By A Correspondent- Two Zimbabwean armed robbers and their South African accomplice were on Saturday re-arrested by police in the neighbouring country following a shootout after they had escaped while being taken to court.
Clifford Mutonhori and John Fine, both Zimbabweans and Figos Madisha, a South African were re-arrested near the city of Polokwane along the N1 highway.
The accused persons along with Denis Hove who is still at large ran away after overpowering and disarming a police officer along the R101 road south of Polokwane.
The incident occurred while the accused persons were being moved from Polokwane to Mokopane for sentencing on a charge of armed robbery, which they committed in 2019.
Limpopo police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said Madisha, Mutonhori, and Fine were re-arrested on Saturday after hijacking two commercial trucks.
“Two truck hijackings that took place along the N1 road on two consecutive days, one on Thursday night, 22 July 2021, next to the area where these convicted criminals escaped and the other on Friday 23 July 2021 at Nyl Plaza, led to the dramatic re-arrest of the escapees,” he said.
Brig Mojapelo said four suspects fitting the description of the ones who earlier escaped from the police van along the R101 road south of Polokwane allegedly hijacked a truck and later abandoned it at Ysyerberg on the N1 road.
“The same suspects allegedly hijacked another truck the next day at Nyl Plaza toll gate and drove it towards Modimolle, with the victims inside. The truck hit one of the barricades at Kranskop tollgate and the suspects jumped off and fled into the bushes,” he said.
Brig Mojapelo said a well-co-ordinated search operation involving members of the Limpopo Highway Patrol (LHP), SAPS Airwing, several SAPS Units, members from the neighbouring stations assisted by trackers from the Heritage Protection Group (HPG), Private Pilot and ordinary community members led to the apprehension of the fleeing suspects.
He said one of the escapees allegedly shot at the police when he was spotted, prompting the police to return fire.
The official said the man was found on top of a tree later during a search in the area.
“He was immediately arrested. The other two suspects were arrested in the vicinity. A search operation continued and a police firearm that was stolen during the escape was recovered in the bushes,” said Brig Mojapelo.
The four suspects were facing several cases of armed robberies and possession of illegal firearms that were allegedly committed along the N1 road under Belabela, Modimolle, Mookgopong, and Mokopane policing areas, targeting motorists.
Zimbabweans have called for the decentralisation of the process of issuing national identity cards which is still a nightmare in Harare.
It is an agonising call of patience for these three gentlemen who are making their 6th attempt at acquiring national identity cards at the registrar general’s office in Harare.
From the information gathered by ZBC News, only 25 people are served per day, a number that is way below the hundreds who brave the cold winter mornings to acquire the important document
Unfortunately for these gentlemen, they will need to make a 7th attempt, because today is just like the previous attempts.
“I first came in June and was told to come back on the 23rd of July. I have been told to keep trying everyday as they don’t know when my name will be called. Those who have not booked were told to come in September,” said a Form 4 student.
“I have come here 5 times, they took 25 and closed the gate and we were told to come back,” another said.
Considering the huge backlog and growing population in Harare, some of the national identity card seekers believe a target of 25 people per day is not sufficient.
Another commented: “If we look at how big Harare is and they take just 25 people a day, you wonder. They should also visit the high-density areas and give people ID’s there. Decentralisation will ensure that at least they deal with the back log.”
The latest development has resulted in growing calls for the decentralisation of the exercise for more people to be served.
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has asked United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) to reinstate a nurse who was suspended from a training programme after a pregnancy test returned a false positive result.
Authorities at UBH on 17 May 2021, suspended Sibongikosi Jacoline Dube from participating in a nurse training programme after a pregnancy test conducted on her as a requirement of the programme reportedly returned a positive result.
In a letter written to UBH Chief Executive Officer Dr Narcisius Dzvanga, Jabulani Mhlanga of ZLHR protested against the discrimination and ill-treatment of the aspiring nurse.
Mhlanga said Dube had advised him that on the day the pregnancy test was taken, a certain Ms. S Moyo had informed the group of nursing trainees of a “mix-up” in the test results conducted at a UBH laboratory.
Mhlanga said after receiving the pregnancy results Dube conducted a self-test whose results were negative and she informed officials at UBH of this development.
Dube, Mhlanga said, also undertook further testing at Mpilo Central Hospital and the results were negative.
But despite the outcome of the second set of the pregnancy test results and numerous engagements with some UBH officials as well as some officials from the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dube has not been reinstated to continue with the nurse training programme.
Mhlanga charged that the decision taken by UBH to keep Dube out of the training programme was grossly unreasonable and unfair and in violation of section 68 of the Constitution, which provides for the right to administrative justice and also in violation of section 3 of the Administrative Justice Act.
The human rights lawyer said UBH’s policy is contrary to the national objectives of the Constitution in particular section 17 which provides that the State must promote the full participation of women in all spheres of the Zimbabwean society on the basis of equality with men.
Furthermore, Mhlanga said section 56 of the Constitution affords women to enjoy the right to equal treatment including the right to equal opportunities in political, economic, cultural and social spheres and prohibits unfair treatment or discrimination on the grounds of pregnancy.
Mhlanga asked UBH to reinstate Dube to continue with the nurse training programme with immediate effect and also urgently align its policy to the provisions of the Constitution.
The human rights lawyer said if UBH fails to respond favourably to Dube’s request, he will institute legal proceedings against the state-run hospital to assert and protect her constitutionally enshrined rights.
By A Correspondent| Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has asked United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) to reinstate a nurse who was suspended from a training programme after a pregnancy test returned a false positive result.
Authorities at UBH on 17 May 2021, suspended Sibongikosi Jacoline Dube from participating in a nurse training programme after a pregnancy test conducted on her as a requirement of the programme reportedly returned a positive result.
In a letter written to UBH Chief Executive Officer Dr Narcisius Dzvanga, Jabulani Mhlanga of ZLHR protested against the discrimination and ill-treatment of the aspiring nurse.
Mhlanga said Dube had advised him that on the day the pregnancy test was taken, a certain Ms. S Moyo had informed the group of nursing trainees of a “mix-up” in the test results conducted at a UBH laboratory.
Mhlanga said after receiving the pregnancy results Dube conducted a self-test whose results were negative and she informed officials at UBH of this development.
Dube, Mhlanga said, also undertook further testing at Mpilo Central Hospital and the results were negative.
But despite the outcome of the second set of the pregnancy test results and numerous engagements with some UBH officials as well as some officials from the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dube has not been reinstated to continue with the nurse training programme.
Mhlanga charged that the decision taken by UBH to keep Dube out of the training programme was grossly unreasonable and unfair and in violation of section 68 of the Constitution, which provides for the right to administrative justice and also in violation of section 3 of the Administrative Justice Act.
The human rights lawyer said UBH’s policy is contrary to the national objectives of the Constitution in particular section 17 which provides that the State must promote the full participation of women in all spheres of the Zimbabwean society on the basis of equality with men.
Furthermore, Mhlanga said section 56 of the Constitution affords women to enjoy the right to equal treatment including the right to equal opportunities in political, economic, cultural and social spheres and prohibits unfair treatment or discrimination on the grounds of pregnancy.
Mhlanga asked UBH to reinstate Dube to continue with the nurse training programme with immediate effect and also urgently align its policy to the provisions of the Constitution.
The human rights lawyer said if UBH fails to respond favourably to Dube’s request, he will institute legal proceedings against the state-run hospital to assert and protect her constitutionally enshrined rights.
By A Correspondent- Three Mwenezi teachers are demanding for the exhumation of the remains of an alleged thief they believe stole their household property worth over R50 000 and was buried together with the property.
The three, Taurai Sithole, Caroline Mlambo and Lamedy Matavire from Dinhe Primary School under Chief Neshuro claim their houses were reduced to empty grounds by the late Tarisai Chihisani of Mashavele Village during school holidays in March this year and they managed to positively identify their property during Chihisani’s burial.
During Chihisani’s burial in May, the three claim, some mourners managed to positively identify some of the stolen blankets and utensils as part of Chihisani’s loot, when they were being placed in the grave, a ritual commonly performed in the area.
Upon seeing some of the teacher’s stolen property being placed in the grave, eyewitnesses allegedly tipped off Sithole, who is one of the teachers, who pursued the matter until he recovered some of their property from some villagers who had bought Chihisani’s loot.
Speaking to TellZim News, Sithole said he is now pushing for the exhumation of Chihisani’s remains so that they recover some of their property which he was buried together with.
“After being tipped off by some mourners at Chihisani’s burial that some of our property was buried together with him, I initiated some thorough investigations and managed to track down some of the people whom the deceased had sold some of the property to which included mattresses, pots, electrical gadgets and several other kitchen utensils.
“We lost property worth R50 000 and so far we have managed to recover only something worth around R15 000,” said Sithole.
Sithole also claimed that flowers that were put on Chihisani’s grave were also stolen from his kitchen, and he is now pushing for the matter to be heard at Chief Neshuro’s traditional court after the matter proved too heavy for the local headman.
“The blankets and several property which Chihisani was buried with are our belongings which he stole. The flowers which are currently decorating his grave were stolen from my kitchen and I bought that flower in Harare sometime last year.
“We are pushing for his exhumation because we need our belongings. We presented our case before Headman Madhongi but we failed to reach a common ground thrice with some of Chihisani family members and the matter is now due to be heard at Chief Neshuro’s Court,” said Sithole.
Chief Neshuro’s secretary Pinias Shoko confirmed the case and said the matter is due to be heard any time soon.
“We received the case from Sithole, whose property was stolen and is said to have been stolen by Chihisani. As a traditional court, we are specifically going to deal with the issue whereby someone was buried with the stolen property.
“On any other issues like that of the exhumation of the body and compensation issues, Sithole can approach the Magistrates Court for redress. The case is due to be heard at Chief Neshuro’s Court anytime soon,” said Shoko.
By Nomusa Garikai- “Masiyiwa challenges entrepreneurs to solve problems in their communities” screamed the headline. When you are rich, Strive Masiyiwa, is filthy rich and so when he speaks even the rich and powerful sit-up and listen. I did, but then only to be disappointed.
“At the beginning of the COVID pandemic in 2020, I was told that one of the biggest problems was testing for the virus,” revealed Masiyiwa, in the article.
“African countries had no access to test kits and masks (used in hospitals). We have probably already forgotten how hard it was to get them. But it was not that long ago that African governments were paying crazy prices for these things. Corruption erupted across the continent, as unscrupulous thieves moved in to take advantage. Some ministers and civil servants even joined in!
“I was asked by President Cyril Ramaphosa to solve the problem.”
Masiyiwa went on to describe how he and three other Africans went to build Africa Medical Supplies Platform, “within 6 weeks”; an eCommerce platform on which many African countries (was later expanded to include some countries in the Caribbean) pooled their orders to take advantage of bulk order and African Export Import Bank (AfriEximbank) facilitated the payments.
Well done Strive! Well done everybody!
“Not every problem out there is screaming for a political solution. Leaders need to trust those with the right skills to step forward and help them,” concluded Masiyiwa.
“Now here is something that might surprise you: Today, the AMSP is the largest eCommerce platform in Africa by volume of products sold and by value.
“This should inspire you to go out and solve problems in your community, particularly those you complain about.”
Frankly, I for one, and the overwhelming majority of ordinary Africans, the impoverished and powerless povo; are not not inspired, not in the least!
Mr Masiyiwa it is hard enough to be a successful entrepreneur even in a country like the UK, Japan South Korea as many a citizen from the said nation will readily testify because everyone else wants the same thing – success.
In the above-named countries the entrepreneur gets a leg-up; it is relative easier raise the working capital from the Bank or own resources, the country’s stable and booming economy creates many opportunities for all, etc.
In Zimbabwe and many other African countries, the entrepreneur does not get any help from anyone or anywhere. Decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have left many countries with a few ruling elite and their cronies who are filthy rich. Their appetite for looting and good life is insatiable and like all looters their criminal waste of human and material resources knows no bounds.
Africa has become synonymous with such dichotomous contradiction as a nation being the breadbasket a whole region during colonial days finding itself total dependent of important food aid or face starvation after independence.
The overwhelming majority of ordinary African are wallowing in abject poverty; they do not dream of becoming an entrepreneur because they have no money, no education. They are hoping to get a job, God knows there are no employment opportunities given the economic meltdown due to decades of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and rank lawlessness earning the country the pariah state label and forcing would-be investors to shy.
An entrepreneur in UK is like a salmon fish in a salmon fish-farm; there is competition for food with the fish of all sizes but there is enough for all.
In Africa most people are poor, are the kapenta fish in a pool that is shrinking fast by the day. They share the pool with catfish and crocodile and these have been joined by the herons, marabou stock, etc.; all have kapenta fish on their menu!
The way out of the trap of poverty and hopelessness for millions of Africans is for them to find a job; they are not dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur. Anyone serious about ending poverty in Africa must therefore address the root cause of poverty – the curse of rigged elections that have allowed corrupt and incompetent leaders to remain in office.
“If I were a rich man, Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. All day long I’d biddy biddy bum. If I were a wealthy man. I wouldn’t have to work hard.
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The most important men in town would come to fawn on me! They would ask me to advise them, Like a Solomon the Wise. ‘If you please, Reb Tevye…’ ‘Pardon me, Reb Tevye…’ Posing problems that would cross a rabbi’s eyes! And it won’t make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong. When you’re rich, they think you really know!”
Chaim Topol: Fiddler on roof
Well, Topol was right, the rich can be arrogant and patronising! Mr Strive Masiyiwa you can biddy biddy bum with Africa’s Godfathers of corruption and tyrannical oppression all day every day.
We must address the problem of rigged elections and bad governance because it is the root cause of why millions are wallowing in abject poverty and their ticket out of poverty. Mnangagwa and his cronies’ insatiable greed for power and wealth are the reason millions are poor and their future is grime and will remain so until we end dictatorship.
At the heart of Zimbabwe’s economic and political nightmare is rigged elections and bad governance to suggest that the country can somehow get out of this mess and even thrive with a strong entrepreneurial spirit is a damn lie!
Government has postponed Higher Education Examination Council (HEXCO) examinations as a containment measure for the Covid-19 pandemic.
The exams were scheduled to start today ending on Friday, but will now be held on a date to be announced, likely when it is safe to do so.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development Professor Fanuel Tagwira made the announcement in a memo yesterday.
“This memo serves to notify the July 2021 Theory Trade Testing Examinations registered candidates, that HEXCO examinations which were scheduled for 27-30 July 2021 have been postponed to a date to be advised.
“This is in line with Government Covid-19 lockdown regulations.”
Zimbabwe has implemented guidelines recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) anchored on minimising social contact as a response to the global pandemic.
This has won the country plaudits across the board from WHO and other countries for the way it has confronted the pandemic.- The Herald
By A Correspondent-A total of 81 people, among them 29 who are Covid-19 positive, escaped from the Beitbridge Quarantine, Isolation and Transit Centre last week under unclear circumstances.
Sources close to the case today said the group included 71 Malawian border jumpers who were arrested by the police last week while en-route to South Africa.
Ten other members of the group were Zimbabweans who had just been deported for violating South African immigration laws.
Beitbridge district medical officer Dr Lenos Samhere confirmed the escape, but he was yet to get a full report on the nationality of those who have absconded.
“We are having a challenge of people absconding from quarantine or isolation,” he said. “However, I cannot give you any figures at the moment, we still need to carry out further verifications.
“Some are absconding after testing positive for the Covid-19 condition, while others are disappearing pending the processing of the results of the tests.”
The Herald understands that issues of absconding at the Beitbridge isolation centre have been on the rise since February following the withdrawal of the Zimbabwe National Army that was offering security since its opening in March last year.
So far, a total of 1 391 people have escaped from the centre between March 2020 and this month.
Some have been escaping under the cover of darkness, while others bribe security personal at the point.
Over 18 000 people, including Zimbabwean returnees, deportees and Tanzanian and Malawian border jumpers have passed through the isolation centre in the last 14 months.
A total of 81 people, among them 29 who were Covid-19 positive, escaped from the Beitbridge Quarantine, Isolation and Transit centre last week under unclear circumstances.
The group included 71 Malawian border jumpers who were arrested by the police last week while en-route to South Africa.
Ten other members of the group were Zimbabweans who had just been deported for violating South African immigration laws.
The District Medical officer Dr Lenos Samhere confirmed that cases of people absconding from isolation and that he was yet to get a full report on the nationality of those who have escaped.
“We are having a challenge of people absconding from quarantine or isolation,” he said.
“However, I cannot give you any figures at the moment, we still need to carry out further verifications. Some are absconding after testing positive for the Covid-19, while others are disappearing pending the processing of the results of the tests”.
Cases of people absconding at the Beitbridge centre have been on the rise since February following the withdrawal of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) soldiers who were offering security since its opening in March last year.
So far, a total of 1391 people have escaped from the centre between March 2020 and July 2021.
Some have been doing under the cover of darkness, while others were bribing security personal manning the point.
Over 18 000 people including Zimbabwean returnees, deportees and Tanzanian and Malawian border jumpers have passed through the last 14 months.- Chronicle
By A Correspondent-Zanu PF has cancelled its Annual National People’s Conference which was scheduled for October in Mashonaland Central province, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The party’s national chairperson, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, said the conference will now be held virtually.
She said delegates will be vaccinated and strict World Health Organisation (WHO) regulations will be observed.
Sad to hear about the death of Legendary player and coach Steve “Bla Steve” Kwashi. He was also known as “The Cool Dude”
Many of us might not know that I played with Steve Kwashi at Dynamos, he was my number 7 after Shaya retired. He used to call me “Tafi…” and I wondered what that meant.
Years later, I went to his shop In Sport and again he called me “Tafi..” I decided to ask him what the nickname meant.
“You are tough, so I call you Tafi..!” That was Bla Steve for you, always humorous. He was a a good man and easy to relate with.
He played for Chibuku, Black Aces, Zimbabwe Saint’s ( he lived in Harare then Salisbury and travelled to Bulawayo for matches). This shows what a special player he was.
It is such a shame that the horrific accident took away a large part of his football life. Without the accident, he would have become one of the best coaches that Zimbabwe ever produced.
We thank the family for standing with him and looking after him to the best of their abilities. Could we as a Football family have done more to help? I think so but as is usually the case in all football matters.. It is out of sight, out of mind.
We should do better as a football community, stick together in dark times. We should not forget our heroes.
Go well Bla Steve, you fought a good fight. Your football story will live on.
The seizure of a Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA) top of the range vehicle central to police investigation was lawful, the High Court has ruled in the case in which the church wanted an order compelling the police to release the vehicle.
The vehicle, a Toyota Hilux D4D twin cab was seized by the police last month on the basis that it was an exhibit in a criminal case of kidnapping and extortion reported by one Marufu Chipondoro.
ZAOGA had sued the police, Chipondoro and Tinotenda Shumba involved in the sale of the vehicle, arguing that the church was not party to the criminal investigation which led to the confiscation of the vehicle.
It was also the church’s contention that delays in completion of the criminal process would expose the vehicle to the vagaries of the weather during the time it would be under police custody.
According to the church, the car was bought for use in its ministry work during the period of the Covi-19-induced lockdown and was prepared to avail the vehicle as and when it was required by the police for the ongoing criminal proceedings.
But the police, through its legal counsel implored the court not to interfere with a process that was lawfully carried out.
It argued that granting the relief sought by the church would be tantamount to defeating the course of justice.
The criminal allegations made against the suspects implicated in the kidnapping and extortion cases went to the root of the legality of the disposal of the vehicle to the unsuspecting church.
The court was called to determine whether the court could grant relief that effectually upsets a lawful process.
Justice Paul Musithu could not agree with the church’s submissions, saying the court cannot interdict a lawful process. He dismissed the application.
“Doing so would be undermining the very law in terms of which the process was carried out,” he said. “The law is presumed to constitutionally valid, until declared unconstitutional by the courts.
“The courts will only interfere where the process which found the complaint was not carried out in terms of the very law that permits it.”
Justice Musithu noted that it was not refute that the police action was lawful.
What up-stretched the church’s indignation was the apparent inconvenience that it was likely to suffer as a result of the confiscation of the vehicle.
The vehicle had been acquired for a definite purpose. Its confiscation meant that the objectives behind its acquisition had been defeated. The church was also concerned about the delays in the conclusion of the criminal proceedings and deterioration of the vehicle as a result of its exposure to the unfriendly weather conditions.
This, Justice Musithu, said such complaints could not make a basis for the court to interfere with a lawful process. The seizure was carried out in terms of the provisions of the criminal law procedure and evidence law.- Herald
Cabinet this afternoon (Sunday) decided that the country should be moved from Adjusted Alert Level 4 and be placed on Adjusted Alert Level 3.
This will take effect later this evening once the regulations have been gazetted.
The hours of curfew will stay the same, starting at 10 pm and end at 4 am. Inter-provincial travel for leisure may resume.
