal character. Citizens can see through the political gimmicks. They can identify the grain from the chaff.

Even democrats beyond our country can distinguish between a fake and the genuine article. Last week, I was invited to the inauguration of President Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia. His ascension to the highest office in our sister country is a proud moment for Africa, the people of Zambia and indeed a humbling one for all of us who are strong believers in the idea of a New Africa and democracy.

President Hichilema’s success reminds us that the pursuit of democracy requires principled leadership based upon resilience,consistency, determination, and strategy. He did not stop because the opposite side had thwarted him several times before. He did not give up because he was being persecuted. He did not throw in the towel because they were naysayers who said it was impossible. We draw great lessons and inspiration from that experience.

I began by looking back to the first days of our movement. I emphasised the fact that ours is a glorious movement based on an idea that is woven into the fabric of society.

They have tried many things. They will keep trying, hoping to put us down forever. But they will not succeed. They will fail because the movement is bigger than the material things that they are grabbing and destroying. We are rooted and headquartered within the hearts and minds of Zimbabweans. They cannot destroy what is written in the hearts and minds of the people.

I was a young man when we started along with others. I am now a full man and still at it. The idea of getting tired is a luxury that is unaffordable. We are inspired by the missionary zeal to transform anchored on the will to change. When I see the fervour among the young people, I am energised and reinvigorated.

So many young people have emerged since those early days in 1999. We thought by now, things would be better. They are not, but it has not been for lack of trying. I want to end by urging you all, young people of Zimbabwe, to seize the moment, just like your peers did in Zambia.

We can start this by registering to vote. The right to vote is one of the most central democratic rights that we enjoy. At 18, everyone can register as a voter and participate in elections. But while this is so fundamental and potentially life-changing it is regrettable that so many people still do not exercise it. Each time that an eligible person does not vote, they are outsourcing their future to the next person who is voting.
We can change this, but to do so we must take an extra effort and extra step, that mental leap to win Zimbabwe for change. As you know, change is anchored in belief. We need a progressive mindset that recognises the fact that every vote matters.

Remember this: a million votes are made up of a million single votes cast separately by a million individuals. A hallmark of our culture is that “I am because you are”. We call it Ubuntu. It is a recognition that one’s humanity and worth is not isolated from the humanity of the next person. Similar logic applies to our votes. Your vote counts because of the next vote. Together they can make a more significant impact.

That is why we must all, young and old, play our part as we push this historic phase of our struggle for better governance of our country. We need an inter generational consensus. We must seek and construct a new consensus, a new national convergence. We did it with the liberation promise. Let us do it once again with the transformation promise.

We are blessed with an abundance of resources, but at present, they are benefitting a few, a small clique that believes it has exclusive rights to them. Resources belong to all of us, but to change this primitive monopolisation we must converge in large numbers to challenge and defeat the forces that continue to hold the country hostage. They would not be a million if one thought voting was pointless. We must embrace the spirit of ants that know that the survival and perpetual succession of their colony depends on each one of them performing its respective role.

Nelson Chamisa
Excellence, Brilliance,Difference!

By Nelson Chamisa

Two decades ago, a diverse range of people and groups came together to build a glorious movement that would play a significant role in shaping the governance of our country.

At the time, Zimbabwe was still in its teenage years, but it was facing serious challenges. Signs of stunted growth were already evident in the social, economic, and political spheres.

The men and women who had valiantly led the fight for our independence had reached the limits of their capabilities. The ship was running aground, and it needed to be rescued.

It was in this context that the People’s movement was born on 11 September 1999 to carry out this historic mission.

The journey was never going to be simple, but the People’s movement has stood firm and equal to the task. Given the magnitude of the resistance and repression from the forces of the establishment, it is no mean task the people’s movement remains alive and fighting.

This is so because the is a big idea of challenging repressive rule and promoting open, democratic, and transformative governance.

Those faithful to the idea have remained resolute and determined against numerous odds that would have buried any other ordinary political unit.

Over the years, the People’s movement has grown into something bigger than we could have imagined.Perpetual succession is a hallmark of enduring institutions. A strong institution must be able to survive its founders.

The leading lights of the People’s movement ’s founding era, luminaries like Morgan Tsvangirai, Gibson Sibanda and Isaac Matongo are no longer with us, but the institution has survived them.

This is a testament to the strength of their vision and leadership and to the durability of the idea whose seed they planted back in 1999.

For many of its faithful, the People’s movement has become a way of life; something that is woven into the social fabric of Zimbabwean society.

This is the reason why the idea has survived despite the enormous obstacles that have been thrown on its path since birth. The idea has retained persuasive value and authority among the people. Even its critics and detractors cannot afford to ignore it. Babies born in 1999, when we started, have since reached adulthood.

Their struggles have mirrored the struggles of the movement which resonates with their dreams and aspirations. It gives me enormous satisfaction seeing young Zimbabweans, some born shortly before or after its formation, taking ownership of the idea that it represents. They had the choice to take the easy path, becoming part of the gravy train.

But no, they chose the hard path, identifying with the movement that they know is dedicated to a more progressive way of governing the country bequeathed to them by their forebearers. The “Great” in Zimbabwe cannot be purchased by trinkets from the ruling establishment.

Over the past year, we have seen a sustained and determined effort by the people’s oppressors to undermine and destroy the movement.

This is because the oppressor despises a strong alternative. The oppressor prefers the outdated politics of the one-party state. The oppressor has used surrogates masquerading as opposition to impersonate us, usurp the People’s assets and to expel People’s lawfully elected political representatives from elected bodies.

They have even diverted public funds that we rightfully earned based on our performance in the 2018 elections. This money is dished out to their preferred opposition. The idea is to suffocate us politically and financially and drive us into extinction.

But they are suffering a fundamental delusion. They mistake buildings for institutions. They confuse money for votes. They erringly believe that a name and an idea are the same thing. They focus on materials, not ideas. They do not realise that the idea that holds us together transcends buildings, titles labels, entitlements, emoluments or money.

The painful reality, which they discover each time they stamp their hard boot upon us is that the movement that was established in 1999 is etched in the hearts and minds of the citizens. It does not die because a judicial officer has made a controversial pronouncement.

It is not erased from the hearts and minds of citizens because a partisan officer of Parliament has made an unfair decision to expel a duly elected MP.

It does not become redundant because a corrupted or partisan Minister has decided to divert resources to their favoured ones. It does not wither because some excitable ‘willing tools’ of the ruling party are wearing stolen robes.

It is a way of life that cannot be changed on the whim of a politician whose primary mission is to expunge a genuine opposition from the political landscape, replacing it with a government ‘created opposition’.

We are not the first in post-independent Zimbabwe. Indeed, we are not the first political party to have suffered an onslaught designed to cause extinction. There was ZAPU led by the iconic Dr Joshua Nkomo before us. Veteran nationalist Edgar Tekere formed the ZUM which challenged the attempt to establish a one-party state. Former Chief Justice Enoch Dumbutshena and his colleagues tried their hand at politics with the Forum party in the 1990s.

These parties were terrorized and ultimately swallowed or pummelled into submission by ZANU PF. We have stayed the course although much has been thrown at us. It is a mark of our resilience and collective believe that we have remained afloat. But we have not only survived.

We continue to challenge repression. The reason why the regime and its enablers continue their onslaught long after everything they have done to date is a mark of recognition of the political force that we are. Each time they knock us down using underhand blows, we rise and stand strong.

Not even the attempt to impersonate us will succeed. You can steal a label, but you cannot steal character. Citizens can see through the political gimmicks. They can identify the grain from the chaff.

Even democrats beyond our country can distinguish between a fake and the genuine article. Last week, I was invited to the inauguration of President Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia. His ascension to the highest office in our sister country is a proud moment for Africa, the people of Zambia and indeed a humbling one for all of us who are strong believers in the idea of a New Africa and democracy.

President Hichilema’s success reminds us that the pursuit of democracy requires principled leadership based upon resilience,consistency, determination, and strategy. He did not stop because the opposite side had thwarted him several times before. He did not give up because he was being persecuted. He did not throw in the towel because they were naysayers who said it was impossible. We draw great lessons and inspiration from that experience.

I began by looking back to the first days of our movement. I emphasised the fact that ours is a glorious movement based on an idea that is woven into the fabric of society.

They have tried many things. They will keep trying, hoping to put us down forever. But they will not succeed. They will fail because the movement is bigger than the material things that they are grabbing and destroying. We are rooted and headquartered within the hearts and minds of Zimbabweans. They cannot destroy what is written in the hearts and minds of the people.

I was a young man when we started along with others. I am now a full man and still at it. The idea of getting tired is a luxury that is unaffordable. We are inspired by the missionary zeal to transform anchored on the will to change. When I see the fervour among the young people, I am energised and reinvigorated.

