By A Correspondent- It seems the year 2021 has some scary surprises, as the shocking incident of a snake going shopping has gone viral.
The appearance of a diamond python shocked shoppers at a Woolworths supermarket in Glenorie, Sydney in Australia.
The snake found itself hovering in the spice racks, and according to 9news, it’s unclear how it got there in the first place.
The snake was eventually removed from the shelves by a snake catcher.
By A Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa has finaslly landed in Mutare to officially commission the multi-million dollar medical oxygen and industrial gas plant at Feruka in Mutare after his earlier trip last week ended in the skies due to bad weather.
Mnangagwa was expected to commission the plant last week but media reports alleged that the event had to be postponed following advice of aviation experts who felt the bad weather in the eastern highlands city posed a danger to him.
The project that Mnangagwa is finally commissioning is an oxygen plant constructed by Verify Engineering under the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education.
The company built the plant which it operates in conjunction with the Harare Institute of Technology.
By A Correspondent- A violently possessive husband beat and critically injured his wife with stones until she collapsed at their home in Pumula South.
Thulani Lunga used stones to repeatedly bash Silungile Tshalibe screaming accusations like “How dare you touch my phone”, sources said.
According to sources trouble began when Tshalibe opened Lunga’s phone and found some love messages while he was asleep.
“She then awoke her husband intending to confront him. When Lunga woke up he immediately started assaulting Tshalibe with fists several times on the face.
“Fearing for her life Tshalibe exited the house and an angry Lunga followed. He picked stones and hit her several times all over the body until she collapsed,” said the source.
Lunga reportedly fled from the scene when a neighbour rushed to his house, leaving his bloodied wife behind while shocked witnesses attended to Tshalibe.
Neighbours in Pumula South where the couple lives said Lunga was abusive and a heavy drinker, though his wife was a devoted wife and mother.
“She is a really good lady, and a mom who is very dedicated to her children. It’s terrible that she has to go through so much abuse,” said a woman from the neighbourhood.
When Lunga re-appeared Tshalibe filed for a protection order.
“I am tired of being abused by my husband and now I am scared he is going to kill me. He is also promiscuous and every time I ask him about his girlfriends he gets angry and becomes violent,” read part of Tshalibe’s court documents.
Magistrate Tancy Dube granted an interim order.
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Investing in parallel voter tabulation (PVT) processes is key towards safeguarding the people’s vote and enhancing electoral activity, an independent election watchdog said drawing from Zambia’s recent elections.
The country’s elections have been marred with disputes, amid widespread claims of rigging and manipulation of the results.
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) in its report after observing Zambia’s elections said the country can draw lessons from that country’s elections as it mentioned PVT as a necessary tool to prevent rigging.
A PVT, sometimes called a Quick Count, is a proven election observation methodology employed by nonpartisan citizen observers to independently verify official election results.
A PVT is based on a systematic assessment of voting and counting processes.
“The time between the closing of polling stations and the announcement of results remains a very sensitive period within an electoral cycle, results need to be announced as soon as they are verified by the Commission to ease tensions that inevitably build up when the announcement of results is delayed,” the ZESN said,
“Political parties need to deploy their agents comprehensively so that their respective parties can comment authoritatively on electoral processes. PVT can contribute toward enhancing electoral integrity by providing quick updates on ongoing electoral processes and also by verifying the election result.”
Experts argue PVT’s are necessary in reducing uncertainty from the election environment by providing careful analysis of observer findings while increasing public confidence in well-run elections.
Opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa still disputes the 2018 presidential election outcome as rigged in favour of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
In Zimbabwe, elections remain suspended as a Covid-19 preventive measure.
“The elections in Zambia, as witnessed in other parts of the world, are yet again proof that it is possible to conduct elections in the middle of a serious pandemic. Democracy, not the COVID-19 must have a final say,” Zesn added.
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TITLE: “Everyone must vote to effect Zambia type regime change” – how will 3 m in diaspora denied vote, vote.
By Patrick Guramatunhu- “Unorasiswa chirimuruoko, chirimuropa unofa nacho!” (Poison in your hand can be thrown away, if it is in your blood, it will kill you.) So goes a Shona adage!
Some Zimbabweans have it in the heads that Zimbabwe can replicate Zambia’s election success and finally achieve the long-awaited regime change!
“The Zambians mastered and mapped out strategies which I believe are:
– Massive voter registration, mainly first-time voters and the youth;
– Commitment to go and cast a ballot by every citizen eligible to vote; and
– Defend and protection of vote by the youth,” argued National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) Executive Chairman Eng. Mugari Joelson.
“Everyone must go and vote. The first and most important step is the voter registration process. Political parties are taking a back seat in their push for electoral reforms. Citizens are not interested in any further disputed election results.”
Mugari and his NERA friends are supposed to be championing electoral reforms! They are arguing people to register to vote, to protect the vote, etc. and none of these activities have anything to do with electoral reforms. Indeed, they have abandoned the call for reforms and are convinced the democratic changes the nation has been dying for all these years can be achieved without implementing any democratic reforms.
“Everyone must go and vote!” How naïve!
Mnangagwa has just decided that the 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora will, once again, be denied the right to vote. So, “everyone” does not include those in the diaspora! Mnangagwa supposedly won the 2018 elections with a total of 2.4 million votes or 50.8% of the cast votes. How can the election be legal, free, fair and credible when 3 out of 8 potential voters are denied the vote?
Even those Zimbabweans in the country have been routinely denied the vote. For those in the opposition strongholds, it is near impossible to register as a voter. If you managed to jump through all the hoops and register; you will find your name is not even on the voters’ roll or it is in the wrong polling station voters’ roll. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Zimbabwe have failed to vote for no fault of their own.
ZEC is legally obliged to produce a verified voters’ roll at least one calendar month before nomination day. ZEC has never ever produced a verified voters’ roll in the 41 years of the country’s independence.
The EU Election Observer Mission reported that the 2018 elections lacked “transparency, traceability and verifiability”, not surprising when there is no verified voters’ roll, and that ZEC lacked independence. The Mission report gave a list of democratic reforms that should implemented to ensure future elections are free, fair and credible and not just a repeat past rigged elections.
Zanu PF has not implemented even one meaningful reform from the EU Mission report. Not one! Zanu PF has found allies in this from the country’s opposition parties and their acolytes such as NERA who have pushed the counter narrative that Zimbabwe can have it all without implementing any reforms.
Mnangagwa is not a cunning devil like Mugabe; far from it. Still, he is smart enough to know Zanu PF would lose its iron grip on power if he implemented any democratic reforms. And, so has been as keen as mustard in encouraging the opposition, NERA, etc. to forget about reforms and participate in elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process happened to be.
Ever since the 2013 elections, Zanu PF has offered a few gravy train seats, a share of the annual Political Party Finance Act pay-out and, Mnangagwa’s new attraction, generous perks to all presidential candidates who join POLAD. The perks to POLAD members are to buy their silence and to entice them and others to join the 2023 rat race.
There were 23 presidential candidates alone in the 2018 elections; proof, as far as Mnangagwa is concerned, the elections were free, fair and credible. He has argued that the opposition politicians would not participate in such huge numbers otherwise!
Instead of Zanu PF getting its political mandate from winning the majority votes in legal, free, fair and credible elections; the party is getting its legitimacy from the participation of corrupt opposition politicians.
Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends should have paid heed to the SADC leaders’ advice to postpone the 2013 elections until reforms were implemented. MDC leaders ignored the warning and Zanu PF went on to blatantly rig the 2013 and 2018 elections. To argue that we go into the 2023 elections with no reforms is insane!
Zanu PF has had more than 40 years to systematically erode the independence of the nation’s democratic institutions, corrupt them and turn them into party departments in all but name. It is naïve to expect ZEC, Police, etc. to deliver the people’s right to free and fair elections when these institutions’ number one priority now is ensuring there is no regime change at all costs!
Now that some people have it in the heads that Zambia effected regime change with no reforms, they think it must be possible to do the same in Zimbabwe regardless of the corrupt state institutions! Asking them to throw away that idea is going to be a real challenge!
“Everyone must go and vote!” Yeah right! Tell that to the 3 million in the diaspora have just been told they will, once again, be denied the vote, for no reason other than to safeguard the “no regime change”.
By A Correspondent| After exploding during a recent interview accusing DJ Shugeta of cheating on her, Anna Chibaby Honde has turned around saying she now misses him.
Anna Chibaby Honde and Tafadzwa Shugeta made headlines when they went public with their love affair, so was their break up which also dominated social media conversations.
The two socialites’ breakup had its fair share of drama as they counter accused each other of cheating and all sorts of things.
But Anna Chibaby Honde has made a U-turn, confessing to missing Shugeta.
“Thinking that the military are just wearing overalls (military gear) for Chamisa to just rule, fear God” George Charamba tweeted.
By Patrick Guramatunhu- MDC had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms including reforms of the military, Police, CIO and Prison Services; sadly, the golden opportunity was wasted because not even one reform was ever implemented in five years. Zanu PF was gloriously happy that no reforms ever saw the light of day and have since been boasting about their dictatorial powers.
Can Zimbabwe ever have free, fair and credible elections without first implementing the democratic reforms designed to cut the umbilical cord tying Zanu PF to the Army, Police, etc.? The answer has to be an emphatic NO!
SADC leaders advised Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends not to participate in the 2013 elections without first implementing the democratic reforms. The MDC leaders did not listen and have participated in Zimbabwe’s flawed elections, so flawed the MDC never had any real chance of winning the majority for them to form the new government. MDC leaders participated to give the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and a share of the spoils of power in the form of a few gravy train seats, as their reward.
When Emmerson Mnangagwa seized power from Mugabe in 2017 he was cocksure he was going to kick-start the Zimbabwe economic. He was cocksure investors would flood into the country is answer to his “Zimbabwe is open for business!” clarion call! No investors came because they are shrewd lot who know that the musical chair challenges following the November 2017 military could had changed nothing in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe was a Banana Republic ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs before the coup; the same thugs were in power after the coup. Nothing had changed!
Zimbabwe’s worsening economic situation means Zanu PF will have to resort to the same wanton violence as that seen in 2008 to force people to vote for the party. Charamba’s tweet is a shot across the bow!
The truth with 49% of the population now living in abject poverty, the nation’s education and health care services all but totally collapsed the nation is desperate for change.
Desperate people will do desperate things, the threat of the country descend into chaos and civil protests in now a matter of time.
The nation is now deeply regretting the wasted opportunities to implement the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. This is not the time for feeling sorry for ourselves and cry over spilt milk. However, this is the right time to finally acknowledge that MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent and, most important of all, to acknowledge they are the last people the nation must look up to, to get out of this mess.
The way forward, the sure way to manage both the Zanu PF threat of violence and the threat of civil violence through street protests, is to demand the implementation of the democratic reforms designed to end Zanu PF’s draconian powers.
The 2023 elections must be postponed until the reforms are implemented. Both Zanu PF and MDC would want the 2023 elections to go ahead with no reforms in place; this is just foolish designed to give the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy with nothing of substance to be gained as the 2013 and 2018 elections have shown.
An interim administration must be appointment to implement the democratic reforms. The very fact that MDC and Zanu PF failed to implement any reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU does not mean the reforms are not important; they are important. Indeed, we are up to our eyes in this mess precisely because it was folly to have kicked the reforms down the road all these years.
Just because MDC and Zanu PF failed to implement even one reform does not mean there are no men and women who can do this; there are plenty who can!
Time is of the essence; we must appoint the interim administration a.s.a.p. or the events on the ground will overwhelm us all!
By A Correspondent- Parallel voter tabulation (PVT) processes is key towards safeguarding the people’s vote and enhancing electoral activity, an independent election watchdog said drawing from Zambia’s recent elections.
The country’s elections have been marred with disputes, amid widespread claims of rigging and manipulation of the results.
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) in its report after observing Zambia’s elections said the country can draw lessons from that country’s elections as it mentioned PVT as a necessary tool to prevent rigging.
A PVT, sometimes called a Quick Count, is a proven election observation methodology employed by nonpartisan citizen observers to independently verify official election results.
A PVT is based on a systematic assessment of voting and counting processes.
“The time between the closing of polling stations and the announcement of results remains a very sensitive period within an electoral cycle, results need to be announced as soon as they are verified by the Commission to ease tensions that inevitably build up when the announcement of results is delayed,” the ZESN said,
“Political parties need to deploy their agents comprehensively so that their respective parties can comment authoritatively on electoral processes. PVT can contribute toward enhancing electoral integrity by providing quick updates on ongoing electoral processes and also by verifying the election result.”
Experts argue PVT’s are necessary in reducing uncertainty from the election environment by providing careful analysis of observer findings while increasing public confidence in well-run elections.
Opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa still disputes the 2018 presidential election outcome as rigged in favour of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
In Zimbabwe, elections remain suspended as a Covid-19 preventive measure.
“The elections in Zambia, as witnessed in other parts of the world, are yet again proof that it is possible to conduct elections in the middle of a serious pandemic. Democracy, not the COVID-19 must have a final say,” Zesn added.
By A Correspondent- People who have submitted applications for land to the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement should be prepared to wait for up to 10 years or more before they are allocated farms.
This was said by Lands Minister Anxious Masuka during a question and answer session in Parliament while responding to questions from MDC Alliance legislators.
The opposition legislators had vented their frustration on what they felt was a slow pace at which land applications were being handled.
Masuka stated that the bulk of the land had been taken up and there were no more unoccupied farms.
He said the Government was coming up with another strategy to open a window allowing those interested in land to be allocated.
Said Masuka:
There is no guarantee that if someone applies for land today, two months down the line or after 10 years, he will get it.
We have 2 500 applications who want land for the 99 per cent given to people. There is no additional land.
Masuka said the government was now looking for derelict, abandoned land or underutilised or multiple farmers from which to procure land for those who have applied for it.
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By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa reportedly made a phone call to Zambia’s outgoing president Edgar Lungu to step aside for the sake of peace in the country and SADC region after he had lost to opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) candidate Hakainde Hichilema.
The Electoral Commission of Zambia on Monday announced Hichilema the winner in the hotly contested 12 August poll after he secured more than 2.8 million votes, while Lungu of the Patriotic Front (PF) was in second place with over 1.8 million votes from 155 of 156 constituencies that were up for grabs.
Posting on Twitter this Thursday, Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications), George Charamba, said it was Mnangagwa who persuaded Lungu not to dig in but surrender power to his rival.
According to Charamba, Mnangagwa revealed this while addressing ZANU PF supporters on arrival in Mutare on Thursday morning where he is set to officially open an oxygen production plant established by Verify Engineering (VE) located at Feruka Oil Refinery in the eastern border town.
Said Charamba:
Upon arrival, His Excellency briefed his supporters on the just-ended SADC. He, for the first time, disclosed that he phoned the outgoing Zambian President, President Edgar Lungu, to persuade him to make way for the winner, President-Elect, Hichilema, to secure peace in the country and region.
Mnangagwa also poked fun at the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance for celebrating the opposition victory in Zambia, saying an opposition in Zimbabwe will never happen.
Added Charamba:
Turning to opposition members who dream of the same happening in Zimbabwe, the ZANU-PF leader urged such dreamers to come back to their senses!! Vamuke vabike doro!!!! (they should wake up from their nightmare and pray to their ancestors).
Charamba recently said even if Chamisa was to win the presidential election, fighters for liberation struggle for Zimbabwe’s independence would not allow the opposition leader to take over as Zimbabwe’s president.
A married man has written to columnist and prolific SCOAN Survivor and whistleblower of 13 years, Bisola Johnson, saying his wife got infected with HIV after visiting the late TB Joshua, a few months before his death.
The man made his first contact with Johnson providing initial details after the ZimEye program around the time of the proven woman serial abuser’s death in June.
The rest of the detail is revealed in the subtext.
Onr case of sexual abuse is a verified case of a Zimbabwean woman, Angela Charakupa who the Nigerian preacher was recorded trying to disrupt the victim’s court case raised initially against Joshua’s mentee Walter Magaya.
The full correspondence is below:
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Mama I saw ur Interview on U Tube. Now I am concerned about de Synagogue advise to people.
I am …. from SA: What makes me corncend is dat my wife is HIV Positive while I am HIV negative despite have intimate contact with her after many years. People are saying eventually I will be infected in future.
Anyway with all dis my wife visited SCOAN in April dis year and Evangelist Chris told her dat she must stop sleeping with me untill she is healed and make sure dis does not happen even if it means de end of our marriage or else she will die.
Now dats were I have a problem with. When she is adiviced to divorce me for de sake of her health. So in a way it sort of confirms my suspicions about SCOAN.
I DONT KNOW MAMA! DO U THINK DE ADVICE WAS CORRECT?