Non-essential establishments like restaurants, taverns, bars and fitness centres may be opened. These establishments will, however, need to close by 9 pm to allow their employees and patrons to travel home before the start of the curfew.
Gatherings will be allowed but will be limited to a maximum of 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors.
Where the venue is too small to accommodate these numbers with appropriate social distancing, then no more than 50% of the capacity of the venue may be used. Gatherings include religious services, political events and social gatherings.
The limits on venue capacity also apply to restaurants, gyms, fitness centres, bars, taverns and similar places.
Attendance at funerals and cremations may not exceed 50 people and all social distancing and health protocols must be observed. Night vigils and after-funeral gatherings are still not allowed.
The sale of alcohol from retail outlets for off-site consumption will be permitted between 10 am and 6 pm from Monday to Thursday. Alcohol sales for on-site consumption will be permitted as per licence conditions up to 8 pm.
Schools will re-open tomorrow, Monday the 26th of July, according to strict health protocols and other measures announced by the Minister of Basic Education.
It remains mandatory for every person to wear a face mask that always covers their nose and mouth at all times when in public spaces.
The owners and managers of public buildings, centres, shops, restaurants, taxis and buses all have a responsibility to ensure that people on their premises or in their vehicles wear masks. They must also ensure that the appropriate social distancing measures are in place and are adhered to.
It is important to remember that it is a criminal offence if the number of people on these premises exceeds the maximum number of customers or employees allowed.
As we ease restrictions, we must remember that infections remain high and that we need to continue to exercise caution.
We have now administered more than 6.3 million vaccines, with over 10% of our population having received a vaccine dose. In the coming weeks, we will substantially increase the rate of vaccination. We are increasing the number of vaccination sites and improving the vaccination registration system. We will also increase our vaccination capacity on weekends. We will now allow people between the ages of 18 and 34 to be vaccinated from the 1st of September 2021. This will be in addition to the age groups that are currently eligible, which is everyone over 35 years of age. We are now able to allow people to present themselves at a vaccination site without an appointment and be registered and vaccinated
By Dr Masimba Mavaza | The Government must approve a legislation, which will provide for the tagging of murderers and sex offenders who are being returned to Zimbabwe from the United Kingdom. The monitoring and tagging would apply to offenders considered to be high risk. There are those who present a risk to the public. As shown by some who have been successfully deported from the UK Zimbabwe must consider the safety of its citizens and put in place measures to protect them.
One of the deportees from the UK posted a video boasting that he only killed one person yet the British have killed many. His boasting showed that he will re offend. The lessons from different international contexts should be carefully considered if the Government is to avoid an expensive folly. In the UK where these criminals are coming from murderers are supervised and forced to meet with probation officers Zimbabwe must adopt the same system where murderers are monitored for a decade.
The ministry of Justice must work on legislation to authorise the monitoring of these criminals being deported if their cases are so gross as to pose danger to the Zimbabwean public.
Murderers who are released back into the community could be strictly monitored for up to a decade. Those who had been given life in prison the so-called ‘lifers’ are supervised and forced to attend regular meetings with probation officers when they are freed on licence after completing their minimum tariff or sentence in jail.
In safeguarding the people Zimbabwe must monitor these deportees with murder and rape convictions. But after just four years they can apply to the minister to have their monitoring suspended if they can show they are behaving out of prison. The stubbornness shown by one of the deportees who killed his wife and chopped her into pieces is a clear warning sign that he will surely do it if he is not controlled in one way or the other.
This means they do not have to check in with the authorities and are only recalled before the courts or sent back to jail if they breach the conditions by committing an offence. We must realise that protecting society is the main objective of any government.
The way we deal with those who break the law is fundamental to the health of our society. Making sure that those who commit crime are punished helps to build a fair society which protects and rewards the law-abiding citizen. This then must stretch on how to deal with those who have served their prison terms but still pose clear and present danger.
It also allows us to live in a society based on the rule of law, where other forms of revenge or retribution are outlawed and unnecessary, and it complements our efforts to prevent crime in the first place.
Keeping the public safe is the first duty of the government and our Criminal Justice System. We must do all we can to protect the public from serious, violent and dangerous offenders. This means using prison better, reserving it for more serious offenders but keeping the most dangerous in prison or in case of these coming from England monitoring them for longer.
But although punishment and imprisonment are necessary to protect the public and serve justice, we must do more. As well as needing offenders to be punished, a healthy and safe society needs them to be given every opportunity to reform – to get back onto the straight and narrow and become constructive contributors to the good of society as a whole.
So the deportees must not just be accepted without a thorough background check. This is not just because it is morally right to enable people to change their lives for the better and overcome their failures and mistakes. It is also a practical recognition that more than half of all crime is currently committed by people who have been through the system and have not yet changed their behaviour. The video sent by one deportee who killed his wife and still sees that as a lighter crime. With no shame he boasts and said “I only killed one”. If no action is taken we will have blood flowing in the streets of our towns with little vampires walk with their hands dripping of blood of the innocent souls which will have been murdered. It is the duty of our government to put a law which must protect our people. Monitoring these criminals will help in Reducing re-offending and make Zimbabwe safer. This strategy sets out how we will reshape our system to make sure that time in the criminal justice system is as effective as it can be in turning lives around and stopping people offending again, rather than serving as a brief interlude in a criminal career.
Amongst deportees there are child rapists. Some have rapped minors and infecting them with STI. We must have a strategy of protecting the public and punish offenders, but at the same time tackle the linked factors that make them more likely to commit crime again. That necessarily involves ever closer joint working with a wide range of partners beyond the criminal justice system. Zimbabwe needs to have the criminal records disclosed as a condition of accepting the deportees home. Taken seriously this law will transform the way we punish and manage offenders, reduce re-offending, and cut crime. It will support the law-abiding citizen and the rule of law, and make our country safe.
Crime will down, and at the same time we will succeed in catching more criminals. This legislation if accepted will extend to those offenders who are not the deportees. It should be noted that more than half of all crime is committed by people who have been through the criminal justice system before. We need our prison and justice system to work far better – and with a wider range of partners – to cut re-offending.
We must keep the public safe from violent and dangerous people who just think that one murder and mutilation is not a serious crime. We need to make sure that we are keeping the right people in prison, and that dangerous people are imprisoned for as long as necessary; that we are protecting the public effectively; and that our prisons are fit for purpose. So our murderers from the Uk must be rehabilitated. Some offenders who have been returned to Zimbabwe did not re offend in Zimbabwe because they were afraid of being deported. Now that they are deported there is no reason for them not to reoffend. There is no motivation to stay safe and free.
There must be indeterminate sentence for public protection, which means that seriously dangerous offenders will not be released until the minister of Justice or his team assess that it is safe to do so.
There should be a Continuous improvement in the way offenders are supervised in the community, with better management of risk and offender managers working jointly with police, the Prison Service and others to supervise dangerous offenders from the UK armed with Changani bags. It is important that offenders are properly punished for their crimes. Some very minor offenders can be processed swiftly, fairly and effectively without being monitored.
So the law must be made to manage offenders through monitoring to stop them re-offending Whether offenders are in prison or in the community, we need to manage them better to stop them re-offending. We need to offer them the chance to change, and address the multiple problems that many of the most persistent offenders face. This is the central aim of our legislation because it is key to reducing crime and keep the peace in our society.
If budget allows offenders details must be kept in a register. The minister will appoint a manager for every offender, who will be responsible for making sure that they are both punished and rehabilitated properly; and who will get involved as early as possible in managing the offender. As we put more focus on the individual offender – looking at the risk they pose, and at the support and challenge they need to stop re- offending – we need to make sure that the way our system is designed helps us bring in the best possible people and organisations to support every offender and protect our country. This is not to make the deportees suffer double jeopardy but to make sure that they are fully rehabilitated before they are unleashed into our society.
For some convicted deported criminals, punishment doesn’t end when they walk through Robert Mugabe airport. This monitoring should start when they step out of the plane.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the struggle for democracy is not instant coffee.
President Chamisa made the remarks on Saturday…
Commenting on attempts by the Zanu PF regime to force people to get vaccinated, President Chamisa said persuasion should be used- not coercion.
Said President Chamisa: “Nothing comes without a fight. Easy come easy go. We are almost there. Struggles are not instant coffee …
Command vaccination is wrong! Vaccination must be a choice. It must be voluntary…
Vaccination can be achieved through effective communication and persuasive encouragement.”
He added :” NEW POLITICS..We must get rid of the politics of propaganda, violence &looting.We must fix what is broken& rotten in our politics.Fresh ideas & accountable leadership built around the community and citizens is essential. It’s time for COMMUNITY EMBEDDED LEADERSHIP.
The best revenge is to resist enmity! Resist the temptation to hate, hurt and hit back.”
Masvingo – Moneymaking and disguised political actors have invited the wrath of millions of peace loving Zimbabweans to the fore at a time the crisis in the country is escalating.
Posting on various platforms, Zimbabweans openly questioned the morality of chiefs in the country.
“Where is one chief who assists a physically changed or vulnerable person?”
“These chiefs are an extension of Zanu PF ideologies. They are serving their masters only not to masquarade in public as charity givers.
“You hear some saying $10 USA! What for? They are inaccessible these so called chiefs. No one local person can board their cars even in dire need” fumed one observer.
One politician who requested anonymity concurred with the sentiments saying chiefs are failing the people they lead.
“True to type, chiefs are actively involved in politics rather than being custodians of traditional customs.
Zunde raMambo is a personal programme even though they are given inputs by government. These chiefs have benefited more than war veterans, but they continue requesting more” he said.
A survey across provinces shows that chiefs have become number one enemies of rural people because of this Zunde raMambo programme.
Scores of people have blamed chiefs for various corrupt activities involving dethronement and installation of kraalheads and looting of resources that are given to people.
In a major milestone, a medical oxygen plant has been built in Mutare by a company under the Harare Institute of Technology to ensure Zimbabwe has adequate supplies, especially as demand has risen with the Covid-19 pandemic.
The plant, expected to be formally commissioned by President Mnangagwa, will ensure that there are enough supplies of medical oxygen, which is used for first aid resuscitation for emergencies, during anaesthesia, giving life support for patients who can’t breathe on their own, and oxygen therapy.
Athletes also use medical oxygen at high altitudes or training. Mutare-based Verify Engineering, a technology development agency under the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, constructed the medical oxygen plant.
The company is mandated to create efficient technology-based companies to feed new ideas into the economy as well as take advantage of opportunities. It was established in 2005 and is now an integral part of the Harare Institute of Technology.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, Professor Fanuel Tagwira spoke of the new plant when he appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Higher and Tertiary Education yesterday.
“The plant is now ready and will be commissioned by His Excellency the President at a date to be advised,” he said.
Further details on the plant would be availed when its commissioned. To ensure the medical oxygen reaches the hospitals and others who need it, the company had already imported 5 000 cylinders with a further 5 000 set to arrive in the country soon.
Prof Tagwira also told the Committee that the company was also working on other projects that include the establishment of a coal-to-fertiliser plant and coal-to-fuel plant in Lisulu, Hwange.
The company has designed a pilot plant capable of producing 5 000 litres of fuel a day, synthesized using an iron based-catalyst. It has commissioned an air separation unit and is now constructing an acetylene plant.
Oxy-acetylene welding is common when electricity is not available for arc-welding and is critical for a great deal of metalwork done in areas not on the national grid, while being useful in other areas. – Herald
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF propaganda network is working round the clock to discourage citizens from voting in the 2023 elections because of fear of a humiliating defeat.
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma says Zanu PF is unelectable.
Responding to attempts by the regime to discourage citizens from voting, Chuma said:
“It is a naked lie being peddled by an election phobic and weak ZANU PF that is bent on blocking citizens from exercising their right to vote.
ZANU PF knows very well that it is unelectable hence the only way they can survive the political tide is through voter apathy hence they propagate this lie that elections will not change anything.
ZANU PF came to power in 1980 as a result of elections.”
He added: ” In 2008 and 2018, the same ZANU PF was brushed aside by MDC in elections.
Elections reflect the will of people and if people participate in their numbers, it makes it difficult for ZANU PF to rig.
Without social contract with the masses it is difficult for the country to move forward and that is why Emmerson Mnangagwa is struggling in all fronts right now.
Critically that social contract is only obtained through elections.”
Police in Midlands have impounded over 170 pirate taxis and Kombis following the launch of an operation code named Chishika-shika Chapera.
Some of the drivers were arrested and fined for violating the Covid-19 rules and regulations.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko said the operation started at the weekend and was still going on aimed at bringing back normalcy on the roads amid reports of wanton disregard to the Covid-19 rules by motorists.
He said the operation was across the province and by yesterday his office was still compiling numbers of impounded vehicles in other cities and towns in the province so far.
“Zimbabwe Republic Police in the Midlands Province on realisation of rampant disregard of Covid-19 prevention measures and the moratorium on continued intercity public travels by transport operators and private pirate taxis, have launched a blitz targeting these vehicles.
“All motor vehicles found violating the widely pronounced measures are being impounded while persons operating them are being arrested. The operation is ongoing for as long as the measures are in force,” he said.
Insp Mahoko said over the past weekend, the police had impounded 171 motor vehicles. Traffic Police officers profile key tags for impounded vehicles at the station.
“The motor vehicles are currently being held at different police stations while some are being referred to Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) depots across the province,” he said.
Insp Mahoko said Gweru Urban District alone impounded 115 motor vehicles and warned the police were out in full force to arrest Covid-19 rules violators “May the public take hid and comply with the law. We are of the view that members of the public should voluntarily observe the measures to safeguard themselves from contracting the deadly disease which we hear, infections are on a steep increase. They should not wait for police enforcement,” he said. -Herald
Serial armed robber, Peter Mushipe, who was part of the seven dangerous criminals arrested recently under a special operation during which two of the suspects were killed in a shoot-out with police had his left leg amputated after it deteriorated due to gunshot wounds.
Early this month, police first arrested the ringleader Godfrey Josi who then revealed that his other accomplices were Zvidozvashe Zuda, Mushipe, Valentine Mutasa, Decide Rice of Devon Farm in Kadoma and the now deceased Benjamin Craig Musasa and Richard Mutanga.
Mushipe was then arrested in Stoneridge area, Harare, where he tried to run away while armed with a 12 Bore shot gun loaded with one live round of ammunition. He was subsequently shot on the left leg and live rounds of ammunition were recovered from his pockets.
Most of these robbers are understood to have been behind the March 28 raid at Gateway High School in Harare where they made off with US$250 000, who have been in and out of prison on bail pending trial for committing violent crimes.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday confirmed that Mushipe had his leg amputated after it had deteriorated when he was shot during his arrest.
Sources close to the investigations said Mushipe was amputated on July 13 at Parirenyatwa Hospital and is now in a stable condition. Mushipe was wanted by police for masterminding and committing a spate of armed robberies countrywide.
In May last year, Mushipe and his three accomplices — Alfred Mangwiro, Wonder Mahuni, and Tendai Jongwe Dzoma appeared in court facing six counts of armed robbery and attempted murder charges.
The cases occurred in Borrowdale where the gang together with their other accomplices — Edmore Ronald Chigwada, Christopher Danda, Terrance Nyakudyara and Joseph Hazvinei — forced their entry into the house and stole R200, US$300, a Samsung S9, two television sets, suitcases and bed sheets.
In Vainona, they stole two HP laptops, $85, an iPad, iPhone 6 and jewellery valued at US$5 919, while in Hatfield, a complainant arrived at his residence driving aToyota Prado and stopped at the gate before the gang confronted him when he was about to open the gate.
The robbers first fired a shot and it hit the victim on his right hand middle finger and he fell down.
They went on to manhandle him before they knocked at his door, claiming to be police officers. They ordered his wife to open the door. While inside the house, they demanded safe keys and forced the complainant’s wife to go and get the safe keys in the car.
When they got the safe keys, they stole US$10 000, $3 500, R15 000, a 9mm Star Pistol with a magazine of eight rounds of live ammunition, iPhone cell phone, Samsung S3 and Samsung S5.
They took the complainant’s car which they later dumped in Chitungwiza. The gang also raided a house in Tynwald South where they held the occupants hostage before stealing US$40 000, R13 000, $2 000 coins, Samsung Galaxy J6Pro, Samsung Galaxy Note 5, iPhone 6, two gate remote controls and two car keys. They also pounced on a house in Eastlea where they stole jewellery, 32-inch television set, a suitcase with clothes while armed with knives.
Using the same method of operation, they grabbed the house maid at around 7am and threatened to stab her before they tied her hands and taking the loot.
The owner of the house returned around 2pm from work and upon entry into the house she was pointed at with a knife and threatened with death if she resisted their demands.
She surrendered a hand bag and they took US$300, $1 000, 38 Special revolver and car keys. They took her car and drove away.
In Waterfalls, the gang who were armed with knives entered into another complainant’s yard and fired a shot in the air to instil fear.
They went on to manhandle the complainant and physically assaulted him demanding cash. They forced him into the house and took $1 500, US$4 500, PI pistol and iPhone 8 before they escaped. -Herald
One billion children experience violence and abuse every year.
That shocking figure has risen even higher during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Violence prevention and response services have been disrupted for 1.8 billion children living in more than 100 countries.
1.5 billion young people affected by school closures lost the protection and support that schools often provide.
Measures to contain the virus, along with economic hardship and family stress, have combined to create ‘perfect storm’ conditions for children vulnerable to observing or experiencing physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Despite the benefits of digital connectivity, a life lived more online for learning, socialising and gaming has significantly increased children’s exposure to those who wish to harm them.
Today, we stand at a critical moment for the world’s children. Unless we act now and with urgency, we risk losing a generation of children to the long-term impacts of violence and abuse that will undermine child safety, health, learning and development long after the pandemic subsides. We cannot let that happen.
As the world starts to emerge from the pandemic, we have an opportunity to reimagine and create more peaceful, just and inclusive societies. Now is the time to redouble our collective efforts and translate what we know works into accelerated progress towards the goal of a world where every child grows-up safe, secure and in a nurturing environment.
We must create a world: where every child can grow up and thrive with dignity; where violence and abuse of children is legally outlawed and socially unacceptable; where the relationship between parents and children prevents the intergenerational transmission of violence; where children in every community can safely take advantage of the digital world for learning, playing and socialising; where girls and boys experience stronger developmental and educational outcomes because schools and other learning environments are safe, gender-sensitive, inclusive and supportive; where sport is safe for children; where every effort is made to protect the most vulnerable children from all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse, including those living in situations of conflict and fragility (including climate-related fragility); and where all children can access safe and child-friendly help when they need it.
The moral imperative and economic case for action to end violence against children are compelling. Action today will not only prevent the devastating intergenerational social and economic impacts of violence on children, families and societies; it will also help to address the wider impacts of COVID-19 and support progress towards multiple Sustainable Development Goals.
Together, as leaders of organisations committed to ending violence against children, we urge leaders in government, the private sector, faith communities, multilateral organisations, civil society and sports bodies to seize the moment and be champions of this agenda in their countries, organisations, networks and communities. We call on these leaders to prioritise protecting children in their policies, planning, budgets and communications, and to work together to deliver six game-changing actions to end violence against children:
Ban all forms of violence against children by 2030 Equip parents and caregivers to keep children safe Make the internet safe for children Make schools safe, non-violent and inclusive Protect children from violence in humanitarian settings More investment, better spent
As global organisations working to end violence against children, we will continue to advocate for and invest in effective child protection, promoting solutions that recognise the different ways in which girls and boys experience violence and abuse.
We will collectively develop and share technical resources and guidance for policymakers, practitioners, parents, caregivers and children themselves. And we will support the courageous health, education, child protection and humanitarian professionals working alongside faith leaders, community volunteers, parents and young people to keep children safe during these unprecedented times.
In recent years, we have made significant gains in protecting children from violence.
We must do all we can to keep children safe during the current turmoil, and work together to build back better — to end all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation of children.
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Tinashe Sambiri| Madam Boss, Mai Titi, Panganai Java and the two Mercedes Benz donations, the stage is set…
Passion Java could not buy his own mum a simple TV – she confessed in leaked audios that she had to scrounge for scraps at Parliament as a Mwonzora-Senator to stitch up her debt with the TV Sales and Hire company.
This was at a time her own son was splurging thousands to buy a Mercedes Benz for socialite Madam Boss a few months before.
A year later, he buys another car and a third one for another socialite, Mai Titi. Where is he getting the money from, and what is the agenda, notoriety, foolery[kupusisa vanhu], or both?
The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s plot to use social media influencers to gain political points, has been boosted.
Intelligence sources in Mr Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party have disclosed that social media influencers who include Panganai Java, Madam boss and Mai Titi are already in the game calculated to drum up support for Mr Mnangagwa for the 2023 polls.
