The late ex-Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s children have taken Chief Zvimba to court over their father’s burial controversy, in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa is entangled.
Zvimba wants Mugabe to be reburied claiming clan traditions were not followed.
Below is the court appeal
The Administrative Court has upheld an appeal by residents of Shawasha Hills barring a couple from hosting weddings in its neighborhood following complaints by neighbors.
The couple, Gerald and Leah Nachipo, and City of Harare were cited as respondents in an application filed by five neighbours who complained over noise pollution.
The residents said the noise from the events was disturbing their peace. The couple, however, opposed the application, arguing that it had a valid permit to host events for a fee. According to court papers, in August 2018, the Nachipos held a meeting with their neighbours in the Shawasha area following complaints over noise.]
The residents later submitted a petition to the city council, which, however, granted a permit to the Nachipos to use their residential place as a wedding and events venue.
This prompted the residents to appeal to the Administrative Court.
In his ruling, Judge Justice Herbert Mandeya said: “The court’s view is that there are sufficient indications that there were improprieties that led to the first and second respondents by the third respondent. Applicants engaged the first and second respondents on several occasions over the noise emanating from the first and second respondents’ premises at times they wished to rest peacefully. That shows they value their peace.”
The City of Harare did not oppose the application.
The couple was ordered to pay the cost of the suit.
-Newsday
The late President Robert Mugabe’s children have appealed the ruling made by Chief Zvimba last month which orders the exhumation of their father’s remains.
The appeal in full is as follows:
IN THE MAGISTRATES COURT OF ZIMBABWE FOR THE PROVINCE OF MASHONALAND WEST HELD AT CHINHOYI.
In the matter between:-
BONA MUTSAHUNI – MUGABE N.0 (In bur capacity as the Executrix of the Estate Late Robert Mugabe) 1sT APPELLANT
And BELLARMINE CHATUNGA MUGABE 2ND APPELLANT
And
TINOTENDA ROBERT MUGABE 3RD APPELLANT
And
TINOS MANONGOVERE RESPONDENT
NOTICE OF APPEAL
TAKE NOTICE THAT the Appellants hereby note an appeal against the whole Judgment of Chief Zvimba (Stanley Wurayayi Mhondoro) being the presiding officer of the Community Court held by him in Zvimba in the matter of Tinos Manongovere versus Grace Mugabe. The judgment was handed down on the 20th of May 2021.
ALSO TAKE NOTICE THAT the Court ruling is hereby attached hereto as “A” FURTHER TAKE NOTICE THAT the Appellants are competent litigants to institute this Appeal based on their real and direct interest in the orders of Chief Zvimba which killed their personal property and fiduciary functions at law respectively since the 1st Appellant is the duly appointed executrix to the Estate of the Late, and the 2nd and 3rd Appellants are sons to the said Late.
FURTHER TAKE NOTICE THAT this Appeal is instituted in terms of section 24 (1) of the Customary Law and Local Courts Act [chapter 7:05] as read with rule 4 of the Supreme Court (Miscellaneous Appeals and References) Rules, 1975.
GROUNDS OF APPEAL
1. Chief Zvimba erred at law by making an order that overturns a burial order in respect of the burial of the late Robert Mugabe when the Chief had no judicial authority to interpret legal acts from superior legislation to his jurisdiction.
2. Chief Zvimba erred at law in making an order that affects property rights of a party that is not part of the proceedings.
3. The Chief made a false finding of fact which amounts to an error at law when he found that the late Robert Mugabe was buried inside a house. This misdirection nullifies the ratio decidendi of his judgment.
4. Chief Zvimba erred at law in granting an incompetent order for the exhumation of the body of the Late Robert Gabriel Mugabe, thereby usurping the lawful bounds of his judicial authority.
5. The Chief further erred at law by imposing himself with territorial jurisdiction to the affairs of an area that he does not have any territorial jurisdiction over.
Wherefore the Appellant prays that:
i. The instant appeal be allowed with costs.
ii. The judgment of the court a quo be set aside and the following be substituted in its stead:
“The Plaintiff’s claim is dismissed”
DATED AT HARARE THIS 1st DAY OF JUNE 2021
By A Correspondent- The City of Mutare has applied to the central government for land to expand after running out of residential stands.
Mutare mayor Blessing Tandi said the city had run out of space for new suburbs. The city has a geographical location measuring 16 700 ha against a fast growing urban population of over 189 000 residents, according to the 2012 census.
The city has exhausted its in-fills and other open spaces under its land banks to clear a bloated housing waiting list.
Tandi said they had since applied to the central government for land extension in the northern and western side of the city. “Mutare is one of the most disadvantaged cities. It is mountain-locked and
has nowhere to expand to,” he said.
“We have applied for land beyond the mountainous terrain in the northern and western side, which we plan to allocate as residential stands to deal with our housing backlog once it’s approved by the Ministry of Local Government,” he said. The development comes at a time when the city has nearly 50 000 residents on its housing waiting list, according to statistics obtained from the housing services
department.
Though the records indicate a 28,57% drop from the 70 000 home seekers that were on the housing waiting list in 2016, there is still a high demand for residential stands.
Most residents are looking beyond the city with peri-urban areas such as Mutasa, Vumba and Chigodora being the most targeted.
Tandi indicated that the proposed city expansion would stretch from Mutare River towards Odzi in the northern part of Mutare and beyond Zimunya in the western part of the city.
The proposal that is before the central government follows similar proposals that were unsuccessfully tabled in the past.
In 2014, the city fathers who declared land bankruptcy made frantic efforts to negotiate for a land swap deal with the government.
The deal would have seen the local authority cede Meikles Park in exchange for unprocessed State land measuring 188 000 ha from the government, stretching from Dangamvura Link Road to Fern Valley Turn along Chimanimani Road.
However, the deal was stalled by endless court battles over the ownership of Meikles Park.
During the same year, the city engaged private planners ARUP, which advised the local authority to remodel under the multi-noddle approach that is cost effective.
The authorities then contemplated the use of one of the three possible models, which included wild-west expansion and western and northern expansion.
ARUP advised that the multi-noddle approach requires the construction of satellite shopping centres dotted in various parts of the city that would reduce congestion in the Central Business District (CBD).
It will further provide services delivery and employment creation in respective residential areas.
“The multi-noddle approach reduces travelling time from point A to point B. In a city centre you have to travel long distances to get the services you need but when you get a multi-noddle approach you are close to some of the services you need.
“It doesn’t necessarily mean all the services will be available to you, for an example the government offices, they may be in the centre so you still have to go to the centre but for the daily kind of things, you find them in your local neighbourhood shop or your district shop,” ARUP advised then.
ARUP indicated that the current model of cities in Zimbabwe is quite spread-out making it expensive to build roads to link residential areas and the CBD.-newsday
By A Correspondent- A barber in Bulawayo allegedly stabbed a rival to death in a fight over a client.
Ayanda Moyo (29) allegedly stabbed Claitos Muzorori (38) of Old Magwegwe with a knife in the left shoulder and left him lying unconscious in a pool of blood along Lobengula Street between 5th and 6th Avenues in the city centre.
Police arrested Moyo, from Cowdray Park suburb, at the scene after members of the public identified him.
The murder occurred on Wednesday at around 4PM and has left the general public shell shocked.
Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident.
He said two officers were on patrol on May 26 when they spotted a crowd which was gathered along Lobengula Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.
“The two officers found Mr Muzorori lying unconscious in a pool of blood with a stab wound on the left side of the chest below the left shoulder. The two were fighting to attend to a client,” he said.
Insp Ncube said police carried out an investigation at the scene with the help of members of the public and the suspect was found and they recovered the knife.
Insp Ncube said the deceased was ferried to Mpilo Central Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
“Mr Moyo was arrested and is detained at ZRP Bulawayo Central and the case is under investigation,” he said.
Insp Ncube warned members of the public to desist from carrying offensive weapons like knives, machetes, small axes, catapults, knobkerries and screwdrivers.
“We would like to urge members of the public to be patient and tolerant of one another.
“We also encourage members of the public to render help by calling the police and the ambulance rather than to be bystanders and take videos,” he said.
-statemedia
By A Correspondent- The battle for control of a rich gold mine in Odzi near Mutare turned nasty last weekend after Zanu-PF councillor Luxon Mawanga reportedly fired three gunshots as he tried to scare away his rival’s security guards.
Mawanga, who leads Paari Mining Syndicate, is embroiled in a bitter ownership wrangle for the mine with Twin Castle Resources manager Antioch Chaibo.
The matter was reported at Odzi Police Station on Sunday under RRB 4587275.
Police records seen by NewsDay Weekender yesterday indicate that Mawanga fired three warning shots as he tried to frighten and cow Twin Castle’s security administrator Elvis Chiwanga.
“On the day (Saturday) at around 6pm on May 30, I proceeded to Vhoiri area mine to pay security guards of Twin Castle of their salaries,” Chiwanga said in his statement to police.
“I arrived at the mine and paid the security guards, then proceeded back to the road where we had parked our motor vehicle.
“While on my way back, I met the accused (Mawanga), who came from his vehicle and fired a shot into the air.
“He then grabbed me with his left hand while the right hand was holding a pistol and remarked ‘unofira mahara’ (you will die for nothing) before pushing me away and I did not do anything.”
Another security guard at the mine, Watson Mukahadzo, police records also show, said Mawanga fired three shots.
“On May 30, 2021 at around 2pm, the accused arrived at the mine from his homestead and fired three shots (into the air) for no apparent reason and he also fired one shot when our security guard administrator had come to pay us at around 6pm,” he said
Mawanga, however, dismissed the claims as false.
“These are just lies, there is nothing like that which happened. They are just trying to cover up for bringing over 200 people to grab the mine. My son was almost killed by these people,” he said.
Recently, High Court judge Justice Amy Tsanga ordered Paari to stop interferring with the operations at the mine until the matter was resolved.
Justice Tsanga told both gold mining companies to provide three guards each to secure the mine until the matter has been resolved.
Former Manicaland provincial mining director Omen Dube gave a determination in favour of Twin Castle, which he said was the first to apply for the claim.
-newsday
By A Correspondent- Six suspected armed robbers and carjackers were arrested on Thursday after a shoot-out near Mabvuku turn-off along Mutare Road on the eastern outskirts of Harare.
One of the suspects was shot and injured on the left knee as he tried to flee the scene after detectives had cornered the gang. He was taken to Sally Mugabe Central Hospital for treatment and is reported to be in stable condition.
The arrested suspects are: Isaac Kufa (36) of Hatfield, Tonderai Murupiri (28), Patrick Mbundire (21), Casper Chigariro (42), all of Epworth, Hardlife Steven Makwarimba alias Stavo (45) of Goromonzi and Charles Yekeye (47) of Unit O in Chitungwiza.
Investigations show that Kufa, Murupiri, Mbundire and Chigariro would allegedly hijack vehicles before passing them onto Makwarimba and Yekeye to sell to unsuspecting people.
In one of the cases, Kufa is alleged to have gone to a car sale in the city and approached Mr Lemeo Chidziva alleging that he wanted to purchase an Isuzu double cab.
He asked for a test drive and Mr Chidziva joined him. Kufa then drove the vehicle to Newlands where he lied that he wanted to pick up his mechanic but he picked up Murupiri.
They then drove back to the car sale where the two said they wanted to test drive a black Mercedes Benz C200. Mr Chidziva agreed and the three drove towards Chisipite.
When they reached the roundabout along ED Mnangagwa Road, Mr Chidziva suggested they returned but Murupiri, who was seated in the back, allegedly grabbed him by the neck and handcuffed him.
He dragged him to the back seat and ordered him to lie down at gunpoint. The two allegedly dumped him in a bushy area in Goromonzi before driving off.
The vehicle was fixed with a tracker and detectives managed to track it on Thursday while it was parked at a house in Strathaven, leading to its recovery.
At the house, they found Mr Tashinga Maziriri (25) who was in the process of buying the car from Makwarimba and Yekeye.
He led the detectives to the two who were arrested while waiting to receive money from him in Southerton.
Makwarimba and Yekeye then led detectives to Mabvuku turnoff where the other four accomplices were waiting for their share of the money.
After seeing that the four had been cornered, Mbundire attempted to flee and warning shots were fired but he did not take heed, resulting with him being shot on the left knee.
He was found in possession of a Mazda BT50 car key in his pocket.
The vehicle had been taken by the four suspects from an ex-Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service officer, George Denga (62), in a carjacking on Tuesday.
It was recovered from a bushy area in Mabvuku and investigations are still in progress.
In addition, police in Harare have arrested nine suspects, two of them foreigners, believed to be part of a vehicle smuggling and carjacking syndicate operating in the Sadc region.
Of the nine, three were arrested in Mainway Meadows in southern Harare after they were found in possession of two cars — a Range Rover Evoque (registration number HZ 33CN GP) and a Toyota Fortuner (JH 81 HR GP), worth nearly R1 million together.
The vehicles are suspected to have been stolen in Namibia before being smuggled to South Africa and then Zimbabwe.
It is believed the suspects wanted to eventually smuggle the two cars into Zambia.
The suspects are a South African, Mpswati Obed Lucar (33), a Zimbabwean living in South Africa Brian Mabika (29) and a Zambian identified as SA Kalengo (36).
Investigations revealed that the trio were allegedly part of a syndicate that had been robbing people of vehicles in the region before smuggling them to other countries for resale using fake documents.
The trio were arrested on Tuesday following a tip off and they are still in custody as investigations continue.
Detectives from the CID Vehicle Theft Squad received information that two vehicles were parked at a house in Mainway Meadows. When they arrived at the house, they found the two vehicles and the suspects who they questioned but they failed to give a satisfactory answer, leading to their arrest.
Detectives discovered that the cars were stolen in Namibia before they were smuggled into South Africa where fake documents and registration numbers were manufactured. They were then smuggled into Zimbabwe en route to Zambia using the fake documents.
Both the engine and chassis numbers were tampered with and police have since engaged Interpol to assist with investigations.
— Herald
By A Correspondent- A married Zimbabwe Prisons officer Tavatangira Chiromunye (30) who on numerous occasions allegedly had se_x with a 15-year-old girl from a car has been dragged to court on charges of having interc0urse with a minor.
The case happened in Zvishavane but it is being heard in Mberengwa because magistrates in Zvishavane recused themselves because they work with the accused.
Chiromunye appeared before Mberengwa Magistrate Caroline Tafira.
Chiromunye would pick up the minor using his Toyota Fun Cargo and park adjacent to Lambizi Lodge, Zvahavande and have consensual se_x with the girl from the car.
This happened at least three times and the matter came to light when the complainant’s father realised that his daughter was not at home. Her aunt interviewed her and that is when she disclosed that she was in relationship with Chiromunye since 2020.
The accused is being represented by Grace Nyabawa and was remanded to June 2021 on free bail.
It is the State case that sometime in 2020, Chiromunye proposed love to the complainant and she accepted. Towards the end of April 2021, the accused person approached the complainant at her place of residence when she was alone, knocked on her window and advised her to meet at the main gate.
He picked her at the main gate and drove off Prince Street to a place adjacent to Lambizi Lodge, where he parked.
The accused continued having extra marital se_xual intercourse using the same vehicle at the same place.
Ali Mutausi represented the state
By A Correspondent- The leadership crisis in the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) has taken a new twist after its former president, Enos Manyika has approached the courts claiming ownership of the church.
His move comes after the Supreme Court had ruled that Reverend Amon Madawo was the legitimate leader of the church prompting rival group led by Reverend Cossam Chiangwa to form a separate church – Apostolic Faith Mission of Zimbabwe.
Manyika seeks a court order to bar Madawo and his followers from using the AFM name without his consent. Below is Manyika’s application.
IN THE HIGH COURT OF ZIMBABWE CASE NO. HC 453/20 APPLICANT
HELD AT BULAWAYO In the matter between:
APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION IN ZIMBABWE (Registration CF 221/01) APPLICANT
AND
AMON DUBIE MADAWO 1ST RESPONDENT
CLEVER MUPAKAIDZA 2ND RESPONDENT
BRIAN TEMBO 3RD RESPONDENT
CHRISTOPHER CHEMHURU 4TH RESPONDENT
APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION IN ZIMBABWE 5TH RESPONDENT
THE REGISTRAR OF DEEDS, N.0 6TH RESPONDENT
URGENT CHAMBER APPLICATION
TAKE NOTICE an Urgent Chamber application is hereby made for an order in terms of the draft order annexed to this application on the grounds that the application is urgent as contemplated in Order 32 rules 226 (2) (a) and 242 of the Rules of the High Court.
FOUNDING AFFIDAVIT OF ENOS MANYIKA
I, the undersigned ENOS MANYIKA, do hereby make oath and state that all the facts stated hereunder are to the best of my knowledge, true and correct, and that;-
1. I am the founder and representative of the Applicant, and I am also the founding president who caused the registration of the Applicant in the year 2001, underregistration number CF 221/01. I am duly authorised to depose to this affidavit in that capacity. I attach hereto a copy of the constitution as Annexure A.
2. The address for service of Applicant is care of our undersigned legal practitioners of record.
3. The 1st Respondent is AMON DUBIE MADAWO, a male adult of full capacity to sue and be sued in his own name. His address for service is Suite 4, Cheznous Building, 4th Avenue/J. Moyo Street, Bulawayo.
4. The 2nd Respondent is CLEVER MUPAKAIDZWA, a male adult of full capacity to sue and be sued in his own name. His address for service is Suite 4, Cheznous Building, 4th Avenue/J. Moyo Street, Bulawayo
5. The 3rd Respondent is BRIGHTON TEMBO, a male adult of full capacity to sue and be sued in his own name. His address for service is Suite 4, Cheznous Building, 4th Avenue/J. Moyo Street, Bulawayo.
6. The 4th Respondent is CHRISTOPHER CHEMHURU a male adult of full capacity to sue and be sued in his own name. His address for service is Suite 4, Cheznous Building, 4th Avenue/J. Moyo Street, Bulawayo.
7. The 5th Respondent is APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION IN ZIMBABWE whose further and better particulars are unknown to Applicant, whose address for service is Suite 4, Cheznous Building, 4th Avenue/J.Moyo Street, Bulawayo.
26. Firstly, a name is an identity. It is that which identifies an individual and or an entity. There are values and norms that attach to a name. For example, the Applicant associates with what is called a confession of faith. The confession of faith is the same and is embodied in every apostolic faith mission worldwide.
The 5th Respondent does not subscribe to that confession of faith. It is submitted that difference on the subject of confession of faith tarnishes the image of the Applicant herein as the world at large will think that the Applicant is party to worldwide. Put forcefully, even the mother body of the Apostolic faith missions, the Apostolic Faith Mission International has told the 5th Respondent as much (See Annexure F). The letter from Apostolic Faith Mission International goes further to state that
“The AFM international office bearers have also noted that you have adopted a new constitution with a Confession of Faith which is different from that of AFM International. Your action is tantamount to legally defining yourself outside the AFM International parameters.”
It is for this reason that the Applicant must be granted the interdict that it seeks especially in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that has been wrongly interpreted nationwide to suggest that the 1st – 5th Respondents were legitimate office bearers of the Applicant yet they do not subscribe to the Applicant and even have their own confession of faith different from the Applicant and all Apostolic Missions worldwide.
The name of the Applicant is its identity and is unique. Once trashed, Applicant may not be able to repair the damage that would have been done to its name.
27. Secondly, the purpose of a church is to preach the gospel of God. To that end, congregants subscribe to a church doctrine. The current state of confusion does not augur well with the ecclesiastical functions of the church and the church may lose its purpose in these skirmishes. Applicant may be small in size as compared to the 5th Respondent but stature does not entitle one to use the name of another. Applicant has a right to the protection of its registered name.
28. There is no other remedy that can afford the Applicant relief instanter in the premises. Applicant has already filed a court application and awaits a court date. Whilst applicant has been complying and following due process of the law, Respondents have continued to damage the name and image of the Applicant. Urgent relief is more important now considering that by using the Applicant’s name, some people may be misled to believe they are dealing with the Applicant yet they are not. Debts and obligations may be created as against the applicant further exposing the applicant to litigation and law suits.
29. In the premises, I pray for an order temporary directing that the Respondents be directed to cease using Applicant’s name, without the express written consent of the Applicant.
In the premises, I submit that I have made a good case for the relief sought and I pray for an order in terms of the draft annexed hereto
By A Correspondent- The Rhodes Estate Preparatory School (REPS) in Matopo, Matabeleland South, says two young girls were sexually abused by an assistant boarding master who has evaded arrest.