MY TAKE
YOU MUST not divorce your husband or wife because of health challenges. You can have protected sex, that is why condoms is in the market. And if she is under Medicare and using her antiretroviral religiously, it will get to a point where her CD4 count will be boosted and her viral load would go down drastically, at this time, the couple can come together even plan having children under care of your medical councilor. Remember also your prayers to God. What is going on in the Synagogue is evil and the reason the Synagogue church branch in UK was shut down by the UK government when 6 people died there.
Evans Momberume, the man accused of abusing 14 year old Memory Machaya who died during child birth has been arrested after being charged with having sex with a minor.
He is set to appear before the Mutare Magistrates Court today.
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By A Correspondent- The second deportation charter flight to Zimbabwe from the United Kingdom (UK) has been confirmed for 25 August, according to a key campaigner.
Dozens of Zimbabwean nationals are being held in Brook House Immigration Removal Centre and face removal from the UK.
Some of those set for deportation from the UK were convicted of serious crimes including murder and dealing in illicit drugs.
Speaking to The Voice, Zita Holbourne, co-founder and national co-chair of BARAC UK, said some Zimbabwean nationals have already been served removal directions.
She said:
The date has been confirmed as there are people in detention who have been given removal notices.
Holbourne said many of those who were taken off the first charter flight to Zimbabwe last month, have been held in detention and now face removal again.
In July, a charter flight to Harare left with only 14 people on board after several legal challenges.
The flight was originally expected to have approximately 50 Zimbabwean nationals on board.
According to Holbourne, this is just the beginning of a “series of deportations that the government will be implementing.”
She explained one of those facing removal, came to the UK at eight years old and had refugee status before it was revoked.
Campaigners have argued deportations to Zimbabwe should be postponed until the country has stabilised after recent political and social unrest.
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has hailed outgoing Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s gesture of humility after conceding defeat in the Presidential Election.
President Chamisa also praised the Zambian security forces for respecting the course of democracy.
“I honour the magnanimous leadership of President-elect HE
@HHichilema
& the humility of
@EdgarCLungu
in conceding defeat.
I salute the Zambian army, police, intel & the electoral commission for the exemplary professionalism and independence.
Africa leads! Zimbabwe, you are next,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
“HOPE INSPIRES. HOPE ENERGIZES HOPE ENCOURAGES. HOPE WINS. HOPE IS A GAME CHANGER. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE THE NATION’S HOPE. Thank you for believing,” he added.
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By Showbiz Reporter | Emmerson Mnangagwa’s publicist, Passion Java caused a scene on Wednesday night when he bounced back to insult a top Emmerson Mnangagwa man after being reportedly spotted with two prostitutes secretly entering a hotel,
Java had at the time been called upon to explain himself when he rushed to insult the discussion guest who was on a ZimEye program.
Impecable sources explain how Java was late afternoon seen hiring the two sex workers *names not given, for a hotel meet up and got a taxi driver to drive them over, unbeknown to him that the workers he consulted are Zimbabweans.
It was not clear at the time of writing, that the sex workers were for the purpose of performing the immoral bedroom toil, or for something else.
There was drama when the self proclaimed preacher rushed to a ZimEye broadcast where he swiftly began hurling insults at a video commentator, Robert (Bobby) Supiya.
Java mocked the man who is a war veteran over his facial appearance. Java was in no time met with embarrassment upon discovering that Mr Supiya is in fact a top Emmerson Mnangagwa loyalist who had actually been defending him saying: “prostitution is the oldest profession known the world over…”
Java however was like a rabid dog and went on to announce saying, ” Bobby matana anenge dumbu raTetelicious apo hauna maximo.” – Bobby your cheeks are like Tetelicious’ tummy and you don’t even have teeth.
Soon after that, the preacher bolted out of the broadcast before fully answering to the questions over his moral compromise.
A whole hour was extended to the broadcast with several invitations and calls for him to come back but he would not in embarrassment. Below were some of the scenes:
Exiled former Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Professor Jonathan Moyo has said he has been informed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is way older than he claims.
Moyo who is also a former minister of Higher and Tertiary Education said he was told by anonymous sources that Mnangagwa was born in 1942 and not 1946 as he claims.
He said:
Some who were with him in Zambia, and were born in Sept 1938, say they used to have joint birthday parties with him. In the 1980s/90s, press reports said he was born in Sept 1942. Now he says he was born in 1946. Truth is he’s turning 83 next month!
Moyo is one of the alleged kingpins of the defunct G40 cabal, a ZANU PF faction, who openly and staunchly opposed the Lacoste faction, led by then vice president Mnangagwa.
He skipped the country’s borders when the military, then under the leadership of now vice president Constantino Chiwenga removed then-president Robert Mugabe from power.
Some analysts say his resentment of Mnangagwa was clouding his reasoning while others are saying he was just frank.
The Zimbabwean constitution of 2013 stipulates, among other qualifications, that anyone who has attained the age of forty years, and it does not specify the maximum age limit.
Age is believed to be one of the factors that affect one’s ability to execute duties and responsibilities.
The constitution states that a president can be removed from office if he or she is unable to “perform the functions of the office because of physical or mental incapacity.”
The issue of age is said to have played a big role in the demise of Mugabe as he made a chain of miscellaneous blunders towards the end of his political career.
Zimbabwe goes to the polls in 2023 and Mnangagwa aims to retain power to at least 2030. – Pindula News
By Showbiz Reporter | Emmerson Mnangagwa’s publicist, Passion Java caused a scene on Wednesday night when he bounced back to insult a top Emmerson Mnangagwa man after being reportedly spotted with two prostitutes secretly entering a hotel,
Java had at the time been called upon to explain himself when he rushed to insult the discussion guest who was on a ZimEye program.
Impecable sources explain how Java was late afternoon seen hiring the two sex workers *names not given, for a hotel meet up and got a taxi driver to drive them over, unbeknown to him that the workers he consulted are Zimbabweans.
It was not clear at the time of writing, that the sex workers were for the purpose of performing the immoral bedroom toil, or for something else.
There was drama when the self proclaimed preacher rushed to a ZimEye broadcast where he swiftly began hurling insults at a video commentator, Robert (Bobby) Supiya.
Java mocked the man who is a war veteran over his facial appearance. Java was in no time met with embarrassment upon discovering that Mr Supiya is in fact a top Emmerson Mnangagwa loyalist who had actually been defending him saying: “prostitution is the oldest profession known the world over…”
Java however was like a rabid dog and went on to announce saying, ” Bobby matana anenge dumbu raTetelicious apo hauna maximo.” – Bobby your cheeks are like Tetelicious’ tummy and you don’t even have teeth.
Soon after that, the preacher bolted out of the broadcast before fully answering to the questions over his moral compromise.
A whole hour was extended to the broadcast with several invitations and calls for him to come back but he would not in embarrassment. Below were some of the scenes:
By A Correspondent- The Nelson Chamisa led MDC-Alliance has invaded Zanu PF’s strongholds where the party is making headways in mobilising voters for the forthcoming elections.
The party’s secretary for rural mobilisation and strategy, Happymore Chidziva said they are convincing the electorate to dump Zanu PF in the rural areas.
Chidziva said although they were behind in mobilising rural votes ahead of the 2023 elections, the new methods of penetrating rural areas will shock Zanu PF come election day.
“Yes, these are difficult times. Time is not on our side. We must move with what we have. The truth is that a desire for change is pushing our people. The main resource that we need is the will to win,” Chidziva said.
In 2018, Chidziva became an MP after winning the Highfield West parliamentary seat.
However, he was recalled from Parliament last year by the MDC T led by Douglas Mwonzora. The MDC-T recalled more than 40 MDC Alliance MPs and about 80 councillors throughout the country.
“We are deepening our links, strengthening our rural networks and spreading all over. We can’t ventilate our strategies in public. We obey COVID-19 protocols, but they don’t prevent us from moving to voters, even if it means door-to-door,” he said.
For a long time, the opposition has been failing to penetrate rural areas — which have proved to be Zanu PF strongholds.
— NewsDay
By A Correspondent- Former Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo said President Emmerson Mnangagwa was way older than he claims.
The exiled former cabinet minister said anonymous sources told him that Mnangagwa was born in 1942 and not 1946 as he claims.
” Some who were with him in Zambia, and were born in Sept 1938, say they used to have joint birthday parties with him. In the 1980s/90s, press reports said he was born in Sept 1942. Now he says he was born in 1946. Truth is he’s turning 83 next month!,” Jonso posted on his Twitter handle Wednesday evening.
Moyo is one of the alleged kingpins of the defunct G40 cabal, a Zanu PF faction, who openly and staunchly opposed the Lacoste faction, led by then vice president Mnangagwa.
He skipped the country’s borders when the military, then under now vice president Constantino Chiwenga removed then-president Robert Mugabe from power.
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By A Correspondent- ZUPCO buses have now become havens of sexual abuse with young women being the most targets
Female students at the University of Zimbabwe who have experienced sexual harassment in the buses on their way to the college said the authorities needed to look into this issue urgently.
Acknowledge Mawere, spokesperson for Observe Our Rights Group, said they had encountered many women and girls who had been abused at ZUPCO buses pick-up points.
“From the interviews and researches we have done so far, women and girls are telling us that since there is usually a lot of pressure and a lot of people trying to get into the buses at times some men touch their private parts and other sensitive parts of their bodies,” said Mawere.
He added: “There is also an issue of conductors, drivers and monitors demanding to date young school girls to secure them a seat.”
Mawere urged ZUPCO officials to create a women-friendly environment in the ZUPCO spaces.
“It would be best if the Government can bring in more buses so as to curb this scourge because it is at ZUPCO ranks where some ruthless, inhuman shameless and corrupt men are opportunistically abusing women and taking advantage of young girls who are desperate to travel timeously.
A SUSPECTED Glendale based cruel aunty who went viral on social media for assaulting her five year-old niece has been arrested.
Maria Mugwali (40) was arrested and dragged to Concession magistrates courts yesterday where she paid $5000 bail before magistrate Moreblessing Makati.
The prosecutor Munyaradzi Nengomasha alleged since January last year to August 2021 the aunt ill-treated the complaint by assaulting the child with switches all over the body on a daily basis.
Following a tip off the police managed to arrest Mugwali and the child was sent to hospital for medication.
A medical report was produced in court which showed that the child had minor njuries.
The matter continues on September 9.- Bulawayo 24
By A Correspondent- The Nelson Chamisa led MDC-Alliance said they had developed new election campaign methods to see them get more than six million votes in the 2023 elections.
The party’s secretary for rural mobilisation and strategy, Happymore Chidziva said they are targeting six million votes from these efforts.
Chidziva said although they were behind in mobilising rural votes ahead of the 2023 elections, the new methods of penetrating rural areas will shock Zanu PF come election day.
“Yes, these are difficult times. Time is not on our side. We must move with what we have. The truth is that a desire for change is pushing our people. The main resource that we need is the will to win,” Chidziva said.
In 2018, Chidziva became an MP after winning the Highfield West parliamentary seat.
However, he was recalled from Parliament last year by the MDC T led by Douglas Mwonzora. The MDC-T recalled more than 40 MDC Alliance MPs and about 80 councillors throughout the country.
“We are deepening our links, strengthening our rural networks and spreading all over. We can’t ventilate our strategies in public. We obey COVID-19 protocols, but they don’t prevent us from moving to voters, even if it means door-to-door,” he said.
For a long time, the opposition has been failing to penetrate rural areas — which have proved to be Zanu PF strongholds.
— NewsDay
A SUSPECTED Glendale based cruel aunty who went viral on social media for assaulting her five year-old niece has been arrested.
Maria Mugwali (40) was arrested and dragged to Concession magistrates courts yesterday where she paid $5000 bail before magistrate Moreblessing Makati.
The prosecutor Munyaradzi Nengomasha alleged since January last year to August 2021 the aunt ill-treated the complaint by assaulting the child with switches all over the body on a daily basis.
Following a tip off the police managed to arrest Mugwali and the child was sent to hospital for medication.
A medical report was produced in court which showed that the child had minor njuries.
The matter continues on September 9.- Bulawayo 24
Chief Mupakwa wearing an Abhero badge
By A Correspondent- The Nelson Chamisa led MDC-Alliance said their rural voter mobilisation programme is progressing despite COVID-19 restrictions.
The party’s secretary for rural mobilisation and strategy, Happymore Chidziva said they are targeting six million votes from these efforts.
Chidziva said although they were behind in mobilising rural votes ahead of the 2023 elections, they are confident that they will surpass Zanu PF’s five million votes.
Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the government has been announcing lockdown restrictions that banned gatherings and inter-city travel to curb the spread of the virus.
The lockdowns also paralysed the operations of opposition political parties.
Chidziva said despite the delays, the MDC Alliance had employed other tactics to reach out to rural voters.
“Yes, these are difficult times. Time is not on our side. We must move with what we have. The truth is that a desire for change is pushing our people. The main resource that we need is the will to win,” Chidziva said.
In 2018, Chidziva became an MP after winning the Highfield West parliamentary seat.
However, he was recalled from Parliament last year by the MDC T led by Douglas Mwonzora. The MDC-T recalled more than 40 MDC Alliance MPs and about 80 councillors throughout the country.
The MDC Alliance is eyeing about six million voters in 2023, while the ruling Zanu PF party is mobilising for five million votes.
“We are deepening our links, strengthening our rural networks and spreading all over. We can’t ventilate our strategies in public. We obey COVID-19 protocols, but they don’t prevent us from moving to voters, even if it means door-to-door,” he said.
For a long time, the opposition has been failing to penetrate rural areas — which have proved to be Zanu PF strongholds.
— NewsDay
By Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
It’s very unfortunate that there are nonbelievers like George Charamba…
Jamwanda thinks Zimbabwe is Emmerson Mnangagwa’s little fiefdom.
Such people are just a bunch of war deserters whose only intention is to soil the legacy of the liberation struggle.
They have been corrupted by stolen mandate and power hence they think Zimbabwe is their personal property.
Genuine war veterans know that there is no power that is greater than people power because they saw what happened to Ian Smith after his infamous “no black majority rule in a thousand years time.”
Unfortunately, those that are arrogant in face of the freedom train will be crushed when the hour has come. Indeed that hour is upon us!
ANALYSIS | The state owned Herald newspaper has reported that an Australian shelf company with no assets, once said to be owned by white investors, in fact belongs to the government of Zimbabwe.
The matter adds confusion to claims that the entity is a real addition to the national domestic product.
The full piece cites the minister responsible, Amon Murwira who has a pile of promised investment projects whose owners have failed to being in any funds into the country contrary to flashing headlines. One of them is a diesel from coal project which was said would wipe out the country’s fuel problems. 3 years later, ZimEye reveals the investor does not even have $5,000 in his bank account.
The article however celebrates the development saying:
In yet another hallmark of the Second Republic reform and development agenda, President Mnangagwa is today expected to officially commission the multi-million dollar medical oxygen and industrial gas plant at Feruka in Mutare, which has a capacity to meet national needs with room for exporting.
Dovetailing into President Mnangagwa mantra of building the country stone by stone, the oxygen plant that was developed by a wholly owned Government company with local engineers and technicians, also demonstrates the success of the National Development Strategy-1 which among other issues aims at retooling and capacitating the country’s industries to meet world standards.
Wholly State-owned company Verify Engineering built the plant in a demonstration of the Second Republic’s quest to see a highly industrialised Zimbabwe using locally available resources.
In an interview, Minister of Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Professor Amon Murwira, under whose purview HIT falls said all is set for Zimbabwe to enter a new and exciting phase where it meets its oxygen requirements.
“All is set for the launch by President Mnangagwa tomorrow (today). This is a technology and development entity under the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary, which will be processing medical and industrial gases. The plant is now done and we are looking forward for the production of nitrogen and oxgyen,” he said.
Outlining how the project was completed, Prof Murwira recently said his Ministry got the direction on the way forward from President Mnangagwa.
“The President gives direction on what needs to be done and we teach it at our institutions. A nation is built intentionally, not by accident. Once a nation is able to implement its own programmes, you cannot stop that nation.”
Prof Murwira said the President gave the national strategic intention, in Zimbabwe’s case achieving an upper middle income economy under Vision 2030.
The oxygen plant will among other needs, meet the demand for hospital oxygen in intensive care units, especially by critically ill Covid-19 patients.Verify Engineering operates under the Harare Institute of Technology.
Although the project was started in 2005, it stalled because of lack of resources. But with the onset of the Second Republic, adequate resources were channelled into this important national project resulting in its recent completion.
In an interview last week, Verify Engineering board chairman, Air Commodore Engineer Dr Edgar Kamusoko, said the completion of the medical energy and industrial gas plant was a demonstration that Zimbabwean engineers had the capacity to do the needed work and contribute to the industrialisation of the country.
“Verify Engineering is a wholly State-owned company meant to develop innovations and technology for the development of Zimbabwe. It is under the Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Ministry and we are contributing towards the success of the Education 5.0 policy through the component of innovation and technological development. Our sole aim is to see the industrialisation of Zimbabwe.
