By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is linked to the exhumation of the body of the former President Robert Mugabe said he also wants to confront the British and get the remains of the imagined Mbuya Nehanda.
Mnangagwa said this when he was unveiling the Mbuya Nehanda bronze statue, mounted on a footbridge at the corner of Samora Machel Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way in Harare on Tuesday.
“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others,” said Mnangagwa.
His Home Affairs Minister, Kazembe Kazembe also said Mbuya Nehanda’s head was stolen by the British colonial settlers over a century ago.
“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values. However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress,” said Minister Kazembe.
The government of Zimbabwe associates Mbuya Nehanda, with the inspiration behind the Second Chimurenga which culminated in independence in 1980.
By A Correspondent- Former Deputy Prime Minister Professor Arthur Mutambara said Zimbabweans should rise against the constitutional crisis which the Zanu PF government is promoting.
“As we have explained before, both Constitutional Amendments (No 1 and 2) Acts are unconstitutional and illegal,” wrote Professor Arthur Mutambara on zimbabwelight.blogspot.com.
“The three arms of the state (Executive, Judiciary and Legislature) have been brought into unquestionable and dishonourable disrepute by irresponsible, reckless and self-serving activities of the junta. “This is unacceptable,” said Mutambara.
Zimbabwe had a golden chance to implement the democratic reforms to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship during the 2008 to 2013 GNU but was failed by opposition parties that slept on duty during that period.
Here is Bernard Chiteme who once appeared at prophet Magaya with a stroked leg in 2016. He got healed with a single touch live on camera. The video was deleted on facebook. He usually frequent Zindoga shops. It's clear he can do anything for a living. Retweet and make him famous pic.twitter.com/l6IpcKrVYh
By A Correspondent- A female GeoScience Lecturer in the Faculty of Mining Engineering at the Midlands State University, Rutendo Tafirenyika, was on Tuesday involved in a street fight at Mandava shopping centre in Zvishavane over a Harare based boyfriend only identified as Fanuel.
The Lecturer is also the Vice President of Midlands State University Lecturers Association (MSULA).
According to the source who requested anonymity the lecturer and the woman who she engaged with were friends before the lecturer snatched her boyfriend.
The woman who could be seen on the receiving end of the video that went viral was only identified as Prisca who runs a saloon and is a well-known hairdresser specialising in manicure and pedicure.
It is alleged the hairdresser and her boyfriend broke up and her friend Tafirenyika who recently divorced her husband fell for the boyfriend. MSU senior lecturer, Rutendo Tafirenyika (right) clad in jeans while bashing Prisca.
This did not go down well with the hairdresser who confronted her friend over the affair. A heated exchange ensued on WhatsApp until the two met on Tuesday leading to a serious fight which left the hairdresser nursing some injuries.
Members of the public could be seen on the video trying to intervene and stop the fight.
Social media is awash with the videos and pictures of the street fight, with some members of the public condemning the kind of public indecency displayed by the lecturer, which they say should not be permitted in her profession, given her standing in the community.
The above is a 1986 picture of former Prime Minister Robert Mugabe soon after a bomb attack at the ANC offices in Harare.
By A Correspondent | What was hoped should be an opportunity message for Emmerson Mnangagwa through the leaking of his predecessor Robert Mugabe’s 1985 letter to Britain was when Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba made public the correspondence yesterday.
George Charamba
In the 4 page letter, Mugabe writes to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sounding as if his administration is providing frontline-state assistance to South Africa’s ANC party, in 1985. Towards the end of the letter, it becomes clear however that Mugabe’s was an agitation over perceived racism in the British premier’s last correspondence, nothing else.
In March this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa excluded Zimbabwe from his list of countries to be thanked for helping South Africa’s blacks in their fight against apartheid. His position has not changed.
The full letter is below:
I write to acknowledge with thanks your letter of 20th December 1985, in which you inform me about your meeting with the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons. I trust that the Group will discharge its unenviable task to the best of its ability. 1 shall eagerly await the results of its endeavour.
I must, however, frankly and honestly inform you that I take great exception to the second paragraph of your letter, especially the portion which reads as follows:
I was frankly dismayed to hear the news that another landmine had exploded in Northern Transvaal on 15 December, this time involving substantial loss of life. I understand that it is your policy not to allow such attacks to be mounted from Zimbabwe and hope that you will continue to use your influence to try to prevent such incidents.”
I write to acknowledge with thanks your letter of 2fie/’December, 1985, in which you inform me about your meeting with the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persona. I trust that the Group will discharge its unenviable task to the best of its ability. I shall eagerly await the results of its endeavour. I must, however, frankly and honestly inform you that I take great exception to the second paragraph of your letter, especially the portion which reads as follows: I was frankly dismayed to hear the news that another landmine had exploded in Northern Transvaal on 15 December, this tune involving substantial loss of life. I understand that it is your policy not to allow such attacks to be mounted from Zimbabwe and hope that you will continue to use your influence to try to prevent such incidents.’
George Charamba
President @CyrilRamaphosa needs that proof more than me, who's too young as you said; see Cyril's latest speech which totally disproves your 1985 powerful letter's (frontline status) to London https://t.co/xx1GNA9xEH WATCH TO THE END!
Clearly, what you are trying to convey to me is not only your dismay at the landmine explosion but also your belief that the attack was mounted by the ANC from Zimbabwe and that, therefore, we must have allowed the ANC to use our territory as a base for such attacks. Surely, with a well-established embassy in Zimbabwe and several thousands of British nationals living all over our territory, you should be in a position to know that we have no ANC, PAC or SWAPO bases in this country. The fact that the explosions have occurred in the Northern Transvaal close to the border with us does not make Zimbawe responsible for them. Perhaps you are also aware that within a few days of the Northern Transvaal landmine explosions there was a serious attack upon an electric station close to Swaziland. And only last week, another landmine explosion occurred close to the border with Botswana. Do you want to tell me that these countries neighbouring South Africa must be held responsible for those ANC attacks merely because of their geographical contiguity to South Africa? Prime Minister, the ANC is not a Zimbabwean organisation and I have no influence on it. Therefore, the mode, timing, geography and targeting of the ANC attacks are entirely its own matter. But let it also be remembered that the ANC, PAC and other democratic forces in South Africa are waging a struggle for their freedom, a struggle for human rights, which is far nobler than your South African struggle for the sustenance of British economic interests. To me, the morality of their cause surely overrides the morality (in my view, the immorality!) of the British economic case.