Java, who has become Mr Mnangagwa’s social media frontrunner, blessed both Mai Titi and Madam boss with brand new Mercedes Benz vehicles on Friday.
This also comes at a time Madam Boss is collecting mobile numbers of her supposed followers under the guise of a promotion.
“This( the purchasing of vehicles for Madam Boss and Mai Titi) is a scheme calculated to sway social media users’ views as both ladies are seen as great influencers.
It is believed that their influence can therefore contribute to victory in the 2023 polls.
As you know Panganai Java is already campaigning for Number One and the two ladies are expected to join the scheme very soon,” Zanu PF intelligence sources told ZimEye.com.
However, political observers feel Madam Boss and Mai Titi could ruin their respective brands by reflecting allegiance to Mr Mnangagwa and Zanu PF.
” I strongly feel the two ladies should not fall into the Zanu PF trap. The gimmicks and gymnastics we are seeing are meant to neutralize the perceived opposition’s influence on social media. Sadly the two ladies are about to ruin their brands. I sincerely urge them to distance themselves from Zanu PF,” said one political analyst.
By A Correspondent-A total of 81 people, among them 29 who are Covid-19 positive, escaped from the Beitbridge Quarantine, Isolation and Transit Centre last week under unclear circumstances.
Sources close to the case today said the group included 71 Malawian border jumpers who were arrested by the police last week while en-route to South Africa.
Ten other members of the group were Zimbabweans who had just been deported for violating South African immigration laws.
Beitbridge district medical officer Dr Lenos Samhere confirmed the escape, but he was yet to get a full report on the nationality of those who have absconded.
“We are having a challenge of people absconding from quarantine or isolation,” he said. “However, I cannot give you any figures at the moment, we still need to carry out further verifications.
“Some are absconding after testing positive for the Covid-19 condition, while others are disappearing pending the processing of the results of the tests.”
The Herald understands that issues of absconding at the Beitbridge isolation centre have been on the rise since February following the withdrawal of the Zimbabwe National Army that was offering security since its opening in March last year.
So far, a total of 1 391 people have escaped from the centre between March 2020 and this month.
Some have been escaping under the cover of darkness, while others bribe security personal at the point.
Over 18 000 people, including Zimbabwean returnees, deportees and Tanzanian and Malawian border jumpers have passed through the isolation centre in the last 14 months.
By A Correspondent-Zanu PF Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba, has pleaded with the government to assign police officers at magistrates residence.
Chinotimba said this during a question and answer session in the National Assembly last week.
He suggested that magistrates and judges live are in danger due to the nature of their job where those aggrieved by either convictions or sentences might decide to seen vengeance.
“Our judges or magistrates are renting accommodation. Is it not possible for them to be given security. Those people are exposed due to the nature of their job which involves convicting and sentencing people to imprisonment,” Chinotimba said.
“The safety of the judicial officer in those communities will not be guaranteed. Is it not possible for each magistrate to have a well-equipped police officer to guard him/her?” he asked.
But Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi dismissed Chinotimba’s idea saying: “As government, we have heard Hon. Chinotimba’s views but our thrust is on building houses at secure areas for our judicial officers and then provide security,” Ziyambi said.
Ziyambi however admitted that indeed the judicial officers were having challenges in securing their own accommodation.
“We have several of our magistrates who live within the community and some and some in rented accommodation which is not ideal. What we are doing is that we are coming up with a plan in conjunction with Housing Ministry to have institutional accommodation for our magistrates as well as our judges so this is now work in progress and we are going to remove them from shared accommodation,” said Ziyambi.
Zanu PF MP for Chegutu West Dexter Nduna chipped in and requested that Ziyambi should consider places that can accommodate magistrates provision for personal security.
“A complex housing development place such as a prison complex would be ideal. Would it please the minister to go and have such complexes with security for our magistrates,” Nduna said.
Ziyambi dismissed the idea preferring the construction of new houses.
“It is not possible. We are having accommodation challenges for our staff at prison complexes as well so the only way is to have institutional houses for our officers.
By A Correspondent- The opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, seemed to have given in to Douglas Mwonzora’s greediness, and now contemplates changing the name of his party.
Mwomzora, last week hinted to fight Chamisa, should he chooses to use the name MDC in the 2023 elections.
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere yesterday told NewsDay: “One thing that I can assure everybody is that the MDC Alliance is the party for the people and goes back to the people who will make decisions. I can assure you that we are building something new, something fresh and that question will ultimately be answered by the citizens themselves. “We never make elite decisions, and what I can assure you is that the people know their leaders. We can call the MDC Alliance the Anything Party, Peace Party or whatever it is, but people know who we are, and there is no confusion in the minds of the people on who the legitimate opposition is. All I can say is watch this space and that question will soon be answered.” Mahere said the party was pushing for electoral reforms that included the demilitarisation of Zec. “This is the time for us to go into elections when we have dealt with all necessary reforms. We want all the reforms; freedom of association, assembly and holding rallies freely. We want people to make sure Zec is fully independent, no older Zec,” she said. “We want to deal with all those issues. We have our 20 key asks before elections are held; for example, we would like Zec to demilitarise its secretariat, we want alignment of the Electoral Act to the Constitution. We also want the Constitution itself to be implemented, for example, media reforms. “We want the de-politicisation of traditional leaders, de-politicisation of food aid and all those things that make the electoral playing field fair so that in 2023, we have reforms before elections; but yes, we will participate because we have the people and that is what is Important.”
The MDC Alliance has suffered a lot of setbacks after the MDC-T, with the assistance of the police and the army, took over the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House headquarters of the party in Harare, and several other party assets before recalling over 40 MPs and more than 80 councillors countrywide.
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pardoned the late former President Robert Mugabe’s nephew, Philip Chitangwa and appointed him to lead his party 20230 election campaign fundraising committee.
Zanu PF First Secretary President Mnangagwa has set up a fundraising committee as a way of mobilising resources for the operations of the party.
The six-member committee is chaired by Zvimba South Member of Parliament Cde Phillip Chiyangwa.
Members of the committee include Cdes Elder Everisto Mudhikwa, Scott Sakupwanya, Zodwa Mkandla, Tafadzwa Musarara and Antony Pote.
The mobilised resources will also fund the party’s cell restructuring and data capturing exercise that will lay a firm foundation for modernising the administration of the party.
The committee will report and account directly to Zanu PF’s secretary for Finance, Cde Patrick Chinamasa.
By A Correspondent- Tobacco worth R10 million has been found in South Africa and other countries in a suspected smuggling syndicate of connected Zimbabweans.
The unlicensed tobacco from Zimbabwe was last week found in an East London warehouse in South Africa, confirming fears of smuggling and underhand dealings.
Last month, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands and Agriculture raised similar fears during a tour of the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) offices in Harare.
South African officials, including the police working with customs officials, confirmed the recovery of unprocessed tobacco worth R10 million at a warehouse in the town’s Thorn Park area, suspected to have been smuggled through the Beitbridge Border Post.
A 31-year-old male suspect has since been arrested for possession of unprocessed tobacco and bribery after customs officials stopped a truck with a cargo of unlicensed tobacco. South African police spokesperson Brigadier Thembinkosi Kinana said about 1 279 boxes weighing 200 kilogrammes of both raw and cut rag tobacco were found during the raid.
The suspect is due to appear at the East London Magistrates’ Court charged with possession of unprocessed tobacco and bribery.
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands and Agriculture chairperson Justice Mayor Wadyajena yesterday said: “These are the issues we have always been raising as a committee and we have received several reports of massive underhand dealings in the industry. It is something we are determined to stop and thanks to this revelation, it points to exactly what we have been saying though most people are either corrupted or scared of the cartels and mafia controlling this multi-billion-dollar tobacco industry. The cartels and mafia are well-known and nothing will stop the committee from cleansing and dealing with this rot until the farmer and country benefit.”
Harare North MP Norman Markham added: “I have never seen a rich surrogate buyer. You can’t have a country sponsoring inputs and the tobacco is bought by someone else. Those surrogates are detrimental to the tobacco industry, to the farmer and also to the country.”
By A Correspondent- The South African Police Service (SAPS) has, with the help of the community, re-arrested three of the four armed robbers who escaped from a police van while being taken to court last week. Only one of the suspects, Dennis Hove, has not been accounted for, while South African robber Figos Madisha, and two Zimbabweans Clifford Mutonhori and John Fine were re-captured. The notorious robbers were arrested after committing a spate of carjackings, including hitting on two haulage trucks on the N1 Highway between Johannesburg and Beitbridge. “Police hail the total commitment and unwavering support displayed by ordinary community members and other organised community structures today, Saturday July 24, 2021, in assisting the police to rearrest three of the four dangerous criminals who escaped from a police motor vehicle on Wednesday July 21, 2021,” SAPS Limpopo provincial Commander Thembi Hadebe said. “The criminals escaped last Friday while on a police truck which was taking them to court for sentencing along the R101 Road, south of Polokwane. They allegedly hijacked a truck and later abandoned it at Ysyerberg on the N1 Road,” the South African police said. Earlier, the suspects had allegedly hijacked another truck at Nyl Plaza tollgate, but ran into a police checkpoint as they were driving it, resulting in their arrest.
By A Correspondent- The late socialite- and businessman, Genius Kadungure’s wife, Zodwa Mkandla has joined Zanu PF.
Zodwa’s affiliation to Zanu PF was announced Monday by the party’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he placed her in a six-member Zanu PF fundraising committee.
The fundraising committee, according to state media would mobilising resources for the operations of the party.
The development comes barely a few months after her cousin in law, Mary Mubaiwa revealed to ZimEye that Zodwa was the first to state that she was in trouble with Constantino Chiwenga and that Zodwa had leaked these details to Ginimbi before his sudden death.
The six-member committee is chaired by Zvimba South Member of Parliament Phillip Chiyangwa.
Other members of the committee include Elder Everisto Mudhikwa, Scott Sakupwanya, Tafadzwa Musarara and Antony Pote.
Mnangagwa said the mobilised resources will also fund the party’s cell restructuring and data capturing exercise that will lay a firm foundation for modernising the administration of the party.
The committee will report and account directly to Zanu PF’s secretary for Finance, Patrick Chinamasa.
Passion Java is being used by Zanu Pf to defocus the young generation from the failures of Zanu Pf under the Mnangagwa “stop making noise on the streets,,make money” banner.
The cars bought for Mai Titi and Madam Boss are not a present from Java but a Zanu Pf contact to capture the Zimbabwean youth.
Buying expensive cars for rich individuals in a community where there are no functional hospitals, no functional schools, no employment, no food security for over 90% of the population seriously defies common sense and defines pure hypocrisy.
It’s high time as youths we stand against corporate politics and plundering of National resources for the best interest of politicians and government activists.
This kind of mendicious politics is undermining our rights as the youths of Zimbabwe.
It is our choice to defend ourselves and the future of our country as the youths.
UNREPENTANT ZANU PF PARTY CAUGHT RED HANDED DAILY ON ZBCTV NEWS, VIOLATING COVID 19 WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION AND ZIMBABWEAN HEALTH MINISTRY RULES AND REGULATIONS!!!!
By Paddington Japajapa
There is an English Saying that says, What is Good for the Geese must apply also to Gander,this natural law must apply “Mutatis Mutandi” Latin for applying Everywhere, Always and at all times. This must be the case with the Laws, that Govern and Regulate the Covid 19 Rules, according to WHO and Ministry of Health and Childcare requirements.
With the Pandemic threatening to anhillate and wipe out Human life from the face of the Universe, with frightening statistics of daily deaths figures of 80-102 cases, around Zimbabwe,surely this Pestilence is devastating,contagious,infectious and virulent. Even the hard hearted vendors with Hearts of Oak,who previously never bothered to use PEPs, are now complying on their own.
The biggest Problem is emanating from the unrepentant Zanu Pf Party, whose insatiable appetite for dying in Power is so irritating and neusiating.The Regime, s Vice President who is the Minister of Health and Childcare, a retired ZDF Commander and Army General, who is well known for making serious threats to any Citizen who violates the Covid 19 rules and regulations. Surprisingly just under his nose, several Zanu Pf National Youth League Members are buisy conducting Cell restructuring meetings in preparation for the 5 million Youth voter registration exercise, accross the Country. Tendai Chirawu the Deputy National Secretary for Youth appeared on ZBCTV News two days ago addressing more than 500 Zanu Pf members in Party Regalia, in Violation of Strict Covid 19 Regulations,The law stipulates that only thirty People are allowed to gather only at funerals. Even the Worshiping of God Almighty, the Creator of Everything has been banished. Zanu Pf rallies and several meetings are being done willy nilly without following Covid 19 protocols.When Chamisa, s MDCA Party tries to do the same, it will be taken as Treason by the Regime, s ruthless Riot Police “Mangongongo”, supported by CIO, ARMY and the biased Law and Order Section, who have caused the unwarranted arrests and illegal detentions of thousands of MDCA Members.
Zanu Pf Party Structures, from Central Committee level, down to Youth league,all are actively participating in rallies and meetings addressed by their senior Party Members eg Patrick Chinamasa,Monica and Christopher Mutsvangwa, in violation of Covid 19 rules.The Zanu Pf Leadership foolishly advertise every meeting they hold on ZBCTV News, due to their insatiable appetite for publicity,not knowing that they are Violating the same Covid 19 rules and regulations which they themselves put in place.Shame on you Zanu Pf hypocrites,for not practicing what you Preach and teach others.
Poor MDCA Party, the law is always very harsh and tough on your part,even when you try to mourn and burry your dead.May God Judge between the two Parties, Zanu Pf and MDCA, the truth shall come out one day, our lord God is Jehovah “El Roi” He sees everything, Jehovah El Shaddai,the Almighty who discerns everything Spiritally. He is a fair God who Judges impartially!!!
Zanu Pf Oppressors must not cry foul one day when the Opposition MDCA takes over power and use the same Draconic laws to rule the country,so that the cruel Regime can have a good test of its own Medicine!!!!
What is Good for the Geese must be the same for the Gander!!!
THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE IS A NC/NEC MEMBER MDCA/SOCCER ADMINISTRATOR/CIVIC SOCIETY ORGANISATION LEADER/POLITICIAN/EVANGELIST AND TEACHER OF GOD’S WORD/ HOLDER OF BSC PSYCHOLOGY DEGREE!!! ????????????????
Passion Java is being used by Zanu Pf to defocus the young generation from the failures of Zanu Pf under the Mnangagwa “stop making noise on the streets,,make money” banner.
The cars bought for Mai Titi and Madam Boss are not a present from Java but a Zanu Pf contact to capture the Zimbabwean youth.
Buying expensive cars for rich individuals in a community where there are no functional hospitals, no functional schools, no employment, no food security for over 90% of the population seriously defies common sense and defines pure hypocrisy.
It’s high time as youths we stand against corporate politics and plundering of National resources for the best interest of politicians and government activists.
This kind of mendicious politics is undermining our rights as the youths of Zimbabwe.
It is our choice to defend ourselves and the future of our country as the youths.
The Zimbabwe football fraternity has once again been plunged into mourning following the death of legendary former CAPS United coach Steve ‘The Dude’ Kwashi.
Kwashi died yesterday at the age of 67, though the cause of his death is still unknown.
He was the first coach to lead Makepekepe to a league title, when the star-studded Green Machine class of 1996 won it under his guidance.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
John Terry has left his role as Aston Villa assistant head coach after three years on Dean Smith’s coaching staff.
Villa announced the news on Monday morning with coach saying: “It has been a tremendous honour and privilege to have spent these last three years at Aston Villa, but I feel now is the right time to make the extremely difficult decision to move on.
“I want to be as respectful to the manager and everyone at Aston Villa as I can and, having given my future serious consideration over the summer, I genuinely don’t feel it is fair to move into a new season without being certain of seeing that through.
“My immediate plan is to spend some quality time with my family and, thereafter, hopefully take up some invitations to visit clubs and mangers around Europe to develop my aim and objective of becoming a manager.
“It has always been my ambition to move into football management and, providing the right opportunity presents itself, I feel ready to take up such a challenge.
“I would like to thank Christian Purslow and our owners, Wes Edens and Nassef Sawiris, for believing in me and giving me the opportunity.
“And I will forever be indebted to the Gaffer for giving me the opportunity to start my coaching career at a such a wonderful club. I have loved every minute of it and learnt so much.
“I can’t thank Dean enough for the support and guidance he has provided me with and I’m sure he will continue to lead the club from strength to strength.
“Finally, I would also like to thank all the players and staff and wish them all the very best for the season ahead and say a huge thank you to the wonderful Aston Villa fans for their support.”
Terry become the assistant head coach of Dean Smith’s coaching team in 2018 after ending his player career at the club.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF propaganda network is working round the clock to discourage citizens from voting in the 2023 elections because of fear of a humiliating defeat.
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma says Zanu PF is unelectable.
Responding to attempts by the regime to discourage citizens from voting, Chuma said:
“It is a naked lie being peddled by an election phobic and weak ZANU PF that is bent on blocking citizens from exercising their right to vote.
ZANU PF knows very well that it is unelectable hence the only way they can survive the political tide is through voter apathy hence they propagate this lie that elections will not change anything.
ZANU PF came to power in 1980 as a result of elections.”
He added: ” In 2008 and 2018, the same ZANU PF was brushed aside by MDC in elections.
Elections reflect the will of people and if people participate in their numbers, it makes it difficult for ZANU PF to rig.
Without social contract with the masses it is difficult for the country to move forward and that is why Emmerson Mnangagwa is struggling in all fronts right now.
Critically that social contract is only obtained through elections.”
Marvelous Nakamba has been nominated for the Zimbabwe Achievers Award’s Sports Personality of the Year award.
The Aston Villa forward will be up against Ipswich Town’s player Zanda Siziba as well as football referee Farai Hallam. Ireland-based forward Prince Mutswunguma, who plays for Waterford FC, and professional cricketer Tawanda Muyeye, are also among the nominees.
In the Junior Sports Personality of the Year category, Sunderland defender Ethan Kachosa and Leicester City youngster Tawanda Maswanhise are going head-to-head. Alois Bunjira Jr, who is on a football scholarship in the UK, nine-year-old Chelsea Academy striker Josh Masara and squash player Ryan Gwidzima complete the list of the nominees.
Fans can vote on the ZAA website www.zimachievers.com before 15 August 2021. The winners will be announced at a virtual event at The Mayfair Hotel in London on 11 September.
Here is the list of nominees in sport categories.
Male Sports Personality Marvelous Nakamba Farai Hallam Tawanda Muyeye Zanda Siziba Prince Mutswunguma
Fernando Torres will return to Atletico Madrid as their u-19 head coach ahead of the 2021/22 season.
The former striker was part of the coaching staff of the club’s youth team last season until he was forced to take time off due to personal reasons. He is now back and will be taking charge of their ‘Youth A’ (youth) side in the 2021/22 campaign.
Atletico’s academy tweeted to confirm the news.
The post read: “Fernando Torres returns home. He will continue with his training, directing Youth A.
“Welcome Fernando.”
Torres is currently working towards his UEFA coaching badges, and this season will be his first involved from the dugout.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the struggle for democracy is not instant coffee.
President Chamisa made the remarks on Saturday…
Commenting on attempts by the Zanu PF regime to force people to get vaccinated, President Chamisa said persuasion should be used- not coercion.
Said President Chamisa: “Nothing comes without a fight. Easy come easy go. We are almost there. Struggles are not instant coffee …
Command vaccination is wrong! Vaccination must be a choice. It must be voluntary…
Vaccination can be achieved through effective communication and persuasive encouragement.”
He added :” NEW POLITICS..We must get rid of the politics of propaganda, violence &looting.We must fix what is broken& rotten in our politics.Fresh ideas & accountable leadership built around the community and citizens is essential. It’s time for COMMUNITY EMBEDDED LEADERSHIP.
The best revenge is to resist enmity! Resist the temptation to hate, hurt and hit back.”
Tinashe Sambiri|The donation of brand new Mercedes Benz vehicles to Madam Boss and Mai Titi by Emmerson Mnangagwa’s social media frontrunner, Panganai Java is a bait meant to capture youths, it has emerged.
Below is a presentation by Talent Rusere on the donation of two vehicles to Madam Boss and Mai Titi…
By Talent Rusere
Passion Java is being used by Zanu Pf to defocus the young generation from the failures of Zanu Pf under the Mnangagwa “stop making noise on the streets,,make money” banner.
The cars bought for Mai Titi and Madam Boss are not a present from Java but a Zanu Pf bait to capture the Zimbabwean youth.
Buying expensive cars for rich individuals in a community where there are no functional hospitals, no functional schools, no employment, no food security for over 90% of the population seriously defies common sense and defines pure hypocrisy.
It’s high time as youths we stand against corporate politics and plundering of National resources for the best interest of politicians and government activists.
This kind of mendicious politics is undermining our rights as the youths of Zimbabwe.
