Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF regime cannot stop the wave of change, MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.
President Chamisa made the remarks at the burial of veteran Movement for Democratic Change member, Jane Gwatidzo popularly known as Gogo Jo…
Gogo Jo was laid to rest in Chitungwiza on Sunday.
“They are celebrating what they call defections but we are not moved by their machinations.
We are moving in the right direction.Change is unstoppable…
We know that they want to steal the people’s victory…
Let me say every citizen has a role to play in the struggle for freedom,” said President Chamisa.
See statement below…
05-09-2021
Today ( Sunday) the People’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa bade farewell to one of the veterans of the National Democratic Struggle, Mbuya Jane Gwatidzo of St Mary’s, Chitungwiza.
Gogo Jo as Mbuya Gwatidzo is widely known passed away on Friday following a short illness. She was famous for her revolutionary dances at MDC gatherings.
President Chamisa described Gogo Jo as a special crop of revolutionaries who despite her age had a strong desire for change.
Addressing mourners initially at St Mary’s Catholic Church, President Chamisa called for unity of purpose and political tolerance if the country is to move forward.
President Chamisa also took time to address multitudes of MDC Alliance supporters at the final resting place of Gogo Jo in Chitungwiza’s Unit L cemetery.
He urged party supporters to remain vigilant in face of repression and attacks from ZANU PF in all its various forms.
Also present was the National Organizer Hon Amos Chibaya whom the president spoke glowingly about his passion and unfathomable commitment to the change agenda.
MDC Alliance supporters who attended the funeral could not hide their joy and affection for the People’s President but at the same time made clear their disdain of Emmerson Mnangagwa and his trojan horse, Douglas Mwonzora.
Meanwhile the President urged all citizens to learn from the Zambian experience and register to vote in numbers ahead of the 2023 general elections.
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Ethiopia national team coach Wubetu Abate says his side is determined to collect maximum points when they meet Zimbabwe in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, Group G match on Tuesday.
The Walia Ibex lost 1-0 in Ghana on Friday to end the matchday 1 at the bottom of the pool.
According to Abate, they hope that playing on home soil will bring a better result.
“We must show our opponents that we are here to defend the honour of our jersey. Playing at home will inspire more fight and determination,” said Abate after the loss to Ghana.
The match will be played at Bahir Dar International Stadium in Bahir Dar, about 500km north of capital city Addis Ababa.
Meanwhile, the Warriors left Harare yesterday and are expected to hold their first in Ethiopia this afternoon. – Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF regime cannot stop the wave of change, MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said.
President Chamisa made the remarks at the burial of veteran Movement for Democratic Change member, Jane Gwatidzo popularly known as Gogo Jo…
Gogo Jo was laid to rest in Chitungwiza on Sunday.
“They are celebrating what they call defections but we are not moved by their machinations.
We are moving in the right direction.Change is unstoppable…
We know that they want to steal the people’s victory…
Let me say every citizen has a role to play in the struggle for freedom,” said President Chamisa.
He also slammed attempting to bask in the late MDC founding President Morgan Tsvangirai…
” We are the custodians of our great leader President Morgan Tsvangirai’s legacy.”
See statement below…
05-09-2021
Today ( Sunday) the People’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa bade farewell to one of the veterans of the National Democratic Struggle, Mbuya Jane Gwatidzo of St Mary’s, Chitungwiza.
Gogo Jo as Mbuya Gwatidzo is widely known passed away on Friday following a short illness. She was famous for her revolutionary dances at MDC gatherings.
President Chamisa described Gogo Jo as a special crop of revolutionaries who despite her age had a strong desire for change.
Addressing mourners initially at St Mary’s Catholic Church, President Chamisa called for unity of purpose and political tolerance if the country is to move forward.
President Chamisa also took time to address multitudes of MDC Alliance supporters at the final resting place of Gogo Jo in Chitungwiza’s Unit L cemetery.
He urged party supporters to remain vigilant in face of repression and attacks from ZANU PF in all its various forms.
Also present was the National Organizer Hon Amos Chibaya whom the president spoke glowingly about his passion and unfathomable commitment to the change agenda.
MDC Alliance supporters who attended the funeral could not hide their joy and affection for the People’s President but at the same time made clear their disdain of Emmerson Mnangagwa and his trojan horse, Douglas Mwonzora.
Meanwhile the President urged all citizens to learn from the Zambian experience and register to vote in numbers ahead of the 2023 general elections.
DefyOrDie
ChamisaNgaapinde
RegisterToVoteZw
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zimbabwe Anti- Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested Minister of State for Masvingo Province, Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira for “distributing sugarcane plots fraudulently.”
Chadzamira was torn apart and publicly ridiculed by former First Lady Grace Mugabe as he fought in Mr Mnangagwa ‘s corner at the height of the G40, Lacoste hegemonic struggle.
“Minister of State for Masvingo Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira has been arrested by officers from ZACC. He is currently detained at Masvingo Magistrate Court,” a source at Benjamin Burombo Building in Masvingo told ZimEye.com at the time of writing.
Hypertension ̶ or elevated blood pressure ̶ is a serious medical condition that significantly increases the risks of heart, brain, kidney and other diseases.
An estimated 1.28 billion adults aged 30-79 years worldwide have hypertension, most (two-thirds) living in low- and middle-income countries An estimated 46% of adults with hypertension are unaware that they have the condition. Less than half of adults (42%) with hypertension are diagnosed and treated. Approximately 1 in 5 adults (21%) with hypertension have it under control.
Hypertension is a major cause of premature death worldwide. One of the global targets for noncommunicable diseases is to reduce the prevalence of hypertension by 33% between 2010 and 2030. What is hypertension? Blood pressure is the force exerted by circulating blood against the walls of the body’s arteries, the major blood vessels in the body. Hypertension is when blood pressure is too high.
Blood pressure is written as two numbers. The first (systolic) number represents the pressure in blood vessels when the heart contracts or beats. The second (diastolic) number represents the pressure in the vessels when the heart rests between beats.
Hypertension is diagnosed if, when it is measured on two different days, the systolic blood pressure readings on both days is ≥140 mmHg and/or the diastolic blood pressure readings on both days is ≥90 mmHg.
What are the risk factors for hypertension? Modifiable risk factors include unhealthy diets (excessive salt consumption, a diet high in saturated fat and trans fats, low intake of fruits and vegetables), physical inactivity, consumption of tobacco and alcohol, and being overweight or obese.
Non-modifiable risk factors include a family history of hypertension, age over 65 years and co-existing diseases such as diabetes or kidney disease.
What are common symptoms of hypertension?
Hypertension is called a “silent killer”. Most people with hypertension are unaware of the problem because it may have no warning signs or symptoms. For this reason, it is essential that blood pressure is measured regularly.
When symptoms do occur, they can include early morning headaches, nosebleeds, irregular heart rhythms, vision changes, and buzzing in the ears. Severe hypertension can cause fatigue, nausea, vomiting, confusion, anxiety, chest pain, and muscle tremors.
The only way to detect hypertension is to have a health professional measure blood pressure. Having blood pressure measured is quick and painless. Although individuals can measure their own blood pressure using automated devices, an evaluation by a health professional is important for assessment of risk and associated conditions.
What are the complications of uncontrolled hypertension?
Among other complications, hypertension can cause serious damage to the heart. Excessive pressure can harden arteries, decreasing the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart. This elevated pressure and reduced blood flow can cause: Chest pain, also called angina. Heart attack, which occurs when the blood supply to the heart is blocked and heart muscle cells die from lack of oxygen. The longer the blood flow is blocked, the greater the damage to the heart.
Heart failure, which occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood and oxygen to other vital body organs. Irregular heart beat which can lead to a sudden death. Hypertension can also burst or block arteries that supply blood and oxygen to the brain, causing a stroke.
In addition, hypertension can cause kidney damage, leading to kidney failure. Why is hypertension an important issue in low- and middle-income countries?
The prevalence of hypertension varies across regions and country income groups. The WHO African Region has the highest prevalence of hypertension (27%) while the WHO Region of the Americas has the lowest prevalence of hypertension (18%).
The number of adults with hypertension increased from 594 million in 1975 to 1.13 billion in 2015, with the increase seen largely in low- and middle-income countries. This increase is due mainly to a rise in hypertension risk factors in those populations.
How can the burden of hypertension be reduced? Reducing hypertension prevents heart attack, stroke, and kidney damage, as well as other health problems.
Prevention Reducing salt intake (to less than 5g daily). Eating more fruit and vegetables.
Being physically active on a regular basis. Avoiding use of tobacco. Reducing alcohol consumption. Limiting the intake of foods high in saturated fats. Eliminating/reducing trans fats in diet. Management
Reducing and managing stress. Regularly checking blood pressure. Treating high blood pressure. Managing other medical conditions. What is the WHO response? The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting countries to reduce hypertension as a public health problem.
In 2021, the WHO released a new guideline for on the pharmacological treatment of hypertension in adults. The publication provides evidence-based recommendations for the initiation of treatment of hypertension, and recommended intervals for follow-up. The document also includes target blood pressure to be achieved for control, and information on who, in the health-care system, can initiate treatment.
To support governments in strengthening the prevention and control of cardiovascular disease, WHO and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC) launched the Global Hearts Initiative in September 2016, which includes the HEARTS technical package.
The six modules of the HEARTS technical package (Healthy-lifestyle counselling, Evidence-based treatment protocols, Access to essential medicines and technology, Risk-based management, Team-based care, and Systems for monitoring) provide a strategic approach to improve cardiovascular health in countries across the world.
In September 2017, WHO began a partnership with Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, to support national governments to implement the Global Hearts Initiative.
Other partners contributing to the Global Hearts Initiative are: the CDC Foundation, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the U.S. CDC. Since implementation of the programme in 2017 in 18 low- and middle-income countries, 3 million people have been put on protocol-based hypertension treatment through person-centred models of care. These programmes demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of standardized hypertension control programmes.
By Farai D Hove | The ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has been blocked from flying to the United States by the United Nations General Assembly staff.
The development comes as Mnangagwa was planning to fly to the US as well as heading to the UK for a separate meeting.
Mnangagwa had totally ignored the current health crisis, deciding to continue flying to the US.
Mnangagwa’s COVID figures have been grossly misleading since the beginning of the pandemic last year, and the UN staff have refused to allow him entry, saying the upcoming general assembly should be held in the cloud instead.
The development was confirmed by Mnangagwa’s own spokesperson George Charamba who announced in writing saying:
“Organizers of the Assembly have recommended a hybrid Assembly where Member States have an option to either attend physically through country delegations, or virtually through online platforms.”
Below was the full press address
This year’s United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to take place from 214 to 27″ September, 2021, in New York, the United States of America. Key issues and decisions are set to be discussed and decided on in the course of the General Assembly. Due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, organizers of the Assembly have recommended a hybrid Assembly where Member States have an option to either attend physically through country delegations, or virtually through online platforms.
In light of the continuing Covid-19 global threat, and to allow for the consolidation of reforms and recovery of our Economy whose fundamentals are pointing in a positive tratectory, His Excellency the President, Dr E.D.Mnangagwa, has this year decided not to attend the United Nations General Assembly In person. Instead, he will participate virtually via video conferencing. This mode includes his pre-recorded Address which Is slotted for Thursday, 23′ September, 2021, and any other High level Meetings occurring on the sidelines of the Main Debate
By A Correspondent- The Rusape 14 year old girl who was forced into marriage by her grandparents has been reunited with her divorced mother after 12 years.
Her mother learnt of the developments after reading H-Metro and immediately went looking for her.
They separated when the parents broke up and the father assumed custody while the mother went away while she was barely two years old.
Narrating her visit to Tandi Village in Rusape, the woman thanked H-Metro for exposing the child marriage that emotionally and se_xually affected her child saying the girl was now in her custody.
“I was touched to read that my daughter had been abused to the extent of being forced into marriage,” she said.
“The H-Metro story was clear to direct me to where my daughter was given in marriage and I confronted Tapiwa and his parents.
“I discovered that my daughter was forced into marriage to Tapiwa (20) who was in another relationship with a girl he and his parents wanted him to marry.
“I was forced to leave my daughter while she was one year three months old when I separated with her father.
“To this day my daughter has no birth certificate and her father is not forthcoming in terms of facilitating her to acquire a birth certificate.
“We signed a document with the in-laws as evidence that I took my daughter from them to avoid issues that I stole her.
“The grandparents learnt about my actions but wanted to protect their relationship with Chitsumba family arguing that if Tapiwa got arrested it would affect them.
“As we speak Tapiwa is yet to taste the course of justice,” said the mother.
In an interview, the minor’s grandmother Gogo Rebecca who gave her into marriage said Tapiwa vowed to pay lobola and educate the girl until she is grown up for marriage.
“The girl was taken by her mother to Mutare from Tapiwa and I was not there,” said Gogo Rebecca.
“Tapiwa told us that he still loves his wife and will meet her education expenses while in the custody of the mother.
“Asi tsvakirai kuno haasati abvisa zvake,” she said.
Tapiwa’s mobile calls went unanswered as well as his father John Chitsumba’s call.
The minor, besides the se_xual harassment she underwent, was verbally abused by her alleged mother-in-law Spiwe Kubocha describing her as a whirlwind that would pass.
The minor is yet to acquire a birth certificate and her father could not be reached for comment by the time of going to print
By Farai D Hove | The ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has been blocked from flying to the United States by the United Nations General Assembly staff.
The development comes as Mnangagwa was planning to fly to the US as well as heading to the UK for a separate meeting.
Last year, UNGA was held virtually format as the world grappled with the COVID-19. But Mnangagwa has this year totally ignored the current health crisis, deciding to continue flying to the US.
Mnangagwa’s COVID figures have been grossly misleading since the beginning of the pandemic last year, and the UN staff have refused to allow him entry, saying the upcoming general assembly should be held in the cloud instead.
The development was confirmed by Mnangagwa’s own spokesperson George Charamba who announced in writing saying:
“Organizers of the Assembly have recommended a hybrid Assembly where Member States have an option to either attend physically through country delegations, or virtually through online platforms.”
Below was the full press address
This year’s United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to take place from 214 to 27″ September, 2021, in New York, the United States of America. Key issues and decisions are set to be discussed and decided on in the course of the General Assembly. Due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, organizers of the Assembly have recommended a hybrid Assembly where Member States have an option to either attend physically through country delegations, or virtually through online platforms.
In light of the continuing Covid-19 global threat, and to allow for the consolidation of reforms and recovery of our Economy whose fundamentals are pointing in a positive tratectory, His Excellency the President, Dr E.D.Mnangagwa, has this year decided not to attend the United Nations General Assembly In person. Instead, he will participate virtually via video conferencing. This mode includes his pre-recorded Address which Is slotted for Thursday, 23′ September, 2021, and any other High level Meetings occurring on the sidelines of the Main Debate.
There have been no defections from the MDC A. The truth of the matter is this:
In 2012, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) cracked a whip on all members accused of corruption and those found guilty were subsequently expelled from the party.
The members who were fired from the party include Emanuel Chiroto Ward 42 Hatcliffe, Julius Musevenzi Ward 15 Warren Park, Peter Mudavanhu Ward 9 Glendale, Pumulani Musogwiza Ward 22 Hatfield among other members.
Following the party’s gesture to deal with corrupt activities, the duo of Chiroto and Musevenzi decided to join former Zimbabwe Vice President Joice Mujuru’s party, National Peoples Party (NPP) before it changed name to Zimbabwe People First (ZPF).
The two represented their new party in the previous election as NPF parliamentary candidates, but unfortunately they lost dismally.
Probably unhappy with the people’s decision, Chiroto went on to join another party, this time it was Dr Noah Manyika’s Build Zimbabwe Alliance.
As if that was not enough, Musevenzi and Chiroto did not dump their nomadic behaviour after they joined the MDC T following the controversial Supreme Court ruling in March 2020.
Chiroto was an executive member of the MDC-T Harare Province before he joined his new party ZANUPF.
On the other hand, former Marondera Mayor Farai Nyandoro was never a member of MDC since 2014 until the time of his defection.
Nyandoro left the MDC in 2014 to join PDP and after his then party split, he left with the faction led by Lucia Matibenga.
Just like his two other colleagues mentioned above, Nyandoro also joined the MDCT after the Supreme Court judgement and subsequently bacame the MDC-T Mashonaland East Provincial Secretary.
Sifra Chidhakwa, former Zengeza MP, lost the 2018 primary elections to Job Sikhala, unhappy with the electoral outcome, opted to participate in the 2018 elections as an independent candidate.
Chidhakwa’s gesture was in violation of the MDC constitution.
According to the constitution, Chidakwa automatically ceased to be a member of the MDC.
He then resurfaced at the MDCT congress in December 2020 following the politically motivated Supreme Court judgement.
He became the member of MDCT since that time until his recent move to ZANU PF.
Surprisingly, some of the so called defection members were never party of the MDC even before 2014.
It’s very interesting how the regime has become so desperate to the extend of imposing members on our party.
The regime is good at employing commad tactics but unfortunately we as the MDC Alliance don’t need their command members.
By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has asked Chief Immigration Officer Respect Gono to cause the release of some refugees, who were rounded up from Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers together with Department of Immigration officials and arbitrarily detained at Chikurubi Female Prison and at Harare Remand Prison.
When the refugees namely Christine Kwizagira, Mirelle Ruvubika, Agnes Uwizeya and Janine Niyongree and others, who are from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Rwanda were rounded up in August 2021 after some protests at Tongogara Refugee Camps of which they were not involved in, they together with their children were advised that they were being taken to a refugee transit centre.
However, they later found themselves detained at Chikurubi Female Prison and at Harare Remand Prison without their children and without any explanation as to why they were being held at these two prisons.
In the letter addressed to Gono, ZLHR lawyers, Paidamoyo Saurombe and Tinashe Chinopfukutwa protested against the unlawful conduct of police officers and one Department of Immigration official only identified as Shonhiwa since Kwizagira, Uwizeya, Niyongree and other refugees are recognised refugees with refugee status which has not been withdrawn and are entitled to the protection accorded to refugees at law. The lawyers charged that even in the case of Ruvubika, whose application for recognition as a refugee is still pending, there is no legal basis for her detention.