I also find it surprising that the Northern Transvaal explosions should have been the first to dismay you. I suppose this is because the victims of the explosions were, for the first time, exclusively seven whites. What about the hundreds of blacks murdered by the apartheid regime within South Africa, and those others murdered by it across the border in Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Mocambique, Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe? Do they move your conscience at all? While white may be more beautiful for the British and their South African apartheid allies, black is also more beautiful for us of African descent ! Please, there can never be any question of my pleading with the A.N.C. to “prevent such incidents”, as you put it. You certainly seem to be unaware of the stand taken by the last summit of the O.A.U. urging the South African Liberation Movements to intensify their freedom struggle. That is the African position! It is also my position! Anyway, Comrade Oliver Tambo, the President of the ANC, lives in London, not in Zimbabwe, and hence it is quite an easy matter for you to express your views directly to him. The second paragraph of your letter also goes on to state, “but there are quite clearly limits to the South African Government’s tolerance if these incidents continue in the future.” This, indeed, amounts to a threat you are delivering to me on behalf of South Africa. But let me state quite clearly that we (that is, my Government and People) are not afraid of any invasion by South Africa. Whatever its military strength might be in relation to ours, we can never allow it to get away with any criminal act of blatant aggression. You can tell them that! It should not be forgotten that we won our freedom and independence through an armed revolutionary struggle. We remain prepared to defend that freedom and independence through the same struggle!
We, more than South Africa, have come to a stage where we can no longer allow our tolerance to be further stretched, and, certainly, we will not allow South Africa to engage with impunity in acts of direct aggression against us.
I am sure you know that in respect of Zimbabwe South Africa has, since Independence, been trying to destabilise both our political and economic systems. Even as I write you now, South Africa is training dissident and bandit recruits from Zimbabwe at at least two centres. We have thus been more sinned against that sinning. So, please do not add British insult to the injury being inflicted upon us by the Boers. I am sorry to have to write in this tone, but am constrained to do so by the import of the second paragraph of your letter.
The National Assembly met at a Quarter-past Two o’clock p.m.
HON. T. MLISWA: Madam Speaker, the Speaker himself is on record saying that he will ensure that he takes appropriate measures to the ministers who do not attend Parliament. I am sure the Clerk would agree to that. He would write letters but he also indicated that appropriate action must be taken. I think this issue is beyond us Members of Parliament now. I think the onus lies with the Speaker and yourself to take decisive action once and for all because we are really tired. It has become a song and the authority that Parliament must have is sub judice and the authority that Parliament must have at all is not there. What more can we do if you have a father and mother and you constantly tell them there is a problem and they keep quiet – we also pull back but this institution can only be respected when the Speaker and yourself take real action. It is my call that you remind the Speaker that he said he would ensure that it happens. Members of Parliament appear before the Privileges Committee for anything that they do – even some of us when there were accusations of bribe with Goddard, there is the Privileges Committee but those who have a task for the country never come to this Parliament. In a way, it is an insult to this institution, the leader of the institution, yourself and Zimbabweans at large. So really, may you and the Speaker sit down and take action – hold them in contempt. I used to be energised about bringing this issue up but I have really got retired. You try and point that this Minister is contempt for not coming – Parliament administration will come up with an answer and say no, they apologised after Parliament. We then came up with rules that, what is the cut off time? The Speaker said 12 o’clock. Right now, the members of Cabinet who are not here, Deputy Ministers; 12 o’clock has gone and when Parliament ends, another rule comes up. They send their apologies late. There is inconsistency in terms of decision making and appropriate action by the leadership. I would like you to convey that to the Speaker, that we are getting disillusioned and they are no longer serious in their discharge of duties when the country is faced with numerous problems and at the end of the day, the Leader of Government business who is equally here must be able to tell the President on what is happening and so forth. My call once again, may you and the Speaker ensure that this institution is respected by coming up with a serious decision which is constant and consistent with how Parliament must be run. HON. T. MLISWA: Thank you very much Madam Speaker for giving me this opportunity as you had promised yesterday. It is not many people that keep their word nowadays, and I must thank you for that. Madam Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs on the statement which he made after the High Court ruling in the Malaba matter. When the matter was still going to approach superior courts as it has done, was it not subjudice, and as the Minister of Justice, would it not be proper for him to do good for the country and step down so that the justice prudence which is expected in this country is maintained? THE HON. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Hon Mliswa is that a question or you are suggesting something else. Please ask your question. HON. T. MLISWA: The question is the statement made by the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs after the High Court ruling on the Malaba case was totally unacceptable in terms of the justice delivery system, and as such, what does he intend to do to instil justice in the system when that statement has totally destroyed the trust and the confidence of this country in the justice delivery system as the father of justice? I know the Minister might want to say the matter is subjudice, but it is not the matter or application before the courts but his statement which is not before the courts, in case he wants to come round that one. THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS (HON. ZIYAMBI): Thank you Madam Speaker. There are those that wrote a letter indicating that they want that statement to be subjected to interrogation by the High Court. So it is subjudice. HON. T. MLISWA: The issue the Minister is talking about that there are those who want to write for the matter to go before the courts is not the same as the matter before the courts. When I say I want to hit you and I do not hit you, it does not mean I hit you. The matter is not before the courts. Can he respond because the intention to write and to take it to court is different from the matter before the courts. I do not have to teach him law. I am not a lawyer. The matter is not before the courts. Can he respond to his statement. When the matter is before the courts then it is subjudice. I am glad he said subjudice – hopefully next time he will not comment on other High Court judgements or any court judgements that come. The matter is not before the courts. The intention is to take it to the court but it is not there, so how does it become subjudice? HON. ZIYAMBI: Thank you Madam Speaker. I respect my brother Hon. Temba Mliswa but he does not work in my office nor does he stay at my house to know that it is not in court. I would not come here and say something that is false. I have papers that were sent to the High Court with the same complaint about the statement and his insinuation is totally wrong. So I will not comment on it because they have started the process and I await direction from the court. I thank you. HON. T. MLISWA: I am glad and I must be professional enough to say if the matter is indeed before the courts, then I withdraw my question. He had said they intend to bring it to the courts so I withdraw. I am professional enough to follow the dictates of the law that if the matter is before the courts, I withdraw my question. May we allow the process to take over. I think I should be appointed the Minister of Justice next time. I thank you. HON. T. MLISWA: My supplementary question is; Hon. Minister, you spoke about this finance structure with many players, i.e. maize and soya but did not talk about tobacco. Already, tobacco farmers are complaining of late disbursement of funds. They sell their tobacco today and their money comes out after two weeks. I heard on the State media that they were camping for two weeks to wait for their money and these are women who have responsibilities at home. You know that when a woman is away from home, there is havoc. Musha mukadzi, kana pasina mukadzi hapana musha. So why would we then say we are disbursing money? I did not hear you talking about tobacco players in that matrix in terms of disbursement of money. Can you tell us whether the tobacco players are involved in that structure and if not, can you please involve them so that they get their money early especially women farmers. Thank you. HON. PROF. M. NCUBE: I really thank Hon. Themba Mliswa for that intervention, query and question in seeking clarification. You know tobacco farmers are some of our special farmers especially the small scale farmers and the women farmers that you referred to. They not only just produce tobacco, create jobs, income for themselves and feed their families but they also earn us foreign currency. So they play that extra role and are a special group of farmers in a way, if you can indulge me to use that word ‘special’. In the payment process, I am also quite unhappy that payments are taking as long as two weeks as he indicated. It was brought to my attention and we are dealing with it. In terms of the payment process, frankly the truth is, we had not included tobacco farmers. Those are the facts because tobacco farmers, we always deal with them through another structure that is led by the Central Bank due to the foreign currency element. We really need the Central Bank. So I will engage the Central Bank to make sure that they work together with Treasury to resolve this delay in payment but also try to get to the bottom of it – is it the banks that are delaying, is it us the authorities; what is really going on? We will look into that to solve the problem but then just make it more efficient. I also hasten to add that in terms of their foreign currency retention this year, it has improved to 60% and I think that is good progress. We have also said that for all exporters, their retention ratio is a lot more favourable with the order of 80% for those who are performing above a certain threshold. I am only on the tobacco issue Hon. Mliswa and in fact, I have not yet visited the tobacco floors this year because I have been occupied with other things that I am fine tuning but I can assure you that in the next two weeks, I am going to visit tobacco floors. You mentioned one issue but there may be more, so it is important for me to be hands-on, visit them and understand the issues and try to deal with them comprehensively. I thank you.