It is our choice to defend ourselves and the future of our country as the youths.
By Patrick Guramatunhu | “There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” That Donald Rumsfeld’s, USA Secretary of Defense, explanation on the limitations of intelligence report in February 2002.
Just over a year later, March 2003, the United States led coalition launched a war to overthrow the authoritarian government of Saddam Hussein on the basis of intelligence reports claiming Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. To this day, no weapons of mass destruction were ever found.
Fancy that, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld talked about known knowns and unknown unknowns and left out the most important of the lot; known knowns and unknowns alike all twisted and distorted for the sake of deceiving the naïve and gullible audience – lies. That is to say, people giving false narratives claiming they are based on proven facts when it is all guess work, at best, or deliberate falsehoods, at worst.
Liars are Steve Wonder’s “Misstra Know-It-All”; they will never admit they don’t know and even if they are confronted with the evidence of their mistake, they will find a scapegoat to blame for the mistake. To admit than they don’t or made a mistake is simply unthinkable, it is sacrilege!
Soon after the November 2017 military coup that booted out Robert Mugabe from office, Emmerson Mnangagwa and his cronies were out peddling the lie “Zimbabwe is open for business!” The mantra was to lure back investors who had shied away given the country’s reputation as a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who rigged elections to stay in power.
Of course, the mantra was a lie; other than replace Mugabe and a few other Zanu PF thugs close to him – in a musical chairs game – Mnangagwa had done nothing merit the claim Zimbabwe was a “new dispensation, a Second Republic” with who investors could now return and do business. Investors are a shrewd and savvy lot, they were not to be easily fooled and so stayed away.
But, of course it is not everyone who is shrewd and savvy; indeed the world is full of the naïve and gullible, they constitute the weeds in a long neglected field!
Zimbabwe is stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF thugs because Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends wasted the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the trappings of high office and for five long years Tsvangirai and company were foolish enough to believe they were life-members of Zimbabwe’s ruling elite and so do not bother implementing even one democratic reform. Why dismantle the dictatorship now they were enjoying the benefit of being a member and guaranteed to continue doing so for life!
Tsvangirai and company went into the 2013 elections with no reform in place and yet still very confident they would win the elections because the MDC votes will overwhelm all Zanu PF vote rigging antics. SADC leaders warned the MDC leaders it was folly to participate in the elections with no reforms in place but the warning was ignored. Talk of some one being naïve, MDC leaders did not even have the common sense to ensure there was a verified voters’ roll; Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections the 2013 elections and all elections thereafter.
It is already clear the 2023 elections are not going to be free and fair, Zanu has already rigged at them two years in advance! Last month Patrick Chimanasa, the Zanu PF acting National Political Commissar announced that the party will not be honouring Mnangagwa’s 2018 promise to give the 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote. Mnangagwa won the 2018 elections with 2.4 million votes or 50.8% of that year’s cast votes. How can the election be anything but a mockery if more voters are denied the vote than those voting for the winning candidate!
MDC leaders have been participating in these flawed and illegal elections to win the few gravy train seats Zanu PF offered as bait. At least for the few MDC leaders there is the few gravy train seats; there is absolutely nothing for the ordinary Zimbabweans freely participating in these flawed elections. (Zanu PF has reduce many Zimbabweans especially the rural folk into medial serfs beholden to the overbear Zanu PF thugs and their proxies, traditional leaders, war veterans and party’s youth militia supporter by the securocrats.)
By participating in these flawed elections, the opposition and their supporters, are giving legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF regime and are thus helping to perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship. God knows how many times this has been flagged up but to no avail. It is only by appreciating the scope and depths of the naivety and gullibility of Zimbabwe’s opposition and their as-faithful-as-a-dog supporters that one will understand why Zimbabwe’s democratic experiment had a still birth and why the last 40 years have been a relentless march deeper and deeper into hell.
It was the Greeks, 2 500 years ago, of Greece’s golden age, who gave mankind the Olympic Games and Democracy, government of the people for the people by the people; the two legacies have shaped mankind, help mankind understanding the world around us and, ultimately, to attain so measure of control of the world around us and not just a helpless victim of whatever chance and fate brings.
The Greeks argued that for democracy to work the people must be educated so that they are naïve and gullible and then easily conned by Zanu PF thugs or worse still follow blindly the corrupt and incompetent opposition. The comforting thing about history is that if the Greeks and many other nation after them have been able to attain the same level of education to make democracy work for them Zimbabweans should be able to do the same; it has been long in coming but that is no proof it will never happen.
By arrogantly denying 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote or 30% plus of the potential voters, Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections in advance. Of course, it will be very foolish to participate in any election process whose outcome is predetermined especially when doing so gives democratic legitimacy to the flawed and illegal process. This is one KNOWN KNOWNS that every Zimbabwean out there must know and understand because both Zanu PF and MDC leaders will be out to trick voters into participate for the leaders’ selfish gain.
Just because Zanu PF trick MDC leaders not to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU does not mean we no longer need the reforms implemented. We need free and fair elections as the guarantor of good governance and a government that is always democratically accountable to the people; we must implement all the democratic reforms to guarantee free and fair elections.
Just because MDC leaders were not up to the task of implementing the reforms does not mean there are no Zimbabweans out there who are up to the task. It does not require a team of rock scientists to know what the democratic reforms are and to implement them; just a group of individuals with common sense and the political will to get the job done.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because, for the past 41 years and counting, Zanu PF has rigged elections and got away with it every time. We must put an end to this by refusing to participate in the already rigged the 2023 elections and the election is declared null and void. Zimbabwe must then appoint an interim administration, a new GNU, whose primary task will be to implement all the democratic reforms and lay a solid foundation for a democratic Zimbabwe so the hard work of rebuilding the nation from the ruins Zanu PF created can finally begin! – SOURCE: zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF propaganda network is working round the clock to discourage citizens from voting in the 2023 elections because of fear of a humiliating defeat.
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma says Zanu PF is unelectable.
Responding to attempts by the regime to discourage citizens from voting, Chuma said:
“It is a naked lie being peddled by an election phobic and weak ZANU PF that is bent on blocking citizens from exercising their right to vote.
ZANU PF knows very well that it is unelectable hence the only way they can survive the political tide is through voter apathy hence they propagate this lie that elections will not change anything.
ZANU PF came to power in 1980 as a result of elections.”
He added: ” In 2008 and 2018, the same ZANU PF was brushed aside by MDC in elections.
Elections reflect the will of people and if people participate in their numbers, it makes it difficult for ZANU PF to rig.
Without social contract with the masses it is difficult for the country to move forward and that is why Emmerson Mnangagwa is struggling in all fronts right now.
Critically that social contract is only obtained through elections.”
One billion children experience violence and abuse every year.
That shocking figure has risen even higher during the COVID-19 pandemic. Violence prevention and response services have been disrupted for 1.8 billion children living in more than 100 countries. 1.5 billion young people affected by school closures lost the protection and support that schools often provide.
Measures to contain the virus, along with economic hardship and family stress, have combined to create ‘perfect storm’ conditions for children vulnerable to observing or experiencing physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Despite the benefits of digital connectivity, a life lived more online for learning, socialising and gaming has significantly increased children’s exposure to those who wish to harm them.
Today, we stand at a critical moment for the world’s children. Unless we act now and with urgency, we risk losing a generation of children to the long-term impacts of violence and abuse that will undermine child safety, health, learning and development long after the pandemic subsides. We cannot let that happen.
As the world starts to emerge from the pandemic, we have an opportunity to reimagine and create more peaceful, just and inclusive societies. Now is the time to redouble our collective efforts and translate what we know works into accelerated progress towards the goal of a world where every child grows-up safe, secure and in a nurturing environment.
We must create a world: where every child can grow up and thrive with dignity; where violence and abuse of children is legally outlawed and socially unacceptable; where the relationship between parents and children prevents the intergenerational transmission of violence; where children in every community can safely take advantage of the digital world for learning, playing and socialising; where girls and boys experience stronger developmental and educational outcomes because schools and other learning environments are safe, gender-sensitive, inclusive and supportive; where sport is safe for children; where every effort is made to protect the most vulnerable children from all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse, including those living in situations of conflict and fragility (including climate-related fragility); and where all children can access safe and child-friendly help when they need it.
The moral imperative and economic case for action to end violence against children are compelling. Action today will not only prevent the devastating intergenerational social and economic impacts of violence on children, families and societies; it will also help to address the wider impacts of COVID-19 and support progress towards multiple Sustainable Development Goals.
Together, as leaders of organisations committed to ending violence against children, we urge leaders in government, the private sector, faith communities, multilateral organisations, civil society and sports bodies to seize the moment and be champions of this agenda in their countries, organisations, networks and communities. We call on these leaders to prioritise protecting children in their policies, planning, budgets and communications, and to work together to deliver six game-changing actions to end violence against children:
Ban all forms of violence against children by 2030 Equip parents and caregivers to keep children safe Make the internet safe for children Make schools safe, non-violent and inclusive Protect children from violence in humanitarian settings More investment, better spent
As global organisations working to end violence against children, we will continue to advocate for and invest in effective child protection, promoting solutions that recognise the different ways in which girls and boys experience violence and abuse.
We will collectively develop and share technical resources and guidance for policymakers, practitioners, parents, caregivers and children themselves. And we will support the courageous health, education, child protection and humanitarian professionals working alongside faith leaders, community volunteers, parents and young people to keep children safe during these unprecedented times.
In recent years, we have made significant gains in protecting children from violence.
We must do all we can to keep children safe during the current turmoil, and work together to build back better — to end all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation of children.
Source: World Health Organization
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Sad to hear about the death of Legendary player and coach Steve “Bla Steve” Kwashi. He was also known as “The Cool Dude”
Many of us might not know that I played with Steve Kwashi at Dynamos, he was my number 7 after Shaya retired. He used to call me “Tafi…” and I wondered what that meant.
Years later, I went to his shop In Sport and again he called me “Tafi..” I decided to ask him what the nickname meant.
“You are tough, so I call you Tafi..!” That was Bla Steve for you, always humorous. He was a a good man and easy to relate with.
He played for Chibuku, Black Aces, Zimbabwe Saint’s ( he lived in Harare then Salisbury and travelled to Bulawayo for matches). This shows what a special player he was.
It is such a shame that the horrific accident took away a large part of his football life. Without the accident, he would have become one of the best coaches that Zimbabwe ever produced.
We thank the family for standing with him and looking after him to the best of their abilities. Could we as a Football family have done more to help? I think so but as is usually the case in all football matters.. It is out of sight, out of mind.
We should do better as a football community, stick together in dark times. We should not forget our heroes.
Go well Bla Steve, you fought a good fight. Your football story will live on.
Zimbabweans who support the Big Brother Africa event say Yolanda Makaya must be given a chance to represent the nation because she is the most beautiful lady in Africa.
Zimbabweans are speculating on who is the rightful lady to represent the nation.
“As for me I think Yolanda Makaya is the most beautiful lady in Africa,if she goes to Big Brother Africa honestly she will win,” said Lucia a Big Brother Africa fan.
One artist believes Yolanda Makaya is beautiful but it takes more than beauty to win the event.
Pokello, Rocki, Maneta and Munya Chidzonga represented Zimbabwe at the Big Brother Africa show.
Masvingo – Moneymaking and disguised political actors have invited the wrath of millions of peace loving Zimbabweans to the fore at a time the crisis in the country is escalating.
Posting on various platforms, Zimbabweans openly questioned the morality of chiefs in the country.
“Where is one chief who assists a physically changed or vulnerable person?”
“These chiefs are an extension of Zanu PF ideologies. They are serving their masters only not to masquarade in public as charity givers.
“You hear some saying $10 USA! What for? They are inaccessible these so called chiefs. No one local person can board their cars even in dire need” fumed one observer.
One politician who requested anonymity concurred with the sentiments saying chiefs are failing the people they lead.
“True to type, chiefs are actively involved in politics rather than being custodians of traditional customs.
Zunde raMambo is a personal programme even though they are given inputs by government. These chiefs have benefited more than war veterans, but they continue requesting more” he said.
A survey across provinces shows that chiefs have become number one enemies of rural people because of this Zunde raMambo programme.
Scores of people have blamed chiefs for various corrupt activities involving dethronement and installation of kraalheads and looting of resources that are given to people.
By A Correspondent- Bulawayo is facing a shortage of Liquid Petroleum (LP) Gas which has seen the commodity’s price going up in the few centres where it is being sold.
Sources said the shortage is partly due to disruptions in product importations caused by protests that occurred in South Africa nearly two weeks ago.
LP Gas is among the rising alternative energy sources that members of the public have resorted to. Its price went up from US$1,70 to $2 per kg or R30 from R25 per kg and equivalent using the parallel market rates.
Government is in the process of regulating the prices of LP Gas which is dominated by the private sector. A snap survey by a news yesterday revealed that the commodity was scarce in most centres. Energy and Power Development Minister Zhemu Soda yesterday referred questions to Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera).
“Talk to Zera which is mandated to regulate energy resources of the country,” briefly said Minister Soda.
A comment could not be obtained from Zera as officials did not respond to Chronicle questions. Workers at Value Gas situated at the Kelvin industrial site near the Grain Marketing Board Bulawayo depot said they were only expecting deliveries between Tuesday and Wednesday.
The company is one of the biggest suppliers of LP Gas in Bulawayo where other retailers also buy from. The workers declined to reveal what could have caused the shortages, but the news crew got wind that the shortages are a result of disruptions in the transportation supply chains from South Africa. Value Gas shop closed as they have run out of gas.
“LP Gas is largely imported from South Africa so the protests that occurred in South Africa in the last week or so had a knock on effect on our supplies. Most of the LP Gas companies that still have the product had procured it earlier in the month and it might run out soon. We hope that cargo would soon freely move in South Africa as their situation has stabilised,” said a source in the LP Gas procurement industry.
“The reason why we still have supplies is that we had stocked up. So, when this shortage started. We are now seeing more clients coming to us. This has forced us to marginally increase our prices.”
The news crew observed staff turning away clients at Value Gas. Residents said LP Gas has become too expensive. Residents who live in suburbs that are yet to be connected to the national power grid such as Pelandaba West, Mbundane, Emthunzini and parts of Cowdray Park depend on LP Gas as a source of energy for cooking.
Small-scale LP Gas vendors at community level charge exorbitantly and not accept payments in local currency. One of the residents, Ms Tatenda Gumpo from Pelandaba West said at US$2 per kg, LP Gas was now beyond the reach of many.
“If you consider that most people are not earning foreign currency, LP Gas has become too expensive. This is so mainly for some of us who are not connected to the national power grid and depend on it for cooking. Depending on the size of the family, a 10kg LP Gas might not last you for a long time. Something needs to be done because the reality is that this energy source has become an important part of our lives. It also needs to be subsidised just like what is done with electricity,” said Ms Gumpo.
Another resident Mrs Simiso Nkomo from Nkulumane suburb said it is not only those living in houses which are not connected to power that use LP Gas. She said even houses with a lot of tenants have resorted to LP Gas as a power saving measure.
“Zesa has put a cap on electricity where the first 300 units are cheaper but beyond that electricity is very expensive. So, we had resorted to using LP Gas as an alternative source to complement our energy sources while reducing costs.
But over the past few months the price of LP Gas has continued to increase and we don’t know why Government is not regulating its price as it does with petrol and electricity. It’s no longer sustainable to use LP Gas if its price continues to rise like this,” said Mrs Nkomo.-statemedia
Tinashe Sambiri| Madam Boss, Mai Titi, Panganai Java and the two Mercedes Benz donations, the stage is set…
Passion Java could not buy his own mum a simple TV – she confessed in leaked audios that she had to scrounge for scraps at Parliament as a Mwonzora-Senator to stitch up her debt with the TV Sales and Hire company.
This was at a time her own son was splurging thousands to buy a Mercedes Benz for socialite Madam Boss a few months before.
A year later, he buys another car and a third one for another socialite, Mai Titi. Where is he getting the money from, and what is the agenda, notoriety, foolery[kupusisa vanhu], or both?
The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s plot to use social media influencers to gain political points, has been boosted.
Intelligence sources in Mr Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party have disclosed that social media influencers who include Panganai Java, Madam boss and Mai Titi are already in the game calculated to drum up support for Mr Mnangagwa for the 2023 polls.
Java, who has become Mr Mnangagwa’s social media frontrunner, blessed both Mai Titi and Madam boss with brand new Mercedes Benz vehicles on Friday.
This also comes at a time Madam Boss is collecting mobile numbers of her supposed followers under the guise of a promotion.
“This( the purchasing of vehicles for Madam Boss and Mai Titi) is a scheme calculated to sway social media users’ views as both ladies are seen as great influencers.
It is believed that their influence can therefore contribute to victory in the 2023 polls.
As you know Panganai Java is already campaigning for Number One and the two ladies are expected to join the scheme very soon,” Zanu PF intelligence sources told ZimEye.com.
However, political observers feel Madam Boss and Mai Titi could ruin their respective brands by reflecting allegiance to Mr Mnangagwa and Zanu PF.
” I strongly feel the two ladies should not fall into the Zanu PF trap. The gimmicks and gymnastics we are seeing are meant to neutralize the perceived opposition’s influence on social media. Sadly the two ladies are about to ruin their brands. I sincerely urge them to distance themselves from Zanu PF,” said one political analyst.
By A Correspondent- CAPS United’s 1996 championship winning coach Steve “The Dude” Kwashi has died.
Close family members confirmed Kwashi died at his home in the early hours of today due to suspected Covid-19 complications.
He was 67.
Kwashi led the Green Machine to their first league title in the post-Independence era with his 1996 all-conquering squad. The star-studded side also bagged a number of silverware including the Charity Shield, BP Cup and the Independence Trophy.
His son Fungai Tostao Kwashi, who also played under his father at Makepekepe, said funeral arrangements were still being worked on.
The veteran coach has been down for two decades with permanent physical disabilities he sustained when he was involved in a road accident from Premiership match against Hwange in 2001.
He has had to rely upon his family for support all the years as he struggled for speech and other routine physical activities like walking.
THE opposition MDC Alliance has hinted on a name change as MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora insists on using its name in the 2023 harmonised elections.
This has left the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance party with no other option, but to change its name.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) recently announced that the first party to register under the MDC Alliance banner will enjoy the right to use that name in the coming polls.
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere yesterday told NewsDay: “One thing that I can assure everybody is that the MDC Alliance is the party for the people and goes back to the people who will make decisions. I can assure you that we are building something new, something fresh and that question will ultimately be answered by the citizens themselves.
“We never make elite decisions, and what I can assure you is that the people know their leaders. We can call the MDC Alliance the Anything Party, Peace Party or whatever it is, but people know who we are, and there is no confusion in the minds of the people on who the legitimate opposition is. All I can say is watch this space and that question will soon be answered.”
Mahere said the party was pushing for electoral reforms that included the demilitarisation of Zec.
“This is the time for us to go into elections when we have dealt with all necessary reforms. We want all the reforms; freedom of association, assembly and holding rallies freely. We want people to make sure Zec is fully independent, no older Zec,” she said.
“We want to deal with all those issues. We have our 20 key asks before elections are held; for example, we would like Zec to demilitarise its secretariat, we want alignment of the Electoral Act to the Constitution. We also want the Constitution itself to be implemented, for example, media reforms.
“We want the de-politicisation of traditional leaders, de-politicisation of food aid and all those things that make the electoral playing field fair so that in 2023, we have reforms before elections; but yes, we will participate because we have the people and that is what is Important.”
The MDC Alliance has suffered a lot of setbacks after the MDC-T, with the assistance of the police and the army, took over the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House headquarters of the party in Harare, and several other party assets before recalling over 40 MPs and more than 80 councillors countrywide. – Newsday
By A Correspondent- President Mnangagwa has appointed Justice Mary Zimba-Dube as the new Judge President, while Mrs Fortune Chimbaru becomes the new Deputy Attorney-General.
Justice Zimba-Dube, who has sat as a judge of the High Court for 10 years, fills the vacancy created by the promotion to the Supreme Court of the immediate past Judge President, Justice George Chiweshe.
She is the second woman to occupy the top High Court office after Justice Rita Makarau, who was first promoted to the Supreme Court and then, in May this year, was one of the first five judges appointed to the Constitutional Court.
Mrs Fortune Chimbaru was the Director Civil Division of the Attorney General’s office before her promotion.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Permanent Secretary Mrs Virginia Mabhiza confirmed the latest appointments over the weekend.
Justice Zimba-Dube will be sworn-in as the Judge President tomorrow, according to the Judicial Service Commission secretary Mr Walter Chikwana.
“I can confirm that Justice Zimba-Dube will be sworn in as the JP (Judge President) by the Chief Justice Luke Malaba at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday,” he said.