“The completion of this project is a clear demonstration of the capacity we have internally as Zimbabwe to develop our own economy,” said Eng Kamusoko.
“The completion of the medical oxygen plant was a big milestone as this will go a long way in scaling up the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Our health sector is in critical need of medical oxygen and we have the production capacity to meet our national requirements as well as export to neighbouring countries.”
Besides the medical supplies the company is also providing the oxy-acetylene welding supplies, important in the fabrication industry and the only way of welding away from a good electricity supply.
To ensure that the medical oxygen reaches the hospitals and others who need it, the company had already imported 5 000 cylinders with a further 5 000 set to arrive in the country soon. Eng Kamusoko hailed the support the company received from the Government.
“This project was wholly funded by Government and it is manned by Zimbabwean engineers and technicians. The completion of this project also demonstrates Government’s commitment to develop its own technology and industries.
The company is also working on other projects that include the establishment of a coal-to-fertiliser plant and coal-to-fuel plant in Lisulu, Hwange.
The company has designed a pilot plant capable of producing 5 000 litres of fuel a day, synthesised using an iron based-catalyst. It has commissioned an air separation unit and is now constructing an acetylene plant.
Oxy-acetylene welding is common when electricity is not available for arc-welding and is critical for a great deal of metalwork done in areas not on the national grid, while being useful in other areas.
Zimbabwe has defied odds to mount a thorough and effective response to the Covid-19 pandemic and has managed to minimise the effects of the disease on its citizenry.
Zimbabwe had been importing most of the materials needed to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic but by the end of last year, NatPharm reported that more than 70 percent of the equipment needed to respond to the virus was now being manufactured locally.
Meanwhile, 2 years ago, the Operations Manager of another fuel project, Nkosikhona Holdings came on ZimEye to apologise to the nation. MrRyan Chinyangare(23), while saying he is sorry for causing embarrassment to Zimbabwe, emphasised that he was too young around at the time when the deal was signed.
His apology (full text below) came as it emerged the company is nowhere near commencing business as previously advertised.
Chinyangare said,” I would like to express my sincerest apologies for the shame and embarrassment that I brought on the CTX Project and all the stakeholders in the media report released in Dec 2018. ” FULL TEXT AND VIDEO BELOW –
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By Ryan Chinyangare| To Nkosikhona Holdings and the Republic of Zimbabwe, I would like to express my sincerest apologies for the shame and embarrassment that I brought on the CTX Project and all the stakeholders in the media report released in Dec 2018.
I accept that this act was against the greater good and I should have put the interests of the nation before my own. I deeply regret the course of action I chose to take. It is with due respect that I ask for forgiveness from Nkosikhona Holdings a consortium member of Magcor International and the Government of Zimbabwe through the Ministry of Higher & Tertiary Education, Science and Technology for prematurely trying to evoke my commission agreement payment last year I was of the view that after my work with Nkosikhona Holdings and Magcor International in helping them secure the 55,2 Billion dollar CTX Project, on my exit it was rightfully so that I would be paid immediately.
However the plans may have changed after the team’s trip to China and the project has taken a different route. I can confidently confirm that this project is bigger and greater than my personal gains and as such I would like to apologize to Hon. Minister Murwira, one of he most honorable men I have come to know together with the Verify Engineering Executive members, especially Eng Tapfumanei.
Without favor I can confidently say these are patriotic men who I speak in high regard because of their integrity and work ethics. I strongly believe I rushed into taking action against Nkosikhona Holdings a Consortium Member of Magcor International without understanding the dynamic facts of the project.
I strongly believe Nkosikhona Holdings,7 a Consortium Member of Magcor International will not runaway from its due responsibility of paying my commission and as such I see it fit, that I take a step back and allow them to work on this prestigious project that is futuristic which will help & benefit Zimbabwe in the future.
I worked for Nkosikhona Holdings – the executive is one to be respected and be trusted.
They work with honour, love and passion at the same time identifying each other as family despite the different nationalities. It was an honour working with them and I regret the damage that I may have caused to the reputation of this reputable consortium.
It’s also in the view that I would like to personal ask for forgiveness from Mr GM Rousseau and Mike Glynn (Prmident/Founden Magcor International whom I also had the pleasure of working with and I also view with great regard as honorable men.
I should also indicate that my apology is not because I have received any money, but it’s after the realization that Zimbabwe comes first.
Ryan Chinyangare – Former Nkosikhona Holdings Operations Manager.
-Herald/additional reporting
Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has rubbished reports claiming he might move to Paris Saint Germain or his former club Real Madrid, describing them as ‘just talk.’
Spanish media was awash with reports linking the five-time World Player of the Year, with PSG and Los Blancos.
It was claimed that PSG, who recently signed Ronaldo’s fierce rival Lionel Messi from Barcelona, are planning to sell French sensation Kylian Mbappe and replace him with ‘CR7’.
The same reports claimed that Real coach Carlo Ancellotti wants to reunite with the 36-year old in the Spanish capital, having worked with him in his first stint between 2013-2015.
Ronaldo took to Instagram to vehemently-deny those reports.
“Anyone who knows me is aware of how focused I am on my work. Less talk and more action, this has been my guiding motto since the start of my career. However, in view of everything that’s been said and written recently, I have to set out my position,” he wrote.
“More than the disrespect for me as a man and as a player, the frivolous way that my future is covered in the media is disrespectful to all the clubs involved in these rumours, as well as to their players and staff.
“My story at Real Madrid has been written. It’s been recorded. In words and numbers, in trophies and titles, in records and in headlines. It’s in the Museum at the Bernabeu Stadium and it’s also in the minds of every fan of the club. And beyond what I achieved, I remember that in those nine years I had a relationship of deep affection and respect for “merengue afición”, an affection and respect that I retain to this day, and that I will always cherish. I know that the true Real Madrid fans will continue to have me in their hearts, and I will have them in mine.”
“As well as this most recent episode in Spain, there have been frequent news and stories associating me with a number of clubs in many different Leagues, with nobody ever being concerned about trying to find out the actual truth.”
I’m breaking my silence now to say that I can’t allow people to keep playing around with my name. I remain focused on my career and in my work, committed and prepared for all the challenges that I have to face. Everything else? Everything else is just talk.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
In a bizarre twist of events, copper cables and windings weighing 485 kilograms worth around US $29 000 were recovered by the Zimbabwe Republic Police on Tuesday, after the alleged suspects crashed a vehicle they were using to transport the contraband near a police station in Mabelreign.
Two suspects, Valentine Peki and Christine Muvirimi of Budiriro and Glennorah high density suburbs respectively, sustained serious injuries after ramming their Nissan Caravan into a tree around 0300hrs in the morning.
Upon attending to the accident scene, the police discovered the copper.
Commenting, ZESA Provincial Manager for Harare Abel Gurupira said he hoped the current review of the copper Act would help curtail thefts.
Cabinet recently approved the proposed Copper Control Amendment Bill which, among other things, proposes a mandatory 30-year jail term for copper thieves. The Bill seeks to make it illegal for anyone to posses copper without a certificate of origin.
“Cabinet was informed that the Bill seeks to provide for the offence of vandalism of utilities through the theft of copper which is then sold on the back market,” Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said in March.
“In order to curb the theft of copper, the police will require anyone found in possession of copper to provide the names and addresses of both, the seller and purchaser, description and quantity of the copper and reasons for disposal. Convicted copper thieves will now be liable to imprisonment for a period of not less than 30 years without the option of a fine. In addition, any vehicle or device used to illegally transport copper will now be forfeited to the state.”
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By Showbiz Reporter | Emmerson Mnangagwa’s publicist, Passion Java caused a scene on Wednesday night when he bounced back to insult a top Emmerson Mnangagwa man after being reportedly spotted with two prostitutes secretly entering a hotel,
Java had at the time been called upon to explain himself when he rushed to insult the discussion guest who was on a ZimEye program.
Impecable sources explain how Java was late afternoon seen hiring the two sex workers *names not given, for a hotel meet up and got a taxi driver to drive them over, unbeknown to him that the workers he consulted are Zimbabweans.
It was not clear at the time of writing, that the sex workers were for the purpose of performing the immoral bedroom toil, or for something else.
There was drama when the self proclaimed preacher rushed to a ZimEye broadcast where he swiftly began hurling insults at a video commentator, Robert (Bobby) Supiya.
Java mocked the man who is a war veteran over his facial appearance. Java was in no time met with embarrassment upon discovering that Mr Supiya is in fact a top Emmerson Mnangagwa loyalist who had actually been defending him saying: “prostitution is the oldest profession known the world over…”
Java however was like a rabid dog and went on to announce saying, ” Bobby matana anenge dumbu raTetelicious apo hauna maximo.” – Bobby your cheeks are like Tetelicious’ tummy and you don’t even have teeth.
Soon after that, the preacher bolted out of the broadcast before fully answering to the questions over his moral compromise.
A whole hour was extended to the broadcast with several invitations and calls for him to come back but he would not in embarrassment. Below were some of the scenes:
Exiled former Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Professor Jonathan Moyo has said he has been informed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is way older than he claims.
Moyo who is also a former minister of Higher and Tertiary Education said he was told by anonymous sources that Mnangagwa was born in 1942 and not 1946 as he claims.
He said:
Some who were with him in Zambia, and were born in Sept 1938, say they used to have joint birthday parties with him. In the 1980s/90s, press reports said he was born in Sept 1942. Now he says he was born in 1946. Truth is he’s turning 83 next month!
Moyo is one of the alleged kingpins of the defunct G40 cabal, a ZANU PF faction, who openly and staunchly opposed the Lacoste faction, led by then vice president Mnangagwa.
He skipped the country’s borders when the military, then under the leadership of now vice president Constantino Chiwenga removed then-president Robert Mugabe from power.
Some analysts say his resentment of Mnangagwa was clouding his reasoning while others are saying he was just frank.
The Zimbabwean constitution of 2013 stipulates, among other qualifications, that anyone who has attained the age of forty years, and it does not specify the maximum age limit.
Age is believed to be one of the factors that affect one’s ability to execute duties and responsibilities.
The constitution states that a president can be removed from office if he or she is unable to “perform the functions of the office because of physical or mental incapacity.”
The issue of age is said to have played a big role in the demise of Mugabe as he made a chain of miscellaneous blunders towards the end of his political career.
Zimbabwe goes to the polls in 2023 and Mnangagwa aims to retain power to at least 2030. – Pindula News
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has hailed outgoing Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s gesture of humility after conceding defeat in the Presidential Election.
President Chamisa also praised the Zambian security forces for respecting the course of democracy.
“I honour the magnanimous leadership of President-elect HE
@HHichilema
& the humility of
@EdgarCLungu
in conceding defeat.
I salute the Zambian army, police, intel & the electoral commission for the exemplary professionalism and independence.
Africa leads! Zimbabwe, you are next,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
“HOPE INSPIRES. HOPE ENERGIZES HOPE ENCOURAGES. HOPE WINS. HOPE IS A GAME CHANGER. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE THE NATION’S HOPE. Thank you for believing,” he added.
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has hailed outgoing Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s gesture of humility after conceding defeat in the Presidential Election.
President Chamisa also praised the Zambian security forces for respecting the course of democracy.
“I honour the magnanimous leadership of President-elect HE
@HHichilema
& the humility of
@EdgarCLungu
in conceding defeat.
I salute the Zambian army, police, intel & the electoral commission for the exemplary professionalism and independence.
Africa leads! Zimbabwe, you are next,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
“HOPE INSPIRES. HOPE ENERGIZES HOPE ENCOURAGES. HOPE WINS. HOPE IS A GAME CHANGER. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE THE NATION’S HOPE. Thank you for believing,” he added.
By Clifford Hlatywayo MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson
Jamwanda’s remarks are mere hallucinations from a clueless and unelectable regime.
Citizens are coming together and are determined to win Zimbabwe for change. No one and nothing shall stop the wave of change that has come in Sub Saharan Africa.
The power lies with the people and they will say it louder this time through a vote to President Nelson Chamisa.
No matter what, the People’s victory is coming in the next election. We are ready to lead with the people through our transformation agenda that will avail opportunities for every citizen to prosper.
Our agenda is a broad based which involves every Zimbabwean, no one will be left out including those who are resisting change now.
The Great Zimbabwe Dream is for all Zimbabweans. The next President of this country is Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
He has a Plan for Zimbabwe. We are targeting more than 6million votes for President Nelson Chamisa.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice president Hon Tendai Biti says he is ready to dance like Michael Jackson following Hakainde Hichilema’s resounding victory Zambia’s Presidential Election.
Hon Biti was harassed by Edgar Lungu’s administration as he sought refuge in that country soon after the 2018 Presidential Election.
Zanu PF agents trailed Hon Biti and tormented him for exposing massive rigging of elections by the regime.
“I can’t wait to drive back to Zambia … and at Chirundu Border Post where they almost killed me , I will dance like Micheal Jackson .
My Congress Dance . I can’t wait,” Hon Biti wrote on Twitter.
He was responding to
LynneM’s tweet :
Guys who remembers when VP @BitiTendai went to seek refuge in Zambia Flag of Zambia after the disputed elections in 2018 while Edgar Lungu was President & he deported him to face the savage of the evil regime in Zimbabwe Flag of Zimbabwe? Power is indeed temporary! Zvino achiti tonho Woman shruggingWoman shrugging #ZambiaDecided
Taking preventive measures against COVID-19 can help you protect your brain health, one expert says.
Two studies presented at the 2021 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Denver suggest that COVID-19 may lead to cognitive impairment down the road — and that certain symptoms that persist after recovering from the infection may be associated with cognitive decline.
One study uncovered ties between persistent loss of smell after recovering from COVID-19 and cognitive decline. The other found that people whose physical and respiratory health suffered due to a bout of COVID-19 were more likely to have issues with cognition afterward.
“I think what we’re learning is that it’s quite possible that these COVID-19 infections are potentially having an impact on the brain in some way,” says Rebecca Edelmayer, PhD, who is the senior director of scientific engagement for the Alzheimer’s Association in Chicago. Edelmayer was not affiliated with either study.
“There are still a lot of questions about the cause and effect, whether this is a direct or indirect effect [of COVID-19], but what we’re starting to see is data that suggests that people may be having some long-term impact from COVID-19 infection,” Edelmayer adds.
Persistent Loss of Smell Tied to Cognitive Impairment
In one study, researchers assessed 233 people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and 64 healthy participants who tested negative.
All participants in the study were age 60 or older. Those who tested positive were studied for three to six months after recovering from the virus.
The study participants underwent testing of their cognition and olfactory function — or function related to their sense of smell.
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The results of the study suggested that loss of smell was associated with persistent cognitive impairment among participants who recovered from the virus — and people with more severe loss of smell were more likely to have more severe cognitive impairment.
However, the researchers noted, the severity of olfactory dysfunction was not associated with how severe one’s bout of COVID-19 was.
“There is some suggestion that lack of smell could be a symptom of COVID-19 infection itself, but some people who experience COVID-19 without that symptom are having a persistent lack of smell afterward. So I think we have to learn more about what that symptom itself may imply in terms of the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the brain,” Edelmayer says.
COVID-19’s Lingering Effects on Lung Health (and What It Means for Cognition)
In a small, Greek study, researchers tested physical and mental function beginning with 32 people two months after they’d been hospitalized and recovered from mild to moderate COVID-19.
According to the study’s lead author, George Vavougios, MD, PhD, who is a postdoctoral researcher for the University of Thessaly, the number of participants in this study has now grown to almost 100.
None of the participants had any prior coexisting health conditions other than hypertension, or high blood pressure.
Testing included the six-minute walk test, which measures how far someone can walk for six minutes, as well as their oxygen saturation — or levels of oxygen in their blood as they were completing the test.
Other tests such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment measured whether participants had experienced cognitive decline after recovering from COVID-19.
Early findings from the study showed that more than half (56.2 percent) of participants had cognitive decline after recovering from COVID-19. Cognitive decline was found to be most common among people who demonstrated poor physical health and had concerningly low levels of oxygen in the blood during the six-minute walk test.
“For a healthy person, oxygen saturation would be at 99 percent whether we’re exercising or walking,” he explains. But for many people in the study, their oxygen saturation dropped to 95 percent, which, Dr. Vavougios says, resembles the lung function of someone with COPD (a group of lung conditions that inhibit airflow and cause breathing issues).
This finding could spell trouble for brain health, explains Vavougios. “A brain deprived of oxygen is not healthy, and persistent deprivation may very well contribute to cognitive difficulties,” he said in a press release.
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The Zhombe community has intervened to stop the marriage of a 13-year-old girl to a 21-year-old man after her family married her off recently due to hunger.
The girl who cannot be named had to be rescued from the “in-laws” after having stayed there for some days following the intervention of the community.
