By A Correspondent- Embarrassing video footage showing a Harare socialite and Ex- Uncle Roland’s wife Mitchelle Kawome, has gone viral on the internet.

Mitchelle appears in her bedroom in the disturbing video, sharing good moments with a man she calls Thomas.

Kagome was once in an abusive marriage with southern African blesser Uncle Roland.

She has two children with the famous and ex-convict Uncle Roland.

She also made headlines years ago when he attacked her at Pablos in Harare.

By A Correspondent- Police in Harare are looking for two men who kidnapped, drugged and gang-raped a 13-year-old Warren Park girl.

The girl was found by her siblings after six days on Saturday at a house in Kuwadzana 2.

Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Tendai Mwanza confirmed the case.

“Police in Harare are looking for two male adults who allegedly drugged and raped a 13-year-old female juvenile after luring her.
“The accused persons are not related to the complainant.
“It is stated that on the 23rd of August 2021 at around 1500 hours, the complainant went to play with her friend and delayed to return home until around 1700 hours.
“It is believed that she didn’t go back home because she was afraid of her mother whom she stays with.

“She reportedly decided to walk to town along Harare-Bulawayo road until she got to Total Service station at corner Samora Machel road and Chinhoyi Street where she took a rest.
“The first accused person allegedly took her into his black Toyota Wish registration unknown and drove to Kuwadzana 2 Car Park where they entered into a container which is at the place of occurrence and the victim was forced to take unknown drugs together with the accused person.
“Later on the accused reportedly raped the complainant three times during that night.
“The following day at around 0700hours, it is believed that they went to Kuwadzana night club to drink beer and later went to Kuwadzana 3 at an unknown address where she was left in the custody of one Mai Lencia.
“After two days, the complainant left Mai Lencia’s place and walked along Bulawayo road where she met a male well-wisher only known as Marve who took her to his residence in Kuwadzana 3 and stayed for three days.
“Whilst at Marve’s place, the complainant escorted an unknown minor to collect a cellphone at a certain house in Kuwadzana when she met the second accused person.

“The said accused allegedly dragged the complainant into his room and raped her once.
“She then returned to Marve’s house and did not tell anyone.
“On the 28th of August 2021 at around 0800 hours, a certain lady located the complainant after she saw an advert for a missing person on social media.
“The accused persons are still at large. Complainant was referred to Family Support clinic for medical examination. It is very disturbing to report this sad event in which the juvenile went through such ordeal of drug abuse and rape. We are making frantic efforts to bring the culprits to book,” he said
Missing person images of the girl had spread throughout media platforms and her father, explained the circumstances to H-Metro.
“We found my daughter but she was injected with drugs and raped according to the doctor’s results from Parirenyatwa Hospital.
“She is now stable and able to recollect what had happened.
“My daughter says she just mysteriously wandered from home in Warren Park 1 into town on foot and ended up resting at a fuel station along Samora Machel.

“That is when two men offered her transport and she was injected with a drug along the way.
“For all the six days she was just being injected and gang raped and was isolated in a room,” said the father.
The girl told H-Metro the names of the two men who allegedly drugged and raped her. She identified them as Kuku and Emmanuel.
Her father further explained that he made frantic efforts in consulting a number of faith healers and claimed he was given some ritual liquid where he saw how his daughter went missing in a vision.
“In the vision, I saw my daughter being taken away in a car with South Africa number plates and the people in it where in disagreement over money, that’s why the whole ritual process didn’t go through.
“There are some people behind this and I can’t mention them but revenge is coming,” he said.

He further narrated to H-Metro how his other daughter and son ended up finding the girl.
“We received a call from a lady in Kuwadzana who alerted us that she had seen my daughter at her neighbour’s house.
“She had recognized my child from the missing person circulation on social media and our numbers had been attached to the circular.
“My other daughter and son then went to that house and pretended to ask for water to drink and were told to get inside the house.
“They were surprised to see my daughter in the house and she is the one who served them with water but did not recognize her siblings because of the drugs she was being injected.
“They then took her to Kuwadzana police station but the officer in charge was not being helpful enough to quickly open the docket.

“We were told to come back after seeing a doctor of which we did and it was confirmed that she had been abused, drugged and raped,” he explained.

By A Correspondent- A s_x video clip with footage of Zodwa Mkandla’s friend, Mitchelle Kawome, has gone viral on social media.

In the video clip, the nude Mitchelle is seen enjoying herself with a man she is calling Thomas.

By A Correspondent- Video images of the wife of the late socialite Genius Kadungure are circulating on social media.

More details are coming…..

By A Correspondent- A Zaka man has been stoned to death by his colleagues after denying them to sip his beer.

Innocent and Enock Chari, who are twin brothers, allegedly bludgeoned Owen Munengwa to death at Baramanza Business Centre in Zaka recently.

The twins allegedly attacked Munengwa for refusing them permission to take a sip of his alcohol.

Police said the twins, Munengwa and two other unnamed people were drinking beer at the business centre when the now-deceased turned down requests by the twins to take sips of his beer.

The twins then became violent and started hitting Munengwa with stones forcing him to flee into a nearby liquor outlet at the same business centre where he locked himself inside for safety.

As if that was not enough, police said, the twins followed and damaged the shop windows before leaving for their homestead about a kilometre away from the business centre.

After a while Munengwa followed them to their homestead for a fight. When he got there, they started fighting and when Munengwa realised that he was being overpowered, he took to his heels.

However, the twins gave chase and caught up with Munengwa and continued to pelt the deceased with stones on the head and he became unconscious.

Munengwa’s family rushed him to Morgenster Mission Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

His body was  then taken to Musiso Mission Hospital mortuary for a post mortem and the matter was then reported to the Zaka Police and the Chari twins were arrested.

“We are encouraging members of the public to value the sanctity of life at all times, and try to avoid unnecessary altercations,” Masvingo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa said

By A Correspondent- Nkayi Community Parliament has crafted resolutions on Duties and Roles of Chiefs with the aim of advocating for these to be the hallmarks of how the traditional leaders operate.

The resolutions came after a recent virtual discussion in which a human rights activist Effie Ncube was the guest speaker. 

Ncube chronicled the history of the traditional leaders from before the colonial era where they worked under the King to the time when the colonial government  took over and corrupted some of them and disbanded those who were resistant to its detects.