So many young people have emerged since those early days in 1999. We thought by now, things would be better. They are not, but it has not been for lack of trying. I want to end by urging you all, young people of Zimbabwe, to seize the moment, just like your peers did in Zambia.

We can start this by registering to vote. The right to vote is one of the most central democratic rights that we enjoy. At 18, everyone can register as a voter and participate in elections. But while this is so fundamental and potentially life-changing it is regrettable that so many people still do not exercise it. Each time that an eligible person does not vote, they are outsourcing their future to the next person who is voting.
We can change this, but to do so we must take an extra effort and extra step, that mental leap to win Zimbabwe for change. As you know, change is anchored in belief. We need a progressive mindset that recognises the fact that every vote matters.

Remember this: a million votes are made up of a million single votes cast separately by a million individuals. A hallmark of our culture is that “I am because you are”. We call it Ubuntu. It is a recognition that one’s humanity and worth is not isolated from the humanity of the next person. Similar logic applies to our votes. Your vote counts because of the next vote. Together they can make a more significant impact.

That is why we must all, young and old, play our part as we push this historic phase of our struggle for better governance of our country. We need an inter generational consensus. We must seek and construct a new consensus, a new national convergence. We did it with the liberation promise. Let us do it once again with the transformation promise.

We are blessed with an abundance of resources, but at present, they are benefitting a few, a small clique that believes it has exclusive rights to them. Resources belong to all of us, but to change this primitive monopolisation we must converge in large numbers to challenge and defeat the forces that continue to hold the country hostage. They would not be a million if one thought voting was pointless. We must embrace the spirit of ants that know that the survival and perpetual succession of their colony depends on each one of them performing its respective role.

Nelson Chamisa
Excellence, Brilliance,Difference!

By Nelson Chamisa

Two decades ago, a diverse range of people and groups came together to build a glorious movement that would play a significant role in shaping the governance of our country.

At the time, Zimbabwe was still in its teenage years, but it was facing serious challenges. Signs of stunted growth were already evident in the social, economic, and political spheres.

The men and women who had valiantly led the fight for our independence had reached the limits of their capabilities. The ship was running aground, and it needed to be rescued.

It was in this context that the People’s movement was born on 11 September 1999 to carry out this historic mission.

The journey was never going to be simple, but the People’s movement has stood firm and equal to the task. Given the magnitude of the resistance and repression from the forces of the establishment, it is no mean task the people’s movement remains alive and fighting.

This is so because the is a big idea of challenging repressive rule and promoting open, democratic, and transformative governance.

Those faithful to the idea have remained resolute and determined against numerous odds that would have buried any other ordinary political unit.

Over the years, the People’s movement has grown into something bigger than we could have imagined.Perpetual succession is a hallmark of enduring institutions. A strong institution must be able to survive its founders.

The leading lights of the People’s movement ’s founding era, luminaries like Morgan Tsvangirai, Gibson Sibanda and Isaac Matongo are no longer with us, but the institution has survived them.

This is a testament to the strength of their vision and leadership and to the durability of the idea whose seed they planted back in 1999.

For many of its faithful, the People’s movement has become a way of life; something that is woven into the social fabric of Zimbabwean society.

This is the reason why the idea has survived despite the enormous obstacles that have been thrown on its path since birth. The idea has retained persuasive value and authority among the people. Even its critics and detractors cannot afford to ignore it. Babies born in 1999, when we started, have since reached adulthood.

Their struggles have mirrored the struggles of the movement which resonates with their dreams and aspirations. It gives me enormous satisfaction seeing young Zimbabweans, some born shortly before or after its formation, taking ownership of the idea that it represents. They had the choice to take the easy path, becoming part of the gravy train.

But no, they chose the hard path, identifying with the movement that they know is dedicated to a more progressive way of governing the country bequeathed to them by their forebearers. The “Great” in Zimbabwe cannot be purchased by trinkets from the ruling establishment.

Over the past year, we have seen a sustained and determined effort by the people’s oppressors to undermine and destroy the movement.

This is because the oppressor despises a strong alternative. The oppressor prefers the outdated politics of the one-party state. The oppressor has used surrogates masquerading as opposition to impersonate us, usurp the People’s assets and to expel People’s lawfully elected political representatives from elected bodies.

They have even diverted public funds that we rightfully earned based on our performance in the 2018 elections. This money is dished out to their preferred opposition. The idea is to suffocate us politically and financially and drive us into extinction.

But they are suffering a fundamental delusion. They mistake buildings for institutions. They confuse money for votes. They erringly believe that a name and an idea are the same thing. They focus on materials, not ideas. They do not realise that the idea that holds us together transcends buildings, titles labels, entitlements, emoluments or money.

The painful reality, which they discover each time they stamp their hard boot upon us is that the movement that was established in 1999 is etched in the hearts and minds of the citizens. It does not die because a judicial officer has made a controversial pronouncement.

It is not erased from the hearts and minds of citizens because a partisan officer of Parliament has made an unfair decision to expel a duly elected MP.

It does not become redundant because a corrupted or partisan Minister has decided to divert resources to their favoured ones. It does not wither because some excitable ‘willing tools’ of the ruling party are wearing stolen robes.

It is a way of life that cannot be changed on the whim of a politician whose primary mission is to expunge a genuine opposition from the political landscape, replacing it with a government ‘created opposition’.

We are not the first in post-independent Zimbabwe. Indeed, we are not the first political party to have suffered an onslaught designed to cause extinction. There was ZAPU led by the iconic Dr Joshua Nkomo before us. Veteran nationalist Edgar Tekere formed the ZUM which challenged the attempt to establish a one-party state. Former Chief Justice Enoch Dumbutshena and his colleagues tried their hand at politics with the Forum party in the 1990s.

These parties were terrorized and ultimately swallowed or pummelled into submission by ZANU PF. We have stayed the course although much has been thrown at us. It is a mark of our resilience and collective believe that we have remained afloat. But we have not only survived.

We continue to challenge repression. The reason why the regime and its enablers continue their onslaught long after everything they have done to date is a mark of recognition of the political force that we are. Each time they knock us down using underhand blows, we rise and stand strong.

Not even the attempt to impersonate us will succeed. You can steal a label, but you cannot steal character. Citizens can see through the political gimmicks. They can identify the grain from the chaff.

Even democrats beyond our country can distinguish between a fake and the genuine article. Last week, I was invited to the inauguration of President Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia. His ascension to the highest office in our sister country is a proud moment for Africa, the people of Zambia and indeed a humbling one for all of us who are strong believers in the idea of a New Africa and democracy.

President Hichilema’s success reminds us that the pursuit of democracy requires principled leadership based upon resilience,consistency, determination, and strategy. He did not stop because the opposite side had thwarted him several times before. He did not give up because he was being persecuted. He did not throw in the towel because they were naysayers who said it was impossible. We draw great lessons and inspiration from that experience.

I began by looking back to the first days of our movement. I emphasised the fact that ours is a glorious movement based on an idea that is woven into the fabric of society.

They have tried many things. They will keep trying, hoping to put us down forever. But they will not succeed. They will fail because the movement is bigger than the material things that they are grabbing and destroying. We are rooted and headquartered within the hearts and minds of Zimbabweans. They cannot destroy what is written in the hearts and minds of the people.

I was a young man when we started along with others. I am now a full man and still at it. The idea of getting tired is a luxury that is unaffordable. We are inspired by the missionary zeal to transform anchored on the will to change. When I see the fervour among the young people, I am energised and reinvigorated.

So many young people have emerged since those early days in 1999. We thought by now, things would be better. They are not, but it has not been for lack of trying. I want to end by urging you all, young people of Zimbabwe, to seize the moment, just like your peers did in Zambia.

We can start this by registering to vote. The right to vote is one of the most central democratic rights that we enjoy. At 18, everyone can register as a voter and participate in elections. But while this is so fundamental and potentially life-changing it is regrettable that so many people still do not exercise it. Each time that an eligible person does not vote, they are outsourcing their future to the next person who is voting.
We can change this, but to do so we must take an extra effort and extra step, that mental leap to win Zimbabwe for change. As you know, change is anchored in belief. We need a progressive mindset that recognises the fact that every vote matters.

Remember this: a million votes are made up of a million single votes cast separately by a million individuals. A hallmark of our culture is that “I am because you are”. We call it Ubuntu. It is a recognition that one’s humanity and worth is not isolated from the humanity of the next person. Similar logic applies to our votes. Your vote counts because of the next vote. Together they can make a more significant impact.

That is why we must all, young and old, play our part as we push this historic phase of our struggle for better governance of our country. We need an inter generational consensus. We must seek and construct a new consensus, a new national convergence. We did it with the liberation promise. Let us do it once again with the transformation promise.