Saurombe and Chinopfukutwa asked Gono to order the release of the refugees from prison and reunite them with their family members upon which they should be returned to Tongogara Refugee Camp.
The human rights lawyers said failure by Gono and the Department of Immigration to comply with their clients’ request would leave them with no option but to institute legal proceedings to secure the release of the refugees and also institute legal proceedings for damages for unlawful detention against the Department of Immigration and against Shonhiwa in his personal capacity.
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zimbabwe Anti- Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested Minister of State for Masvingo Province, Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira for “distributing sugarcane plots fraudulently.”
Chadzamira was torn apart and publicly ridiculed by former First Lady Grace Mugabe as he fought in Mr Mnangagwa ‘s corner at the height of the G40, Lacoste hegemonic struggle.
“Minister of State for Masvingo Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira has been arrested by officers from ZACC. He is currently detained at Masvingo Magistrate Court,” a source at Benjamin Burombo Building in Masvingo told ZimEye.com at the time of writing.
By A Correspondent- Through a service they have named Paytumi, money transfer company, Access Forex has created an ecosystem of products and services which promote investment focused remittances for people living in the diaspora.
The service will allow Zimbabweans living abroad to directly access products for building, farming, medical and other projects they are carrying out in their home country, without having to rely on a relative of friend to collect the money.
The team that developed the technology which supports this platform have described the service as a “game changer” for Zimbabweans that are looking to invest back home.
At the launch of the payment service, Access Forex Managing Director, Senziwani Sikhosana said the objective of this more inclusive strategy is to channel migrant remittances towards the savings and investment goals that accompany these flows of money.
“The broader goal Access Forex hopes to achieve with this strategy is to ensure that remittance funds are used for the intended purpose which is to improve the quality of life of recipients, and migrant families living abroad in a sustainable way.
People sending money from the diaspora have goals they are trying to achieve, paytumi will help them do that without the stress of having to deal with middlemen on the Zimbabwe end.”
Once a remitter has registered for the service, the platform allows one to complete transactions end to end, from searching for the product, purchasing it, to getting it delivered to your doorstep if needed, all at the lowest price which has been pre-negotiated with the merchants by Access Forex.
“You are not going to get a better deal in town than when you choose to pay using paytumi at checkout. We have created a ‘no-suprises’ environment. No more hidden fees, shortfalls and top-ups.
When it comes to getting the things that are important to you in Zimbabwe, there should be no surprises.
Instead, you get a simple, easy, transparent way to get the goods and services you need in Zimbabwe. Lobels was the first merchant to sign on for Paytumi and other household names in the have since followed suit.
“After seeing the huge success of our “Breakfast-on-Us” campaign in June which saw all new Access Forex clients receive a free delivery of 10 loaves of bread, we realized the investment ,value that this commodity brings and so did Lobels”.
Using paytumi, you can now control the purchase and supply of bread for your farm workers, employees, business or family in Zimbabwe.
The same applies for products and services in building, construction, healthcare and other consumables
BY DR MASIMBA MAVAZA | The setting up of the Chitepo School of Ideology in Zimbabwe by the ruling party, Zanu PF, drew both jubilation and scorn from within and outside Zimbabwe. Very vociferous protests emerged from the Western world indoctrinated puppets in our midst. We have in a previous paper argued how through discourse analysis, that is dissecting language, we discern the thoughts of our enemies. In this paper, we take a step backwards to analyse how ideology shapes discourses in the political arena. We conclude that we are moving in the right direction, from traditional methods of disseminating ideologies to sophisticated ones.
If our readers were hoping for us to define the term ideology, we are sorry to disappoint you as equally academics have bemoaned the plethora of the different ways in which the term is used. Ideologies have played a very important part in shaping governments, group actions and individual beliefs and values. In terms of government actions, a host of social, economic and political factors intervene in shaping particular policy proposals perceived to be possible at that time. It is difficult to envisage how an individual can live without some adherence to sets of belief and values, that is to say, each individual has his/her own ideologies. Individuals who share the same ideologies may group up and some groups are quite prepared to die for those beliefs and values.
Eminent writers such as Vic George and Paul Wilding have distinguished ideology as a concept and ideology as a political or welfare doctrine. It is widely known that politicians, social theorists and governments have differed on the relative merits of state action, private markets, distribution of resources and the role of the family. George and Wilding argued that they are ‘four distinct ways in which the notion of ideology has been defined over years, each of which has been influenced by debates in social policy and politics’. With it being argued by Ball and Deringer that ‘we live in the shadow, and under the influence thinkers long dead’, it is perhaps best to give a short account of ideology history.
Ideology as a term, was first used by de Tracy in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution in 1797 to counter the dominance of tradition, custom, the mystical and supernatural religion in government politics. Karl Marx, became the theorist who argued how ideology originates and its function in society. In short, Marx argued that in capitalist societies, the ideas, beliefs and values held by those who dominate the production, distribution and business sectors will become accepted as ideas of all sections of society including those that stand to lose out. Marx defined ideology as ‘a partial body of beliefs, distorting reality for the benefit of the ruling class’. Gramsci, Marx’s disciple, wrote that ideology ‘is powerful’ and that it ‘undermined the working-class radical claims’ and helped to ‘maintain the upper-class hegemony’.
Another prominent figure on ideology is Mannheim who strangely refuted and also accepted Marx’s notion on ideologies though it is important for our purposes to highlight that he accepted that ‘dominant ideologies are always distortions of reality for the benefit of the ruling groups and to the disadvantage of other groups in society’. Finally, American sociologists from the 1950s and1960s took ideology as ‘system of values and beliefs that increases social cohesion in society for the benefit of all’. We now turn to how the capitalists have maintained hegemony via ideologies.
It is no top secret that the Western World driven by the upper-class ideologies have had sleepless nights over Africa’s resources for ages. Ideological claims were made that it was right to stimulate industry through capturing African slaves. The Queen of England’s coffers grew from taxes received from the proceeds of sweat of black slaves and remained mum about it for decades. It was an upper-class endeavour. During the Berlin Conference 1884-1885, fat, bald and upper-class pink men hungering for Africa’s resources carved our continent in the guise of ‘bringing civilisation’. King Leopold famously said that ‘for millions of men still plugged in barbarism will be dawn of a better era’. Civilisation was to be through Christianity; however, this King Leopold is well known to have then massacred over 5 million in Congo.
Although the son of the soil gallantly fought back until the pink imperialists gave up, ideology played a very important factor. Our vision is clear, the imperialists are pink, and not white. Classifying themselves as White is an ideological attempt to demonstrate superiority over others, hence hegemony. We will write a paper on the colour classification soon.
Back to imperialists’ hegemony, from 1965, the Rhodesian government coordinated a strategic information and public diplomacy campaign, which included propaganda, censorship, and psychological operations, aiming to maintain the support of the country’s black majority in the face of infiltration and indoctrination of ZANLA and ZIPRA forces. However, by 1974, the efforts were noted to be hopeless and “Operation Split-Shot’ was invoked. The campaign was, dubbed “Terror and death is the way of the communist terrorists in Rhodesia’, and leaflets were distributed countrywide to engender fear among the Rhodesian population. The ideological indoctrination extended to false, hopeless leaflets depicting ZANLA/ZIPRA recruiters as forcing black young people into training camps, raping women within forced sight of their children. Further, the propaganda stated that the terrorists were spreading sexually transmitted diseases.
We ourselves remember in 1977, when all villagers were forced to attend a meeting at a school in Mashonaland West. The pink soldiers hung a tractor plough disk on a tree and using ‘captured terrorists’ AK47 and rubber bullets, they shot at the metal dish. Of course, nothing happened to it. Then using their FN rifles with real bullets, they shot at the dish and as expected the dish was pierced by the bullets. The message was clear, freedom fighters’ guns do not kill so help them at your own peril. But we knew better.
The ideological warfare was also used by the freedom fighters to counter the pink lies through the radio Maputo to which the masses tuned in to listen to revolutionary news and to the ZANLA socialist ideology. It was an effective plan rendering death to anyone who listened to it by the imperialists. The comrades also organised morari, that is gatherings were the mases were indoctrinated with socialist ideas. In the post independence era, such gathering have continued at the basic level of cell meetings to Zanu PF conferences. Please, inform Biti and Chamisa that the Chitepo School of Ideology may have emerged recently but ideology has been part and parcel of Zanu PF.
It is interesting to point out that the American economist and academic, Milton Friedman from the University of Chicago upon visiting Rhodesia in 1976 at the invitation of the Information Office said ‘I am impressed by what I saw there’. He also said that if ‘Patriotic Front guerrillas’ win, it ‘would be a great prize for the Russians’ and the end of Rhodesia as a white-ruled state would be the ‘suicide of the West’. This lead us to examine the impact of educational institutions in the ideological war. The western world institutions of learning are driven by ideologies.
For example, Oxford University glorifies and has populated its sites with statutes of imperialists such as that of Cecil John Rhodes who dug up our minerals and handed them over to the Queen. It is the same institution that expelled our veteran Dambudzo Marechera for his ‘unorthodox behaviour’ which clashed with the university’s Conservative held ideologies. In the same vein, a commentator recently noted how the western world rushes to give bright A levels students scholarships to study in ‘leading’ institutions. Your guess is ours: you practice what you learn and western governments are not blind to this hence they ply such universities with funding.
In short, having lost their physical presence and having retreated to their desolate wastelands, the West will, indoctrinate young Zimbabweans through their educational institutions or through those that profess love for them. We need to look no further than the West’s puppets, that is Biti, Chamisa and Chin’ono who from political podiums and social media have been propounding day and night the virtues of their masters. We will also remind you of the leaked British Top-Secret files that stated in 1979 that there was no point in giving Abel Muzorewa any more money as his influence was on the wane. In short, Muzorewa was not going to help them in getting their ideologies accepted.
The just ended online re-orientation by the Chitepo School of Ideology attended by hundreds of Zimbabweans across the globe signifies a great step by our highly esteemed President Ed Mnangagwa to move ideological dissemination into a scientific practice. By using online methods, the school has cleverly adapted to the challenges of COVID-19. Our detractors know the ideological warfare is game on and are naturally unhappy as the rightful Zimbabwean view will be heard far and beyond our borders.
By A Correspondent- A 32 year old Chitungwiza man has been arrested in Beitbridge after being found in possession of cocaine with a street value of $54 255 on Wednesday afternoon.
Philip Nyahodza was not asked to plead to contravening the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act when he appeared before Beitbridge resident magistrate Mr Takudzwa Gwazemba yesterday.
He was remanded in custody to September 17. Prosecutor Mr Ronald Mugwagwa said at around 2pm on Wednesday, detectives from CID Drugs and Narcotics section received information about Nyahodza being in possession of dangerous drugs.
They were told that he was due to meet a contact at Engen service station and the detectives laid ambush and intercepted him on arrival.
They then conducted a body search on him and found two sachets of cocaine in his back pocket which they took for testing.
The results confirmed that Nyahodza was indeed carrying cocaine valued at $54 255 on the street market.
CBZ Holdings Limited has sent dozens of workers home after completing an extensive review of its business model, the second such bold move within a few months.
NewsDay Business understands that complex negotiations will kick off between CBZ and the Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers’ Union (Zibawu) this week, which is pressing for a package that takes into consideration volatilities around the country’s freefalling currency.
But pressure would be piled on CBZ to work out packages that cushion staff from the economic meltdown after Stanbic Bank said it paid out $430 million early this year, in another carnage on jobs.
CBZ’s job cuts, which saw affected workers being asked to go on unpaid leave on September 1, follows a massive shift in the way companies operate since the Covid – 19 outbreak last year, which gave traction to a revolution being underpinned by tech based operations.
It was not clear at the weekend how many workers would be sent home.
But unions said ‘several dozens’ were set to leave the diversified financial services powerhouse, which trades its stock on Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.
“The group is undertaking a comprehensive review and reorganisation of its structures and business operating model in line with changes in the corporate landscapes and the way we do business,” CBZ said in letters sent out to affected staff last week.
“Owing to the nature and purpose of the review and reorganisation of structures and business operating model, the group can no longer retain your service as a permanent employee or as a shift or short term employee. You have been included in a retrenchment list which has been forwarded to the retrenchment board and the works council. It is anticipated that the retrenchment process will be finalised by or before the 30th of September 2021. You are required to proceed on paid leave,” CBZ said, calling for a virtual meeting of affected staff on September 8.
A Zibawu spokesperson acknowledged receiving reports of fresh job cuts at CBZ but noted that it was premature to comment.
It has been a bloodbath in Zimbabwe’s banking sector since 2012, when a second wave of bank failures rattled the markets in the aftermath of the 2004 to 2008 financial crisis.
Last week, Stanbic Bank said job cuts carried out during the first half of 2021 added $430 million to total expenses during the half year ended June 30, 2021, as Covid-19 induced hard lockdowns depressed the trading revenue line.
“Operating expenses increased in comparison to prior year driven by expenditure of $430 million incurred in a staff optimisation exercise,” Stanbic said.
CBZ boss, Blessing Mudavanhu could not be reach for comment.
By A Correspondent | The man who got tens of thousands killed and millions of Zimbabweans pushed out of the country through his murderous “Hondo yeminda” campaings, the exiled Prof Jonathan Moyo has attacked the MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa while demanding that he orders his supporters to stop insulting him.
The development comes at a time when Jonathan Moyo regularly insulted his former boss Emerson Mnangagwa on social media.
Writing on Saturday, Jonathan Moyo loudly complained against insults while threatening the MDC Alliance saying the party “is not invincible” – meaning it can be destroyed at any time.
Former Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi had announced saying, until Nelson Chamisa stands up and calls his followers to order Prof Jonathan Moyo and many others will continue to be abused.
“I have not seen or read where he has publicly censored his followers and many who have parted ways with @mdczimbabwe lead the abuse,” he said.
Jonathan Moyo then quipped in to say:
“Hear hear hear. But there comes a time when enough is enough. Zimbabwe is bigger than any individuals or groups, no matter how noisy they are on what they think about themselves.
“It is ironic that a party that has lost hordes of its founding stalwarts, pretends to be invincible!”
Why mustn't your victims insult you, when you do the same to Mnangagwa over that single act on 15th Nov 2017? How do you expect millions who got exiled because of your murderous propaganda, treat you better than Enos Nkala, when you got equal numbers killed as in Gukurahundi?
Come 2023 this country goes to the polls. This election will decide the future direction of our nation and regions for generations to come. Our jobs, homes, and living standards, our children’s education, our heritage, our health system, how we care for our vulnerable and our place in the world will be all determined by the vote in 2023. Never before has your vote mattered so much. Zimbabwe has been given a lifeline by ED and he deserves a chance to finish what he has started.
President Emmerson deserves more than 5million votes from the Zimbabwean electorate. He has earned these votes through his visionary leadership and economic acumen.
ED has improved the various facets of our social life by improving the living standards of many Zimbabwe through the command agriculture program and the legitimation / revamping of the mining sector.
The world believes that only ZANU PF has the policies that will protect and advance the lives of ordinary people. Only ED will invest in skills and training. Only ED will build the homes so urgently needed. Only ED can be trusted with our children’s education. Only ED can make work in this country pay. In less than thirty six months the face of Zimbabwe has changed for better. The civil servants had their pay increased and nurses had their grievances solved.
From 2018 up to this time it was more than business as usual, economic transformation programs were implemented within the set deadlines, we now have our own currency competing on the global market through the auction system ( determined by the economic spectrum in the global south).
Zanu-PF has implemented almost 85% of what has been promised in its 2018 manifesto. Unlike the Chamisa MDC Alliance which promised airports and unrealistic spaghetti roads to the electorate Zanu-PF is currently refurbishing the Harare beitbridge highway, the Harare -Plumtree road is complete, Harare Mutare road is progressing fast.
It is not a secret that MDC-T rule hurts working communities. We also know that under MDC-T the country will be given back to the colonisers. The lies Chamisa has been making will not make working people get ahead.
In 2023 there are many great reasons to vote ED. These will make a real difference to our nation and our future. ED promises real investment in skills and training, he has taken the country back to its glory; it only needs your vote to see him through.
With industrialization as its priority Zanu-PF has got the manpower, the government under the divine guidance of President Emmerson Mnangagwa,has educated and trained Zimbabweans through a vibrant education system to transform and revamp our industries, what is now needed are more investors to turn around the economy.
In 2018 ED promised the Zimbabwean populace that this time it will be more economics and less politics, ED has put an end to fuel, food and foreign currency shortages.
ED will grow our economy, investing in skills and infrastructure through a national investment bank. Already investors are flocking into Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe will be a jewel again. The events of the past 38 years cannot be visited in ED. Real change has been witnessed. ZANU PF is fully transformed and it has moved on. Do not be held down by the past.
Above all the Zimbabwean government under the guidance of Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa has converged both the mining and agricultural sector to create a sustainable pro-poor development that will lay ground for the creation of a middle income economy by 2030.
Mining together with agriculture are the centrepieces of our economy with potential to generate growth spurts across sectors and re-egnite the much needed economic recovery.
Under ED work will pay.
ED has brought in work and self-respect in the labour market. Already industry is beginning to work. Our railway is starting to come to life. Only ED can be trusted with the health revolution. No more will nurses be so poor that they turn to South Africa. Every civil servant will be appreciated and the country will reward the hard working.
ED has brought a better chance of a better home; he has delivered on that promise and will indeed achieve this.
The mushrooming of unregulated expensive colleges will be a thing of the past. Zimbabwe will be the brains of Africa again. This is not only a promise it is a reality.
Under ED Zimbabwe will invest in new forms of energy to tackle climate change, create the well-paid decent jobs of tomorrow – and keep energy bills low. He will make it a priority to have solar system in every village.
ED is fixing our broken economy before the new dispensation, Zimbabwean living standards had slumped. Among African economies, only Zimbabwe had suffered a harder hit. ED will tackle the low wage, low skill economy the past had created, to build a stronger economy that works for the many, not the few.
To achieve this ED needs your vote. He has started and needs to continue. Open your eyes and allow continuity. Zimbabwe has a chance to be better.