He also said during the Zanu PF rule the Chiefs have been co opted as the commissars of the ruling party a development which has been evident when they were invited to the Chitepo School of Theology last year where they were trained to mobilise support for the ruling party ahead o the 2023 elections.

After the meeting the Nkayi community joined hands to draft resolutions which they want to use to lobby government and authorities to allow the independence of the Chiefs in accordance with the constitution which forbids them from being artisan.

“Chiefs should not be used as political commissars by political parties. Chiefs should be in the forefront in the advocacy for development in their areas of jurisdiction.  The current colonial-oriented role of chiefs should be reformed,” reads the resolutions.

“Chiefs should maintain peace all times amongst their subjects, especially during political contestations. Chiefs to be empowered on land redistribution, management, and settlement of their subjects to their ancestral lands. Educating their subjects (communities) on their  rights to land and other constitutional rights”

The community also resolved to preserve people’s language and their culture (Demand deployment of civil servants who will not undermine their way of life).

“Chiefs should meet their subjects regularly, and must have time tabled agendas/programs for their areas of jurisdiction. Chiefs and all other traditional Leaders should stand with their people, not against them. Chiefs should change from the colonial mentality of standing with the oppressors, but to stand with their subjects. Chiefs should maintain a high standard of respect among their subjects,” reads the resolutions.

“Chiefs should embrace development programs from government and other stakeholders ( not to follow politics of the ruling party against opposition politics). They must be neutral at all times. Chiefs must view their remuneration, and their benefits as their constitutional rights, not as a special favour from politicians. Chiefs should advocate for the revival of their kingdoms and installation of kings.”

By A Correspondent- Outspoken Norton MP, Temba Mliswa (Independent) says he does not date women below 35 but rather prefers single mothers.

He said this while responding to an accusation on social media that he impregnated a 24-year-old university student who claims to be pregnant with his four-week-old baby.

A ZANU PF supporter, over the weekend accused Mliswa of impregnating a 24-year-old student by the name of Ngoni Munene. In response,

Mliswa said:

I don’t even date anyone that young. I only deal with and prefer those between 35-40 years. Even more, I prefer M1, M2, and so on.

Unless it was someone with a face mask that wouldn’t be me. The girl is outside my preferred modus operandi.

I would not be averse to having a 20th child and if she wants me to assist by adopting the baby, she can bring it.

I once had a public HIV test after another lie of me infecting another young girl and the story, like this one, was hogwash.

The controversial parliamentarian also claimed that out of his 19 children, only six are boys and the rest are girls and his dignity requires him to date adult women, not young girls. He said:

As a father, I have my own set principles and they dictate that I don’t date anyone the age of my own daughters.

I’m a father of 19 with only six boys and the rest are girls. My dignity requires that I date mature adult women, not young girls

By A Correspondent- Former ZBC TV news anchor Lee Ann Bernard clashed with late President Robert Mugabe’s son Bellarmine Chatunga over the latter’s post defending Mudiwa’s ‘poverty is a choice’ post.

This comes after the rapper Mudiwa Hood stirred up controversy with his ‘poverty is a choice’ remarks which spilled over to a political debate on bad governance.

“Being broke is a mindset” statement iri is bullshit. I’ve seen some hustlers who tries very hard but zvichitoramba if you are privileged enough to get connections you don’t have to mock varikuedza or put unnecessary pressure,” said Chatunga.

Bernard responded insisting that poverty is a choice since everyone has 24 hours to work.

“Poverty is a choice, we All have 24 hours in a day, it’s what you choose to do with it that differs,” said Bernard.

After making the remarks that sparked a controversy for days, Mudiwa defended himself saying he was misunderstood and all he was saying was ‘people should change their mentality.’

The prolific former ZANU PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu is today announcing a new political party.

Tsenengamu, famous for his role in the 2017 coup, will make the announcement at 1130.

More follows

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By A Correspondent- A 13 year old girl from Harare’s Warren Park suburb who went missing last week was found drugged and gang-raped by two men in Kuwadzana.

The girl was found by her brother and sister after six days on Saturday at a house in Kuwadzana 2 where she was allegedly being injected with a drug and raped on several occasions.

Harare provincial police spokesperson Inspector Tendai Mwanza confirmed the case.

He said the girl left home on the 23rd of August 2021 at around 3 PM to play with her friend and delayed to return home until around 5 PM.

Inspector Mwanza said it is believed that she didn’t go back home because she was afraid of her mother whom she stays with.

He said:

She reportedly decided to walk to town along Harare-Bulawayo road until she got to Total Service station at corner Samora Machel road and Chinhoyi Street where she took a rest.

That was when a man allegedly took her into his black Toyota Wish registration unknown and drove to Kuwadzana 2 Car Park where her ordeal started.

Speaking to H-Metro, the girl’s father said her daughter was now stable and able to recollect what had happened.

He said:

My daughter says she just mysteriously wandered from home in Warren Park 1 into town on foot and ended up resting at a fuel station along Samora Machel.

That is when two men offered her transport and she was injected with a drug along the way.

For all the six days she was just being injected and gang-raped and was isolated in a room.

The girl told H-Metro the names of the two men who allegedly drugged and raped her. She identified them as Kuku and Emmanuel.

Her father further narrated to H-Metro how his other daughter and son ended up finding the girl.

He said:

We received a call from a lady in Kuwadzana who alerted us that she had seen my daughter at her neighbour’s house.

She had recognised my child from the missing person circulation on social media and our numbers had been attached to the circular.

My other daughter and son then went to that house and pretended to ask for water to drink and were told to get inside the house.

They were surprised to see my daughter in the house and she is the one who served them with water but did not recognize her siblings because of the drugs she was being injected.

Dear Comrades, Zimbabwe’s Freedom Fighters,

Comradely greetings to you all.

Today I woke up fixated with one matter, and that was the fact that our nation, our beloved Zimbabwe, has its custodians, custodians of which are not being duly recognised and looked after. This is a matter which prompts feelings of anger and frustration within me.

After listening to the statements by both Cde Shorai and Cde Khumalo, I am, explicitly convinced you have finally reached the end of your tether. After you selflessly liberated the country, your sacrifices were sadly not duly recognised and no one economically liberated you. It is only now, when you have decided to liberate yourselves and even though it may have been sooner, there is no better time like the present.