We are blessed with an abundance of resources, but at present, they are benefitting a few, a small clique that believes it has exclusive rights to them. Resources belong to all of us, but to change this primitive monopolisation we must converge in large numbers to challenge and defeat the forces that continue to hold the country hostage. They would not be a million if one thought voting was pointless. We must embrace the spirit of ants that know that the survival and perpetual succession of their colony depends on each one of them performing its respective role.

Nelson Chamisa
Excellence, Brilliance,Difference!

By Nelson Chamisa-Two decades ago, a diverse range of people and groups came together to build a glorious movement that would play a significant role in shaping the governance of our country.

At the time, Zimbabwe was still in its teenage years, but it was facing serious challenges. Signs of stunted growth were already evident in the social, economic, and political spheres.

The men and women who had valiantly led the fight for our independence had reached the limits of their capabilities. The ship was running aground, and it needed to be rescued.

It was in this context that the People’s movement was born on 11 September 1999 to carry out this historic mission.

The journey was never going to be simple, but the People’s movement has stood firm and equal to the task. Given the magnitude of the resistance and repression from the forces of the establishment, it is no mean task the people’s movement remains alive and fighting.

This is so because the is a big idea of challenging repressive rule and promoting open, democratic, and transformative governance.

Those faithful to the idea have remained resolute and determined against numerous odds that would have buried any other ordinary political unit.

Over the years, the People’s movement has grown into something bigger than we could have imagined.Perpetual succession is a hallmark of enduring institutions. A strong institution must be able to survive its founders.

The leading lights of the People’s movement ’s founding era, luminaries like Morgan Tsvangirai, Gibson Sibanda and Isaac Matongo are no longer with us, but the institution has survived them.

This is a testament to the strength of their vision and leadership and to the durability of the idea whose seed they planted back in 1999.

For many of its faithful, the People’s movement has become a way of life; something that is woven into the social fabric of Zimbabwean society.

This is the reason why the idea has survived despite the enormous obstacles that have been thrown on its path since birth. The idea has retained persuasive value and authority among the people. Even its critics and detractors cannot afford to ignore it. Babies born in 1999, when we started, have since reached adulthood.

Their struggles have mirrored the struggles of the movement which resonates with their dreams and aspirations. It gives me enormous satisfaction seeing young Zimbabweans, some born shortly before or after its formation, taking ownership of the idea that it represents. They had the choice to take the easy path, becoming part of the gravy train.

But no, they chose the hard path, identifying with the movement that they know is dedicated to a more progressive way of governing the country bequeathed to them by their forebearers. The “Great” in Zimbabwe cannot be purchased by trinkets from the ruling establishment.

Over the past year, we have seen a sustained and determined effort by the people’s oppressors to undermine and destroy the movement.

This is because the oppressor despises a strong alternative. The oppressor prefers the outdated politics of the one-party state. The oppressor has used surrogates masquerading as opposition to impersonate us, usurp the People’s assets and to expel People’s lawfully elected political representatives from elected bodies.

They have even diverted public funds that we rightfully earned based on our performance in the 2018 elections. This money is dished out to their preferred opposition. The idea is to suffocate us politically and financially and drive us into extinction.

But they are suffering a fundamental delusion. They mistake buildings for institutions. They confuse money for votes. They erringly believe that a name and an idea are the same thing. They focus on materials, not ideas. They do not realise that the idea that holds us together transcends buildings, titles labels, entitlements, emoluments or money.

The painful reality, which they discover each time they stamp their hard boot upon us is that the movement that was established in 1999 is etched in the hearts and minds of the citizens. It does not die because a judicial officer has made a controversial pronouncement.

It is not erased from the hearts and minds of citizens because a partisan officer of Parliament has made an unfair decision to expel a duly elected MP.

It does not become redundant because a corrupted or partisan Minister has decided to divert resources to their favoured ones. It does not wither because some excitable ‘willing tools’ of the ruling party are wearing stolen robes.

It is a way of life that cannot be changed on the whim of a politician whose primary mission is to expunge a genuine opposition from the political landscape, replacing it with a government ‘created opposition’.

We are not the first in post-independent Zimbabwe. Indeed, we are not the first political party to have suffered an onslaught designed to cause extinction. There was ZAPU led by the iconic Dr Joshua Nkomo before us. Veteran nationalist Edgar Tekere formed the ZUM which challenged the attempt to establish a one-party state. Former Chief Justice Enoch Dumbutshena and his colleagues tried their hand at politics with the Forum party in the 1990s.

These parties were terrorized and ultimately swallowed or pummelled into submission by ZANU PF. We have stayed the course although much has been thrown at us. It is a mark of our resilience and collective believe that we have remained afloat. But we have not only survived.

We continue to challenge repression. The reason why the regime and its enablers continue their onslaught long after everything they have done to date is a mark of recognition of the political force that we are. Each time they knock us down using underhand blows, we rise and stand strong.

Not even the attempt to impersonate us will succeed. You can steal a label, but you cannot steal character. Citizens can see through the political gimmicks. They can identify the grain from the chaff.

Even democrats beyond our country can distinguish between a fake and the genuine article. Last week, I was invited to the inauguration of President Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia. His ascension to the highest office in our sister country is a proud moment for Africa, the people of Zambia and indeed a humbling one for all of us who are strong believers in the idea of a New Africa and democracy.

President Hichilema’s success reminds us that the pursuit of democracy requires principled leadership based upon resilience,consistency, determination, and strategy. He did not stop because the opposite side had thwarted him several times before. He did not give up because he was being persecuted. He did not throw in the towel because they were naysayers who said it was impossible. We draw great lessons and inspiration from that experience.

I began by looking back to the first days of our movement. I emphasised the fact that ours is a glorious movement based on an idea that is woven into the fabric of society.

They have tried many things. They will keep trying, hoping to put us down forever. But they will not succeed. They will fail because the movement is bigger than the material things that they are grabbing and destroying. We are rooted and headquartered within the hearts and minds of Zimbabweans. They cannot destroy what is written in the hearts and minds of the people.

I was a young man when we started along with others. I am now a full man and still at it. The idea of getting tired is a luxury that is unaffordable. We are inspired by the missionary zeal to transform anchored on the will to change. When I see the fervour among the young people, I am energised and reinvigorated.

So many young people have emerged since those early days in 1999. We thought by now, things would be better. They are not, but it has not been for lack of trying. I want to end by urging you all, young people of Zimbabwe, to seize the moment, just like your peers did in Zambia.

We can start this by registering to vote. The right to vote is one of the most central democratic rights that we enjoy. At 18, everyone can register as a voter and participate in elections. But while this is so fundamental and potentially life-changing it is regrettable that so many people still do not exercise it. Each time that an eligible person does not vote, they are outsourcing their future to the next person who is voting.
We can change this, but to do so we must take an extra effort and extra step, that mental leap to win Zimbabwe for change. As you know, change is anchored in belief. We need a progressive mindset that recognises the fact that every vote matters.

Remember this: a million votes are made up of a million single votes cast separately by a million individuals. A hallmark of our culture is that “I am because you are”. We call it Ubuntu. It is a recognition that one’s humanity and worth is not isolated from the humanity of the next person. Similar logic applies to our votes. Your vote counts because of the next vote. Together they can make a more significant impact.

That is why we must all, young and old, play our part as we push this historic phase of our struggle for better governance of our country. We need an inter generational consensus. We must seek and construct a new consensus, a new national convergence. We did it with the liberation promise. Let us do it once again with the transformation promise.

We are blessed with an abundance of resources, but at present, they are benefitting a few, a small clique that believes it has exclusive rights to them. Resources belong to all of us, but to change this primitive monopolisation we must converge in large numbers to challenge and defeat the forces that continue to hold the country hostage. They would not be a million if one thought voting was pointless. We must embrace the spirit of ants that know that the survival and perpetual succession of their colony depends on each one of them performing its respective role.

Nelson Chamisa
Excellence, Brilliance,Difference!

By A Correspondent- MDC Alliance national spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere has slammed Education Ministry Permanent Secretary Ms Thumisang Thabela for mocking teachers …

Thabela said teachers who do not have money for transport should borrow from their friends.

Such utterances are reckless, according to Advocate Mahere.

“We need a Govt that pays teachers a living wage instead of mocking them for their penury and telling them to borrow from friends to make ends meet.”

Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe national coordinator Harison Mudzuri described the remarks as shocking…

“We heard the Permanent Secretary for Education in Zim Ms Tumisang Thabela mocking teachers in Zimbabwe for borrowing money for them to go to work and she sarcastically urged them to continue to do so. Teachers you heard for yourself.

The Zim gvt finds it ridiculous for teachers to report for duty under the current working conditions,” fumed Mudzuri.