ED says we have suffered enough now it’s the time to enjoy the fruits of our land. MDC-T promises to reverse the gains of freedom, but you are the only one to stop such lunacy. Vote ED.
ED must be allowed to finish the progress he has introduced to us he deserves more than five million votes.
By A Correspondent- Daring smugglers have built a wooden bridge across the Limpopo River in Beitbridge which they use to smuggle goods and border jumpers between Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Located upstream of the New Limpopo Toll Bridge, the pole and log structure has been under construction for more than a week.
Curiously, the construction has been taking place before the eyes of the police, whose mounted unit has been watching on as the illegal construction went on.
Efforts to get comment from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) were fruitless as national spokesman Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi’s mobile phone went unanswered.
The builders regularly stop to “process” goods into Zimbabwe from South Africa for fees charged according to sizes of consignments.
People are charged per individual at between R10 and R100.
The bridge sidesteps the official crossing point, taking advantage of the fact that the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe remains closed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
All goods through the new bridge are not subject to official border formalities.
The log and pole structure’s embankment is on the South African side of the Limpopo River.
By A Correspondent- A 32-year-old Chitungwiza man has been arrested in Beitbridge after being found in possession of cocaine with a street value of $54 255 on Wednesday afternoon.
Philip Nyahodza was not asked to plead to contravening the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act when he appeared before Beitbridge resident magistrate Mr Takudzwa Gwazemba yesterday.
He was remanded in custody to September 17. Prosecutor Mr Ronald Mugwagwa said at around 2pm on Wednesday, detectives from CID Drugs and Narcotics section received information about Nyahodza being in possession of dangerous drugs.
They were told that he was due to meet a contact at Engen service station and the detectives laid ambush and intercepted him on arrival.
They then conducted a body search on him and found two sachets of cocaine in his back pocket which they took for testing.
The results confirmed that Nyahodza was indeed carrying cocaine valued at $54 255 on the street market.
Zimbabweans have taken to social media to remember the late founding leader Robert Gabriel Mugabe who died on 6 September 2019 marking two years since his demise at a Singaporean hospital.
Below are social media posts from Zimbabweans in remembrance of the long time ruler who was deposed from power through a military coup.
He wasn’t perfect and he did some horrible things to each and everyone of us individually and I curse him for overstaying. I did solid 18 years in exile afraid of him, but today I say thank you and especially for the land, the education and all. And I apologise for being misled. pic.twitter.com/9rQbApVF0x
You will always remain a hero and inspirational leader of your time to many people not only in Zimbabwe and Africa but the rest of the world. Long Live your legacy. RIP President RG Mugabe pic.twitter.com/KL9lgAMyXu
On 6 September 2019,exactly two years ago,Robert Mugabe died at Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore. The independence icon turned authoritarian was in power for 37 years until he was toppled by a military coup in 2017.He meant different things to different people.What is his legacy? pic.twitter.com/9DjnWQoxcr
Two years today after Mugabe's death, ZANU PF refuses to reform and digs deeper into vile authoritarian practices that Mugabe never did; creating own opposition, taking away opposition money, MPs, councillors, HQ and creating own Muzorewa, corruption now common place! pic.twitter.com/bGWjTBUVT7
By A Correspondent- Blows were nearly traded at a Zanu PF restructuring exercise in the volatile Mashonaland West province on Sunday, forcing riot police to disperse party officials to avoid a mass brawl in a development signalling the escalation of divisions in the faction-ridden political formation.
Zanu PF is currently conducting a nationwide restructuring exercise in preparation for its elective congress next year.
The restructuring exercise is meant to reorganise its structures, from the cell — the lowest — all the way to the central committee.
The restructuring exercise has escalated the factional fights, with heavyweights now getting involved in the political skullduggery that normally punctuates the process.
The party is currently sharply divided between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his highly ambitious deputy Constantino Chiwenga, whose presidential ambitions were laid bare by his estranged wife Marry in court papers in their acrimonious divorce case.
Although Mnangagwa appears to enjoy an upper hand, making full use of the power of incumbency, Chiwenga and his allies continue to lurk in the shadows.
The restructuring exercise is critical in that bigwigs would want to fill lower structures with their proxies, who would, in turn, constitute congress delegates and vote for officials in the higher echelons of the party.
Currently, much of the fighting is taking place in the three Mashonaland provinces and Manicaland.
The situation in Mashonaland West has been particularly dramatic.
The Sunday incident took place in Banket, where the area’s district chairperson, Never Hutepasi, was targeted for assault at a restructuring meeting.
Sources who were at the meeting said Hutepasi, who is also Ward 22 councillor, is believed by his colleagues to be sympathetic to Chiwenga.
He was almost beaten by district youth league chairperson, Steven Zidana, whose charges were foiled by police officers.
“Zidana was not happy with the conduct of Hutepasi, who is widely regarded as an ally of the VP. Zidana accused Hutepasi of working to undermine the party and sabotaging the president ahead of the 2023 elections. That is when tempers flared.
“Zidana also accused Hutepasi of hiring MDC people to carry put public works in the area in his capacity as councillor, but he responded by saying what he did was fair and he could not have been partial in selecting those who would do the work,” a Zanu PF official said.
“This response greatly angered Zidana who hurled all sorts of insults towards Hutepasi and accused him of being a thief. Police officers arrived on time to disperse the crowd before the situation deteriorated.”
Zanu PF officials in the province are currently involved in a major turf war which has exploded over the position of provincial chair vacated by Ziyambi Ziyambi, who is accused of turning himself into a provincial godfather and imposing one Abia Mujere as his heir through co-option.
Ziyambi is now a politburo member.
Following complaints, Zanu PF’s acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa responded by banning all co-options, arguing they were divisive.
“It has come to the attention of the (commissariat) department that some provinces are conducting co-options to fill in vacant posts in their branches, districts and provincial executive committees. Provinces are aware that the party is currently conducting a restructuring exercise which should usher in new leadership for the same organs by October 2021,”
Chinamasa said in a circular dated 3 August 2021.
“This restructuring exercise will naturally redress the issue of vacant posts. Provinces are, therefore, prohibited from carrying out co-options and VONC (vote of no confidence) in any of the above-mentioned party organs. In respect of the above, it is directed that all co-options and VONC conducted from April 2021, which marked the commencement of the current restructuring exercise to December 2021 are null and void,” he said.
Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka has emerged as a front runner for the position and enjoys cordial relations with Mnangagwa through her brother Temba.
Her camp was last month accused of threatening to violently resist Mujere.
Also involved in the tussle for the chairmanship is the combative Vengai Musengi who, as current provincial youth chair, commands the foot soldiers.
Sources in Mashonaland East, Chiwenga’s home province, said fights have emerged over the chairperson’s post left vacant following the death of Joel Biggie Matiza in January.
Matiza’s son Batsirai has emerged as the hot favourite to land the youth league chairmanship post and has been moving around some of the districts, especially Goromonzi, canvassing support ahead of the looming elections.
The current provincial youth chairman, Kelvin Mutsvairo, is one of those seeking to replace the late Matiza as the provincial chairperson.
According to a letter dated 8 August, addressed to provincial youth league political commissar Lincoln Matare and signed by Goromonzi district coordinating committee youth chairperson Arthur Chidenhe, Batsirai is being accused of breaching Covid-19 rules as well as violating the party’s directives on campaigning.
“He disrespectfully entered Goromonzi district and called the youths for a meeting without my knowledge as the incumbent youth secretary for the district. Not only is he disrespecting me, but the entire Zanu PF leadership as well as violating the Covid-19 restrictions put in place by the government of Zimbabwe in order to curb the pandemic,” Chidenhe wrote.
In Manicaland province, war veterans and their affiliates say they have dumped Zanu PF Manicaland provincial chairperson Mike Madiro, accusing him of ineptitude and failing to unite the party.
This came after Makoni district endorsed the candidature of its district co-ordinating committee chairperson Albert Nyakuedzwa to contest for the Manicaland provincial chair Nyakuedzwa appears to be in the driving seat, although facing stiff competition from Chipinge South legislator Enock Porusingazi and Information Communication Technology minister Jenfan Muswere.
Business mogul James Makamba leads a stellar cast of influential Zanu PF officials fighting to wrest the Mashonaland Central provincial chairmanship from Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe.
The list includes another businessman, Tafadzwa Musarara, Kazembe’s long-term nemesis, former Education minister Lazarus Dokora, who is seeking a new lease on life following years in relative pollical obscurity, the belligerent provincial war veterans chairman Sam Parirenyatwa and the current Provincial Affairs minister, Monica Mavhunga — widely considered a rank outsider.
By A Correspondent| Government has succumbed to pressure from urban residents who are enduring long hours at bus termini waiting for buses and has since announced that 1000 new buses on the way.
According to ZUPCO, the new buses are already in Durban South Africa with drivers already dispatched to bring them to the capital Harare ahead of disbursement to other cities and towns.
ZUPCO said 400 of the buses will be immediately deployed to service routes in Harare, while 200 will be dispatched to Bulawayo, with the rest being shared equally among the smaller cities and towns.
Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo told The Sunday Mail that a mass transport masterplan was also in the works.
“We are going to receive 1000 buses this coming week,” said Minister Moyo.
“We are not sure of the exact date they will be in the country but they are already in Durban and we have dispatched our drivers to get them at Beitbridge border post.
“We are also coming up with a transport masterplan which will be implemented very soon.”
By A Correspondent- Veterans of the liberation war have launched a fresh attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration, accusing it of failing to expedite the exhumation and reburial of victims who are still interred in mass graves across the country.
This comes barely a week after a group of ex-combatants berated Mnangagwa for failing to take their welfare seriously.
In a strongly worded statement issued on Saturday, the highly petulant former freedom fighters accused Mnangagwa of riding a tiger and failing to honour them.
“We are deeply concerned that some of our late fighters are still yet to be reburied. Hurungwe liberation war veterans resolved that every effort be made for the exhumation and reburial, with commensurate honours, of the departed heroes of the Second Chimurenga who met their deaths in Hurungwe district, Mashonaland West province, and that the process be accelerated,” the statement, issued by the Mashonaland West provincial war veterans leadership, read.
“The veterans, to realise this goal, call upon all veterans in the district to contribute towards a fund to be established for this purpose, and for all who have information of burial sites’ locations to make some available to Veterans of the Liberation Struggle through the party administration offices in Karoi.
“The veterans arrived at this resolution following recognition that efforts made towards honouring the departed heroes over the past 41 years of independence have been half-hearted and uncoordinated, displaying a lack of commitment from both the party and government.”
They also applauded efforts of the Fallen Heroes Trust, which has made it possible to exhume and re-bury those that have been found around the country.
“It is an indictment on our party and government that it has not taken the responsibility to shoulder this task, and has instead left it to the living veterans to bury their departed colleagues, which task we now assume,” they said.
“We also note that while we, the veterans, have often and rightly so, called attention to our welfare and plight, have however developed amnesia regards the many who died at our sides in the field of battle and in our rear camps, which we should not have done. We do well to remind ourselves and everyone else to not only attend to the living, but to those who today cannot speak for themselves and whose only need is for a decent interment.”
Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri did not respond to questions and was also not answering calls to her mobile phone.
By A Correspondent| The Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has taken the police to court over its move to fine hitch-hikers who use unauthorised transport in urban areas.
This followed a move where police in Mbare fined passengers RTGS$2000 for boarding unauthorised buses at Mbare musika last week.
The move attracted widespread criticism from citizens who felt the action of the police was unreasonable especially at such a time when ZUPCO which is the authorized transporter was failing to meet the demand due to shortage of buses.
So PAZ has with the assistance of the Human Rights NGO Forum approached the High Court to reverse the move which has left commuters stranded and spending long hours at bus termini.
By A Correspondent- The Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has reported that three people were killed and property worth US$187 167 was destroyed nationwide by veld fires since July 31.
In a statement, EMA Education and Publicity Manager Mrs Amkela Sidange said 1 517 fire incidences that destroyed 408 366.7 hectares of land have been recorded.
She said this translates to an 84.97 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2020 when 220 778 hectares were burnt from 395 veld fire incidences that were recorded.
Mrs Sidange said the majority of veld fires were recorded in resettlement areas. he said:
The veld fires have destroyed agricultural produce, equipment, household property and plantations worth US$187 167. The majority of the veld fires have been recorded in the resettlements 61.82 per cent, communal lands 7.13 per cent, forest 7.97 per cent, safari 7.88 per cent, small scale farms 7.05 per cent, model A and D 5.56 per cent, National Parks 1.94 per cent, urban area 0.26 per cent, recreational parks 0.12 per cent and other land 0.26 per cent…
Notably the causes of the veld fires so far have been identified to be anthropogenic in nature specifically due to land clearing (28.92 percent), arson (27.72 percent), illegal mining (27.72 percent), poor ash disposal (12.05 percent) and hunting (3.61 percent). To that end people remain their own worst enemy in veld fire management in the country as almost all veld fires recorded so far are due to human activities.
She also observed that one person died due to veld fires last year.
Mrs Sidange encouraged farmers to desist from clearing fireguards using fires now as it is windy, dry and hot.
She added that EMA has as of September 5 issued 732 tickets, 5 027 veld fire environmental protection orders and opened 43 dockets.
Mashonaland West, Manicaland and Mashonaland East were the most affected provinces.
By A Correspondent| The President Emmerson Mnangagwa led Zanu PF seems to have forgotten that it is the ruling party after accusing the opposition MDC of neglecting people in urban areas.
Addressing the media after the politburo meeting on Saturday, Acting Zanu PF Political Commissar, Patrick Chinamasa said the central government had intervened to construct roads in urban areas as if they are not the government of the day.
Most MDC dominated cities and towns have endured interference from the central government including dismissal of Mayors and councillors in what has crippled service delivery- which Chinamasa and his Zanu PF party still want to blame on the opposition.
“Central Government has intervened to save people in urban areas through various programmes, which include widespread road repairs, which are underway.
“In the past, the MDC has tried to take credit whenever things go right, and whenever things are bad, they shift the blame to the Government. It must be well-documented that the current progress being seen in cities and towns is a result of the Government, and we are going to continue until 2023, when we take over the running of cities”, said Chinamasa.
By Dorrothy Moyo | The controversial preacher Passion Java has announced the “Zimbabwe is Open for Business” agenda which he said calls for all Zimbabweans to maximise opportunities created by His Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa to engage in economic activities towards the attainment of Vision 2030.
Java buying Mai Titi’s jerseys
Making the development public on his Facebook portal, Java said he has purchased 200 Zimbabwean flag-designed jerseys from the self-styled felebrity Mai TT in Harare.
He said: “We should all come together and work together to empower one another financially in Zimbabwe. Our President ED Mnangagwa has created an environment where all Zimbabweans have an equal opportunity to do business and change their lives. Vision 2030 can be a reality if we support local businesses, no matter how big or small”, said Java in his statement.
IS THIS FOR MAI TITI or it's just TO APPEASE MNANGAGWA?
Buying 200 jerseys from comedian Mai Titi, controversial preacher Passion Java has called for all Zimbabweans to maximise opportunities created by His Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa… pic.twitter.com/eX2qrD86XL
Chitungwiza-based community newspaper editor, Gilbert Munetsi has been arrested for allegedly breaking the Covid-19 lockdown curfew.
The Courier newspaper editor is currently detained at St Mary’s Police Station, where he spent the night in holding cells.
Speaking to NewsAnchor, Munetsi said he was coming from work when police details stopped and interrogated him.
Despite producing a valid Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) accreditation card to prove that he was an essential services provider, the police officers cuffed and took him to the station.
“I was coming from work around 8pm on Saturday and came across cops who said l was under arrest for breaching Covid-19 curfew. My explanation that l was a journalist fell on deaf ears, and producing my accreditation card further incensed them. I spent the night in cells,” said Munetsi.
By the time of publishing, Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zimbabwe Chapter had dispatched lawyers to seek Munetsi’s freedom.
Journalists are categorised as essential services providers.
A passport printer costs a paltry USD10,000 and the government, currently failing to produce them has prioritised offloading USD2mill to purchase border-surveillance drones, instead.
A passport printing machine costs less than USD10,000, and @MthuliNcube's border surveillance drones cost USD2million.
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube’s deputy has announced saying the country’s porous border posts will soon be under tight surveillance following Government’s decision to acquire drones worth US$2 million to patrol the borderline to curb smuggling.
Mthuli Ncube Has Announced A Tender for Drones To Deployed At Borders, But Who's Getting The Contract?
The drones will be used at all ports of entry to reduce smuggling with plans also at an advanced stage to place a CCTV camera system at border posts. The tendering of the required equipment to improve security is at an advanced stage.
The country is losing millions of dollars in potential revenue as a result smuggling of goods into the country through official borders and undesignated points. Zimbabwe is a landlocked country surrounded by South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia and Botswana.
These countries provide a direct link to seaports through which the goods can be imported to Zimbabwe or exported.
Zimbabwe has 16 designated ports of entry along the borderline with neighbouring countries through which goods can be imported or exported.
Huge consignments of goods such as clothing items, footwear products, fuel, restricted or controlled goods, electrical items, alcoholic beverages, motor vehicles, wildlife, minerals, tobacco products and many others are smuggled into or out of the country using both the designated and illegal crossing points resulting in Government losing revenue.
Finance and Economic Development Deputy Minister Clemence Chiduwa recently told Parliament that drones will soon be deployed following the announcement in the 2021 National Budget.
“The tendering process of the drones’ project is now at an advanced stage. In addition, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has appointed a manager responsible for border surveillance who will work with the security management unit and security forces in order to ensure the borderline is secure,” he said.
Deputy Minister Chiduwa’s remarks were in response to issues raised by the Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development after its familiarisation tour of the six border posts last year.
The team visited Kariba, Chirundu, Forbes, Beitbridge, Plumtree and Kazungula border posts.
Deputy Minister Chiduwa said the staff establishment of Zimra is under review following the approval of the utility’s structure by the board.
“I wish to advise that progress has been made to capacitate Zimra with operational motor vehicles which are key for staff mobility, particularly at border posts,” he said.
Deputy Minister Chiduwa said last year Zimra received 20 vehicles and this year it bought 20 Land Cruiser off-road vehicles.
He said plans to purchase additional 85 vehicles comprising 35 double-cabs and 50 Sedans are at an advanced stage with the first batch expected soon.