In a communication to parents on Friday, the school did not say when it became aware of the abuse, with the notice coming on Friday as schools closed for the first term.
The ages of the two children were also not revealed.
“We would like to inform you that the school has received and is dealing with a reported case of sexual abuse concerning two of our learners. The alleged perpetrator is Mr Mlibazisi Bhebhe, an assistant Matron responsible for the boys,” said the REPS School Development Committee chairman Brian Phiri in a letter to parents.
Phiri said Bhebhe “remains at large but police are looking for him.”
The parents of the two pupils had been notified, he added.
Taungana Ndoro, the director of communications and advocacy at Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education told ZimLive.com: “We have received a preliminary report and we are instituting investigations.”
A parent who did not want to be identified said he feared the sexual abuse scandal was much deeper, compounded by school authorities that he said are “very secretive” and suppressed any information that cast the school in bad light.
“We picked this early this week, but the school has been quiet all along. It’s difficult to know for how long this has been happening and how many pupils are affected. They only released the information to time it with the closure of schools because they knew that our children will tell us what was happening,” the parent said.
The parent claimed that the school head and deputy were “notorious for punishing pupils who inform parents about anything negative that would have happened at the school” and fears that more girls could have been abused.
Matabeleland South acting police spokesman Assistant Inspector Thabani Mkhwananzi could not be reached for comment as he was said to be out of office.
REPS, previously a boys school, now enrolls girls and has an enrollment of about 120 students, about 80 of them boarders. It shares land with the Matopos Research Station.
REPS admits children from Grades 3 to 7, averaging eight to 12 years in age. Founded in 1932, the school was completed with funding from the estate of colonial kingpin Cecil John Rhodes, after whom it was named and whose summer home is on the grounds of the school.
The school is famous for grooming sports stars who went on to represent Zimbabwe including cricketers Henry Olonga and Heath Streak, and the rugby player Victor Olonga.
-ZimLive
By Correspondent- HIV and Aids have emerged as the leading killers among adolescents, accounting for 50% of deaths, according to statistics released by sexual and reproductive health rights organisation, Advocacy Core Team.
The organisation recently petitioned Parliament to consider amendments to the relevant pieces of legislation to ensure all young people could access reproductive health services.
It argued that lack of comprehensive information and knowledge about reproductive healthcare services (RHS) among adolescents increased spread of HIV and sexually transmitted infections and lead to unplanned parenthood and illegal abortions.
In a report jointly presented to Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care and Thematic Committee on HIV and Aids on Thursday, the Advocacy Core Team said it did not seek to adjust the age of consent to sexual behaviour or the minimum age of marriage, but to promote cognisance of RHS among young people.
“It is our prayer that the Public Health Act of 2018 is amended to provide that there should be no age restrictions on accessing reproductive health care services by persons aged 12 years and above, and these services include: HIV testing, preand post counselling, access to contraceptives and other pregnancy prevention management services for adolescents and young people; and to ensure that there are proper administrative measures to monitor and provide reproductive health rights for persons aged 12 years and above, ” the petition read.
The organisation also argued that the requirement of consent was also making it difficult for healthcare service providers to effectively attend to adolescents due to inadequate legal protection.
Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga said poverty was the major cause of early sexual behaviour among teens.
“Ideally, individuals with the capacity to consent should be allowed to do so, no matter what their age,” he said.
“Assessment of capacity, however, is rarely straightforward for adolescents. Capacity to consent requires the ability to communicate a choice, to understand the options, to reason effectively about these options, and to make an un-coerced decision.
“Active involvement of a concerned and capable parent is the best possible situation for sexually active adolescents. Parents are presumed to be competent decision makers. They have legal and financial duties to care for children including adolescents.”
The committee recommended that the Health ministry should amend section 35 of the Public Health Act to provide sexual and reproductive and health rights services for young people under the age of 18 years and provide for the protection of the service providers by June 2022.
Newsday
By Wilbert Mukori- Professor Lovemore Madhuku, a constitutional law Professor and NCA presidential candidate in the July 2018 elections has expressed his doubts in the many legal challenges producing the desired result of stopping the enactment of the Zimbabwe Constitution Amendment Bills No 1 and 2. As far as he is concerned, the only solution is streets in protests.
“There are two remedies to challenge the two constitutional amendments. There is the political remedy, which is always the best. Citizens would say no to the amendments and organise a political action to challenge them,” he argued.
“There is no sufficient political activity in Zimbabwe at the moment, which explains why we are opting to go to the courts. In a normal framework where there is political activity, we would not have been having these discussions in a small corner, with few individuals who have always been vocal on those matters.”
This is just typical arrogance of Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent political leaders; they have betrayed the ordinary people again and again and are the ones who have dragged the nation into this man-made hell-on-earth. Instead of apologizing to the people and mending their ways they have the chic to blame the people lacking political zeal!
“One man, one vote!” was the rallying call in the fight to end white colonial rule. But when the finish line was in sight Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies brushed the promise aside and told the people if the party failed to win the 1980 elections, the bush war would continue. The people gave up their cherished right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and voted to end the war.
Mugabe and company were not content with winning the 1980 elections but used it as the starting point to consolidate their power by systematically erode people’s freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections and even the right to live. Zanu PF instigated the 1983 to 1987 Gukurahundi massacre, killing over 20 000, to establish the de facto one-party dictatorship. The regime has murdered a further 10 000 plus to retain the dictatorship.
The people have risked life and limb to elect Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends into power these last 21 years on the understanding the party will bring about the democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. Tsvangirai and company, just like Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies, have too sold-out and have failed to bring about even one democratic reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so.
As if betraying the nation over reforms was not bad enough, MDC leaders have been participating in flawed and illegal elections to win the few gravy train seats Zanu PF offered as bait. They knew that by participating the opposition was giving legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF, as David Coltart, MDC minister in the GNU admitted in his book!
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” wrote Senator Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
SADC leaders literally begged MDC leaders not to participate in the 2013 elections until reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging could be implemented. Their pleas fell on deaf ears.
Professor Lovemore Madhuku and his NCA joined in the July 2028 opposition scramble for the few gravy train seats Zanu PF dangled before them! He was one of the 23 presidential candidates and has since been a very active member of Mnangagwa POLAD – a Mnangagwa initiative to reward the presidential candidates for their participation and thus giving him legitimacy.
Madhuku is right, all the Amendment legal challenges question the constitutional powers of the Zanu PF regime are doomed to fail. Like it or not by participating in the flawed elections Zimbabwe’s opposition have given the vote rigging Zanu PF the legitimacy and mandate to govern the country and that includes changing the constitution.
Professor Madhuku’s proposed solution of public protest to stop the amendments is equally fallacious and doomed to fail. The same public participated in the flawed elections and thus gave Zanu PF the mandate to govern or be it unwittingly. What matters here is that the public gave Zanu PF the mandate to govern and, having given it, cannot expect to take it all away by street protests.
Voter beware! (Voter cave!) Has even more resonance than the more familiar “buyer beware” (caveat emptor!)
Indeed, the public have been warned of the folly of participating in these flawed and illegal elections and it is none other than Madhuku and his fellow opposition opportunists who have deceived the public into participating.
The solution to ending Zanu PF misrule is by stopping Zanu PF fraudulently getting legitimacy in the first place. Do not participate in the flawed elections until the democratic reforms to guarantee free, fair and credible elections are implemented. This was the solution SADC leaders proposed back in 2013 and it is valid now as it was back then.
It really is insane to keep participating in flawed elections to give the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and yet this is exactly what Professor Madhuku and the rest in the opposition want the nation to do. Professor Madhuku, Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti and the rest in the opposition camp have all one thing in common greed. It was greed that made them participate in the flawed and illegal elections in the past and the same irresistible force is pulling to participate in the 2023 elections regardless of all the evidence Zanu PF has already rigged the elections.
Whilst Zanu PF has found the time to pass Amendment Bills No 1 and 2, amending no fewer than 30 different sections of the constitution, the party has not had the time to extend the postal vote to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora. How can the 2023 elections be free and fair when 3 out 8 (5 million voted in July 2018) Zimbabweans are once again denied the vote! This political reality did not stop the opportunists Madhuku et al participating in the past and it will not do so in 2023!
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political man-made hell-on-earth not because ordinary Zimbabweans have lacked the political zeal to fight for their freedoms and rights. The people have played their part and many have paid the ultimate price and lost their very lives; but all to no avail because the country’s political leaders have again and again betrayed the nation by selling out on the common causes of freedom, human rights, justice and liberty for selfish greed.
To get out of this hell-hole the people of Zimbabwe must open their eyes and see the country’s political leaders for what they really are – corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs and/or murderous thugs. The most foolish thing Zimbabweans can do is to participate in the 2023 elections with no reforms and give the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. Doing so will only prove Zimbabweans have yet to open their eyes and there is no getting out of the hell-hole until we open our eyes!
By A Correspondent- Two men who were captured on a disturbing viral video mercilessly beating a 15 year old girl whom they accused of two-timing them have been arrested.
A source close to investigations said police arrested the duo from Madlambudzi on Monday.
The two were identified as Courcious Tshuma and Martin Moyo, both 18 years old, of Mazwaligwe Village in Masendu under Chief Masendu.
They pleaded guilty to physical abuse and were each sentenced to an effective one month in prison when they appeared before Plumtree magistrate Tayengwa Chibanda.
The video went viral on social media last week and led to a public outcry with many demanding that the two men be identified and arrested.
In the 1 minute 37 seconds video, the two men are both holding the helpless young girl by her hands and taking turns to assault her.
At one time the young girl pleads with the two men to allow her to relieve herself but they both refused to let her go and continued beating her up.
It is not yet clear who was shooting the video which ends abruptly while the two are still assaulting the girl.
One of the men is said to be married and has a child, even though he was accusing the young girl of double-crossing him.
The other is said to be hailing from Lupane and is a herdsman in the area.
A Bulawayo-based lawyer Emmanuel Mlalazi, who was instrumental in tracing the two men, said more needs to be done to change the culture of girl child abuse in rural areas.
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By A Correspondent- A Chiredzi prophet allegedly inserted his fingers into the vagina and anus of a 16-year-old girl during a cleansing process.
The incident reportedly happened while the girl’s parents and siblings who accompanied her were sitting outside the hut where the rituals were taking place.
James Mutonhorera, 51, of Village 7 Uswaushava Triangle pleaded not guilty when he appeared before Regional Magistrate Judith Ziyu on Friday Masvingo Mirror reports.
The court heard that Mutonhorera became ecstatic during the cleansing and removed a bone from the girl’s stomach, another one from her breast, and a third from her back.
The incident happened on May 5, 2021.
The complainant alleged that after removing the three pieces of bones, Mutonhorera ordered her to remove her pulling socks because he wanted to remove something from her vagina.
He sprinkled some water on her and she allegedly fell unconscious as the prophet was inserting fingers into her vagina.
The State further alleges that the complainant’s skirt was pulled up when she regained consciousness and her vagina and anus were both painful.
Mutonhorera then showed her a bone that he removed from her vagina. The complainant says she doesn’t know exactly what happened when she was unconscious.
The girl narrated the story to her mother after discovering that her anus and vagina were painful.
Responding to the allegations, Mutonhori accused the girl of fabricating the story.
By A Correspondent- The ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo to Zimbabwe, Mawampanga Mwana Nanga has been listed as a top beneficiary of foreign currency sold at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign currency auction system.
The foreign diplomat received higher forex allocations than a large-scale mining company over a period of one year.
The NewsHawks reports that Mwanananga doubles as the dean of African diplomats and is known for rallying counterparts in the diplomatic service to project Zimbabwe in good light especially during chaotic events like elections.
According to the latest list of 1 423 beneficiaries of the US$1.2 billion allotted under the main foreign exchange auction between June 2020 and 31 May 2021 which was published by the RBZ, the DRC ambassador, accessed US$120 000 from the main auction system.
Mwananangwa who is at position 992 on the main auction allocation list has no known business interests in Zimbabwe.
The Congolese diplomat accessed more cash than local diamond miner Murowa Diamonds which requires forex for its production. Mining is one of the most capital intensive sectors in the country.
Murowa received US$100 000 which represented 0.01% of the total allocations for large entities.
Other notable beneficiaries who received fewer funds from the apex bank compared to the DRC ambassador include Hwange Colliery, the City of Masvingo, Zimbabwe School Examinations Council and the Bindura University of Science Technology.
A few months ago, a local research unit Econometer Global Capital expressed concern over the allocation list which was published by the RBZ at the start of the year.
Econometer Global Capital said the would have been more helpful if the central bank had also provided critical information on whether or not the top beneficiaries are exporting, how their capacity has improved, among other key variables that may aid in understanding whether or not the forex is being put to good use.
By A Correspondent- Ms Vicky Nhanhete, a sex worker based in Chinhoyi was arrested by police when she went to report that her baby had been kidnapped by unknown assailants.
Nhanhete (27) is said to have left her three minor children sleeping in their single-room lodgings in Chinhoyi, for a local drinking spot, where she dabbles in sex work.
She returned around 1 AM with her overnight client only to find the toddler missing and the other children shook.
The children reported that a man had forcibly opened the door and snatched the baby, before threatening to knife them if they screamed.
Nhanhete reported the matter herself to Cherima police base in Chikonohono high-density suburb less than an hour after the alleged kidnapping.
The police, however, threw Nyanhete and her roommate, Lyda Kashambwa (34) in police cells where they spent three nights as they were regarded as key suspects.
They were later freed on Wednesday by the courts due to lack of evidence.
According to police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Nyathi, the child has not yet been found.
The dejected mother of three, including the kidnapped toddler, Dadirai Seremwe, yesterday narrated her ordeal.
Narrating her ordeal to The Herald, Nhanhete said:
_Upon returning with a client that I had charged $2 000 for the night, I looked for my child that I had left asleep with her other siblings but to no avail. I asked the other housemates if they had seen my child to which all professed ignorance._
_My roommate, who is also a hooker and had left for home before me, also professed ignorance. We then went to Cherima Police Base where we were told not to panic as the officers on duty believed my child could have been taken by one of the housemates._
She said she went back to the police the following day after several attempts including the toddler’s biological father who stays in Trelawney, Zvimba had yielded nothing.
Nyanhete’s 7-year-old firstborn who was left babysitting her kidnapped toddler, her four-year-old young sister and Kashambwa’s child physically identified the intruder as someone she has come across several times although she does not know the name.
She narrated:
_The man got in and grabbed my sister and when I tried to call for help, he pointed a knife at me and threatened to kill me before ordering me to cover my head with a blanket as he left._
_There were some people that were speaking outside and sounded like women._
Cases of child kidnappings and murder have been on the rise lately with some suspecting that the babies are being killed for ritual purposes.
By A Correspondent- An ex-prison official has lost a car he bought using his retirement package to robbers.
The former prison guard identified as George Denga (62)’s Mazda BT50 was carjacked by robbers last Tuesday.
The car was recovered from a bushy area in Mabvuku after the police had engaged in a shoot-out with six robbers in the area.
The six robbers were arrested on Thursday and they are at Harare remand prison.
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week visited the late family of the late former Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo for an unspecified reason.
Observers say the clueless President could have visited the Nkomo family to persuade them to hand him over the late father Zimbabwe’s induku which many believe has the powers to take the country forward.
Speaking after visiting the Nkomo family and the Joshua Nkomo Museum in Matsheumhlophe , Mnangagwa said Government was “embarrassed” for having allowed the Nkomo family to take lead in preserving the legacy of Dr Nkomo through the establishment of the museum.
He said going forward, they would offer all the possible support to the Nkomo family to ensure that the museum gets the status it deserves.
“My appreciation goes to the (Nkomo) family who has done this preservation of the history of Father Zimbabwe; this was a project initiated by the family.
“We as Government feel embarrassed that we did not lead ourselves, but now that it is there, I have assured my young sister (Mrs Thandiwe Nkomo-Ibrahim, daughter to the late Dr Nkomo) that she will receive support from Government to make sure that this place gets the status that it deserves,” Mnangagwa.
By A Correspondent- Robbers have handcuffed a local car dealer, dumped him in Goromonzi before fleeing with his Mercedes Benz
The robbers are part of the six carjackers who were arrested by the police on Thursday after a shoot-out near the Mabvuku turn-off along Mutare Road on the eastern outskirts of Harare.
One of the suspects was shot and injured on the left knee as he tried to flee the scene after detectives had cornered the gang. He was taken to Sally Mugabe Central Hospital for treatment and is reported to be in stable condition.
The arrested suspects are Isaac Kufa (36) of Hatfield, Tonderai Murupiri (28), Patrick Mbundire (21), Casper Chigariro (42), all of Epworth, Hardlife Steven Makwarimba alias Stavo (45) of Goromonzi and Charles Yekeye (47) of Unit O in Chitungwiza.
Investigations show that Kufa, Murupiri, Mbundire and Chigariro would allegedly hijack vehicles before passing them onto Makwarimba and Yekeye to sell to unsuspecting people.
In one of the cases, Kufa is alleged to have gone to a car sale in the city and approached Mr Lemeo Chidziva alleging that he wanted to purchase an Isuzu double cab.
He asked for a test drive and Mr Chidziva joined him. Kufa then drove the vehicle to Newlands where he lied that he wanted to pick up his mechanic but he picked up Murupiri.
They then drove back to the car sale where the two said they wanted to test drive a black Mercedes Benz C200. Mr Chidziva agreed and the three drove towards Chisipite.
When they reached the roundabout along ED Mnangagwa Road, Mr Chidziva suggested they returned but Murupiri, who was seated in the back, allegedly grabbed him by the neck and handcuffed him.
He dragged him to the back seat and ordered him to lie down at gunpoint. The two allegedly dumped him in a bushy area in Goromonzi before driving off.
The vehicle was fixed with a tracker and detectives managed to track it on Thursday while it was parked at a house in Strathaven, leading to its recovery.
At the house, they found Mr Tashinga Maziriri (25) who was in the process of buying the car from Makwarimba and Yekeye.
He led the detectives to the two who were arrested while waiting to receive money from him in Southerton.
Makwarimba and Yekeye then led detectives to the Mabvuku turnoff where the other four accomplices were waiting for their share of the money.
After seeing that the four had been cornered, Mbundire attempted to flee and warning shots were fired but he did not take heed, resulting in him being shot on the left knee.
He was found in possession of a Mazda BT50 car key in his pocket.
The vehicle had been taken by the four suspects from an ex-Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service officer, George Denga (62), in a carjacking on Tuesday.
It was recovered from a bushy area in Mabvuku and investigations are still in progress.
The Zimbabwe Lawyers For Human Rights explains how the MDC Alliance Duo, Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere were finally released from prison. Statement below
ZIM COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS UNJUSTLY INCARCERATED AT CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON
THE Supreme Court on Friday 4 June 2021 ordered the immediate release from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison of two political prisoners, Last Tamai Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, where they had been detained since 2016 after they were convicted and sentenced to serve 20 years for allegedly murdering a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer.
Maengahama and Madzokere, who were represented by Beatrice Mtetwa and Charles Kwaramba of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, were each sentenced to serve 20 years at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison on 12 December 2016 after they were convicted by then High Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu of murder with actual intent as defined in section 47 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.
The two together with Yvonne Musarurwa were convicted in 2016 for murdering Petros Mutedza, a ZRP Inspector on 29 May 2011. However, Musarurwa was released from prison in March 2018 under a presidential pardon.
Phenias Nhatarikwa, who was convicted as an accessory after the fact to public violence as defined in section 206 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act was fined US$500 or in default of payment, three months imprisonment.
Maengahama, Madzokere, Musarurwa and Nhatarikwa’s lawyers filed an appeal at the Supreme Court in 2016 seeking an order to pronounce them as not guilty and acquitted and to set aside the sentences imposed against them.
In their application which was opposed by the state, Mtetwa and Kwaramba argued that Justice Bhunu erred and misdirected himself when he failed to properly apply the law and discharge Maengahama, Madzokere, Musarurwa and Nhatarikwa as he was obliged to at the close of the state case when no evidence justifying their placement on their defence had been led and in doing so denied them a fair trial with the result that the conviction and sentence must be vacated.Mtetwa and Kwaramba contended that Justice Bhunu erred and misdirected himself in finding Maengahama, Madzokere and Musarurwa guilty on the basis of the doctrine of common purpose when in law the doctrine is no longer part of Zimbabwean law.