Previously, you innocently entrusted leadership tasks to those individuals who did not form
part of the frontline personnel. You did this in order to enable you to concentrate on the job at hand. Your expectation of these individuals was that they would ensure your welfare and basic needs would be adequately catered for and that the country would acknowledge your contributions. However, and most unfortunately, some of the politicians you trusted deceived you.

Ignorant reference is often to mischievously made which insinuates that the $50,000.00 previously disbursed to you as Freedom Fighters’ compensation in the 1990’s was allocated from the fiscus. This fallacy is a misconception, cunningly crafted by some to cause those who you liberated to feel undue discontent and aggression towards you. Fortunately, there are those amongst us, myself included, who are aware that the money meant as compensation was not from Government coffers, but was secured from donor organisations. However, it is also on record that a great portion of this funding was misappropriated by some errant government agents.

Possibly, due to your innocence as youths during the time of the liberation struggle, you may not have been aware of or able to understand some of these conjectures. However, time has moved on, you have matured and are now able to take stock of and critically analyse the devious actions of some of the people you trusted and what benefit, or lack thereof, that misplaced trust has been to you.

I am fortunate to have worked closely with the late Cde Perence Shiri. He fondly call me his “mujibha” and would request for me to accompany him each time he travelled. It was during such trips where I would take the opportunity to enquire after issues regarding Freedom Fighters. As a senior Freedom Fighter himself, and a simple and humble man, he was able to impeccably articulate and give me elucidation as to the issues and challenges you encountered.

Cde Shiri was the major force behind the election of Cde Jabulani Sibanda as your Chairman during the Congress of that time. Being someone who acutely understood Freedom Fighters at grassroots level, whilst the late Shiri could be found in his high command offices from Monday to Friday, he would, without fail, ensure not to neglect interactions with his fellow Freedom Fighters at grassroots level.

As a youth, I would often lunch with Cdes Perence Shiri, Paradzai Zimondi and Menard Muzariri. Onlookers would frequently question why such senior Freedom Fighters and Security Service Commanders accommodated one so young during these engagements and the senior rankers would laughingly brush off the curiosity. It was during such priceless times, I would be watching, listening and learning.

The reason I digress and highlight these formative insightful occasions, is because it was during such informative encounters where I began to acutely understand and derive much interest on Freedom Fighters’ issues.

The issue of Freedom Fighters’ welfare is no longer solely a ZANU(PF) issue, or particular to any political party for that matter. The resolution of Freedom Fighters’ welfare is a constitutional issue which must be aligned in accordance to sections 23 and 84 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe. The preamble of our Constitution highlights the liberation war, a war that as Freedom Fighters, you participated in; a fight that you fought. How we handle the treatment of Freedom Fighters’ welfare greatly impacts and has implications on the level of respect we have for our own Constitution of Zimbabwe.

In Parliament, I have reiterated that since 1980, our Government has been comprised of individuals who are not strangers to you and who know you well. A major question therefore is, why have these Comrades, Brothers and Sisters-in-arms, Compatriots and familiar, fellow Freedom Fighters, not conclusively addressed the welfare concerns of Freedom Fighters?

In a shocking and surprising development, Government instead opted to compensate white farmers ahead of Freedom Fighters’ compensation. This ill advised decision to focus on compensating white farmers whilst turning a blind eye to issues like Freedom Fighters’ welfare and the peace and reconciliation of Gukurahundi, smacks of the highest level of hypocrisy; it is senseless. One would have expected the First Republic to have decisively resolved Freedom Fighters’ issues; they did not. We now look to the Second Republic for relief and if this generation of leaders does nothing to right this wrong, we cannot expect any other generation to do so.

During the former President Cde R. G. Mugabe’s tenure, we watched with dismay and disbelief as Freedom Fighters were teargassed for simply, after decades of neglect, airing their grievances. They were heartlessly labelled rogue elements. Now, under the new dispensation, we once again see this disregard for Freedom Fighters resurface as we see them being indiscriminately arrested for airing their grievances and demanding that their welfare be addressed.

Do not be fooled, just as before, I can bet my bottom dollar that reports reaching the President on this issue have labelled these hapless Freedom Fighters as “rogue elements”.

But, are these teargassed and arrested “rogue elements” not the same ones who laid the foundation for the march that forced the late Cde R. G. Mugabe out of office? Are they not the self, same ones who cleared the path for His Excellency, Cde E. D. Mnangagwa to ascend to presidency? The instruction for the Freedom Fighters to be teargassed was issued by one of your very own, a Freedom Fighter, the Commissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP). Yet again, they were arrested by the same office’s instruction.

The President must be very wary of some of the advice he gets from those entrusted with the task of advising him. He should take time to reflect upon the events leading to November 2017 and recall exactly who was behind the drive to have Cde R. G. Mugabe resign and why such a move was instigated. He must question himself if those recently arrested are not the ones who were at the forefront of the march. He must ask himself where the likes of Commission-General T. G. Matanga were during the 2017 March.

Simply put, Cdes, take stock of each other. Take stock of your fellow Commanders. Take stock of the President’s Cabinet and understand who is sincerely acting in your interests and who is not. Do not blame the opposition for your plight, this is a notion which is as far removed as it is absurd. Your neglect emanates from within, you are being hard on each other on your own.

It is only now the majority of the nation understands that the bad publicity attributed to you was committed and fabricated by the very people incorrectly advising the then President. You were only used, as pawns in a selfish game of politics, machinations of which you were and are not a part of. You are the liberators of our country, all of you, no matter where your political home is. Whether you were active in the trenches or those who catered for the fighters’ ancillary services. You must resolutely refuse and refrain from being divided by trivial distractions such as the formation of a War Veterans Association versus a War Veterans League. Where are the ZANLA and ZIPRA Commanders? You have allowed yourselves to be divided for selfish interest, which is disappointing. You are above petty politics. You are the custodians of our great Nation.

My humble advice to you, as Freedom Fighters, would be that you seek audience with His Excellency, President E. D. Mnangagwa to air your concerns and grievances. Your selected representative for such meeting must be those who genuinely have your interests at heart, not such people who are quiet when one of your own are unjustly treated and arrested and/or teargassed. You will not fail to find such stalwart representatives amongst yourselves. Those who are able to boldly articulate your issues in a frank, face-to-face meeting with the President. His Excellency is your Patron, one of you, and no one has the power to deny you access to him.