According to the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the legal age of consent for sexual activity is 16, while the minimum age for marriage is 18.
A former junior councillor got wind of the matter and raised alarm leading to the intervention of the community.
The villagers led by the traditional leaders enlisted the services of the police to rescue the girl.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the development, saying investigations are ongoing. He said:
I can confirm that we are handling a case in Zhombe involving an underage girl who had been married off by her family.
We have since intervened and as I speak to you, she is now back at her parents’ home.
For now, I cannot give you finer details because we are still carrying out investigations.
The incident occurred under Chief Gwesela in Zhombe who confirmed handling the case at his traditional court. The traditional leader said:
There are actually two different cases that are almost similar. The first one is that one which you are talking about of a family that tried to marry off their daughter due to hunger.
They have since appeared before my court and I have fined both the family that tried to marry off their daughter and the family that accepted the child as their daughter-in-law.
Chief Gwesela said in the second case, the girl was lured into marriage by a gold panner.
He said he fined both families again and ordered the girl to be taken back to her family.
Chief Gwesela said he will not allow the abuse of young girls in his area.
This comes hard on the heels of the story of 14-year-old Memory Machaya who died while giving birth at an Apostolic shrine in Manicaland Province.- Chronicle
By A Correspondent- Former Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo said President Emmerson Mnangagwa was way older than he claims.
The exiled former cabinet minister said anonymous sources told him that Mnangagwa was born in 1942 and not 1946 as he claims.
” Some who were with him in Zambia, and were born in Sept 1938, say they used to have joint birthday parties with him. In the 1980s/90s, press reports said he was born in Sept 1942. Now he says he was born in 1946. Truth is he’s turning 83 next month!,” Jonso posted on his Twitter handle Wednesday evening.
Moyo is one of the alleged kingpins of the defunct G40 cabal, a Zanu PF faction, who openly and staunchly opposed the Lacoste faction, led by then vice president Mnangagwa.
He skipped the country’s borders when the military, then under now vice president Constantino Chiwenga removed then-president Robert Mugabe from power.
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By A Correspondent- Former Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo said President Emmerson Mnangagwa was way older than he claims.
The exiled former cabinet minister said anonymous sources told him that Mnangagwa was born in 1942 and not 1946 as he claims.
” Some who were with him in Zambia, and were born in Sept 1938, say they used to have joint birthday parties with him. In the 1980s/90s, press reports said he was born in Sept 1942. Now he says he was born in 1946. Truth is he’s turning 83 next month!,” Jonso posted on his Twitter handle Wednesday evening.
Moyo is one of the alleged kingpins of the defunct G40 cabal, a Zanu PF faction, who openly and staunchly opposed the Lacoste faction, led by then vice president Mnangagwa.
He skipped the country’s borders when the military, then under now vice president Constantino Chiwenga removed then-president Robert Mugabe from power.
By A Correspondent- Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda and Justice Minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi, have defended Home Affairs Minister from answering why they are delaying expediting investigations into the death of a 14-year-old girl, Memory Machaya.
Parliament on Tuesday heard that the police, which falls under Kazembe’s portfolio, was failing to pin down a Mutare based member of the Johanne Marange Apostolic sect who is behind the young girl’s death.
The girl, who had been forced out of school, had allegedly been married off to one of the sect members and died while giving birth on July 15.
She was allegedly buried secretly about two hours after her death by members of the church.
Opposition Proportional Representative Member of Parliament, Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, had called upon Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe to issue a Ministerial Statement regarding progress on the case.
But Kazembe was saved by Justice and Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who said it was premature for him to come and answer.
Misihairambwi was concerned about law enforcement agencies’ delay and apparent inaction in arresting persons responsible for marrying off the child and the man who married and impreg_nated her.
“It’s not as straightforward as what the Honourable Member might think. Indeed, the Government is doing a lot, and investigations are continuing. Initially, there was no cooperation by the whole of that community to the extent that the police were not told about where she was buried.
“Police need to get to the bottom of the matter, but they are facing a lot of resistance from the whole of that community. It is too early for the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage to give a statement, but once investigations are complete, he will bring a statement,” said Ziyambi.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate Jacob Mudenda concurred, saying there was a need to give police time before a comprehensive statement was issued.
Earlier on, Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga had said it was worrying that the Government had not said anything on an incident of such a nature.
“The abuse of children within that particular sect has been known, and it is worrying that something of that nature happens publicly and there is nothing that has happened,” said Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga.
Police have said they are conducting thorough investigations to bring the culprits to book.
By A Correspondent- Opposition Proportional Representative Member of Parliament, Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has dressed down Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe for failing to expedite investigations into the death of a 14-year-old girl, Memory Machaya.
Parliament on Tuesday heard that the police, which falls under Kazembe’s portfolio, was failing to pin down a Mutare based member of the Johanne Marange Apostolic sect who is behind the young girl’s death.
The girl, who had been forced out of school, had allegedly been married off to one of the sect members and died while giving birth on July 15.
She was allegedly buried secretly about two hours after her death by members of the church.
Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga had called upon Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe to issue a Ministerial Statement regarding progress on the case.
Kazembe was saved by Justice and Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who said it was premature for him to come and answer.
Misihairambwi was concerned about law enforcement agencies’ delay and apparent inaction in arresting persons responsible for marrying off the child and the man who married and impreg_nated her.
“It’s not as straightforward as what the Honourable Member might think. Indeed, the Government is doing a lot, and investigations are continuing. Initially, there was no cooperation by the whole of that community to the extent that the police were not told about where she was buried.
“Police need to get to the bottom of the matter, but they are facing a lot of resistance from the whole of that community. It is too early for the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage to give a statement, but once investigations are complete, he will bring a statement,” said Ziyambi.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate Jacob Mudenda concurred, saying there was a need to give police time before a comprehensive statement was issued.
Earlier on, Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga had said it was worrying that the Government had not said anything on an incident of such a nature.
“The abuse of children within that particular sect has been known, and it is worrying that something of that nature happens publicly and there is nothing that has happened,” said Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga.
Police have said they are conducting thorough investigations to bring the culprits to book.
By A Correspondent- Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has been exposed for failing to expedite investigations of the death of a 14-year-old girl, Memory Machaya.
Parliament on Tuesday heard that the police, which falls under Kazembe’s portfolio, was failing to pin down a Mutare based member of the Johanne Marange Apostolic sect who is behind the young girl’s death.
The girl, who had been forced out of school, had allegedly been married off to one of the sect members and died while giving birth on July 15.
She was allegedly buried secretly about two hours after her death by members of the church.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said lack of cooperation from the sect community had contributed to the delay in finalising investigations.
However, he said law enforcement officers would not be deterred by the efforts to thwart the probe.
Minister Ziyambi said this yesterday in the National Assembly while addressing legislators.
Proportional Representative MP, Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, rose on the point of privilege, allowing a member to raise a matter of national importance.
She said she was concerned about law enforcement agencies’ delay and apparent inaction in arresting persons responsible for marrying off the child and the man who married and impreg_nated her.
Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga had called upon Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe to issue a Ministerial Statement regarding progress on the case.
But Minister Ziyambi, who is Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly, said it was too early to give a comprehensive progress report given the obstacles currently being encountered by police.
“It’s not as straightforward as what the Honourable Member might think. Indeed, the Government is doing a lot, and investigations are continuing. Initially, there was no cooperation by the whole of that community to the extent that the police were not told about where she was buried.
“Police need to get to the bottom of the matter, but they are facing a lot of resistance from the whole of that community. It is too early for the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage to give a statement, but once investigations are complete, he will bring a statement,” said Minister Ziyambi.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate Jacob Mudenda concurred, saying there was a need to give police time before a comprehensive statement was issued.
Earlier on, Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga had said it was worrying that the Government had not said anything on an incident of such a nature.
“The abuse of children within that particular sect has been known, and it is worrying that something of that nature happens publicly and there is nothing that has happened,” said Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga.
Police have said they are conducting thorough investigations to bring the culprits to book.
By A Correspondent- Zambia’s President-elect, Hakainde Hichilema, has started preparations for getting to the statehouse.
HH beat Edgar Lungu with an uncontested result in the last week’s presidential poll.
Posting on his Twitter handle, HH said he would submit himself to Zambains.
Friends, though I’ll be sworn in as President of the Republic of Zambia in 7 days, I’m still your Bally. Goodnight and God bless you all,” he said.
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police is failing to pin down a Mutare based member of the Johanne Marange Apostolic sect they are investigating in connection with the recent death of a 14-year-old girl, Memory Machaya, because of stiff resistance from the church.
The girl, who had been forced out of school, had allegedly been married off to one of the sect members and died while giving birth on July 15.
She was allegedly buried secretly about two hours after her death by members of the church.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said lack of cooperation from the sect community had contributed to the delay in finalising investigations.
However, he said law enforcement officers would not be deterred by the efforts to thwart the probe.
Minister Ziyambi said this yesterday in the National Assembly while addressing legislators.
Proportional Representative MP, Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, rose on the point of privilege, allowing a member to raise a matter of national importance.
She said she was concerned about law enforcement agencies’ delay and apparent inaction in arresting persons responsible for marrying off the child and the man who married and impreg_nated her.
Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga had called upon Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe to issue a Ministerial Statement regarding progress on the case.
But Minister Ziyambi, who is Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly, said it was too early to give a comprehensive progress report given the obstacles currently being encountered by police.
“It’s not as straightforward as what the Honourable Member might think. Indeed, the Government is doing a lot, and investigations are continuing. Initially, there was no cooperation by the whole of that community to the extent that the police were not told about where she was buried.
“Police need to get to the bottom of the matter, but they are facing a lot of resistance from the whole of that community. It is too early for the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage to give a statement, but once investigations are complete, he will bring a statement,” said Minister Ziyambi.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate Jacob Mudenda concurred, saying there was a need to give police time before a comprehensive statement was issued.
Earlier on, Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga had said it was worrying that the Government had not said anything on an incident of such a nature.
“The abuse of children within that particular sect has been known, and it is worrying that something of that nature happens publicly and there is nothing that has happened,” said Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga.
Police have said they are conducting thorough investigations to bring the culprits to book.
By Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
It’s very unfortunate that there are nonbelievers like George Charamba…
Jamwanda thinks Zimbabwe is Emmerson Mnangagwa’s little fiefdom.
Such people are just a bunch of war deserters whose only intention is to soil the legacy of the liberation struggle.
They have been corrupted by stolen mandate and power hence they think Zimbabwe is their personal property.
Genuine war veterans know that there is no power that is greater than people power because they saw what happened to Ian Smith after his infamous “no black majority rule in a thousand years time.”
Unfortunately, those that are arrogant in face of the freedom train will be crushed when the hour has come. Indeed that hour is upon us!
Zimbabwe national team coach Zdravko Logarusic says it is time for the current Warriors stars to perform to their fullest potential and justify the ‘golden generation’ title.
The current Warriors generation has been dubbed the ‘golden generation’ due to having in it, players who compete with the world’s best in some European leagues.
Ligue 1 in France, where six-time World player of the year Lionel Messi now turns out for Paris Saint- Germain, is also the same division where Tino Kadewere plays for Olympique Lyon while Marshall Munetsi is on the ranks of Stade De Reims.
To add to that, Marvelous Nakamba plays for Aston Villa in the Premier League, Teenage Hadebe in the Major League Soccer (MLS), while the talismanic duo of captain Knowledge Musona and poster boy Khama Billiat is still part of the Warriors fold,
Logarusic insists the team should start performing up to expectations starting now, with the World Cup qualifiers and AFCON finals on the horizon.
Reacting to last night AFCON draw, the Croat said: “What we have to do as Zimbabwe is, we have to learn from our mistakes, the mistakes we made before (from the previous AFCON finals),” he said.
“That means is we just have to focus on the football. We need to be prepared properly, we need to finish things much earlier, then preparation will start for the AFCON tournament.”
“All the time you (the media) are saying we have golden generation, but its time now for that golden generation to show the gold,” he added.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has rubbished reports claiming he might move to Paris Saint Germain or his former club Real Madrid, describing them as ‘just talk.’
Spanish media was awash with reports linking the five-time World Player of the Year, with PSG and Los Blancos.
It was claimed that PSG, who recently signed Ronaldo’s fierce rival Lionel Messi from Barcelona, are planning to sell French sensation Kylian Mbappe and replace him with ‘CR7’.
The same reports claimed that Real coach Carlo Ancellotti wants to reunite with the 36-year old in the Spanish capital, having worked with him in his first stint between 2013-2015.
Ronaldo took to Instagram to vehemently-deny those reports.
“Anyone who knows me is aware of how focused I am on my work. Less talk and more action, this has been my guiding motto since the start of my career. However, in view of everything that’s been said and written recently, I have to set out my position,” he wrote.
“More than the disrespect for me as a man and as a player, the frivolous way that my future is covered in the media is disrespectful to all the clubs involved in these rumours, as well as to their players and staff.
“My story at Real Madrid has been written. It’s been recorded. In words and numbers, in trophies and titles, in records and in headlines. It’s in the Museum at the Bernabeu Stadium and it’s also in the minds of every fan of the club. And beyond what I achieved, I remember that in those nine years I had a relationship of deep affection and respect for “merengue afición”, an affection and respect that I retain to this day, and that I will always cherish. I know that the true Real Madrid fans will continue to have me in their hearts, and I will have them in mine.”
“As well as this most recent episode in Spain, there have been frequent news and stories associating me with a number of clubs in many different Leagues, with nobody ever being concerned about trying to find out the actual truth.”
I’m breaking my silence now to say that I can’t allow people to keep playing around with my name. I remain focused on my career and in my work, committed and prepared for all the challenges that I have to face. Everything else? Everything else is just talk.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe were placed in Group B at next year’s edition of the Africa Cup of Nations.
The Warriors will face Senegal in their first match at the tournament on 10 January. They clash against fellow COSAFA team Malawi in the second Group B match four days later before rounding the first round against Guinea on the 18th of the month.
Zdravko Logarusic’s men will be camped in Bafoussam and use Kouekong Stadium for their first two games before travelling to the capital city, Yaounde, for the final group match.
This will be the national team’s fifth appearance at the tournament after featuring in 2004, 2006, 2017 and 2019 editions.
The 2021 Afcon will happen from 9 January to 6 February 2022 in Cameroon.
Warriors fixture schedule:
Matchday 1 – Group B
Senegal vs Zimbabwe (3 pm at Kouekong Stadium, Bafoussam)
Matchday 2 – Group B
Malawi vs Zimbabwe (6 pm at Kouekong Stadium, Bafoussam)
Matchday 3 – Group B
Zimbabwe vs Guinea (6 pm at Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaounde)- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Warriors team manager Wellington Mpandare has reacted to last night’s AFCON 2021 draw, saying its the fairest Zimbabwe could ever get.
African stars will descend on Cameroon soil for the rescheduled continental showpiece in January and Zdravko Logarusic’s troops were placed in Group B, alongside Senegal, Malawi and Guinea.
Mpandare, who attended the draw, believes its ideal for Zimbabwe.
“We can’t ask for a better group. This is the fairest draw. We have avoided Cameroon, our first game against Senegal will be telling,” he told Soccer24.
“The good thing is these games are coming after we would have played 6 games in the World Cup Qualifiers and that will give the coaches a chance to select the best team for the tournament,” added the former Gunners official.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has hailed outgoing Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s gesture of humility after conceding defeat in the Presidential Election.
President Chamisa also praised the Zambian security forces for respecting the course of democracy.
“I honour the magnanimous leadership of President-elect HE
@HHichilema
& the humility of
@EdgarCLungu
in conceding defeat.
I salute the Zambian army, police, intel & the electoral commission for the exemplary professionalism and independence.
Africa leads! Zimbabwe, you are next,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
“HOPE INSPIRES. HOPE ENERGIZES HOPE ENCOURAGES. HOPE WINS. HOPE IS A GAME CHANGER. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE THE NATION’S HOPE. Thank you for believing,” he added.
By Clifford Hlatywayo MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson
Jamwanda’s remarks are mere hallucinations from a clueless and unelectable regime.
Citizens are coming together and are determined to win Zimbabwe for change. No one and nothing shall stop the wave of change that has come in Sub Saharan Africa.
The power lies with the people and they will say it louder this time through a vote to President Nelson Chamisa.
No matter what, the People’s victory is coming in the next election. We are ready to lead with the people through our transformation agenda that will avail opportunities for every citizen to prosper.
Our agenda is a broad based which involves every Zimbabwean, no one will be left out including those who are resisting change now.
The Great Zimbabwe Dream is for all Zimbabweans. The next President of this country is Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
He has a Plan for Zimbabwe. We are targeting more than 6million votes for President Nelson Chamisa.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice president Hon Tendai Biti says he is ready to dance like Michael Jackson following Hakainde Hichilema’s resounding victory Zambia’s Presidential Election.