HUNDREDS of illegal diamond panners and foreign nationals believed to be buyers are
flocking to Chimanimani following the reported discovery of alluvial diamonds near
Charleswood Farm.

This has resulted in all sorts of cars ranging from the latest SUVs to trucks descending on
the area, while flea market traders have set up base there.

Though security personnel have been deployed to thwart the illegal activities, the daring
panners had resorted to a cat-and -mouse games with the law enforcement agents.

Some of the panners were reportedly greasing the palms of unscrupulous law
enforcement agents and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) security
officials seconded to the area to gain entry.

Chimanimani District Development Coordinator Mr Joseph Manyurapasi, Officer
Commanding Chipinge District, Chief Superintendent Kennedy Nyaumwe and Chief
Chikukwa all confirmed the influx of illegal diamond panners in the area.

The illegal panning activities have disturbed operations at nearby farms, especially a Mr
Jeketere’s plot which is now littered with open shafts.

The panners are also encroaching on his homestead.

“We have had an influx of artisanal miners in Chimanimani in recent weeks. They
invaded Charleswood area. However, the police have managed to move in to clear the
area. Some of them are still lingering around hoping for an opportunity to carry on with
their illegal activities.

“From what we have gathered, there is nothing much in terms of diamonds being
obtained from the areas where the panners are camped.

-State Media

By A Correspondent- Twp police officers who were investigating a murder case in Mudzi were left injured after the suspect, Steven Nyakarenda, attacked them with an axe and stones before he fled.

The officers had received information that Nyakarenda (37) had killed his two-year-old son in Mudzi. They responded to the report and proceeded to his home to investigate. Allegations are that when the two officers arrived at his house and asked him to accompany them to Nyamapanda police station for further questioning, Nyakarenda rushed into his house and came out with an axe and a stone he used to attack them, injuring them instantly.

National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the attack and reminded the public that it was a serious offence to attack officers while they are carrying out their duties. He said the Zimbabwe Republic Police was concerned with the conduct of some criminals who were resorting to attacking police officers while in the process of effecting arrests.

“In this regard, the police will brook no nonsense in dealing with such criminals who attack police officers,” said Asst Comm Nyathi. “The public is reminded that according to the country’s laws, attacking police officers whilst they are performing constitutional responsibilities is punishable with imprisonment once one is taken to court.

“The recent attack on two police officers by a murder suspect, Steven Nyakarenda (37) on 2 September 2021 in Mudzi will be fully investigated. Police in Nyamapanda received information that the suspect had killed his two-year-old son at Mafuta Village, Mudzi.

“A team of police officers reacted and went to Nyakarenda’s homestead to investigate the matter. On arrival, the team informed the suspect of the allegations and told him to accompany them to Nyamapanda Police Station for further inquiries. The suspect then went inside his hut and came back armed with an axe. He picked a stone and struck Constable Shiri on the head.” Asst Comm Nyathi said the suspect went on to strike Assistant Inspector Kugotsi with an axe on the head and shoulder before fleeing from the scene.

“He is currently on the run,” he said. “Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact any nearest police station or national complaints desk.

By Nelson Chamisa

Two decades ago, a diverse range of people and groups came together to build a glorious movement that would play a significant role in shaping the governance of our country.

At the time, Zimbabwe was still in its teenage years, but it was facing serious challenges. Signs of stunted growth were already evident in the social, economic, and political spheres.

The men and women who had valiantly led the fight for our independence had reached the limits of their capabilities. The ship was running aground, and it needed to be rescued.

It was in this context that the People’s movement was born on 11 September 1999 to carry out this historic mission.

The journey was never going to be simple, but the People’s movement has stood firm and equal to the task. Given the magnitude of the resistance and repression from the forces of the establishment, it is no mean task the people’s movement remains alive and fighting.

This is so because the is a big idea of challenging repressive rule and promoting open, democratic, and transformative governance.

Those faithful to the idea have remained resolute and determined against numerous odds that would have buried any other ordinary political unit.

Over the years, the People’s movement has grown into something bigger than we could have imagined.Perpetual succession is a hallmark of enduring institutions. A strong institution must be able to survive its founders.

The leading lights of the People’s movement ’s founding era, luminaries like Morgan Tsvangirai, Gibson Sibanda and Isaac Matongo are no longer with us, but the institution has survived them.

This is a testament to the strength of their vision and leadership and to the durability of the idea whose seed they planted back in 1999.

For many of its faithful, the People’s movement has become a way of life; something that is woven into the social fabric of Zimbabwean society.

This is the reason why the idea has survived despite the enormous obstacles that have been thrown on its path since birth. The idea has retained persuasive value and authority among the people. Even its critics and detractors cannot afford to ignore it. Babies born in 1999, when we started, have since reached adulthood.

Their struggles have mirrored the struggles of the movement which resonates with their dreams and aspirations. It gives me enormous satisfaction seeing young Zimbabweans, some born shortly before or after its formation, taking ownership of the idea that it represents. They had the choice to take the easy path, becoming part of the gravy train.

But no, they chose the hard path, identifying with the movement that they know is dedicated to a more progressive way of governing the country bequeathed to them by their forebearers. The “Great” in Zimbabwe cannot be purchased by trinkets from the ruling establishment.

Over the past year, we have seen a sustained and determined effort by the people’s oppressors to undermine and destroy the movement.

This is because the oppressor despises a strong alternative. The oppressor prefers the outdated politics of the one-party state. The oppressor has used surrogates masquerading as opposition to impersonate us, usurp the People’s assets and to expel People’s lawfully elected political representatives from elected bodies.

They have even diverted public funds that we rightfully earned based on our performance in the 2018 elections. This money is dished out to their preferred opposition. The idea is to suffocate us politically and financially and drive us into extinction.

But they are suffering a fundamental delusion. They mistake buildings for institutions. They confuse money for votes. They erringly believe that a name and an idea are the same thing. They focus on materials, not ideas. They do not realise that the idea that holds us together transcends buildings, titles labels, entitlements, emoluments or money.

The painful reality, which they discover each time they stamp their hard boot upon us is that the movement that was established in 1999 is etched in the hearts and minds of the citizens. It does not die because a judicial officer has made a controversial pronouncement.

It is not erased from the hearts and minds of citizens because a partisan officer of Parliament has made an unfair decision to expel a duly elected MP.

It does not become redundant because a corrupted or partisan Minister has decided to divert resources to their favoured ones. It does not wither because some excitable ‘willing tools’ of the ruling party are wearing stolen robes.

It is a way of life that cannot be changed on the whim of a politician whose primary mission is to expunge a genuine opposition from the political landscape, replacing it with a government ‘created opposition’.

We are not the first in post-independent Zimbabwe. Indeed, we are not the first political party to have suffered an onslaught designed to cause extinction. There was ZAPU led by the iconic Dr Joshua Nkomo before us. Veteran nationalist Edgar Tekere formed the ZUM which challenged the attempt to establish a one-party state. Former Chief Justice Enoch Dumbutshena and his colleagues tried their hand at politics with the Forum party in the 1990s.

These parties were terrorized and ultimately swallowed or pummelled into submission by ZANU PF. We have stayed the course although much has been thrown at us. It is a mark of our resilience and collective believe that we have remained afloat. But we have not only survived.

We continue to challenge repression. The reason why the regime and its enablers continue their onslaught long after everything they have done to date is a mark of recognition of the political force that we are. Each time they knock us down using underhand blows, we rise and stand strong.

Not even the attempt to impersonate us will succeed. You can steal a label, but you cannot steal character. Citizens can see through the political gimmicks. They can identify the grain from the chaff.

Even democrats beyond our country can distinguish between a fake and the genuine article. Last week, I was invited to the inauguration of President Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia. His ascension to the highest office in our sister country is a proud moment for Africa, the people of Zambia and indeed a humbling one for all of us who are strong believers in the idea of a New Africa and democracy.

President Hichilema’s success reminds us that the pursuit of democracy requires principled leadership based upon resilience,consistency, determination, and strategy. He did not stop because the opposite side had thwarted him several times before. He did not give up because he was being persecuted. He did not throw in the towel because they were naysayers who said it was impossible. We draw great lessons and inspiration from that experience.

I began by looking back to the first days of our movement. I emphasised the fact that ours is a glorious movement based on an idea that is woven into the fabric of society.

They have tried many things. They will keep trying, hoping to put us down forever. But they will not succeed. They will fail because the movement is bigger than the material things that they are grabbing and destroying. We are rooted and headquartered within the hearts and minds of Zimbabweans. They cannot destroy what is written in the hearts and minds of the people.

I was a young man when we started along with others. I am now a full man and still at it. The idea of getting tired is a luxury that is unaffordable. We are inspired by the missionary zeal to transform anchored on the will to change. When I see the fervour among the young people, I am energised and reinvigorated.