Another issue which needs to be raised during this meeting, is the truth about the President’s appointment of the Minister of State in the President’s Office for National Security. In what capacity the current Minister was chosen to represent this role should be explained. It should further be pointed out that it is difficult to respect a person in this role who is oblivious to matters regarding State Security. The question as to where the likes of Owen Mudha Ncube and July Moyo were during Operation Restore Legacy should too be raised amongst others. It is the likes of such people who make it difficult for a Head of State to conclude issues like Gukurahundi. Yes, the President has the prerogative to appoint those who may be loyal to him, but he needs such critical input from you, the Freedom Fighters. Zimbabwe is a spiritual and religious country. When you, as its liberators and custodians are quiet, evil prevails. When Chiefs are silenced with trinkets such as cars, the country’s ancestors shed tears, and those tears bring suffering to us as a country. A meeting like this, between yourselves and the President, whilst long overdue, has the propensity to be very enlightening, a positive step forward and a concerted effort towards positive resolution.

To add insult to injury, the recent article as carried by The Herald where Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa, who is purportedly your Chairperson, asserts that you have been infiltrated by G40 elements and the opposition makes for very comical reading at best. Whilst him making such sensational headlines is not surprising, it is disconcerting as such declarations are made under the supervision of his wife, Hon. Monica Mutsvangwa, the Minister of Information and herself one of you. It is obvious that such statements shows that the Mutsvangwas are still labouring under the illusion that the Freedom Fighters’ welfare issue is still a ZANU-PF party matter when in fact it is a national, constitutional issue. Chris Mutsvangwa appears to believe he can deflect attention from his shenanigans by waving the political card against Freedom Fighters. Sadly for him however, this does not work and him and his statements should not be taken seriously. Here when we talk of Cde Chris Mutsvangwa, we must not lose sight of the fact that we are talking about a War Veterans’ Chairperson who hobnobs with the likes of Eddie Cross in a pipeline deal, he does not deserve your respect.

Yes, the MDC is a Zimbabwean political party, but in his bid for self aggrandisement, Mutsvangwa has made a weird bed fellow of Eddie Cross in this abstract arrangement that leans more to self enrichment than any particular benefit to the country or its priorities. As a former Special Advisor to the President, one must ask themselves why Mutsvangwa has not been appointed or elevated to any other position of influence ever since. Well the simple explanation to that is that he was caught flat-footed and his real intentions were exposed. He is a divisive element not only in the War Veterans Association but in ZANU-PF too. He has been exposed as the one exerting unnecessary effort in an attempt to pit the President against his deputy Vice President Cde C. G. Chiwenga. Unbeknown to him however, Mutsvangwa was recorded by an Army General uttering detrimental assertions against Cde. Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri. Nothing new to him though as this has proven to be his modus operandi as he has done the same against the likes of Mai Mujuru, Cdes Rugare Gumbo, Didymus Mutasa etc. Such trivialities are unbecoming of the stature of a Chairperson of the War Veterans Association.

Lest we forget, Mutsvangwa is the very one who usurped Chairmanship from Cde Jabulani Sibanda, the one who you duly elected. Mutsvangwa has failed to effective and efficiently represent Freedom Fighters’ issues, he has not once aired or lobbied for your welfare. He has however, found his voice in trying to implicate the opposition and G40 as having instigated your arrest. We all, yourselves especially, really deserve seriousness and not to bear the brunt of the rantings of one who has imbibed one too many Blue Label Whiskies as he is commonly known to do. His statement regarding the opposition and G40 is reckless!

I might be young of age compared to you Comrades, but my understanding of your issues comes from a mature and protracted insight. I was moved to tears when I received news of the arrest of those in your rank and file. As a legislator, I have Parliament as a platform to air my concerns to Government and the President. You on the other hand have your own ways and means of communicating with the President, a fellow Freedom Fighter who you historically have ties with, someone who you assisted in elevating to his current office in 2017.

Part of my pain stems from the fact that Commissioner-General Matanga does not represent his office in good faith. He has been implicated in many corrupt transactions and dealings but in a move which is hypocritical, wants to appear hard working to the President by arresting Freedom Fighters; diabolical. Whilst I do not blame the Home Affairs Minister for this action as he is a young entrant to this debacle and Matanga reports directly to the President, I am forced to put him on the spot.

So Comrades, whilst these thoughts have been simmering in me over the years, I was finally prompted to air my views to you by my disappointment at the recent arrest of Freedom Fighters who tried to air your grievances. I can assure you that I will never remain silent when Freedom Fighters are ill treated, neglected and treated with disdain and/or disrespected. If such support for you motivates my arrest, then so be it, but the bottom line is that a sustainable, final solution regarding your welfare and concerns must be reached.

So Comrades, when I talk about Freedom Fighters’ issues, I am not advocating for you as individuals. I am simply and duly exercising my constitutionally mandated role of oversight in defence of the country’s constitution on a matter of national interest.

Yours comradely,

Hon. Temba P. Mliswa (MP)
Norton Constituency

By A Correspondent- The Judicial Service Commission has started interviews of Judges to fill nine vacant positions of High Court judges.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa could have promoted magistrates he wanted to fill in the nine judges’ positions but is restricted by the constitution, which demands that the judges go through public interviews.

At least 35 candidates have been shortlisted for the interviews, which were supposed to be held last month, but were deferred as a Covid-19 containment measure.

While a recent amendment to the constitution allows the promotion of judges from the High Court to the Supreme and Constitutional Courts without further public interviews, these are still required for entry to the bench.

After the interviews and other checks, the JSC submits its recommended list to the President, who may assent to the names or ask the JSC to submit a fresh set of names.

Under the constitution, a person is qualified for appointment as a judge of the High Court if they are at least 40 years old and been qualified for a minimum of 10 years as a legal practitioner in Zimbabwe.

In a statement last week, the JSC said the interviews would be held in strict Covid-19 control regulations.

“To ensure compliance with the requirement to hold the interviews in public the proceedings will be streamed live on Judicial Service Commission social media platforms (Twitter and Facebook). The Judicial Service Commission has engaged the national broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, to have the interview proceedings beamed live.”
Last month, the commission sought nominations from the public and President in terms of the constitution.
The 35 nominees are regional magistrates, the top end of the magistrates’ courts, or experienced lawyers.

A Correspondent- A group of disgruntled war veterans have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of neglecting them and promoting divisions in Zanu PF.

The ex-combatants also accused the ruling party of abusing them to carry out violent terror campaigns on its behalf and then abandoning them after elections.