“By virtue of being the Judge President, she becomes a commissioner of the JSC. This means she will take two oaths, one as the JP and the other as the Commissioner of JSC in terms of the Constitution.”
A veteran lawyer and a judge of the High Court, Justice Zimba-Dube was appointed to the High Court bench in 2011 after serving as president of the Administrative Court since 2004.
On June 29 this year, Justice Zimba-Dube was appointed Acting Judge President when Justice Chiweshe moved up to the Supreme Court to fill one of the vacancies created when the Constitutional and Supreme Courts were split.
Mrs Chimbaru (51) joined the Justice Ministry in March 1994 as a public prosecutor after leaving the University of Zimbabwe.
She prosecuted in different courts until 2008 when she joined the civil division of the Attorney General’s Office as a chief law officer, becoming the director in 2013.
“I am grateful to His Excellency the President Cde ED Mnangagwa for entrusting me to such a noble office,” she said.
“The office of Attorney General is mandated to perform the legal functions in relation to Government as provided in the Constitution and I promise to do my best in the execution of my duties. I am extremely grateful to the Attorney General, Advocate Machaya, for his mentorship and the entire Ministry of Justice team for the team work that has manifested into this great moment.
“I remain a committed team player as we work towards attaining our vision to deliver access to justice for all by 2030.”
Female lawyers hailed President Mnangagwa for being sensitive to gender balance by continuing to appoint women to top judicial offices.
Lawyer Advocate Choice Damiso said: “It is tempting to always want to comment about the appointment of women from a perspective of gender balance and women’s empowerment but when we do that it tends to detract from the merit of the appointees.
“In the case of these two appointments, each one is a seasoned and well respected professional. The fact that they also happen to be women is a plus.”
Adv Damiso said such appointments give young female lawyers great role models to look up to and emulate.
Another lawyer, Mrs Dorcas Atukwa of Atukwa Attorneys, said the appointment of Justice Zimba-Dube and Mrs Chimbaru to the key posts represents an important step towards achievement of gender equality and parity in public appointments as required by the Constitution.
It is a progressive step which we hope that together with meritocracy, will be the standard of appointments in every sphere. You will note that Justice Dube is the second woman to be appointed as Judge President. We applaud the appointment but still think that more can be done and that more women are going to be found in top positions,” said Mrs Atukwa.
By A Correspondent- Five family members of the Mkandla family who died in a horrific car accident in Polokwane, South Africa were yesterday laid to rest at West Park Cemetery in Bulawayo.
The five bodies arrived in the city at about 1.30pm due to delays experienced at the border and a short funeral service was held at Doves Funeral Parlour.
Few speakers addressed a few mourners at the family house in Entumbane as the family tried to follow Covid-19 protocols.
Family representative Mr Isaac Ncube said the death of their children was a life changing moment for the family.
“What is sad is that the father of these children also died in a sad way and his body never entered his home. To have his children also dying in this manner and not being taken to their home is painful to us. We need psychological support, especially the mother. If she doesn’t get counselling it will be a disaster,” said Mr Ncube.
He said it was a difficult moment coming face to face with their bodies but said through the support from the community they managed to find strength.
Another relative Mr Morgan Gumede praised the Government, organisations and members of the public who assisted the family during the dark hour.
“It is an emotional moment for everyone. We lost our children in a very sad manner and having to bury five of our family members will be difficult to accept. We thank our Government and all who supported us to make this task bearable,” said Mr Gumede.
Speaking at the same occasion Entumbane- Emakhandeni Member of Parliament Mr Dingilizwe Tshuma said the death of the five family members touched everyone.
“This really hit everyone hard. It is difficult to accept. The whole country is mourning hence the assistance we received from the Government and various other people from across the world,” said Mr Tshuma.
It was an emotional funeral with some family members fainting during body viewing which was done by few relatives.
Mourners only managed to view four bodies as one of the bodies tested positive for Covid-19 and remained in the mortuary when others were taken to the chapel. The five were laid to rest side by side in four graves with Nomasiko Mkandla being laid to rest with her son on top of her coffin.
Meanwhile, the sixth person who died in the same accident was also buried at Athlone Cemetery yesterday.
The sixth was Vusumuzi ‘Makukisi’ Mhlanga (37) from Magwegwe West in Bulawayo. His relative said the family lost a bread winner as he was also taking care of his brother’s children whose parent’s whereabouts are unknown. His relative Ms Ntando Ndlovu said her brother was a well-known malayitsha and his death was a huge blow to the family.
“I spoke to him around the time the accident happened and he just said wait I will call you just now. I think that is the time the accident happened. He leaves behind his wife Pressure Ndlovu who works at the Registrar’s office and two children. He was also taking care of two of his brother’s children. So the bread winner is gone,” she said.
The Government provided support to the two families with each body receiving ZW$10 000, while the Government also said it will reimburse the money used to transport the bodies from South Africa.
The six died when their car was involved in a head-on collision and during the process another car rammed the side of their car.
They were trapped and emergency services in South Africa had to cut open the car to retrieve them.
Three of them died on the spot while Thulani, the car owner and the one who was driving when the accident happened, was thrown out of the vehicle on impact and died in hospital.
The deceased were named as Nomasiko Mkandla (33) who died together with her four-year-old son Jayden Moabe, Mluleki Mkandla (30), Thulani Mkandla (26), Mthabisi Mkandla (22) the last born in the family and a malayitsha friend identified as Vusumuzi ‘Makukisi’ Mhlanga who was accompanying them.-statemedia
Public Service Commission (PSC) Secretary, Ambassador Jonathan Wutawunashe has been fingered in a scam after he received Soya Bean inputs worth over $150 thousand and failed to plant the seed, TellZim News can report.
Wutawunashe received inputs valued at $156 532 and was expected to deliver the estimated 15 metric tonnes to Grain Marketing Board (GMB) but failed to do so, without any clear explanation.
Wutawunashe was listed together with hundreds of other defaulters in the Sunday Mail edition of July 18, 2021.
GMB is threatening legal action against those who allegedly defrauded the company and is also contemplating blacklisting the said defaulters.
Contacted for comment, Ambassador Wutaunashe denied defaulting but acknowledged that he failed to plant due to incessant rains that were experienced last cropping season, which he said were not friendly to Soya Beans.
“Of course, we were given the seed intending to plant at our farm in Masvingo. When one is given seed under Command Agriculture, you will have to pay for the seed and it is like buying the seed. As you are aware, last season there was excessive rainfall and we were not able to plant the seed. When we failed to plant the seed we notified GMB boss Mutenha,” said Wutawunashe.
Wutawunashe claimed that he still has the inputs and said that he was puzzled when he saw his name on the list, since he had notified Mutenha that he was going to use the inputs in the next cropping season.
“When I got to know that my name was on the list, I called Mutenha clarifying the issue. You can contact Mutenha because he might have made an error by publishing my name on that list since I communicated with him regarding my failure to plant the soya beans. If you communicate with him, he will clarify the issue. It now seems as though we planted the seed, harvested and diverted the produce to another market of which we did not plant at all and the seed is still there at our farm as we were not able to plant so we will wait for the next planting season,” added Wutawunashe.
Contacted for comment, GMB Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rockie Mutenha said he was busy and referred all questions to their Public Relations manager Nixon Kanyemba.
“You can contact Kanyemba who is our public relations manager, I’m in Gokwe right now and I am busy dr,” said Mutenha.
Kanyemba demanded that the questions be sent to his email but when the questions were sent, he denied to comment saying the reporter may fail to come up with a story since there were many stakeholders in the Soya Beans project.
“I can answer your questions but you will fail to come up with any story after all. The production of soya beans is between three major players; government (command agriculture), the financier and GMB as the marketing authority. Some of your questions need to be directed to the other two parties,” said Kanyemba.
Last year, Doctor Rutendo Wutawunashe who is ex-wife to Ambassador Wutawunashe’s elder brother and Family of God founder Andrew Wutawunashe, was also listed on the people who had not paid back the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanization programme loans.
Dr Wutawunashe reportedly received US$18 200 from RBZ but allegedly failed to pay back a single cent.
By A Correspondent- A Zimbabwe Republic Police High School teacher was last week hauled to court to answer to rap_e charges.
Charles Mlambo, 46, was not asked to plead when he appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi.
Allegations are that on July 18 at ZRP Boarding School, the complainant who is 15 years old was having extra lessons for O Level physics in the science lab.
It is alleged that during the course of the lesson, the complainant advised her teacher Mlambo that the room was very cold and he suggested that they may use his office which was in the lab.
The two went into the office and when they got in Mlambo removed his trousers and forcibly removed the victim’s jeans.
The victim tried to stop him but he forced himself on her and rap_ed her.
The complainant told her biology teacher about the incident and a police report was made.
The Zanu-PF-military conflation came under spotlight last Thursday when opposition senators grilled Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri over the ruling party’s abuse of the army to retain political power.
This came after Zanu-PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa recently bragged that the party and the army were bonded by the liberation struggle background.
“This unbreakable continuity between the liberation struggle and Zanu-PF” and “any notion which seeks to break this bond should be rejected outright,” Chinamasa said last month.
In Senate last Thursday, MDCT Senator Morgen Komichi asked the Defence minister explain to the House why senior Zanu-PF officials continued to brag about the military’s active role in civilian matters.
“My question and my concern come from the statement which was in circulation for the past two weeks in which our dear friend, Cde Chinamasa, was attributed to have said Zanu-PF and the army are one, and you cannot separate them,” Komichi said.
“Chinamasa reversed the gains of freedom and many people got worried because of that statement. However, this thing was on social media. Is it true? I think the nation wants to hear from the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs.”
Muchinguri-Kashiri said Chinamasa’s utterances should not worry anyone as it was just a case of a politician making political statements.
“You also went further to quote a statement that was issued by Cde Chinamasa, who is not part of the Executive, and statements that politicians make are something that I cannot defend,” Muchinguri-Kashiri said.
“This is not a position of government. He is a politician who can make whatever statement he feels, but had it come from the Minister of Defence and War Veterans, then you would have every reason to worry,” she said.
Muchinguri-Kashiri said the correct position regarding the military’s role was recently spelt out by Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Phillip Valerio Sibanda, who said the army had no role in party politics. He said this despite top military officials having in the past openly campaigned for Zanu-PF.
The military played a key role in blocking the late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai from assuming power despite winning against the late former President Robert Mugabe in the 2008 elections, and in November 2017, intervened in the Zanu-PF internal succession battles to facilitate Mugabe’s ouster by his mentee Emmerson Mnangagwa.
By A Correspondent- The Zanu PF-military conflation came under spotlight last Thursday when opposition senators grilled Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri over the ruling party’s abuse of the army to retain political power.
This came after Zanu PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa recently bragged that Zanu PF would continue to work with the military because they were inseparable.
He told journalists that the party and the army were bonded by the liberation struggle background. Observers have warned that Zanu PF is already preparing for a violent 2023 election campaign season. The military has on several occasions intervened when the ruling party’s grip on power is threatened, resulting in deadly incidences of political violence during elections.
“This unbreakable continuity between the liberation struggle and Zanu PF” and “any notion which seeks to break this bond should be rejected outright,” Chinamasa said last month.
In Senate last Thursday, MDC-T Senator Morgen Komichi asked the Defence minister to explain to the House why senior Zanu PF officials continued to brag about the military’s active role in civilian matters.
“My question and my concern come from the statement which was in circulation for the past two weeks in which our dear friend, Cde Chinamasa, was attributed to have said Zanu PF and the army are one, and you cannot separate them,” Komichi said.
“Chinamasa reversed the gains of freedom and many people got worried because of that statement. However, this thing was on social media. Is it true? I think the nation wants to hear from the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs.”
Muchinguri-Kashiri said Chinamasa’s utterances should not worry anyone as it was just a case of a politician making political statements.
“You also went further to quote a statement that was issued by Cde Chinamasa, who is not part of the Executive, and statements that politicians make are something that I cannot defend,” Muchinguri-Kashiri said.
“This is not a position of government. He is a politician who can make whatever statement he feels, but had it come from the Minister of Defence and War Veterans, then you would have every reason to worry,” she said.
Muchinguri-Kashiri said the correct position regarding the military’s role was recently spelt out by Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Phillip Valerio Sibanda, who said the army had no role in party politics. He said this despite top military officials having in the past openly campaigned for Zanu PF.
The military played a key role in blocking the late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai from assuming power despite winning against the late former President Robert Mugabe in the 2008 elections, and in November 2017, intervened in the Zanu PF internal succession battles to facilitate Mugabe’s ouster by his mentee Emmerson Mnangagwa.
By A Correspondent- The opposition MDC Alliance has hinted on a name change as MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora insists on using its name in the 2023 harmonised elections.
This has left the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance party with no other option, but to change its name.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) recently announced that the first party to register under the MDC Alliance banner will enjoy the right to use that name in the coming polls.
“One thing that I can assure everybody is that the MDC Alliance is the party for the people and goes back to the people who will make decisions. I can assure you that we are building something new, something fresh and that question will ultimately be answered by the citizens themselves.
“We never make elite decisions, and what I can assure you is that the people know their leaders. We can call the MDC Alliance the Anything Party, Peace Party or whatever it is, but people know who we are, and there is no confusion in the minds of the people on who the legitimate opposition is. All I can say is watch this space and that question will soon be answered.”
Mahere said the party was pushing for electoral reforms that included the demilitarisation of Zec.
“This is the time for us to go into elections when we have dealt with all necessary reforms. We want all the reforms; freedom of association, assembly and holding rallies freely. We want people to make sure Zec is fully independent, no older Zec,” she said.
“We want to deal with all those issues. We have our 20 key asks before elections are held; for example, we would like Zec to demilitarise its secretariat, we want alignment of the Electoral Act to the Constitution. We also want the Constitution itself to be implemented, for example, media reforms.
“We want the de-politicisation of traditional leaders, de-politicisation of food aid and all those things that make the electoral playing field fair so that in 2023, we have reforms before elections; but yes, we will participate because we have the people and that is what is important.”
The MDC Alliance has suffered a lot of setbacks after the MDC-T, with the assistance of the police and the army, took over the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House headquarters of the party in Harare, and several other party assets before recalling over 40 MPs and more than 80 councillors countrywide.
By Patrick Guramatunhu- “There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” That Donald Rumsfeld’s, USA Secretary of Defense, explanation on the limitations of intelligence report in February 2002.
Just over a year later, March 2003, the United States led coalition launched a war to overthrow the authoritarian government of Saddam Hussein on the basis of intelligence reports claiming Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. To this day, no weapons of mass destruction were ever found.
Fancy that, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld talked about known knowns and unknown unknowns and left out the most important of the lot; known knowns and unknowns alike all twisted and distorted for the sake of deceiving the naïve and gullible audience – lies. That is to say, people giving false narratives claiming they are based on proven facts when it is all guess work, at best, or deliberate falsehoods, at worst.
Liars are Steve Wonder’s “Misstra Know-It-All”; they will never admit they don’t know and even if they are confronted with the evidence of their mistake, they will find a scapegoat to blame for the mistake. To admit than they don’t or made a mistake is simply unthinkable, it is sacrilege!
Soon after the November 2017 military coup that booted out Robert Mugabe from office, Emmerson Mnangagwa and his cronies were out peddling the lie “Zimbabwe is open for business!” The mantra was to lure back investors who had shied away given the country’s reputation as a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who rigged elections to stay in power.
Of course, the mantra was a lie; other than replace Mugabe and a few other Zanu PF thugs close to him – in a musical chairs game – Mnangagwa had done nothing merit the claim Zimbabwe was a “new dispensation, a Second Republic” with who investors could now return and do business. Investors are a shrewd and savvy lot, they were not to be easily fooled and so stayed away.
But, of course it is not everyone who is shrewd and savvy; indeed the world is full of the naïve and gullible, they constitute the weeds in a long neglected field!
Zimbabwe is stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF thugs because Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends wasted the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the trappings of high office and for five long years Tsvangirai and company were foolish enough to believe they were life-members of Zimbabwe’s ruling elite and so do not bother implementing even one democratic reform. Why dismantle the dictatorship now they were enjoying the benefit of being a member and guaranteed to continue doing so for life!
Tsvangirai and company went into the 2013 elections with no reform in place and yet still very confident they would win the elections because the MDC votes will overwhelm all Zanu PF vote rigging antics. SADC leaders warned the MDC leaders it was folly to participate in the elections with no reforms in place but the warning was ignored. Talk of some one being naïve, MDC leaders did not even have the common sense to ensure there was a verified voters’ roll; Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections the 2013 elections and all elections thereafter.
It is already clear the 2023 elections are not going to be free and fair, Zanu has already rigged at them two years in advance! Last month Patrick Chimanasa, the Zanu PF acting National Political Commissar announced that the party will not be honouring Mnangagwa’s 2018 promise to give the 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote. Mnangagwa won the 2018 elections with 2.4 million votes or 50.8% of that year’s cast votes. How can the election be anything but a mockery if more voters are denied the vote than those voting for the winning candidate!
MDC leaders have been participating in these flawed and illegal elections to win the few gravy train seats Zanu PF offered as bait. At least for the few MDC leaders there is the few gravy train seats; there is absolutely nothing for the ordinary Zimbabweans freely participating in these flawed elections. (Zanu PF has reduce many Zimbabweans especially the rural folk into medial serfs beholden to the overbear Zanu PF thugs and their proxies, traditional leaders, war veterans and party’s youth militia supporter by the securocrats.)
By participating in these flawed elections, the opposition and their supporters, are giving legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF regime and are thus helping to perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship. God knows how many times this has been flagged up but to no avail. It is only by appreciating the scope and depths of the naivety and gullibility of Zimbabwe’s opposition and their as-faithful-as-a-dog supporters that one will understand why Zimbabwe’s democratic experiment had a still birth and why the last 40 years have been a relentless march deeper and deeper into hell.
It was the Greeks, 2 500 years ago, of Greece’s golden age, who gave mankind the Olympic Games and Democracy, government of the people for the people by the people; the two legacies have shaped mankind, help mankind understanding the world around us and, ultimately, to attain so measure of control of the world around us and not just a helpless victim of whatever chance and fate brings.
The Greeks argued that for democracy to work the people must be educated so that they are naïve and gullible and then easily conned by Zanu PF thugs or worse still follow blindly the corrupt and incompetent opposition. The comforting thing about history is that if the Greeks and many other nation after them have been able to attain the same level of education to make democracy work for them Zimbabweans should be able to do the same; it has been long in coming but that is no proof it will never happen.
By arrogantly denying 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote or 30% plus of the potential voters, Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections in advance. Of course, it will be very foolish to participate in any election process whose outcome is predetermined especially when doing so gives democratic legitimacy to the flawed and illegal process. This is one KNOWN KNOWNS that every Zimbabwean out there must know and understand because both Zanu PF and MDC leaders will be out to trick voters into participate for the leaders’ selfish gain.
Just because Zanu PF trick MDC leaders not to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU does not mean we no longer need the reforms implemented. We need free and fair elections as the guarantor of good governance and a government that is always democratically accountable to the people; we must implement all the democratic reforms to guarantee free and fair elections.
Just because MDC leaders were not up to the task of implementing the reforms does not mean there are no Zimbabweans out there who are up to the task. It does not require a team of rock scientists to know what the democratic reforms are and to implement them; just a group of individuals with common sense and the political will to get the job done.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because, for the past 41 years and counting, Zanu PF has rigged elections and got away with it every time. We must put an end to this by refusing to participate in the already rigged the 2023 elections and the election is declared null and void. Zimbabwe must then appoint an interim administration, a new GNU, whose primary task will be to implement all the democratic reforms and lay a solid foundation for a democratic Zimbabwe so the hard work of rebuilding the nation from the ruins Zanu PF created can finally begin!
The bodies of four of the five people who drowned after a boat capsized in Lake Kariba on Friday morning are still to be found, but the man, who is also believed to be the boat owner, has been arrested for negligence.
Clever Muwengwa now faces at least four charges including culpable homicide, operating an unregistered boat and carrying passengers who had no life jackets.
Muwengwa is believed to be the owner of the boat and was steering it at the time of the tragedy.
He managed to escape together with two others after they grabbed three of the five life jackets on the boat.
At least five passengers, including a four-year-old boy, are now believed to have drowned, although so far only one body has been recovered. Police sources confirmed the development adding that a team was dispatched yesterday.
A team went again to the area where the accident happened on Friday morning and it remains to be seen when they return what they would have found, said a source.
The driver of the boat was arrested on the same day and will be charged with culpable homicide as he was not licensed, his boat was not registered and he was carrying passengers who had no life jackets.
The accident occurred on Friday when a boat with eight people along with their baggage capsized after being hit by a wave while on its way to Kariba Town from Nyaodza Fishing Camp.
Small boats are the kombis of Lake Kariba, travelling to and from the fishing camps with fishermen, buyers and traders to supply people in the camps and trade with them.