HON. T. MLISWA: Has the Government not got a deliberate policy to fund indigenous people after the protracted liberation struggle where they were oppressed by the Smith Regime and identify indigenous companies who want to grow their business so that there can be an economic balance after the oppression of the Smith Regime? Have you not also accommodated white companies in the new Zimbabwe unlike the time of Rhodesia when it was the white companies who benefited? Thank you. HON. PROF. M. NCUBE: Hon. Mliswa is right. We do have an empowerment policy which has been re-launched and refreshed – that exists. Through this policy, Government has been supporting indigenous business companies but also they have been creating special financial institutions to further sharpen that empowerment agenda. All they are looking at is the Women’s Bank or the Youths Bank and now we have the National Venture Fund. All those are pockets of resources that are meant to sharpen the empowerment agenda. I think where we could do better is in the area of procurement where again we would want certain groups and SME’s to be supported by Government in the procurement process. Once someone has got a contract as an SME, it is easier for them to source them funding because they now have an order. The bank can discount the value of that order and give them a loan. So, our procurement processes need to speak to that empowerment as well. I think that is an area that we could improve but he is right that we have been targeting certain disadvantaged groups to make sure that they are supported as we grow our economy to make sure that no one is left behind. I thank you.
HON. T. MLISWA: This is a very important question on State land. There is the Uchena Report which clearly did an investigation on State land. This report has not been brought to Parliament by the Minister to deliberate on it. Not only that, the Joshua Nkomo Aspindale 49 A and B land which was given to the people by the First Republic, the Second Republic is now going to repossess that land from them yet offer letters were given out by the First Republic. Is the Minister of State for any province responsible for State land or it is the Minister of Local Government because for example, Hon. Chidawu was in Kambuzuma telling people that this land belonged to Billy Rautenbach and Swane who are whites yet Government had taken this land as State land and given it to the people through the housing cooperatives which are well constituted and well regularised. Why is Government going back taking State land from people again when it has issued that state land and the Provincial Minister of State being in the forefront of that? Is he the custodian of Sate land, especially Hon. Chidawu who is now taking away land from the people and people are dying because of heart aches and blood pressure as a result of this Second Republic taking land which was allocated to them by the First Republic which remains the same Government? Is it Government policy to repossess State land from people who benefited from the First Republic? HON. CHOMBO: You brought up a lot of follow up questions – you brought up the issue of the Uchena Report which was as a result of a Commission set up by the President. My Ministry does not have the mandate to release that report. My Ministry is studying that report and we are analysing the cases that should be forwarded to ZRP, those that should go to ZACC and those that we have to handle internally. Definitely, we have been doing that and I think you have seen some arrests emanating from that Uchena Report. The Billy Rautenbach issue is too specific – you should bring it to my office and I will go through it. It is not my Ministry’s policy to repossess State land that was allocated in the previous republic.
HON. T. MLISWA: The Hon. Deputy Minister did allude to the fact that they were studying it and they were starting to arrest people. Already, Parliament has oversight and we are asking for our role of oversight. You cannot start arresting people before we exercise our role of oversight and before the report is tabled in Parliament. This is not the first time that Hon. Markham has asked for reports. We now believe that the Minister is involved in the corrupt dealings of some of these land issues because there are many reports which have been asked to come before this Parliament to be tabled and they are not coming. We would want to know what is it that is stopping you from taking this message to the President to say that we need these reports. The Uchena Report was released and the President read, then it goes to the appropriate Ministry which should then bring it here. So, do not bring the President’s name into disrepute by saying it is with the President. He got the report and set up the commission which did its own investigations so it must find itself in Parliament so that we exercise our role of oversight. You cannot be arresting people before you bring the report here. We have an oversight role to play and your Ministry is overwhelmed with these reports, but you do not bring them here and the Minister himself is never here. You are always here but he is always going around giving land but not to answer questions why he is giving land. HON. CHOMBO: Thank you Hon. Mliswa for that explosive follow up question. I am going to check who is supposed to release it and as I said it did not emanate from my office, but I was given as a Ministry which is managing the state land to make sure that I look at issues that address the state land issues. So it is just a part of the Uchena Commission that we are dealing with. When we give the Ministerial statement, I will also give a statement towards that. I thank you.
On the motion of HON. MUTAMBISI seconded by HON. NDUNA, the House adjourned at Sixteen Minutes to Six o’clock p.m.
A drunk man from Pumula South suburb, who accused his aunt of ill-treating him, allegedly urinated on the floor before her and damaged her cupboard. It was around 11pm last week on Saturday when Mxolisi Ncube (25) came home from a booze and started to make noise in the kitchen, a relative said.
His aunt Zanele Ncube (46) was sleeping in her room and heard her nephew Mxolisi pushing a cupboard, said the source. She woke up and headed to the kitchen and found her nephew pushing her cupboard.
“She ordered him to stop pushing her kitchen unit. But he turned deaf ears to her advice and pushed down the kitchen unit which had plates, cups and glasses.
“Eighteen plates fell into pieces, 11 cups broke, and 12 water glasses also fell into pieces. He also damaged the microwave. As if that was not enough he stamped on the kitchen unit causing it to break,” said the family insider.