The human rights lawyers also argued that the High Court Judge erred and misdirected himself when he convicted Nhatarikwa as an accessory after the fact to the crime of public violence when there is no actual perpetrator convicted of public violence during trial.On Friday 4 June 2021, Supreme Court Judges Justice of Appeal Rita Makarau, Justice of Appeal Susan Mavangira and Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza set aside their conviction by Justice Bhunu and acquitted them after ruling that they were not guilty of committing murder.Justice Makarau, Mavangira and Deputy Chief Justice Gwaunza also quashed and set aside the sentences imposed on Maengahama, Madzokere, Musarurwa and Nhatarikwa and ordered the immediate release of Maengahama and Madzokere, who had remained incarcerated at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
By A Correspondent- Police in Harare has arrested six suspected armed robbers and carjackers after a shoot-out near the Mabvuku turn-off along Mutare Road on the eastern outskirts of Harare.
One of the suspects was shot and injured on the left knee as he tried to flee the scene after detectives had cornered the gang. He was taken to Sally Mugabe Central Hospital for treatment and is reported to be in stable condition.
The arrested suspects are Isaac Kufa (36) of Hatfield, Tonderai Murupiri (28), Patrick Mbundire (21), Casper Chigariro (42), all of Epworth, Hardlife Steven Makwarimba alias Stavo (45) of Goromonzi and Charles Yekeye (47) of Unit O in Chitungwiza.
Investigations show that Kufa, Murupiri, Mbundire and Chigariro would allegedly hijack vehicles before passing them onto Makwarimba and Yekeye to sell to unsuspecting people.
In one of the cases, Kufa is alleged to have gone to a car sale in the city and approached Mr Lemeo Chidziva alleging that he wanted to purchase an Isuzu double cab.
He asked for a test drive and Mr Chidziva joined him. Kufa then drove the vehicle to Newlands where he lied that he wanted to pick up his mechanic but he picked up Murupiri.
They then drove back to the car sale where the two said they wanted to test drive a black Mercedes Benz C200. Mr Chidziva agreed and the three drove towards Chisipite.
When they reached the roundabout along ED Mnangagwa Road, Mr Chidziva suggested they returned but Murupiri, who was seated in the back, allegedly grabbed him by the neck and handcuffed him.
He dragged him to the back seat and ordered him to lie down at gunpoint. The two allegedly dumped him in a bushy area in Goromonzi before driving off.
The vehicle was fixed with a tracker and detectives managed to track it on Thursday while it was parked at a house in Strathaven, leading to its recovery.
At the house, they found Mr Tashinga Maziriri (25) who was in the process of buying the car from Makwarimba and Yekeye.
He led the detectives to the two who were arrested while waiting to receive money from him in Southerton.
Makwarimba and Yekeye then led detectives to the Mabvuku turnoff where the other four accomplices were waiting for their share of the money.
After seeing that the four had been cornered, Mbundire attempted to flee and warning shots were fired but he did not take heed, resulting in him being shot on the left knee.
He was found in possession of a Mazda BT50 car key in his pocket.
The vehicle had been taken by the four suspects from an ex-Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service officer, George Denga (62), in a carjacking on Tuesday.
It was recovered from a bushy area in Mabvuku and investigations are still in progress.
By A Correspondent- The police in Harare has arrested nine suspects, two of them foreigners, believed to be part of a vehicle smuggling and carjacking syndicate operating in the SADC region.
Of the nine, three were arrested in Mainway Meadows in southern Harare after they were found in possession of two cars — a Range Rover Evoque (registration number HZ 33CN GP) and a Toyota Fortuner (JH 81 HR GP), worth nearly R1 million together.
The vehicles are suspected to have been stolen in Namibia before being smuggled to South Africa and then Zimbabwe.
It is believed the suspects wanted to eventually smuggle the two cars into Zambia.
The suspects are a South African, Mpswati Obed Lucar (33), a Zimbabwean living in South Africa Brian Mabika (29) and a Zambian identified as SA Kalengo (36).
Investigations revealed that the trio was allegedly part of a syndicate that had been robbing people of vehicles in the region before smuggling them to other countries for resale using fake documents.
The trio was arrested on Tuesday following a tip-off and they are still in custody as investigations continue.
Detectives from the CID Vehicle Theft Squad received information that two vehicles were parked at a house in Mainway Meadows. When they arrived at the house, they found the two vehicles and the suspects who they questioned but they failed to give a satisfactory answer, leading to their arrest.
Detectives discovered that the cars were stolen in Namibia before they were smuggled into South Africa where fake documents and registration numbers were manufactured.
They were then smuggled into Zimbabwe en route to Zambia using the fake documents.
Both the engine and chassis numbers were tampered with and police have since engaged Interpol to assist with investigations.
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By A Correspondent- Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa has visited the late family of the late former Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo and pleaded for their endorsement but did not bother to apologise for the mass killings he engineered in Matabeleland in the 1980s.
Mnangagwa is unpopular in Matabeleland because of the active role he played in the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres.
Mnangagwa who was the CIO minister during that time, wrote a false report to the then Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, advising him to declare war against the people of Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, lying that they had guns which did not surrender to the government in 1980.
Speaking after visiting the Nkomo family and the Joshua Nkomo Museum in Matsheumhlophe Thursday, Mnangagwa said Government was “embarrassed” for having allowed the Nkomo family to take lead in preserving the legacy of Dr Nkomo through the establishment of the museum.
He said going forward, they would offer all the possible support to the Nkomo family to ensure that the museum gets the status it deserves.
“My appreciation goes to the (Nkomo) family who has done this preservation of the history of Father Zimbabwe; this was a project initiated by the family.
“We as Government feel embarrassed that we did not lead ourselves, but now that it is there, I have assured my young sister (Mrs Thandiwe Nkomo-Ibrahim, daughter to the late Dr Nkomo) that she will receive support from Government to make sure that this place gets the status that it deserves,” Mnangagwa.
By A Correspondent- Norton MP, Temba Mliswa has mocked the disgruntled former Chief Justice Luke Malaba, and said that the respected judge should just resign.
Malaba is challenging a High court judgement that ruled that he should not continue on the bench because of old age.
By A Correspondent- One of the judges who was supposed to be part of the panel set to hear an application seeking the arrest of Chief Justice Luke Malaba, Justice Webster Chinamora has recused himself after confirming that he had met with the head of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretariat.
Justice Chinamhora recused himself from the three-judge panel in the morning after lawyers representing Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika, who is the applicant in the matter, asked for his recusal following revelations that he met with JSC secretary Walter Chikwana ahead of the hearing of the case.
Critics say the meeting was meant to pressure the judges to make a ruling in favour of Chief Justice Malaba which would seriously compromise their independence.
Justice Chinamhora then recused himself, confirming that he had, indeed, met with Chikwana.
The remaining two judges, Justices Amy Tsanga and Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba then consulted the JSC, which ruled that they could proceed and hear the matter as a two-judge panel.
The case against Chief Justice Malaba came after his term of office as Chief Justice ended a fortnight ago, with the High Court ruling that he ceased to be the country’s top judicial officer on May 15 when he turned 70 and that a recent constitutional amendment allowing the President to extend his term did not apply to him.
By Showbiz Correspondent | Described by analysts as highly blasphemous and unnecessary, Season three of Netflix’s animated series Paradise P.D, about inept US cops, features a Jesus who comes down off the cross to shoot his enemies and have sex with bikini-clad women.
After climbing down off the cross and using two machine guns to mow down his enemies, Jesus is approached by two bikini-clad women. The three then disappear from the screen. Sensual sounds clinch the intimation that sex is occurring.
This isn’t the first time Netflix has allowed blasphemy of the likeness of Jesus Christ, writes the US based CitizenGo.
Netflix has taken their freedom of speech too far, portraying Jesus in a lewd and ridiculous manner, and mocking gun owners as paranoid lunatics.
Netflix is only accelerating its outrageously offensive treatment of Jesus Christ. We cannot continue to stand idly by as Jesus is mocked openly on Netflix, the organisation says.
Their report in full states:
Dear Editor.
We all know Netflix was unapologetic in peddling pedophilia when they launched Cuties. Now they are continuing their assault on Christians around the world. This isn’t the first time Netflix has allowed blasphemy of the likeness of Jesus Christ. Their most recent attack on Jesus comes in season three of the animated Paradise P.D. with an episode that features a video of a gun-wielding Jesus that turns into nothing short of pornography.
The episode of the already disgustingly offensive series, features a scene using Jesus as anti-gun trope to demonstrate how “guns make a better world.” The video is horrifically offensive, with Jesus coming down from the cross to kill his persecutors with machine guns before having sex with two women.
Somehow this scene is only slightly more offensive than the rest of the show. Believe it or not things only get worse from there. Despite this blatant blasphemy, almost no one has taken note. While even tame satirical depictions of Muhammad have garnered massive public outrage, and charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia,” this overt attack on Jesus Christ has gotten no attention from today’s “journalists.”
Netflix has taken their freedom of speech too far, portraying Jesus in a lewd and ridiculous manner, and mocking gun owners as paranoid lunatics.
Netflix is only accelerating its outrageously offensive treatment of Jesus Christ. We cannot continue to stand idly by as Jesus is mocked openly on Netflix.
CitizenGo has since drafted the below petition letter.
LETTER TO:
Netflix, Pull offensive depictions of Jesus from “Paradise PD”
Dear Reed Hastings, Founder and co-CEO,and Bela Bajaria Vice President, Global TV, Netflix,
I am appalled by your decision to host sickening and offensive depictions of Jesus Christ on your platform. The blasphemous depictions of Jesus in the show Paradise PD S3: E4 are profoundly disrespectful and an egregious affront to the community of more than 2 billion Christians around the world who revere Jesus Christ as the Son of God. Your portrayal of Christ is such a grotesque representation that it is offensive even to those outside of the Christian faith who deny Christ’s deity but revere him as an important historical figure. This includes more than one billion Muslims around the world.
I am deeply disappointed by your blatant disrespect to such a large portion of the global population who find your portrayal of Christ to be blasphemous, disrespectful, and deeply offensive.
It is clear that the intent of this show is to be shocking and distasteful, however you have crossed a line here. This clear mockery of Jesus is completely unnecessary to the plot of the show. My sincere hope is that you will remove these scenes from the episode out of a respect for your fellow humans and our deeply held religious beliefs.[Your Name]. Link to sign the petition.
Meanwhile, a comment from Netflix was awaited at the time of writing.
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has gazetted New Fuel Prices for the month of June.
Diesel price has marginally dropped from US$1.32 to US$1.30 while petrol has maintained last month’s price.
In local Zimbabwean dollar terms, diesel is now selling for ZWL$110.54 down from ZWL$111.43 while petrol dropped from ZWL$112.63 to ZWL$112.55.
Below are the new prices
HARARE Magistrate Barbara Mateko on Wednesday 2 June 2021 exonerated three acquaintances of Zengeza West constituency legislator Job Sikhala by quashing charges of breaching national lockdown regulations pressed against them last year.
The three namely Terrence Manjengwa, Blessed Changara and Barnabas Gura, who all reside in Harare were arrested on 3 September 2020 outside Harare Magistrates Court while following proceedings for Sikhala, who had been arrested and detained on charges of inciting public violence by urging people to participate during the 31 July 2020 protests.
The trio was charged with unnecessary movement during the national lockdown as defined in section 4(1)(a) of the Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention, Containment and Treatment) (National Lockdown) Order Statutory Instrument 77/2020.
Prosecutors claimed that Manjengwa aged 26 years, Gura aged 32 years and Changara aged 22 years unlawfully and unnecessarily moved from their places of residence during the national lockdown imposed by government in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus by gathering at Harare Magistrates Court without exemption letters.
But on Wednesday 2 June 2021, Magistrate Mateko upheld the trio’s application for exception and quashed the charge of violating national lockdown regulations.
Magistrate Mateko’s decision came after Manjengwa, Gura and Changara’s lawyer Kossam Ncube of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights had objected to the charge of unnecessary movement during the national lockdown on the basis that it does not exist at law under the cited section.
Ncube had also argued that proceeding to trial with the charges as framed would amount to a violation of section 70(1)(b) of the Constitution as it abrogates the right to a fair trial and hence the
trio must not plead to a nullity.
While Manjengwa, Gura and Changara have been set free on charges of contravening national lockdown regulations, their application excepting to charges of possession of offensive weapons at a public gathering as defined in section 43(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act was dismissed by Magistrate Mateko, who ordered the State to amend the charge of possession of weapons as prosecutors had cited a wrong section.
In their application for exception, Manjengwa, Gura and Changara had argued that the purported offence cited in the State papers is not established under the particular sub-section cited by prosecutors, hence no cause of action arises.
The trio had also argued that the failure by the State to cite the correct provision is so glaring that it cannot be condoned or be said to be inconsequential and to seek to commence a prosecution on
non-existent charges is a grave anomaly and irregularity which will unduly prejudice and embarrass the accused persons.
Manjengwa, Gura and Changara return to court on 25 June 2021, where their trial on charges of possession of offensive weapons is scheduled to commence.
By Wilbert Mukori | Professor Lovemore Madhuku, a constitutional law Professor and NCA presidential candidate in the July 2018 elections has expressed his doubts in the many legal challenges producing the desired result of stopping the enactment of the Zimbabwe Constitution Amendment Bills No 1 and 2. As far as he is concerned, the only solution is streets in protests.
“There are two remedies to challenge the two constitutional amendments. There is the political remedy, which is always the best. Citizens would say no to the amendments and organise a political action to challenge them,” the Motlanthe commissioner argued.
“There is no sufficient political activity in Zimbabwe at the moment, which explains why we are opting to go to the courts. In a normal framework where there is political activity, we would not have been having these discussions in a small corner, with few individuals who have always been vocal on those matters.”
This is just typical arrogance of Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent political leaders; they have betrayed the ordinary people again and again and are the ones who have dragged the nation into this man-made hell-on-earth. Instead of apologizing to the people and mending their ways they have the chic to blame the people lacking political zeal!
“One man, one vote!” was the rallying call in the fight to end white colonial rule. But when the finish line was in sight Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies brushed the promise aside and told the people if the party failed to win the 1980 elections, the bush war would continue. The people gave up their cherished right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and voted to end the war.
Mugabe and company were not content with winning the 1980 elections but used it as the starting point to consolidate their power by systematically erode people’s freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections and even the right to live. Zanu PF instigated the 1983 to 1987 Gukurahundi massacre, killing over 20 000, to establish the de facto one-party dictatorship. The regime has murdered a further 10 000 plus to retain the dictatorship.
The people have risked life and limb to elect Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends into power these last 21 years on the understanding the party will bring about the democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. Tsvangirai and company, just like Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies, have too sold-out and have failed to bring about even one democratic reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so.
As if betraying the nation over reforms was not bad enough, MDC leaders have been participating in flawed and illegal elections to win the few gravy train seats Zanu PF offered as bait. They knew that by participating the opposition was giving legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF, as David Coltart, MDC minister in the GNU admitted in his book!
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” wrote Senator Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
SADC leaders literally begged MDC leaders not to participate in the 2013 elections until reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging could be implemented. Their pleas fell on deaf ears.
Professor Lovemore Madhuku and his NCA joined in the July 2028 opposition scramble for the few gravy train seats Zanu PF dangled before them! He was one of the 23 presidential candidates and has since been a very active member of Mnangagwa POLAD – a Mnangagwa initiative to reward the presidential candidates for their participation and thus giving him legitimacy.
Madhuku is right, all the Amendment legal challenges question the constitutional powers of the Zanu PF regime are doomed to fail. Like it or not by participating in the flawed elections Zimbabwe’s opposition have given the vote rigging Zanu PF the legitimacy and mandate to govern the country and that includes changing the constitution. Professor Madhuku’s proposed solution of public protest to stop the amendments is equally fallacious and doomed to fail. The same public participated in the flawed elections and thus gave Zanu PF the mandate to govern or be it unwittingly. What matters here is that the public gave Zanu PF the mandate to govern and, having given it, cannot expect to take it all away by street protests.
Voter beware! (Voter cave!) Has even more resonance than the more familiar “buyer beware” (caveat emptor!). Indeed, the public have been warned of the folly of participating in these flawed and illegal elections and it is none other than Madhuku and his fellow opposition opportunists who have deceived the public into participating.
The solution to ending Zanu PF misrule is by stopping Zanu PF fraudulently getting legitimacy in the first place. Do not participate in the flawed elections until the democratic reforms to guarantee free, fair and credible elections are implemented. This was the solution SADC leaders proposed back in 2013 and it is valid now as it was back then.
It really is insane to keep participating in flawed elections to give the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and yet this is exactly what Professor Madhuku and the rest in the opposition want the nation to do. Professor Madhuku, Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti and the rest in the opposition camp have all one thing in common greed. It was greed that made them participate in the flawed and illegal elections in the past and the same irresistible force is pulling to participate in the 2023 elections regardless of all the evidence Zanu PF has already rigged the elections.
Whilst Zanu PF has found the time to pass Amendment Bills No 1 and 2, amending no fewer than 30 different sections of the constitution, the party has not had the time to extend the postal vote to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora. How can the 2023 elections be free and fair when 3 out 8 (5 million voted in July 2018) Zimbabweans are once again denied the vote! This political reality did not stop the opportunists Madhuku et al participating in the past and it will not do so in 2023!
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political man-made hell-on-earth not because ordinary Zimbabweans have lacked the political zeal to fight for their freedoms and rights. The people have played their part and many have paid the ultimate price and lost their very lives; but all to no avail because the country’s political leaders have again and again betrayed the nation by selling out on the common causes of freedom, human rights, justice and liberty for selfish greed.
To get out of this hell-hole the people of Zimbabwe must open their eyes and see the country’s political leaders for what they really are – corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs and/or murderous thugs. The most foolish thing Zimbabweans can do is to participate in the 2023 elections with no reforms and give the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. Doing so will only prove Zimbabweans have yet to open their eyes and there is no getting out of the hell-hole until we open our eyes! – SOURCE: zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
By A Correspondent| The Supreme Court on Friday 4 June 2021 ordered the immediate release from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison of two political prisoners, Last Tamai Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, where they had been detained since 2016 after they were convicted and sentenced to serve 20 years for allegedly murdering a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer.
Maengahama and Madzokere, who were represented by Beatrice Mtetwa and Charles Kwaramba of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, were each sentenced to serve 20 years at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison on 12 December 2016 after they were convicted by then High Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu of murder with actual intent as defined in section 47 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.
The two together with Yvonne Musarurwa were convicted in 2016 for murdering Petros Mutedza, a ZRP Inspector on 29 May 2011. However, Musarurwa was released from prison in March 2018 under a presidential pardon.
Phenias Nhatarikwa, who was convicted as an accessory after the fact to public violence as defined in section 206 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act was fined US$500 or in default of payment, three months imprisonment.
Maengahama, Madzokere, Musarurwa and Nhatarikwa’s lawyers filed an appeal at the Supreme Court in 2016 seeking an order to pronounce them as not guilty and acquitted and to set aside the sentences imposed against them.
In their application which was opposed by the state, Mtetwa and Kwaramba argued that Justice Bhunu erred and misdirected himself when he failed to properly apply the law and discharge Maengahama, Madzokere, Musarurwa and Nhatarikwa as he was obliged to at the close of the state case when no evidence justifying their placement on their defence had been led and in doing so denied them a fair trial with the result that the conviction and sentence must be vacated.
Mtetwa and Kwaramba contended that Justice Bhunu erred and misdirected himself in finding Maengahama, Madzokere and Musarurwa guilty on the basis of the doctrine of common purpose when in law the doctrine is no longer part of Zimbabwean law.
The human rights lawyers also argued that the High Court Judge erred and misdirected himself when he convicted Nhatarikwa as an accessory after the fact to the crime of public violence when there is no actual perpetrator convicted of public violence during trial.
On Friday 4 June 2021, Supreme Court Judges Justice of Appeal Rita Makarau, Justice of Appeal Susan Mavangira and Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza set aside their conviction by Justice Bhunu and acquitted them after ruling that they were not guilty of committing murder.
Justice Makarau, Mavangira and Deputy Chief Justice Gwaunza also quashed and set aside the sentences imposed on Maengahama, Madzokere, Musarurwa and Nhatarikwa and ordered the immediate release of Maengahama and Madzokere, who had remained incarcerated at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
She has been fondly hailed as South Africa’s latest woman crush on social media, while other social media users have been in awe of Pan-African Parliament’s Barbara Rwodzi’s unwavering stance amid violent scuffles in the continental legislative body’s chambers in Midrand.