In a statement recently, Zimra said plans are at an advanced stage to place a CCTV camera system at border posts and strategic areas. The CCTV system will be linked to a loss control command centre at Zimra head office that will have sight of the footage live feed from the border post.
Zimra also said it will continue to enforce controls to avoid importation of restricted or prohibited goods through the Electronic Cargo Tracking System (ECTS).
Last year, it sealed 35 076 trucks which gave the authority about US$1 million in sealing fees and $217 000 from fines. The ECTS uses GPS/GPRS technology for tracking.
Electronic seals are affixed to cargo containers, box trucks, soft sided trucks (flat decks with side curtains), tankers and break bulk (goods under tarpaulin). The electronic seals send regular signals to the control room to show the location of the cargo.
Zimra said it will submit position papers to ensure the system which was imported will be produced locally in partnership with other domestic players who will be required to benchmark against international best practice.
The ECTS that Zimra uses is from Malaysia and there is a keen interest from the Government to use a locally produced system. The aim is to expand the transit economy with Zimbabwe acting as a transit hub in the region.
Zimbabwe intends to adopt and implement the concept of dry ports in areas such as Makuti and Forbes. Chronicle
By A Correspondent- Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube’ has lost cash and valuables to thieves.
Minister Ncube lost his valuables after thieves broke into his luxury Toyota Land Cruiser V8 last week.
According to a Police memo seen by The Mirror, the unknown suspects committed the crime after the Minister’s driver and aide, Life Jejeje (43) and Emmanuel Samanga (43), respectively, parked at Culture Resort Centre in Hillside, Harare, to buy some foods.
Jejeje locked the car, and the two went away for 15 minutes. They returned to find the rear passenger door glass broken.
They discovered that a black bag belonging to the Minister and containing two I-phones, US$1 000, international credit cards and various documents had been stolen.
CCTV footage showed that the suspects used a white Toyota Mark X whose number plates could be hardly seen. A dark and slim man disembarked from the car and broke into the Land Cruiser.
Although his face could not clearly show his fingerprints were picked by the Police. Investigations are continuing.
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reshuffled his aides for failing to detect a fault that caused his presidential helicopter to crash two weeks ago.
Mnangagwa’s chopper reportedly crash-landed about 60 kilometres southwest of Harare due to technical failure.
The chopper, which was flying from Mnangagwa’s Precabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe, landed at a farm owned by a ministry of Finance official.
The NewsHawks reported that after the incident, Mnangagwa quickly moved to beef up his motorcade by bringing in Air Force of Zimbabwe signallers to reinforce his communication system whenever he flies out.
In an air force, a signaller is a person trained to communicate between aircraft, its base, and units in the area of operation through radio or other digital communications.
The forced landing of Mnangagwa’s chopper at a farm near Sandringham two weeks ago reportedly resulted in a mix up between Mnangagwa’s aides and air traffic controllers at Manyame Airbase.
This necessitated the changes in the president’s security system and motorcade.
According to The NewsHawks, preliminary investigations showed that the chopper’s cockpit avionics indicated that the battery was not charging mid-air, prompting the pilot to opt for an emergency landing. A source said:
In order to avoid what happened during the incident such as delays in deploying a rescue chopper for the President, changes had to be effected particularly relating to communication.
Last Sunday a motorcade left the President’s farm around 15:30pm, with technicians from Manyame.
An air force car is now part of the motorcade, positioned right at its tail end offer communication from the hindmost whenever needed.
He flew the chopper, which eventually rescued him when he recently visited the farm.
Sources told The NewsHawks that the crash landing incident happened around 4 pm in the Sandringham area, Matsvaire village, in Chegutu district, about 65 kilometres south-west of the capital when Mnangagwa was coming from his Kwekwe farm.
Upon the incident, Mnangagwa’s security details, including an aide-de-camp, marksman from the Presidential Guard, a medic and intelligence officers, scrambled to cordon off the scene, as the team also worked out an emergency rescue plan to complete their 45-minute journey.
Investigations into the crash landing, sources said, will involve the Air Force, intelligence services, Presidential Guard and aviation experts.
By A Correspondent- Opposition MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa said members Zanu PF claimed to have defected from his party were criminals he fired from the opposition coalition movement.
MDC Alliance, in a statement, said the individuals in question had ceased to belong to the party; therefore, their move to join Zanu PF cannot be described as a defection.
Those who Zanu PF said defected to the party recently included the former Harare deputy Mayor, Emmanuel Chiroto and former Marondera Mayor, Farai Nyandoro.
Below is the party’s statement on the matter.
There have been no defections from the MDC A. The truth of the matter is this: In 2012, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) cracked a whip on all members accused of corruption and those found guilty were subsequently expelled from the party.
The members who were fired from the party include Emanuel Chiroto Ward 42 Hatcliffe, Julius Musevenzi Ward 15 Warren Park, Peter Mudavanhu Ward 9 Glendale, Pumulani Musogwiza Ward 22 Hatfield among other members. Following the party’s gesture to deal with corrupt activities, the duo of Chiroto and Musevenzi decided to join former Zimbabwe Vice President Joice Mujuru’s party, National Peoples Party (NPP) before it changed name to Zimbabwe People First (ZPF). The two represented their new party in the previous election as NPF parliamentary candidates, but unfortunately, they lost dismally. Probably unhappy with the people’s decision, Chiroto went on to join another party, this time it was Dr Noah Manyika’s Build Zimbabwe Alliance. As if that was not enough, Musevenzi and Chiroto did not dump their nomadic behaviour after they joined the MDC T following the controversial Supreme Court ruling in March 2020. Chiroto was an executive member of the MDC-T Harare Province before he joined his new party ZANU-PF. On the other hand, former Marondera Mayor Farai Nyandoro was never a member of MDC since 2014 until the time of his defection. Nyandoro left the MDC in 2014 to join PDP and after his then party split, he left with the faction led by Lucia Matibenga. Just like his two other colleagues mentioned above, Nyandoro also joined the MDCT after the Supreme Court judgement and subsequently became the MDC-T Mashonaland East Provincial Secretary. Sifra Chidhakwa, former Zengeza MP, lost the 2018 primary elections to Job Sikhala, unhappy with the electoral outcome, opted to participate in the 2018 elections as an independent candidate. Chidhakwa’s gesture was in violation of the MDC constitution. According to the constitution, Chidakwa automatically ceased to be a member of the MDC. He then resurfaced at the MDCT congress in December 2020 following the politically motivated Supreme Court judgement. He became a member of MDCT since that time until his recent move to ZANU PF. Surprisingly, some of the so-called defection members were never part of the MDC even before 2014. It’s very interesting how the regime has become so desperate to the extend of imposing members on our party. The regime is good at employing command tactics but unfortunately, we as the MDC Alliance don’t need their command members.
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reshuffled his aides for failing to detect a fault that caused his presidential helicopter to crash two weeks ago.
Mnangagwa’s chopper reportedly crash-landed about 60 kilometres southwest of Harare due to technical failure.
The chopper, which was flying from Mnangagwa’s Precabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe, landed at a farm owned by a ministry of Finance official.
The NewsHawks reported that after the incident, Mnangagwa quickly moved to beef up his motorcade by bringing in Air Force of Zimbabwe signallers to reinforce his communication system whenever he flies out.
In an air force, a signaller is a person trained to communicate between aircraft, its base, and units in the area of operation through radio or other digital communications.
The forced landing of Mnangagwa’s chopper at a farm near Sandringham two weeks ago reportedly resulted in a mix up between Mnangagwa’s aides and air traffic controllers at Manyame Airbase.
This necessitated the changes in the president’s security system and motorcade.
According to The NewsHawks, preliminary investigations showed that the chopper’s cockpit avionics indicated that the battery was not charging mid-air, prompting the pilot to opt for an emergency landing. A source said:
In order to avoid what happened during the incident such as delays in deploying a rescue chopper for the President, changes had to be effected particularly relating to communication.
Last Sunday a motorcade left the President’s farm around 15:30pm, with technicians from Manyame.
An air force car is now part of the motorcade, positioned right at its tail end offer communication from the hindmost whenever needed.
He flew the chopper, which eventually rescued him when he recently visited the farm.
Sources told The NewsHawks that the crash landing incident happened around 4 pm in the Sandringham area, Matsvaire village, in Chegutu district, about 65 kilometres south-west of the capital when Mnangagwa was coming from his Kwekwe farm.
Upon the incident, Mnangagwa’s security details, including an aide-de-camp, marksman from the Presidential Guard, a medic and intelligence officers, scrambled to cordon off the scene, as the team also worked out an emergency rescue plan to complete their 45-minute journey.
Investigations into the crash landing, sources said, will involve the Air Force, intelligence services, Presidential Guard and aviation experts.
By A Correspondent- Opposition MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa has dismissed as false reports that some of its members defected to Zanu PF.
Those who defected to Zanu PF recently included the former Harare deputy Mayor, Emmanuel Chiroto and former Marondera Mayor, Farai Nyandoro.
The two served under the late MDC-T leaders Morgan Tsvangirai.
MDC Alliance, in a statement, said the individuals in question had ceased to belong to the party; therefore, their move to join Zanu PF cannot be described as a defection.
Below is the party’s statement on the matter.
There have been no defections from the MDC A. The truth of the matter is this: In 2012, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) cracked a whip on all members accused of corruption and those found guilty were subsequently expelled from the party. The members who were fired from the party include Emanuel Chiroto Ward 42 Hatcliffe, Julius Musevenzi Ward 15 Warren Park, Peter Mudavanhu Ward 9 Glendale, Pumulani Musogwiza Ward 22 Hatfield among other members. Following the party’s gesture to deal with corrupt activities, the duo of Chiroto and Musevenzi decided to join former Zimbabwe Vice President Joice Mujuru’s party, National Peoples Party (NPP) before it changed name to Zimbabwe People First (ZPF). The two represented their new party in the previous election as NPF parliamentary candidates, but unfortunately, they lost dismally. Probably unhappy with the people’s decision, Chiroto went on to join another party, this time it was Dr Noah Manyika’s Build Zimbabwe Alliance. As if that was not enough, Musevenzi and Chiroto did not dump their nomadic behaviour after they joined the MDC T following the controversial Supreme Court ruling in March 2020. Chiroto was an executive member of the MDC-T Harare Province before he joined his new party ZANU-PF. On the other hand, former Marondera Mayor Farai Nyandoro was never a member of MDC since 2014 until the time of his defection. Nyandoro left the MDC in 2014 to join PDP and after his then party split, he left with the faction led by Lucia Matibenga. Just like his two other colleagues mentioned above, Nyandoro also joined the MDCT after the Supreme Court judgement and subsequently became the MDC-T Mashonaland East Provincial Secretary. Sifra Chidhakwa, former Zengeza MP, lost the 2018 primary elections to Job Sikhala, unhappy with the electoral outcome, opted to participate in the 2018 elections as an independent candidate. Chidhakwa’s gesture was in violation of the MDC constitution. According to the constitution, Chidakwa automatically ceased to be a member of the MDC. He then resurfaced at the MDCT congress in December 2020 following the politically motivated Supreme Court judgement. He became a member of MDCT since that time until his recent move to ZANU PF. Surprisingly, some of the so-called defection members were never part of the MDC even before 2014. It’s very interesting how the regime has become so desperate to the extend of imposing members on our party. The regime is good at employing command tactics but unfortunately, we as the MDC Alliance don’t need their command members.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has described the ZUPCO monopoly as illegal, evil and heartless.
Hundreds of urban commuters have been arrested and fined for boarding private taxis as the regime seeks to fortify command transport.
According to President Chamisa, the ZUPCO monopoly is disastrous…
The monopoly has left many people jobless .
See President Chamisa’s statement below… We said this in May 2021. It has only gotten worse.The illegal ZUPCO monopoly is heartless and evil.
Command transport has failed,must fall &end!Zim deserves quality.We will provide efficient world class urban transport,trams,trains and modern buses.#spaghettiroads #bullettrains
COMMAND TRANSPORT MUST END! The illegal ZUPCO monopoly has; -left many jobless. -Brought suffering leaving many stranded or in overcrowded rickety buses & resorting to insecure open trucks. -ZUPCO is potentially a COVID-19 super spreader but ‘Chefs’ don’t care. #BringbackKombis
IMAGINE A NEW GREAT ZIMBABWE -Bullet trains -Spaghetti roads -Gweru administrative capital of government -Renaming Provinces -New cities and towns -Development Urbanization of Rural Areas DURA -Police services not police force -No roadblocks only digital policing The NEW!
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said the Zanu PF regime is ideologically bankrupt and cannot transform the lives of suffering citizens.
Writing on Twitter, Hon Biti accused the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa of advancing a ” dangerously unpatriotic agenda” through rewarding Russians and the Chinese with secret mining deals.
“Mr Mnangwagwa must therefore know that within the womb of present day Zimbabwe, a new Zimbabwe is ready to emerge . One born from 41 years of exclusion & extraction , pain & suffering. One that the wananchi will treasure & cherish . A new Zimbabwe…
The Mnangwagwa regime on the other hand remains vacuous and moribund. It’s defining anchors are extraction, looting & serving the power retention agenda.A dangerously unpatriotic agenda consisting of selling off mining rights to Chinese ,Russsians and other cartels asset stripping…
Part of the challenge of the Mnangwagwa regime is its ideological bankruptcy and inability to articulate any value,issue or cause it stands for . Despite his weaknesses Mugabe’s mythology was nationalism eventually immortalized by the land reform program &the indigenization agenda,” argued Hon Biti.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said the Zanu PF regime is ideologically bankrupt and cannot transform the lives of suffering citizens.
Writing on Twitter, Hon Biti accused the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa of advancing a ” dangerously unpatriotic agenda” through rewarding Russians and the Chinese with secret mining deals.
“Mr Mnangwagwa must therefore know that within the womb of present day Zimbabwe, a new Zimbabwe is ready to emerge . One born from 41 years of exclusion & extraction , pain & suffering. One that the wananchi will treasure & cherish . A new Zimbabwe…
The Mnangwagwa regime on the other hand remains vacuous and moribund. It’s defining anchors are extraction, looting & serving the power retention agenda.A dangerously unpatriotic agenda consisting of selling off mining rights to Chinese ,Russsians and other cartels asset stripping…
Part of the challenge of the Mnangwagwa regime is its ideological bankruptcy and inability to articulate any value,issue or cause it stands for . Despite his weaknesses Mugabe’s mythology was nationalism eventually immortalized by the land reform program &the indigenization agenda,” argued Hon Biti.
FC Platinum forward Silas Songani will not travel with the national team to Ethiopia for the Group G World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.
Songani left the hotel in this morning long before the team checked out, on their way to East Africa. He was part of the matchday squad that drew 0-0 against South Africa in Harare on Friday.
The striker will go straight into the FC Platinum camp ahead of this month Champions League encounter against
The Warriors will depart this evening to Addis Ababa and then travel another 500km to Bahir Dar, where the match will be played.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Love might have dried up in the heart of the former Gunman, but so cruel is the treatment he is giving to the mother of his children.
The former beauty queen is now a pale shadow of her glamourous self. Whilst Marry Chiwenga has for over a decade or so been one of the key players in looting state resources through her husband who was for the greater part of that period the boss of Zimbabwe defense forces,letting her die is a violation of her rights. Everybody deserves treatment. So as Mary, she still has her right to treatment.
Mr Chiwenga, the rewarded Vice President who doubles as the Minister of Health flew across the globe on several occasions ever since the military coup of 2017 seeking treatment on tax payers expense.
The irony of it now, he is denying his former soulmate access to her travelling documents to go and seek treatment.
We all know there is no quality health services in our country. The country is in a mess under the ruling party, zanupf.
The pictures of Mrs Marry circulating on social media, on her way to and from reporting to the police as part of her bail conditions and showing her legs thicker than her waist, hands bandaged etc are heart breaking. The treatment of women in the so called second Republic is a serous cause of concern.
Whilst Marry is struggling with her health condition, she is not the only one nor the 1st one.
We once saw Honorable Joana Ruvimbo Mamombe at some point dragged from a hospital bed to Chikurubi maximum security prison.
We can’t let this continue under our watch. This inhuman treatment by the state to us women is a clear sign of their ruthless behavior.
We demand justice for women in Zimbabwe. Women are human beings too.
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube’s deputy has announced saying the country’s porous border posts will soon be under tight surveillance following Government’s decision to acquire drones worth US$2 million to patrol the borderline to curb smuggling.
Mthuli Ncube Has Announced A Tender for Drones To Deployed At Borders, But Who's Getting The Contract?
The drones will be used at all ports of entry to reduce smuggling with plans also at an advanced stage to place a CCTV camera system at border posts. The tendering of the required equipment to improve security is at an advanced stage.
The country is losing millions of dollars in potential revenue as a result smuggling of goods into the country through official borders and undesignated points. Zimbabwe is a landlocked country surrounded by South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia and Botswana.
These countries provide a direct link to seaports through which the goods can be imported to Zimbabwe or exported.
Zimbabwe has 16 designated ports of entry along the borderline with neighbouring countries through which goods can be imported or exported.
Huge consignments of goods such as clothing items, footwear products, fuel, restricted or controlled goods, electrical items, alcoholic beverages, motor vehicles, wildlife, minerals, tobacco products and many others are smuggled into or out of the country using both the designated and illegal crossing points resulting in Government losing revenue.
Finance and Economic Development Deputy Minister Clemence Chiduwa recently told Parliament that drones will soon be deployed following the announcement in the 2021 National Budget.
“The tendering process of the drones’ project is now at an advanced stage. In addition, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has appointed a manager responsible for border surveillance who will work with the security management unit and security forces in order to ensure the borderline is secure,” he said.
Deputy Minister Chiduwa’s remarks were in response to issues raised by the Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development after its familiarisation tour of the six border posts last year.
The team visited Kariba, Chirundu, Forbes, Beitbridge, Plumtree and Kazungula border posts.
Deputy Minister Chiduwa said the staff establishment of Zimra is under review following the approval of the utility’s structure by the board.
“I wish to advise that progress has been made to capacitate Zimra with operational motor vehicles which are key for staff mobility, particularly at border posts,” he said.