While they were exchanging harsh words, Mxolisi pulled a shocker.
“He urinated before his aunt and also inflicted much pain to her as he urinated on her kitchen unit. Seeing that, his aunt screamed for help as she thought he would rape her,” said a family insider.
She bolted out of the house and headed to a neighbour’s house, said a source.
She was accompanied to a police station where she made a police report leading to the arrest of her nephew.
Bulawayo deputy police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed the incident: “I can confirm that we arrested a man for damaging a kitchen unit and its contents which is estimated to cost US$110.- B-Metro
By A Correspondent | What was hoped to be an opportunity message for Emmerson Mnangagwa through the leaking of his predecessor Robert Mugabe’s 1985 letter to Britain was when Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba made public the correspondence yesterday.
George Charamba
In the 4 page letter, Mugabe writes to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sounding as if his administration is providing frontline-state assistance to South Africa’s ANC party, in 1985. Towards the end of the letter, it becomes clear however that Mugabe’s was an agitation over perceived racism in the British premier’s last correspondence, nothing else.
In March this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa excluded Zimbabwe from his list of countries to be thanked for helping South Africa’s blacks in their fight against apartheid. His position has not changed.
The full letter is below:
I write to acknowledge with thanks your letter of 20th December 1985, in which you inform me about your meeting with the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons. I trust that the Group will discharge its unenviable task to the best of its ability. 1 shall eagerly await the results of its endeavour.
I must, however, frankly and honestly inform you that I take great exception to the second paragraph of your letter, especially the portion which reads as follows:
I was frankly dismayed to hear the news that another landmine had exploded in Northern Transvaal on 15 December, this time involving substantial loss of life. I understand that it is your policy not to allow such attacks to be mounted from Zimbabwe and hope that you will continue to use your influence to try to prevent such incidents.”
I write to acknowledge with thanks your letter of 2fie/’December, 1985, in which you inform me about your meeting with the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persona. I trust that the Group will discharge its unenviable task to the best of its ability. I shall eagerly await the results of its endeavour. I must, however, frankly and honestly inform you that I take great exception to the second paragraph of your letter, especially the portion which reads as follows: I was frankly dismayed to hear the news that another landmine had exploded in Northern Transvaal on 15 December, this tune involving substantial loss of life. I understand that it is your policy not to allow such attacks to be mounted from Zimbabwe and hope that you will continue to use your influence to try to prevent such incidents.’
George Charamba
President @CyrilRamaphosa needs that proof more than me, who's too young as you said; see Cyril's latest speech which totally disproves your 1985 powerful letter's (frontline status) to London https://t.co/xx1GNA9xEH WATCH TO THE END!
Clearly, what you are trying to convey to me is not only your dismay at the landmine explosion but also your belief that the attack was mounted by the ANC from Zimbabwe and that, therefore, we must have allowed the ANC to use our territory as a base for such attacks. Surely, with a well-established embassy in Zimbabwe and several thousands of British nationals living all over our territory, you should be in a position to know that we have no ANC, PAC or SWAPO bases in this country. The fact that the explosions have occurred in the Northern Transvaal close to the border with us does not make Zimbawe responsible for them. Perhaps you are also aware that within a few days of the Northern Transvaal landmine explosions there was a serious attack upon an electric station close to Swaziland. And only last week, another landmine explosion occurred close to the border with Botswana. Do you want to tell me that these countries neighbouring South Africa must be held responsible for those ANC attacks merely because of their geographical contiguity to South Africa? Prime Minister, the ANC is not a Zimbabwean organisation and I have no influence on it. Therefore, the mode, timing, geography and targeting of the ANC attacks are entirely its own matter. But let it also be remembered that the ANC, PAC and other democratic forces in South Africa are waging a struggle for their freedom, a struggle for human rights, which is far nobler than your South African struggle for the sustenance of British economic interests. To me, the morality of their cause surely overrides the morality (in my view, the immorality!) of the British economic case.
I also find it surprising that the Northern Transvaal explosions should have been the first to dismay you. I suppose this is because the victims of the explosions were, for the first time, exclusively seven whites. What about the hundreds of blacks murdered by the apartheid regime within South Africa, and those others murdered by it across the border in Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Mocambique, Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe? Do they move your conscience at all? While white may be more beautiful for the British and their South African apartheid allies, black is also more beautiful for us of African descent ! Please, there can never be any question of my pleading with the A.N.C. to “prevent such incidents”, as you put it. You certainly seem to be unaware of the stand taken by the last summit of the O.A.U. urging the South African Liberation Movements to intensify their freedom struggle. That is the African position! It is also my position! Anyway, Comrade Oliver Tambo, the President of the ANC, lives in London, not in Zimbabwe, and hence it is quite an easy matter for you to express your views directly to him. The second paragraph of your letter also goes on to state, “but there are quite clearly limits to the South African Government’s tolerance if these incidents continue in the future.” This, indeed, amounts to a threat you are delivering to me on behalf of South Africa. But let me state quite clearly that we (that is, my Government and People) are not afraid of any invasion by South Africa. Whatever its military strength might be in relation to ours, we can never allow it to get away with any criminal act of blatant aggression. You can tell them that! It should not be forgotten that we won our freedom and independence through an armed revolutionary struggle. We remain prepared to defend that freedom and independence through the same struggle!
We, more than South Africa, have come to a stage where we can no longer allow our tolerance to be further stretched, and, certainly, we will not allow South Africa to engage with impunity in acts of direct aggression against us.
I am sure you know that in respect of Zimbabwe South Africa has, since Independence, been trying to destabilise both our political and economic systems. Even as I write you now, South Africa is training dissident and bandit recruits from Zimbabwe at at least two centres. We have thus been more sinned against that sinning. So, please do not add British insult to the injury being inflicted upon us by the Boers. I am sorry to have to write in this tone, but am constrained to do so by the import of the second paragraph of your letter.
A drunk man from Pumula South suburb, who accused his aunt of ill-treating him, allegedly urinated on the floor before her and damaged her cupboard. It was around 11pm last week on Saturday when Mxolisi Ncube (25) came home from a booze and started to make noise in the kitchen, a relative said.
His aunt Zanele Ncube (46) was sleeping in her room and heard her nephew Mxolisi pushing a cupboard, said the source. She woke up and headed to the kitchen and found her nephew pushing her cupboard.
“She ordered him to stop pushing her kitchen unit. But he turned deaf ears to her advice and pushed down the kitchen unit which had plates, cups and glasses.
“Eighteen plates fell into pieces, 11 cups broke, and 12 water glasses also fell into pieces. He also damaged the microwave. As if that was not enough he stamped on the kitchen unit causing it to break,” said the family insider.