Recounting her experience at the Pan-African Parliament, Zimbabwe’s member of parliament for Chirumhanzu said the fight for rotation of the leadership of the house is not over.
“We are very optimistic as civil people of southern Africa that the African Union will make sure that this issue is discussed so that we see the end of it. It is a rule and procedure for AU organs to follow geographical rotation. It just doesn’t make sense to me why the Pan-African Parliament struggles to follow that,” Rwodzi told African News Agency (ANA) in an interview.
“We are very optimistic that the AU will bring justice and transparency on this matter. We hold on to our hope, we will come right. And if it (rotation) is not followed, we will continue fighting.”
She vowed that the matter of rotation, if not addressed, will be top of the agenda when the house reconvenes in October.
“If it’s not followed, we will continue fighting. We will still stand. It would be much better to close the Parliament. Why should we be discriminatory when it comes to issues of leading the Parliament? Who said other regions are superior than others? It is good and proper to exchange leadership so that the Africa we want is built together, and it unifies the continent,” said Rwodzi.
The Zanu PF lawmaker, representing Zimbabwe in the Pan-African Parliament, said her close working ties with the vociferous Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, did not start last week.
“I was appointed to the Pan-African Parliament in 2018 by my country. I met Honourable Malema in Rwanda. That is where we had our PAP session for October 2018. That was the first time I met Honourable Malema, in our committee on public accounts and audit. We are in the same committee, so we have been working together for the past three years,” said Rwodzi.
“In 2019 I was voted vice-chairman for that committee. I am currently the acting chairman following the departure of the chairman, who went for elections, lost and didn’t come back. I am current acting chairman of the committee on public accounts and Honourable Malema is a member of that committee. It wasn’t new that we had to work together, team up to make justice prevail. We have always been working like that.”
On Tuesday, clerk of the Pan-African Parliament Vipya Harawa was forced to postpone proceedings of the house following days of violent scuffles, outbursts and disruptions by parliamentarians.
Rwodzi said she had become a victim of violence within the Pan-African Parliament precinct, as fellow female parliamentarians were sent to physically attack her.
“I was personally attacked more than three times, and I am sure you have watched a clip where four women were intentionally called from the floor to come and attack me. They suspected that I had taken documents from the clerk and put them in my handbag. They came wanting to take my handbag and in the process I was injured because one of the women was strangling my left hand,” said Rwodzi.
“The attack on me was tactful because they had to send women, and during the struggle they were saying it is women to women. My colleagues from the south were watching me with four big women on top of me, as small as I am. But even during that moment, I was not focused on that violence. I was focused on the ultimate goal of what I wanted to achieve.”
Regarding her personal life, Rwodzi said she is an enterprising businesswoman, and a mother of two.
“Barbara Rwodzi is just a simple woman who is well known in the business world. I have been in business since I was 19. I am married, with two children – a boy aged 26 and the girl is turning 18 in July. I stand firm for what I know is right. I am very transparent in everything that I do; not that I am perfect, but I try by all means to be as transparent as I can,” said Rwodzi.
“I love justice, and I love changing livelihoods. That is what drove me to be in Parliament. To go and help where I come from, where I was born in Chirumhanzu in the rural areas of the Midlands part of Zimbabwe.”
ANA
By Leonard Koni| The prices of basic commodities have gone up and the cost of living is sky rocketing because of this ridiculous Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 recently introduced by Minister of Finance Professor Mthuli Ncube.
Zimbabweans have suffered enough and needs a break. What is causing this ministry of finance not to go back to simple and basic economics principles?
What makes an economy function is good governance and sound economic policies.
Our economy has mostly survived on jump starting from January to December and the government has been trying to bandage and command it whilst ignoring the oozing part of it.
It seems there are two parallel government structures in Zimbabwe. One located at the Shake Shake building, the Central Committee and the other one led by Mthuli Ncube and Dr John Panonetsa Mangudya.
The deepening economic crisis whereby there was a sharp increase in the price of fuel, electricity examination fees, the erosion of workers income and deterioration of service delivery are pointers of a failed leadership.
It is very hard to do business in Zimbabwe because every month there is always a dubious economic policy meant to make people’s lives uncomfortable.
We have a clueless leadership surviving on feja feja economic policies. Zanu PF government has created chaos in the economy and the prices of goods have gone crazy.
I am not a financial expert but with my bush economic knowledge I can see that this government wants to morph all the US$ at their disposal to finance the 2023 elections.
This should not surprise us to see the Zimbabwe dollar tumbling, they actually do not care.
One cannot imagine that the price of LP Gas is now selling at $2 from $1.35
There are real economic abusers who are moving freely in the country without being brought to book.
The corruption there is shocking and beyond imagination. This will never end because there is a well politically connected and oiled cartel which is benefiting from this graft.
Email – [email protected] Twitter- @Leokoni +27616868508
Cold and windy conditions are expected over the weekend in most parts of the country, the Meteorological Services Department has advised.
The MSD said relatively dry southerly winds had begun strengthening and entering the country through Gonarezhou National Park to the south east of the country.
Today Masvingo, Manicaland, Mashonaland East ad Harare Metropolitan are expected to be cool and windy for much of the day although briefly cloudy and cold at first.
“Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South, Bulawayo Metropolitan, Midlands, Mashonaland West and Central are expected to have clear skies but cold and windy for much of the day,” said the MSD.
The MSD said the cold and windy conditions may affect the health of all persons although those of an ill disposition, the elderly and young children, tend to be more vulnerable. Poultry producers have been warned that broilers are sensitive to temperature variations and should be checked regularly while adjustments are also made.- Manica Post
A 49-YEAR-OLD Odzi man was on Monday fatally assaulted for allegedly dating a married woman.
Taurai Charumbika died upon admission at the Victoria Chitepo Provincial Hospital after he was savagely assaulted all over the body by Nerere Hamabungu (37).
Charumbika was being accused of dating Hamabungu’s wife.
Manicaland provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Luxson Chananda confirmed the incident which happened at Chikonga Mine in Odzi.
Hamabungu was arrested soon after committing the heinous crime.
“The two were co-workers at Chikonga Mine. Hamabungu went to Charumbika’s cabin at night and confronted him over his alleged illicit affair with his wife. He was armed with a log.
“He assaulted Charumbika with the log.
“The duo’s manager, Energy Manhongo, rushed Charumbika to Victoria Chitepo Hospital where he died upon admission,” said Inspector Chananda.
Meanwhile, a 39-year-old Nyanga man was early this week arrested for allegedly stoning his father to death after accusing him of practising witchcraft.
Josphat Sachota attacked Alois Sachota (70) with stones in Satuku Village under Chief Saunyama.
“On Sunday, Josphat was coming from the garden when he met Alois.
“He accused his father of practicing witchcraft and bewitching his family members.
“He stoned the old man until he fell down. He picked up a boulder and crushed him until he died. Alois’ wife, Mary, reported the matter to Nyamaropa Police Station.
“The police rushed to the scene and arrested Josphat,” said Inspector Chananda.- Manica Post
A 49-YEAR-OLD Odzi man was on Monday fatally assaulted for allegedly dating a married woman.
Taurai Charumbika died upon admission at the Victoria Chitepo Provincial Hospital after he was savagely assaulted all over the body by Nerere Hamabungu (37).
Charumbika was being accused of dating Hamabungu’s wife.
Manicaland provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Luxson Chananda confirmed the incident which happened at Chikonga Mine in Odzi.
Hamabungu was arrested soon after committing the heinous crime.
“The two were co-workers at Chikonga Mine. Hamabungu went to Charumbika’s cabin at night and confronted him over his alleged illicit affair with his wife. He was armed with a log.
“He assaulted Charumbika with the log.
“The duo’s manager, Energy Manhongo, rushed Charumbika to Victoria Chitepo Hospital where he died upon admission,” said Inspector Chananda.
Meanwhile, a 39-year-old Nyanga man was early this week arrested for allegedly stoning his father to death after accusing him of practising witchcraft.
Josphat Sachota attacked Alois Sachota (70) with stones in Satuku Village under Chief Saunyama.
“On Sunday, Josphat was coming from the garden when he met Alois.
“He accused his father of practicing witchcraft and bewitching his family members.
“He stoned the old man until he fell down. He picked up a boulder and crushed him until he died. Alois’ wife, Mary, reported the matter to Nyamaropa Police Station.
“The police rushed to the scene and arrested Josphat,” said Inspector Chananda.- Manica Post
TWO suspects have been hauled before a Mutare provincial magistrate for illegally possessing 1 000 kilogrammes of dagga following a high speed police chase.
Larry Clay Manyellah (38) of Kambuzuma Section 5, Harare, and Probe Zijena (21) of no fixed abode appeared before Mr Langton Mukwengi for contravening Section 156 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9:23.
Manyellah, who was being represented by Mr Farai Matinhure of Gonese and Ndlovu Legal Practitioners, was granted $25 000 bail, while Zijena who was self acting was denied bail.
They will be back in court on June 14 for routine remand.
Mutare District Criminal Investigations Department spokesperson, Sergeant Coleen Mbato, said on the night of May 24, the suspects were ordered to stop at a roadblock in Hot Springs.
They disobeyed the order, hit the roadblock drums and sped off towards Mutare.
“The law enforcement agents who were manning the roadblock gave chase and contacted the Criminal Investigations Department’s Anti-smuggling team in Mutare. The crack team reacted quickly and set up an ambush near Zimunya Township.
“However, the suspects managed to evade the ambush and headed towards Mutare.
“The chase continued along Jeff Road in Chikanga and then Magamba Road in Fairbridge Park as the duo headed for Harare. Upon realising that the net was closing in on them as the chasing team had contacted officers at the Christmas Pass roadblock, the two made a U-turn at Wise Owl Motel and headed back to Chikanga using Magamba Road,” said Sergeant Mbato.
It is alleged that the suspects bumped into another vehicle and subsequently lost control of their car.
When it veered off the road, they disembarked and fled into the nearby maize fields, leaving the vehicle at the accident scene.
Searches were made and the cops recovered 24x50kg bags of dagga, 1x25kg bag of dagga and two registration plates.
The recovered dagga was taken to the Grain Marketing Board Mutare Depot for weighing.
It was ascertained that the dagga weighed 1080kg.
On May 26, Manyella surrendered himself to CID Mutare.
Sergeant Mbato said Manyella told the police that he was just a pirate taxi driver who had been hired. He said he was unaware that he had been transporting dagga.
On the same day, police detectives arrested Zijena at MegaWatt Building in Mutare.
Upon his arrest, Zijena implicated Trust Kaseke as his accomplice.- Manica Post
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has implored citizens to register to vote in numbers.
The MDC Alliance is concerned about the snail slow pace at which the registrar’s offices across the country are issuing national identity cards.
This is seen as a ploy calculated to frustrate new voters.
In a statement on Twitter, President Chamisa said:
“THE PEOPLE SHALL GOVERN!
We stand clear and focused.
.Citizens Convergence for Change.
The citizens shall decide #ResistDictatorship
By A Correspondent | A top University Of Zimbabwe lecturer has died in Canada.
Dr Newman Kusina, who was once the Deputy Dean of Agriculture, died after a 7 year struggle in a long term facility.
He is survived by his 2 daughters, 3 sons, mother, and sisters.
The family has opened the below GoFund me link.
With the saddest regret, we announce the death of our beloved father DR. NEWMAN KUSINA, aged 59 on May 31, 2021, in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Our family is devasted by his passing.
We want to give our Dad, Dr. Newman Kusina the dignified memorial and funeral service he deserves, to honor his life and say our last goodbyes. I (on behalf of the family) am kindly asking for donations to help cover the cost of Dr. Newman Kusina’s funeral. We need to raise $30,000 by June 21st in order to cover the funeral and give him a decent sendoff.
As many of you might know, Dr. Newman Kusina was in a long-term facility in Edmonton Alberta, Canada for about 7 years. He recently passed away on May 31st, 2021.
We appreciate your help.
Any help you can give will go a long way.
Thank you.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has implored citizens to register to vote in numbers.
The MDC Alliance is concerned about the snail slow pace at which the registrar’s offices across the country are issuing national identity cards.
This is seen as a ploy calculated to frustrate new voters.
In a statement on Twitter, President Chamisa said:
“THE PEOPLE SHALL GOVERN!
We stand clear and focused.
.Citizens Convergence for Change.
The citizens shall decide #ResistDictatorship
Three shots were fired during an armed robbery that seriously injured a fuel attendant at Flo Service Station in Tshabalala suburb last night.
The fuel attendant was rushed to hospital, while the robbers left on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. The fuel station sells the liquid in forex.
An eye witness said the robbery happened around 6.30PM when the fuel attendants were cashing in their daily takings.
“I saw the robbers running away after the sound of three gunshots. They were three and they jumped a fence on the eastern side of the fuel station. I think they had a car waiting in the distance on the road,” said the witness.
The witness said the fuel attendant that was shot was seriously injured according to his assessment.
“He seems to have been shot on the area around the chest. It seems they took two people who were outside and they forced them into the office, where the victim was counting money. Those inside sensed and tried to lock themselves inside the office but the robbers opened fire and that is how he was shot,” said the witness.
Residents, the witness said, are living in fear because of this spate of armed robberies that have happened in Bulawayo.
When the Chronicle news crew visited the fuel station, security details were on the scene taking statements from other fuel attendants. A Safeguard vehicle and its officers were at the scene as well.
The visibly shaken workers at the fuel station refused to talk to the media. When Chronicle left the police canine unit arrived. This week police in Bulawayo held a meeting with businesspeople and security companies to try and find solutions to the unending armed robbery cases in the city.
Officer Commanding Bulawayo Police Commissioner Patton Mbangwa, raised concern over the keeping of large amounts of money at business premises and the poorly equipped security guards that man these premises. -Chronicle
Tinashe Sambiri|The unleashing of dogs on hapless informal traders by the Zanu PF regime is a sign of gross incompetence, the MDC Alliance has said.
Informal traders are mere victims of Zanu PF’s monumental misgovernance, according to the MDC Alliance Namibia.
Below is MDC Alliance Namibia’s full statement:
The unleashing of vicious Police Dogs on innocent young people and informal traders is absolutely satanic, Mdc Alliance Namibia supposes.
03 June 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia District absolutely condemns the satanic and anti-poor policies being unleashed by desperate Zanupf onto the helpless informal sector in Chitungwiza and Mutare. As an external assembly led by President Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we subscribe to the pro-poor social liberation policies that respect vulnerable members of the society.
We fully distance ourselves from any attempt by the sadist central government to decimate the livelihoods of vendors and other informal traders who are victims of unemployment and ZANUPF’S gross misgovernance.
It is quite pathetic that in Chitungwiza, overzealous, Mr Muguti (the Zanupf-appointed Provincial Development Co-ordinator of Harare Metropolitan) has instructed the Acting Town Clerk, Mrs Machona to violently and arbitrarily unleash the partisan Zimbabwe Republic Police(ZRP) on the vendors. They are seeking to evict hungry informal traders from their places of work without giving them any meaningful remedies. We are convinced that this anti-poor people gesture is unlawful as it is being carried out without a court order or any reasonable measures to secure alternative workstations in violation of the vendors’ right to due process.
Moreover, it is critical that there is no council resolution to support the proposed inhuman , sadist and unconstitutional evictions. We further lampoon the heavy-handedness of the captured Zimbabwe Republic Police in Mutare. The unleashing of vicious dogs on young people and informal traders going about their daily business is cruel, inhuman and degrading. Mdc Alliance Namibia echoed that there is no space for such barbaric conduct in a constitutional democracy hence citizens must converge for complete change in Zimbabwe.
As a matter of law and procedure , informal traders can only be removed from where they are undertaking their trade in circumstances where council provides alternative trading spaces for them to operate. No alternative spaces have been provided which renders any attempt to evict the defenceless vendors arbitrarily and grossly unreasonable. Zanupf Satanists must spare our people from anti-poor agenda and commence to upgrade our People’s Livelihoods. We demand a People’s Government as part of our #Agenda2021 where we are urging all progressive citizens to converge for change.
Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia wants to warn the clueless Zanupf belly politicians in Harare to desist from interfering with the work of the local council and allow them to peacefully and effectively manage local issues as provided for in the 2013 Constitution instead of employing various organs of the central government to mar the upliftment of social services. Moreso , the insensitive regime is obliged to intervene to even cut or neutralise the negative and detrimental effects of Covid-19 lockdowns on the capacity of the people and business to generate income unlike obstructing them to fend for their starving families.
Fundamentally, we call upon the moronic Zanupf government and their surrogates to fully implement the devolution provisions of the Supreme Law of the country to ensure that local authorities have the autonomy to run their own affairs and budget to support vision and plans in line with our Local Government Agenda.
To wind it up, the senseless banning of begging and vending at traffic intersections unravels the heartlessness of a monocratic regime that has dismally failed to put the economy on a sound footing.
We need #PeoplePower to peacefully and democratically resist Law enforcement agents who take instructions for the Shake Shake building.
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
By Business Reporter | It is 2 years later, and the Invictus Energy’s company whose business activity was in 2018 dangling on Emmerson Mnangagwa’s press conference to “strike the magic” for a share value, is still to draw a litre of oil.
Not even a puff of gas has been sucked and yet Mnangagwa says the signing of that agreement is a massive leap towards tapping into the oil and gas industry, which is a new frontier in the country’s mining history.
“Earlier this year, my Government signed a Petroleum Exploration and Development Production Agreement with GeoAssociates (Pvt) Ltd to carry out exploration and production of oil and gas in Muzarabani, Mashonaland Central Province,” Mnangagwa said quoted by the state media.
“The signing of that agreement is a massive leap towards tapping into the oil and gas industry, which is a new frontier in the country’s mining history
“This presents huge, unique and competitive investment opportunities. These include production of liquid fuels as well as various downstream linkages such as electricity generation, production of liquid petroleum gas (LPG), fertilisers and use in the petro-chemical industry,” he continued.
2 years ago, the company director, Scott Macmillan briefly spoke to ZimEye… SEE INTERVIEW EXCERPT BELOW [TIMELINE 32:00]:
Meanwhile, a comment from the company was awaited at the time of writing.
By A Correspondent- The infamous MaShurugwi machete gangs have reportedly resurfaced in Guruve, Mashonaland Central province, and are said to be impregnating minors
The return of violence prompted Guruve South legislator Patrick Dutiro and Chief Bepura to summon village heads on Wednesday in a bid to safeguard villagers’ lives.
During the meeting, village heads told the lawmaker and the chief that they were living in fear of the machete gangs.
“These gangs are also pouncing on our young daughters and are spreading sexually transmitted infections. As the MP and chief, may you please act because our area has become one of the dangerous places to live in,” said a villager.
Chief Bepura blamed the police for failing to contain the situation.
“The biggest problem in this area is our police. They have become so corrupt to the effect that they cannot even enforce the law as they are mandated to.
“I have engaged them several times, but no action is being taken and yet these gangs are known and it should not take them time to arrest them. They prioritise money more than their job and my people are now at risk,” he said.
Chief Bepura said a local villager named Mbela, who has a gold mining claim in the area was working with the gangs and had provided accommodation to the criminals.
“Little did I know that we have accommodated criminals who were on a mission to destroy my area,” he added.
The village heads called on the Mines ministry to temporarily close Mbela’s claim and ensure that the gangs are driven away from the village.
The MP said machete gangs were dangerous as they were armed.
“I have heard all your concerns, the Ministry of Mines is aware of this meeting. I will engage them and the police,” he said.
Zanu PF youth member Paul Rwodzi said the machete gangs were impregnating minors in the area.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said he could not comment as he was in a meeting.
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women will on June 5 commemorate World Environment Day at various centres across the country.
The MDC Assembly of Women has lined up different activities in line with the World Environment Day theme.
Last Friday, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa launched the Tsvaira Zimbabwe Programme in Mabvuku, Harare despite attempts by ZRP cops to disrupt the event.
See below the MDC Alliance Assembly Of Women statement on World Environment Day:
New guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) sets essential standards to inform future research and development on genetically modified mosquitoes, particularly in addressing issues relating to ethics, safety, affordability and effectiveness.
Malaria and other vector-borne diseases, including dengue and Zika, affect millions globally. More than 400 000 people a year die from malaria alone. If proven safe, effective and affordable, genetically modified vector mosquitoes could be a valuable new tool to fight these diseases and eliminate their enormous health, social and economic burden.