Overloading is the order of the day as people hang precariously on the baggage and many have warned that it was only a matter of time before such an accident occurred.
“A lot of illegal and dangerous things are happening in the lake and authorities should help to bring sanity,” said Kariba resident Mr Samu Mawawo.
There is a lot of overloading of these small boats which should be carrying not more than five people, but you find more people and baggage including fish, increasing chances of accidents.
A fisherman who identified himself only as Mr Manzungu said it was unfortunate that accidents were occurring when a full-moon fishing stoppage was in force, as otherwise there would have been fishing boats nearby that could have raced to the rescue almost immediately.
“There is a seven-day fishing ban each month around the full moon to reduce fishing nights and allow fish to breed.
“We remain concerned that these accidents are occurring during the time when no-one should be on the lake fishing because of the full moon regulations in place,” said Mr Manzungu.
“Let rules be applied and followed by everyone because how does it work that you stay at home and discover that someone has been fishing or transporting fish.”
By A Correspondent- Residents throughout the country’s major cities and towns have expressed concern over crowding at vaccination centres, saying this could aid the spread of COVID-19 due to long and chaotic queues.
Several people in the country are thronging vaccination centres due to the surge in the number of deaths triggered by the third wave and the more deadly Delta variant of the pandemic.
Chitungwiza Progressive Residents Association secretary-general Gift Kurupati said the long-winding queues at vaccination centres had become COVID-19 super spreaders.
“Our appeal to government is to put systems in place, such as online registration or application for those that wish to be vaccinated so that they do not have to queue and are given a date to come and get the jab at the vaccination centre,” Kurupati said.
He alleged that he personally contracted COVID-19 while in a vaccination queue.
Harare Residents Trust executive director Precious Shumba said: “When residents go to the clinics to queue for vaccines, they also face the risk of contracting the virus if there is no physical distancing, no sanitisation, and if people do not wear masks. It is most unfortunate that a lot of people are relaxed around each other thereby making it difficult to control the spread of COVID-19.”
Community Working Group on Health executive director Itai Rusike said the current shortage of vaccines at most vaccination centres resulted in people stampeding to get jabs as the COVID-19 infections, hospitalisation and deaths soared.
“Sadly, some people may even get infected with the coronavirus while waiting in the poorly organised vaccination queues as there is very poor observation of the WHO recommended guidelines, especially physical distancing and wearing of facemasks as people stampede to get vaccinated,” Rusike said.
On July 24, the country recorded 89 COVID-19 deaths and 1 591 new infections.
Cumulatively, 1 438 890 people have received the first dose while 677 774 have received the second dose, showing a discrepancy between people that got the first jab compared to those who have completed the exercise.
Yesterday, government received four million more doses from China, which included two million Sinopharm and two million Sinovac jabs.
A survey by NewsDay showed that most vaccination centres had very long winding queues of people who spend several hours without observing social distancing as prescribed in World Health Organisation (WHO) prevention guidelines.
Queues were only being controlled inside the vaccination centres where measures are strictly observed. The situation has also been exacerbated by shortages of vaccines and cards, which have resulted in several people being turned, back without getting the doses.
Some vaccination centres were taking a limited number of about 30 people per day, which sometimes results in stampedes.
Health deputy minister John Mangwiro said he could not comment on the matter as he was locked in a COVID-19 national taskforce meeting, while COVID-19 national co-ordinator Agnes Mahomva’s numbers were not reachable.
But Mahomva recently said 90% of deaths in the country constituted unvaccinated people.
The country aims to inoculate 60% of its adult population to achieve herd immunity.
Zimbabwe has ordered all government workers to be vaccinated, or they lose some of their benefits.
During a post-Cabinet media briefing last Tuesday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said government was concerned about the surge in COVID-19 cases in the country.-newsday
By A Correspondent- The man who was shot in a tavern while drinking beer was buried on Saturday, 24 July.
Absalom Hlabangwane (43) was buried at Tshwara Cemetery in Mmakau, North West.
He died on 16 July following being shot on 23 April in Ramogodi.
Daily Sun published the story, headlined: “Love for beer got him killed” on 18 July.
According to the family, he was shot in the stomach and right leg by thugs.
His cousin Kate Hlabangwane (31) said the family was still trying to cope with the loss, but it was difficult as they were still heartbroken.
“This is hard for us to go through. We are left heartbroken, and the justice system has also failed us.”
Kate added that Absalom was full of jokes, and she would always remember him.
She said the police had failed them as a family as they had not visited since the incident.
“We want the thugs to rot in jail because of what they did to Absalom,” she said.
His uncle Vimba Hlabangwane (65) said: “I’m trying to accept that my nephew has gone, at least I will now have closure. We are still in the dark about the matter.”
A 21-year-old resident, who was present at the tavern when Absalom was shot, said three men armed with firearms came in and one shot the deceased in the stomach. The bullet went through and hit his leg.
The woman said she knew one of the thugs “as he lives around the area”.
Another community member said the thugs, who were always terrorising the community, needed to be removed from society.
By A Correspondent MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora said Nelson Chamisa the MDC-Alliance President should drop the party name and find another one.
The MDC-T leader said his party was the only legitimate owner and rights holder to the name first used in 1999.
Speaking during a question and answer session on HSTV, an Alpha Media online radio and television platform, Mwonzora said his party was the only legitimate holder of the name MDC.
“I know only one legitimate holder of that name and that is the MDC-T, it is also the legitimate holder of the name MDC Alliance,” Mwonzora said.
“I am not dreaming about this, it is documented. I don’t know what other leaders are going to do, but you are going to find our political party on the ballot paper,” he added.
He told MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to look for a new name for his political party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
“Our aim is not to stop people from contesting the election; people who want to contest the election must be free to contest an election,” he said.
“People who have formed their own party must have the courage of using the names of their new political parties.”
The MDC has splinted several times since its formation in 1999. In 2005, its split led to the formation of MDC by Welshman Ncube. Later, Job Sikhala formed his MDC99, but none of them were dragged to court over name use.
But Mwonzora said he would deal with anyone who attempted to use the name MDC during an election.
“We are definitely going to be the users of the MDC name because it is in black and white, anybody who wants to steal our name we will deal with that,” he said.
There has been uncertainty in Chamisa’s camp over its continued use of the name MDC Alliance after Mwonzora said the name belongs to his party because it was the party that went into an alliance with the other parties.
MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti has, however, come out saying there was no need to get a new name, but instead, they could ditch the affix Alliance and adopt a Chamisa as the affix.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has, however, said it was more concerned with symbols than party names when accepting nomination papers for the purposes of
elections.
The Zimbabwe Elections Support Network has been advocating for laws to register political parties in order to allow regulation for the purposes of determining those entitled to receive public funds.
By A Correspondent- Marry Mubaiwa Chiwenga, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has opened up on her failed relationship ahead of her 40th birthday.
The former model insisted that she did not marry her powerful husband for his wealth. Instead, she says she was attracted by the wealth in his heart, his gentleness and his love and knowledge of God.
The former model and Vice President Chiwenga were married for 10 years in a union that produced three children. However, the two are currently engaged in a highly contentious divorce after things soured in 2019.
Seemingly reminiscing on her life and relationship ahead of her birthday, Marry posted on social media.
As I turn 40 on 22, July, I thank God for the life that he has thrown @Me, the weight I have had to carry, the humiliation that I suffered at the hands of my other half, the baseless accusations and the weight of his instructions and authority. Evil eye.
I didn’t marry the material wealth, I married the wealth that was in his heart, the gentle touch of his hand, the knowledge of God, his understanding of what my heart wanted, he understood the person that I was, the me that I am today, focused, forgiving and forward-thinking.
As I turn 40 tomorrow, I thank God for the life that he has thrown @me, the weight I have had to carry, the humiliation that I suffered at the hands of my other half, the baseless accusations and the weight of his instructions and authority. Evil eye pic.twitter.com/FzVbVCfXVX — Marry Mubaiwa-Chiwenga (@MarryMubaiwa) July 21, 2021 I didn’t marry the material wealth, I married the wealth that was in his heart, the gentle touch of his hand, the knowledge of God,his understanding of what my heart wanted, he understood the person that i was, the me that I am today, focused, forgiving and forward-thinking. — Marry Mubaiwa-Chiwenga (@MarryMubaiwa) July 21, 2021 Marry also expressed her anguish and heartbreak at her failure to see her children. She accused the Vice President of abusing his powers as a senior public office holder by denying her the right to see her three children aged 10, 9 and 7. I am going to be 4ty tomorrow and just wishing and wanting and waiting for my children Tendai, Christian and Michael to be with me. What kind of a father denies his children which he claims to love the right to be with their mother and vice-versa. Where is God when you need him? I am going to be 4ty tomorrow and just wishing and wanting and waiting for my children Tendai, Christian and Michael to be with me. What kind of a father denies his children which he claims to love the right to be with their mother and vice-versa. Where is God when you need him? According to Marry, the marriage between the two broke down somewhere between July and November 2019 at the time when Vice President Chiwenga was critical and fighting for his life following allegations that he could have been poisoned. Since then Marry has been arrested several times and is facing attempted murder charges. This is after the Vice President alleged that Marry tried to kill him while he lay incapacitated in a hospital in South Africa. She is also facing charges of money laundering and externalizing foreign currency. The embattled Marry and Vice President Chiwenga are also engaged in a messy child custody battle. She has been accused of being an unfit mother and a drug addict who is psychologically unwell to look after children.
By A Correspondent-THe Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T party has started pushing Parliament to ensure that pending by-elections are suspended indefinitely, claiming that the Covid-19 pandemic has made the playing field uneven.
Mwonzora, who in the past year has been manoeuvring to be the main opposition leader in Zimbabwe, last month met President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga under controversial circumstances to push for the postponement of the polls.
When The Standard exposed the plan, he flatly denied that he was pushing for the elections to be scrapped.
It has since emerged that MDC-T leaders introduced the proposal to delay the elections in Parliament’s peace and security thematic committee last week following a presentation by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).
MDC-T is said to be wary of elections because it might lose its newfound power in a direct contest with the mainstream opposition party MDC Alliance and the ruling Zanu PF.
Mwonzora’s party recalled dozens of MDC Alliance legislators and councillors as he wrestled for the control of the party with Nelson Chamisa.
MDC-T chairperson Morgen Komichi confirmed to The Standard the Parliament process and defended the move, saying the Covid-19 pandemic had handed Zanu PF an unfair advantage in election preparations.
“It’s not about elections, it’s about the pandemic and whether we will be able to have free and fair elections,” Komichi said.
“What is happening at the moment is, no other political party is allowed to do political programmes except Zanu PF.
“Every day, we see Zanu PF addressing its provincial meetings and it will be foolhardy for political parties to clamour for elections during this pandemic.
“That is an argument based on what ZEC is doing now that points to free and fair and democratic processes.”
Komichi said holding elections now would only favour Zanu PF.
“You can’t call for opening up for campaigning now because if you start the campaign, you will plunge Zimbabwe into what happened in India that went into elections and experienced over
200 000 new cases every day for more than a month.
“Many countries, I think over 80 of them, have put elections on hold to deal with the pandemic.
“It is a debate Zimbabweans must start talking about now, especially the opposition political parties because you will call for elections without necessary reforms then start calling the process unfair.”
Komichi said elections should only come after reforms that include those guaranteeing freedom of assembly and ensuring the independence of ZEC, among other issues.
But the MDC Alliance said the push by the MDC-T to stop elections was motivated by a sinister agenda.
“We gathered that as well and it is very ludicrous and it sets a very bad precedent,” said MDC Alliance secretary for elections Ian Makone.
“There are countries, including Zambia and South Africa, who have not abandoned elections because of the pandemic.
“What they have in fact done is to take measures that enable people to exercise their right in a safe manner.
“We are supportive of all efforts to curtail the pandemic, but we are also sticklers for the provisions of our own constitution.
“Those advocating for postponement, I dare say, have reasons other than the pandemic and they should be exposed for what they are.”
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition director Blessing Vava said suspending the elections was against the country’s constitution and would plunge Zimbabwe into a constitutional crisis.
“What we need at the moment is to assess how other countries, namely Tanzania and Malawi, held elections under the same Covid-19 pandemic. Zambia will also be holding its elections next month,” Vava said.
“It’s an illegal proposal pushed by those without a political base, they know they will perform badly because the moment of truth is reckoning.
“They are afraid of defeat because they have been surviving politically at the mercy of the courts and the ruling party.”
Solomon Bobosibunu of the Election Resource Centre said: “Our position is that suspension or non-holding of elections cannot be done by ZEC alone neither can it be through an instruction from the executive through a statutory instrument.
By A Correspondent- Marry Mubaiwa Chiwenga, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has opened up on her failed relationship ahead of her 40th birthday.
The former model insisted that she did not marry her powerful husband for his wealth. Instead, she says she was attracted by the wealth in his heart, his gentleness and his love and knowledge of God.
The former model and Vice President Chiwenga were married for 10 years in a union that produced three children. However, the two are currently engaged in a highly contentious divorce after things soured in 2019.
Seemingly reminiscing on her life and relationship ahead of her birthday, Marry posted on social media.
As I turn 40 on 22, July, I thank God for the life that he has thrown @Me, the weight I have had to carry, the humiliation that I suffered at the hands of my other half, the baseless accusations and the weight of his instructions and authority. Evil eye.
I didn’t marry the material wealth, I married the wealth that was in his heart, the gentle touch of his hand, the knowledge of God, his understanding of what my heart wanted, he understood the person that I was, the me that I am today, focused, forgiving and forward-thinking.
As I turn 40 tomorrow, I thank God for the life that he has thrown @me, the weight I have had to carry, the humiliation that I suffered at the hands of my other half, the baseless accusations and the weight of his instructions and authority. Evil eye pic.twitter.com/FzVbVCfXVX — Marry Mubaiwa-Chiwenga (@MarryMubaiwa) July 21, 2021 I didn’t marry the material wealth, I married the wealth that was in his heart, the gentle touch of his hand, the knowledge of God,his understanding of what my heart wanted, he understood the person that i was, the me that I am today, focused, forgiving and forward-thinking. — Marry Mubaiwa-Chiwenga (@MarryMubaiwa) July 21, 2021 Marry also expressed her anguish and heartbreak at her failure to see her children. She accused the Vice President of abusing his powers as a senior public office holder by denying her the right to see her three children aged 10, 9 and 7. I am going to be 4ty tomorrow and just wishing and wanting and waiting for my children Tendai, Christian and Michael to be with me. What kind of a father denies his children which he claims to love the right to be with their mother and vice-versa. Where is God when you need him? I am going to be 4ty tomorrow and just wishing and wanting and waiting for my children Tendai, Christian and Michael to be with me. What kind of a father denies his children which he claims to love the right to be with their mother and vice-versa. Where is God when you need him? According to Marry, the marriage between the two broke down somewhere between July and November 2019 at the time when Vice President Chiwenga was critical and fighting for his life following allegations that he could have been poisoned. Since then Marry has been arrested several times and is facing attempted murder charges. This is after the Vice President alleged that Marry tried to kill him while he lay incapacitated in a hospital in South Africa. She is also facing charges of money laundering and externalizing foreign currency. The embattled Marry and Vice President Chiwenga are also engaged in a messy child custody battle. She has been accused of being an unfit mother and a drug addict who is psychologically unwell to look after children.
By A Correspondent MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora said he would deal with anyone who would have attempted to use his party name in the next elections.
The MDC-T leader said his party was the only legitimate owner and rights holder to the name first used in 1999.
Speaking during a question and answer session on HSTV, an Alpha Media online radio and television platform, Mwonzora said his party was the only legitimate holder of the name MDC.
“I know only one legitimate holder of that name and that is the MDC-T, it is also the legitimate holder of the name MDC Alliance,” Mwonzora said.
“I am not dreaming about this, it is documented. I don’t know what other leaders are going to do, but you are going to find our political party on the ballot paper,” he added.
He told MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to look for a new name for his political party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
“Our aim is not to stop people from contesting the election; people who want to contest the election must be free to contest an election,” he said.
“People who have formed their own party must have the courage of using the names of their new political parties.”
The MDC has splinted several times since its formation in 1999. In 2005, its split led to the formation of MDC by Welshman Ncube. Later, Job Sikhala formed his MDC99, but none of them were dragged to court over name use.
But Mwonzora said he would deal with anyone who attempted to use the name MDC during an election.
“We are definitely going to be the users of the MDC name because it is in black and white, anybody who wants to steal our name we will deal with that,” he said.
There has been uncertainty in Chamisa’s camp over its continued use of the name MDC Alliance after Mwonzora said the name belongs to his party because it was the party that went into an alliance with the other parties.
MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti has, however, come out saying there was no need to get a new name, but instead, they could ditch the affix Alliance and adopt a Chamisa as the affix.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has, however, said it was more concerned with symbols than party names when accepting nomination papers for the purposes of
elections.
The Zimbabwe Elections Support Network has been advocating for laws to register political parties in order to allow regulation for the purposes of determining those entitled to receive public funds.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the struggle for democracy is not instant coffee.
President Chamisa made the remarks on Saturday…
Commenting on attempts by the Zanu PF regime to force people to get vaccinated, President Chamisa said persuasion should be used- not coercion.
Said President Chamisa: “Nothing comes without a fight. Easy come easy go. We are almost there. Struggles are not instant coffee …
Command vaccination is wrong! Vaccination must be a choice. It must be voluntary…
Vaccination can be achieved through effective communication and persuasive encouragement.”
He added :” NEW POLITICS..We must get rid of the politics of propaganda, violence &looting.We must fix what is broken& rotten in our politics.Fresh ideas & accountable leadership built around the community and citizens is essential. It’s time for COMMUNITY EMBEDDED LEADERSHIP.
The best revenge is to resist enmity! Resist the temptation to hate, hurt and hit back.”
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the struggle for democracy is not instant coffee.
President Chamisa made the remarks on Saturday…
Commenting on attempts by the Zanu PF regime to force people to get vaccinated, President Chamisa said persuasion should be used- not coercion.
Said President Chamisa: “Nothing comes without a fight. Easy come easy go. We are almost there. Struggles are not instant coffee …
Command vaccination is wrong! Vaccination must be a choice. It must be voluntary…
Vaccination can be achieved through effective communication and persuasive encouragement.”
He added :” NEW POLITICS..We must get rid of the politics of propaganda, violence &looting.We must fix what is broken& rotten in our politics.Fresh ideas & accountable leadership built around the community and citizens is essential. It’s time for COMMUNITY EMBEDDED LEADERSHIP.
The best revenge is to resist enmity! Resist the temptation to hate, hurt and hit back.”
Tinashe Sambiri| Madam Boss, Mai Titi, Panganai Java and the two Mercedes Benz donations, the stage is set…
Passion Java could not buy his own mum a simple TV – she confessed in leaked audios that she had to scrounge for scraps at Parliament as a Mwonzora-Senator to stitch up her debt with the TV Sales and Hire company.
This was at a time her own son was splurging thousands to buy a Mercedes Benz for socialite Madam Boss a few months before.
A year later, he buys another car and a third one for another socialite, Mai Titi. Where is he getting the money from, and what is the agenda, notoriety, foolery[kupusisa vanhu], or both?
The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s plot to use social media influencers to gain political points, has been boosted.
Intelligence sources in Mr Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party have disclosed that social media influencers who include Panganai Java, Madam boss and Mai Titi are already in the game calculated to drum up support for Mr Mnangagwa for the 2023 polls.
Java, who has become Mr Mnangagwa’s social media frontrunner, blessed both Mai Titi and Madam boss with brand new Mercedes Benz vehicles on Friday.
This also comes at a time Madam Boss is collecting mobile numbers of her supposed followers under the guise of a promotion.
“This( the purchasing of vehicles for Madam Boss and Mai Titi) is a scheme calculated to sway social media users’ views as both ladies are seen as great influencers.
It is believed that their influence can therefore contribute to victory in the 2023 polls.
As you know Panganai Java is already campaigning for Number One and the two ladies are expected to join the scheme very soon,” Zanu PF intelligence sources told ZimEye.com.
However, political observers feel Madam Boss and Mai Titi could ruin their respective brands by reflecting allegiance to Mr Mnangagwa and Zanu PF.
” I strongly feel the two ladies should not fall into the Zanu PF trap. The gimmicks and gymnastics we are seeing are meant to neutralize the perceived opposition’s influence on social media. Sadly the two ladies are about to ruin their brands. I sincerely urge them to distance themselves from Zanu PF,” said one political analyst.
Tinashe Sambiri| Madam Boss, Mai Titi, Panganai Java and the two Mercedes Benz donations, the stage is set…
Passion Java could not buy his own mum a simple TV – she confessed in leaked audios that she had to scrounge for scraps at Parliament as a Mwonzora-Senator to stitch up her debt with the TV Sales and Hire company.