Deputy Minister Chiduwa said last year Zimra received 20 vehicles and this year it bought 20 Land Cruiser off-road vehicles.
He said plans to purchase additional 85 vehicles comprising 35 double-cabs and 50 Sedans are at an advanced stage with the first batch expected soon.
In a statement recently, Zimra said plans are at an advanced stage to place a CCTV camera system at border posts and strategic areas. The CCTV system will be linked to a loss control command centre at Zimra head office that will have sight of the footage live feed from the border post.
Zimra also said it will continue to enforce controls to avoid importation of restricted or prohibited goods through the Electronic Cargo Tracking System (ECTS).
Last year, it sealed 35 076 trucks which gave the authority about US$1 million in sealing fees and $217 000 from fines. The ECTS uses GPS/GPRS technology for tracking.
Electronic seals are affixed to cargo containers, box trucks, soft sided trucks (flat decks with side curtains), tankers and break bulk (goods under tarpaulin). The electronic seals send regular signals to the control room to show the location of the cargo.
Zimra said it will submit position papers to ensure the system which was imported will be produced locally in partnership with other domestic players who will be required to benchmark against international best practice.
The ECTS that Zimra uses is from Malaysia and there is a keen interest from the Government to use a locally produced system. The aim is to expand the transit economy with Zimbabwe acting as a transit hub in the region.
Zimbabwe intends to adopt and implement the concept of dry ports in areas such as Makuti and Forbes. Chronicle
Love might have dried up in the heart of the former Gunman, but so cruel is the treatment he is giving to the mother of his children.
The former beauty queen is now a pale shadow of her glamourous self. Whilst Marry Chiwenga has for over a decade or so been one of the key players in looting state resources through her husband who was for the greater part of that period the boss of Zimbabwe defense forces,letting her die is a violation of her rights. Everybody deserves treatment. So as Mary, she still has her right to treatment.
Mr Chiwenga, the rewarded Vice President who doubles as the Minister of Health flew across the globe on several occasions ever since the military coup of 2017 seeking treatment on tax payers expense.
The irony of it now, he is denying his former soulmate access to her travelling documents to go and seek treatment.
We all know there is no quality health services in our country. The country is in a mess under the ruling party, zanupf.
The pictures of Mrs Marry circulating on social media, on her way to and from reporting to the police as part of her bail conditions and showing her legs thicker than her waist, hands bandaged etc are heart breaking. The treatment of women in the so called second Republic is a serous cause of concern.
Whilst Marry is struggling with her health condition, she is not the only one nor the 1st one.
We once saw Honorable Joana Ruvimbo Mamombe at some point dragged from a hospital bed to Chikurubi maximum security prison.
We can’t let this continue under our watch. This inhuman treatment by the state to us women is a clear sign of their ruthless behavior.
We demand justice for women in Zimbabwe. Women are human beings too.
The man who was the dreaded State Security Minister from 1980 and 1988, responsible banning thousands citizens including footballer Bruce Grobbelaar from their country of birth, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has turned to announce to the former that he can return home.
Bruce Grobbelaar
The riveting story is told in the goal keeper’s narration during a discussion with colleague Alois Bunjira.
Said Grobbelaar, “In 2007 I was working in South Africa, coaching while also travelling throughout Africa on a malaria awareness programme. One day after landing in Cape Town from Zambia, I got a call from the late former President (Robert Mugabe) saying he wanted me to help the Warriors. I told him that I could do that as long as I was paid in foreign currency. The former President said they had a problem as they didn’t have any foreign currency and I told him I knew there was no foreign currency because they had stolen the money and hid it somewhere. He apparently did not like that and he told me never again to set foot on Zimbabwean soil,” said Grobbelaar.
He added saying he remained a persona non grata for 10 years until Emmerson Mnangagwa took office.
“I was now working in Canada together with President ED’s nephews and one day he phoned asking me why I wasn’t coming back to the country, and I told him the whole story. I told him that I was barred from coming to Zimbabwe by former President Mugabe. (President) ED said he was now the President and I was free to come back to Zimbabwe at any time. This is how I came back in 2017,” said Grobbelaar.
“I was part of the Zimbabwe national squad from 1981 to 1985, having previously worn the Rhodesia jersey. In 1985 my passport was taken away from me by the Zimbabwean authorities only to be returned in 1992. (Former Registrar General Tobaiwa) Mudede was in Britain and was at the Zimbabwe House (in London) issuing passports to Zimbabweans, but he didn’t want to give me a passport until he got orders from (the late former President) Mugabe to issue me with a passport so that I could play for the Dream Team against South Africa,” said Grobbelaar.
Croatian football legend and The Blazers’ World Cup hero Mario Mandzukic has retired from football at the age of 35, three years after playing his last international game.
Mandzukic, who scored the winning goal against England in the semifinals of the World Cup in 2018, announced his decision in a post on Instagram, which included a photo of a pair of boots, on Friday night.
In a message written in English and addressed to his young self, “Dear little Mario”, and signed “Your big Mario”, Mandzukic wrote:
While you put on these boots for the first time, you can’t even imagine what you will get to experience in football.
You’ll recognize the moment to retire, to put these boots in a cabinet and you’ll have no regrets.
You will score goals on the biggest stages and win the biggest trophies in the jerseys of the biggest clubs.
In the jersey of greatest pride, the Croatian national team, you will write some of the most important moments of Croatian sport.
Mandzukic appeared 89 times for Croatia scoring 33 goals, he also for played Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid and Juventus and appeared 11 times this year for AC Milan.
Plagued by injury he was used mostly as a substitute and did not score a goal.
He won the Croatian league three times with Dinamo Zagreb, the Bundesliga, twice, and the Champions League at Bayern, and Serie A four times at Juventus.
Juventus, Croatian sports stars Miralem Pjanic, tennis player Marin Cilic and NBA small forward Bojan Bogdanovic all joined the online chorus of praise as did Blaise Matuidi (French midfielder), an opponent in the 2018 World Cup final and team-mate at Juventus.
Croatian coach Zlatko Dalic thanked Mandzukic in a statement calling him “a fighter on whom the team could always rely, a player for big games and the toughest challenges”.
Born in Slavonski Brod, Mandzukic began his career in 2004 at home town club Marsonia. He signed his first major contract with Dinamo Zagreb in 2007.
He then played for Wolfsburg (2010-2012), Bayern Munich (2012-2014), Atletico Madrid (2014-2015) and Juventus (2015-2019). -IOL
The Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has implored the government to break the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO)’s monopoly by licensing more private players to provide public transport services.
This follows yesterday’s chaos caused by ZUPCO’s inability to provide transport timeously, leaving thousands of commuters waiting in winding queues dejectedly in various terminuses in Harare.
The transport challenges were exacerbated by a police clampdown on mushikashika vehicles that have been filling the gap left by ZUPCO.
PAZ national coordinator Tafadzwa Goliati urged Government to consider licensing more private players so that the situation improves. He said:
While efforts to increase the number of buses through the importation of new coaches are noted and commended, we humbly recommend that the Government also augment its existing ZUPCO fleet with other alternative mass public transport initiatives.
Meanwhile, ZUPCO chief executive officer Everisto Madangwa said ZUPCO is expecting 50 more buses next week.
ZUPCO currently owns a fleet of 262 buses and at least 550 more from franchisees.- The Sunday Mail
THE Zanu-PF faction under the moniker G40 says it is still alive and planning the takeover of the ruling party ahead of the 2023 polls.
Several members of the G40 cabal were hounded out of Zanu-PF and forced into exile following the November 2017 military coup that ousted the late former President Robert Mugabe.
Key G40 members who were against then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rise included Saviour Kasukuwere, Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao, among others.
“Facts only: the overwhelming majority of G40 in Zanu-PF’s leadership and membership ranks were neither expelled nor left the party after the 2017 army coup,” Moyo, a former Higher and Tertiary Education minister and Zanu-PF politburo member, said on Twitter yesterday.
“They are in it. It’s precisely for this reason that the most strategic fertile ground for change in Zimbabwe is the Zanu-PF base.”
Moyo claimed that Mnangagwa was imposed on the people by the army.
Mnangagwa was booted out of government and Zanu-PF in November 2017 before fleeing to neighbouring South Africa, only to return and take over power after the coup.
“People’s choice, you? Since when? The real issue is, are you still the army’s choice? Without the army, what they call G40 will finish you politically in broad daylight like it did before the 2017 military coup and in the 2018 election only for the army to rescue you,” Moyo said.
But Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday dismissed the former Higher Education minister as a daydreamer.
“It’s hogwash, he can continue dreaming,” he said.
Observers yesterday supported Moyo’s claim with some former G40 kingpins saying the real Zanu-PF remained within the lower ranks and other strategic positions while a few “unelectable” people allocated themselves top posts.
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa weighed in saying in its current form, the ruling Zanu-PF party was at its weakest.
“Ultimately, politics is about the ground. It determines who wins. There is a protest vote coming over issues of people’s welfare and these factional differences from before. That is obvious,” Mliswa said.
“When people are tired of a certain narrative, they protest. Zanu-PF has been driving social media but on the ground, it has no traction. They failed to restructure the party, betraying problems on the ground.”
Mliswa is former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson. He contested as an independent MP for Norton after being kicked out of Zanu-PF in 2015.
After the November coup, most G40 members supported Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance, hoping that the youthful opposition leader would unseat Mnangagwa in the 2018 polls, which the latter claims were rigged. – The Independent
ZVISHAVANE -A Zvishavane man has appeared in court for stealing 20 bags of cement at an under construction Zaoga church building in Maglas.
Shephard Banda (30) of house number 3619 in Mandava was remanded in custody to a later date for judgment by Zvishavane Magistrate Evia Matura on Tuesday.
The State led by Privilege Chikiwa said that Banda stole the cement from a shade at the church between Saturday evening and Monday morning when the premises were left unguarded. The shade had 221 bags of cement. Two builders Thandi Pass and Blessed Dzimba who are working on the church building discovered the theft on Monday morning.
The two informed a church elder Misheck Nyakura who filed a Police report.
Nyakura received a tip-off that Banda was selling cheap cement in Eastval and informed investigating Police officers.
The Police officers interviewed Banda who confessed to theft and led them to a bushy area where they recovered five bags of cement.- The Mirror
A Correspondent- A Zanu PF family member has said that MDC-Alliance President Nelson Chamisa’s clean private love record inspires the nation.
Edmund Chiyangwa, son to Zanu PF 2023 elections fundraising committee chairperson Philip Chiyangwa, said although he will not vote for Chamisa, the youth politician was an honest man.
He writes on twitter at the weekend saying: Ini hangu 2023 my vote is with E.D., uyo Nelson doesn’t seem to have that charisma to lure my vote. The guy is too clean. Haana kana small house. Murume akaita sei asina kana girlfriend. Zimbabwe ndeye ginya haitongwe ne varume vano terera vasina musikanzwa!
By A Correspondent- A Zhombe man was attacked by six armed robbers at his homestead yesterday night while he was searching for his puppies.
Shepherd Maning (41) was outside at night when he was grabbed by the waist and neck by two unknown men while the other four surrounded him armed with spears and machetes.
Sources familiar with the incident told a local publication that the six robbers tied up Maning and his wife, demanding cash and a gun and threatening them with death.
He surrendered his phones and US$200 and they took US$2 800 and a gun from his car which was parked at his homestead and drove away leaving the victims tied up and locked inside their house.
The duo managed to free themselves and report the matter at Empress police station,.
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By A Correspondent- Opposition MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa has dismissed as false reports that some of its members defected to Zanu PF.
Those who defected to Zanu PF recently included the former Harare deputy Mayor, Emmanuel Chiroto and former Marondera Mayor, Farai Nyandoro.
The two served under the late MDC-T leaders Morgan Tsvangirai.
MDC Alliance, in a statement, said the individuals in question had ceased to belong to the party; therefore, their move to join Zanu PF cannot be described as a defection.
Below is the party’s statement on the matter.
There have been no defections from the MDC A. The truth of the matter is this: In 2012, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) cracked a whip on all members accused of corruption and those found guilty were subsequently expelled from the party.
The members who were fired from the party include Emanuel Chiroto Ward 42 Hatcliffe, Julius Musevenzi Ward 15 Warren Park, Peter Mudavanhu Ward 9 Glendale, Pumulani Musogwiza Ward 22 Hatfield among other members.
Following the party’s gesture to deal with corrupt activities, the duo of Chiroto and Musevenzi decided to join former Zimbabwe Vice President Joice Mujuru’s party, National Peoples Party (NPP) before it changed name to Zimbabwe People First (ZPF).
The two represented their new party in the previous election as NPF parliamentary candidates, but unfortunately, they lost dismally.
Probably unhappy with the people’s decision, Chiroto went on to join another party, this time it was Dr Noah Manyika’s Build Zimbabwe Alliance.
As if that was not enough, Musevenzi and Chiroto did not dump their nomadic behaviour after they joined the MDC T following the controversial Supreme Court ruling in March 2020.
Chiroto was an executive member of the MDC-T Harare Province before he joined his new party ZANU-PF.
On the other hand, former Marondera Mayor Farai Nyandoro was never a member of MDC since 2014 until the time of his defection.
Nyandoro left the MDC in 2014 to join PDP and after his then party split, he left with the faction led by Lucia Matibenga.
Just like his two other colleagues mentioned above, Nyandoro also joined the MDCT after the Supreme Court judgement and subsequently became the MDC-T Mashonaland East Provincial Secretary.
Sifra Chidhakwa, former Zengeza MP, lost the 2018 primary elections to Job Sikhala, unhappy with the electoral outcome, opted to participate in the 2018 elections as an independent candidate.
Chidhakwa’s gesture was in violation of the MDC constitution.
According to the constitution, Chidakwa automatically ceased to be a member of the MDC. He then resurfaced at the MDCT congress in December 2020 following the politically motivated Supreme Court judgement.
He became a member of MDCT since that time until his recent move to ZANU PF. Surprisingly, some of the so-called defection members were never part of the MDC even before 2014. It’s very interesting how the regime has become so desperate to the extend of imposing members on our party. The regime is good at employing command tactics but unfortunately, we as the MDC Alliance don’t need their command members.
ZVISHAVANE -A Zvishavane man has appeared in court for stealing 20 bags of cement at an under construction Zaoga church building in Maglas.
Shephard Banda (30) of house number 3619 in Mandava was remanded in custody to a later date for judgment by Zvishavane Magistrate Evia Matura on Tuesday.
The State led by Privilege Chikiwa said that Banda stole the cement from a shade at the church between Saturday evening and Monday morning when the premises were left unguarded. The shade had 221 bags of cement. Two builders Thandi Pass and Blessed Dzimba who are working on the church building discovered the theft on Monday morning.
The two informed a church elder Misheck Nyakura who filed a Police report.
Nyakura received a tip-off that Banda was selling cheap cement in Eastval and informed investigating Police officers.
The Police officers interviewed Banda who confessed to theft and led them to a bushy area where they recovered five bags of cement.- The Mirror
Love might have dried up in the heart of the former Gunman, but so cruel is the treatment he is giving to the mother of his children.
The former beauty queen is now a pale shadow of her glamourous self. Whilst Marry Chiwenga has for over a decade or so been one of the key players in looting state resources through her husband who was for the greater part of that period the boss of Zimbabwe defense forces,letting her die is a violation of her rights. Everybody deserves treatment. So as Mary, she still has her right to treatment.
Mr Chiwenga, the rewarded Vice President who doubles as the Minister of Health flew across the globe on several occasions ever since the military coup of 2017 seeking treatment on tax payers expense.
The irony of it now, he is denying his former soulmate access to her travelling documents to go and seek treatment.
We all know there is no quality health services in our country. The country is in a mess under the ruling party, zanupf.
The pictures of Mrs Marry circulating on social media, on her way to and from reporting to the police as part of her bail conditions and showing her legs thicker than her waist, hands bandaged etc are heart breaking. The treatment of women in the so called second Republic is a serous cause of concern.
Whilst Marry is struggling with her health condition, she is not the only one nor the 1st one.
We once saw Honorable Joana Ruvimbo Mamombe at some point dragged from a hospital bed to Chikurubi maximum security prison.
We can’t let this continue under our watch. This inhuman treatment by the state to us women is a clear sign of their ruthless behavior.
We demand justice for women in Zimbabwe. Women are human beings too.
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reshuffled his aides for failing to detect a fault that caused his presidential helicopter to crash two weeks ago.
Mnangagwa’s chopper reportedly crash-landed about 60 kilometres southwest of Harare due to technical failure.
The chopper, which was flying from Mnangagwa’s Precabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe, landed at a farm owned by a ministry of Finance official.
The NewsHawks reported that after the incident, Mnangagwa quickly moved to beef up his motorcade by bringing in Air Force of Zimbabwe signallers to reinforce his communication system whenever he flies out.
In an air force, a signaller is a person trained to communicate between aircraft, its base, and units in the area of operation through radio or other digital communications.
The forced landing of Mnangagwa’s chopper at a farm near Sandringham two weeks ago reportedly resulted in a mix up between Mnangagwa’s aides and air traffic controllers at Manyame Airbase.
This necessitated the changes in the president’s security system and motorcade.
According to The NewsHawks, preliminary investigations showed that the chopper’s cockpit avionics indicated that the battery was not charging mid-air, prompting the pilot to opt for an emergency landing. A source said:
In order to avoid what happened during the incident such as delays in deploying a rescue chopper for the President, changes had to be effected particularly relating to communication.
Last Sunday a motorcade left the President’s farm around 15:30pm, with technicians from Manyame.
An air force car is now part of the motorcade, positioned right at its tail end offer communication from the hindmost whenever needed.
He flew the chopper, which eventually rescued him when he recently visited the farm.
Sources told The NewsHawks that the crash landing incident happened around 4 pm in the Sandringham area, Matsvaire village, in Chegutu district, about 65 kilometres south-west of the capital when Mnangagwa was coming from his Kwekwe farm.
Upon the incident, Mnangagwa’s security details, including an aide-de-camp, marksman from the Presidential Guard, a medic and intelligence officers, scrambled to cordon off the scene, as the team also worked out an emergency rescue plan to complete their 45-minute journey.