So many young people have emerged since those early days in 1999. We thought by now, things would be better. They are not, but it has not been for lack of trying. I want to end by urging you all, young people of Zimbabwe, to seize the moment, just like your peers did in Zambia.

We can start this by registering to vote. The right to vote is one of the most central democratic rights that we enjoy. At 18, everyone can register as a voter and participate in elections. But while this is so fundamental and potentially life-changing it is regrettable that so many people still do not exercise it. Each time that an eligible person does not vote, they are outsourcing their future to the next person who is voting.
We can change this, but to do so we must take an extra effort and extra step, that mental leap to win Zimbabwe for change. As you know, change is anchored in belief. We need a progressive mindset that recognises the fact that every vote matters.

Remember this: a million votes are made up of a million single votes cast separately by a million individuals. A hallmark of our culture is that “I am because you are”. We call it Ubuntu. It is a recognition that one’s humanity and worth is not isolated from the humanity of the next person. Similar logic applies to our votes. Your vote counts because of the next vote. Together they can make a more significant impact.

That is why we must all, young and old, play our part as we push this historic phase of our struggle for better governance of our country. We need an inter generational consensus. We must seek and construct a new consensus, a new national convergence. We did it with the liberation promise. Let us do it once again with the transformation promise.

We are blessed with an abundance of resources, but at present, they are benefitting a few, a small clique that believes it has exclusive rights to them. Resources belong to all of us, but to change this primitive monopolisation we must converge in large numbers to challenge and defeat the forces that continue to hold the country hostage. They would not be a million if one thought voting was pointless. We must embrace the spirit of ants that know that the survival and perpetual succession of their colony depends on each one of them performing its respective role.

Nelson Chamisa
Excellence, Brilliance,Difference!

By A Correspondent- Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has been dragged in the arrest of Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution in Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira, earlier this week.

The NewsHawks reports that this was revealed by a pro-Emmerson Mnangagwa faction which is blaming Chiwenga for intensifying efforts to topple the President.

Chadzamira was briefly arrested on Monday by investigators from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for alleged abuse of office and corruption involving land in the province.

He became the first person to be arrested after the corruption watchdog opened an office in Masvingo last week.

The arrest came a day after a high-powered meeting held in Gutu which Chadzamira and his close allies did not attend.

The meeting was allegedly hosted by a politburo member linked to the Chiwenga faction.

Mnangagwa’s allies are of the view that the arrest of Chadzamira is politically motivated since what he is doing is similar to what other ruling party leaders are doing.

They said everyone has the right to get land so the reversal of a list of beneficiaries of the Kilimanjaro sugarcane plot project shows that Chiwenga is working to prop up his faction.

A top ruling party official in the province told The NewsHawks that Chadzamira, a top ally of Mnangagwa, is facing unendless fights from people aligned to Chiwenga. Said the official:

This is sensitive, but what l can tell you is that his deputy, Rabson Mavenyengwa and Masvingo North MP Davies Marapira are eyeing his position.

The two as well as another bigwig from Gutu are believed to be behind this guy’s misfortunes.

There was a meeting last Sunday in Gutu where the other faction was positioning its members with a view to announcing who will take what at the upcoming provincial coordinating committee elections.

Marapira, who is also the minister of State in charge of Monitoring The Implementation of Special Agricultural and Related Programmes in Mnangagwa’s office, denied the allegations. He said:

That is speculation that is untrue. I am always busy with my government duties so l cannot be a party chairman.

I don’t have time to hate colleagues, but let me tell you one thing, there is nothing like a faction.

The President is for everyone and no one is too close to him. If you hear people saying that, they are liars.

Mavenyengwa, a former police intelligence head for Masvingo province and current MP for Zaka North, dismissed allegations that he is aligned to any faction.

He said he is not willing to challenge Chadzamira, but people within the province are the ones asking him to vie for the post.

He also confirmed that there was a meeting in Gutu on Sunday but he did not attend it and was not aware of what was discussed.

A top government official in Masvingo told The NewsHawks that the President is the one seen as shielding Chadzamira from ZACC.

The official said the government foiled the first attempt to arrest him in April and on Monday prosecutors in Masvingo were instructed via a phone call from the National Prosecuting Authority head office in Harare not to proceed with the case.



The NewsHawks understands that Chadzamira, who is also the ruling party’s provincial chairperson for Masvingo, is facing three counts, one involving a Chiredzi white farmer Tony Sappor and Tungamirai Rukatya.

The two complainants entered into a joint venture, but their productive farm was recently subdivided and given to other people believed to be linked to Chadzamira.

By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe could be losing millions in potential revenue through smuggling perpetuated by connected bus crews who have devised survival tactics in the face of the existing ban in cross-border travel.

Haulage truck drivers are also involved in the smuggling of imported goods, especially clothing items. Cross-border travelling, except for special cases, is suspended since March last year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The ban grounded cross-border bus operations with most of the operators opting to join the ZUPCO franchise. Those who have decided against joining ZUPCO have devised underhand survival tactics transporting smuggled items or smuggling the goods themselves to different areas in the country, mainly Bulawayo and Harare.

The transporters liaise with dealers popularly known as “runners” who are mostly based in South Africa, Zambia and Tanzania. At times the “runners” are based locally and they go out of the country to buy the goods on behalf of their clients, whereupon they employ the services of corrupt transporters to carry the wares back home.

None of them pay duty for the goods and most of the smuggled valuables will be shrink-wrapped, an indication that the Zimra officials do not tamper with the packaging. Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said smuggling across the country’s borders was prevalent and his organisation was investigating several such cases. “Those cases (smuggling) are prevalent and we are working hard to combat such crimes,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.

The police have arrested 46 911 since the start of January this year across the country for cross border crimes under an operation code named  No to cross-border crimes. Most boutiques and downtown grocery tuckshops in Harare heavily rely on smuggled stuff which they receive in the dead of the night behind walled garages. At times they receive the goods in broad daylight at cross border bus terminuses at Highglen shopping centre in Harare, Town Centre in Chitungwiza, Roadport in Harare’s central business district and other spots.

A “runner” based in Zambia who advertises her services through a WhatsApp group, Nancy Gurende, said smuggling was a smooth process. “You order what you need,” she said.

“What you do is you sent 50 percent of the payment via any international money transfer agent.

“The remainder is payable on delivery. We use haulage trucks or buses to transport the goods. So, part of that 50 percent you would have paid goes towards payment of facilitation for the goods to pass through the border. No need for import duty. “Then there are several hurdles including the police roadblocks which the drivers also bribe on the way to Harare or wherever you are.”

Another runner in South Africa, Cynthia Chiota, said she did not need any money upfront for people were not always willing to pay before receiving the goods. “There are criminal elements who are taking advantage of those in need of goods back home,” she said. “So, people are no longer willing to pay first. Instead, we receive the money upon delivering the goods in Zimbabwe.  

“In cases where those who would have ordered the goods do not live to their promise, which is to pay upon delivery, we always have ready customers in town.” The goods are collected during the night or early in the morning as the bus and haulage truck crews try to evade the police.

In some cases, the police officers are actually bribed and even stand guard while the goods are being off-loaded. The Herald witnessed one such case at a garage in the Willowvale Industrial Area. Other places in Harare where the goods are offloaded include some car parks in Glen View 7 and Chitungwiza, as well as in Arcadia off Seke Road. A bus driver with one of the popular bus companies, Mr Thomas Munaro Matamba, said he had been doing this since May 2020.

“It is all about survival,” he said. “We are not working and we have to cut corners to fend for our families. I cannot divulge everything or l risk losing everything.”  ZIMRA head corporate communications Mr Francis Chimanda had not responded to questions sent to him by The Herald a week after acknowledging receipt.

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Civil servants will be paid only for the days they work and the days they have been officially excused from duty, but will not be paid for the days they take off without permission, the Public Service Commission (PSC) has said.

The Government will pay civil servants strictly on attendance or approved leave and ministries have been ordered to pass on their attendance registers to the Salary Services Bureau (SSB) with attendance and absenteeism recorded. PSC secretary Ambassador Jonathan Wutawunashe made the announcement in a statement last night.

This follows reports of non-attendance by a minority of civil servants using the excuse of incapacitation.  

Most are teachers under the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, although a large majority of teachers are at work or on approved leave and so will not be affected.

“The Salary Services Bureau has been instructed to process salary payments for civil servants strictly on the basis of work attendance registers submitted by Government Ministries and Departments. Ministries will indicate cases where personnel have been officially excused from duty to ensure the inclusion of such personnel on the payroll,” said Ambassador Wutawunashe.

“Government commends the majority of civil servants for continuing to serve the public with dedication and commitment.”