This follows the police arrest of nine war veterans last week for picketing at Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube’s offices in protest over paltry allowances. The nine were later released without a charge.

Addressing reporters in Harare yesterday, chairperson of the War Veterans’ Welfare Pressure Group, Amos Sigauke, accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of “grandstanding” for reportedly calling for a meeting with the ex-combatants as if he was not aware of the challenges that they are facing.

“We hear from the media that His Excellency the President wishes to meet us to hear our grievances.
We hope this is not another grandstanding sideshow because we have submitted our grievances to his office many times.
There is nothing new to tell him unless of course, he will be coming to tell us the answers to our grievances.
This grandstanding has to be stopped. They talk of shares in mining and a lot of other projects.
They speak from affluent hotels, yet a war veteran on the ground is suffering,” said Sigauke.

Sigauke, who was flanked over 20 war veterans, added that it was surprising that Mnangagwa’s so-called new dispensation had offered them nothing.
He also criticised the government for being insincere by establishing an exclusive VVIP hospital at Manyame Air Base for top government and Zanu PF officials while the rest of the medical facilities in the county were in a sorry state.

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A Correspondent- A group of disgruntled war veterans have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of neglecting them and promoting divisions in Zanu PF.

The ex-combatants also accused the ruling party of abusing them to carry out violent terror campaigns on its behalf and then abandoning them after elections.

This follows the police arrest of nine war veterans last week for picketing at Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube’s offices in protest over paltry allowances. The nine were later released without a charge.

Addressing reporters in Harare yesterday, chairperson of the War Veterans’ Welfare Pressure Group, Amos Sigauke, accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of “grandstanding” for reportedly calling for a meeting with the ex-combatants as if he was not aware of the challenges that they are facing.

“We hear from the media that His Excellency the President wishes to meet us to hear our grievances.
We hope this is not another grandstanding sideshow because we have submitted our grievances to his office many times.
There is nothing new to tell him unless of course, he will be coming to tell us the answers to our grievances.
This grandstanding has to be stopped. They talk of shares in mining and a lot of other projects.
They speak from affluent hotels, yet a war veteran on the ground is suffering,” said Sigauke.

Sigauke, who was flanked over 20 war veterans, added that it was surprising that Mnangagwa’s so-called new dispensation had offered them nothing.
He also criticised the government for being insincere by establishing an exclusive VVIP hospital at Manyame Air Base for top government and Zanu PF officials while the rest of the medical facilities in the county were in a sorry state.

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By A Correspondent- Zanu PF officials who grabbed land from former white commercial farmers are fraudulently reselling the same land to ordinary landless citizens.

This was revealed by the Anxious Masuka, the minister of Lands.

Masuka, who has labelled these people “criminals,” said they were also forging his signatures on the papers they are using to sell the land to unsuspected citizens.

“Criminal gangs are taking advantage of those who still believe corruption is rife in Government circles, despite the evidence that it is not tolerated, to sell fake offer letters of farms for bribes ranging from US$350 to US$3 000,” said Masuka.

The price depends on the size of the farm and its location.
Under land reform, allocations are free, although farmers granted land rights are expected to pay local authority taxes and other charges. But some think they can oil the wheels with cash, or even beasts, and these are the people the criminals prey on.

The criminals forge signatures of lands allocation officers while some have even gone to the extent of forging the signature of the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement.

-State media

By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has launched a compulsory national vaccination campaign on all the churches.

The campaign programme has been named Operation Marah.

Under operation Marah, the government takes Covid-19 vaccination teams to churches and administers vaccines to church members.

Last month relaxed COVID-19 restrictions to allow church gatherings for fully vaccinated worshippers.

Speaking at the launch of the programme on Sunday, Child and Health Care Deputy Minister Dr John Mangwiro said the acceptance of vaccination by almost all churches was a positive boost that would complement government’s efforts to fight the pandemic.

By A Correspondent- Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa is privately planning to amend the constitution so that it disqualifies any political party with less than five years from contesting in the 2023 election.

This is happening at a time the MDC-Alliance leader; Nelson Chamisa is planning to change the name of his political coalition.

Below is Simba Chikanza’s piece outlining Mnangagwa’s ploy to disqualify Chamisa.

By Simba Chikanza- It’ll be extremely dangerous for Nelson Chamisa to change his party name, he’s in enough danger, already. Any change of name, is a metre closer to both endorsing and assuming military level crimes committed from 1 Aug ’18 onwards.

Those advising the people’s president are misleading him as they make him underestimate the notoriety of the ED-Mwonzora coalition because Chamisa’s chances of ever running Zimbabwe will dwindle under a new name. Already Mnangagwa is preparing to amend the constitution so that only parties with 5 years of existence will be allowed to contest, so Chamisa will have to wait for 5 years to participate after changing his party name (effectively launched a new entity). He will spend the next 2 years campaigning, and come July 2023, will arrive at the polling station to be told he is does not qualify.
So, while the temptation is there, the best method is the middle of the road approach: confront. I have a lot to say here, but much which I have already demonstrated myself.
Mnangagwa’s life outside the borders can be put out easily and swiftly, and before it changes name, the MDC A needs to spend the next month using its last remaining powers to put out the criminals’ life outside the borders. This is how the criminal Ian Smith regime was put to an end, not by any bullet, bayonette or bomb, but using live legal ammunition. The MDC Alliance does have this strength, and I have proved it that this great party is simply too lazy, ignorant, or both, of the powers it has. On several occasions I have deployed some of these powers which are largely based on the 2018 election victory.
I am glad that I have also deployed some tools to help the Zambian people on 13 Aug. I am ready for question and answers but for now to say, please stop pushing President Chamisa to betray the blood of the innocent 2018 victims.
You change the party name, then what, you think you’ll penetrate ZEC, and outwit the Chinese model terror machinery because you’re popular? Even if Chamisa wins with 99% of the vote, Mnangagwa will still do the counting, and Mnangagwa retains the power to announce the results after which there is no viable recourse of appeal because the judiciary is Mnangagwa himself. New methods are needed to deal with criminality and the type that’s in Zimbabwe cannot be cured by base ballotry. Having traveled in many countries and consulted some of the best legal brains around the world, I am ready to help this great party deal with this criminality. Source: Simba Chikanza

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice chairperson Hon Job Sikhala has vowed to confront the Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa over the politicization of lockdown restrictions.