Investigations into the crash landing, sources said, will involve the Air Force, intelligence services, Presidential Guard and aviation experts.
By A Correspondent- Police have warned transport operators against taking advantage of Government’s reprieve for intercity travel for learners to transport other passengers on other business.
Government has opened intercity travelling for teachers and learners following the opening of schools.
In a statement, Superintendent Resistant Ncube, The Outpost Editor (Press, Public and International Relations Police General Headquarters, said the police will be in full force monitoring transport operators who would want to take advantage of the pronouncement to ferry other passengers during this school opening period.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police reiterates that under the current Level 4 Covid-19 lockdown regulations intercity movements are still prohibited. Only commercial cargo and essential services are allowed. Therefore, intercity travelling by bus operators remains banned unless such operators are doing so to transport school children as stated by the Government of Zimbabwe.
“Police at all check points will ensure safe and ease passage of buses carrying learners back to school without any delay. Bus operators who take advantage of the Government’s reprieve only to abuse it by transporting ordinary passengers and not school children will risk being arrested and their buses impounded. The Zimbabwe Republic Police will be in full force monitoring transport operators who would want to take advantage of the pronouncement to carry and cash on other passengers during this school opening period,” he said.
Supt Ncube urged members of the public to observe Covid-19 healthy and safety protocols. He said also urged people to avoid unnecessary movements to curb the pandemic and ensure the safe travelling of learners back to school.
By A Correspondent- Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been released from prison on medical parole, the department of correctional services confirmed on Sunday.
The department said in a statement: “Medical parole placement for Mr Zuma means that he will complete the remainder of the sentence in the system of community corrections, whereby he must comply with a specific set of conditions and will be subjected to supervision until his sentence expires.”
Zuma has been incarcerated since July after he was found guilty of contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of the Constitutional Court to honour a summons to appear before the state capture commission.
He was sentenced to 15 months behind bars.
He has spent weeks of incarceration in the medical wing of the Estcourt Correctional Services before he was moved to an external hospital for further treatment.
By A Correspondent- The Human Rights NGO Forum has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking to stop the police from arresting and fining hitch-hikers the $2 000.
Last week, police cracked on Mshika-Shika and impounded about 20 vehicles while nearly 200 passengers were fined $2 000 each.
The government last year banned private-owned buses, taxis, and commuter omnibuses (kombis) as a measure to curb the spread and transmission of the coronavirus.
Defiant kombi, bus and taxi operators, however, continued operating while evading authorities.
In some instances, the police would chase them resulting in accidents that have claimed many lives.
Last week’s crack on Mshika-Shika left commuters stranded at Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) terminuses as the parastatal was overwhelmed.
Commuters spent hours in stretched queues sparking outrage.
By A Correspondent- Nine pupils at Kriste Mambo High School have tested positive to Covid-19, prompting the Health ministry to order non-examination classes students at the school to get tested on admission Sunday.
In a letter addressed to parents and guardians by the school head Monica Maparura, all those coming to the school on Sunday are now required to produce Covid -19 results of a Rapid Antigen Test before being allowed into the school.
Government ordered schools to re-open for exam classes on 30 September, 2021 while the non-exam classes were scheduled to re-open this week.
However, just a week into the new school calendar, schools are already recording new Covid-19 cases.
“We would like to inform you that after receiving exam classes, we had some learners who exhibited some Covid-19 symptoms on day five of opening. We procedurally informed the ministry of Health. 18 learners included those who exhibited some symptoms and their contacts were tested. Nine of them tested positive,” the school head wrote.
“The Health ministry assessment revealed that the cases were imported and not local. In view of this, the Health ministry has recommended that all students who are coming to school tomorrow (Sunday, 5 September, 2021) should produce Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test so as to assist the school in implementing relevant measures,” she said.
Government is yet to comment on the new development although the health ministry has recorded fewer new cases of the scourge as well as low deaths statistics compared to previous weeks.
Schools closed early June this year due a surge in both deaths and new cases countrywide as the deadly Delta variant ravaged the nation.
So far over 4 457 people have died of Covid 19 since it broke out in March 2020.
Last Friday, 213 new cases were recorded with eight deaths, Health ministry statistics revealed.
By A Correspondent- Cheeky thieves broke into Finance and Economic Development Minister, Mthuli Ncube’s luxury Toyota Land Cruiser V8 on Tuesday and stole two Iphones belonging to the Minister.
According to a Police memo seen by The Mirror, the unknown suspects committed the crime after the Minister’s driver and aide Life Jejeje (43) and Emmanuel Samanga (43) respectively parked at Culture Resort Centre in Hillside, Harare to buy some food.
Jejeje locked the car and the two went away for 15 minutes. They returned to find the rear passenger door glass broken. They discovered that a black bag belonging to the Minister and containing two I-phones, US$1 000, international credit cards and various documents had been stolen.
CCTV footage showed that the suspects used a white Toyota Mark X whose number plates could be hardly seen. A dark and slim man disembarked from the car and broke into the Land Cruiser. Although his face could not clearly show his fingerprints were picked by the Police.
By Prince Njagu- The Emmerson Mnangagwa led ZANU PF government has once again proven beyond no doubt that they are clueless and a bunch of mediocre buffoons.
They impose policies which are half baked and result in the masses suffering. Implosion of the ZUPCO (Zimbabwe United Passenger Company) monopoly is the latest failed project and the haphazardness in the acquisition of the buses from a shady company linked to Emmerson and shady Kudakwashe Tagwirei has corruption written all over it.
MDC Alliance leader Advocate Nelson Chamisa castigated the ill-planned government move to create a ZUPCO monopoly when the company does not have capacity.
Chamisa said, “Command transport has failed, it must fall and end! Zim deserves quality. We will provide efficient world-class urban transport, trams, trains and modern buses.”
Zimbabweans are already suffering from this corrupt and oppressive ZANU PF regime and they go on to ban private companies from transporting citizens. The circus; ill-planned ZUPCO monopoly has failed from the onset, but some top corrupt government officials are benefiting from the acquisition of the buses so they will not abandon the project for now.
Activist Sandra Bvungidzire said, “The ZANU PF administration is rot from the head, corruption is in their veins and they have no shame in what they do.”
ZUPCO does not have the capacity to transport the citizens, people are being left stranded for hours whilst they queue, waiting for the next bus to come and ferry them to their desired destinations.
The acquisition of the ZUPCO buses was shady and they were sold to the government at an inflated price. Everything is so suspicious, from how these buses are being acquired to how the tender was even awarded. Everything about this project is fishy.
Corruption is the norm with ZANU PF and they have no shame in their shady dealings.
ZANU PF top dogs do not care about who they will hurt in the process; they do not care about who will suffer in the end, all they think about is making their bellies and pockets fatter.
Emmerson Mnangagwa is involved in the shady ZUPCO deal, and the company Landela Investments has corruption written all over it. This company is the one that is selling the buses to the government. This same company is linked to the corrupt fuel tycoon Tagwirei. It has been heavily linked to many corrupt activities involving many top ZANU PF government officials.
Landela purchased the buses from China for US$58 900 and sold each bus to the government for US$212 962. More than double the cost price of each bus from China.
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has passed the blame to the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ) and said they were responsible the the purchase of the buses.
ZUPCO has failed dismally to provide Zimbabweans with the much needed service and the populace are paying the price, long waiting queues, having to wake up so early in the morning to catch transport and having to wait late into the night when they need to be ferried back home.
The Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has implored the government to break the stupid ZUPCO monopoly by licensing more private players to provide this basic need.
Public transport provision is a basic service which the populace should not struggle to access. If ZANU PF has people at hearts, it should not be letting them suffer like this.
“The only reason the ZANU PF government is turning a blind eye to this crisis is because the top dogs are benefiting from the shady acquisition of these buses,” said Bvungidzire.
ZUPCO will continue acquiring these buses at exorbitant prices as the corrupt ZANU PF fill their pockets until a time when they will decide to make a u-turn on this stupid monopoly and then admit that the project has been a failure.
ZUPCO has failed to provide transport timeously, which has been leaving thousands of commuters stranded, waiting in winding queues across the various terminuses in Harare.
Private transporters had been filling the gap of ferrying people in the country, but the government ordered the police to impound all of these private vehicles. This was all done in a bid to make the ZANU PF project a success and to push for ZUPCO monopoly.
Tafadzwa Goliati PAZ national coordinator urged government to reconsider licensing more private transport providers so as to alleviate the transport crisis.
ZUPCO monopoly only means more government spending in acquiring buses, and more looting from the corrupt government officials.
Hopewell Chin’ono wrote on his Twitter account addressing Mnangagwa.
“Dear Mr Mnangagwa, this is Copacabana now, you promised us good public transport system. You removed Kombis, replaced them with ZUPCO, you made it to buy buses from your favourite businessman, Kuda Tagwirei. You have criminalised anyone except ZUPCO,” said Hopewell.
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed an inter-ministerial task force to find solutions to drug abuse, an issue that is affecting many youths in the country.
Many drug abusers blame the economic and humanitarian crisis in the country.
Speaking at the official opening of the new Judicial Services Commission (JSC) Chinhoyi Courts building Friday, Mnangagwa said:
Drug abuse, especially among youths, has become a scourge in the country which has potential to damage society. I would like to see the JSC deal decisively with this scourge, and my government has appointed an inter-ministerial task force to find solutions to this problem.
He added that other state institutions such as police and other government departments should join forces in ending the societal problem.
JSC plans to establish a High Court seat following the completion of the state-of-the-art composite building that has taken the government 20 years to finish.
The establishment of a seat of the superior court at Chinhoyi would bring the number of High Court seats outside Harare to four.
Others are at Bulawayo, Mutare, and Masvingo.
The new complex in Chinhoyi has eight courtrooms, holding cells, over 40 offices, a library, a canteen, and a kitchen.
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the government prioritised citizens’ easy access to justice which is one of the pillars of the National Development Strategy (NDS 1), an economic blueprint that runs until 2025.
The new project, which was part of the government’s 100-day cycle, was wholly funded by the government and is expected to ease judicial officers and other ancillary staff’s accommodation woes.
Construction contracted to a Chinese firm, Haulong, with help from the Public Works Ministry, began in 2001 and had been stalled due to lack of funding.
Works re-started early 2018 at the inception of Mnangagwa’s administration.
By Leonard Koni- This new dispensation must live by its promises and allow the people in the diaspora to exercise their democratic right by voting a government of their choice.
The ruling party has failed to change the lives of the ordinary Zimbabweans since the stunning fall from power of the country’s most strong man former leader Robert Mugabe.
People thought the arrival of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was going to usher in a better and sound government but nothing has changed. The drum beat continues to be the same.
Most Zimbabweans in the diaspora are sick and tired of living outside the country and are yearning for change. A number of them are living under squalid conditions. Life in the diaspora is not all that smoothy and rosy.
People want to come back home and contribute in developing their nation but are being hindered by the ever rising cost of living, unstable economic environment, erratic power supply. The financial muscle within the diaspora can make a difference in the Zimbabwean political discourse only if they are allowed to have a say in the day to day of running the government.
The diaspora is very hungry for change and want the country to do better. Criticising the leadership does not amount to self hate. Zimbabweans in the diaspora have proved to be a force to reckon with. They want to be part and parcel of this historical change.
Zimbabwe needs a robust contigent plan to roll out its major economic projects with the help of its citizens scattered all over the globe.
The government must create a conducive environment for such things to happen. Unfortunately most diasporians are labeled traitors and puppets of the West. The government must allow the voice of the diaspora to be heard and not not denying them the chance to vote.
Some people are home sick and are always living in fear of xenophobic attacks, police who continue harrassing foreign nationals because they are living illegally.
People in the diaspora have acquired so many skills and gained so much knowledge that can be used back home in developing the nation.
South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana just to mention a few allow their citizens in the diaspora to vote and why does Zimbabwe fail to offer the same service?
The failure of Mnangagwa’s regime to bring back a once vibrant economy has left everybody asking why he engineered a coup to oust his former master.
The new dispensation has focused more on looting the public funds and celebrating on mediocrity like resurfacing of roads and comisssioning of village bridges.
This government has failed to deliver on its promises. The Zanu PF government is running us deep into the economic quagmire.
Former Warriors goalkeeper and legend Bruce Grobbelaar says he is willing to help ZIFA lure the foreign-born players dotted around the world, but he can do that if he gets the obligation.
The national association has been trying to convince several players with Zimbabwean roots to switch their allegiance and play for the Warriors. Only a few have so far agreed, while it’s taking longer to persuade others.
The targeted list includes Arsenal’s Reiss Nelson and youngster Tristan Nydam of Ipswich Town plus a couple of emerging talents such as Leicester City’ Tawanda Maswanhise, Swansea City’s Tivonge Rushesha, Micheal Ndiweni of Newcastle United and US-born Eddie Munjoma of FC Dallas in the American top-flight.
Speaking with Alois Bunjira on the Intouch With Legends show, Grobbelaar explained what he needs to help lure these stars.
He said: “If I have anything to do with the Zimbabwean national team, then I will directly go there and ask them myself.
“But if I don’t have anything to do with Zimbabwe (national team), it’s not my place.
“You see, there is a fine line. I have always said that I have got one more dance with the Warriors because this group of players is the most talented since the Dream Team.
“And if you can get this team together and nurture them and even the ones on the fringe like the Nelsons, and if I’m involved in the Zimbabwe National side, I will make sure that I go to them and get their approval to come.
“Because they (the players) are going to get a fantastic way to international football if I can help it.”
Grobbelaar added that ZIFA would also need to put its house in order first to set up a winning national team.
“If the administration is at the low key, you are not going to get anywhere in football,” the 63-year old said.
“Your administration must be at the highest level with the right people of integrity, the people that do not take the money for themselves.
“They know where the money has come from, they get a salary. Leave the money that comes from FIFA for the players, the team and their travel.”- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has described the ZUPCO monopoly as illegal, evil and heartless.
Hundreds of urban commuters have been arrested and fined for boarding private taxis as the regime seeks to fortify command transport.
According to President Chamisa, the ZUPCO monopoly is disastrous…
The monopoly has left many people jobless .
See President Chamisa’s statement below… We said this in May 2021. It has only gotten worse.The illegal ZUPCO monopoly is heartless and evil.
Command transport has failed,must fall &end!Zim deserves quality.We will provide efficient world class urban transport,trams,trains and modern buses.#spaghettiroads #bullettrains
COMMAND TRANSPORT MUST END! The illegal ZUPCO monopoly has; -left many jobless. -Brought suffering leaving many stranded or in overcrowded rickety buses & resorting to insecure open trucks. -ZUPCO is potentially a COVID-19 super spreader but ‘Chefs’ don’t care. #BringbackKombis
IMAGINE A NEW GREAT ZIMBABWE -Bullet trains -Spaghetti roads -Gweru administrative capital of government -Renaming Provinces -New cities and towns -Development Urbanization of Rural Areas DURA -Police services not police force -No roadblocks only digital policing The NEW!
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said the Zanu PF regime is ideologically bankrupt and cannot transform the lives of suffering citizens.
Writing on Twitter, Hon Biti accused the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa of advancing a ” dangerously unpatriotic agenda” through rewarding Russians and the Chinese with secret mining deals.
“Mr Mnangwagwa must therefore know that within the womb of present day Zimbabwe, a new Zimbabwe is ready to emerge . One born from 41 years of exclusion & extraction , pain & suffering. One that the wananchi will treasure & cherish . A new Zimbabwe…
The Mnangwagwa regime on the other hand remains vacuous and moribund. It’s defining anchors are extraction, looting & serving the power retention agenda.A dangerously unpatriotic agenda consisting of selling off mining rights to Chinese ,Russsians and other cartels asset stripping…
Part of the challenge of the Mnangwagwa regime is its ideological bankruptcy and inability to articulate any value,issue or cause it stands for . Despite his weaknesses Mugabe’s mythology was nationalism eventually immortalized by the land reform program &the indigenization agenda,” argued Hon Biti.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said the Zanu PF regime is ideologically bankrupt and cannot transform the lives of suffering citizens.
Writing on Twitter, Hon Biti accused the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa of advancing a ” dangerously unpatriotic agenda” through rewarding Russians and the Chinese with secret mining deals.
“Mr Mnangwagwa must therefore know that within the womb of present day Zimbabwe, a new Zimbabwe is ready to emerge . One born from 41 years of exclusion & extraction , pain & suffering. One that the wananchi will treasure & cherish . A new Zimbabwe…
The Mnangwagwa regime on the other hand remains vacuous and moribund. It’s defining anchors are extraction, looting & serving the power retention agenda.A dangerously unpatriotic agenda consisting of selling off mining rights to Chinese ,Russsians and other cartels asset stripping…
Part of the challenge of the Mnangwagwa regime is its ideological bankruptcy and inability to articulate any value,issue or cause it stands for . Despite his weaknesses Mugabe’s mythology was nationalism eventually immortalized by the land reform program &the indigenization agenda,” argued Hon Biti.
Love might have dried up in the heart of the former Gunman, but so cruel is the treatment he is giving to the mother of his children.
The former beauty queen is now a pale shadow of her glamourous self. Whilst Marry Chiwenga has for over a decade or so been one of the key players in looting state resources through her husband who was for the greater part of that period the boss of Zimbabwe defense forces,letting her die is a violation of her rights. Everybody deserves treatment. So as Mary, she still has her right to treatment.
Mr Chiwenga, the rewarded Vice President who doubles as the Minister of Health flew across the globe on several occasions ever since the military coup of 2017 seeking treatment on tax payers expense.
The irony of it now, he is denying his former soulmate access to her travelling documents to go and seek treatment.
We all know there is no quality health services in our country. The country is in a mess under the ruling party, zanupf.
The pictures of Mrs Marry circulating on social media, on her way to and from reporting to the police as part of her bail conditions and showing her legs thicker than her waist, hands bandaged etc are heart breaking. The treatment of women in the so called second Republic is a serous cause of concern.
Whilst Marry is struggling with her health condition, she is not the only one nor the 1st one.
We once saw Honorable Joana Ruvimbo Mamombe at some point dragged from a hospital bed to Chikurubi maximum security prison.