Hon Biti was harassed by Edgar Lungu’s administration as he sought refuge in that country soon after the 2018 Presidential Election.
Zanu PF agents trailed Hon Biti and tormented him for exposing massive rigging of elections by the regime.
“I can’t wait to drive back to Zambia … and at Chirundu Border Post where they almost killed me , I will dance like Micheal Jackson .
My Congress Dance . I can’t wait,” Hon Biti wrote on Twitter.
He was responding to
LynneM’s tweet :
Guys who remembers when VP @BitiTendai went to seek refuge in Zambia Flag of Zambia after the disputed elections in 2018 while Edgar Lungu was President & he deported him to face the savage of the evil regime in Zimbabwe Flag of Zimbabwe? Power is indeed temporary! Zvino achiti tonho Woman shruggingWoman shrugging #ZambiaDecided
Taking preventive measures against COVID-19 can help you protect your brain health, one expert says.
Two studies presented at the 2021 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Denver suggest that COVID-19 may lead to cognitive impairment down the road — and that certain symptoms that persist after recovering from the infection may be associated with cognitive decline.
One study uncovered ties between persistent loss of smell after recovering from COVID-19 and cognitive decline. The other found that people whose physical and respiratory health suffered due to a bout of COVID-19 were more likely to have issues with cognition afterward.
“I think what we’re learning is that it’s quite possible that these COVID-19 infections are potentially having an impact on the brain in some way,” says Rebecca Edelmayer, PhD, who is the senior director of scientific engagement for the Alzheimer’s Association in Chicago. Edelmayer was not affiliated with either study.
“There are still a lot of questions about the cause and effect, whether this is a direct or indirect effect [of COVID-19], but what we’re starting to see is data that suggests that people may be having some long-term impact from COVID-19 infection,” Edelmayer adds.
Persistent Loss of Smell Tied to Cognitive Impairment
In one study, researchers assessed 233 people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and 64 healthy participants who tested negative.
All participants in the study were age 60 or older. Those who tested positive were studied for three to six months after recovering from the virus.
The study participants underwent testing of their cognition and olfactory function — or function related to their sense of smell.
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The results of the study suggested that loss of smell was associated with persistent cognitive impairment among participants who recovered from the virus — and people with more severe loss of smell were more likely to have more severe cognitive impairment.
However, the researchers noted, the severity of olfactory dysfunction was not associated with how severe one’s bout of COVID-19 was.
“There is some suggestion that lack of smell could be a symptom of COVID-19 infection itself, but some people who experience COVID-19 without that symptom are having a persistent lack of smell afterward. So I think we have to learn more about what that symptom itself may imply in terms of the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the brain,” Edelmayer says.
COVID-19’s Lingering Effects on Lung Health (and What It Means for Cognition)
In a small, Greek study, researchers tested physical and mental function beginning with 32 people two months after they’d been hospitalized and recovered from mild to moderate COVID-19.
According to the study’s lead author, George Vavougios, MD, PhD, who is a postdoctoral researcher for the University of Thessaly, the number of participants in this study has now grown to almost 100.
None of the participants had any prior coexisting health conditions other than hypertension, or high blood pressure.
Testing included the six-minute walk test, which measures how far someone can walk for six minutes, as well as their oxygen saturation — or levels of oxygen in their blood as they were completing the test.
Other tests such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment measured whether participants had experienced cognitive decline after recovering from COVID-19.
Early findings from the study showed that more than half (56.2 percent) of participants had cognitive decline after recovering from COVID-19. Cognitive decline was found to be most common among people who demonstrated poor physical health and had concerningly low levels of oxygen in the blood during the six-minute walk test.
“For a healthy person, oxygen saturation would be at 99 percent whether we’re exercising or walking,” he explains. But for many people in the study, their oxygen saturation dropped to 95 percent, which, Dr. Vavougios says, resembles the lung function of someone with COPD (a group of lung conditions that inhibit airflow and cause breathing issues).
This finding could spell trouble for brain health, explains Vavougios. “A brain deprived of oxygen is not healthy, and persistent deprivation may very well contribute to cognitive difficulties,” he said in a press release.
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Tinashe Sambiri|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba, who calls himself Jamwanda on Twitter, has sparked widespread outrage after attempting to belittle MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa.
Jamwanda claimed war veterans would not allow President Chamisa to rule …
In response the MDC Alliance Namibia has described Charamba as a man obessessed with phantasmagoria.
Charamba’s remarks reflect the level of desperation in Mr Mnangagwa’s administration, according to the MDC Alliance Namibia.
Read full statement below:
George Charamba’s tweet unravels Zanupf’s panic mode and political ineptitude, Mdc Alliance Namibia notes.
18 August 2023
Mdc Alliance Namibia notes with great astonishment the panic and desperation in the clueless Zanupf morons.
The toxic words that came from Mr Mnangagwa’s Spokesperson on his twitter handle unearthed a wholesale abuse of the universal fundamental basic right to vote.
Social democrats in Namibia who subscribe to constitutionalism and rule of call upon Zanupf to respect the will of the people.
As a concerned external assembly in the democratic project led by the pragmatic and organic leader, President Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we demand that the people of Zimbabwe are given their political freedoms to choose their leaders without the fear of persecution by prosecution.
On his twitter handle, Jamwanda said Zanupf will not handover power to Mdc Alliance leader President Advocate Nelson Chamisa no matter what! He went on to say Mr Mnangagwa and cronies did not go to war so that they will handover to Chamisa on a silver.
We condemn this entitlement by the desperate Harare regime, Zimbabwe is for us all, it is a private property of Zanupf! Zimbabwe deserves new leaders with absolute respect to human freedoms to associate, organise and confront gross misgovernance.
It is clear from his words that our country has been hijacked by senseless thugs who are heartless. Constitutional fighters are ready to prosecute the struggle to its logical conclusion. It is now imperative to put political and diplomatic pressure on these Satanists who have paralysed our economy and polarised our society.
Furthermore, let it be known to Zanupf morons that social democrats in the Alliance are have the perseverance and determination to soldier on with the struggle for socio-economic transformation to its logical conclusion. Our mandate is to win Zimbabwe against an attempt to create a One Party state in the name of the liberation struggle.
Jamwanda needs to be rudely reminded that our heroines and heroes went to war for One Man One Vote, the right Zanupf is publicly denouncing. We are not going to be silent, we shall register to vote in our numbers taking the inspiration from sister party in Zambia (the United National Democratic Party) UNDP.
Jamwanda must know that there is no substitute to citizen agency especially the vibrant youths. With high turnout and revolutionary energy to defend the vote from these serial election fraudsters at Zec.
We reiterate that Zimbabwe is not Zanupf property and this gives us the revolutionary appetite to reclaim our country from dictators who are using intimidation, arbitrary arrests and gross abuse of human rights.
Zambians are enjoying the fruits of constitutional democracy after they mounted unprecedented pressure to unlock the One Party system of Kenneth under the motto: it’s either you vote Kaunda or hyena- insinuating that Zambians did not have a democratic alternative except Kaunda.
That was why the Zambians automatically saw the dire need for a new constitution in order to safeguard national interest, now they are enjoying smooth transfer of power.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia encourages the citizens to converge so that we accomplish the unfinished business of the liberation struggle. We can’t continue with leaders who don’t believe in constitutional democracy. We should register to vote and go in our huge numbers in 2023. We should again be very ready to protect our vote by making sure that we have enough polling agents. Lets resist this futile attempt to discourage us from confronting the devil for complete change.
Complete change in a Great Zimbabwe is possible in our lifetime. Zanupf has already pressed the panic button. Lets achieve our projected 6 million voters.
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
By Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
It’s very unfortunate that there are nonbelievers like George Charamba…
Jamwanda thinks Zimbabwe is Emmerson Mnangagwa’s little fiefdom.
Such people are just a bunch of war deserters whose only intention is to soil the legacy of the liberation struggle.
They have been corrupted by stolen mandate and power hence they think Zimbabwe is their personal property.
Genuine war veterans know that there is no power that is greater than people power because they saw what happened to Ian Smith after his infamous “no black majority rule in a thousand years time.”
Unfortunately, those that are arrogant in face of the freedom train will be crushed when the hour has come. Indeed that hour is upon us!
Paul Mavengwa (15) from Zaka who spent eight months at Masvingo Provincial Hospital while he unsuccessfully tried to raise US$ 1015 for an operation has died.
He died on August 12 and this once again brings to the fore the urgent need for Government to attend to the country’s collapsed health system.
Paul, an orphan who stayed with his aunt and grandmother fell from a mango tree last December and fractured his spinal cord. He remained detained at the hospital while he waited for a Good Samaritan to pay the amount needed for the operation.
Only two weeks ago he made an impassionate appeal through The Mirror for assistance.
Masvingo General Hospital Public Relations Officer Mercy Ruth Zulu confirmed the death and said negotiations were held with the Social Welfare Department to pay the bill and the latter had agreed following The Mirror article.
There were also some well-wishers based in South Africa who were in the process of raising the money.
“The boy died on Heroes holiday just after the Department of Social Welfare agreed to pay the full bill after they saw the article that appeared in The Mirror,” said Zulu.
Paul who lost both parents at a tender age fell while trying to get some mangoes for his grandmother.
He broke his left hand and both legs and operations for that were covered for free by the hospital. However, cash was needed for the spinal cord.
Masvingo Provincial Social Welfare Officer Stanislaus Sanyangowe confirmed his Department’s pledge to help.
“His case was placed under the Assisted Medical Treatment Order where Social Welfare assists less privileged patients.
“It is sad that he died before the operation but all was in place for him to be helped. May his soul rest in peace,” said Sanyangowe.- The Mirror
Tinashe Sambiri|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba, who calls himself Jamwanda on Twitter, has sparked widespread outrage after attempting to belittle MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa.
Jamwanda claimed war veterans would not allow President Chamisa to rule …
In response the MDC Alliance Namibia has described Charamba as a man obessessed with phantasmagoria.
Charamba’s remarks reflect the level of desperation in Mr Mnangagwa’s administration, according to the MDC Alliance Namibia.
Read full statement below:
George Charamba’s tweet unravels Zanupf’s panic mode and political ineptitude, Mdc Alliance Namibia notes.
18 August 2023
Mdc Alliance Namibia notes with great astonishment the panic and desperation in the clueless Zanupf morons.
The toxic words that came from Mr Mnangagwa’s Spokesperson on his twitter handle unearthed a wholesale abuse of the universal fundamental basic right to vote.
Social democrats in Namibia who subscribe to constitutionalism and rule of call upon Zanupf to respect the will of the people.
As a concerned external assembly in the democratic project led by the pragmatic and organic leader, President Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we demand that the people of Zimbabwe are given their political freedoms to choose their leaders without the fear of persecution by prosecution.
On his twitter handle, Jamwanda said Zanupf will not handover power to Mdc Alliance leader President Advocate Nelson Chamisa no matter what! He went on to say Mr Mnangagwa and cronies did not go to war so that they will handover to Chamisa on a silver.
We condemn this entitlement by the desperate Harare regime, Zimbabwe is for us all, it is a private property of Zanupf! Zimbabwe deserves new leaders with absolute respect to human freedoms to associate, organise and confront gross misgovernance.
It is clear from his words that our country has been hijacked by senseless thugs who are heartless. Constitutional fighters are ready to prosecute the struggle to its logical conclusion. It is now imperative to put political and diplomatic pressure on these Satanists who have paralysed our economy and polarised our society.
Furthermore, let it be known to Zanupf morons that social democrats in the Alliance are have the perseverance and determination to soldier on with the struggle for socio-economic transformation to its logical conclusion. Our mandate is to win Zimbabwe against an attempt to create a One Party state in the name of the liberation struggle.
Jamwanda needs to be rudely reminded that our heroines and heroes went to war for One Man One Vote, the right Zanupf is publicly denouncing. We are not going to be silent, we shall register to vote in our numbers taking the inspiration from sister party in Zambia (the United National Democratic Party) UNDP.
Jamwanda must know that there is no substitute to citizen agency especially the vibrant youths. With high turnout and revolutionary energy to defend the vote from these serial election fraudsters at Zec.
We reiterate that Zimbabwe is not Zanupf property and this gives us the revolutionary appetite to reclaim our country from dictators who are using intimidation, arbitrary arrests and gross abuse of human rights.
Zambians are enjoying the fruits of constitutional democracy after they mounted unprecedented pressure to unlock the One Party system of Kenneth under the motto: it’s either you vote Kaunda or hyena- insinuating that Zambians did not have a democratic alternative except Kaunda.
That was why the Zambians automatically saw the dire need for a new constitution in order to safeguard national interest, now they are enjoying smooth transfer of power.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia encourages the citizens to converge so that we accomplish the unfinished business of the liberation struggle. We can’t continue with leaders who don’t believe in constitutional democracy. We should register to vote and go in our huge numbers in 2023. We should again be very ready to protect our vote by making sure that we have enough polling agents. Lets resist this futile attempt to discourage us from confronting the devil for complete change.
Complete change in a Great Zimbabwe is possible in our lifetime. Zanupf has already pressed the panic button. Lets achieve our projected 6 million voters.
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
By A Correspondent- A little girl who was allegedly poisoned is recovering in hospital.
The six-year-old was being treated in Kgapane Hospital in Limpopo after her two-year-old sister died on the night of Monday, 16 August.
Allegedly the sisters’ 35-year-old mother poisoned herself and her children after she failed to pay R5 000 back to a burial society, which she allegedly spent improperly.
Monday was apparently her last day to pay the money back.
Limpopo police spokesman Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said police in Hlanganani were investigating cases of murder, attempted murder and an inquest docket.
“Allegedly, the woman prepared food for herself and her two daughters. She allegedly used a poisonous substance to contaminate the food to end her own life and those of her children,” he said.
“After eating the food, the woman and her children reportedly started vomiting and were rushed to Rotterdam Clinic. The youngest child was certified dead on arrival. The woman was transferred to Kgapane Hospital but unfortunately died on the way.”
Social development MEC Nkakareng Rakgoale said: “We are urging all parents who are facing challenges in their families and relationships not to resort to killing and harming their children but to approach our social workers for advice and assistance.
“As the department, we have systems in place to ensure vulnerable children are protected and brought up in a conducive environment.
“A team of social workers dispatched to the area will conduct assessments, and ensure that psychosocial support is provided to affected family members and other parties.”
-dailysun
By A Correspondent- Zimbabweans have been urged to ignore threats of war thrown around by people like presidential spokesperson George Charamba adding that the peaceful nation will not implement a war to subvert the will of the people.
He said:
Sikhala’s statements come in the wake of Charamba’s latest tweet where he insinuated that Chamisa will never rule Zimbabwe as war veterans will not fold their hands and allow him to rule.
The tweet which torched a social media storm read:
The National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) brings to the attention of people the adage that once beaten once twice shy. NERA says this is a call for Zimbabweans to take lessons from the just-ended elections.
“It is not social media vibrancy that gives out positive results. It is all about hardworking in its diversity. In Zimbabwe, the 2018 elections were peaceful. They were not fair and free and neither were they credible in the naked eyes of democrats.
“The Zambians mastered and mapped out strategies which I believe are:
– Massive voter registration, mainly first-time voters and the youth;
– Commitment to go and cast a ballot by every citizen eligible to vote; and
– Defend and protection of vote by the youth,” said NERA Executive Chairman Eng. Mugari Joelson.
He said Zimbabwean citizens have very bad tendencies of leaving everything for politicians. In that regard, NERA is advocating for citizens on how to protect their vote.
“Everyone must go and vote. The first and most important step is the voter registration process. Political parties are taking a back seat in their push for electoral reforms. Citizens are not interested in any further disputed election results,” Mugari said.
He called for all civic societies, churches, political parties and labour to vehemently drive the voter registration campaign since the current pace at which voter registration exercise is going is disappointing.
“What has happened in Zambia is a paradigm shift of SADC political inclination. it is a real clear showcase of possibilities of change in any country,” Eng. Mugari said.
He reminded the rural people that traditional leaders are guided by the Constitution, especially Article 281 on Principles to be observed by traditional leaders in sections 1a,b,c and 2a, b & c. He encouraged stakeholders to educate to preach about these sections day in and day out.
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has challenged African leaders to stop using national institutions to advance selfish political interests.
Speaking during a programme dubbed Democracy and Africa hosted by South African politician Mmusi Maimane on Monday, President Chamisa urged African leaders to desist from using taxpayers money to fund acts of violence and torture of innocent citizens.
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By A Correspondent- Two women were committed to perform 280 hours of unpaid work after they were found in possession of 150 bottles of BronCleer Cough Syrup they intended to sell in Harare’s Glen View suburb.
Evelyn Kasinaubari (40) of Glen View 7, and Trish Chinyamakobvu (32) of Kuwadzana were initially jailed for 12 months when they appeared before magistrate Mrs Barbra Mateko charged with possession of unregistered medicines.