While they were exchanging harsh words, Mxolisi pulled a shocker.
“He urinated before his aunt and also inflicted much pain to her as he urinated on her kitchen unit. Seeing that, his aunt screamed for help as she thought he would rape her,” said a family insider.
She bolted out of the house and headed to a neighbour’s house, said a source.
She was accompanied to a police station where she made a police report leading to the arrest of her nephew.
Bulawayo deputy police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed the incident: “I can confirm that we arrested a man for damaging a kitchen unit and its contents which is estimated to cost US$110.- B-Metro
A man from Pumula South suburb in Bulawayo was dragged to court for allegedly assaulting his wife after he found her cooking soya chunks for supper and refusing to give him eggs to cook as relish.
Tuckson Makotore (37) came home drunk and found his wife Grammar Machacha (33) cooking soya chunks.
He told her that he did not want chunks, but eggs.
Emotions boiled between the two as they argued over relish, said the source.
Makotore reached for the tray and took a few eggs to cook, but his wife stood her ground.
In a fit of rage, Makotore grabbed the tray which had 21 eggs and threw it on the floor, causing damage to the eggs, said the source.
He then turned on his wife and pummelled her all over the body with fists and kicked her while accusing her of disrespecting him, said the source.
Makotore took the tomatoes that his wife sells and threw them away.
Machacha sustained a swollen eye and injuries in the ribs, said the source.
The matter was reported at Pumula police station leading to the arrest of Makotore.
Police summoned an ambulance which quickly came and ferried the woman to hospital.
“I can confirm that we arrested a man who assaulted his wife after he found her cooking chunks for relish. We would like to urge members of the public especially couples to try by all means to solve their problems amicably than to resort to violence.
“When they are faced with domestic problems they have to seek counselling from a pastor, or elders in the community or police.”
Makotore appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Shepherd Mnjanja facing a physical abuse charge.
He pleaded not guilty and was remanded out of custody to next week on Monday.- B-Metro
DOES having many sexual partners mark out a man as great in bed?
A man from Kensington plots on the outskirts of Bulawayo left a court reeling in shock after he allegedly boasted that he was a tiger in bed.
While many relationships are breaking up because of lack of fun in bed, Misheck Mlambo is apparently a man who knows his story between the sheets if his bragging is anything to go by.
He boasted that he has many sexual partners and is popularly known as Six in his area because on a good day he can poke half a dozen women.
The tall slim ‘poker’, Mlambo, however, refused to share his secret weapon or even what he drinks to make him “service” six women, some of them married, on a daily basis.
As a serial poker, Mlambo however, seems to have a weakness of being violent when dumped. Two women, one of them married, who dumped him fearing that he could not fully accommodate them since he has multiple sexual partners sued him for harassing them.
In their separate applications at the Bulawayo Civil Court Simeleni Moyo and Siphilisiwe Ndlovu both from Kensington plots claimed the love-rat Mlambo was physically harassing them as punishment for dumping him.
In her application Ndlovu said Mlambo turned violent after she dumped him for having many sexual partners.
“Misheck Mlambo is my ex-lover. We have been in a relationship for three weeks and we broke up after I discovered that he has a lot of women and he does not work. He didn’t do anything for me and that’s why I ended up terminating the relationship. He is now in the habit of coming to my house to assault me. The other day he came to my house at night and harassed my grandchildren. He is always threatening to beat me up because I dumped him,” said Moyo.
She said she was now living in fear of Mlambo hence her decision to rush to court to apply for a protection order so that he can be stopped from harassing her and coming to her place.
Ndlovu in her papers also stated that Mlambo was in the habit of coming to her house to harass her.
“I was in a relationship with Misheck Mlambo and we have since separated but he is refusing to accept that our relationship is over. He is always coming to my place without my consent. I don’t want him to come to my place because I’m married.
“The other day he came and found me alone and asked for water and I gave him. He then demanded to talk to me and I refused since my husband was about to come back from work. He forcibly came into my house and beat me up,” said Ndlovu.
She adds: “After that he then ordered me to follow him and I refused as he had injured me and I was also bleeding. At that very moment my husband arrived and he asked me what had happened. I, however, didn’t tell him the truth since I didn’t want him to know that I was in a relationship with Misheck. I want the court to protect me by granting an order that compels him to stay away from me.”
In response Mlambo caused a rumpus in court when he boasted that he was a tiger in bed
“We were in a relationship and she (Simeleni Moyo) knew I had many wives. Where I stay, they call me Six because I have many wives and I can entertain six women per day. She also dates many men who visit her at night and that was the source of our misunderstanding,” said Mlambo.
Turning to Ndlovu’s accusations, Mlambo said: “Yes, I was in a relationship with her and it ended after we fought. If she wants me to stay away from her, I will do that.”
A seemingly annoyed presiding magistrate Nkosinomusa Ncube charged Mlambo to stay away from Moyo and Ndlovu saying he should not be “jealous” of them since he had many women who were entertaining him.- B-Metro
Since the days of the notorious female ‘ghost ‘ Peggy, never has it been that one can be caught.
It’s happened here in Gutu and the crook, likely Peggy’s son!, has been arrested. I shall give you more details, for now, look at his dress code, cunningly evil.
Be very careful as thieves have devised these methods of dress so as to totally scare house owners, and other citizens so to steal from them and varnish.
VIDEO LOADING BELOW….
Below is one of them who has been arrested in Gutu. This one ran out of luck when alert citizens physically stopped him while running. ARE YOU ONE OF HIS VICTIMS?
By Tinashe Sambiri | While the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has been silent on Tapiwa Makore’s skull, he is exerting pressure on Britain to return Mbuya Nehanda’s head.
This has raised eyebrows as many suspect the cornered Zanu PF leader wants to perform rituals before the 2023 polls.
Mr Mnangagwa is also clandestinely pushing for the exhumation of his former boss Robert Mugabe’s remains for reburial at the National Heroes Acre.
Mr Mnangagwa, quoted by a State run daily paper said:
“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others.”
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe also said:
“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values.
However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress.”
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has denounced the killing of innocent civilians in Uganda.
On Wednesday President Chamisa retweeted a statement released by the MDC Alliance:
“We stand with the people of Uganda who have endured gross human rights violations since the disputed 2021 elections. We urge the regime in Uganda to stop the atrocities & unlawful killings.
We stand with the people of Ethiopia & hope for an end to the conflict in the Tigray region.
The need for justice & accountability for atrocities committed is urgent. May the guns be silenced.”
President Chamisa added : “Freedom is a gift from God and Africa is our heritage. We will fight for both. Happy New Africa”
Zimbabwe has received 20 ambulances and ancillary medical equipment from the African Development Bank and the Government of India.