President Mnangagwa is on record saying the Government will not be held to ransom by strikers, saying those reporting for duty will be the only ones who will get paid. It is standard practice around the world that no one is paid while on strike, regardless of whether a strike is legal or illegal, official or unofficial.  

A legal strike does not mean there can be salary payment, only that no disciplinary action can be taken. Schools reopened in batches, with the first lot of examination classes reporting early on August 30 while the rest of the learners started on September 6. Despite the long break for almost all teachers required by Covid-19 containment measures, and the fact that the majority of teachers did report for duty, some have continued not reporting for duty.

This week, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Mrs Tumisang Thabela said during the first week of classes, less than 30 percent did not report for duty.

Mrs Thabela said teachers were attending classes across the country, with their daily attendance register for the previous week showing more than 70 percent attendance.

“There are one or two provinces where it is still depressed, but generally we have over 70 percent attendance,” she said.

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By A Correspondent- Three people died while three others are battling for life after a Toyota Allion they were travelling in hit a hump at 30 kilometer peg along Mazowe Centenary highway yesterday.

Acting Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Naison Dhliwayo attributed the accident to speeding.

“I can confirm a fatal road accident where three people died on the spot while three others are hospitalized and their condition is serious, the accident was due to speeding,” Dhliwayo said.

Witnesses said the speeding car which was bring driven by Domboshava based driver Chamunorwa Dzepatsva(45) veered off the road after hitting a hump.

“The driver hit a hump and veered off the road the vehicle over turned three times killing half of the passangers and injuring the remainder,” said Dominic Fike.

Police warned motorists to avoid speeding and to be on the lookout of traffic road signs.- Bulawayo24

By A Correspondent- For the first time in the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) history, the Sword of Honour, an award for exceptional performance in flying training was yesterday presented to a female officer graduate Air Lieutenant Gamuchirai Maria Mbigi.  

For her exploits, she became the leader of her class, which had 15 graduates who were commissioned and presented with wings by President Mnangagwa at Josiah Tungamirai Airbase in Gweru yesterday.  

“Let this be an inspiration to the girl child. With hard work and focus, nothing is impossible,” the President said.

Out of the 15 graduates, four were female and top awards were swept by the female officer.  In an interview, Air Lt Mbigi said she was determined to soar higher.  

“This has boosted my confidence and I am happy that I can be an inspiration to other young ladies that you can achieve anything if you are dedicated, hard working and disciplined. They need to know that no matter how challenging a career is, they can do it if they put their mind to it.”

Initially, class 68 which graduated yesterday had 20 cadets. Four fell by the wayside while one of the cadets perished in an air crash along with a flight instructor this year.

“We are treated the same (during training), there is nothing different, you just have to feel you are in it, you are not segregated neither do you feel different,” said Air Lt Mbigi.

The Gweru-born 25-year-old pilot said she likes to overcome challenges, no matter how big they were and that is what drove her to apply to become a trainee pilot.  

“I personally like challenges. Being a pilot is quite challenging, it needs you to be dedicated, to be disciplined, to be focused,” she said. Drawing inspiration from Chipo Matimba, who joined the AFZ as an officer cadet and trainee pilot in 1994, and became the first woman to successfully complete a pilot training course in the AFZ in 1996, Air Lt Mbigi said for any young woman, there was no limit to the sky.  “Chipo used to be here as a pilot then she moved to the civilian world, but she was an inspiration to us. She was a good fighter jet pilot. Here, you hear people talking about her in a good way and that drove me to want to be like her,” she said.  But how exactly did Air Lt Mbigi find her way to Josiah Tungamirai Airbase as a cadet with a mission to take to the skies?

“I saw an advertisement and I said let me go for it because I thought it was challenging,” she said.  Born in 1996 in Gweru, Air Lt Mbigi grew up in the mining town of Shurugwi, which is just a few kilometres from the Midlands capital. She did her Form 1 to 4 at Tongogara High School.  “I proceeded to A-Level at Holy Cross Mission in Chirumhanzi, soon after I saw an advert and I applied to the Air Force of Zimbabwe,” she said.  Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, who witnessed the pilot graduation, was full of praises for Air Lt Mbigi.  She said: “We want to congratulate the girl child, who has demonstrated that they can perform better than the boy child.” Minister Muchinguri said the Government was determined to give women equal opportunities and urged fellow women to take up challenging tasks.

“By according women equal opportunities within the air force itself, we are sending a very clear message that the Government is keen to give everyone regardless of sex, equal opportunities,” she said. As the graduates, who were dressed in the AFZ azure colours marched in synchronised motion, proud parents cheered on, with one remarking that the Air Force way was the only way she could ensure her child became a pilot. The other way is too expensive for many.

Air Lt Mbigi’s father, Mr Godfrey Mbigi said he was very proud of his daughter’s feat. “She is my last born in a family of seven and she has done us proud. She was very disciplined, intelligent, very reserved and we hope she will continue on the right track as she serves the country in her capacity as a pilot in the AFZ,” he said.

By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has endorsed President Mnangagwa as Zanu-PF’s candidate for the 2023 presidential elections. The war veterans, who met in Beatrice on Thursday in the wake of some people who claim to be disgruntled war veterans, said they were solidly behind President Mnangagwa, who is also the Zanu-PF First Secretary and President.

ZNLWVA national Political Commissar Joel Mureremba told The Herald yesterday that the meeting, which was attended by war veterans’ representatives from across the country, came up with a number of resolutions, one of which was the endorsement of President Mnangagwa as the party’s sole candidate for 2023.

“We endorsed our President Mnangagwa as our candidate for 2023,” he said. “Our decision was easy given his efforts in developing the country since his election.

“Ever since he became President, he has done wonders on the development front despite being confronted by Cyclone Idai in 2019, which shows his love for his people. “Roads are also being repaired while new ones are being constructed, using local resources, which has never happened in this country.”

Mureremba said the other resolution was to have an increment on the monthly earnings and timeous payment of school fees for war veterans’ children and the decentralisation of funds to meet funeral expenses for war veterans.

“I have to admit that we were agreed that there is need for a review of our monthly allowances,” he said. “However, we have to follow the proper channels for us to get that increment, there is need to maintain discipline.”  

Mureremba challenged some elements within the association who recently claimed they were paid to beat up or intimidate people during election campaigns to provide details of those who sent them. “As war veterans, we went to war to liberate people so that they live peacefully in their country,” he said.

“We, therefore, cannot be seen to be going around beating up the same people.

“We have never beaten anyone and anyone who goes around claiming that they were sent to beat up citizens should tell us the one who sent them and how much they were paid.”

Mureremba said war veterans were disciplined and will remain a Zanu-PF affiliate. And as discipline cadres, genuine war veterans will not attack the party leadership, said Mureremba. He called for the speedy vetting of war collaborators.

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By A Correspondent- The Movement for Democratic Change will celebrate 22 years of existence on Saturday September 11.

Despite frantic attempts by Zanu PF to annihilate the struggle for freedom, the popular movement has remained resilient.

From the days of the late founding President, Morgan Tsvangirai to the current generation led by the People’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa, Zanu PF has been trying relentlessly, albeit without success, to destroy the political formation.

In a statement the MDC Alliance said:

On Saturday 11 September 2021, we celebrate the birth of our cause which was founded 22 years ago.

We now set our sights on completing the journey started by our forebears.

Under the able leadership of the people’s President
@nelsonchamisa
, we will win Zimbabwe for change.”

MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson
Clifford Hlatywayo also said:

“2021 Anniversary Theme: Bringing citizens together to win Zimbabwe for change.
Celebrating the people’s resilience and commitment to the struggle to attain a better Zimbabwe with equal opportunities.”

By A Correspondent- A Zimbabwean woman has confessed to murder, 6 years later after being tormented by her deceased husband’s ghost.

The suspect, Nancy Majonhi admitted to killing her husband back in 2015. She confessed to the crime years later because she claims that his ghost was haunting her and giving her sleepless nights.

Majonhi allegedly murdered her husband Prosper Chipungare, 44 , chopped up his body and threw the pieces in three pit latrines in South Africa.

After committing the heinous crime, Nancy told everyone, and the police, that her husband had gone missing in July 2015.

She concealed the crime for close to 6 years and only confessed to her family back in Zimbabwe in January this year.

Nancy’s brother, Andrew Majonhi, told News24 that the deceased’s ghost drove her to confess. He said she told him that Chipungare was haunting her and his ghost was giving her sleepless nights. She told her family that the deceased was forcing her to confess in order to find peace.

She wanted people to know the truth. She wanted the family to know how she killed her husband.

She was battling to sleep for four years. This compelled her to first confess to her children, who are working in Cape Town, in December. Later that month, she travelled to Zimbabwe, where she told our mother about what she did.