Mrs Mateko set aside four months of the jail term on condition that they do not commit a similar offence within the next five years.
The remaining eight months were suspended on condition that each of them performs 280 hours of community service. Kasinauburi will work at Glen View 2 Primary School while Chinyamakobvu will perform her punishment at Kuwadzana Police Station.
Kasinaubari’s husband, Ben Bushu, who was jointly charged with the two denied the charges. He was remanded to September 30 for trial. Mrs Polite Chikiwa appeared for the State.
-Herald
By A Correspondent- A High Court judge, Justice Esther Muremba on Friday reserved judgment in the matter of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) which defied Harare provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti’s directive to report to him.
The NGOs had challenged Muguti’s directive.
In the arguments presented before the judge, State lawyers failed to prove where the authority of the PDC was derived from, as defined by the law. They ended up conceding that Muguti’s office did not exist in terms of the law.
In the application, the applicants, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, said they were seeking an order declaring that Muguti, cited as the first respondent, had no regulatory powers over civic society organisations (CSOs).
Muguti recently ordered NGOs that defied his directive to submit work plans to his office to stop operating, except for only 40 that complied.
In the court application, the CSOs, represented by Tonderai Bhatasara of the Zimbabwe lawyers for Human Rights, said Muguti’s directive was unconstitutional and should be declared null and void. They also applied for an interim order allowing them to operate pending courts determination on the constitutionality of the ban.
But in their opposing affidavits, Muguti and Local Government minister July Moyo, who was cited as the third respondent, said their office was not seeking to register NGOs, but was playing an oversight role for compliance with the regulatory measures put in place by government.
“The order being sought is frivolous and baseless for reasons that the Press statement is legal as it outlined the policy regarding operations of and activities of NGOs, faith-based organisations, CSOs and trusts,” Moyo stated in the affidavit.
“The applicants are well aware of the policy and cannot proffer ignorance of such requirements as pronounced in the Press statement. It is, therefore, not correct to say that the first respondent is policing the applicants. The first respondent needs to be guided and know all the activities by the applicants to ensure that there is harmonisation and effective delivery of humanitarian assistance by the applicants.”
Public Service minister Paul Mavima, who was cited as fifth respondent in the matter, insisted that the NGOs ought to have complied with Muguti’s directive in accordance with the laws and policies that govern their work.
“As such there has been no infringement to the applicants’ rights. Moreover, the perceived harm by the applicants can be prevented by their simple compliance with the procedures set out in the policy, and as such, this application is frivolous and ought to be dismissed,” Mavima said.-Newsday
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come to terms with reality and reached out to the incoming Zambian President, Hakainde Hichilema.
Mnangagwa took almost 24 hours to acknowledge HH’s victory because of his close links with Edgar Lungu, who lost the Presidential poll to his long time opponent.
Tuesday evening, Mnangagwa grudgingly took to Twitter and reached out to Zambia’s new President.
“Congratulations
on your election victory. I have no doubt that you will serve Zambia with distinction for the benefit of all. I look forward to working with you over the coming years for the benefit of both peoples,” Mnangagwa posted.
For Immediate Release
18 August 2021
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition is astonished by claims by the Minister of Justice, Ziyambi Ziyambi that the Zimbabwe Republic Police “is facing resistance” in investigating the case of a 14 year old girl, Memory Machaya who died while giving birth at an Apostolic Church shrine in Marange early this month (August 2021).
It is shocking that law enforcement agents mandated to maintain law and order as well as protection of fundamental rights, including those of the girl child, would claim to face resistance in a case of such magnitude; a case that has attracted worldwide condemnation when the perpetrators are well known individuals.
The case of the late Memory Machaya is a litmus test in as far as the government of Zimbabwe’s commitment to the protection of the girl child is concerned and the recent claim by the country’s Justice Minister ranks the country lowly in terms of protecting the girl child.
It is shocking that police in Zimbabwe have often responded with brute force against citizens calling for economic, political and electoral reforms yet they have developed a lackadaisical approach in the case of Memory Machaya. There can never be any excuse on the issue of Memory Machaya whom we know had been married off to a man named Evans Momberume.
Of late, the Zimbabwe Republic Police has carried out successful operations against armed robbers around the country and it boggles the mind that they would fail to act against alleged shrine rapists that are well known.
Over the years, we have witnessed an unholy alliance between Zimbabwe’s ruling party, Zanu PF and a number of Apostolic sects with the former campaigning for the ruling party during elections. This has allowed the Apostolic sects to violate the rights of girls and women with impunity.
That unholy alliance must be broken!
The rights of the girl child are sacrosanct and should never be compromised as a result of the lust for political support and power. As it stands, the girl child in Zimbabwe is at the mercy of unscrupulous church leaders and the government. Women and girls’ safety should never be exchanged for power.
The case of the late Memory should be the starting point of a series of clampdowns against Apostolic Churches violating the rights of the girl child.
We demand that all perpetrators (around the country) be brought to book without fear or favour.
We call upon progressive Zimbabweans to continue to pile pressure on the government using all constitutional means, including peaceful protests, until justice for Memory Machaya and other victims is served.
-ENDS-
High Court judge, Justice Esther Muremba on Friday reserved judgment in the matter of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) which defied Harare provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti’s directive to report to him.
The NGOs had challenged Muguti’s directive.
In the arguments presented before the judge, State lawyers failed to prove where the authority of the PDC was derived from, as defined by the law. They ended up conceding that Muguti’s office did not exist in terms of the law.
In the application, the applicants, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, said they were seeking an order declaring that Muguti, cited as the first respondent, had no regulatory powers over civic society organisations (CSOs).
Muguti recently ordered NGOs that defied his directive to submit work plans to his office to stop operating, except for only 40 that complied.
In the court application, the CSOs, represented by Tonderai Bhatasara of the Zimbabwe lawyers for Human Rights, said Muguti’s directive was unconstitutional and should be declared null and void. They also applied for an interim order allowing them to operate pending courts determination on the constitutionality of the ban.
But in their opposing affidavits, Muguti and Local Government minister July Moyo, who was cited as the third respondent, said their office was not seeking to register NGOs, but was playing an oversight role for compliance with the regulatory measures put in place by government.
“The order being sought is frivolous and baseless for reasons that the Press statement is legal as it outlined the policy regarding operations of and activities of NGOs, faith-based organisations, CSOs and trusts,” Moyo stated in the affidavit.
“The applicants are well aware of the policy and cannot proffer ignorance of such requirements as pronounced in the Press statement. It is, therefore, not correct to say that the first respondent is policing the applicants. The first respondent needs to be guided and know all the activities by the applicants to ensure that there is harmonisation and effective delivery of humanitarian assistance by the applicants.”
Public Service minister Paul Mavima, who was cited as fifth respondent in the matter, insisted that the NGOs ought to have complied with Muguti’s directive in accordance with the laws and policies that govern their work.
“As such there has been no infringement to the applicants’ rights. Moreover, the perceived harm by the applicants can be prevented by their simple compliance with the procedures set out in the policy, and as such, this application is frivolous and ought to be dismissed,” Mavima said.
-Newsday
Battle lines are drawn between MDC Alliance co-vice president Welshman Ncube and a group of officials from his former MDC who have adamantly dismissed their recent suspension as a nullity.
Ncube’s MDC in 2018 merged with the MDC-T and Tendai Biti’s PDP in a coalition arrangement originally spearheaded by the now late Morgan Tsvangirai, to form what is now known as MDC Alliance.
MDC Green, as it is commonly referred to, sprang a surprise this past week when it reconvened to hand suspensions against four party officials accused of links with the rival MDC-T faction led by Douglas Mwonzora.
The officials are Christopher Monera, Shupikai Mandaza, Munhango Musevenzo and Gift Karupati.
However, the ‘suspended’ officials have dug in, insisting it is in fact Ncube, his deputy Edwin Mushoriwa and a handful party top officials who expelled themselves from the party by “defecting” to the now Nelson Chamisa led opposition.
Said Mandaza, who has declared himself as MDC interim leader, “Categorically and unequivocally, I put it on record that the so-called suspension from MDC (green) by one Farauh Jele, purporting to represent the MDC Disciplinary Committee is thus of no force or effect.
“Jele is not a member of the MDC (green), he is just but a defector from it so he has no business in the affairs of our party.
“Our former President Prof. Welshman Ncube, DP Edwin Mushoriwa, 4 other senior members and all the others who joined the MDCT Party self-expelled themselves from their former party, MDC (green), by operation of the MDC Constitution.”
The MDC officials argue that Ncube led the MDC into the MDC Alliance coalition without National Council approval.
They also argue the MDC Alliance remained a loose coalition whose members could revert to their original formations as demonstrated by other political parties that subscribed to the idea prior to the 2018 elections.
Mandaza continued, “As MDC (green) and in accordance with our constitution, are putting in place measures to effect leadership renewal to replace all those who ditched the party.
“…The available remaining MDC (green) leadership have the mandate to defend and take the party forward including engaging in all Alliance business.
“Finally and without prevarication I re-state that, all those former MDC (green) members who have defected from the party and have taken up positions were Prof W.Ncube is Deputy President HAVE AUTOMATICALLY EXPELLED THEMSELVES FROM MDC (green) BY OPERATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND SHOULD NOT MASQUARADE AS MDC MEMBERS.”
-Zimstar News
Police are facing resistance from the Johanne Marange Apostolic community in Bocha in their investigation of the recent death of a 14-year-old girl, Memory Machaya, at a church shrine, legislators heard yesterday.
The girl, who had been forced out of school, had allegedly been married off to one of the sect members and died while giving birth on July 15.
She was allegedly buried secretly about two hours after her death by members of the church.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said lack of cooperation from the sect community had contributed to the delay in finalising investigations.
He said law enforcement officers would, however, not be deterred by the efforts to thwart the probe.
Minister Ziyambi said this yesterday in the National Assembly while addressing legislators.
Proportional Representative MP, Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga had risen on a point of privilege allowing a member to raise a matter of national importance.
She said she was concerned about the delay and apparent inaction of law enforcement agencies in arresting persons responsible for marrying off the child and the man who married and impregnated her.
Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga had called upon Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe to issue a Ministerial statement regarding progress on the case.
But Minister Ziyambi, who is Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly, said it was too early to give a comprehensive progress report given the obstacles currently being encountered by police.
“It’s not as straightforward as what the Honourable Member might think. Indeed, the Government is doing a lot and investigations are continuing. Initially, there was no cooperation by the whole of that community to the extent that the police were not told about where she was buried.
“Police need to get to the bottom of the matter, but they are facing a lot of resistance from the whole of that community. It is too early for the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage to give a statement, but once investigations are complete, he will bring a statement,” said Minister Ziyambi.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate Jacob Mudenda concurred saying there was need to give police time before a comprehensive statement was issued.
Earlier on, Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga had said it was worrying that Government had not said anything on an incident of such a nature.
“The abuse of children within that particular sect has been known and it is worrying that something of that nature happens publicly and there is nothing that has happened,” said Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga.
Police have said they are conducting thorough investigations to bring the culprits to book.
-State Media
By A Correspondent- George Charamba, the spokesperson of President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday insinuated that war veterans will not allow opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to take power from the ruling ZANU PF.
Observers say the remarks are an open threat of violence by the ruling party ahead of the 2023 elections. Previously, ZANU PF said war veterans and military personnel would not salute the then leader of MDC, the late Morgan Tsvangirai. They eventual did when he became the Prime Minister during the government of national unity (GNU) that was formed in 2009.
Posting on Twitter after MDC Alliance officials had expressed optimism that the party can win elections in Zimbabwe following veteran Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema’s victory in the presidential election held on 12 August,
Charamba said
Kwaa kufunga kuti madhara ehondo anongopfeka hovhorosi kuti Chamisa agotonga hake??? Imika imi, ityai Mwari!!!! [Do you think these war veterans just wear overalls so that Chamisa can govern? Come on, revere God!!!! [laughing emoji]
We present some of the responses to Charamba’s remarks.
Hopewell Chin’ono@daddyhope
This tweet by Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba @jamwanda2 is loaded with fear and intimidation! Hardly an hour passes without Charamba or his surrogates reminding Zimbabweans who the REAL opposition leader is in Zimbabwe. It also debunks the falsehood that Joji is smart!
Tichawona Mutoro @dvdticho
Those who died whilst fighting for our freedom are turning in their graves because this is surely not the Zimbabwe they fought and died for.I am disgusted by someone who believes they are entitled to rule Zim because they fought or were part of those who organised Chimurenga.
We appreciate and respect those who sacrificed their lives to free Zimbabwe…including our parents, brothers and sisters. Zim has a lot of qualified people capable of leading, because one fought in the war is not a qualification to hold an office in government.
Pedzisai Ruhanya @PedzisaiRuhanya
Grace Mugabe was correct on Jamwanda, anonyora matoto (he writes nonsense). He was a problem under Mugabe and continues to be problematic today. He gives toxic and unlawful advice to security apparatus against the masses and many people have been killed because of this recklessness
They publicly threaten violence, publicly announce they will deploy the armed forces of a country to campaign and protect Zanu PF against the masses, then they say they deserve respect from the masses and their electoral theft should be accepted; really, it’s oxymoronic.
Most genuine liberation fighters are dead. Some of these so called madhara ehondo did not even fire a single shot, very bogus and questionable credentials
Professor Jonathan Moyo
Madhara enyu ehondo nemahovhoroso are now the most vulnerable tiny winy segment in the population, in the army, in political parties and even in their families. Be a rational & ethical advisor Cde; tell them the truth, they better go peacefully; or else their exit will be tragic!
Fadzayi Mahere @advocatemahere
Why did he not say Mwonzora? Pafungei ipapo [think about it].
Basa rekunyora zvisina basa rese [you (George Charamba) write nonsense].
NdebeleMaker @nhlaasto85
The More they mention Chamisa’s name on daily basis it gives him more traction… The more they speak of him to a thinking Youth it must ring a bell. It must tell u something is special about this guy.. They are getting scared cause Zambian set a precedence n template to copy
Garikai Goremusandu@Garikai1Gorey
I don’t believe in majority rule ever in Rhodesia… not in 1,000 years, Smith once said those words in 1976. It will END.
Tawanda Shumba @cas_ts
Where are the people in this? Surely it is the people, the voters, who decide whether it’s madhara ehondo or Chamisa they want for the highest office. Unless if @Jamwanda2 is telling us that elections in Zimbabwe are a farce, a routine that fulfills legality but useless on power?
MuChikunda @mukorekore4
Charamba has just confirmed one thing, that without the madhara ehondo Chamisa will beat ED hands down. To the Youths, l say go and register to VOTE for Chamisa to put an end to these threats of war once and for all. You need jobs and not threats.
Shingi @ShingiChange
Remember how we all used to fear Robert Mugabe? These people have everything to lose if the Zambian situation is replicated in Zim. Thus they will use every trick in the book but note, if you start seeing them do it so clearly and openly then it means they are afraid, VERY AFRAID
Arnold SwagNigga.@Anorld_80
They’re in panic mode and they’re beginning to play politics of the mind to discourage gullible people who will quickly say we can never win. Zanu wouldn’t pay lobbyists and socialites to solicit for votes if elections didn’t matter. They wouldn’t kill for it either.
#RegisterToVoteZw@DocLAWO
It seems that all these years taikandwa fear with these statements and we fell for it and believed it. Massive voter mobilisation, massive voter turn out and coordinated protection of the vote-these guys will go packing rakacheka nyika. 2008 the vote wasnt properly protected!
Leoni Kusanga @LKusanga
Zambians protected their vote. The military helped them do that! I wonder if our military can do what we saw happen in Zambia – a special unit called the Zebra protected the vote at Mulungushi! They even protected the main opposition leader! Zim let’s do it too!!
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come to terms with reality and reached out to the incoming Zambian President, Hakainde Hichilema.
Mnangagwa took almost 24 hours to acknowledge HH’s victory because of his close links with Edgar Lungu, who lost the Presidential poll to his long time opponent.
Tuesday evening, Mnangagwa grudgingly took to Twitter and reached out to Zambia’s new President.
“Congratulations
on your election victory. I have no doubt that you will serve Zambia with distinction for the benefit of all. I look forward to working with you over the coming years for the benefit of both peoples,” Mnangagwa posted.
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF has set August 22 as the deadline to fully oil its 2023 elections political violence machinery.
The party is setting up political structures throughout the country’s ten provinces that they will be using during the election campaign.
On Tuesday, the party’s acting national political Commissar Patrick Chinamasa said provinces were given a time limit of August 22 to set up branches.
“We have sent a circular to all the provinces directing them to set up branches by August 22, 2021,” said Chinamasa.
He said the cell restructuring exercise had been completed, with some provinces winding up the data capturing exercise.