VP Constantino Chiwenga
Speaking at the handover yesterday, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Minister of Health and Child Care said the institutions had a role to play in enhancing the country’s capacity to respond to emergencies.
The Vice President said the donation of ambulances, which would be distributed to some district, provincial, central hospitals and selected toll gates along major highways, was the first step in the attainment of an effective ambulance system that was expected to mainly focus on attendance to emergencies and disasters.
He said the country still needed more ambulances to increase its capacity to respond to all emergencies and disasters that could cost lives.
“Ideally, all our toll-gates should have base stations to accommodate ambulances that respond to occurrences of road traffic accidents and other emergencies along our major highways.
“It is this vision that spurs my Ministry to request Zinara to provide space for base stations at their tollgate sites. My ministry also requests Zinara to consider donating ambulances, as a plough back gesture to our motorists, passengers and other road users who may require medical attention,” he said.
He said the Association of Health Care Funders of Zimbabwe should also consider ring-fencing public health interests among their corporate social responsibilities.
This would see medical aid societies also taking part in enhancing casualty collection capacity to save lives.
“The (Insurance and Pensions) Commission controls all operations of insurance companies, some of which are mandated to levy third party vehicle insurance schemes on all serviceable vehicles in Zimbabwe. I request you to consider lending a hand for the purposes of ramping up our emergency response capacity.”
VP Chiwenga said Government on its part, would purchase 100 more ambulances to enhance the collection capacity. Part of the fleet was expected in the country by the end of June.
“Casualty collection is a key capability in modern public health systems designed to mitigate effects of pandemics such as Covid-19, endemic-prone diseases, disasters such as Cyclone Idai, communicable and non-communicable diseases, maternal emergencies and road traffic accidents.
“The guaranteed availability of purpose-built patients’ transport goes a long way in the reduction of mortality rates in the country,” he said.
Part of the expansion and modernisation of the healthcare system included establishment of centralised repair and maintenance workshops to ensure the ambulance fleet was always serviced and roadworthy.
Indian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Vijay Khanduja said the relationship between the two countries was a long one based on mutual trust, respect and solidarity.
“It is an honour and privilege for me to hand over a consignment of 10 ambulances as a gift from India to Zimbabwe which had been promised during the visit of the Vice President of India in 2018.
“We hope that the ambulances will strengthen the healthcare system in Zimbabwe and make the bilateral relationship more ambulatory, dynamic and strong,” he said.
AfDB country representative Ms Moono Mupotola said the donation, made through the World Health Organisation (WHO) was part of the bank’s support to Zimbabwe.
She said the project, cost US$15 million, was approved last year and would assist millions of Zimbabweans.- state media
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has denounced the killing of innocent civilians in Uganda.
On Wednesday President Chamisa retweeted a statement released by the MDC Alliance:
“We stand with the people of Uganda who have endured gross human rights violations since the disputed 2021 elections. We urge the regime in Uganda to stop the atrocities & unlawful killings.
We stand with the people of Ethiopia & hope for an end to the conflict in the Tigray region.
The need for justice & accountability for atrocities committed is urgent. May the guns be silenced.”
President Chamisa added : “Freedom is a gift from God and Africa is our heritage. We will fight for both. Happy New Africa”
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Youth Assembly leader, Obey Sithole has challenged the Zanu PF regime to release jailed political activist Makomborero Haruvizishe.
Writing on Facebook on Wednesday Sithole boldly declared:
“Sunungura Mako!!! His freedom matters to us all, an attack to him is an attack to all of us. Zimbabwe shall be free.”
Zimbabwean youth Simbarashe Elias has also urged young people to support President Chamisa’s vision to restore the nation’s dignity and prosperity by registering to vote in numbers:
” THE YOUTH OF ZIMBABWE I GREET YOU ALL IN JESUS NAME.
I have come to beg you to register to vote- we have to create a future we all want in Zimbabwe come 2023.
Let’s give voting another chance. I’m very sure if we register to vote and then vote all of us youths. I’m sure they will not be able to rig the elections we need over 6 million votes from the Youths only for President Nelson Chamisa.
We can choose what we want for our country and I’m saying let’s start by registering. CHANGE IS COMING AND WE CAN MAKE CHANGE TO COME LET’S DO IT…
Tinashe Sambiri|While the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has been silent on Tapiwa Makore’s skull, he is exerting pressure on Britain to return Mbuya Nehanda’s head…
This has raised eyebrows as many suspect the cornered Zanu PF leader wants to perform rituals before the 2023 polls.
Mr Mnangagwa is also clandestinely pushing for the exhumation of his former boss Robert Mugabe’s remains for reburial at the National Heroes Acre.
Mr Mnangagwa, quoted by a State run daily paper said:
“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others.”
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe also said:
“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values.
However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress.”
Tinashe Sambiri|While the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has been silent on Tapiwa Makore’s skull, he is exerting pressure on Britain to return Mbuya Nehanda’s head…
This has raised eyebrows as many suspect the cornered Zanu PF leader wants to perform rituals before the 2023 polls.
Mr Mnangagwa is also clandestinely pushing for the exhumation of his former boss Robert Mugabe’s remains for reburial at the National Heroes Acre.
Mr Mnangagwa, quoted by a State run daily paper said:
“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others.”
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe also said:
“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values.
However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress.”
International organizations have come together to launch a new One Health High-Level Expert Panel to improve understanding of how diseases with the potential to trigger pandemics, emerge and spread.
The panel will advise four international organizations – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE); the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); and the World Health Organization (WHO) – on the development of a long-term global plan of action to avert outbreaks of diseases like H5N1 avian influenza; MERS; Ebola; Zika, and, possibly, COVID-19. Three quarters of all emerging infectious diseases originate in animals.
It will operate under the One Health Approach, which recognizes the links between the health of people, animals, and the environment and highlights the need for specialists in multiple sectors to address any health threats and prevent disruption to agri-food systems.
Key first steps will include systematic analyses of scientific knowledge about the factors that lead to transmission of a disease from animal to human and vice versa; development of risk assessment and surveillance frameworks; identification of capacity gaps as well as agreement on good practices to prevent and prepare for zoonotic outbreaks.
The panel will consider the impact of human activity on the environment and wildlife habitats. Critical areas will include food production and distribution; urbanization and infrastructure development; international travel and trade; activities that lead to biodiversity loss and climate change; and those that put increased pressure on the natural resource base – all of which can lead to the emergence of zoonotic diseases.
The panel will guide development of a dynamic new research agenda and draw up evidence-based recommendations for global, regional, national and local action.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said: “Human health does not exist in a vacuum, and nor can our efforts to protect and promote it. The close links between human, animal and environmental health demand close collaboration, communication and coordination between the relevant sectors. The High-Level Expert Panel is a much-needed initiative to transform One Health from a concept to concrete policies that safeguard the health of the world’s people.”