Mr Mnangagwa is taking advantage of lockdown restrictions to muzzle alternative voices, according to Hon Sikhala.

Zanu PF is holding party meeting in spite of the lockdown restrictions – while blocking perceived opponents from carrying out political programmes.

Writing on Twitter, Hon Sikhala warned Mnangagwa against using COVID-19 restrictions to suppress people’s constitutional rights.

“This is exactly what Emmerson Mnangagwa is doing to us.

There shall be moments when we make the Malema pronouncements.

Using lockdown to usurp people’s constitutional rights is a recipe for disaster.

Be warned, restore our political rights. We want our right to vote back.

Marko Haruzivishe is suffering. We need to do something. One of us can’t he kept in jail for such a long time and operate as if everything is normal.

There is need to raise the bar of demanding his immediate release.

He is suffering for democracy & the future of his generation,” argued Hon Sikhala.

By A Correspondent- A Velvet bus operating under the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) franchise veered off the road and overturned along Kambuzuma Road in Harare.

The driver reportedly lost control of the bus even though reports suggest that the bus was not speeding.

Several passengers were injured and ferried to the hospital by well-wishers as the ambulance had not arrived at the scene of the accident.

The bus, which was reportedly full, was travelling to Mbare from Kuwadzana.

One of the accident survivors, Delilah Nhandara told The Herald that the driver was not speeding but failed to control the bus resulting in it veering off the road and overturning.

-State media

By A Correspondent- The United States Embassy in Harare has expressed concern over Zimbabwe’s history of enforced disappearances of political activists and opposition members.
In a statement Monday, the Embassy called on the Zimbabwean government to account for its missing citizens.

Zimbabwe has a disturbing history of enforced disappearances of political activists and opposition members, with some still missing after several years. The Government of Zimbabwe continues to deny its complicity in enforced disappearances. #EnforcedDisappearances.
Among the nation’s prominent citizens who are yet to be accounted for is Itai Dzamara, a journalist-cum-political activist.

Dzamara was abducted by five suspected State agents while at a barbershop in Harare’s Glenview suburb on 9 March 2015 has not been seen since.

Below is a statement by United States Secretary of State, Anton Blinken to commemorate the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances:

On August 30, the United States marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances as established by the UN General Assembly in 2010.
The United States stands in solidarity with victims of the egregious crime of enforced disappearance and with the loved ones who live with the agony of their absence and the added pain of not knowing their whereabouts or fate.
Every year, friends and family members vanish after being arrested, detained or abducted by government officials or those working in concert with them or with their tacit assent.
Those responsible refuse to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or conceal the victims’ fates and whereabouts.
Human rights defenders, political activists, environmental defenders, journalists and those who exercise their fundamental freedoms are often the targets of this egregious crime.
The United States strongly condemns all enforced disappearances and calls on governments to facilitate the return of and provide information about all victims of enforced disappearances and to undertake independent and transparent investigations into all such cases.
Governments must put an end to enforced disappearances, hold accountable those responsible, reveal the fate or whereabouts of loved ones who have been disappeared and respect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons.

By A Correspondent- The United States Embassy in Harare has expressed concern over Zimbabwe’s history of enforced disappearances of political activists and opposition members.
In a statement Monday, the Embassy called on the Zimbabwean government to account for its missing citizens.

Zimbabwe has a disturbing history of enforced disappearances of political activists and opposition members, with some still missing after several years. The Government of Zimbabwe continues to deny its complicity in enforced disappearances. #EnforcedDisappearances.
Among the nation’s prominent citizens who are yet to be accounted for is Itai Dzamara, a journalist-cum-political activist.

Dzamara was abducted by five suspected State agents while at a barbershop in Harare’s Glenview suburb on 9 March 2015 and has not been seen since.

Below is a statement by United States Secretary of State, Anton Blinken to commemorate the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances:

On August 30, the United States marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances as established by the UN General Assembly in 2010.
The United States stands in solidarity with victims of the egregious crime of enforced disappearance and with the loved ones who live with the agony of their absence and the added pain of not knowing their whereabouts or fate.
Every year, friends and family members vanish after being arrested, detained or abducted by government officials or those working in concert with them or with their tacit assent.
Those responsible refuse to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or conceal the victims’ fates and whereabouts.
Human rights defenders, political activists, environmental defenders, journalists and those who exercise their fundamental freedoms are often the targets of this egregious crime.
The United States strongly condemns all enforced disappearances and calls on governments to facilitate the return of and provide information about all victims of enforced disappearances and to undertake independent and transparent investigations into all such cases.
Governments must put an end to enforced disappearances, hold accountable those responsible, reveal the fate or whereabouts of loved ones who have been disappeared and respect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons.

By A Correspondent- Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa is privately planning to amend the constitution so that it disqualifies any political party with less than five years from contesting in the 2023 election.

This is happening at a time the MDC-Alliance leader; Nelson Chamisa is planning to change the name of his political coalition.

Below is Simba Chikanza’s piece outlining Mnangagwa’s ploy to disqualify Chamisa.

By Simba Chikanza- It’ll be extremely dangerous for Nelson Chamisa to change his party name, he’s in enough danger, already. Any change of name, is a metre closer to both endorsing and assuming military level crimes committed from 1 Aug ’18 onwards.

Those advising the people’s president are misleading him as they make him underestimate the notoriety of the ED-Mwonzora coalition because Chamisa’s chances of ever running Zimbabwe will dwindle under a new name. Already Mnangagwa is preparing to amend the constitution so that only parties with 5 years of existence will be allowed to contest, so Chamisa will have to wait for 5 years to participate after changing his party name (effectively launched a new entity). He will spend the next 2 years campaigning, and come July 2023, will arrive at the polling station to be told he does not qualify.

So, while the temptation is there, the best method is the middle of the road approach: confront. I have a lot to say here, but much which I have already demonstrated myself.

Mnangagwa’s life outside the borders can be put out easily and swiftly, and before it changes name, the MDC A needs to spend the next month using its last remaining powers to put out the criminals’ life outside the borders. This is how the criminal Ian Smith regime was put to an end, not by any bullet, bayonette or bomb, but using live legal ammunition. The MDC Alliance does have this strength, and I have proved it that this great party is simply too lazy, ignorant, or both, of the powers it has. On several occasions I have deployed some of these powers which are largely based on the 2018 election victory.
I am glad that I have also deployed some tools to help the Zambian people on 13 Aug. I am ready for question and answers but for now to say, please stop pushing President Chamisa to betray the blood of the innocent 2018 victims.