“The cell restructuring exercise has been completed, so we are now moving to the next stage, which is the branch level,” said Chinamasa
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dumped his ally, Edgar Lungu, who was defeated in last week’s Zambia elections by the country’s long time opposition leader Hakainde Hachilema.
Mnangagwa sent his congratulatory message to Hachilema, Tuesday evening.
Mnangagwa is Lungu’s political mentor.
Hichilema won 2 810 777 votes against the outgoing President Edgar Lungu’s 1 814 201.
Hichilema is set to become the southern African country’s 7th President after winning last Thursday Presidential poll.
By A Correspondent- Man of the moment, Rokford ‘Roki ‘ Josphat continues to make waves on the international stage after being named Face of Afrobeats on the prestigious online music platform Spotify.
He is back with a bang, and his presence is unmistakable.
Roki’s star is shining bright as he continues to make waves not only in Zimbabwe but beyond the country’s borders.
The Urban grooves star is now donning international billboards after being appointed face of Afrobeats on the prestigious online music platform Spotify.
Riding on the success of his collaboration with Rhumba music icon, Koffi Olomide in the song Patati Patata, the nomination comes as a huge endorsement on Zimbabwe’s arts industry.
Roki becomes the first Zimbabwean to be nominated under the prestigious online flagship, joining the cream of African music such as Shatta Wale from Ghana and Diamond Platinumz from Tanzania.
The Zhombe community has intervened to stop the marriage of a 13-year-old girl to a 21-year-old man after her family married her off recently due to hunger.
The girl who cannot be named had to be rescued from the “in-laws” after having stayed there for some days following the intervention of the community.
According to the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the legal age of consent for sexual activity is 16, while the minimum age for marriage is 18.
A former junior councillor got wind of the matter and raised alarm leading to the intervention of the community.
The villagers led by the traditional leaders enlisted the services of the police to rescue the girl.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the development, saying investigations are ongoing. He said:
I can confirm that we are handling a case in Zhombe involving an underage girl who had been married off by her family.
We have since intervened and as I speak to you, she is now back at her parents’ home.
For now, I cannot give you finer details because we are still carrying out investigations.
The incident occurred under Chief Gwesela in Zhombe who confirmed handling the case at his traditional court. The traditional leader said:
There are actually two different cases that are almost similar. The first one is that one which you are talking about of a family that tried to marry off their daughter due to hunger.
They have since appeared before my court and I have fined both the family that tried to marry off their daughter and the family that accepted the child as their daughter-in-law.
Chief Gwesela said in the second case, the girl was lured into marriage by a gold panner.
He said he fined both families again and ordered the girl to be taken back to her family.
Chief Gwesela said he will not allow the abuse of young girls in his area.
This comes hard on the heels of the story of 14-year-old Memory Machaya who died while giving birth at an Apostolic shrine in Manicaland Province.- Chronicle
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF administration is desperately looking for money to compensate former white farmers the regime booted out of their farms at the turn of the millennium.
Reports say Zimbabwe has appointed London-based Newstate Partners to help raise $1.75 billion (~R26 billion) by July next year to meet its obligations.
Compensating the farmers is key to Zimbabwe’s repairing its relations with the US and other western countries that imposed sanctions on the country after the often violent land seizures began in 2000. Zimbabwe’s economy subsequently collapsed as exports dwindled with stagnating ever since.
While the government is likely to press ahead with publicly stated plans to sell an international bond to finance the compensation accord, that option probably won’t be viable, said the person who asked not to be identified as the information hadn’t been disclosed publicly.
A bond would be too expensive and need a guarantee from a multilateral lender that’s unlikely to be forthcoming as Zimbabwe hasn’t paid its arrears on more than $8 billion in debt, meaning it can’t borrow fresh capital from them.
If money is raised from private investors, a special-purpose vehicle could be set up offshore and a portion of the country’s tax or royalty earnings from mineral exports could be diverted into it to repay them over a number of years with interest, the person said. The SPV could also be used as a guarantee to bolster the confidence of potential lenders, they said.
Zimbabwe’s main exports include platinum-group metals, gold and tobacco.
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and his Permanent Secretary George Guvamatanga didn’t respond to calls and text messages seeking comment.
-News24
The Zhombe community has intervened to stop the marriage of a 13-year-old girl to a 21-year-old man after her family married her off recently due to hunger.
The girl who cannot be named had to be rescued from the “in-laws” after having stayed there for some days following the intervention of the community.
According to the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the legal age of consent for sexual activity is 16, while the minimum age for marriage is 18.
A former junior councillor got wind of the matter and raised alarm leading to the intervention of the community.
The villagers led by the traditional leaders enlisted the services of the police to rescue the girl.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the development, saying investigations are ongoing. He said:
I can confirm that we are handling a case in Zhombe involving an underage girl who had been married off by her family.
We have since intervened and as I speak to you, she is now back at her parents’ home.
For now, I cannot give you finer details because we are still carrying out investigations.
The incident occurred under Chief Gwesela in Zhombe who confirmed handling the case at his traditional court. The traditional leader said:
There are actually two different cases that are almost similar. The first one is that one which you are talking about of a family that tried to marry off their daughter due to hunger.
They have since appeared before my court and I have fined both the family that tried to marry off their daughter and the family that accepted the child as their daughter-in-law.
Chief Gwesela said in the second case, the girl was lured into marriage by a gold panner.
He said he fined both families again and ordered the girl to be taken back to her family.
Chief Gwesela said he will not allow the abuse of young girls in his area.
This comes hard on the heels of the story of 14-year-old Memory Machaya who died while giving birth at an Apostolic shrine in Manicaland Province.- Chronicle
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Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has commended Zambia’s State institutions for upholding the rule of law.
In a statement the MDC Alliance Namibia described Hakainde Hichilema’s resounding victory in the Presidential Election in Zambia as a huge inspiration.
See statement below:
Mdc Alliance Namibia congratulates Zambia’s State Institutions for safeguarding the will of the people and upholding the rule of law!
16 August 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia would like to jovially celebrate Zambia as one of Africa’s most sophisticated and successful democracies in Southern Africa.
Social democrats gyrates together with the prominent social transformer and opposition political dynamo , Haikande Hichilema of the United National Democratic Party (UNDP) who has been declared the astounding winner of the tightly contested presidential election in debt-burned Zambia.
With 155 of 156 constituencies reporting official results reflected that Hichilema had astonishingly captured a landslide of 2.810.757 votes against 1.814.201 for former president Edgar Lungu.
We salute the professionalism exhibited by the Electoral Commission of Zambia through its absolute refusal to be manipulated to aid a potential loser when the order to stop counting was given.
Change seekers in Namibia also applauded the judiciary for defending the rule of law and constitutionalism through a court order to the repressive Lungu-led PF government.
Zambia showed clearly that their courts are independent from the executive unlike our captured courts which are keeping Malaba illegally so that he can defend them after losing 2023 elections at the hands of President Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
This is the sixth time Hichilema (president-elect) had run for the top job and the third time he has squared off with the 64-year-old incumbent Lungu, who just narrowly won their last contest in 2016. International election observers have commended the transparent and peaceful organisation of the polls, which saw a high and motivating turnout of around 70.9%. Mdc Alliance Namibia applauds the revolutionary appetite and enthusiasm in the fellow compatriots in Zambia whereas in the motherland elections are rendered insignificant in transforming people’s livelihoods, it has been proven otherwise.
But they also criticised an attempt to muzzle democratic space when security forces blockeduu freedom of assembly and movement. Mdc Alliance Namibia learns that Hichilema was obstructed from campaigning in several areas including the strategic Copperbelt Province ,citing breaches of Corona virus measures and a public order act. Lungu also deployed ,the military following pre-election clashes but the army behaved professionally since they did not beat or torture anyone. Welldone Zambian Army and Police for serving the people not the hybrid of dictators in our continent. As victims of Zanupf sponsored violence by security agents, we really appreciate the level of professionalism in the Zambian Army.
Social media access was restricted in the capital Lusaka just as Hichilema cast his vote and was restored on Saturday only after a court order. This was a futile attempt to subvert the will of the people by the politically inept Patriotic Front leader who wanted to abuse his powers to rig the people’s hardworn vote after 24 years of fighting corruption and gross misgovernance in Zambia. Lungu who came into power in 2015 after the death of Michael Sata, has deployed the military to curb politically motivated violence , a move that has been criticised by opposition as some of intimidation and terror to social democrats in Zambia. He wanted to apply the Mnangagwa antics but it did not work.
This election victory is a triumph for democracy in light with the growing authoritarian consolidation, we have seen it in countries like Zimbabwe and Swaziland. The United National Democratic Party (UNDP) is our sister party and we have exchanged political notes over the years to further the cause of Constitutional Democracy and Good Governance. Like in Zimbabwe, this election victory was facilitated by the declining economic prospects which have become a campaign issue for opposition,which accused Lungu of running down the economy. Zambia , Africa’s second-largest copper producer has faced crisis owing to depressed commodity prices and has defaulted on two instalments of loans.
Moreover, she has also dismally failed to pay a US$42.5 million repayment on one of its dollar-denominated Eurobonds. Zambia has also failed to pay a US$56.1 million coupon payment on January 30, on its Eurobonds maturing in 2027. Lusaka has since received some debt relief from China and is so negotiating with the international monetary fund for a bail out. Mdc Alliance Namibia has the conviction that President-elect Haikande Hichilema-who has an an economics degree and has promised to rebuild investor confidence – committed and dedicated to confront an economy wracked by unprecedented debt,inflation and pathetic unemployment rate.
In a nutshell, we appeal to all countries in the region especially Zimbabwe to learn from the Zambian experience. In particular, we call for state institutions to serve the constitution and not partisan interests. Mdc Alliance Namibia believes that the 59 year old opposition leader and President-elect Haikande Hichilema has the full potential to put the economy on a sounder footing.
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally sent his congratulatory message to the incoming Zambian Presiden, Hakainde Hichilema.
Mnangagwa sent his congratulatory message nearly 24 hours after the leader of Zambia’s opposition had been declared winner of that country’s last Thursday polls, beating his (Mnangagwa) close ally, Edgar Lungu.
Hichilema won 2 810 777 votes against the outgoing President Edgar Lungu’s 1 814 201.
Hichilema is set to become the southern African country’s 7th President after winning last Thursday Presidential poll.
By Sharp Shooter | Next month Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa is jetting out of Zimbabwe for London for a series of meetings.
If all goes according to plan, this will be the tyrant’s first UK visit since the coup that made him Robert Mugabe’s successor in 2017.
Before flying out Mnangagwa receives the sharp bayonette from International Policewoman, Julie Askana, who queries what his mission is to the former colonial power’s country. Why is it wrong to conclude that just like you accuse Nelson Cjamisa you are travelling to beg for sanctions?, she asks.
Soon after that, Julie finishes her golden-sports by blading him with a lethal giggle that only mortalises a crocodile.
We wish to restate our position and be categorically clear that those wishing to take part in illegal acts; including the destruction of public and private property, must immediately stop or be dealt with by the law.
As we take office, we will not allow crime to be committed under the guise of celebrating an election victory, nor will we accept disruption to our peaceful transition by a small group of trouble makers.
As outgoing Republican President and Commander In Chief, it is still incumbent upon President Edgar Lungu during this transition period, to ensure that law and order is maintained to the fullest extent, and we urge him to do so.
Hakainde Hichilema
A Bulawayo man was on Saturday found dead on a rubbish dump at an alley in the city centre with numerous stab wounds all over his body in a suspected robbery case.
The body was found at an alley between Lobengula Street and Basch Street along Third Avenue.
A vendor who operates from the Third Avenue bus terminus told CITE that the man was attacked on Friday evening by unknown people and they tried to call the police for assistance to no avail. She said:
I first saw him around 7 pm. He was kneeling by the pavement at the corner of the alley. At first, I thought he was drunk.
I then told the boys who accompany me when it’s late to go and wake him up otherwise he would get mugged.
They went to him and a few minutes later they came back saying he is covered in blood. Three police officers of the cycle patrol unit passed by and we alerted them.
They said they would call an ambulance to come and attend to him. We waited for a while then but the ambulance never came.
The vendor said they ended up leaving because they feared they would not get transport to go home since it was getting late.
Another witness, Whisper Mubaiwa, a friend to the deceased said he was called in the morning to identify the body.
He said after identifying the body he accompanied police officers to the deceased’s home in Richmond to inform his family.
The police could not immediately comment on the incident as they said they were still gathering facts.- CITE
By Farai D Hove | The ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday finally congratulated Zambia’s President elect Hakainde Hichilema, 36 hours after.
This comes at a time when Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba has openly mocked Hichilema.
Hichilema was elected President on Sunday evening, but it has taken Mangagwa 2 days to celebrate him after several years of personally sponsoring the incumbent Edgar Lungu.
Said Mnangagwa in a post on his social media handles:
“Congratulations Hakainde Hichilema on your election victory. I have no doubt that you will serve Zambia with distinction for the benefit of all.
I look forward to working with you over the coming years for the benefit of both peoples ?? ?? ,” he said.
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has challenged African leaders to stop using national institutions to advance selfish political interests.
Speaking during a programme dubbed Democracy and Africa hosted by South African politician Mmusi Maimane on Monday, President Chamisa urged African leaders to desist from using taxpayers money to fund acts of violence and torture of innocent citizens.
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By Takafira Zhou | We note with deep concern the continued demeaning of Teacher Unions by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education spokesperson, Taungana Ndoro.
After a recent first Ministerial engagement with teacher unions since Hon Mathema became Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Ndoro is quoted in press to have said “We welcome all unions who represent teachers for the betterment of the educational system. *However, the ministry also represents about two-thirds of the teachers who are not subscribing to any union.
Fundamentally, Ndoro is trying to water down the importance of Unions on the basis of a false pretext that they represent one third of teachers in Zimbabwe. For the avoidance of doubt, this is a lie. We have 140 000 teachers in Zimbabwe, and for Ndoro to claim that unionised members are 46 666 is a traversity of reality and dangerous misinformation. We challenge Ndoro to back up his assertions by showing us the density of unionised teachers across the union divide. Ndoro also makes a dangerous, acidic, arid and toxic assertion that the Ministry has taken a paternalistic approach of representing the majority of teachers (two thirds) that are not unionised. The Big question, and problem of all problems and evil of all evils is *who has appointed Ministry the representative of these teachers?* Such misrepresentation of facts and insults of teacher unions cannot be taken lightly. It explains gvt unilateralism and reluctance to move away from the rusty, archaic, obsolute and moribund Statutory Instrument 141 of 1997 to section 65 of the Constitution. One wonders how a line Ministry has suddenly metamorphosised into trade unionism. It also reveals how gvt has been unilaterally giving starvation wages to teachers because it has been negotiating with itself through the self appointing Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education.
Above all, it unravels gvt reluctance to follow what other Southern African countries have done on free rider teachers. Fundamentally, other gvts in Southern Africa have allowed teacher unions to levy non union members a levy that is used to cover negotiation process where they also benefit. By no means is this flouting freedom of association as such members are only levied money that also assist in negotiation process that benefit them. Such a levy does not force them to join any union but only to contribute to a process that also benefit them. Another alternative would have been to exclude them from benefits that accrue from Unions’ engagement with gvt. That however would be tantamount to discrimination which is not permissable in the constitution. In other Southern African countries free riders are levied a subscription that is an average of all unions’ subscriptions, with their subscriptions distributed to Unions on the basis of ratio of the density of their members. The pretext is that registered unions play a crucial role that benefit even non members. We have submitted all these suggestions but gvt has been reluctant to make this a reality beause it is happy to divide teacher unions or allow the Ministry to misrepresent teachers as reflected by Ndoro. It is clear that maximum co-operation with Ministry may not be possible until it stops to misrepresent and divide teachers. A line Ministry can never represent teachers. But that we have learnt through Ndoro that the Ministry does that in Zimbabwe is not only callous, degrading and deceitful, but also a monument of Zimbabwean injustice and tantamount to unfair labour practice.
It is, however, a wake up call to all non unionised teachers. The current tragedy and poverty of teachers is because such teachers have decided to be misrepresented by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education on labour issues which enjoys teachers’ poverty, disarticulation and marginalisation. It now explains why only allowances for school heads, deputy heads, TICs and HODs were the ones approved and not a host of other allowances such as ECD allowance, bloated class allowance, composit class allowance, class teacher allowance etc. The idea is to strengthen the instruments of coercision by abuse of heads, deputy heads, TICs and HODs. The truth must be realised that only united teachers across the teaching fraternity can fight and win battles that would improve the plight of all teachers. The allowances must be enjoyed by most teachers and never abused to divide teachers.