Dr QU Dongyu, FAO Director General, told the panel: “This panel will contribute to advancing the One Health agenda, by helping to better understand the root causes of disease emergence and spread, and informing decision-makers to prevent long-term public health risks. I encourage it to be a shining example of silo-breaking, systems thinking and open dialogue. Expectations for collective action and the need for effective collaboration have never been higher.”
Dr Monique Éloit, Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health noted: “The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder that collaboration across sectors is absolutely critical for global health. The newly established One Health High-Level Expert Panel will contribute to bringing together diverse scientific expertise.
United, we will better anticipate global health threats and work to control risks at the animal source. Our Organisation is proud to provide high-level expertise, along with our partners, to develop science-based ‘One Health’ strategies and programmes.
Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP observed: “To end the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution that threaten our peace and prosperity, we have to understand that human, animal and planetary health go hand in hand. We must do more to promote transformative actions that target the root causes of nature’s destruction. The One Health High-Level Expert Panel is an important step in recognizing the complex, multidisciplinary issues at the interface of human, animal, and environmental health.
The Ministers for Foreign Affairs of France and Germany also joined the public launch of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel:
Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France commented: “The COVID-19 pandemic, whose zoonotic origin is strongly suspected, underlines how closely human, animal and environmental health are linked. It demonstrates the importance of the ‘One Health’ approach.
It is in this context that France, together with Germany, proposed the creation of such a Panel at the meeting of the Alliance for Multilateralism organized on the occasion of the Paris Peace Forum on 12 November 2020.”
Mr Heiko Maas, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Germany, said: “COVID-19 has painfully reminded us that the health of humans, animals and the environment around the world is closely connected: Nobody is safe until everybody is safe. This is what we have to bear in mind to prevent future pandemics.
The establishment of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel thus marks an important step in the right direction. Germany and France will continue to support the panel’s work.”
Source: World Health Organization
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Mamelodi Sundowns won a record fourth DStv Premiership title with an emphatic 3-1 win over ten-man SuperSport United at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on Wednesday.
Lebohang Maboe, Aubrey Modiba and Themba Zwane scored for the champions, while Teboho Mokoena scored Matsatsantsa’s solitary goal on the night.
Sundowns have now won an 11th league title in the Premier Soccer League era with three games remaining in the 2020-21 season.
The victory moved Sundowns 10 points clear atop the league standings while SuperSport remains in sixth spot.
The latest title triumph saw the Brazilians extend their record number of DStv Premiership wins to 14.
Only five clubs have managed multiple league title victories in the 50-year history of the domestic competition.
Sundowns’ 2020-21 victory is their fourth in a row, also a new record in South African football, and puts them two wins ahead of Kaizer Chiefs, the next highest on the list with 12 league titles.
Chiefs have for years styled themselves as South Africa’s most successful club, and that remains true on the number of trophies won, but recent success has arguably put Sundowns ahead of them in the eyes of many.
The Brazilians now have more league titles, the most cherished prize in the local game, and their 2016 CAF Champions League success also outshines anything Chiefs have achieved in the past.
The only five sides that have won multiple league titles since the competition was first played in 1971 are Sundowns, Chiefs, Orlando Pirates (9), SuperSport United (3) and Durban City (2). -Supersport
By A Correspondent- Suspected armed robbers fired several shots as they raided Choppies Parklands Supermarket in Bulawayo on Thursday morning before getting away with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The armed robbers are said to have disarmed security guards manning the premises.
Witnesses said the robbers were travelling in a Honda Fit and another vehicle suspected to be Fun Cargo.
Police have since arrived at the scene and investigations are ongoing. The shop has since been closed.
By A Correspondent- A Mutorashanga war veteran is in trouble for challenging the purported extension of Luke Malaba’s term as Chief Justice past the retirement age of 70 by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
President Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF on Wednesday unleashed party militia on the war veteran Mr Fredrick Mutanda who invaded and camped on his farm in Mutorashanga, Mashonaland West province.
“I got a call from the police on Tuesday morning informing me of an imminent invasion of my farm by party (Zanu PF) youths from Harare. The youths claimed that I’m anti-government. I left them at the farm yesterday (Wednesday),” Mutanda said.
In videos sent to some online publications, the youths are seen emerging from the bush inside the farm and jumping onto motorbikes parked next to the road before speeding off. In another shot, they are seen milling around at the farm’s entrance with several motorbikes parked.
On May 11, Mutanda joined the Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe in suing the Judicial Service Commission, Malaba and the Attorney General after President Emmerson Mnangagwa purported to extend the Chief Justice’s term by five years.
In an affidavit, Mutanda said: “With great respect, I am disappointed that more than 41 years ago as a teenager, I together with other comrades suspended the enjoyment of our youth and went into the armed struggle voluntarily to fight oppression. I envisaged a country in which every citizen would enjoy the fruits of the liberation war. “The Constitution before its amendment is such fruit, yet the older generation is not opening opportunities for those who we fought the liberation war for. This is most regrettable, it must be corrected.”
Mnangagwa’s bid to keep Malaba came after he rushed a constitutional amendment through parliament, but the High Court on May 15 ruled that a term limit extension cannot benefit an incumbent, and Malaba had therefore ceased to be Chief Justice and a judge when he reached the age of 70 on the same day.
The government is appealing the High Court decision.
By A Correspondent-High Court judge Justice Hlekani Mwayera has sentenced a Chipinge security guard to 26 years for killing a client in a foiled robbery attempt.
Tinashe Mtisi (26) appeared before Justice Mwayera facing a murder charge.
He will now spend 26 years behind bars.
Mtisi was employed as a security guard at Caravan Park Lodge in Chipinge.
On December 29, 2019, at around 7:30 pm, the deceased, Kudakwashe Msindo, and his girlfriend Natalie Ann Freeman, who were on holiday in Zimbabwe from London, checked in at Caravan Lodge for a night.
Around 11 pm, Mtisi broke into their room through a window intending to steal but was intercepted by Msindo, who fought him.
But Mtisi strangled Msindo and escaped into the dark, leaving behind a piece of clothing that sold him out.
Msindo was pronounced dead upon admission to Chipinge District Hospital.
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa said they wanted to confront the British whom they accuse of harbouring the remains of the imagined Mbuya Nehanda.
Mnangagwa said this when he was unveiling the Mbuya Nehanda bronze statue, mounted on a footbridge at the corner of Samora Machel Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way.
“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others,” said Mnangagwa.
His Home Affairs Minister, Kazembe Kazembe also said Mbuya Nehanda’s head was stolen by the British colonial settlers over a century ago.
“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values. However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress,” said Minister Kazembe.