This was at a time her own son was splurging thousands to buy a Mercedes Benz for socialite Madam Boss a few months before.
A year later, he buys another car and a third one for another socialite, Mai Titi. Where is he getting the money from, and what is the agenda, notoriety, foolery[kupusisa vanhu], or both?
The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s plot to use social media influencers to gain political points, has been boosted.
Intelligence sources in Mr Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party have disclosed that social media influencers who include Panganai Java, Madam boss and Mai Titi are already in the game calculated to drum up support for Mr Mnangagwa for the 2023 polls.
Java, who has become Mr Mnangagwa’s social media frontrunner, blessed both Mai Titi and Madam boss with brand new Mercedes Benz vehicles on Friday.
This also comes at a time Madam Boss is collecting mobile numbers of her supposed followers under the guise of a promotion.
“This( the purchasing of vehicles for Madam Boss and Mai Titi) is a scheme calculated to sway social media users’ views as both ladies are seen as great influencers.
It is believed that their influence can therefore contribute to victory in the 2023 polls.
As you know Panganai Java is already campaigning for Number One and the two ladies are expected to join the scheme very soon,” Zanu PF intelligence sources told ZimEye.com.
However, political observers feel Madam Boss and Mai Titi could ruin their respective brands by reflecting allegiance to Mr Mnangagwa and Zanu PF.
” I strongly feel the two ladies should not fall into the Zanu PF trap. The gimmicks and gymnastics we are seeing are meant to neutralize the perceived opposition’s influence on social media. Sadly the two ladies are about to ruin their brands. I sincerely urge them to distance themselves from Zanu PF,” said one political analyst.
By Patrick Guramatunhu | “There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” That Donald Rumsfeld’s, USA Secretary of Defense, explanation on the limitations of intelligence report in February 2002.
Just over a year later, March 2003, the United States led coalition launched a war to overthrow the authoritarian government of Saddam Hussein on the basis of intelligence reports claiming Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. To this day, no weapons of mass destruction were ever found.
Fancy that, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld talked about known knowns and unknown unknowns and left out the most important of the lot; known knowns and unknowns alike all twisted and distorted for the sake of deceiving the naïve and gullible audience – lies. That is to say, people giving false narratives claiming they are based on proven facts when it is all guess work, at best, or deliberate falsehoods, at worst.
Liars are Steve Wonder’s “Misstra Know-It-All”; they will never admit they don’t know and even if they are confronted with the evidence of their mistake, they will find a scapegoat to blame for the mistake. To admit than they don’t or made a mistake is simply unthinkable, it is sacrilege!
Soon after the November 2017 military coup that booted out Robert Mugabe from office, Emmerson Mnangagwa and his cronies were out peddling the lie “Zimbabwe is open for business!” The mantra was to lure back investors who had shied away given the country’s reputation as a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who rigged elections to stay in power.
Of course, the mantra was a lie; other than replace Mugabe and a few other Zanu PF thugs close to him – in a musical chairs game – Mnangagwa had done nothing merit the claim Zimbabwe was a “new dispensation, a Second Republic” with who investors could now return and do business. Investors are a shrewd and savvy lot, they were not to be easily fooled and so stayed away.
But, of course it is not everyone who is shrewd and savvy; indeed the world is full of the naïve and gullible, they constitute the weeds in a long neglected field!
Zimbabwe is stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF thugs because Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends wasted the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the trappings of high office and for five long years Tsvangirai and company were foolish enough to believe they were life-members of Zimbabwe’s ruling elite and so do not bother implementing even one democratic reform. Why dismantle the dictatorship now they were enjoying the benefit of being a member and guaranteed to continue doing so for life!
Tsvangirai and company went into the 2013 elections with no reform in place and yet still very confident they would win the elections because the MDC votes will overwhelm all Zanu PF vote rigging antics. SADC leaders warned the MDC leaders it was folly to participate in the elections with no reforms in place but the warning was ignored. Talk of some one being naïve, MDC leaders did not even have the common sense to ensure there was a verified voters’ roll; Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections the 2013 elections and all elections thereafter.
It is already clear the 2023 elections are not going to be free and fair, Zanu has already rigged at them two years in advance! Last month Patrick Chimanasa, the Zanu PF acting National Political Commissar announced that the party will not be honouring Mnangagwa’s 2018 promise to give the 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote. Mnangagwa won the 2018 elections with 2.4 million votes or 50.8% of that year’s cast votes. How can the election be anything but a mockery if more voters are denied the vote than those voting for the winning candidate!
MDC leaders have been participating in these flawed and illegal elections to win the few gravy train seats Zanu PF offered as bait. At least for the few MDC leaders there is the few gravy train seats; there is absolutely nothing for the ordinary Zimbabweans freely participating in these flawed elections. (Zanu PF has reduce many Zimbabweans especially the rural folk into medial serfs beholden to the overbear Zanu PF thugs and their proxies, traditional leaders, war veterans and party’s youth militia supporter by the securocrats.)
By participating in these flawed elections, the opposition and their supporters, are giving legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF regime and are thus helping to perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship. God knows how many times this has been flagged up but to no avail. It is only by appreciating the scope and depths of the naivety and gullibility of Zimbabwe’s opposition and their as-faithful-as-a-dog supporters that one will understand why Zimbabwe’s democratic experiment had a still birth and why the last 40 years have been a relentless march deeper and deeper into hell.
It was the Greeks, 2 500 years ago, of Greece’s golden age, who gave mankind the Olympic Games and Democracy, government of the people for the people by the people; the two legacies have shaped mankind, help mankind understanding the world around us and, ultimately, to attain so measure of control of the world around us and not just a helpless victim of whatever chance and fate brings.
The Greeks argued that for democracy to work the people must be educated so that they are naïve and gullible and then easily conned by Zanu PF thugs or worse still follow blindly the corrupt and incompetent opposition. The comforting thing about history is that if the Greeks and many other nation after them have been able to attain the same level of education to make democracy work for them Zimbabweans should be able to do the same; it has been long in coming but that is no proof it will never happen.
By arrogantly denying 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote or 30% plus of the potential voters, Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections in advance. Of course, it will be very foolish to participate in any election process whose outcome is predetermined especially when doing so gives democratic legitimacy to the flawed and illegal process. This is one KNOWN KNOWNS that every Zimbabwean out there must know and understand because both Zanu PF and MDC leaders will be out to trick voters into participate for the leaders’ selfish gain.
Just because Zanu PF trick MDC leaders not to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU does not mean we no longer need the reforms implemented. We need free and fair elections as the guarantor of good governance and a government that is always democratically accountable to the people; we must implement all the democratic reforms to guarantee free and fair elections.
Just because MDC leaders were not up to the task of implementing the reforms does not mean there are no Zimbabweans out there who are up to the task. It does not require a team of rock scientists to know what the democratic reforms are and to implement them; just a group of individuals with common sense and the political will to get the job done.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because, for the past 41 years and counting, Zanu PF has rigged elections and got away with it every time. We must put an end to this by refusing to participate in the already rigged the 2023 elections and the election is declared null and void. Zimbabwe must then appoint an interim administration, a new GNU, whose primary task will be to implement all the democratic reforms and lay a solid foundation for a democratic Zimbabwe so the hard work of rebuilding the nation from the ruins Zanu PF created can finally begin! – SOURCE: zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
Paul Pogba’s future at Manchester United is increasingly becoming uncertain, with the club now expecting PSG to make a bid for the player before the close of the transfer window next month.
Pogba has entered the final year of his current deal at Old Trafford, and negotiations for a new contract between the 28-year-old’s representatives and United have stalled.
According to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Manchester United are now trying to avoid losing him for free next year and are ready to listen to PSG’s offer, hoping to reach an agreement in the coming weeks.
It’s also claimed that Pogba’s agent Mino Raiola has already started discussing personal terms with PSG, who believe they can sign the midfielder for less than half the £89million he cost United in 2016.
Meanwhile, the Red Devils have been looking at alternative midfield targets, including Rennes’ Eduardo Camavinga and Bayern Munich’s Leon Goretzka.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Of Mwonzora And A Village Fool Who Claimed Ownership Of Neighbors’ Beautiful Homes
25-07-2021
Back then in the village when we were growing up, there was a notorious stupid fool who used to roam around pointing fingers at all the beautiful homes in the village.
Zvose, as the fool was mockingly referred to, would wake up from his dilapidated hut to roam around the whole village boastfully telling all who cared to listen that he owns all beautiful homes of his neighbors.
In Chitungwiza where I stay, kids playing outside could be heard claiming ownership of all passing planes hovering above them towards Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.
The two aforementioned scenarios aptly sums up the persona of one the worst politicians in the country whose political career is dwindling at a frightening pace.
His name Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora!
This week when all other politicians who matter like President Nelson Chamisa were fixated at the worrisome surge in numbers of Covid-19 cases, Mwonzora shocked all and sundry by claiming ownership of everything MDC.
Mwonzora is oblivious of the fact that he was a full ZUM member, when Morgan Tsvangirai, Nelson Chamisa and others converged to form a people’s vehicle against dictatorship, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in 1999.
One wonders how does one end up claiming ownership of a movement he does not know how it was birthed.
Just like the boastful village idiot Zvose, Mwonzora is starring at the barrel of political extinction hence he drowns his sorrows of rejection by claiming ownership of an ever growing MDC Alliance party led by the popular Nelson Chamisa.
Like Chitungwiza kids who claim ownership of all passing planes, Mwonzora is blanketed in childish wishful thinking that he owns the people’s vehicle for change, MDC Alliance.
When we warned that MDC is deeply entrenched in the hearts and minds of people and not some building at number 44 Nelson Mandela in Harare, Mwonzora did not take heed.
Now that his political hut, the MDC-T is dwindling, he unashamedly claims ownership of the people’s big political mansion, the MDC Alliance.
Stolen legacy is always ephemeral, Mr Mwonzora.
Go back to the village kana dzarema!
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Former Warriors and Orlando Pirates midfielder Edelbert Dinha has added his voice to growing calls for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) to sack under-fire Warriors’ coach Zdravko Logarušic.
Dinha described the Croat as clueless and someone who doesn’t understand football. He said:
We should get another coach honestly. Just look at the type of football we are playing; there is no identity at all, we have quality players but are not being used to the best of their abilities. How many games has he won out of 12 games?
Calls for Loga’s sacking were amplified following the Warriors’ run of miserable results in the CHAN and COSAFA Cup tournaments, which the Warriors exited without registering a single win.
However, the Croat has defended his poor record, saying CHAN and COSAFA tournaments are mere preparatory events he used to try out other players for AFCON and World Cup qualifiers.
Dinha believes that despite securing a ticket to the AFCON finals, Logarusic is not the right man to take the Warriors forward. Added Dinha:
I understand we qualified for Afcon, but how we qualified will tell us exactly how we are going to play there.
Time for a change, locally-based coaches that understand us or get someone that understands football.
Early this week, Warriors and Bosso legend Alexander Maseko also called for Loga’s sacking, saying “He won’t take us anywhere”.- Chronicle
A bishop and founder of the International Bibleway Church in Sizinda suburb in Bulawayo is at the centre of a messy fraud storm after he allegedly duped two people with disabilities of their money.
He reportedly took advantage of their vulnerability and coerced them to form an organisation claiming they were going to get donations from the UK and United States of America.
Jebson Shoko from Buena Vista suburb allegedly hoodwinked Zifa Moyo (57) and Claudious Shumba (43), both with disabilities and registered Zimbabwe Disabled Persons Trust (ZDPT) in which he is the founder and the first trustee, with Moyo and Shumba being the first and second trustees respectively.
It is alleged that he swindled them US$400 and US$600 respectively after he lied to them that he wanted money to start a chicken rearing project, import duty for cars sent to them from America by donors and money to register their disabled people’s organisation as a Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) so that anything that would be sent to them by donors would be duty-free.
Shoko’s alleged worst kind of theft came to light after Moyo and Shumba approached Bulawayo’s Small Claims Court suing him.
In their papers B-Metro is in possession of, Moyo and Shumba claimed they decided to take the legal route fearing that the man of the cloth would go around defrauding many people using the name of the organisation and they would be answerable as trustees.
This was also after Shoko refused to sign their resignation letters from the organisation.
“Plaintiff claim a total of US$600 plus R35 which was taken on three occasions. Firstly, the defendant proposed a chicken rearing project in March 2020 thereby he demanded contributions from the plaintiff.
Secondly the defendant claimed that the plaintiff was sent a car from America so he took money claiming it’s for import duty and clearance and thirdly the defendant took money from the plaintiff claiming he wanted to register their disabled organisation as a Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO),” Moyo’s suit reads in part.
Moyo’s circumstances were similar to those of Shumba’s in which he is claiming US$400 and $ 1100 from Bishop Shoko.
In their founding affidavits the duo claimed Bishop Shoko met Shumba sometime in January 2020, at an all-stakeholders meeting in Sizinda and told him they should open an organisation for people with disabilities, claiming they were going to get assistance from donors in the UK and America.
Shumba reportedly went and told Moyo who then agreed to the decision and on 18 February 2020 the trio registered a Trust, Zimbabwe Disabled People’s Trust in which all the three are on the board of trustees. They reportedly recruited other people with disabilities and formed a national committee.
“On 28 February 2020, he invited us to his church saying that the so-called donors had come to see us. With other committee members we went there and we were introduced to the six donors, three were said to be from America and the other three from the UK. We thought we would have time to discuss with the so-called donors but it never happened. We later realised that the donors had come for his church only not for us.”
It is alleged that sometime in March 2020 after the so-called donors had gone back, Shoko approached the duo claiming that the donors had told him that they would support them if they were also doing their own projects. So, he suggested a chicken rearing project in which the three agreed to contribute US$20 each to purchase the chicks.
Later on, Shoko demanded money from the victim claiming he wanted to buy chicken feeds and he was reportedly given.
It is reported that sometime in April 2020, while they were still thinking the chicken rearing project was going on, the Bishop again approached the two and told them that the donors had sent them cars from America and he demanded US$500 from each of them saying it was for customs duty for the cars.- B-Metro
Many Zimbabweans are disregarding recommended Covid-19 preventive health measures, including avoiding social gatherings and wearing face coverings, a new study has concluded.
According to the Poverty and Social Impact of Covid-19 Third Round Rapid PICES study undertaken by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency, currently only 58 percent of Zimbabweans are avoiding social gatherings down from 91 percent last year.
In addition, about 80 percent of the people are wearing face masks down from 87 percent last year.
The study found that only 79 percent of Zimbabweans continue to wash their hands regularly down from 87 percent last year.
“The proportion of people taking preventive health measures continued to fall,” reads the report.
“In the third survey wave, 58 percent avoided social gatherings, down from 91 percent in July 2020.
“A drop was also reported in wearing masks and washing hands.”
It added: “About 63 percent of the respondents said they will definitely get the (Covid-19) vaccine if available free of charge, while 16 percent stated they will not get the vaccine or that they were unsure.”
The study also found that nearly 40 percent of school-going children got access to education through remote learning since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“With the easing of lockdown and reopening of schools since October 2020, most of the children were in school. In the third-round survey, 91 percent of school-age children were attending school.
“The Covid-19 pandemic continued to play a negative role in keeping children out of school.
The main reason for not attending school was that teachers were not yet teaching as reported for 40 percent of those who were out of school.- The Sunday Mail
DOCTORS and nurses working in public health institutions will no longer be allowed to go on strike for an uninterrupted period spanning more than three days under proposed changes to the Health Services Act.
Amendments to the Act, which were gazetted on Friday, once passed, will also require health care providers to give two days’ notice in writing before embarking on a collective job action. In addition, all medical professionals will be required by law to provide care to patients in a medical emergency or needing critical or intensive care during any legal collective job action.
Any worker representative who incites or organises an illegal job action could also face up to three years in jail, under the changes which are meant to bring back discipline into a profession that has been plagued by illegal job actions in the past.
Chief director in the Ministry of Health and Child Care Dr Maxwell Hove said once passed the law will allow health care workers to strike for three days and wait for two weeks before embarking on another strike.
“Healthcare workers will not be able to go on strike for more than three days and will stay at work for a minimum of two weeks before the law allows them to go on another three-day strike. In each case no strike can go beyond three days and emergencies will also be covered during every strike.”
The amendments also seek to replace the Health Services Board with an independent commission – the Health Services Commission, which will among other things create grades in the health service and fix conditions of service for doctors and nurses.
“Judicial Service Commission, Defence Forces Service Commission, Police Service Commission are examples of Commissions whose members are public officers but are not members of the Civil Service Commission as per section 199 of the Constitution. The same will apply to the Health Service Commission under consideration,” added Dr Hove.
Crucially, the proposed changes will designate health care workers as essential service providers as defined under the Labour Act.
The Labour Act designates any service whose interruption endangers the life, personal safety or health of the whole or any part of the public as an essential service.
Reads the Health Service Amendment Bill in part: “The Health Service shall be deemed as an essential service referred to in section 65 (3) of the Constitution; and no collective job action whether lawful or unlawful shall continue for an uninterrupted period of 72 hours or for more than 72 hours in any given 14-day period; and notice of any collective job action must be given in writing 48 hours prior to the commencement of such collective job action.
“Any individual who is a member of the governing body of any trade union or representative body of members of the Health Service which incites or organises any job collective action contrary to subsection 2(b) or (c) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level 10 or to imprisonment for a period no exceeding three years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.”
The Health Service Commission will be given powers to discipline any medical worker found to be in contravention of the new provisions.
The Commission can also report the offending member to their relevant professional council in terms of the Health Professions Act.- The Sunday News
By A Correspondent- The family of the late journalist and war veteran Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu said it was disappointed he was not accorded national hero status as he was laid to rest on Thursday.
Gwakuba died aged 87 from a heart ailment.
He was buried at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo.
Speaking during a funeral for Gwakuba, family spokesman Bulukani Masole called on Judith Ncube, the minister of state for Bulawayo, to convey their message to “the leadership” that the people of Dombodema, a village where Gwakuba was born in Plumtree district, “were hurt” by the snub.
“Ufike kahle MaNcube (you arrived at the right time to hear this message Ms Ncube),” Masole said as the minister took her seat after arriving late.
“It’s sad that our system of conferring respect to some of the people who will have contributed to the country, and I’m not talking just war, but right across the board is still dominated by certain systems that we believe are not fair.
“All of us here did not think that conferment of hero status to Saul Gwakuba was worth a debate, but this is what has happened.
“We’re very disappointed, we believe the leaders must understand that there are some things that are not acceptable, please convey that. We did not even get a message from up there and that’s totally out of order. Convey that message to the leadership, as people of Dombodema we’re hurt. This man did so much but we have people buried at the National Heroes Acre who did not deserve to be there.”
Felix Silundika, the son of the late national hero George Silundika, told mourners he was puzzled how national hero status selection was being done.
“I’m in the same mode with Masole because I don’t know what calculus went into deciding not to honour the late Gwakuba with national hero status. But he was given a liberation award by the army and government. This dent shall always be in our hearts. We thank them because they have shown us what kind of people they are.”
In response, Ncube said although Gwakuba Ndlovu was not honoured, nothing will erase his contribution.
“There is no eraser that can rub off his contribution to the nation. His history cannot be wished away. Even though he is gone, his history shall remain forever. We sent his papers to Harare but unfortunately, we’re yet to get a response. Whatever will come out, we will accept,” she said.
SMEs minister Sithembiso Nyoni, who was also part of the gathering, said those who worked with Gwakuba had hoped that he will be declared a national hero, but “it seems things did not go accordingly.”
The burial was also attended by former cabinet minister Nicholas Goche, a relative of the family, and King Mambo Mike Moyo, who also addressed the mourners.
By A Correspondent- Prophet Arthur Matsika of Garikai Masowe’s church shrine in Cowdray Park suburb and four congregants are in court after he allegedly prophesied that she kept a snake and fed her husband dog meat.
During prophecy time the prophet ‘revealed’ that Maggie Chikwara (51) was a witch who kept a snake in her car and gave her husband cooked dog meat.
The prophet went on to state that Maggie planted muthi at the church’s shrine and that the muthi was causing teenage congregants to menstruate early.
Upon hearing that, four female congregants, Gladys Muleya, Muleya’s teenage daughter, Faith Gora and Lusyomo Ndlovu assaulted Maggie. Maggie bled and sustained injuries on her body. She was rescued from further attack by elders of the church, who intervened and stopped the four from assaulting her.
Maggie was rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital where she was treated and discharged.
After she was discharged from hospital she filed a case of indicating witches and wizards as defined in the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act) (Chapter 9:23).
Appearing for trial before magistrate Ulukile Ndlovu, Prophet Matsika and the four congregants pleaded not guilty to the charge. The accused persons stated that Maggie’s husband Belton Nduna was the one who told Matsika that his wife fed him with dog meat as he was told that by other prophets.