We can’t let this continue under our watch. This inhuman treatment by the state to us women is a clear sign of their ruthless behavior.
We demand justice for women in Zimbabwe. Women are human beings too.
A Correspondent- A Zanu PF family member has said that MDC-Alliance President Nelson Chamisa’s clean private love record inspires the nation.
Edmund Chiyangwa, son to Zanu PF 2023 elections fundraising committee chairperson Philip Chiyangwa, said although he will not vote for Chamisa, the youth politician was an honest man.
He writes on twitter at the weekend saying: Ini hangu 2023 my vote is with E.D., uyo Nelson doesn’t seem to have that charisma to lure my vote. The guy is too clean. Haana kana small house. Murume akaita sei asina kana girlfriend. Zimbabwe ndeye ginya haitongwe ne varume vano terera vasina musikanzwa!
According to the country’s constitution, a speaker is nominated from outside the National Assembly by either the president or political parties with representation in parliament but must be subjected through an election if there are more than one nomination
Lawmakers in Zambia on Friday chose prominent lawyer Nelly Mutti (pictured) as the country’s first woman Speaker of the National Assembly.
Cecilia Mbewe, clerk of the National Assembly, declared Mutti as the Speaker after the nomination went through unopposed.
Mutti was duly elected during the first session of the 13th National Assembly following the general elections held on August 12.
According to the country’s constitution, a speaker is nominated from outside the National Assembly by either the president or political parties with representation in parliament but must be subjected through an election if there are more than one nomination.
Speaking after she was ushered into the chamber, Mutti said it was a tremendous challenge and honor to be entrusted with the responsibility to guard the rights and privileges of lawmakers.
Mutti once served as president of the Law Association of Zambia, an association representing lawyers, chairperson of the country’s anti-corruption commission, as well as a commissioner in a Constitutional Review Commission appointed by late President Levy Mwanawasa.
The parliament has also elected Attracta Chisangano as first deputy speaker and Frank Moyo as second deputy speaker.
By A Correspondent- A Zhombe man was attacked by six armed robbers at his homestead yesterday night while he was searching for his puppies.
Shepherd Maning (41) was outside at night when he was grabbed by the waist and neck by two unknown men while the other four surrounded him armed with spears and machetes.
Sources familiar with the incident told a local publication that the six robbers tied up Maning and his wife, demanding cash and a gun and threatening them with death.
He surrendered his phones and US$200 and they took US$2 800 and a gun from his car which was parked at his homestead and drove away leaving the victims tied up and locked inside their house.
The duo managed to free themselves and report the matter at Empress police station,.
By A Correspondent- A 32 year old Shamva woman committed suicide on Wednesday by drinking rat poison after she failed to accept a polygamous relationship.
Lisa Salimu 32 of Mandimu village killed herself after her husband Onious Tsuro(46) took another wife.
Acting Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Naison Dhliwayo confirmed the case.
“I can confirm a sudden death case in Shamva where a female adult committed suicide by drinking rat poison after her husband took another wife,” Dhliwayo said.
It is further alleged that Tsuro observed that his wife took poison after she started vomiting and he tried to take her to hospital but she died along the way.
Police warned people to respect the sanctity of life and seek counselling when they have differences.
By A Correspondent- The late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai should be turning in his grave following the defection of his former top allies’ Zanu PF.
Former Harare deputy Mayor and Marondera Mayor Emmanuel Chiroto and Farai Nyandoro are the top Tsvangirai allies who defected to Zanu PF recently.
Other opposition officials joining the two include Chadamoyo Solomon Machingura, Peter Chandafira, Carlos Mudzongo, Simon Chidhakwa and Charles Masimike.
Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the weekend paraded these former MDC members at the statehouse.
By A Correspondent- Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) spokesperson Crispen Nyoni has warned chiefs in Matabeleland and Midlands not to allow Gukurahundi perpetrators to use them to escape justice by concealing evidence around the killings
MLF made the remarks following the meeting which President Emmerson Mnangagwa held with Chiefs from Matabeleland at the Bulawayo State House recently.
The government announced that victims and survivors of the mass killings will be compensated.
Over 20 000 people were killed at the time after the government of late President Robert Mugabe unleashed the fifth brigade soldiers to deal with the suspected dissidents.
The soldiers ended up running amok killing innocent civilians in horrific incidents which those who witness still shed tears when they relate about them.
Nyoni in a statetemnt said Mnangagwa came to ask chiefs to assist him break the law again.
“Now, this statement fits well in the case of the Matabeleland Chiefs who meet Mnangagwa recently in his bid to permanently bury the Gukurahundi genocide Case against him and his fellow participants in the brazen butchering of the Matabeleland people,” Nyoni said.
He said the Chiefs are active participants in trying to assist a criminal in his plans to clean and exonerate himself from wrong doing.
“That is very wrong. The right thinking persons will not accept such an attempt. It is evil. The question is, “What is the price of a human being who has been killed for non other reason than, being against Zanu PF and for believing in a Ndebele? Chiefs must be stopped from doing what they agreed to do. Not In Our Land!!!” he said.
M LF became popular when its members burnt the Zimbabwean flag in South Africa in 2011 while protesting for the restoration of Mthwakazi state.
A Zimbabwe university has raised eyebrows after it published a dress code which critics claim unfairly targets women. The Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) warned that lecturers have the power to bar students who violate the dress code from attending lectures.
In a notice to all students, the office of the registrar at ZEGU wrote,
OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR
2021 STUDENTS HANDBOOK & DRESS CODE NOTICE
Please be advised that the new 2021 Students Handbook was uploaded on student portals. Students are encouraged to take time to familiarize with the rules and code of conduct in the 2021 Student Handbook.
UNIVERSITY DRESS CODE
We want to remind all students that:
a. ZEGU encourages students to develop a lasting philosophy of good dressing and grooming.
b. Therefore, take care of the following principle: “Tight clothing (e.g., skin tights, leg-ins) cut offs/miniskirts (anything more than 5cm above the knees), shorts, slippers, tops that reveal breast cleavages, back-outs, crop-tops/stomach-outs, bandeau, see-troughs and other kinds of inappropriate clothing are not allowed on campus (especially classes and church services) and other university related off campus functions”.
c. Lecturers can bar students from attending lectures if they are not dressed appropriately. d. Select and wear clothing which gives dignity and an expression of our God given ability to appreciate beauty, creativity, harmony, and good taste.
ZEGU was established in 2012 in Bindura, Zimbabwe. It is the first Pentecostal University in Zimbabwe.
The university’s controversial dress code has been met with mixed reactions on social media platforms. Some people applauded the university for taking the high ground on values and morality. Others, however, deplored the University’s stance saying that it is archaic and discriminatory of women.
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa is scouting for poverty- stricken opposition MDC officials and luring them into joining his looting party.
Former Harare deputy Mayor and Marondera Mayor Emmanuel Chiroto and Farai Nyandoro are some of the poverty-stricken former MDC-T senior officials who have been lured and joined Zanu PF. .
Other opposition officials who joined Zanu PF recently include Chadamoyo Solomon Machingura, Peter Chandafira, Carlos Mudzongo, Simon Chidhakwa and Charles Masimike.
Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the weekend paraded these former MDC members at the statehouse.
By A Correspondent- MDC Alliance vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said the Zanu PF regime is ideologically bankrupt and cannot transform the lives of suffering citizens.
Writing on Twitter, Hon Biti accused the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa of advancing a ” dangerously unpatriotic agenda” through rewarding Russians and the Chinese with secret mining deals.
“Mr Mnangwagwa must therefore know that within the womb of present day Zimbabwe, a new Zimbabwe is ready to emerge . One born from 41 years of exclusion & extraction , pain & suffering. One that the wananchi will treasure & cherish . A new Zimbabwe…
The Mnangwagwa regime on the other hand remains vacuous and moribund. It’s defining anchors are extraction, looting & serving the power retention agenda.A dangerously unpatriotic agenda consisting of selling off mining rights to Chinese ,Russsians and other cartels asset stripping…
Part of the challenge of the Mnangwagwa regime is its ideological bankruptcy and inability to articulate any value,issue or cause it stands for . Despite his weaknesses Mugabe’s mythology was nationalism eventually immortalized by the land reform program &the indigenization agenda,” argued Hon Biti.
Love might have dried up in the heart of the former Gunman, but so cruel is the treatment he is giving to the mother of his children.
The former beauty queen is now a pale shadow of her glamourous self. Whilst Marry Chiwenga has for over a decade or so been one of the key players in looting state resources through her husband who was for the greater part of that period the boss of Zimbabwe defense forces,letting her die is a violation of her rights. Everybody deserves treatment. So as Mary, she still has her right to treatment.
Mr Chiwenga, the rewarded Vice President who doubles as the Minister of Health flew across the globe on several occasions ever since the military coup of 2017 seeking treatment on tax payers expense.
The irony of it now, he is denying his former soulmate access to her travelling documents to go and seek treatment.
We all know there is no quality health services in our country. The country is in a mess under the ruling party, zanupf.
The pictures of Mrs Marry circulating on social media, on her way to and from reporting to the police as part of her bail conditions and showing her legs thicker than her waist, hands bandaged etc are heart breaking. The treatment of women in the so called second Republic is a serous cause of concern.
Whilst Marry is struggling with her health condition, she is not the only one nor the 1st one.
We once saw Honorable Joana Ruvimbo Mamombe at some point dragged from a hospital bed to Chikurubi maximum security prison.
We can’t let this continue under our watch. This inhuman treatment by the state to us women is a clear sign of their ruthless behavior.
We demand justice for women in Zimbabwe. Women are human beings too.
By A Correspondent-A Zvishavane man has appeared in court for stealing 20 bags of cement at an under construction Zaoga church building in Maglas.
Shephard Banda (30) of house number 3619 in Mandava was remanded in custody to a later date for judgment by Zvishavane Magistrate Evia Matura on Tuesday.
The State led by Privilege Chikiwa said that Banda stole the cement from a shade at the church between Saturday evening and Monday morning when the premises were left unguarded. The shade had 221 bags of cement. Two builders Thandi Pass and Blessed Dzimba who are working on the church building discovered the theft on Monday morning.
The two informed a church elder Misheck Nyakura who filed a Police report.
Nyakura received a tip-off that Banda was selling cheap cement in Eastval and informed investigating Police officers.
The Police officers interviewed Banda who confessed to theft and led them to a bushy area where they recovered five bags of cement.- The Mirror
By Jane Mlambo| Raunchy dancer Beverly Sibanda has shared images where she is sitting like a daughter in law at a rural home.
The pictures posted without captions has got social media talking with some asking if she had moved on.
One Facebook user congratulated Bev on “her new marriage” and the popular dancer responded with a thank you suggesting she could have indeed found new love.
However there were some who speculated that Bev could be shooting a video of a song or a drama, but it remains to be seen what exactly is the queen of dancing up to.
Bev is married to a United Kingdom based doctor Mufudzi Chambuka with the two exchanging wedding vows at the Harare Magistrates courts a year or two ago.
Bev has recently gone live on Facebook claiming that his husband was cheating on her with several women in UK.
Bev in white t-shirt and a Zambia Bev posing for a picture with an unidentified man
The Zanu-PF faction under the moniker G40 says it is still alive and planning the takeover of the ruling party ahead of the 2023 polls.
Several members of the G40 cabal were hounded out of Zanu-PF and forced into exile following the November 2017 military coup that ousted the late former President Robert Mugabe.
Key G40 members who were against then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rise included Saviour Kasukuwere, Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao, among others.
“Facts only: the overwhelming majority of G40 in Zanu-PF’s leadership and membership ranks were neither expelled nor left the party after the 2017 army coup,” Moyo, a former Higher and Tertiary Education minister and Zanu-PF politburo member, said on Twitter yesterday.
“They are in it. It’s precisely for this reason that the most strategic fertile ground for change in Zimbabwe is the Zanu-PF base.”
Moyo claimed that Mnangagwa was imposed on the people by the army.
Mnangagwa was booted out of government and Zanu-PF in November 2017 before fleeing to neighbouring South Africa, only to return and take over power after the coup.
“People’s choice, you? Since when? The real issue is, are you still the army’s choice? Without the army, what they call G40 will finish you politically in broad daylight like it did before the 2017 military coup and in the 2018 election only for the army to rescue you,” Moyo said.
But Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday dismissed the former Higher Education minister as a daydreamer.
“It’s hogwash, he can continue dreaming,” he said.
Observers yesterday supported Moyo’s claim with some former G40 kingpins saying the real Zanu-PF remained within the lower ranks and other strategic positions while a few “unelectable” people allocated themselves top posts.
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa weighed in saying in its current form, the ruling Zanu-PF party was at its weakest.
“Ultimately, politics is about the ground. It determines who wins. There is a protest vote coming over issues of people’s welfare and these factional differences from before. That is obvious,” Mliswa said.
“When people are tired of a certain narrative, they protest. Zanu-PF has been driving social media but on the ground, it has no traction. They failed to restructure the party, betraying problems on the ground.”
Mliswa is former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson. He contested as an independent MP for Norton after being kicked out of Zanu-PF in 2015.
After the November coup, most G40 members supported Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance, hoping that the youthful opposition leader would unseat Mnangagwa in the 2018 polls, which the latter claims were rigged. – The Independent
The Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has implored the government to break the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO)’s monopoly by licensing more private players to provide public transport services.
This follows yesterday’s chaos caused by ZUPCO’s inability to provide transport timeously, leaving thousands of commuters waiting in winding queues dejectedly in various terminuses in Harare.
The transport challenges were exacerbated by a police clampdown on mushikashika vehicles that have been filling the gap left by ZUPCO.
PAZ national coordinator Tafadzwa Goliati urged Government to consider licensing more private players so that the situation improves. He said:
While efforts to increase the number of buses through the importation of new coaches are noted and commended, we humbly recommend that the Government also augment its existing ZUPCO fleet with other alternative mass public transport initiatives.
Meanwhile, ZUPCO chief executive officer Everisto Madangwa said ZUPCO is expecting 50 more buses next week.
ZUPCO currently owns a fleet of 262 buses and at least 550 more from franchisees.- The Sunday Mail
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF legislator for Muzarabani South Tapera Saizi has taken the ongoing Covid-19 vaccination to the apostolic sects in his constituency.
Honorable Saizi realized that the apostolic sects were reluctant to participate in vaccination programs due to their religious beliefs hence he decided to take heed from President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s call of Legislators taking the program to the people.
He engaged various health stakeholders and is still visiting the apostolic sects the mobile vaccination team and getting the apostolic sects vaccinated after full advice.
“Having noticed that the apostolic sects were reluctant to take the vaccination program we teamed up with various health organizations and encouraged them to be vaccinated, we are delighted to note that we trained vaccination champions and amongst the champions we have members from the apostolic sects,” Saizi said.
“In Chiweshe, Chigwida area we were invited by people from Johanne Marange sect on Friday to vaccinate them and we went with the team and vaccinated the sect from there we went to Chaona and did the same exercise.”
“I just want to thank the president for making sure that we get vaccinations and protective clothing in fighting the deadly disease.”
Chiweshe based apostolic leader Cephas Mazarura showed gratitude to the vaccination team and praised Saizi for donating buckets and hand sanitizers.
“We have taken heed of the deadly disease through honorable Saizi’s vaccination team, we are fully behind President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s call of vaccination program hence as vapositori we are partaking in the program,” he said.
“I just want to thank honorable Saizi for donating buckets and hand sanitizers to us.”
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday ordered the ruling party to immediately start campaigning for the crunch 2023 elections and declared that Zanu PF will never be removed from power.
Mnangagwa told a Zanu PF politburo meeting that the party was targeting to grab MDC Alliance strongholds in urban areas and pleaded with party supporters from the grassroots to bankroll the 2023 campaign.
“Zanu PF rule is here to stay. We are the only revolutionary party with an indisputable rich past and the progressive and inclusive vision for a brighter, more prosperous future,” Mnangagwa said.
“Over and above these constitutional programmes, all leagues of the party must begin to prepare in earnest, for the 2023 harmonised general elections.”
Mnangagwa went on to issue a stern warning to members of his party who sought to pursue secret agendas within the party, saying they would be exposed and dealt with severely.
“As we approach the 2023 harmonised elections, our electorate must keep alert and never be deceived by individual fantasies and unbridled political ambitions disguised as political wisdom. Proxies and conduits of neo-imperialism bent on sowing division and disunity among us must be exposed and defeated all the time,” he said.
The Zanu PF leader accused the opposition of failure to deliver on service in urban areas hence the need to vote them out.
“The opposition has dismally failed our people in urban areas. All party wings must therefore work extremely hard to ensure that we mobilise the urban vote for a resounding party victory,” Mnangagwa said.
“Our people in urban areas have been short-changed by the opposition parties for too, too long. Zanu PF will never leave our urban dwellers behind. They too deserve a better quality of life.”
Turning to sanctions, Mnangagwa said: “We remain unbroken in the face of illegal sanctions and are in fact emerging more united and stronger to deliver that which is outlined in the aims and objectives of the party.”
He said the party structures must find ways to mobilise financial resources while urging his supporters to make use of social media for mobilisation.
“I also challenge the party’s structures to find innovative ways to ensure financial and material resources are mobilised in support of the various activities of the wings of the party at every level,” Mnangagwa said.
“All wings of the party are encouraged to exploit social media as a contemporary tool for political mobilisation. This must see increased dialogue and debate aimed at popularising our party, its ideals and successes as well as the good policies and programmes of the government.
“The positive following and publicity of the party on the ICT platforms must ultimately translate into increased membership and party votes in the 2023 election polls. It is, therefore, incumbent upon the party wings to roll out broader election and voter education programmes across all provinces and districts. We must leave nothing to chance.”
Mnangagwa then paraded a group of alleged MDC Alliance politicians who reportedly defected to the ruling Zanu PF party.
But the MDC Alliance scoffed at Mnangagwa’s claims of defections of “key” opposition officials saying the people paraded at the Zanu PF headquarters were not from their party.
Mnangagwa paraded seven people to the politburo claiming they were from the Nelson Chamisa-led party. They included former Harare deputy mayor Emmanuel Chiroto, former Marondera mayor Farai Nyandoro, among others.