Nancy revealed that she killed her husband after they argued over money. She claims that she became irate and killed him after she confronted him about his misuse of family finances.

Nancy thoroughly cleaned the crime scene before she went to the Sun City police station to report Chipungare missing.

In an effort to evade arrest or being implicated, Nancy packed her bags and returned to Zimbabwe.

Andrew revealed that when his sister told the entire family what she did and how she could not sleep because her husband’s ghost was haunting her, they thought she had lost her mind.

However, after realizing that she was telling the truth, her family decided to take her back to South Africa to confess to the police on her wrongdoings.

She appeared at the Mogwase Magistrate’s Court for a bail application on Thursday. Her matter was postponed to 21 September.

By A Correspondent- Police in Mozambique have arrested two Angolan citizens in connection with about $16,000 (£11,500) of counterfeit notes suspected to be originating from a regional syndicate is specialising in printing fake currency.

Authorities in Mozambique said they had arrested two Angolans in connection with the case, with several other suspects being issued arrest warrants.

Mozambican, Angolan and South African nationals were suspected to be part of a currency-forging syndicate – though their attempts to forge Mozambique’s metical had failed, police said.

The detained Angolans have denied any wrongdoing. One of them said he was a businessman who had entered Mozambique legally two months ago to look for business opportunities and had no idea why he had been arrested.

By A Correspondent- Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has been dragged in the arrest of Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution in Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira, earlier this week.

The NewsHawks reports that this was revealed by a pro-Emmerson Mnangagwa faction which is blaming Chiwenga for intensifying efforts to topple the President.

Chadzamira was briefly arrested on Monday by investigators from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for alleged abuse of office and corruption involving land in the province.

He became the first person to be arrested after the corruption watchdog opened an office in Masvingo last week.

The arrest came a day after a high-powered meeting held in Gutu which Chadzamira and his close allies did not attend.

The meeting was allegedly hosted by a politburo member linked to the Chiwenga faction.

Mnangagwa’s allies are of the view that the arrest of Chadzamira is politically motivated since what he is doing is similar to what other ruling party leaders are doing.

They said everyone has the right to get land so the reversal of a list of beneficiaries of the Kilimanjaro sugarcane plot project shows that Chiwenga is working to prop up his faction.

A top ruling party official in the province told The NewsHawks that Chadzamira, a top ally of Mnangagwa, is facing unendless fights from people aligned to Chiwenga. Said the official:

This is sensitive, but what l can tell you is that his deputy, Rabson Mavenyengwa and Masvingo North MP Davies Marapira are eyeing his position.

The two as well as another bigwig from Gutu are believed to be behind this guy’s misfortunes.

There was a meeting last Sunday in Gutu where the other faction was positioning its members with a view to announcing who will take what at the upcoming provincial coordinating committee elections.

Marapira, who is also the minister of State in charge of Monitoring The Implementation of Special Agricultural and Related Programmes in Mnangagwa’s office, denied the allegations. He said:

That is speculation that is untrue. I am always busy with my government duties so l cannot be a party chairman.

I don’t have time to hate colleagues, but let me tell you one thing, there is nothing like a faction.

The President is for everyone and no one is too close to him. If you hear people saying that, they are liars.

Mavenyengwa, a former police intelligence head for Masvingo province and current MP for Zaka North, dismissed allegations that he is aligned to any faction.

He said he is not willing to challenge Chadzamira, but people within the province are the ones asking him to vie for the post.

He also confirmed that there was a meeting in Gutu on Sunday but he did not attend it and was not aware of what was discussed.

A top government official in Masvingo told The NewsHawks that the President is the one seen as shielding Chadzamira from ZACC.

The official said the government foiled the first attempt to arrest him in April and on Monday prosecutors in Masvingo were instructed via a phone call from the National Prosecuting Authority head office in Harare not to proceed with the case.



The NewsHawks understands that Chadzamira, who is also the ruling party’s provincial chairperson for Masvingo, is facing three counts, one involving a Chiredzi white farmer Tony Sappor and Tungamirai Rukatya.

The two complainants entered into a joint venture, but their productive farm was recently subdivided and given to other people believed to be linked to Chadzamira.

By A Correspondent- About 400 Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officers undergoing different specialist training at Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North province reportedly staged a protest on Monday over the poor quality of food.

NewsDay reported sources as saying the situation got out of hand when the officers were served with a poorly-prepared meal for dinner.

Moreover, authorities have barred them from buying their own food outside the school perimeter, citing COVID-19. Said one of the trainees:

There is no food here. The little that we get is poorly cooked, yet they don’t allow us to go out of the schoolyard to buy supplementary food. Their canteen is empty.

Tension also rose when the trainees were forced to buy a simple T-shirt for $1 600 and a tracksuit for $4 500.

A meeting was held on Monday afternoon to resolve the uniform issue but there was an impasse as the trainees insisted that they didn’t have enough money to buy training uniforms.

The training is for three months and there are three training categories that include police training and security drawn from serving members.

When contacted for comment by NewsDay, the acting Commandant at Ntabazinduna Prisons Training School Chief Superintendent Priscilla Mthembo denied that there were protests at the depot.

She said:

As a training school for ZPCS, our trainees, correctional officers will never participate in any demonstration of any nature.

We offer a two-way communication channel between the management of the school and trainees and we have never had any complaints pertaining to food or tracksuits.

Our trainees and officers at large are very much aware of the proper channels to air their grievances.

So the allegations of students demonstrating or complaints about food or students being forced to buy expensive tracksuits are not true.

The school management will always be available to assist trainees in various areas of need as they undergo these important training programmes.

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By A Correspondent- A 49 year old man who was caught having se_x in the bush with a 12-year-old girl appeared before a Lupane resident magistrate facing a rap_e charge after he claimed he and the minor were in love.

On 25 November last year Andrew Ndlovu (49) of Lupane met the 12 -year -old girl in the fields while she was alone. He allegedly proposed love to the minor and she allegedly fell in love with him, the court heard.

On a date not known to the prosecutor but sometime in December last year, the two met at the fields where they had se_x.

After that Ndlovu would visit the minor at her home under the pretext that he was visiting his parents after which he would signal her to follow him and they would have se_x in the bush.

After that it became a norm that the two would arrange and meet in the bush and have se_x.

Their secret love affair was blown open when a man who was looking for his missing cattle bumped into the two while they were having se_x in a bushy area. The villager informed the minor’s mother who questioned her daughter about the se_xual affair. The teenage girl shocked her parents when she revealed that they were in love and had had se_x on several occasions.

The prosecutor told Ndlovu that at law it was a criminal offence to fall in love with a minor below the age of 16 because she was below the age of consent.

Ndlovu was not asked to plead when he appeared before Lupane resident magistrate Ndumo Masuku and was remanded in custody to 13 September for routine remand. He was advised to apply for bail at the High Court.

Clive Gumbo prosecuted.

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By A Correspondent- A student from Harare Polytechnic committed suicide after his girlfriend of 4-years eloped to another man.

The deceased body of 27-year-old Takudzwa Chifamba was found hanging at his friend’s house in the same suburb in Highfield.

Battery acid, rat poison and a piece of rope were found next to his body.

Takudzwa decided to take his own life when he discovered that his girlfriend (only identified as Christine) had eloped after being  impregnated by another man.

Family spokesperson Brian Chifamba confirmed Takudzwa’s tragic death saying;

“We have been robbed of a loving brother who showed brilliance in most of his works.”

“He failed to receive immediate counselling after he learnt about his lover’s pregnancy for another man,” he said.

He reportedly left a suicide note at Christine’s house and also sent similar notes to some of his friends.

In the suicide note,Takudzwa wrote that he regretted giving his love to Christine. He also revealed that  there was a book with a written agreement with Christine to marry.

Before he committed suicide he tried to reach out to some of his friends but unfortunately they were not available. They only got to see his messages after he had passed on.

Social media influencer Wellence Mujuru urged boys and men to stop chosing suicide as an alternative but address their mental health matters through confiding and seeking help from others.

https://twitter.com/WellenceMujuru/status/1436253404200906753?s=20

By Fortune Daniel Molokele MP

Whange Central Constituency

Oh how time flies!
I simply çannot believe that it is now a year since you left us.
Tears may dry.

Memories may fade
But we will never forget your sterling contribution towards the struggle for a new democratic Great Zimbabwe
May you continue to rest in power Hon Miriam Mushayi

By A Correspondent- Public Service Minister Paul Mavima has accused western governments of sponsoring teachers to demonstrate against the government.

Mavhima told Voice of America’s Studio 7 on Wednesday, that the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) a teacher representative body, was being funded by some unnamed donors outside the country to incite civil unrest.

He said that despite the government’s best efforts to ensure that teachers were well-paid, teachers’ unions did not appreciate the efforts. 