The guidance framework for testing genetically modified mosquitoes, developed in partnership with TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, and the GeneConvene Global Collaborative, an initiative of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, describes best practices to ensure that the study and evaluation of genetically modified mosquitoes as public health tools is safe, ethical and rigorous.
Current strategies for limiting transmission of mosquito-borne diseases are only partially effective. New, complementary approaches are needed to close the gaps in current vector control interventions, such as effective control of outdoor biting, and to provide alternatives to manage the increasing threat of insecticide resistance. Research suggests genetically modified mosquitoes could be a powerful and cost-effective tool to supplement existing interventions.
“We urgently need innovative approaches to help control mosquito-borne diseases, which have a devastating impact around the world,” said Dr John Reeder, TDR Director. “Genetically modified mosquitoes is one such approach, but we want to be sure it’s fully and responsibly evaluated, as outlined in a recent WHO position statement.”
“Like any new public health intervention, genetically modified mosquitoes raise new questions for researchers, affected communities and other stakeholders,” said Dr Michael Santos, Director of the GeneConvene Global Collaborative.
“The updated guidance framework aims to answer these questions and help ensure that testing of genetically modified mosquitoes is as rigorous as it is for other public health products – and that it generates quality results to guide decisions about if and how these technologies are used.”
“Over the last 2 decades, we have achieved remarkable results with existing malaria control tools, averting more than 7 million deaths and 1.5 billion cases of the disease,” said Dr Pedro
Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme.
“However, progress towards key targets of our global malaria strategy remains off course. Genetically modified mosquitoes are one of a number of promising new tools that could help speed the pace of progress against malaria and other vector-borne diseases.”
“The incidence of dengue continues to increase and affect people in over 129 countries, so we need more sustainable vector control tools to stem the tide of dengue and other arboviral diseases and a few novel tools offer the potential to control these diseases,” said Dr Mwele Malecela, Director of the WHO Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases.
“We welcome this new guidance from WHO which will help countries suffering from mosquito-borne diseases to evaluate a promising new intervention,” said Professor Aggrey Ambali, Senior Advisor at the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD), the development agency of the African Union.
The new guidance addresses specific questions and challenges associated with research and development on genetically modified mosquitoes, including standards for decision-making about how and when testing should proceed.
By establishing a common set of expectations that is specific to genetically modified mosquitoes, the new resource will enable more informed and rigorous evaluation by researchers, developers, those responsible for regulatory and policy decisions and the people to whom these stakeholders are accountable.
The guidance builds on an earlier document published by TDR and FNIH in 2014, incorporating the latest scientific advancements related to genetic modification of mosquitoes, as well as other key updates and learnings related to safety and ethics, including:
methods for understanding the implications of genetically modified mosquitoes for human health, animal health and the environment;
increased understanding of the most effective strategies for risk assessment and stakeholder engagement;
clearer criteria for projects to proceed from one testing phase to the next, incorporating descriptions of the steps needed to safely and responsibly take genetically modified mosquito technologies – including those incorporating gene drive – into the field; and
a concrete set of safety and efficacy considerations that should be evaluated at each phase of testing, to inform decisions about further testing and implementation…
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A man from Zezani area in Beitbridge, Matabeleland South Province is in a tricky situation that any married man would never want to experience after his wife eloped with an Agritex officer who allegedly lured her with his “Government-issued” motorbike.
Debson Siziba was left heartbroken after his wife of about eight years Mbuyedzedzo Muleya left him with their two children while eloping to her lover Knowledge Gororo, an Agritex officer stationed in the area.
It was gathered that Mbuyedzedzo ditched her husband for Gororo after he “seduced” her with rides on his motorbike.
Narrating his unpleasant experience to B-Metro, a distraught Siziba said sometime in April this year, he discovered that Gororo was having an affair with his wife and was always giving her rides to Beitbridge Town on his motorbike.
He said that led his wife to fall in love with his (Gororo’s) motorcycle.
“They were always phoning each other and during my absence, Gororo would come to my house with his motorbike to see my wife until the day she left home under the pretext that she was visiting her aunt.
“When she didn’t come back the following day, I went to the aunt’s house where I was told that she had lied that she was visiting her. Investigations later established that she had eloped with Gororo and he came with his motorbike and took her away,” said a visibly stressed Siziba.
Siziba who was disturbed by the incident later followed his wife to Gororo’s place. He claimed that when he arrived, his wife locked herself in Gororo’s bedroom.
He got so angry and called the police to come and help him “recover” his wife who was now enjoying the biker’s love.
“Upon arrival, Gororo was not at home but his neighbours told me that my wife was inside the house. To avoid putting the law into my own hands, I called the police who came and demanded that she should open the door for them. She, however, refused, leading to one of the police officers to enter through the window to force her out of the house,” said Siziba.
He said when he asked her to accompany him to their house, Mbuyedzedzo refused before Gororo swiftly came and took her with his motorbike to her parents in Beitbridge.
Siziba said Gororo should be punished as he was allegedly addicted to the thrill of sleeping with married women.
“I want him to compensate me for sleeping with my wife and the matter is now before Chief Sitaudze,” he fumed.
B-Metro spoke to Gororo who, while admitting that Mbuyedzedzo once stayed at his house, denied that they were in an intimate relationship.
“It’s not true that we are in a relationship and the issue is now before Chief Sitaudze. The Chief once ordered me to pay two beasts after Siziba claimed I was bedding his wife.
“We were supposed to go back again on Sunday last week but I didn’t make it because I was involved in an accident on Thursday. What happened is that they had a dispute and after that she met my friend who was using my motorbike and he assisted her,” said Gororo.
Asked on what Mbuyedzedzo was doing at his house when the police came to take her, Gororo said: “She came to my house and stayed for two days saying she had nowhere to go. During that time, she told me that she was no longer interested in her husband because he abused her.”
He added: “It is also not true that Siziba was the one who called the police. I am the one who did so after I came back home from work and found him and other villagers at my house. This was after his wife was seen by neighbours who later alerted him and he quickly came when she was about to leave my house.”
Mbuyedzedzo could not be reached for comment.-B-Metro
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa has visited the late family of the late former Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo and pleaded for their endorsement.
Mnangagwa is unpopular in Matabeleland because of the active role he played in the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres.
Mnangagwa who was the CIO minister during that time, wrote a false report to the then Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, advising him to declare war against the people of Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, lying that they had guns which did not surrender to the government in 1980.
Speaking after visiting the Nkomo family and the Joshua Nkomo Museum in Matsheumhlophe yesterday, Mnangagwa said Government was “embarrassed” for having allowed the Nkomo family to take lead in preserving the legacy of Dr Nkomo through the establishment of the museum.
He said going forward, they would offer all the possible support to the Nkomo family to ensure that the museum gets the status it deserves.
“My appreciation goes to the (Nkomo) family who has done this preservation of the history of Father Zimbabwe; this was a project initiated by the family.
“We as Government feel embarrassed that we did not lead ourselves, but now that it is there, I have assured my young sister (Mrs Thandiwe Nkomo-Ibrahim, daughter to the late Dr Nkomo) that she will receive support from Government to make sure that this place gets the status that it deserves,” Mnangagwa.
By A Correspondent- ZESA said power shedding that has been experienced in most parts of the country in the past few days was caused by a “depressed” power supply due to a technical fault at Hwange Power Station.
In a statement on Thursday, the power utility said:
“Zesa Holding would like to advise its valued customers countrywide that there is a limited power supply in the national electricity grid due to technical faults at Hwange at 11:41 AM yesterday.
The depressed power supply situation has also been compounded by the unavailability of normal imports levels due to the loss of interconnection to Eskom of South Africa. The interconnection to South Africa has since been restored and recovery of service to optimum levels at Hwange is currently underway,” read the statement.
By A Correspondent- The infamous MaShurugwi machete gangs have reportedly resurfaced in Guruve, Mashonaland Central province, where they recently attacked and injured four villagers.
The return of violence prompted Guruve South legislator Patrick Dutiro and Chief Bepura to summon village heads on Wednesday in a bid to safeguard villagers’ lives.
During the meeting, village heads told the lawmaker and the chief that they were living in fear of the machete gangs.
“These gangs are also pouncing on our young daughters and are spreading sexually transmitted infections. As the MP and chief, may you please act because our area has become one of the dangerous places to live in,” said a villager.
Chief Bepura blamed the police for failing to contain the situation.
“The biggest problem in this area is our police. They have become so corrupt to the effect that they cannot even enforce the law as they are mandated to.
“I have engaged them several times, but no action is being taken and yet these gangs are known and it should not take them time to arrest them. They prioritise money more than their job and my people are now at risk,” he said.
Chief Bepura said a local villager named Mbela, who has a gold mining claim in the area was working with the gangs and had provided accommodation to the criminals.
“Little did I know that we have accommodated criminals who were on a mission to destroy my area,” he added.
The village heads called on the Mines ministry to temporarily close Mbela’s claim and ensure that the gangs are driven away from the village.
The MP said machete gangs were dangerous as they were armed.
“I have heard all your concerns, the Ministry of Mines is aware of this meeting. I will engage them and the police,” he said.
Zanu PF youth member Paul Rwodzi said the machete gangs were impregnating minors in the area.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said he could not comment as he was in a meeting.
By A Correspondent- There was drama Thursday, after one of the three judges designated to hear an application seeking the arrest of Chief Justice Luke Malaba recused himself after confirming that he had met with the head of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretariat, but the government sought to reverse his decision.
Justice Webster Chinamhora recused himself from the three-judge panel in the morning after lawyers representing Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika, who is the applicant in the matter, asked for his recusal following revelations that he met with JSC secretary Walter Chikwana ahead of the hearing of the case.
Critics say the meeting was meant to pressure the judges to make a ruling in favour of Chief Justice Malaba which would seriously compromise their independence.
Justice Chinamhora then recused himself, confirming that he had, indeed, met with Chikwana.
The remaining two judges, Justices Amy Tsanga and Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba then consulted the JSC, which ruled that they could proceed and hear the matter as a two-judge panel.
The case against Chief Justice Malaba came after his term of office as Chief Justice ended a fortnight ago, with the High Court ruling that he ceased to be the country’s top judicial officer on May 15 when he turned 70 and that a recent constitutional amendment allowing the President to extend his term did not apply to him.
-NewsDay
By A Correspondent- There was drama Thursday, after one of the three judges designated to hear an application seeking the arrest of Chief Justice Luke Malaba recused himself after confirming that he had met with the head of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretariat, but the government sought to reverse his decision.
Justice Webster Chinamhora recused himself from the three-judge panel in the morning after lawyers representing Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika, who is the applicant in the matter, asked for his recusal following revelations that he met with JSC secretary Walter Chikwana ahead of the hearing of the case.
Critics say the meeting was meant to pressure the judges to make a ruling in favour of Chief Justice Malaba which would seriously compromise their independence.
Justice Chinamhora then recused himself, confirming that he had, indeed, met with Chikwana.
The remaining two judges, Justices Amy Tsanga and Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba then consulted the JSC, which ruled that they could proceed and hear the matter as a two-judge panel.
The case against Chief Justice Malaba came after his term of office as Chief Justice ended a fortnight ago, with the High Court ruling that he ceased to be the country’s top judicial officer on May 15 when he turned 70 and that a recent constitutional amendment allowing the President to extend his term did not apply to him.
-NewsDay
By A Correspondent- The urgent application in the High Court by the executive director of an NGO to have Chief Justice Luke Malaba found in contempt of court and jailed is now being heard by just two judges after Justice Webster Chinamora recused himself from the original three-judge bench citing professional reasons.
Following his recusal, the remaining two judges Justices — Amy Tsanga and Slyvia Chirawu-Mugomba — took a brief adjournment to decide whether to proceed with a two-judge panel. The two later agreed to continue with the hearing, but the counsel acting for Chief Justice Malaba could not agree and sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision.
The two judges saw no prospects of success on appeal and ordered the hearing to proceed.
All the parties through their legal counsel made their submissions and the two judges reserved judgment to next week.
Most High Court hearings are undertaken by a single judge.
The legal dispute was sparked by the return of the Chief Justice to work on the strength of appeals being noted to the Supreme Court challenging the 15 May High Court decision that neither Chief Justice Malaba nor any other then sitting judge of the Constitutional or Supreme Courts had the option laid out in the latest constitutional amendment to extend their term of office until they were 75.
The three High Court judges said only sitting High Court judges had that option.
The ruling was made on the Chief Justice’s 70th birthday, so he promptly stood aside. But once appeals were noted by the Attorney General and the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage the following week, he then followed the standard legal procedures, that noting an appeal stays a judgment, and returned to work.
This upset the executive director of Forum, Mr Musa Kika, who as one of the applicants in the original urgent application rushed to the High Court seeking the finding that the Chief Justice was in contempt of court and seeking a six-month jail term, although he is prepared to see that suspended so long as the Chief Justice stands aside.
But in his response through counsel, Chief Justice Malaba asked the High Court to reject the application for his arrest on contempt of court charges, arguing that he is lawfully in office.
Advocate Thabani Mpofu argued the matter for Mr Kika while Advocate Lewis Uriri acted for Chief Justice Malaba.
Adv Thembinkosi Magwaliba represented Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi while Mr Addington Chinake argued for the Judicial Service Commission.
-State media
By A Correspondent- Three High court Judges have been selected to preside over an urgent application to have Chief Justice Luke Malaba found in contempt of court.
The three whose one of them Justice Webster Chinamora has recused himself are Justices — Amy Tsanga and Slyvia Chirawu-Mugomba.
The two later after Justice Chinamora quit, agreed to continue with the hearing, but the counsel acting for Chief Justice Malaba could not agree and sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision.
The two judges saw no prospects of success on appeal and ordered the hearing to proceed.
All the parties through their legal counsel made their submissions and the two judges reserved judgment to next week.
Most High Court hearings are undertaken by a single judge.
The legal dispute was sparked by the return of the Chief Justice to work on the strength of appeals being noted to the Supreme Court challenging the 15 May High Court decision that neither Chief Justice Malaba nor any other then sitting judge of the Constitutional or Supreme Courts had the option laid out in the latest constitutional amendment to extend their term of office until they were 75.
The three High Court judges said only sitting High Court judges had that option.
The ruling was made on the Chief Justice’s 70th birthday, so he promptly stood aside. But once appeals were noted by the Attorney General and the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage the following week, he then followed the standard legal procedures, that noting an appeal stays a judgment, and returned to work.
This upset the executive director of Forum, Mr Musa Kika, who as one of the applicants in the original urgent application rushed to the High Court seeking the finding that the Chief Justice was in contempt of court and seeking a six-month jail term, although he is prepared to see that suspended so long as the Chief Justice stands aside.
But in his response through counsel, Chief Justice Malaba asked the High Court to reject the application for his arrest on contempt of court charges, arguing that he is lawfully in office.
Advocate Thabani Mpofu argued the matter for Mr Kika while Advocate Lewis Uriri acted for Chief Justice Malaba.
Adv Thembinkosi Magwaliba represented Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi while Mr Addington Chinake argued for the Judicial Service Commission.
-State media
By A Correspondent- Outspoken independent Norton lawmaker, Temba Mliswa said the former Chief Justice Luke Malaba, should do the honourable thing and resign.
Malaba is challenging his suspension following a High court order which nullified his continued service because of old age.
By A Correspondent-The iconic Birchenough Bridge is on a verge of collapse following years of non-servicing of the bridge, the state media has reported.
The bridge has now been turned into a one-way passage for vehicles weighing less than 25 tonnes as assessments of the structure revealed that it could pose danger to motorists if weight restrictions were not enforced.
There are cracks on both ends of the bridge’s tarmac entry points while the structure shakes each time heavy vehicles drive past.
The ageing Birchenough Bridge, a key tourist attraction, is crying out for attention.
Locals who use the bridge daily as they walk or drive to and from the business centre, work and school are therefore now living in fear of having the 377-metre long structure crumble underneath them.
In fact, pedestrians now fear for their safety to the extent that they run past the bridge to avoid being on the structure concurrently with heavy trucks.
The bridge connects the road between Mutare and Masvingo as well as Buhera and Chipinge districts.
Birchenough Bridge is one of the oldest bridges in the country.
Foundations were commenced in April 1934 and were ready for steelwork in November.
The arch span was completed on June 17th, 1935, and the concrete roadway was practically complete at the end of September 1935.
The iconic arch bridge was designed by Engineer Ralph Freeman and was built by Dorman Long.
The structure was named in honour of businessman, Sir John Henry Birchenough, who served as chairman of the Beit Trust.
However, lack of maintenance over the years has seen the structure weakening over time.
The bridge’s structures have also suffered battering from Cyclones Eline and Idai-induced floods.
Around March 2019 when Cyclone Idai hit the country, Save River threatened to flood the bridge.
Locals and an employee at the bridge’s boom gate told The Manica Post that they have never witnessed any maintenance work being carried out on the bridge.
“We have not seen any maintenance works being carried out on this bridge. Misplaced or not, there is genuine fear among locals that the bridge might collapse anytime,” said the boom gate worker who declined to be named citing protocol.
When contacted for comment, Manicaland Provincial Road Engineer, Atherton Zindoga said it was safe to continue using the existing structure under the current load restrictions.
“It is safe to use the existing structure under current load restrictions.
“We are watching the structure. An assessment was carried out and we are enforcing weight restrictions.
“We have two options. The first one is to renovate the existing structure so that it can carry loads as required.
“The second one is to build a new structure next to the existing one. Both options require funding and unfortunately the funds are not available at the moment. We have applied for a grant from the Government of Japan,” said Eng Zindoga.
An incensed Norman Mapeza has bemoaned ‘poor officiating’ during FC Platinum’s 1-2 loss to Ngezi Platinum Stars in the Chibuku Super Cup, describing it as ‘killer of the game.’
The defending PSL champions took an early lead through Silas Songani but Bruno Mtigo came on to score a late brace which propelled Madamburo to a 2-1 victory in a clash which lived up to it’s billing.
For Mapeza though, referee Thabani Bamala’s performance was both decisive and regrettable.
“It’s sad,” said a livid Mapeza after the game.
” This makes football lose its value. Somebody cannot just come and take the show like this.”
” This is just a pre season and if we can get such officiating now even before the start of the season proper, where are we heading. We can’t just have somebody come and kill football. It’s not that I am saying we should not lose but it’s the manner we are made to lose.
” Like I said that we are still in pre season where we are preparing the players psychologically and these are kind of things that affects them. The whole of second half he was against my boys. It’s sad,” he added.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe international Talent Chawapiwa has heaped praise on high-flying AmaZulu coach Benni McCarthy, describing him as a game changer in both his play individually and collectively as a team.
McCarthy incredibly-transformed Usuthu when he took over the reigns at the KwaZulu Natal based side, and mounted a title challenge on Mamelodi Sundowns before eventually’settling for a second-place finish which will see them play in the CAF Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.
Even though the slippery Zimbabwean winger did not feature much since McCarthy took over, he reckons the Bafana Bafana all time leading goalscorer has had an effect on the way he (Chawapiwa) plays.
“He is a great coach, you can tell by the results, by the improvement of style of play and what he demands,’’ Chapapiwa was quoted as saying by The Herald.
“Not forgetting, what he did as a player, he was coached by great coaches, the likes of Jose Mourinho, it shows he has what it takes to be a great coach.
“The style of football, which he has taught us at Amazulu, is something else.
“We were always fighting relegation, struggling with our type of play but we are now playing good football, with a purpose.
“I have learnt a lot from him, he is a professional coach.
He added: “We call him player, because sometimes, he joins us in training, his behaviour is just like a player.
“To us he is our brother, he is in his early 40s and is like our brother, I have learnt a lot from him, if you play well at training, he puts you in.
“He is a guy who gives confidence to his players, who supports his players and wants us to achieve what he achieved.”
New guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) sets essential standards to inform future research and development on genetically modified mosquitoes, particularly in addressing issues relating to ethics, safety, affordability and effectiveness.
Malaria and other vector-borne diseases, including dengue and Zika, affect millions globally. More than 400 000 people a year die from malaria alone. If proven safe, effective and affordable, genetically modified vector mosquitoes could be a valuable new tool to fight these diseases and eliminate their enormous health, social and economic burden.
The guidance framework for testing genetically modified mosquitoes, developed in partnership with TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, and the GeneConvene Global Collaborative, an initiative of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, describes best practices to ensure that the study and evaluation of genetically modified mosquitoes as public health tools is safe, ethical and rigorous.