In presenting them, Mnangagwa said: “This morning we received seven former MDC Alliance members, mostly original founders of MDC. They told us that they realised home is home. You can go all over, but you will eventually come back home. We are receiving them wholeheartedly.”
But the MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende said Mnangagwa was panicking and desperate as the officials he paraded were not part of the MDC Alliance.
“ED is panicking and desperate. keep on pressing for the #RegisterToVote2023 campaign. Most of the names of the alleged senior members, I have seen for the first time,” Hwende said.
“They have even created a new post of secretary-general for veterans, a post that is not in our constitution. Zanu PF is all about deception and fraud,” Hwende said.
Chiroto who was among the “defectors” left the MDC in 2015 to join the Zimbabwe People First party led by former Vice-President Joice Mujuru.
He and Nyandoro then reportedly joined the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T before tendering their resignations in July this year to pursue “private business”.
Among the defectors is former MDC Zengeza West Member of Parliament Simon Chidhakwa, who was fired from the party after contesting as an independent candidate.
Chidhakwa said he has re-joined Zanu PF on his own volition and promised to work for the development of the country.
Former MDC Alliance national secretary-general for veterans association, Charles Musimuki, who was suspended from MDCA party in July, said the party’s continuous splits was a clear indication of lack of ideology in the opposition camp.
Mnangagwa said the new members must be integrated into the party and be embraced by all structures.
Those that were paraded by Mnangagwa at the Zanu PF headquarters include Chiroto, Nyandoro, Chadamoyo Solomon Machingura, Peter Chandafira, Carlos Mudzongo, Chidhakwa and Musimuki.
By A Correspondent- War veterans in Mashonaland West province have laid bare deep-rooted factionalism in Zanu-PF and blasted their national chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa for accusing other former freedom fighters of being MDC Alliance and G40 elements.
The war veterans accused Mutsvangwa of being reckless, irresponsible and for not standing with them during the recent arrest of nine of their colleagues. The nine were arrested for demanding more gratuities for war veterans.
In a strongly worded statement dated September 2, the Mashonaland West provincial executive members of the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle league, now an arm of Zanu-PF, said while they deplored statements by the war veterans pressure group denouncing the party leadership for ignoring their plight, they were disturbed by Mutsvangwa’s stance accusing them of being linked to the MDC Alliance and G40.
“As much as we deplore the position adopted by the War Veterans Pressure Group, we would be remiss to overlook the press statement issued by Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa regarding the objectives, detention and release of members of the group,” the statement said.
“The statement was deliberately ambiguous, derogatory of the veterans involved and many other veterans and was devoid of the qualities expected of a person in his position as the national chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association and a member of the politburo of the party.”
The war veterans said Mutsvangwa’s statement advanced divisions and tried to separate the War Veterans Pressure Group from other war veterans.
“Let it be known that in as far as the welfare of the veterans is concerned, the War Veterans Pressure Group spoke our minds, which task Cde Mutsvangwa has largely neglected to do,” said the grouping.
“Not only was his (Mutsvangwa) statement baseless, but it was also irresponsible.”
In exposing the rift in Zanu-PF, the war veterans said they “deplored the latent low-key political rivalries of individuals being played out on the veterans of the liberation struggle.”
“The veterans of Hurungwe with neither blink nor apology (sic) deplore in the strongest terms Cde Mutsvangwa’s press statement. The incident quoted above aptly illustrates the workings of the detractors of the party, who have for some time been working to subvert the party from within, which machinations we have become aware of,” said the war veterans.
“It is the intention of this communiqué to put persons with such inclinations, be they within or without the party, on notice that we are vigilant and not complacent in defence of the party and the revolution.”
Nine war veterans were arrested over a week ago after protests at the offices of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and were released at midnight without charge after the intervention of their lawyers.
The group’s chairperson Amos Sigauke told journalists last week that the government was not sincere in addressing their plight.
Mutsvangwa, who was said to be attending a Zanu-PF politburo meeting yesterday, was not picking calls and had not yet responded to messages sent to him by the time of going to print.
By A Correspondent- The minister of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube has s assured civil servants that they will this year get their bonuses in November, as usual.
In an interview with The Sunday Mail, Ncube said the 13th cheque will be paid on time. He said:
There is always a 13th cheque for civil servants, always, so they can expect one; we have not changed that. It will be paid on time.
Since January, Government has been progressively reviewing salaries, but workers still demand a restoration of their 2018 salaries when most of them got about USD500.
They currently get around USD200.
The government has also been adjusting pension payouts to cushion pensioners.
The government has also signalled that a meeting with public service representatives will be convened soon to discuss salaries and non-monetary incentives.
Before 2017, the government was delaying paying workers’ salaries as the country was generating insufficient revenue to meet its financial obligations. It was grouping sectors into groups with the security sector among the first groups to get paid.
In a recent interview, the Deputy Minister for Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Lovemore Matuke said the government was looking at ways to discuss salaries and non-monetary incentives. He said:
There are loans that have been available to civil servants so that they can start businesses; there was also a vehicle scheme to import vehicles duty-free, it has been rolling for about 10 years and is pending renewal. We are also looking at the issue of housing. We are working on providing civil servants with accommodation and this is gradually happening.
He said some of the options for improving the welfare of civil servants are expected to come from unions, as they know and understand what is best for them.
By A Correspondent- Three years ago musician Pauline Gundidza released the song titled Ndakakumirira, which according to her was inspired by tales of men who turn their backs on their families.
However, many believed the former Mafriq front-woman was singing in reference to her ex-husband Roki with whom theyhave two kids Sky and Minana.
Pauline had other relationships after leaving Roki, but reiterated that she was no longer focused on affairs, but perfecting her music career.
Since the “return” of Roki to the music limelight, Pauline had been seen within the Chidzoka singer’s rings, which makes her song Ndakakumirira foretelling.
Pauline was part of a group of musicians, who attended the launch of the Young Women for ED (economic development) programme on August 13 by first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa through Honourable Oppah Muchinguri.
The Young Women for ED project just like Roki’s song Patati Patata featuring Congolese rhumba star Koffie Olomide and Tanzanian sensation Rayvanny are part of a plethora of schemes spearheaded by Zanu-PF-aligned businesspeople to prop up support for Mnangagwa.
Pauline has also been instrumental in mobilising artistes to join the Coalition of Zimbabwean Artists (COZA), which she describes as an “affirmative action group for artists”.
However, the group is also linked to controversial cleric Passion Java.
Lately the Ndizvo Chete singer has been updating her followers through her Facebook developments on the production of her forthcoming project, Nyeredzi, which features Roki.
“Yea what a blast it was working with Roki after all these years. Undoubtedly he is still one of Zimbabwe’s best singer/songwriters to date and what a combination with Oskid on the ones and two’s,” posted Pauline on her Facebook page yesterday.
“Thank you for this mammoth opportunity Passion Java Records! Well done team, we bringing the magic back to Zimbabwean urban contemporary music.”
As of yesterday, the video was not available on online music platforms, save on Passion Java Facebook page, which had snippets of the visuals.
Efforts to contact Pauline were fruitless yesterday.
By A Correspondent- A self-proclaimed faith healer disturbed the early morning peace in Cowdray Park in Bulawayo yesterday when a snake reportedly under his “care”, casually slithered into a neighbour’s home, causing an uproar that led to demands for his immediate eviction from the neighbourhood.
Residents thronged youthful healer Mr Jabulani Nyoni’s home, demanding his exit from a community reportedly shaken by the presence of a snake that has been spotted “relaxing” on several occasions in his yard. The snake, was reportedly first spotted by an ex-tenant at the home where Mr Nyoni now resides, who was reportedly shocked at how its presence at the healer’s home was treated casually.
The former tenant had reportedly gone back to collect the rest of his belongings from the house which Mr Nyoni started residing in last month. Residents have been alarmed at the snake’s presence in their midst but yesterday, when it slithered into a neighbour’s home, their pent-up frustrations blew up as they demanded that the snake’s “master” be immediately evicted.
Mr Nyoni’s wife, Ms Tinashe Ndlovu confirmed they were keeping snakes in their house, claiming they were only used for healing processes. She said the snakes were usually kept in a sack inside the house.
“My husband is a faith healer and most times people come to him requesting snakes for different reasons, so he catches them on their behalf. Most times we keep these snakes in a sack and for this one to be seen by people it had come out and was going into our neighbour’s house, we, however, quickly recaptured it and put it in the sack.
What happens is that when he catches the snake, he keeps it for some time while performing the necessary rituals before handing it to those interested, the snakes are not always with us but he only catches them on request,” she said.
According to Ms Ndlovu, after the snake had left the vicinity, Mr Nyoni had instructed his younger sister on how to recapture it.
“When it went into the neighbour’s house, Nyoni was not around and that’s why he gave instructions to his younger sister on how to put it back in the sack. The snake is not even here anymore,” she said.
According to residents, Nyoni’s sister said she had to smear some portions of mysterious traditional medicine on herself before she handled the snake or it would bite her. Contacted for comment, Cowdray Park councillor, Kidwell Mujuru said they had since reported the matter to the police and were hoping that Zimparks will also intervene to help remove the snakes.
“I got a call from residents in the morning, informing me that there was someone who was keeping a snake in his house, I then went with police to the house because the residents were threatening to mete out instant justice on the man. When we interviewed him he confirmed that indeed he had a snake but claimed that it was mainly for his healing practice, he told us that the snake would not harm anyone as it was only for his personal use,” said Clr Mujuru.
The councillor also revealed that since Mr Nyoni was a tenant at the house they demanded that he finds alternative accommodation for their safety.
“Residents have made it clear that they cannot stay with Mr Nyoni and as the ward councillor I have communicated this resolution to him and it is now up to him but honestly residents are worried about their safety, it was okay when the snake was in their house but now that it is going into neighbours’ houses it is now dangerous,” said Clr Mujuru.
Residents who witnessed the drama said at one point Mr Nyoni had threatened them that whoever had guts should come into the house and see the snakes.
“He told us that the snake is his which he uses for his own rituals, when residents were now closing in on him threatening to beat him up he said if anyone had the guts they could come in and see the snake. To be honest we are now living in fear because these snakes can even come into our houses anytime, for now our plea is for the responsible authorities to come and get rid of these snakes,” said a neighbour who declined to be named.
This morning 2 of our youth were attacked while attending the memorial of Mai Chaponda in Ward 9 Cherutombo.
The memorial of Mai Chaponda a longlife MDC Alliance member was being held this weekend, when a lone ZANU Pf thug clad in regalia attacked of District deputy Treasurer with an axe of the head, this left a deep cut on the head needing emergency medical assistance, another member was attacked with a screw driver in the stomach. Such inhuman and violent behavior is totally uncalled for.
Our youth are peaceful but not stupid or incapable of retaliation; we simply do not believe in political violence; nevertheless we are very capable of being extremely violent. We call upon youth who are needlessly used by thier superiors to desist from violence. The ZANU Pf youth has since been arrested clad still in his ZANU Pf regalia; a matter we shall closely be following.
Lets learn to live with each others as brothers and sisters, our only fight should be of a better and prosperous Zimbabwe.
By A Correspondent- Police in Bulawayo have appealed to members of the public to identify the body of a woman who was found dumped inside a sewer manhole at an open space between Pumula East and Pumula South last Wednesday .
Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said the woman is believed to be in her 20s. She was wearing a navy-blue skirt, long sleeved bluish sweater and a pair of white All-Star shoes size four.
He said the body was in an advanced state of decomposition hence no injuries were noted due to its state.
It was ferried to United Bulawayo Hospitals mortuary for post-mortem and is awaiting identification.
“On the 2nd of September 2021 police received information from BCC plumber that there was a female adult body dumped inside a sewer system with no injuries. The scene was attended by Bulawayo police and fire brigade who retrieved the body.
It was in an advanced state of decomposition. We urge members of the public who are looking for the missing female around 20-30 years to go to United Bulawayo Hospital and identify the body,” said Insp Ncube.
By A Correspondent- Nelson Chamisa, leader of opposition MDC Alliance, has said change is unstoppable in response to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s “ZANU PF Rule Is Here To Stay” remarks.
Mnangagwa told the ZANU PF Politburo that the party was revolutionary, and had an inclusive vision for a brighter, more prosperous future.
He added that the opposition’s “failure” to provide required public goods and services in urban areas was also prolonging ZANU PF’s stay in power.
In response, Chamisa, a former Minister of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services (GNU era), said nothing is permanent. He wrote on Twitter this Sunday:
CHANGE IS UNSTOPPABLE. Nothing and nobody is permanent. Don’t ever mistakenly think that you own the country. Parties don’t own people. People are not objects. Nobody and no party ever ruled or rules forever except GOD. Zimbabwe needs leaders, not rulers. Blessed Sunday Zimbabwe.
The two leaders speak as Zimbabwe is gearing for the 2023 elections with Mnangagwa aiming to extend his rule to at least 2028.
He also previously indicated that he will be in office beyond 2030.
Nelson Chamisa and the opposition aim to dislodge ZANU PF from power for the first time following a series of deafeat in previous elections which were described as “rigged”, “manipulated,” “marred with violence,” and “not free and fair.”
MDC Alliance is still refusing to admit loss in the 2018 presidential election arguing that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) connived with the ruling party to manipulate results in Mnangagwa’s favour.
There are calls for political reforms to be implemented to create a level playing field.
I grew up in Harare formerly known Salisbury which is the capital city of Zimbabwe formerly known as Rhodesia in the surburbs of Hatfield then Avondale West. Life was lovely. I went to good schools and lived in lovely houses with my sweet parents and paternal grandparents for 5 years.
The schools I went to had rules against speaking Shona which is one of the Zimbabwe veneculars on school grounds. The only time we spoke venec (slang for venecular) was outside of school. Most of my age mates continued to speak English outside of school because speaking venec was looked down upon. We also were influenced by the American programmes we watched.
I wasn’t fluent at Shona and Ndebele but I liked speaking them because my parents encouraged it. My father was raised in England before Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980. My father’s family moved back to Zimbabwe after independence. So my father instilled a sense of pride in our Zimbabweaness. He wasn’t fluent at Shona and my mum who is Ndebele actually taught us.
Unfortunately being surrounded by friends who didn’t like to speak Shona my skills were not sharpened. I then moved to England after my father passed away. I completed my high school education and degree in England. My mother ensured that we spoke Shona at home even though it wasn’t fluent but she wanted to make sure we didn’t forget it. In England I met friends from other countries who had a strong sense of pride in their language and culture. I desperately longed for this also but had not had the opportunity.
In my quest to find my identity I suffered as an imposter of other cultures and languages. I tried to learn Patwa (Jamaican), Pigeon English (Ghanaian & Nigerian), I Lingala (Congo) and Hindi. All my efforts to adopt these cultures were fruitless because they were not mine.
Finally it hit me that I was searching for identity but not truly embracing mine. That is when I started learning about my culture as a half Ndebele and half Shona Zimbabwean who’s totem is Lion from Masvingo formerly known as Fort Victoria. I started reading books and asking questions. What I found out about my heritage as a Zimbabwean was exciting.
Zimbabwe is a country full of richness of culture, and history. One of the interesting aspects I learnt is Zimbabwe has 16 official languages (to date 2021) and at least 5 Shona dialects. This information inspired me to create the cartoon Ndawana and Friends. I wanted to share the delicious information I had learnt about our beautiful Zimbabwe.
The Ndawana and Friends project is broken down into the cartoon which can be found on YouTube
Let’s Learn Basic Kalanga, Shona and Ndebele books which can be found at our website www.ndawana.com and a Saturday Chitima-Isitimela show on our Facebook page
(were different guests get interviewed as we share of respective Zimbabwean experiences.
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By A Correspondent- ZANU PF politburo members today descend on Mazowe district in Mashonaland Central province to try and douse flames following last week’s skirmishes that fingered provincial chairman Kazembe Kazembe.
Chaos rocked the party’s Mazowe district last week after Kazembe reportedly sent his aides to try and change the venue of a district coordinating committee meeting to his private office without the knowledge of other officials, a development that irked party supporters and culminated into clashes.
Kazembe is reportedly at the centre of the fights in the province where he has been accused of dividing the party while pursuing “other agendas.”
In a letter dated August 31 addressed to the party politburo member Kenneth Musanhi, the Zanu PF DCC chairperson for Mazowe Tafadzwa Musarara said there was need for intervention following the skirmishes and fingered Kazembe for being behind the clashes.
Musanhi is the most senior Zanu PF politburo member in the province.
Mazowe DCC spokesperson Kushinga Dutiro confirmed the meeting but could not give details.
“There is a DCC meeting tomorrow,” he said curtly. Politburo members expected for today’s meeting include Musanhi, Fortune Chasi among others.
Musarara said while the district coordinating committee successfully mobilised and undertook their programmes in Mazowe Central, Mazowe North and Mazowe South constituencies, the latest development has affected the party programmes hence the need for intervention.
“Regrettably, we faced unprecedented defiance in Mazowe West constituency. The meeting was, according to the official notice of the meeting issued by the DCC secretary for administration, supposed to be held at Dandamera council hall,” Musarara’s letter read in part.
“The chairman of Dandamera district, Cde (Cladious) Mswaka (who also doubles as Cde Kazembe personal driver), had earlier agreed to prepare the council venue which is a property privately owned by Cde Kazembe.”
“This was done without the knowledge nor approval of the DCC chairman and DCC secretary for administration, Cde (Collence) Ndangana. Consequently, tampers rose and violence erupted among party members leaving me with no option but to cancel the meeting,” Musarara added.
“It is my strong conviction and submission that Cde Mswaka, acting in concert and common purpose with Cde (Johnson) Mudzingwa, Cde (Timothy) Gorejena, (Shadreck) Muwandi, Willie Jones, Mutomba et al, intentionally disrespected and defied the operations of Mazowe DCC without just cause. Their conduct has disrupted the Phase 2 of the restructuring in the entire Mazowe West constituency and indeed has put the name of the party into disrepute,” he said.
“I aver that I am under reasonable apprehension that all this fiasco occurred with tacit approval of Cde Kazembe.”
Following the letter by Musarara, the Zanu PF politburo members in the province are today expected in Mazowe to deal with the matter.