You change the party name, then what, you think you’ll penetrate ZEC, and outwit the Chinese model terror machinery because you’re popular? Even if Chamisa wins with 99% of the vote, Mnangagwa will still do the counting, and Mnangagwa retains the power to announce the results after which there is no viable recourse of appeal because the judiciary is Mnangagwa himself.

New methods are needed to deal with criminality and the type that’s in Zimbabwe cannot be cured by base ballotry. Having traveled in many countries and consulted some of the best legal brains around the world, I am ready to help this great party deal with this criminality. Source: Simba Chikanza

By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police released the names of the seven people who died on the spot in a car accident along Selbourne-Aberfoyle Road near Hauna Growth Point.

The fatal road traffic accident occurred on Sunday at about 1800 hours in Honde Valley.

The accident victims are Gracious Musuka, ( 49) of Sagambe Village, Judah Katamabarare (32 ) of Katambarare Village, Tendai Moses Mangemba, (48) of Muterere Village, Tsitsi Makwiyana, (14) of Eastern Highlands Plantation, Abel Rutope (24), Katambarare Village, Ethel Jenjani,( 41) of Eastern Highlands Plantation and Sarah Njumira, (44) of Murara Village, Honde Valley.

The car accident involved a 35-year-old male who was driving a Mercedes Benz Ateco truck along Selbourne-Aberfoyle Road with 23 passengers on board and 65 bags of bananas.

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By A Correspondent- Zambia’s new President Hakainde Hichilema has fired former President Edgar Lungu’s top military brass.

HH made these major changes in the security on Sunday after he promised to end the previous regime’s heavy-handedness.

Right groups accused Hichilema’s predecessor Edgar Lungu of leading a “brutal crackdown” on dissent, with police violence claiming at least five lives since he was officially elected in 2016.

Hichilema, who took office last week, has been arrested over a dozen times during his political career and made restoring freedoms a linchpin of his electoral promises.

In a televised address to the nation, Hichilema announced the appointment of a new army and airforce chiefs and a new head of the southern African country’s defence wing.

“I am relieving all commissioners of police with immediate effect,” he added, without providing reasons for the replacements.

He also urged police to conduct thorough checks before detaining suspects, stressing that “no one should be arrested before investigations are concluded”.

Hichilema beat his long-term rival Lungu in 12 August polls by a landslide of almost one million votes — a victory hailed as a democratic milestone for opposition movements in Africa.

During his inauguration speech last Tuesday, he promised to crack down on political “thuggery” and repression, reassuring independent media they would no longer face tear gas or shutdowns.

-News24

By Simba Chikanza | PART 1 | It’ll be extremely dangerous for Nelson Chamisa to change his party name, he’s in enough danger, already. Any change of name, is a metre closer to both endorsing and assuming military level crimes committed from 1 Aug ’18 onwards.

Emmerson Mnangagwa-and- Luke Malaba-
Those advising the people’s president are misleading him as they make him underestimate the notoriety of the ED-Mwonzora coalition because Chamisa’s chances of ever running Zimbabwe will dwindle under a new name. Already Mnangagwa is preparing to amend the constitution so that only parties with 5 years of existence will be allowed to contest, so Chamisa will have to wait for 5 years to participate after changing his party name (effectively launched a new entity). He will spend the next 2 years campaigning, and come July 2023, will arrive at the polling station to be told he does not qualify.

So, while the temptation is there, the best method is the middle of the road approach: confront. I have a lot to say here, but much which I have already demonstrated myself.
Mnangagwa’s life outside the borders can be put out easily and swiftly, and before it changes name, the MDC A needs to spend the next month using its last remaining powers to put out the criminals’ life outside the borders. This is how the criminal Ian Smith regime was put to an end, not by any bullet, bayonette or bomb, but using live legal ammunition. The MDC Alliance does have this strength, and I have proved it that this great party is simply too lazy, ignorant, or both, of the powers it has. On several occasions I have deployed some of these powers which are largely based on the 2018 election victory.

I am glad that I have also deployed some tools to help the Zambian people on 13 Aug. I am ready for question and answers but for now to say, please stop pushing President Chamisa to betray the blood of the innocent 2018 victims.

You change the party name, then what, you think you’ll penetrate ZEC, and outwit the Chinese model terror machinery because you’re popular? Even if Chamisa wins with 99% of the vote, Mnangagwa will still do the counting, and Mnangagwa retains the power to announce the results after which there is no viable recourse of appeal because the judiciary is Mnangagwa himself.

New methods are needed to deal with criminality and the type that’s in Zimbabwe cannot be cured by base ballotry. Having traveled in many countries and consulted some of the best legal brains around the world, I am ready to help this great party deal with this criminality. Source: Simba Chikanza

By A Correspondent- Seven people have died on the spot, while 13 others were injured in a car accident along Selbourne-Aberfoyle Road near Hauna Growth Point.

Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the fatal road traffic accident occurred on Sunday at about 1800 hours in Honde Valley.

He said the car accident involved a 35-year-old male who was driving a Mercedes Benz Ateco truck along Selbourne-Aberfoyle Road with 23 passengers on board and 65 bags of bananas.

” On approaching the 30 km peg, the driver failed to negotiate a curve and lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle veered off the road, overturned once and landed on its side,” he said.

The bodies were ferried to Hauna District Hospital for post mortem while the injured were referred to the same institution for treatment.

By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have arrested 140 people for border jumping.

Posting on Twitter, the police said these cases were recorded at Beitbridge, Mukumbura, Plumtree and Nyamapanda border posts.

“Police also recovered assorted electrical gadgets, building materials and groceries approximately valued at 24 760 pula,” posted the police.

ON International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) calls upon Zimbabwean authorities to publicly denounce and desist from the practice of enforced disappearances.

In addition, ZLHR demands that authorities swiftly respond and investigate all reports of enforced disappearances and prosecute the perpetrators.

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances is observed every year on 30 August in order to draw attention to the detestable practice of enforced disappearances by governments all around the world.

An enforced disappearance can be defined as any arrest, abduction or detention against one’s will that is orchestrated by or endorsed by a government official or officials, its representatives or its supporters. Significantly, the United Nations General Assembly has
declared that systematic enforced disappearances amount to crimes against humanity.