Current strategies for limiting transmission of mosquito-borne diseases are only partially effective. New, complementary approaches are needed to close the gaps in current vector control interventions, such as effective control of outdoor biting, and to provide alternatives to manage the increasing threat of insecticide resistance. Research suggests genetically modified mosquitoes could be a powerful and cost-effective tool to supplement existing interventions.
“We urgently need innovative approaches to help control mosquito-borne diseases, which have a devastating impact around the world,” said Dr John Reeder, TDR Director. “Genetically modified mosquitoes is one such approach, but we want to be sure it’s fully and responsibly evaluated, as outlined in a recent WHO position statement.”
“Like any new public health intervention, genetically modified mosquitoes raise new questions for researchers, affected communities and other stakeholders,” said Dr Michael Santos, Director of the GeneConvene Global Collaborative.
“The updated guidance framework aims to answer these questions and help ensure that testing of genetically modified mosquitoes is as rigorous as it is for other public health products – and that it generates quality results to guide decisions about if and how these technologies are used.”
“Over the last 2 decades, we have achieved remarkable results with existing malaria control tools, averting more than 7 million deaths and 1.5 billion cases of the disease,” said Dr Pedro
Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme.
“However, progress towards key targets of our global malaria strategy remains off course. Genetically modified mosquitoes are one of a number of promising new tools that could help speed the pace of progress against malaria and other vector-borne diseases.”
“The incidence of dengue continues to increase and affect people in over 129 countries, so we need more sustainable vector control tools to stem the tide of dengue and other arboviral diseases and a few novel tools offer the potential to control these diseases,” said Dr Mwele Malecela, Director of the WHO Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases.
“We welcome this new guidance from WHO which will help countries suffering from mosquito-borne diseases to evaluate a promising new intervention,” said Professor Aggrey Ambali, Senior Advisor at the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD), the development agency of the African Union.
The new guidance addresses specific questions and challenges associated with research and development on genetically modified mosquitoes, including standards for decision-making about how and when testing should proceed.
By establishing a common set of expectations that is specific to genetically modified mosquitoes, the new resource will enable more informed and rigorous evaluation by researchers, developers, those responsible for regulatory and policy decisions and the people to whom these stakeholders are accountable.
The guidance builds on an earlier document published by TDR and FNIH in 2014, incorporating the latest scientific advancements related to genetic modification of mosquitoes, as well as other key updates and learnings related to safety and ethics, including:
methods for understanding the implications of genetically modified mosquitoes for human health, animal health and the environment;
increased understanding of the most effective strategies for risk assessment and stakeholder engagement;
clearer criteria for projects to proceed from one testing phase to the next, incorporating descriptions of the steps needed to safely and responsibly take genetically modified mosquito technologies – including those incorporating gene drive – into the field; and
a concrete set of safety and efficacy considerations that should be evaluated at each phase of testing, to inform decisions about further testing and implementation…
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Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women will on June 5 commemorate World Environment Day at various centres across the country.
The MDC Assembly of Women has lined up different activities in line with the World Environment Day theme.
Last Friday, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa launched the Tsvaira Zimbabwe Programme in Mabvuku, Harare despite attempts by ZRP cops to disrupt the event.
See below the MDC Alliance Assembly Of Women statement on World Environment Day:
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women will on June 5 commemorate World Environment Day at various centres across the country.
The MDC Assembly of Women has lined up different activities in line with the World Environment Day theme.
Last Friday, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa launched the Tsvaira Zimbabwe Programme in Mabvuku, Harare despite attempts by ZRP cops to disrupt the event.
See below the MDC Alliance Assembly Of Women statement on World Environment Day:
A FUMING man confronted his mother-in-law at her home and slapped her and also assaulted her with a chair for failing to give him back his television set that he had lent her.
Simamba Ndlovu (50) who stays in Nkulumane suburb left his home in a huff and went to Tshabalala suburb where his mother-in-law Everist Makuleya (70) and his other in-laws live.
He got there at around 8.45pm and did not even knock at the door, but pushed the door open and stormed in, said an insider.
His mother-in-law was in her bedroom. He allegedly shouted obscenities while demanding his television set which he had lent her when they had a private function.
It is alleged his mother-in-law got out of her bedroom to talk to him about the issue so that they could solve it amicably without any tension.
Ndlovu manhandled his mother-in-law before he slapped her on the face, the source said. He ran amok and picked a chair and allegedly hit her once on the head causing her to tumble to the ground, said a source close to investigations.
Makuleya screamed for help and while she was wriggling on the floor in agony, neighbours thronged her home and rescued her from the furious Ndlovu.
They bundled Ndlovu into a car and drove to a police station where a report was made, a source said.
He appeared for trial before Western Commonage magistrate Ulukile Ndlovu facing a physical abuse charge.
He pleaded not guilty.
He was remanded out of custody to next week on Monday when he would know his fate.- B-Metro
Zimbabwe Teachers Diaspora Forum (ZTDF) salutes Artuz for confronting suicidal policies in the education sector!
04 June 2021
The Zimbabwe Teachers Diaspora Forum would like to appreciate and laud the courage and determination displayed by the leadership and membership of Amalgamated Rural Teachers’Union of Zimbabwe( Artuz)when they dramatically turned Mbuya Nehanda statue into a protest square demanding a living wage. As an external teachers movement fighting against the abuse of teachers by the regime in Harare, we applaud the vibrant firebrand teachers union for staging a flash protest at the towering Mbuya Nehanda statue in the capital on Wednesday clamouring for better salaries and a conducive working environment.
The Coordinator of the Zimbabwe Teachers Diaspora Forum, Robson Ruhanya urges all Zimbabweans in the teaching fraternity in Zimbabwe and across the globe to unite and confront the stubborn Public Service and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Ministers against these unsalted peanuts given to our diligent teachers as remuneration. As an organisation,we are ready to work towards the emancipation of the teaching fraternity. It was quite inspiring to see dozens of picketers waving placards bearing touching demands from “Give us a signal ” to “Save Our Education”. As citizens, we must be ready to pay the ultimate price fighting against slave wages.
The fascinating part of the demonstration was when the Secretary General, Robson ‘Nikita’ Chere directly appealed to the spirit medium : “Mbuya Nehanda we have come with the grievances of the downtrodden teachers”. The appeal unearthed that the business of the liberation struggle remains unaccomplished until educators and learners are exempted from this personal aggrandisement that we witness under the incompetent Zanupf regime. Our message to this insensitive government is that Mbuya Nehanda and other icons of the liberation struggle sacrificed to better our livelihoods as Zimbabweans. They fought so that our children can also enjoy their lives in the country, they did not suffer to impress rapacious Careerist Politicians who are eating on behalf of the starving educators.
Moreover, together with Artuz, ZTDF shall commit itself to the fight for a living wage because our dream is to go back to our country so that we can participate actively in the socio-economic transformation of our country. Our mandate is to ensure that the education sector has been transfigured through restoring them to a living wage. We are quite aware that some students in the countryside are dropping out of school due to lack of resources, a pathetic situation that the organisation says shall try to mobilise resources to aid those victims of gross misgovernance manifesting in senseless looting and corruption. In Southern Africa, there is still free education in South Africa, Namibia etc, learners are supported by the caring and sensitive governments, a dream that will come true in the motherland.
The Zimbabwe Teachers Diaspora Forum absolutely condemns the barbaric conduct of the captured law enforcement agents who always want deny labour unions their right to express their disgruntlement peacefully and democratically as stipulated in the national constitution of 2013. This was evidenced when the protesters fled the scene after law officers called for a backup to quell the freedom of expression by the disgruntled teachers who can’t afford to send their children to school, their children cannot manage to have a single nutritious meal per day. It is a public fact that teachers across the breadths and lengths of the country are currently on a go-slow , only going to class two days a week instead of five. We support their legitimate and constitutional demand to be restored to their 2018 October salaries of US$540 or equivalent in local currency.
Furthermore, ZTDF coordinator consulted with other colleagues in different countries in the SADC region pertaining salaries of teachers and these were the submissions; A person working in Teaching /Education in South Africa typically earns a handsome amount of 33 000 Rands per month an equivalent of more than 1800$US. In Namibia , teachers receive 24 000 Rands per month an equivalent of US$1.759.46. In Zambia a person working as an educator earns around 6,370 ZMK per month which is close to US$ 300. And finally in Botswana, teachers earn salaries ranging from 5,970 BWP (lowest average) to 22,700 BWP(highest average) , actual maximum salary is higher.
The above salaries reflect the incompetence and carelessness of the satanic regime in terms of its mandate to pay our teachers handsomely. Teachers in Zimbabwe deserve a living wage that will cater for their families. We encourage teachers to work hand in glove with all progressive educators in Zimbabwe and the diaspora to improve the sorry scenerio that has befallen our own intelligentsia of Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe Teachers Diaspora Forum(ZTDF)
Coordinator Robson Ruhanya
Tinashe Sambiri|NC Sports Academy unveiled a new soccer kit in the capital Harare on Thursday.
NC Sports Academy strives to promote sporting talent in various disciplines…
“The academy is a hub of natural talent. We are working round the clock to nurture and harness budding skills,” an official said.
Younger brother to a suspected Gutu thief, who was arrested for stealing while clad in a skeleton-like costume and mask committed suicide on Monday.
People around him suspect he feared being arrested in connection with theft cases.
Musiiwa Gondoro, who is a brother to Norman Chagwiza went into hiding after the latter was arrested on May 27.
In fear of being arrested, he took his own life after warning his wife not disclose how he had acquired some of their household goods.
The case was attended by Zimbabwe Republic Police and CID Gutu Mupandawana.
He died on Monday before he was removed from the scene of his death on Tuesday afternoon.
It is reported that they would work in cahoots with his step-brother, breaking into houses of unsuspecting residents and stealing goods.
His wife, Spiwe Dandira said her husband had not been coming home since the arrest of his step-brother.
“He told me not to tell anyone and If am asked about the batteries we have, I had to tell them that he bought them.
“He told me to go home and that he would come and have his food.
“I waited for him at home but he did not show up before I decided to return to his hiding place where I searched for him.
“Unfortunately he was found by his friends while hanging from a tree in the mountain,” she said.
Musiiwa had been staying in the mountain for three days since the arrest of his brother.
“Since the day his step-brother was arrested for house breaking, he has not been stable before he decided to move to the mountain which became his new home.
“When I asked him what was going on he could not give a reasonable answer which led me to be suspicious,” added Dandira.
Musiiwa’s friend identified as Baba Brian said the deceased had been living in fear of arrest.
“From the time his brother was arrested, he knew he was next as the police were trying to recover everything and apprehending the suspects.
“The other Harare house breaking team was arrested and this made him fear to the worst prompting him to kill himself,” he said.
-HMetro
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has implored citizens to register to vote in numbers.
The MDC Alliance is concerned about the snail slow pace at which the registrar’s offices across the country are issuing national identity cards.
This is seen as a ploy calculated to frustrate new voters.
In a statement on Twitter, President Chamisa said:
“THE PEOPLE SHALL GOVERN!
We stand clear and focused.
.Citizens Convergence for Change.
The citizens shall decide #ResistDictatorship
Deputy director Valuation and State Management in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Settlement Joyce Pazvakavambwa, who is facing fresh charges of granting title deeds to land worth nearly US$4 million in northern Harare without the necessary conditions or authority, was yesterday freed on $30 000 bail.
Pazvakavambwa, who is appearing in the same court for allegedly facilitating the sale of a low density residential stand in Harare to a then eight-year-old for US$65 in 2008, jointly appeared with Lazarus Chimba on criminal abuse of office charges.
Chimba was the deputy director, valuation and estate management in the Ministry of Local Government in 2008, when the offence was allegedly committed. He was also released on $30 000 bail.
The duo was not asked to plead to the charges when they appeared before Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje who remanded them to July 6.
Pazvakavambwa was the chief valuations officer in the then Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development responsible for proper administration and validation of deeds of grant and transfer of title deeds in 2008.
The State led by Mr Malvin Mapako alleges that on September 13, 2007, the Ministry entered into a partnership agreement with Sally Mugabe Heights Housing Co-operative for the development of residential stands ranging from 1 000 to 2 000 square metres on Arcorn Farm in northeast Harare.
Datronics (Pvt) Ltd was selected as the developer and required to facilitate title surveys, engineering design plans, road construction, provision of storm water drainage, water and electricity reticulation to standards approved by Harare City Council and Zesa. This when done would have ensured that all stands on the scheme were properly serviced.
The Ministry was mandated to provide land at intrinsic value, facilitate title survey and issue title deeds in the deal.
The State noted that the Ministry set aside 319 residential stands as security to the developer to recover money in the event that some of the eventual buyers failed to pay the full cost of servicing the stands.
These 319 stands were in the custody of the Ministry of Local Government and were to be transferred to Datronics when all was complete.
In early 2008, Datronics wrote to the State Lands Section, asking to be allocated residential stands to use as collateral at NDH Bank when it borrowed money for servicing the land.
Upon receiving the request from Datronics, Mr Happiness Masaraure, an administration clerk at the State Lands Office, sought guidance from Chimba and asked whether he could give Datronics free grants of the stands. According to the State, free grants are only given under special circumstances by the Local Government Minister in liaison with the President.
Chimba allegedly advised Mr Masaraure to follow the same procedure that was used at Carrick Creagh where free grants were issued.
-State Media
By A Correspondent- A Mpopoma woman regrets dumping her husband whom she had been married to for seven years as he now beats her whenever he meets her.
Teclar Moyo is reportedly fed up with Marvelous Banda who reportedly follows her everywhere she goes to bash her as revenge for breaking up with him.
As a result of Banda’s violent behaviour Moyo decided to seek justice from the courts.
“We had huge challenges in our marriage because he had extra-marital affairs so I broke up with him and decided to move out. The problem I am facing is that he does not want to leave me alone. He follows me wherever I go. He comes to my house and insults me and beats me in front of our child,” said Moyo.
As if that is not enough, Banda destroys Moyo’s property whenever he gets the chance to get into her house.
“When he forces himself into my house he picks some of my property and throws it on the ground. I am therefore applying to this court to assist me by stopping him from assaulting me, insulting me and to stop coming to my place,” said Moyo.
Moyo denied the allegations levelled against him.
However, magistrate Urgent Vundla granted an interim order.
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By A Correspondent- A man whose life has hit a rough patch accused his relative of having allegedly murdered an unknown person and cast the spirit of the murdered person upon his life causing him to face difficulties in life and his children to fail at school.
It is believed after Obey Gwetsayi saw his life take a downturn he consulted a prophet who told him that his cousin Kudzai Gwetsayi allegedly killed a person and then cast the spirit upon him causing him to face extreme difficulties in life and his children to fail at school.
After that Obey confronted his cousin at his house in Njube suburb and accused him of having cast the spirit of the person he allegedly murdered upon him. Obey poured out his heart saying that the spirit caused him to lead a poor life. It also caused his children to fail at school.
He also accused Kudzai of having allegedly cast the same spirit upon his mother.
He also made chilling threats at Kudzai while declaring that if he failed to exorcise the spirit he would kill him.
Fearing for his life Kudzai sought legal intervention at Western Commonage court.
“My cousin Obey Gwetsayi troubles me. He usually comes to my house and shouts on top of his voice saying I killed a person after that I cast the spirit upon his life.
And the spirit of the person I killed causes him to struggle in life and lead a very poor life. And it also causes his children to fail at school. He also accuses me of having cast the same spirit upon my mother which he claims causes her to fall sick. He swears at me while declaring that if I fail to reverse the bewitchment, he would axe me to death and he would also murder my children,” he said.
Obey did not attend the court.
The presiding magistrate Jeconia Prince Ncube granted Kudzai an interim peace order which compels Obey not to visit his cousin at Njube and not to verbally abuse him, and not to threaten to kill him.
ByA Correspondent- A man has been jailed for 13 years after his fingerprints were analysed from a photo of a block of cheese.
Carl Stewart shared the M&S Stilton picture — but made the mistake of showing his fingers and palm.
He may have thought he was safe because he was using an EncroChat phone, a highly encrypted device used by criminals.
However, police cracked the system last year leading to the arrest of hundreds of people in the UK suspected of murder, gun smuggling and serious drug trafficking.
Sixty-thousand users — about 10 000 of them in the UK — have been identified globally as part of Operation Venetic.
Stewart (39), of Gem Street, Liverpool , received a sentence of 13-and-a-half years at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin, MDMA and ketamine, and to transferring criminal property.
Detective Inspector Lee Wilkinson said Stewart had been “caught out by his love of Stilton cheese”.
“His palm and fingerprints were analysed from this picture and it was established they belonged to (him),” the officer said.
Stewart had used the name Toffeeforce to conduct his EncroChat deals.
Mr Wilkinson added: “As part of Operation Venetic, Merseyside Police has so far arrested more than 60 people, many of whom have been charged with serious drug trafficking or firearms offences.
“This year will see a number of these people continuing to appear before the courts, and we welcome each and every one.” — news.sky.com
By A Correspondent- A man from Nketa suburb has been facing a hellish life at the hands of his son who always threatens to stab him to death each time he returns home drunk.
Zihlobo Moyo would bring a different girlfriend home during the night and accuse his father Syril Moyo of not having left food for him.
He would then cook in the middle of the night while making noise with his lover, forcing other family members to wake up.
When family members complain, Zihlobo would launch a verbal tirade while accusing them of not having left food for him.
Incensed by that his father would confront him but he would fumble into his pocket and take a knife and sharpen it while threatening to finish him off. He would accuse his father of treating him like an outcast.
His father tried to engage his aunt to talk to him but he could not reform.
Syril had to apply for a peace order against his wayward son.
“My name is Syril Moyo. I am applying for a protection order against my son Zihlobo Moyo. He is in the habit of emotionally abusing me and my children. Whenever he comes from a beer binge he would bring a different girlfriend and would accuse me of not having left food for him. He would insult me and would fumble into his pocket and take out a knife and sharpen it while threatening to stab me to death if I dared to beat him up. I have faced the nasty experience for over a month. May this court grant me a protection order against him,” said Syril.
Zihlobo denied ever emotionally and verbally abusing his father and his siblings.
“I respect my father. I never insulted him and my siblings. I only complained about why they did not leave food for me because I’m the one who buys groceries,” he said.
The presiding magistrate Jeconia Prince Ncube granted Syril a protection order against his son. Zihlobo was ordered not to verbally and emotionally abuse his father and his siblings. He was also ordered to refrain from issuing death threats against his father.
By A Correspondent- A Bulawayo-based car dealer was slapped with a 42-month jail term by a Bulawayo magistrate for brutally striking a police officer with an empty beer bottle on the forehead resulting in him sustaining a deep cut.
Brandon Hingi (25) from Nketa 8 suburb carried out the savage and supposedly alcohol-fuelled attack on Christopher Chindiya (27) on 16 May 2021 at the Bulawayo Athletics Club popularly known as BAC which was allegedly operating in violation of Covid-19 lockdown rules. In Zimbabwe lockdown laws prohibit nightclubs and bars from operating.
Hingi is, however, going to spend 30 months in jail after 12 months of his sentence were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour by Bulawayo provincial magistrate Tavengwa Sangster who convicted him on his own plea of guilty to a charge of assault.
In coming up with the sentence Sangster took into consideration the fact that the assault from the observation of the doctor had ‘‘very’’ serious after-effects.
“There was a danger to life in that complainant may experience intra-cranial bleeding. There is also a possibility of permanent disability in that the complainant may develop problems of secondary brain concussion such as fits,” observed Sangster.
He adds: “The possibility of bleeding in the head as well as permanent disability must not be taken lightly. A fine or community service will not do justice in this case. This will trivialise the offence and therefore, encourage would-be offenders. Only imprisonment is suitable for such attacks on another.”
The court proved that on 16 May 2021 and at around midnight, the complainant was at Bulawayo Athletics Club popularly known as BAC in the company of his friend. As they were going out of the club, the complainant’s friend lost his phone. He then accused Hingi of having taken it and that caused a misunderstanding between the two.
Chindiya then approached the accused who was arguing with his friend over the stolen cellphone. The accused then hit the complainant once on the forehead with an empty beer bottle.
Complainant sustained a cut on the forehead and was referred to hospital for medication. The matter was reported to the police leading to Hingi’s arrest.
In mitigation, Hingi pleaded for leniency saying his girlfriend was expecting and that when he committed the offence, he was angry that the complainant’s friend had falsely accused him of stealing his cellphone.
-statemedia
– QUICK PLAN HATCHED
– 5 LOVERS, 2 PREGNANCIES TO 2 DIFFERENT MEN, ALL IN ONE YEAR.