To all unionised members and all teacher union leaders, we cannot allow Taungana Ndoro to urinate upon us and tell us its raining. Its high time we stop his cold and calculated educational vandalism or else there would be nothing left soon of the teaching profession. The guy has done enough to ridicule teachers and the education system in so short a time. Yet in an attempt to deflate his bubble lets resolve the issue of free riders in the same manner other teacher unions have done in Southern Africa. But before that happens lets recruit the free riders into Unions so that we stop the deliberate weakening and division of teachers’ cause by the Ministry masquarading as a trade union. United we stand, and divided we fall.
Venceremos
Dr Takavafira M. Zhou (Ptuz President)
Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has challenged African leaders to stop using national institutions to advance selfish political interests.
Speaking during a programme dubbed Democracy and Africa hosted by South African politician Mmusi Maimane on Monday, President Chamisa urged African leaders to desist from using taxpayers money to fund acts of violence and torture of innocent citizens.
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“The country will never die; young people will save it.” (Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo)
Congratulations are indeed in order for the people of Zambia who have successfully managed to elect a new President despite all the political odds being heavily weighed against them.
I would also like to wish Hakainde Hichilema, who is affectionately known as HH, a very successful tenure as the next popularly elected President of the land of the mighty Zambezi River, to the north of our border.
The fact that a long-standing opposition leader such as HH, has successfully deposed an incumbent via the ballot process, is not just most welcome news for Zambia but also for the rest of Africa.
This is so, when one considers as to how rare it is for a ruling party to concede its leadership mantle after losing the popular vote. Most ruling parties in Africa actually find easier to simply rig the elections results and unilaterally continue to remain in power.
This has unfortunately adversely affected Africa’s democratic credentials since millions of its electorate have increasingly become disillusioned and have started to lose faith in capacity of the continent to respect the wishes of its electoral majorities.
As such, it is therefore hoped that the ascendancy of HH into power after an electoral victory, will certainly go a long way into restoring millions of Africans trust or belief in democracy or indeed elections as both a viable and sustainable means to effect political power transfer across the continent.
And nowhere will this point resonate most as in the country’s southern African neighbour of Zimbabwe.
Historically speaking, these two countries share a common colonial history. At one stage they were once bound together as the fabled Siamese twins; being known as Southern and Northern Rhodesia. Added to that, both countries once teamed up with Malawi to set up the ill-fated Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
It is thus not a surprise that of all the countries across Africa, it is in Zimbabwe that the latest elections results will be the extensively discussed and analyzed especially in the contest of the country’s forthcoming harmonised elections that are due to be held in 2023.
There are various factors that could be used to help explain the impressive victory that the opposition has achieved in Zambia during this past week.
However, I tend to agree mostly with some political analysts who are already explaining that HH actually owes his electoral victory to the young people of Zambia.
You may recall that during 2016, he narrowly lost to the incumbent Edgar Chagwa Lungu (ECL), amid allegations of him rigging the results.
Yet now in 2021, HH has somehow successfully turned the tables against his erstwhile rival.
A closer comparative view at both the 2016 and 2021 elections results clearly show a massive increase of the voter turnout by over a million in terms of numbers.
Further, the results also clearly reveal that within a short period of 5 years, HH did not only manage to overtake ECL, but he also overwhelmingly defeated him by almost a massive million votes.
According to a pre-elections analysis that was recently done by Kennedy Gondwe from the BBC, elections in Zambia are largely influenced by young people, including first-time voters. More than half of the eight million registered voters are under the age of 35. In the past, along with urban dwellers, they have been the bedrock of the Patriotic Front (PF) support.
But amid the economic turmoil, Mr. Lungu and his party can no longer take their votes for granted. “I am not voting for anyone in this election – I am voting for my job. I can’t go four years without a job,” says Silvia Mutila, a 25-year-old unemployed nurse who graduated in 2017.
Nomsa Maseko, who is also part of the BBC News offices at Lusaka also wrote about the crucial role of the Zambian youths; there is certainly no doubt that those political winds of change were ushered in by young people who are often accused of being reluctant to vote. They turned up in high numbers and generally rejected President Edgar Lungu. “We want jobs, young people want jobs,” chanted throngs of people as they filled the streets of the capital shortly after Mr. Hichilema was declared the seventh president of this copper-rich nation.
Further, both the CNN and Reuters also claim in their news reports that the youths of Zambia played a crucial role in the electoral victory for the opposition by asserting that there was a huge turnout of mostly young people, some who came dressed in their academic robes to protest lack of employment post-graduation.
Joseph Kalimbwe, a youth representative of Hichilema’s UPND party told CNN. “Young people gave us the vote. Four million young people between the ages of 18 to 24 registered to vote. It was a huge turnout and it was very personal to them. They want to ensure the mistakes of their parents were corrected. They have voted for our leader on basis he has better policies and ideas and can strengthen our state institutions’’.
A similar view has been propounded by Jonathan Clayton who recently wrote a feature analysis in the Times of England newspaper. In his analysis, he also emphasized that it was the young people of Zambia who led the successful deposition of ECL from the State House.
As such, most of the credit for his landslide victory must be given to the young people of Zambia who took an active role in this year’s historic plebiscite. It really appears that it is indeed, the youths of Zambia who have decisively helped to redefine the political destiny of their country.
And so, for me, the most important lesson from the recent Zambian elections is that the youths of Zimbabwe must now rise up and take an active lead as we prepare for our own 2023 harmonised elections.
It is my considered view that if our young people finally stand up and get counted, we will certainly have Advocate Nelson Chamisa as our next President come 2023.
In this regard, I do have a very clear and unequivocal stance that the 2023 presidential elections will once again be a two-horse race. Forget about all the other pretenders, especially those aligned to the controversial POLAD, that has already proved beyond reasonably doubt to be a mere extension of the incumbent. Ultimately, the real contest will only be between Emmerson Mnangagwa (ED) and Nelson Chamisa.
I can dare say that all the other presidential candidates will be mere political tokens in order to placate the multi-party democratic interests of our country.
Personally, I am convinced that I have already proved myself as a role model to our current generation of young people.
My political journey officially started in July 1995 when l accepted my nomination as the next Secretary General of the University of Zimbabwe students’ union. I was very young back then since l had recently turned 20 years old.
It was also during my fourth month as a first-year student at the Faculty of Law. Yet, l did not hesitate to respond positively to this national call of political duty. Even though it meant that l would not necessarily prioritize my academic studies in favour of my responsibility as a students representative
At that very nascent stage of my political career, l was already capable of appreciating that when it came to building the nation, my personal interests immediately assumed secondary status. I was already clear and unequivocal in my personal stance that whatsoever l set out to do, l must always put my beautiful motherland of Zimbabwe.
I was only 5 years old when Zimbabwe celebrated its inaugural Independence Day in April 1980; but that memorable experience left a lifelong indelible mark in my entire being. Young as l was, l grew up in Zimbabwe in the 1980s with a full appreciation that for the colonial experience to end formally at the Lancaster House conference in December 1979, it had taken thousands of Zimbabweans to sacrifice their lives.
Indeed, for the nation of Zimbabwe to be born, it took many thousands of lives to die. A lot of Zimbabweans, most of them young, had to die both at home and in exile for the new nation to born on 18th April 1980.
It was in such an inspired political context that in July 1995, l fully made up my decision to context in the next Students Representative Council (SRC) elections. And as fate would have it, l was soon elected as the Secretary General of the 1995-96 SRC before l had even written my first major academic exams at the university.
Later on, l accepted my nomination to be the Acting President in April 1996 when l was barely 21 years old.
Then in October 1996 l further accepted my nomination to be the next President of the University of Zimbabwe students’ union. I eventually contested and lost the said elections. But still, I gracefully agreed to serve the students union as its Vice President under the presidency of the late Learnmore Jongwe.
In April 1998, l was once again nominated and then elected as the next President of the UZ students’ union. I was only 23 years old.
Added to that, since July 1996 l had also played a leading role in the process of reviving the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) in my capacity as the Acting President of the UZ students’ union. This process culminated in my election as the revived ZINASU Vice President in February 1997. Once again, l dutifully served my nation as a deputy to the late Learnmore Jongwe, who was elected as the President at the same Congress. I was only 22 years old.
But why am l writing about my early days or humble beginnings as a students leader?
My point is very simple.
We are never too young to start our lifelong journey of serving our beloved nation.
Our youths of Zimbabwe today must be challenged by the yesteryear generations that were led by the likes of the late Joshua Nkomo who responded positively to the call of national duty in their youthful days.
Our youths of Zimbabwe today must be inspired by the likes of Nelson Mandela who also took up the challenge of their generation to dismantle the racist apartheid regime.
Our youths of Zimbabwe today must learn from the class of 1976 in Soweto that played a catalytic role in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa.
Our youths of Zimbabwe today must be challenged by the generation that was led by the famous students leader, President AGO Mutambara who in the late 1980s stood up and faced the challenge of their generation to fight the One-Party State agenda and also confront excessive corruption as evinced by the Willowgate Scandal.
Our youths of Zimbabwe today must learn from our own generation in the late 1990s which got actively involved in the key political events that helped to define the political destiny of our country.
Indeed, when the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) was launched in 1997, my generation and I were actively involved. I was actually one of the student leaders who used to attend its National Taskforce meetings that were chaired by the late President Morgan Tsvangirai.
Also, when the Movement for Democratic Change was launched in September 1999, my own generation as led by the late Learnmore Jongwe was also there in the thick of action.
Our youths of Zimbabwe today must also learn from the youths of Zambia who have in the past week helped to redefine the political direction of their country.
Our youths of Zimbabwe today must emulate those from Zambia by making sure that with immediate effect they step up their active involvement in the following three crucial political fights.
It is very sad and disappointing to take note of the low level of political consciousness among the youths of Zimbabwe today. There is currently a disturbingly high level of political apathy among most of our young people. It seems as if most of them have by now already given up on their ability to influence the country’s future by playing an active role in matters of national importance.
Indeed, most youths seem to be more enchanted by the distractive penchants of socialites such as Madam Boss, Mai Titi, Sandra Ndebele, Pokello Nare, Kikky Badass, Njuzu, Mudiwa Hood, Passion Java, among others. But when it comes to issues of justice and democracy in the country, they suddenly disappear into thin air.
Right now, we currently have the topical case of Makomborero Haruzivishe. He is an outspoken youth who is under an unjustifiably prolonged incarceration and desperately needs some active solidarity from his fellow youths.
Please do not get me wrong, I am not against our youths having some fun; but it must not be at the expense of not just their own future but also for those who will come after them. Our country is currently facing a perennial never-ending political and socio-economic crisis that has no solution in sight.
Worse still, most of the strategic positions of all our three separate arms of State (Executive, Judiciary and Legislature) are clearly being led by geriatrics who have long passed the recommended age of retirement. Honestly, how on earth do our young people expect these old people to be emotionally interested in the long-term prospects of our nation?
Our youths must now wake up from their political slumber. They must take up the challenge of their own generation by actively participating in the national quest to find a lasting solution to the crisis in Zimbabwe. Enough is enough! Our young people must stand up and assume their rightful place in the national development agenda.
Zimbabwe is by far a very youthful country. Most of its adult population is currently between the ages of 18 and 40 years. There is no doubt that we have one of the youngest populations not just in Africa but also across the world.
Yet when it comes to inclusion in the key decision-making processes our youths are mostly conspicuous by their absence. We have a disappointing low number of youthful leaders in all key decision-making structures of our country. Our youths are currently officious by-standers in the process of all the key priorities of our nation.
Recently the national Constitution was amended under controversial circumstances but the youths did not actively stand up against this clear abuse of power by the geriatric political elite of this country. In particular, where was the youth outrage when Chief Justice Malaba successfully extended his term by another five years after reaching the original age of retirement?
Where are the youths when the current incumbent at State House openly boasts that he plans to remain in power till after 2030? Yet he will soon be turning 80 years old in 2022; about 20 years over the recommended age of retirement for the civil servants in the country?
A new quota system was also introduced for youthful representatives in the Parliament of Zimbabwe but it was a drop in the ocean. Youths should have actively campaigned for a much higher percentage allocation of seats in Parliament.
Also, with regards to the candidate selection process for the forthcoming elections, the youths are not clearly demanding for a much higher allocation of seats especially when compared to the disappointingly low levels of youthful candidates in the 2018 elections.
By all accounts it seems that the incumbent in Zambia actually tried to rig the elections. However, this time around the youths were more than ready for such political shenanigans. In some cases, they blocked some vehicles that were suspected to be carrying fake ballots meant to boost the poor numbers of the incumbent. They also opted to stay near the polling stations in large numbers and insisted that they were more than ready to react if any attempts were made to tamper the electoral process. Our youths of Zimbabwe normally retreat to their social media platforms. This time around, our youths must use social media platforms such as Twitter and WhatsApp to actively defend the democratic voice of our electorate.
In Zambia, it was said that a large turnout of voters made it impossible for any desperate attempts to rig the elections. Most of the turnout was largely consisting of youthful voters.
But for such a thing to happen in Zimbabwe during 2023, we must first start by witnessing a clear rise in the number of registered voters who are young people. This is more crucial with regards to first time voters. In Zambia, we had a massive increase of the 2021 voter turnout due to the concomitant increase of youthful voters who only got registered after the 2016 elections.
This situation must equally apply in Zimbabwe to enable the youths to play a very decisive role in 2023.
The MDC Alliance national Youth Assembly has already set the ball rolling by launching its own ‘One Million Votes’ campaign. The campaign is still yet to gain full momentum and find real traction with most young people across Zimbabwe. So, efforts need to be stepped up to ensure that the campaign becomes more effective or successful in terms of its impact.
We also need to see other youth led or student led organizations across all political spectrums also launching their own string campaigns to encourage young people not just to register as voters but to also actively participate in the crucial 2023 elections.
Daniel Molokele
Honourable Member of Parliament
Whange Central Constituency
Zimbabwe
Taking preventive measures against COVID-19 can help you protect your brain health, one expert says.
Two studies presented at the 2021 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Denver suggest that COVID-19 may lead to cognitive impairment down the road — and that certain symptoms that persist after recovering from the infection may be associated with cognitive decline.
One study uncovered ties between persistent loss of smell after recovering from COVID-19 and cognitive decline. The other found that people whose physical and respiratory health suffered due to a bout of COVID-19 were more likely to have issues with cognition afterward.
“I think what we’re learning is that it’s quite possible that these COVID-19 infections are potentially having an impact on the brain in some way,” says Rebecca Edelmayer, PhD, who is the senior director of scientific engagement for the Alzheimer’s Association in Chicago. Edelmayer was not affiliated with either study.
“There are still a lot of questions about the cause and effect, whether this is a direct or indirect effect [of COVID-19], but what we’re starting to see is data that suggests that people may be having some long-term impact from COVID-19 infection,” Edelmayer adds.
Persistent Loss of Smell Tied to Cognitive Impairment
In one study, researchers assessed 233 people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and 64 healthy participants who tested negative.
All participants in the study were age 60 or older. Those who tested positive were studied for three to six months after recovering from the virus.
The study participants underwent testing of their cognition and olfactory function — or function related to their sense of smell.
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The results of the study suggested that loss of smell was associated with persistent cognitive impairment among participants who recovered from the virus — and people with more severe loss of smell were more likely to have more severe cognitive impairment.
However, the researchers noted, the severity of olfactory dysfunction was not associated with how severe one’s bout of COVID-19 was.
“There is some suggestion that lack of smell could be a symptom of COVID-19 infection itself, but some people who experience COVID-19 without that symptom are having a persistent lack of smell afterward. So I think we have to learn more about what that symptom itself may imply in terms of the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the brain,” Edelmayer says.
COVID-19’s Lingering Effects on Lung Health (and What It Means for Cognition)
In a small, Greek study, researchers tested physical and mental function beginning with 32 people two months after they’d been hospitalized and recovered from mild to moderate COVID-19.
According to the study’s lead author, George Vavougios, MD, PhD, who is a postdoctoral researcher for the University of Thessaly, the number of participants in this study has now grown to almost 100.
None of the participants had any prior coexisting health conditions other than hypertension, or high blood pressure.
Testing included the six-minute walk test, which measures how far someone can walk for six minutes, as well as their oxygen saturation — or levels of oxygen in their blood as they were completing the test. Other tests such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment measured whether participants had experienced cognitive decline after recovering from COVID-19.
Early findings from the study showed that more than half (56.2 percent) of participants had cognitive decline after recovering from COVID-19. Cognitive decline was found to be most common among people who demonstrated poor physical health and had concerningly low levels of oxygen in the blood during the six-minute walk test.
“For a healthy person, oxygen saturation would be at 99 percent whether we’re exercising or walking,” he explains. But for many people in the study, their oxygen saturation dropped to 95 percent, which, Dr. Vavougios says, resembles the lung function of someone with COPD (a group of lung conditions that inhibit airflow and cause breathing issues).
This finding could spell trouble for brain health, explains Vavougios. “A brain deprived of oxygen is not healthy, and persistent deprivation may very well contribute to cognitive difficulties,” he said in a press release.
Source: Everyday Health
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