An element of enforced disappearances is that the responsible government refuses to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or to disclose the fate or whereabouts of the persons concerned. This effectively places the disappeared outside the protection of the law and renders them extremely vulnerable to gross human rights violations at the hands of their captors. The rights that are typically affected when a person is disappeared include the right to liberty and security of the person, the right not to be subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the right to human dignity, the right to health and the right to life, when the disappeared person is murdered. The adverse effects of an enforced disappearance extend to the victim’s relatives and friends in the form of psychological trauma and the deprivation of a source of economic livelihood, where the disappeared person was the breadwinner of the family.

In Zimbabwe, enforced disappearances remain a scourge and a constant threat to the peaceful existence of certain groups of people in the country. In the recent past, the victims of enforced disappearances have included usually human rights defenders and members of opposition political parties. The victims have been subjected to inhumane treatment at the hands of their captors and some of the victims remain missing to this day. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made it increasingly difficult for people to search for disappeared persons and for authorities to effectively investigate reports of enforced
disappearances. However, these challenges do not relieve the authorities of their obligation to investigate these disappearances.

In these difficult times, it becomes more imperative for the authorities to react promptly to reports of enforced disappearances in order minimise the potential harm that the victims would be exposed to. In addition, the authorities are obliged to hold the perpetrators
accountable for the disappearances through prosecutions.

On this International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances,

ZLHR calls upon:
•       The Zimbabwean authorities to publicly denounce and desist from the practice of enforced disappearances;
•       The authorities to swiftly respond to all reports of enforced disappearances, with the aim of completely eradicating this despicable practice from society;
•       Members of the public to join the rest of the world in demanding the prompt release of all victims and the prosecution of the perpetrators of the disappearances.

One of Zimbabwe’s leading security companies has warned that there has been a spate of electric gate motor thefts in parts of Harare and urged householders with electric gates to ensure that their gate motors are well secured and even alarmed.

Safeguard Engineering manager Tinarwo Chiremba said there are several things that can be done to guard against gate motor theft.

“Replacing a gate motor is costly. Moreover, your premises are less secure when the gate has to be opened and closed manually as a result of your gate motor having been stolen.

“We are urging anyone who has an electric gate, therefore, to make sure it is secure, since there has been a spate of electric gate motor thefts recently,” he said.

Mr Chiremba warned those who were considering installing an electric gate to ensure they
engaged a reputable company to provide and install it.

“When choosing your installer, make sure that the company has a good track record. The
cheapest contractor is not always the best.

“Once installation is done, you need to ensure that the base of the gate motor cage has been secured deep into the ground with concrete so that thieves cannot easily pull it out. We have heard of gate motors being stolen together with the protective cage because it was not installed properly,” he said.

He said the electric gate itself should have an anti-lift bracket to prevent the gate being opened by lifting it off its rail.

The quality of the lock with which the cage is secured is important too, he pointed out.

“At Safeguard we provide steel cages which are secured by insurance-locks or queen-locks,
which are regarded internationally as some of the world’s best locks. We would recommend that locks such as these be used to secure all gate motor cages,” he said.

“After you have ensured that the physical security is up to standard you can go on further to
install a sound-bomb, which is a loud localised alarm that is triggered whenever the cage has been opened. We usually recommend that the sound bomb be placed next to the intercom in the house.

“We also recommend that a second sound-bomb be installed in the cage that will sound when the cage is tampered with. This may work as a deterrent to thieves, who may abandon their attempt to steal the motor when they hear the alarm go off.,” Mr Chiremba added.

He said those with alarm systems installed in their homes can have a sensor installed in the cage linked to the alarm so that the alarm is triggered whenever the cage is opened.

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“If the alarm system is radio linked to our rapid response service, this will also trigger the
despatch of a response team,” he said.

Mr Chiremba said some of the new gate motors that Safeguard supplies, such as the Centurion D5 motor, come equipped with a vibrating alarm that is triggered by motion and goes off before the cage has been opened.

He said perimeter and outdoor security were important for both residential and business premises and a major deterrent to thieves.

“Electric fences can play an important role in securing your property. In addition, your electric fence energiser can be linked to your gate so that an alarm goes off whenever the gate is forced open,” he said.

“There are also a range of wireless alarms that can be installed to watch over your gate motor, swimming pool pump or any other area within your yard such as the Roboguard, which you can install yourself or ask Safeguard to install,” he added.

He explained that Roboguard is a stand-alone battery operated wireless automatic outdoor
motion detection system that uses passive infrared sensor beams that can pick up any movement up to 20 metres away.

When motion is detected, he said, an alert is instantly triggered at the HQ control panel inside the house.

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Issued on behalf of Safeguard Security by MHPR Public Relations Consultants, 59 Van Praagh
Avenue, Milton Park, Harare. Tel. 225153840, E-mail: [email protected]
Contact person: Chris Chinamhora

(Mobile: 0772-302 990)

By A Correspondent- A Velvet bus operating under the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) franchise veered off the road and overturned along Kambuzuma Road in Harare on Monday morning.

The driver reportedly lost control of the bus even though reports suggest that the bus was not speeding.

Several passengers were injured and ferried to the hospital by well-wishers as the ambulance had not arrived at the scene of the accident.

The bus which was reportedly full was travelling to Mbare from Kuwadzana.

One of the accident survivors, Delilah Nhandara told The Herald that the driver was not speeding but failed to control the bus resulting in it veering off the road and overturning.

Two artisanal gold miners died in Mushandike resettlement area after a mine shaft they
were digging for gold collapsed and trapped them on Saturday.

Paul Mhuka (20) and Cephas Pandasvika (41) of villages 15 and 23 respectively in
Mushandike were found lifeless after fellow artisanal miners at Golden Echo, 7B removed
rubble that had covered them.

The trio had entered the shaft the previous evening around 8pm for the night shift when
disaster struck.

According to eyewitness tragedy struck after boulders and mounds of earth fell into the
shaft where the two deceased and the lone survivor were digging for the yellow metal.

Masvingo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa said when police
attended the scene bodies of the deceased had already been retrieved from the shaft by
their colleagues.

The bodies were taken to Masvingo General Hospital for post-mortem.

Gold mining by artisanal miners is rife in the highly mineralised reefs in Mushandike
where scores of fortune seekers lose lives every year in deep shafts.

-State Media