– WHISKED OUT OF ZIMBABWE.
By A Correspondent | INVESTIGATIVE | The below is a trail of event twists as a serial multiple-men lover fled Zimbabwe in April. It also narrates how high profile ministers got caught between two scandals, one on the sale of stands, and one of trappings using the self proclaimed anti-terrorism expert, Susan Mutami.
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It was all triggered when earlier in the year, the Special Anti Corruption Unit head, Thabani Mpofu was close to arresting Local Govt Minister, July Moyo over the alleged sale of stands in Harare, Kwekwe and Gweru for his own benefit.
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There were several beneficiaries listed on this reported scandal who are in the ministry of Justice; so to hide this, a quick plan was hatched to get Mpofu fired.
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Mpofu, who leads the controversial taskforce, was swiftly accused of authoring letters for MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti advising the opposition icon on ways if navigating through the justice system.
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Close sources allege that, when this was about to happen, the Norton MP Temba Mliswa went over to president, Emmerson Mnangagwa to advise him to ignore the calls to fire Mpofu, doing this in order to settle scores with the enemy of an enemy (Mliswa had heard that Thabani Mpofu had been set up by July Moyo, Owen Ncube, and Virginia Mabhiza). Mliswa has had several bones to chew with Thabani Mpofu. Mliswa reasoned with Mnangagwa saying: how could Thabani Mpofu author letters for MDC Deputy President Tendai Biti in this age and time when he could simply pick a phone call.
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Parallel to all this, Temba Mliswa was the subject of an ongoing probe in which he was entangled with an ex girlfriend, Susan Mutami.
Pics: in bedroom with Minister Kambamura, and then with businessman Musanhi.
Facts became clear mid February that, Susan Mutami, the centre of the axis, was used to incriminate Mliswa.
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Mutami is an enigma. She claims she bedded the late SB Moyo, Killer Zivhu, Temba Mliswa. She is even openly announces saying she has bedded the President Emmerson Mnangagwa. She further confirmed her claims on the alleged affair with the President, to ZimEye a few hours after being blocked from flying out of Zimbabwe in February 2020.
Does @edmnangagwa deny public statements by @mutami_susan and other 3 witnesses that he bedded her while a teenager in events that led her family leaving the country for Australia @Jamwanda2 @nickmangwana ? pic.twitter.com/IRgUVsR9N0
— Simba Chikanza (@schikanza) February 21, 2021
She says she has Mliswa’s twins, while at the same time naming her son after his arch enemy, Owen Ncube.
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5 LOVERS, 2 PREGNANCIES TO 2 DIFFERENT MEN, ALL IN ONE YEAR
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Last year alone she dated at least four different men who include the Foreign Affairs Minister SB Moyo, one after the other:
Susan Mutami’s latest profile picture – source: Susan Mutami, Twitter.com
Polite Kambamura, the Mining Deputy Minister (they were engaged). Walter Chikwana, Secretary for the Judicial Commission (they had a civil partnership in 2020), and ZANU PF MP, Hon Kenneth Musanhi (see pictures).
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Furthermore, an affidavit seen by ZimEye states in addition that she was already pregnant way before bedding Mliswa last year.
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The affidavit, certified by the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), shows that as at around March 2020, she was still engaged to another man, who works inside the JSC, Mr Walter Chikwana.
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The man was reached for a comment but wouldn’t speak or respond to questions.
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Meanwhile, the affidavit states that Mutami was carrying a pregnancy to another man at the end of March 2020. In the affidavit, her boyfriend, Mr Chikwana says:
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‘ I am Susan Vivian Mutami’s partner and in case of emergency I can be contacted on the above mentioned address or on my mobile number, +263772***********”
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He then goes on to say he is the legal guardian of SB Moyo’s Child (full name redacted-in accordance with the Children’s Act on the paper).
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” I am also the legal guardian of (name withheld), and our unborn child as of date. Attached hereto is a copy of my identification.”
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The affidavit was signed on the 24th March 2020.
The development puts burden on Mutami to explain the timing drama surrounding her two pregnancies (to different men) which are within months of each other.
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She also says that she is the holder of two Australian degrees of which she has none, and also makes false claims that she is the winner of Australia’s CEO awards. During interviews with Mutami, ZimEye reveals how that her claims to university courses are baseless.
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VIDEO LOADING BELOW
She is also put to task on her CEO Awards claim, and it is revealed that she was only a passerby at the function who posed in front of a camera holding someone else’s award. (SEE RGM INTERVIEW BELOW).
Susan Mutami Says Australian Embassy Verified Her 2 Fake Degrees | IS SHE TELLING THE TRUTH?
— ZimEye (@ZimEye) February 27, 2021
Her ex lover, Mliswa has maintained his allegations that he was set up by the Central Intelligence Organisation in order to incriminate him using Susan Mutami.
After all this she is lawfully stopped while trying to leave the country, and then she is put under the custody of the Central Intelligence Organisation.
Mutami is held for possessing details on the attempted assassination of the president and killing of three aides at the White City Stadium, then she is whisked out by two powerful ministers who have close links to the president, July Moyo (local governments), Owen Mudha Ncube, minister of state security. After being whisked out without knowledge of the mother body of the CIO, she then starts to attack to the Director General of the CIO, who she claims she once dated, then threatening to release secret information on the cabinet, Politburo and a number of other official secrets, while on the same tweet, absolving the two ministers, July Moyo and Owen Mudha Ncube.
At this time, July Moyo is under investigations for parceling out land, a case being probed by Thabani Mpofu’s SACU organisation.
July Moyo is very close to permanent Secretary Mrs Virginia Mabhiza and Kumbirai Hodzi, the prosecutor General. At the same time, Thabani Mpofu’s SACU is having clashes with the Prosecutor General. There was a collusion between the Prosecutor Gen and July Moyo to get Thabani Mpofu fired. The PG and July Moyo then approached the president Emmerson Mnangagwa to pass allegations that Thabani Mpofu has advised Biti.
The event trail is as follows:
Thabani Mpofu is accused of writing WhatsApp letters to MDC Alliance MP Tendai Biti giving him advice on how to return to parliament, and this makes the president very angry. At this time, Mnangagwa has also been told by Perm Sec Virginia Mabhiza, and Prosecutor Gen Kumbirai Hodzi, to ignore the request to arrest Minister July Moyo on land fraud.
Mnangagwa then summons Thabani Mpofu to State House where he is dressed down. It is reported that Mpofu has been fired. ZimEye contacts Mpofu who tells this news network, it’s not true at all. Are you my employer?, Mpofu fires a question while answering to the report.
Soon afterwards, Temba Mliswa who is naturally against Mpofu, comes to the rescue of Mpofu to tell the President that Mpofu has been set up. Thabani Mpofu also gets support of the CIO DG Isaac Moyo. This angers July Moyo who together with Owen Ncube sponsor Susan Mutami to tweet ‘some dirt’ on Isaac Moyo while absolving July Moyo and Owen Ncube publicly, on the Twitter website.
State security sources report saying Mutami was whisked out of Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge Border post. ZimEye requests paperwork to confirm that the escape was truly through that border post. No date is provided, but by end of April 2021, she is now safely in Australia.
Both Owen Ncube and July Moyo are contacted for a comment, and their phones are put down soon after hearing the interview questions.
Responding to the state security reports, Mliswa denies ever approaching Mnangagwa to assist Mpofu. He tells ZimEye: “Mpofu, Matanga, Mudha, July Moto, and Ziyambi Ziyambi are all one and the same, working hand-in-hand.”
It surfaces that Mutami is an agent of July Moyo and his team to settle their matters with Director General, Isaac Moyo. Thabani Mpofu then suddenly comes out the victim of the two warning camps.
The development has raised questions on how safe Zimbabweans are when ministers and two officials are using a woman to settle their personal scores. Is Zimbabwe is being run by people controlled by bottom power, or is it that Susan Mutami has some ability to capture all these people, or she is so dazzling to control the nation’s top government officials?
HEALTH care assistant Chelsea Manongwa has been named as Maghull’s representative in a prestigious beauty pageant competition.
Chelsea has recently been crowned Miss Maghull Galaxy 2021.
The 20-year-old, who attended Deyes High School and now works for Bliss Recruitment, will be appearing at the national finals on November 28 at Park Hall hotel in Lancashire.
If Chelsea wins, she will be crowned Miss Galaxy UK and will be able to complete in the International Galaxy Pageant abroad in summer 2022.
Chelsea said: “I hope to win the national finals, so I can represent England in the international finals next year.” – READ MORE
The Zimbabwe Devolution Campaign, a consortium of CSOs and Residents Associations calls on for the amendment and alignment of the Electoral Act 2:13 with Chapter 14 of the Constitution on devolution to allow citizens to participate in the recall of elected officials.
The continued absence of the citizen voice in the removal of elected officials renders citizens powerless and has serious implications on accountability. Once elected into office, elected officials must be accountable to citizens not to political parties.
The abuse of power and provisions of Section 129 (k) of the Constitution that decimated elected leadership and crippled representative democracy in Urban local authorities is a great lesson that politicians cannot be entrusted with powers that are unchecked by the citizens.
We call upon the Parliament and the President of Zimbabwe to consider inclusion of new provisions in the Electoral Act 2:13 that will operationalize Section 129 (k) of the Constitution and provide for procedures for recall of non-performing Councilors, Members of Parliament and Senators.
Any form of recall of elected leadership without citizen participation kills local democracy and has no place in a democratic society.
Citizens must have a voice and endorsement on the removal of elected officials. Section 71 of the Devolution and Decentralization Policy recognizes the need for the empowerment of communities to have the capacity to demand quality services from elected Councilors, including legal recall powers.
CHRA recommends that least 75% of citizens in a Ward or Constituency must endorse or validate the recall or removal of elected leadership.
The bestowal of powers to recall elected officials on citizens strengthens accountability throughout the whole electoral cycle on elected leadership and is a catalyst towards improved service delivery.
We assert that our plea and request is in line with the Constitution of Zimbabwe and the Devolution and Decentralization Policy (2020).
The amendment and alignment of the Electoral Act 2:13 to allow citizen participation in the recall of elected officials is key in the implementation of devolution provided in Chapter 14 of the Constitution.
-CHRA
| Rwandan journalist Ntamuhanga Cassien has reportedly gone missing in Mozambique after allegedly being abducted by eight people claiming to be Mozambican police officers accompanied by a man who was supposedly a Rwandan official. Cassien was allegedly kidnapped on 23 May 2021 on the island of Inhaca on the Bay of Maputo. Rwandan refugees in Mozambique have petitioned the Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the disappearance of the missing journalist. Cassien is said to have escaped from prison in Rwanda in 2017, two years after being sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment for various crimes. Prior to that, Cassien worked as a journalist and director of Christian radio, Amazing Grace, in Rwanda’s capital city, Kigali. He was now working as a trader in Mozambique. His arrest, at the time, was seen as persecution of political opponents by the Rwandan government. Following his escape, the journalist moved to Mozambique, where he lived as a refugee. Concerns have been raised that Cassien’s disappearance came after a meeting between the Mozambican President Felipe Nyusi and Paul Kagame, the Rwandan President. Speculation is rife that the meeting might have encouraged the Mozambican government to extradite Rwandan refugees in exchange for Rwanda’s support in fighting terrorism in Cabo Delgado province. The Association of Rwandan Refugees in Mozambique has since lodged a complaint with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in Maputo, over Cassien’s disappearance. |
Opposition MDC Alliance has claimed that it is confident of electoral victory in 2023, and that it has made inroads in the rural areas that are traditionally considered as Zanu-PF strongholds.
In a communiqué, the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party said it had managed to attract the rural populace through the party’s Zimbabwe agenda 2021 which is targeting six million voters for the 2023 elections.
“The national executive council (NEC) noted the significant progress that has been made so far in implementing agenda 2021. The agenda has gathered momentum throughout all provinces in Zimbabwe. The enthusiasm both in rural and urban dwellers on the need for convergence is encouraging. Citizens are mobilising to win Zimbabwe for change,” read a communiqué issued by the party after its NEC meeting.
“The people’s party is on the move. It’s getting stronger by the day. There is a stampede among ordinary people to buy party cards and become party members. The party is accelerating its membership drive in recruiting and mobilising for victory. The six million registered voter target is getting close to being achieved.”
But Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo described the claims by the MDC Alliance as “wishful thinking”.
“That’s wishful thinking and all I can say is that it’s wishful thought. As for the election as a party we want free and peaceful elections and we wish them to do the same. As for penetrating our stronghold, that’s wishful thinking. We wish them good luck in the elections. However, they should not stay too long in their wishful thinking. If wishes were horses, beggars would certainly ride,” Khaya Moyo told NewsDay.
On electoral reforms, the MDC Alliance said these should be agreed by all stakeholders with clear issues put on the table to the satisfaction of all concerned political parties.
“We reiterate the urgent need to institute and implement genuine electoral reforms; this involves implementing the recommendations by election observer missions. We call for professional and transparent delimitation and census processes as well as sincere voter registration drive before the delimitation process.”
They said Zimbabweans living in the diaspora should be allowed to vote in line with section 67 of the Constitution, adding that electoral violence should end, contesting parties should be accorded access to State media.
“Zimbabwe is suffering from a twin pandemic of COVID-19 and authoritarian consolidation. The regime is on a warpath against its citizens and is in pre-election panic mode. The brazen attack on our constitutional order through the weaponisation of the law, questionable Constitutional amendments and the attempt to create a one-party State must be challenged,” the party said.
In an interview, MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said: “Our people’s agenda is resonating strongly with multitudes of citizens on the ground who are already converging to win Zimbabwe for change. The team’s ability to champion the cause of the people and demonstrate that we are the only viable alternative to Zanu-PF has netted great success.”
-Newsday
By A Correspondent| Former MDC Alliance senator Lilian Timveos has been appointed to the Petrotrade board in what clearly exposes the new dispensation’s politics of patronage.
Timveos hails from Zvishavane, Midlands which is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s hometown and province.
The Petrotrade board is chaired by lawyer and Zanu PF apologist Tino Chinyoka who is from Gweru, Midlands province again.
Below is the new PTROTRADE BOARD
1. Mr Tino Chinyoka (Chairman)
2. Mrs Zanele Dube( Vice Chairman) Board Members
3. Mr Simba Mhuriro
4. Mrs Gladys Mumhure
5. Mrs Ferida Matambo
6. Ms Lilian Tiveos
7. Ms Getrude Marabada
8. Mr Godfrey Ncube
9. Mr Darikai Mukuku
By A Correspondent| Harare Magistrate Barbara Mateko on Wednesday 2 June 2021 exonerated three acquaintances of Zengeza West constituency legislator Job Sikhala by quashing charges of breaching national lockdown regulations pressed against them last year.
The three namely Terrence Manjengwa, Blessed Changara and Barnabas Gura, who all reside in Harare were arrested on 3 September 2020 outside Harare Magistrates Court while following proceedings for Sikhala, who had been arrested and detained on charges of inciting public violence by urging people to participate during the 31 July 2020 protests.
The trio was charged with unnecessary movement during the national lockdown as defined in section 4(1)(a) of the Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention, Containment and Treatment) (National Lockdown) Order Statutory Instrument 77/2020.
Prosecutors claimed that Manjengwa aged 26 years, Gura aged 32 years and Changara aged 22 years unlawfully and unnecessarily moved from their places of residence during the national lockdown imposed by government in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus by gathering at Harare Magistrates Court without exemption letters.
But on Wednesday 2 June 2021, Magistrate Mateko upheld the trio’s application for exception and quashed the charge of violating national lockdown regulations.
Magistrate Mateko’s decision came after Manjengwa, Gura and Changara’s lawyer Kossam Ncube of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights had objected to the charge of unnecessary movement during the national lockdown on the basis that it does not exist at law under the cited section.
Ncube had also argued that proceeding to trial with the charges as framed would amount to a violation of section 70(1)(b) of the Constitution as it abrogates the right to a fair trial and hence the trio must not plead to a nullity.
While Manjengwa, Gura and Changara have been set free on charges of contravening national lockdown regulations, their application excepting to charges of possession of offensive weapons at a public gathering as defined in section 43(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act was dismissed by Magistrate Mateko, who ordered the State to amend the charge of possession of weapons as prosecutors had cited a wrong section.
In their application for exception, Manjengwa, Gura and Changara had argued that the purported offence cited in the State papers is not established under the particular sub-section cited by prosecutors, hence no cause of action arises.
The trio had also argued that the failure by the State to cite the correct provision is so glaring that it cannot be condoned or be said to be inconsequential and to seek to commence a prosecution on non-existent charges is a grave anomaly and irregularity which will unduly prejudice and embarrass the accused persons.
Manjengwa, Gura and Changara return to court on 25 June 2021, where their trial on charges of possession of offensive weapons is scheduled to commence.
By A Correspondent| The Supreme Court has acquitted the opposition MDC members Tungamirai Madzokere and Last Maengahama after spending eight years in jail.
Maengahama and Madzokere were part of the seven opposition members arrested for the murder of a police officer Inspector Mutedza in Glen View.
The other arrested members include Yvonne Musarurwa and the late Rebecca Mafikeni.
Musarurwa was released earlier following a presidential pardon.
More to follow…
By A Correspondent- The infamous MaShurugwi machete gangs have reportedly resurfaced in Guruve, Mashonaland Central province, where they recently attacked and injured four villagers.
The return of violence prompted Guruve South legislator Patrick Dutiro and Chief Bepura to summon village heads on Wednesday in a bid to safeguard villagers’ lives.
During the meeting, village heads told the lawmaker and the chief that they were living in fear of the machete gangs.
“These gangs are also pouncing on our young daughters and are spreading sexually transmitted infections. As the MP and chief, may you please act because our area has become one of the dangerous places to live in,” said a villager. Chief Bepura blamed the police for failing to contain the situation.
“The biggest problem in this area is our police. They have become so corrupt to the effect that they cannot even enforce the law as they are mandated to.
“I have engaged them several times, but no action is being taken and yet these gangs are known and it should not take them time to arrest them. They prioritise money more than their job and my people are now at risk,” he said.
Chief Bepura said a local villager named Mbela, who has a gold mining claim in the area was working with the gangs and had provided accommodation to the criminals.
Little did I know that we have accommodated criminals who were on a mission to destroy my area,” he added.
The village heads called on the Mines ministry to temporarily close Mbela’s claim and ensure that the gangs are driven away from the village.
The MP said machete gangs were dangerous as they were armed.
“I have heard all your concerns, the Ministry of Mines is aware of this meeting. I will engage them and the police,” he said.
Zanu-PF youth member Paul Rwodzi said the machete gangs were impregnating minors in the area.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said he could not comment as he was in a meeting.
-Newsday
By A Correspondent- A child care centre in the Midlands province Thursday recorded 27 coronavirus cases that were part of the 61 new infections reported by the Ministry of Health and Child Care.
Authorities, however, did not reveal the name of the child care centre that recorded the coronavirus cases.
Out of the 47 PCR tests for coronavirus that were conducted in the Midlands Province, 27 returned positive and were at the child care centre in question.
The Midlands Province now 2 546 cumulative coronavirus cases inclusive of yesterday’s cases.
Harare and Bulawayo still lead the race with 13 236 and 5 46 cumulative cases respectively.
As of the 3rd of June 2021, Zimbabwe had recorded a total of 39 092 cumulative cases, 36680 recoveries, 807 active cases and 1604 deaths.
The Ministry also reported that on Thursday, 71 cases were hospitalised 16 of which were asymptomatic, 49 were mild to moderate, 3 were severe and the remaining 3 were in intensive care units (ICU).
By Nomusa Garikai- “It is therefore difficult to be in ED’s shoes this time of Zimbabwe. Every gesture he takes is compared to the former (Robert Mugabe).
So his first year in office has been a year of serious comparisons. Nothing he did or not do would not be compared to the former. Without respecting the political correctness ED is not an orator as Mugabe was, but ED is a doer and he means his words. His actions speaks eloquently than the spoken words. In that comparison mood I should say I was very lucky to have met the two presidents one on one. In that respect my comments on both based on my personal interactions with both,” wrote Dr Masimba Mavaza.
“The three years in office were in any language on earth a successful and eventful years. It has put the nation on a progressive path.”
The article had a misleading title “Mnangagwa’s Secrets to win In 2023 Revealed” when all that followed was the usual diatribe of lies and more lies. Zimbabwe has been in economic decline ever since the country’s independence in 1980. The November 2017 military coup has not brought any change because it was a none-event.