“Some teachers’ organisations such as ARTUZ do not care about the government’s efforts to address their concerns.

What they are concerned about is to criticise the government despite its efforts to improve the welfare of teachers.

They do this in order to get funds from the donors to promote violence.

What we know is that foreign countries are funding them to destabilise the country,” said Mavhima.

ARTUZ Secretary-general Robson Chere denied the allegations saying that his membership constituted a significant number of teachers in the country. 

“We wish to categorically and unequivocally posit that ARTUZ is a progressive revolutionary teachers’ union formed on the behest of perennial abuse of teachers in Zimbabwe since time immemorial.

ARTUZ was not formed to go to bed with the employer, but to further the interests and welfare of teachers and learners in Zimbabwe. That is our sacred moral and constitutional duty. We will serve,” he said.

The government has on several occasions accused civic society groups of receiving funding from the West in a bid to pursue a regime change agenda.

Mavima said the government was satisfied with its workers’ salaries in which the least paid was earning ZWL$30 000, which translates to US$ 187 per month.

By A Correspondent-The Emmerson Mnangagwa led government has announced that it was not involved in the Friday court ruling, which dismissed an application by the late President Robert Mugabe family challenging the exhumation of the body of the former long time ruler.

” Govt has noted the outcome of a court process in Chinhoyi in the matter between the Mugabe siblings v Tynos Manongove.
As neither Government nor HE President Emmerson Mnangagwa was involved in the said matter, we will await further details on the judgement before making any further comment,” Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said.

By Farai D Hove | It never rains but pours for the man who betrayed President Robert Mugabe, George Charamba who on Thursday publicly shared a video that nakedly displays his new boss, Emmerson Mnangagwa for transforming members of the public into bus passengers, in contrast to the Ian Smith style in which blacks were raised to multi millionaire status so they can own whole bus fleet companies.

Charamba publicly distributed the below video (transcript) in which a man, believed to be his agent, pleads with the masses to join his party ZANU PF on the basis of a few hundred ZUPCO buses.

The unnamed agent is heard even admitting to doubts on ZANU PF’s existence in 2021. The man screams out while trying to convince the public that his party is not dead.

“The party is still there; we are still in need of people,” says the man. 

He says in full:

https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1435849045378052096?t=O7eyKm1l762lUopJhjbPSA&s=19

My guys, my guys, Cde ED is a Chibaba. These ZUPCO buses which are entering the Beitbridge Border Post, live and direct not this thing of hearing from Harare on Facebook and WhatsApp, lying to each other with the boys from Chinja.

Come to the real party with action that has got power and people, the one that fulfills the desires of the people, the one that belongs to Cde Mnangagwa who fulfills all the needs of the people. Look at these buses that are being fuelled right now, Bvupfuwo Checheche, there are so many of them entering the border. They are coming, all these are now receiving diesel on their way to Harare.

You will be boarding these buses tomorrow you Chamisa, courtesy of Cde ED Mnangagwa. Isn’t this sweet, what do you call this great accomplishment? Look at this; what else would do you want? Even you yourself when you are being deceived by these boys who are worthless, these are the buses that are getting diesel. This is Bvupfuwe, they are so countless these buses, this is ZUPCO-transport for the people that is cheap. They are so countless and this is the first batch that is coming in, there are more than 30 buses that I hear but more than 200 others, in the border, right now.

Up with ED Mnangagwa. This thing of your madness, lying to each other. The party is still there; we are still in need of people, the pockets of Zanu-PF will never be full, all the people come and support the party, look at these buses. Checheche Zupcos that are coming in here, you’ll be boarding them all the way to Harare for free. The country being fixed, the border is being fixed, the country becoming so sweet to the tap tap sound; while Hwange Power station the electricity is being fixed, so that they are sweet; Not this thing that you spend time lying to each other, with Chamisa, these boys who travelled to America to beg for sanctions on their own; to board a plane to go to America to beg for sanctions, so that people can suffer. Look at these are the buses here, they are waiting for each other so that they become a convoy so that they can travel in batches, look at these buses, so that they can travel in batches; so that they can travel to Harare-free public transport, courtesy of His Excellency Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa.

By A Correspondent- A 42-year-old Zimbabwean woman, who in 2015 allegedly killed her husband during a domestic dispute had her bail hearing postponed to September 21 at the Mogwase Magistrate Court in North West, South Africa.

Nancy Majoni is accused of assaulting her husband Prosper Chipungare (44) with a hammer before dismembering his body with a spade in July 2015.

After which she dumped his remains in three separate pit latrines in the Sun City area.

North West spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Mr Henry Mamothame confirmed the latest development on Friday.
He said the postponement was effected due to technical glitches that were experienced with court recording devices.
“The State and the defence attorney agreed on the date for the commencement of the bail application,” said Mr Mamothame.
“The State intends opposing the granting of bail to the accused.

“Police reports reveal that Nancy Majoni was staying with her husband, Prosper Chipungare (44) at a rented room in Ledig near Sun City when they had a fight on Tuesday, 28 July 2015.”
He said Majoni allegedly assaulted her husband with a hammer until he fainted.
“She then hacked him with a spade and threw the body parts into three different pit latrines before cleaning the crime scene out.
Subsequent to the alleged killing, she went to Sun City police station where she reported her husband as missing,” he added.
The official said after committing the offence, the woman allegedly skipped the border to Zimbabwe.
He said she later confessed to her family and in-laws that she had killed Chipungare in South Africa.

Mr Mamothame said the families then travelled to the neighbouring country where the accused handed herself over to the police.
“She later led the police to the three different pit latrines where she had thrown the body parts, six years ago,” he said.
“An investigation by the police is underway and they managed to retrieve a skull and bones which will be subjected to DNA tests.”

By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed MDC-T Member of Parliament Priscillia Misihairabwi-Mushonga as Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Sweden.

Mnangagwa made the appointment on Friday and was announced by the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda, in a Statutory Instrument of a Government Gazette.

President Mnangagwa also appointed Lovemore Mazemo as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Arab Emirates, while Alice Mashingaidze has been appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Misihairabwi-Mushonga is not the first sitting or former MDC legislator to be appointed an ambassador by President Mnangagwa’s so-called New Dispensation.

Former MDC legislator for Mabvuku-Tafara, James Maridadi, was appointed the country’s ambassador to Senegal in 2019.
The appointments of MDC officials in government have raised eyebrows, with some political commentators saying this is proof that the opposition is heavily infiltrated by State agents who would be rewarded after accomplishing their mission of destabilising the party.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed MDC-T legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga as Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Sweden.

“It is hereby notified that his Excellency the President has in terms of section 110 (2) (i) as read with section 204 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 20) Act, 2013, appointed Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Sweden,” read an extraordinary Gazette issued Friday by Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda.

The President further appointed Acting Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Trade and veteran diplomat, Lovemore Mazemo as the country’s ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.

Mazemo is former Zimbabwe ambassador to Nigeria and at some point represented the country in Zambia.

Mnangagwa also appointed Alice Mashingadze will represent the country in Germany.

Mashingaidze has been the country’s ambassador to Sweden and a former Ambassador to Belgium.

Misihairabwi-Mushonga is not the first MDC legislator to be appointed ambassador after the President in July 2019 appointed former Mabvuku-Tafara MP James Maridadi to represent the country in Senegal.

-Zimstar

The late ZANU PF political commissar Border Gezi’s widow Sheilar has been arrested today at her house in Mvurwi where she is suspected to be drug peddling.

Gezi who is the ruling party chairwoman for Mvurwi district is in police cells and the arrest came after she allegedly tortured some of her clients.

Sources close to investigations said the 57-year-old chairwoman is in soup after a number of drugs were found at her house following an assault charge.

“The police received two assault charges against Gezi and went to arrest her at her house upon effecting arrest a search was conducted at her house and drugs were found, she is currently detained at Mvurwi police waiting to be taken to Guruve court for trial, ” said the source.

Following the death of the former ZANU PF strong man Gezi who initiated the green bomber exercise, his first wife Sheilar has been battling to survive despite joining the party and possessing a powerful post in the district of Mashonaland Central.

-Byo 24

By A Correspondent- A Grain Marketing Board (GMB) employee died, while his four colleagues were injured when a truck they were travelling in developed a mechanical fault and overturned in Chimanimani last weekend.

Deputy Manicaland provincial police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Wiseman Chinyoka confirmed the accident which occurred near Muusha Primary School.

“A truck ferrying maize from Charleswood GMB collection point to Biriiri GMB Depot developed a mechanical fault and veered off the road. It overturned.

“One person died upon admission at Victoria Chitepo Provincial Hospital, while the injured were admitted at Mutambara Mission Hospital,” said Assistant Inspector Chinyoka