They went on to state that they never said Maggie was a witch and stated that the allegations were fabricated since she did not see eye to eye with her teenage daughter.
Maggie told the court that Matsika said she fed her husband with dog meat and some herbs.
Maggie’s witness, Washington Kona said: “Matsika and his accused congregants labelled Maggie a witch and this was said before congregants at a church. And they also said she was causing problems at the church.”
Another witness, Beula Bvuma, told the court that the accused persons said Maggie wanted to kill all boys in the church and wanted all teenage girls at the church to menstruate early.
Matsika and his church members were remanded out of custody to 03 August for continuation of trial.
By A Correspondent- It is not easy for Godfrey Sibanda to watch his mother not only replace his late father with another man but have him move in at a place that he calls home.
So enraged is Godfrey that he has resorted to beating his stepfather and accusing him of having killed his father.
But his mother, Mavis Sibanda (55) defends Mhlupheki Khabo (57) saying her son has no right to beat or chuck out her lover because the house belongs to her as she contributed to its purchase.
Sibanda has tried to tell her only son to accept that she is in love with Mhlupheki, but Godfrey is unmoved and wants his stepdad to move out.
Sibanda said her son was in the habit of harassing Khabo and would even beat him and accuse him of having bewitched his father resulting in his death so that he would live with his mother at his late father’s house.
Mavis had to apply for a protection order against her troublesome son.
“My husband died in 2010. We wedded a civil marriage, I’m the apparent heir of the property. I contributed in the purchase of the house because I was employed as a nurse. After the death of my husband, I fell in love with Mhlupheki Khabo. But my son Godfrey does not want my lover to stay at my house,” she said.
She added:
“Sadly my son harasses him and accuses him of having bewitched my husband causing him to die so that he would stay with me. And he even shouts at him and beats him whenever they are involved in an argument. He would tell him to move out of the house. He does not care that Khabo is the one who pays rates and buys food for us,” she said.
By A Correspondent MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora said he would deal with anyone who would have attempted to use his party name in the next elections.
The MDC-T leader said his party was the only legitimate owner and rights holder to the name first used in 1999.
Speaking during a question and answer session on HSTV, an Alpha Media online radio and television platform, Mwonzora said his party was the only legitimate holder of the name MDC.
“I know only one legitimate holder of that name and that is the MDC-T, it is also the legitimate holder of the name MDC Alliance,” Mwonzora said.
“I am not dreaming about this, it is documented. I don’t know what other leaders are going to do, but you are going to find our political party on the ballot paper,” he added.
He told MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to look for a new name for his political party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
“Our aim is not to stop people from contesting the election; people who want to contest the election must be free to contest an election,” he said.
“People who have formed their own party must have the courage of using the names of their new political parties.”
The MDC has splinted several times since its formation in 1999. In 2005, its split led to the formation of MDC by Welshman Ncube. Later, Job Sikhala formed his MDC99, but none of them were dragged to court over name use.
But Mwonzora said he would deal with anyone who attempted to use the name MDC during an election.
“We are definitely going to be the users of the MDC name because it is in black and white, anybody who wants to steal our name we will deal with that,” he said.
There has been uncertainty in Chamisa’s camp over its continued use of the name MDC Alliance after Mwonzora said the name belongs to his party because it was the party that went into an alliance with the other parties.
MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti has, however, come out saying there was no need to get a new name, but instead, they could ditch the affix Alliance and adopt a Chamisa as the affix.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has, however, said it was more concerned with symbols than party names when accepting nomination papers for the purposes of
elections.
The Zimbabwe Elections Support Network has been advocating for laws to register political parties in order to allow regulation for the purposes of determining those entitled to receive public funds.
By A Correspondent- Doctors and nurses working in public health institutions will no longer be allowed to go on strike for an uninterrupted period spanning more than three days under proposed changes to the Health Services Act.
Amendments to the Act, which were gazetted on Friday, once passed, will also require health care providers to give two days’ notice in writing before embarking on a collective job action. In addition, all medical professionals will be required by law to provide care to patients in a medical emergency or needing critical or intensive care during any legal collective job action.
Any worker representative who incites or organises an illegal job action could also face up to three years in jail, under the changes which are meant to bring back discipline into a profession that has been plagued by illegal job actions in the past.
Chief director in the Ministry of Health and Child Care Dr Maxwell Hove said once passed the law will allow health care workers to strike for three days and wait for two weeks before embarking on another strike.
“Healthcare workers will not be able to go on strike for more than three days and will stay at work for a minimum of two weeks before the law allows them to go on another three-day strike. In each case no strike can go beyond three days and emergencies will also be covered during every strike.”
The amendments also seek to replace the Health Services Board with an independent commission – the Health Services Commission, which will among other things create grades in the health service and fix conditions of service for doctors and nurses.
“Judicial Service Commission, Defence Forces Service Commission, Police Service Commission are examples of Commissions whose members are public officers but are not members of the Civil Service Commission as per section 199 of the Constitution. The same will apply to the Health Service Commission under consideration,” added Dr Hove.
Crucially, the proposed changes will designate health care workers as essential service providers as defined under the Labour Act.
The Labour Act designates any service whose interruption endangers the life, personal safety or health of the whole or any part of the public as an essential service.
Reads the Health Service Amendment Bill in part:
“The Health Service shall be deemed as an essential service referred to in section 65 (3) of the Constitution; and no collective job action whether lawful or unlawful shall continue for an uninterrupted period of 72 hours or for more than 72 hours in any given 14-day period; and notice of any collective job action must be given in writing 48 hours prior to the commencement of such collective job action.
“Any individual who is a member of the governing body of any trade union or representative body of members of the Health Service which incites or organises any job collective action contrary to subsection 2(b) or (c) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level 10 or to imprisonment for a period no exceeding three years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.”
The Health Service Commission will be given powers to discipline any medical worker found to be in contravention of the new provisions.
The Commission can also report the offending member to their relevant professional council in terms of the Health Professions Act.- The Sunday News
By A Correspondent- Madam Boss, Mai Titi, Panganai Java and the two Mercedes Benz donations, the stage is set…
Passion Java could not buy his own mum a simple TV – she confessed in leaked audios that she had to scrounge for scraps at Parliament as a Mwonzora-Senator to stitch up her debt with the TV Sales and Hire company.
This was at a time her own son was splurging thousands to buy a Mercedes Benz for socialite Madam Boss a few months before.
A year later, he buys another car and a third one for another socialite, Mai Titi. Where is he getting the money from, and what is the agenda, notoriety, foolery[kupusisa vanhu], or both?
The Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s plot to use social media influencers to gain political points, has been boosted.
Intelligence sources in Mr Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party have disclosed that social media influencers who include Panganai Java, Madam boss and Mai Titi are already in the game calculated to drum up support for Mr Mnangagwa for the 2023 polls.
Java, who has become Mr Mnangagwa’s social media frontrunner, blessed both Mai Titi and Madam boss with brand new Mercedes Benz vehicles on Friday.
This also comes at a time Madam Boss is collecting mobile numbers of her supposed followers under the guise of a promotion.
“This( the purchasing of vehicles for Madam Boss and Mai Titi) is a scheme calculated to sway social media users’ views as both ladies are seen as great influencers.
It is believed that their influence can therefore contribute to victory in the 2023 polls.
As you know Panganai Java is already campaigning for Number One and the two ladies are expected to join the scheme very soon,” Zanu PF intelligence sources told ZimEye.com.
However, political observers feel Madam Boss and Mai Titi could ruin their respective brands by reflecting allegiance to Mr Mnangagwa and Zanu PF.
” I strongly feel the two ladies should not fall into the Zanu PF trap. The gimmicks and gymnastics we are seeing are meant to neutralize the perceived opposition’s influence on social media. Sadly the two ladies are about to ruin their brands. I sincerely urge them to distance themselves from Zanu PF,” said one political analyst.
Mnangagwa social media frontman Panganai Java with Mai Titi and Madam Boss
By A Correspondent- A bishop and founder of the International Bibleway Church in Sizinda suburb in Bulawayo is at the centre of a messy fraud storm after he allegedly duped two people with disabilities of their money.
He reportedly took advantage of their vulnerability and coerced them to form an organisation claiming they were going to get donations from the UK and United States of America.
Jebson Shoko from Buena Vista suburb allegedly hoodwinked Zifa Moyo (57) and Claudious Shumba (43), both with disabilities and registered Zimbabwe Disabled Persons Trust (ZDPT) in which he is the founder and the first trustee, with Moyo and Shumba being the first and second trustees respectively.
It is alleged that he swindled them US$400 and US$600 respectively after he lied to them that he wanted money to start a chicken rearing project, import duty for cars sent to them from America by donors and money to register their disabled people’s organisation as a Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) so that anything that would be sent to them by donors would be duty-free.
Shoko’s alleged worst kind of theft came to light after Moyo and Shumba approached Bulawayo’s Small Claims Court suing him.
In their papers B-Metro is in possession of, Moyo and Shumba claimed they decided to take the legal route fearing that the man of the cloth would go around defrauding many people using the name of the organisation and they would be answerable as trustees.
This was also after Shoko refused to sign their resignation letters from the organisation.
“Plaintiff claim a total of US$600 plus R35 which was taken on three occasions. Firstly, the defendant proposed a chicken rearing project in March 2020 thereby he demanded contributions from the plaintiff.
Secondly the defendant claimed that the plaintiff was sent a car from America so he took money claiming it’s for import duty and clearance and thirdly the defendant took money from the plaintiff claiming he wanted to register their disabled organisation as a Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO),” Moyo’s suit reads in part.
Moyo’s circumstances were similar to those of Shumba’s in which he is claiming US$400 and $ 1100 from Bishop Shoko.
In their founding affidavits the duo claimed Bishop Shoko met Shumba sometime in January 2020, at an all-stakeholders meeting in Sizinda and told him they should open an organisation for people with disabilities, claiming they were going to get assistance from donors in the UK and America.
Shumba reportedly went and told Moyo who then agreed to the decision and on 18 February 2020 the trio registered a Trust, Zimbabwe Disabled People’s Trust in which all the three are on the board of trustees. They reportedly recruited other people with disabilities and formed a national committee.
“On 28 February 2020, he invited us to his church saying that the so-called donors had come to see us. With other committee members we went there and we were introduced to the six donors, three were said to be from America and the other three from the UK. We thought we would have time to discuss with the so-called donors but it never happened. We later realised that the donors had come for his church only not for us.”
It is alleged that sometime in March 2020 after the so-called donors had gone back, Shoko approached the duo claiming that the donors had told him that they would support them if they were also doing their own projects. So, he suggested a chicken rearing project in which the three agreed to contribute US$20 each to purchase the chicks.
Later on, Shoko demanded money from the victim claiming he wanted to buy chicken feeds and he was reportedly given.
It is reported that sometime in April 2020, while they were still thinking the chicken rearing project was going on, the Bishop again approached the two and told them that the donors had sent them cars from America and he demanded US$500 from each of them saying it was for customs duty for the cars.- B-Metro
By A Correspondent- Marry Mubaiwa Chiwenga, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has opened up on her failed relationship ahead of her 40th birthday.
The former model insisted that she did not marry her powerful husband for his wealth. Instead, she says she was attracted by the wealth in his heart, his gentleness and his love and knowledge of God.
The former model and Vice President Chiwenga were married for 10 years in a union that produced three children. However, the two are currently engaged in a highly contentious divorce after things soured in 2019.
Seemingly reminiscing on her life and relationship ahead of her birthday, Marry posted on social media.
As I turn 40 on 22, July, I thank God for the life that he has thrown @Me, the weight I have had to carry, the humiliation that I suffered at the hands of my other half, the baseless accusations and the weight of his instructions and authority. Evil eye.
I didn’t marry the material wealth, I married the wealth that was in his heart, the gentle touch of his hand, the knowledge of God, his understanding of what my heart wanted, he understood the person that I was, the me that I am today, focused, forgiving and forward-thinking.
As I turn 40 tomorrow, I thank God for the life that he has thrown @me, the weight I have had to carry, the humiliation that I suffered at the hands of my other half, the baseless accusations and the weight of his instructions and authority. Evil eye pic.twitter.com/FzVbVCfXVX
— Marry Mubaiwa-Chiwenga (@MarryMubaiwa) July 21, 2021 I didn’t marry the material wealth, I married the wealth that was in his heart, the gentle touch of his hand, the knowledge of God,his understanding of what my heart wanted, he understood the person that i was, the me that I am today, focused, forgiving and forward-thinking. — Marry Mubaiwa-Chiwenga (@MarryMubaiwa) July 21, 2021
Marry also expressed her anguish and heartbreak at her failure to see her children. She accused the Vice President of abusing his powers as a senior public office holder by denying her the right to see her three children aged 10, 9 and 7.
I am going to be 4ty tomorrow and just wishing and wanting and waiting for my children Tendai, Christian and Michael to be with me. What kind of a father denies his children which he claims to love the right to be with their mother and vice-versa. Where is God when you need him?
I am going to be 4ty tomorrow and just wishing and wanting and waiting for my children Tendai, Christian and Michael to be with me. What kind of a father denies his children which he claims to love the right to be with their mother and vice-versa. Where is God when you need him?
According to Marry, the marriage between the two broke down somewhere between July and November 2019 at the time when Vice President Chiwenga was critical and fighting for his life following allegations that he could have been poisoned.
Since then Marry has been arrested several times and is facing attempted murder charges. This is after the Vice President alleged that Marry tried to kill him while he lay incapacitated in a hospital in South Africa. She is also facing charges of money laundering and externalizing foreign currency.
The embattled Marry and Vice President Chiwenga are also engaged in a messy child custody battle. She has been accused of being an unfit mother and a drug addict who is psychologically unwell to look after children.
By A Correspondent- MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has said the struggle for democracy is not instant coffee.
President Chamisa made the remarks on Saturday…
Commenting on attempts by the Zanu PF regime to force people to get vaccinated, President Chamisa said persuasion should be used- not coercion.
Said President Chamisa: “Nothing comes without a fight. Easy come easy go. We are almost there. Struggles are not instant coffee …
Command vaccination is wrong! Vaccination must be a choice. It must be voluntary…
Vaccination can be achieved through effective communication and persuasive encouragement.”
He added :” NEW POLITICS..We must get rid of the politics of propaganda, violence &looting.We must fix what is broken& rotten in our politics.Fresh ideas & accountable leadership built around the community and citizens is essential. It’s time for COMMUNITY EMBEDDED LEADERSHIP.
The best revenge is to resist enmity! Resist the temptation to hate, hurt and hit back.”
By A Correspondent- Villagers of Tazvigwira village in Mapanzure area, Masvingo were left tongue-tied on July 23, when lifeless bodies of the three people who mysteriously drowned during a cleansing ceremony at Musongwezi River were found afloat.
Masvingo Provincial Police spokesperson Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa confirmed the incident and said one of the victims was still missing.
“We received a report about five people who jumped into a river during a cleansing ceremony. Four of the victims Victor Tazvigwira, Witness Chirombo, Blessed Dombo and Cosmore Mvidya have since resurfaced. Chirombo and Mvidya’s bodies was spotted lifeless floating on top of the river on July 23. The third body of Fungai Berevedza was later found around 5 pm in the same pool,” said Dhewa.
Sources who witnessed the event allege that on July 14, 2021, Pastor Amos Chituri (49) from Manyangadze village in Mutare was invited by some Tazvigwira villagers for prayers at Zishiri homestead.
Claiming to have been led by the Holy Spirit, Chituri reportedly prophesied that some villagers needed to be cleansed in a river.
The following day, the man of cloth went to Musongwezi River with the five victims to conduct a cleansing ceremony.
Eyewitnesses said during the purported ceremony, strange and scary sounds could be heard coming from a nearby mountain.
The five victims reportedly started praying in tongues and suddenly jumped into the river where they disappeared.
Only Tazvigwira and Dombo managed to resurface on the same day but couldn’t narrate what had pushed them to dive into the river.
A source privy to the developments told TellZim News that six police officers had since been deployed from Muchakata base and were monitoring the rituals being done at the river.-tellzim
By A Correspondent | Barely days after managing to deport only 14 out of 55 Zimbabweans, Britain has struck another deal with Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime to charter a 2nd flight taking more deportees back to Zimbabwe on Tuesday, ZimEye reveals.
The jet is scheduled for the 27th July en route to Zimbabwe, and follows the first which was on the 21st July earlier exclusively revealed by ZimEye over 4 weeks before.
Scores of deportees previously served notice for the 21st July won’t get any further notice. They will be flown out by force.
It was not clear from which airport the jet will depart.
Of those who were saved because of a COVID outbreak at detention centres such as Brooke House, at Heathrow Airport, those who are negative are being flown.
Furthermore, Zimbabwe has agreed that even those who are COVID-19 positive will be taken away and later quarantined in their home country. These will be quarantined at the British taxpayer expense, upon landing in Harare, ZimEye reveals today.
Sources inside the British government told ZimEye there is nothing new, the government is simply following its obligations to the British public. Earlier in the month, a spokesperson for the Home Office told ZimEye,
“The public rightly expects us to remove those who have no right to be in the UK.”
Asked over the method of removals, and why people with no criminal records are being targeted, the Home Office told ZimEye, “We do not comment on operational matters.”
A comment from the Foreign Affairs Ministry was not possible at the time of writing.
ARE THE BRITISH SPONSORING MNANGAGWA?
Simba Chikanza comments: I have been asked for an opinion over this matter and as a journalist who’s interviewed both regimes, my take is:
Yes the British have a history of negotiating with vile dictators but in this case, it doesn’t seem UK is sponsoring Emmerson Mnangagwa other than pursuing its immigration policy like any other country is, and when it needs to remove criminals, it approaches the Zimbabwe Foreign Affairs Ministry, the same way it meets up with hostile nations like Russia, China; and even the most rogue such as Syria, Cuba, Equador etc.
Already Britain is being sabotaged by Mnangagwa’s London ambassador Christian Katsande who refuses to sign travel documents especially for his corrupt family and friends, who are criminals due for deportation.
The only challenge comes when the British plan to remove people who have a right to appeal it labels foreign offenders and the Harare meeting in June 2021 was clear over this which thing we have asked London for an explanation.
Such an agreement was clearly reached, and if UK goes ahead, it will be breaking its own laws.
As for removing dangerous criminals, UK does not seem different from other nations of the world. Let’s not forget, Britain at one time used to ‘deport’ its own citizens, I mean to banish violent criminals to distant islands.
Right now UK is struggling with a record spike in boat arrivals of asylum seekers from France, and by July, the figure has superceded the total for 2020. These people pose a new challenge that’s beyond the problematic COVID pandemic, which matter has caused Priti Patel to look for solutions by changing the law.
Tonight, UK solicitor Andrew Nyamayaro speaks over this explaining the new legislation, one passed a few weeks ago, and another one drafted a day after the Zimbabwe charter flight.
Appearing on ZimEye at 6pm, Nyamayaro will cover:
1. The New Nationality And Borders Bill.
2. Judicial Review And Court Bill. (announced a day after Zimbabwe flops)
– last minute reprieves to be taken away…
3. What are the blind spots for each bill.
4. WHAT ARE THE HOME OFFICE’S NEW POWERS?
If I am a British Citizen, will the HO knock on my door at any time and take me away?
* Work Employment visa holder. * Leave To Remain. * Student. * Discretionary Holder. * Asylum Seeker
Manchester United coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer extends his contract until 2024 with the option of a further year.
The 48-year old Norwegian took over the post permanently in March 2019 on a three-year contract, after a short spell as an interim coach following the sacking of Jose Mourinho.
The new contract comes after Solskjaer led United to second place in the Premier League last season and the Europa League final, which they lost.
Speaking after signing the new deal, the gaffer said: “Everyone knows the feeling I have for this club.
“It is an exciting time for Manchester United. We have built a squad with a good balance of youth and experienced players that are hungry for success.
“I have a fantastic coaching team around me and we are all ready to take that next step on our journey.
“Manchester United wants to be winning the biggest and best trophies and that’s what we are all striving for. We have improved, both on and off the pitch, and that will continue over the coming seasons.”- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Paul Pogba’s future at Manchester United is increasingly becoming uncertain, with the club now expecting PSG to make a bid for the player before the close of the transfer window next month.
Pogba has entered the final year of his current deal at Old Trafford, and negotiations for a new contract between the 28-year-old’s representatives and United have stalled.
According to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Manchester United are now trying to avoid losing him for free next year and are ready to listen to PSG’s offer, hoping to reach an agreement in the coming weeks.
It’s also claimed that Pogba’s agent Mino Raiola has already started discussing personal terms with PSG, who believe they can sign the midfielder for less than half the £89million he cost United in 2016.
Meanwhile, the Red Devils have been looking at alternative midfield targets, including Rennes’ Eduardo Camavinga and Bayern Munich’s Leon Goretzka.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