The coup resulted in the musical change of the leaders but the Zanu PF dictatorship itself remained untouched. Zimbabwe a pariah state before the coup and that did not change. And as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state there will be no meaningful economic recovery. Dr Mavaza’s “progressive path” is a lie.
Mnangagwa is not going to win the 2023 elections because he has brought about any meaningful economic recovery; the economy is in a worse state than ever. He is gearing to rig the 2023 elections but that is hardly a secret given Zanu PF has always rigged elections.
One of the tragic stories to emerge from the slave trade is that it was not the white man who hunted down the blacks and sold them as slaves to the slave traders. It was black Africans who hunted their own fellow blacks and sold them into slavery for a fistful of beads and a piece of calico cloth! It is this cold indifference to the suffering of other living things, humans and, closer still, one’s own kith and kin that made black Africans vulnerable to divide and rule and exploitation.
Before the whites set foot on African soil, the natives were fighting each other; then came the slave trade; after it came colonial oppression and exploitation and now, we have black on black oppression! Mnangagwa is selling the nation’s diamonds, gold and other resources for a song, fistful of beads and a piece of calico cloth, to the Chinese, Russians and other foreigners whilst millions of our people are forced to live in heart breaking abject poverty. All he cares about is that he and his Zanu PF cronies must remain in power no matter what.
“Ed managed to hold free and fair (July 2018) elections. It was the first of its kind where people chose and campaigned for the parties they wanted without fear. This means the nation must give him another chance in 2023 to finish what he has started,” argued Dr Mavaza.
How can 2018 elections have been free and fair when 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote? Mnangagwa reported won the presidency with 2.4 million votes, or 50.8% of the cast votes.
In September 2018 Mnangagwa promised the Zimbabweans in the diaspora will vote in the 2023 elections and yet has done nothing to make this possible. The Zanu PF regime has amended over 30 sections of the new constitution for the sole purpose of consolidating the State President’s dictatorial powers but has failed to extend the postal vote to 3 millions in the diaspora.
By blatantly denying 3 million in the diaspora the vote out of the potential 8 million voters, 38%, Zanu PF has once again shown its contempt for the rule of law and commitment to holding free, fair and credible elections.
The only reason the MDC A and the rest in the opposition camp continue to participate in these flawed and illegal elections is greed. Zanu PF is offering a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate to give the flawed process some modicum of credibility and, extension, give the vote rigging Zanu PF regime legitimacy.
People like Dr Mavaza are making a good living out of singing the praises of the corrupt and tyrannical regimes like Zanu PF. Whilst he pretends to see nothing wrong with Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown and political turmoil; he could not bear the hardships himself and now lives in the UK. What a hypocrite! If Zimbabwe was such a peaceful and prosperous nation, then why did you leave Zimbabwe.
Both Mugabe and Mnangagwa have never had any problems recruiting Zimbabwean intellectuals to prop up the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. Dr Mavaza is a University Graduate, in Law no less, and yet has no clue what constitute free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2018 elections and yet he has repeatedly claimed the elections were free, fair and credible.
Whilst the blacks Africans did not have the weapons to sink the slave ships; they nonetheless had the weapons to hunt down and punish all the blacks who hunted down other blacks and sold them as slaves. As a people, black Africans failed to stamp out the heartless indifference of the blacks who sold their own fellow blacks for a fist full of beads and a piece of calico clothe and that heartlessness has survived and passed from one generation to the next to this day.
Mnangagwa and his shameless acolytes and apologists like Dr Mavaza are our modern day black Africans hunting down fellow blacks and selling them to the slave traders for a fistful of beads and a piece of calico clothe. Whatever we do, we must hold Mnangagwa, Mavaza, etc. to account for all the suffering, death and distraction of the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. Whatever we do, we must stamp out once the notion one can sell their own mother for a price, boast they had a mother to sell and get away with it!
“Please 2023 your vote must be for progress. 2023 ED must be given his second term and make Zimbabwe again. So, if you cannot vote for ED 2023 then you have no reason to vote!” pleaded Dr Mavaza.
With not even one democratic reform implemented since the last elections, it is clear Zanu PF will rig the 2023 elections. Indeed, by once again denying Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote, 38% of the voters, it is clear the rigging has already started in earnest. After 41 years and counting of Zanu PF rigging elections and getting away with it; we must put an end to this.
We cannot stop Zanu PF rigging the 2023 elections but what we can do is make sure the process is exposed for what it is – a flawed and illegal process. Zanu PF cannot get legitimacy from a discredited process regardless of the discredited opposition’s continued participation.
“Mnangagwa’s secrets to win in 2023!” He is once again rigging the elections. What is new is that he not going to get away with it, not this time! No stone will be left unturned to make sure Mnangagwa does not get away with yet another rigged election and those who have helped him must be held to account.
By A Correspondent- Zengeza West constituency legislator Job Sikhala’s three colleagues were Wednesday exonerated of violating lockdown regulations when they appeared before Harare Magistrate Barbara Mateko.
The magistrate quashed charges of breaching national lockdown regulations pressed against them last year.
Said the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.
The three namely Terrence Manjengwa, Blessed Changara and Barnabas Gura, who all reside in Harare were arrested on 3 September 2020 outside Harare Magistrates Court while following proceedings for Hon. Sikhala, who had been arrested and detained on charges of inciting public violence by urging people to participate during the 31 July 2020 protests.
The trio was charged with unnecessary movement during the national lockdown as defined in section 4(1)(a) of the Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention, Containment and Treatment) (National Lockdown) Order Statutory Instrument 77/2020.Prosecutors claimed that Manjengwa aged 26 years, Gura aged 32 years and Changara aged 22 years unlawfully and unnecessarily moved from their places of residence during the national lockdown imposed by government in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus by gathering at Harare Magistrates Court without exemption letters.
But on Wednesday 2 June 2021, Magistrate Mateko upheld the trio’s application for exception and quashed the charge of violating national lockdown regulations.Magistrate Mateko’s decision came after Manjengwa, Gura and Changara’s lawyer Kossam Ncube of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights had objected to the charge of unnecessary movement during the national lockdown on the basis that it does not exist at law under the cited section.
Ncube had also argued that proceeding to trial with the charges as framed would amount to a violation of section 70(1)(b) of the Constitution as it abrogates the right to a fair trial and hence the trio must not plead to a nullity.While Manjengwa, Gura and Changara have been set free on charges of contravening national lockdown regulations, their application excepting to charges of possession of offensive weapons at a public gathering as defined in section 43(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act was dismissed by Magistrate Mateko, who ordered the State to amend the charge of possession of weapons as prosecutors had cited a wrong section.
In their application for exception, Manjengwa, Gura and Changara had argued that the purported offence cited in the State papers is not established under the particular sub-section cited by prosecutors, hence no cause of action arises.
The trio had also argued that the failure by the State to cite the correct provision is so glaring that it cannot be condoned or be said to be inconsequential and to seek to commence a prosecution on non-existent charges is a grave anomaly and irregularity which will unduly prejudice and embarrass the accused persons.
Manjengwa, Gura and Changara return to court on 25 June 2021, where their trial on charges of possession of offensive weapons is scheduled to commence.
By A Correspondent- The Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) has officially split after the faction led by Reverend Cossam Chiangwa refused to accept a court ruling on the church leadership crisis case and renamed their group AFM of Zimbabwe.
The church’s leadership wrangle had lingered for years following an attempt by another faction led by immediate former president Reverend Aspher Madziyire and his successor Reverend Amon Madawo to amend the Constitution.
Chiangwa’s side rejected the amendments resulting in squabbles that saw some physically fighting in church premises.
In an endeavour to resolve the crisis, Madawo’s side approached the High Court where they were declared the legitimate leaders of the church.
Chiangwa’s side appealed the judgment at the Supreme Court which upheld the High Court ruling much to the chagrin of the former AFM vice president.
Among other things, the Supreme Court ordered the Chiangwa-led group to surrender all church assets.
In response to the ruling, Chiangwa, through his secretary-general Nathan Nhira, showed defiance but hinted about forming a new organisation.
He said:
_Do not panic, as usual, your leadership is in full control, do not move out of church buildings, nor surrender any assets prematurely._
_It is however prudent and encouraged that those in church buildings and mission house should urgently start looking for alternative places of worship and accommodation._
_We are not abandoning the ship, stay put, we moving on, do not be shaken, we on the move, united we stand as we gladly move forward._
_We are re-constituting ourselves. We still part of AFM International and hence we can still use the logo again until AFM International excludes us from its affiliate membership, then we will design an appropriate logo and move on to establish our own International forum._
AFM of Zimbabwe logo is slightly different from that of AFM in Zimbabwe.
Observable differences include the direction of the cross, background colour and the replacement of “in” with “of” in the name. Some argue that this might have legal consequences.
By A Correspondent- Lilian Timveous, former top MDC-Alliance officials who recently sold out and joined Zanu PF has been absorbed into the Petrotrade board.
Petrol Trade is a government parastatal that falls under, Energy and Power Development Ministery led by Zanu PF’s Zhemu Soda.
Other Petrol Trade board members appointed together with Timveous are Advocate Tinomudaishe Chinyoka who is the board Chairperson deputised by Mrs Zanele Dube, Mrs Gladys Mumhure, Mr Simbabrashe Eric Mhuriro, Mrs Ferida Matambo, Ms Getrude Marabada, Mr Godfrey Ncube and Mr Dakarai Mukuku.
By A Correspondent- The Emmerson Mnangagwa government has said that it wants to exhume bodies of 157 Zimbabwean Cyclone Idai victims who were buried in Mozambique in 2019 while ignoring to assist thousands who were left homeless by the natural disaster.
The daydreaming Mnangagwa administration said DNA tests will be undertaken to positively identify the exhumed bodies with known graves in Mozambique.
Mnangagwa’s ally, who is the Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo, announced this development to the state media.
“As you may be aware, the immediate impact of Cyclone Idai was the loss of 347 lives with 344 people still missing who are now deemed dead.
“The names of the 203 of the 344 missing people are now known from information provided by villagers where they lived. Modalities by Government pathologists to exhume and repatriate bodies of the 157 who were buried in Mozambique remains a priority,” he said.
By A Correspondent- Anti-Riot Police in Mutare on Tuesday intercepted and arrested several Zanu PF supporters who had staged a demonstration and forcibly opened two flea markets that were shut down by the local authority last year as a safety measure against Covid-19.
The Zanu PF activists, who likely face charges of breaching coronavirus regulations, on Tuesday broke into Chidzere and Sakubva markets and parcelled out 3,000 vending stalls amongst themselves.
Riot police intercepted their procession and made arrests as the boisterous protestors marched towards the city centre, singing and waving placards, local city press reported.
Mutare town clerk Anthony Mutara said of the arrests: “Order is very important in any society for the survival of us all,” according to the ManicaPost newspaper.
-State media
By A Correspondent- Prices of commodities in some shops recently went up following the announcement of Statutory 127 of 2021 which introduced measures that regulate the foreign currency exchange rate.
SI 127 of 2021 introduced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, through the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Financial Laws Amendment) Regulations, forced businesses to use the US$1: ZWL$84 exchange rate.
The Statutory Instrument also made it illegal to give customers a discount for paying for goods or services in foreign currency, refuse to take local currency payments at the official exchange rate and issue Zimbabwe dollar receipts for goods paid for in foreign currency.
Industry flatly rejected the SI and has openly opposed the move.
Meanwhile, prices of some commodities have started going up following the introduction of the S1.
-Online
By A Correspondent- Two patients an escort nurse and an Ambulance driver on Wednesday died after the ambulance they were travelling in collided with a two-tonne truck that was travelling to Kariba at the 196-kilometre-peg along Harare-Chirundu highway near Buffalo Downs.
The driver was identified as Laurence Lundu (39) while the escort nurse was identified as Marjury Matutu (age not given).
The patients, identified as Patricia Murisa was an 18-year-old pregnant woman and the other Tichaona Matashu (47) a victim of a previous road traffic accident, had both been transferred to Chinhoyi Hospital for further treatment.
Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident saying the ambulance encroached onto the lane of the oncoming truck which tried to avoid a head-on collision by moving to the right but was hit by the ambulance.
All four died on the spot while the driver of the truck, Ryan Murembe of Harare ran away from the scene, and his two passengers who sustained injuries were taken to Karoi hospital for treatment.
Tinashe Sambiri|The Alliance has accused the “malicious Zanu PF administration of taking pleasure in punishing suffering citizens”
The MDC Alliance has also condemned plans by the regime to evict informal traders from their workplaces without coming up with an alternative…
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A MAN from Cowdray Park suburb had to seek a peace order against his neighbour who has been in the habit of assaulting him in front of his children and also threatening to kill him over an undisclosed misunderstanding.
The two neighbours — Shadreck Ndebele and Blessing Mathe have an undisclosed long-standing misunderstanding that dates back to 2016.
Mathe always picks an argument with Ndebele that culminates in him turning Ndebele into a punching bag. He would also insult his neighbour.
Recently Mathe caused a scene as he hurled profanities at his neighbour at the shops before he punched him all over the body. Mathe went on to swear at Ndebele and threatened to kill him.
On the same day in the evening he confronted the hapless Ndebele at his home and accused him of disrespecting him. At the height of the accusations the daring Mathe picked an empty beer bottle and hit him on the head.
Ndebele opened an assault case at Luveve Police Station which was recorded under case number CR 103/5/21.
Mathe is also in the habit of launching verbal attacks at Ndebele’s children while threatening to kill them.
Ndebele was left with no option but to apply for a protection order against his troublesome neighbour.
“I am applying for a protection order against Blessing Mathe who is my neighbour. He is verbally abusing me by insulting me over a misunderstanding that we had back in 2016. Each time an argument arises between the two of us he would hit me with fists and booted feet. He has been threatening to kill me by setting my house on fire. He also beat me near the shops. Last week on Tuesday he came to my home and made baseless accusations against me. He struck me with an empty beer bottle on the head. I bled profusely. I was lucky to survive because a neighbour intervened and rushed me to Mpilo Central Hospital for treatment.
I reported the matter at Luveve Police Station. He is also in the habit of hurling profanities at my family,” he said.
The two neighbours were supposed to attend the court case last week on Thursday but they did not attend as a result the presiding magistrate Jeconia Prince Ncube struck the matter off the court roll.- B-Metro
A man from Zezani area in Beitbridge, Matabeleland South Province is in a tricky situation that any married man would never want to experience after his wife eloped with an Agritex officer who allegedly lured her with his “Government-issued” motorbike.
Debson Siziba was left heartbroken after his wife of about eight years Mbuyedzedzo Muleya left him with their two children while eloping to her lover Knowledge Gororo, an Agritex officer stationed in the area.
It was gathered that Mbuyedzedzo ditched her husband for Gororo after he “seduced” her with rides on his motorbike.
Narrating his unpleasant experience to B-Metro, a distraught Siziba said sometime in April this year, he discovered that Gororo was having an affair with his wife and was always giving her rides to Beitbridge Town on his motorbike.
He said that led his wife to fall in love with his (Gororo’s) motorcycle.
“They were always phoning each other and during my absence, Gororo would come to my house with his motorbike to see my wife until the day she left home under the pretext that she was visiting her aunt.
“When she didn’t come back the following day, I went to the aunt’s house where I was told that she had lied that she was visiting her. Investigations later established that she had eloped with Gororo and he came with his motorbike and took her away,” said a visibly stressed Siziba.
Siziba who was disturbed by the incident later followed his wife to Gororo’s place. He claimed that when he arrived, his wife locked herself in Gororo’s bedroom.
He got so angry and called the police to come and help him “recover” his wife who was now enjoying the biker’s love.
“Upon arrival, Gororo was not at home but his neighbours told me that my wife was inside the house. To avoid putting the law into my own hands, I called the police who came and demanded that she should open the door for them. She, however, refused, leading to one of the police officers to enter through the window to force her out of the house,” said Siziba.
He said when he asked her to accompany him to their house, Mbuyedzedzo refused before Gororo swiftly came and took her with his motorbike to her parents in Beitbridge.
Siziba said Gororo should be punished as he was allegedly addicted to the thrill of sleeping with married women.
“I want him to compensate me for sleeping with my wife and the matter is now before Chief Sitaudze,” he fumed.
B-Metro spoke to Gororo who, while admitting that Mbuyedzedzo once stayed at his house, denied that they were in an intimate relationship.
“It’s not true that we are in a relationship and the issue is now before Chief Sitaudze. The Chief once ordered me to pay two beasts after Siziba claimed I was bedding his wife.
“We were supposed to go back again on Sunday last week but I didn’t make it because I was involved in an accident on Thursday. What happened is that they had a dispute and after that she met my friend who was using my motorbike and he assisted her,” said Gororo.
Asked on what Mbuyedzedzo was doing at his house when the police came to take her, Gororo said: “She came to my house and stayed for two days saying she had nowhere to go. During that time, she told me that she was no longer interested in her husband because he abused her.”
He added: “It is also not true that Siziba was the one who called the police. I am the one who did so after I came back home from work and found him and other villagers at my house. This was after his wife was seen by neighbours who later alerted him and he quickly came when she was about to leave my house.”
Mbuyedzedzo could not be reached for comment.-B-Metro
TOUCH not the law enforcer!
This advice was at play when a Bulawayo-based car dealer was slapped with a 42-month jail package by a Bulawayo magistrate for brutally striking a police officer with an empty beer bottle on the forehead resulting in him sustaining a deep cut.
Brandon Hingi (25) from Nketa 8 suburb carried out the savage and supposedly alcohol-fuelled attack on Christopher Chindiya (27) on 16 May 2021 at the Bulawayo Athletics Club popularly known as BAC which was allegedly operating in violation of Covid-19 lockdown rules. In Zimbabwe lockdown laws prohibit nightclubs and bars from operating.
Hingi is, however, going to spend 30 months in jail after 12 months of his sentence were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour by Bulawayo provincial magistrate Tavengwa Sangster who convicted him on his own plea of guilty to a charge of assault.
In coming up with the sentence Sangster took into consideration the fact that the assault from the observation of the doctor had ‘‘very’’ serious after-effects.
“There was a danger to life in that complainant may experience intra-cranial bleeding. There is also a possibility of permanent disability in that the complainant may develop problems of secondary brain concussion such as fits,” observed Sangster.
He adds: “The possibility of bleeding in the head as well as permanent disability must not be taken lightly. A fine or community service will not do justice in this case. This will trivialise the offence and therefore, encourage would-be offenders. Only imprisonment is suitable for such attacks on another.”
The court proved that on 16 May 2021 and at around midnight, the complainant was at Bulawayo Athletics Club popularly known as BAC in the company of his friend. As they were going out of the club, the complainant’s friend lost his phone. He then accused Hingi of having taken it and that caused a misunderstanding between the two.
Chindiya then approached the accused who was arguing with his friend over the stolen cellphone. The accused then hit the complainant once on the forehead with an empty beer bottle.
Complainant sustained a cut on the forehead and was referred to hospital for medication. The matter was reported to the police leading to Hingi’s arrest.
In mitigation, Hingi pleaded for leniency saying his girlfriend was expecting and that when he committed the offence, he was angry that the complainant’s friend had falsely accused him of stealing his cellphone.-B-Metro
A FUMING man confronted his mother-in-law at her home and slapped her and also assaulted her with a chair for failing to give him back his television set that he had lent her.
Simamba Ndlovu (50) who stays in Nkulumane suburb left his home in a huff and went to Tshabalala suburb where his mother-in-law Everist Makuleya (70) and his other in-laws live.
He got there at around 8.45pm and did not even knock at the door, but pushed the door open and stormed in, said an insider.
His mother-in-law was in her bedroom. He allegedly shouted obscenities while demanding his television set which he had lent her when they had a private function.
It is alleged his mother-in-law got out of her bedroom to talk to him about the issue so that they could solve it amicably without any tension.
Ndlovu manhandled his mother-in-law before he slapped her on the face, the source said. He ran amok and picked a chair and allegedly hit her once on the head causing her to tumble to the ground, said a source close to investigations.
Makuleya screamed for help and while she was wriggling on the floor in agony, neighbours thronged her home and rescued her from the furious Ndlovu.
They bundled Ndlovu into a car and drove to a police station where a report was made, a source said.
He appeared for trial before Western Commonage magistrate Ulukile Ndlovu facing a physical abuse charge.
He pleaded not guilty.
He was remanded out of custody to next week on Monday when he would know his fate.- B-Metro