The government of Zimbabwe associates Mbuya Nehanda, with the inspiration behind the Second Chimurenga which culminated in independence in 1980.
By A Correspondent- Former Deputy Prime Minister Professor Arthur Mutambara said Zimbabweans should rise against the constitutional crisis which the Zanu PF government is promoting.
“As we have explained before, both Constitutional Amendments (No 1 and 2) Acts are unconstitutional and illegal,” wrote Professor Arthur Mutambara on zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
“The three arms of the state (Executive, Judiciary and Legislature) have been brought into unquestionable and dishonourable disrepute by irresponsible, reckless and self-serving activities of the junta.
“This is unacceptable.”
Zimbabwe had a golden chance to implement the democratic reforms to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship during the 2008 to 2013 GNU but was failed by opposition parties that slept on duty during that period.
By A Correspondent- Taurai Chiripamberi and James Kaunye, who defected to former Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s Zimbabwe People First party have pleaded with Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party for forgiveness.
This announcement was made during the party’s provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) meeting held in Mutare last week
The PCC meeting was attended by Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa, provincial chairperson Mike Madiro and former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa.
The same meeting also announced the coming back of Zanu PF former youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga.
“The issue of Kudzi Chipanga and others was tabled at the PCC meeting and in his remarks, comrade Patrick Chinamasa noted that if Chipanga was endorsed in his Makoni district, then the province had no objection. The province had no objection,” said a party official, who refused to be named.
Another source weighed in saying the names would now be forwarded to the politburo for consideration.
Madiro said he was not at liberty to disclose the names of those cleared to rejoin the party, adding that it was an internal process.
“Yes, we had a PCC, but on the issues of the names, it’s an internal process and I am not at liberty to disclose the names of the people concerned, which are forwarded to the party leadership for consideration,” he said. “Yes, as Zanu PF, we have names of people who have applied to be re-admitted to the party because they are happy with the vision of the party.”
Chipanga was fired by Zanu PF in 2017 together with several other members aligned to the G40 cabal at the height of Zanu PF factional fights.
Before G40 was dramatically ousted by Team Lacoste which staged a grand come-back, powered by the military, Chipanga had vowed to rally behind Grace Mugabe whom he claimed was as good as his own biological mother, before further alleging that Chatunga was equally as good as his own blood young brother.
Addressing journalists in Harare just a week before the army declared war on former President Mugabe and his G40 cabal, Chipanga who was at the time the Zanu PF youth league secretary said they had started lobbying other party structures to dump Mnangagwa and replace him with Grace. Mnangagwa was still the country’s Vice President.
“The Zanu PF youth league is fully behind the secretary for women’s affairs, Dr Amai Grace Mugabe, in calling for the urgent removal of Cde Mnangagwa from the position of Vice-President both in the party and government. That position is a straitjacket and must be handed back to the women’s league,” Chipanga said while declaring that Mnangagwa should be fired and be immediately replaced by Mugabe’s second wife, Grace.
Zanu PF is currently re-admitting its expelled members and also taking in disgruntled opposition supporters in preparation for the 2023 elections.
By A Correspondent- A Mutorashanga war veteran is in trouble for challenging the purported extension of Luke Malaba’s term as Chief Justice past the retirement age of 70 by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
President Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF on Wednesday unleashed party militia on the war veteran Mr Fredrick Mutanda who invaded and camped on his farm in Mutorashanga, Mashonaland West province.
“I got a call from the police on Tuesday morning informing me of an imminent invasion of my farm by party (Zanu PF) youths from Harare. The youths claimed that I’m anti-government. I left them at the farm yesterday (Wednesday),” Mutanda said.
In videos sent to some online publications, the youths are seen emerging from the bush inside the farm and jumping onto motorbikes parked next to the road before speeding off. In another shot, they are seen milling around at the farm’s entrance with several motorbikes parked.
On May 11, Mutanda joined the Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe in suing the Judicial Service Commission, Malaba and the Attorney General after President Emmerson Mnangagwa purported to extend the Chief Justice’s term by five years.
In an affidavit, Mutanda said: “With great respect, I am disappointed that more than 41 years ago as a teenager, I together with other comrades suspended the enjoyment of our youth and went into the armed struggle voluntarily to fight oppression. I envisaged a country in which every citizen would enjoy the fruits of the liberation war. “The Constitution before its amendment is such fruit, yet the older generation is not opening opportunities for those who we fought the liberation war for. This is most regrettable, it must be corrected.”
Mnangagwa’s bid to keep Malaba came after he rushed a constitutional amendment through parliament, but the High Court on May 15 ruled that a term limit extension cannot benefit an incumbent, and Malaba had therefore ceased to be Chief Justice and a judge when he reached the age of 70 on the same day.
The government is appealing the High Court decision.
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party has unleashed its militia on a war veteran as punishment for his court application challenging the purported extension of Luke Malaba’s term as Chief Justice past the retirement age of 70.
The war veteran, Mr Fredrick Mutanda said he had counted 25 motorbikes and four vehicles after the youths – apparently well-coordinated and sent from Harare – camped on his farm in Mutorashanga, Mashonaland West province.
“I got a call from the police on Tuesday morning informing me of an imminent invasion of my farm by party (Zanu PF) youths from Harare. The youths claimed that I’m anti-government. I left them at the farm yesterday (Wednesday),” Mutanda said.
In videos sent to some online publications, the youths are seen emerging from the bush inside the farm and jumping onto motorbikes parked next to the road before speeding off. In another shot, they are seen milling around at the farm’s entrance with several motorbikes parked.
On May 11, Mutanda joined the Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe in suing the Judicial Service Commission, Malaba and the Attorney General after President Emmerson Mnangagwa purported to extend the Chief Justice’s term by five years.
In an affidavit, Mutanda said: “With great respect, I am disappointed that more than 41 years ago as a teenager, I together with other comrades suspended the enjoyment of our youth and went into the armed struggle voluntarily to fight oppression. I envisaged a country in which every citizen would enjoy the fruits of the liberation war. “The Constitution before its amendment is such fruit, yet the older generation is not opening opportunities for those who we fought the liberation war for. This is most regrettable, it must be corrected.”
Mnangagwa’s bid to keep Malaba came after he rushed a constitutional amendment through parliament, but the High Court on May 15 ruled that a term limit extension cannot benefit an incumbent, and Malaba had therefore ceased to be Chief Justice and a judge when he reached the age of 70 on the same day.
The government is appealing the High Court decision.
By A Correspondent- President Mnangagwa is in Maputo, Mozambique to attend an extraordinary Sadc Double Troika meeting being convened to help tackle insurgency in the country.
The meeting, which was initially scheduled for last month, was postponed owing to the absence of two Heads of State.
The Troika chairperson, Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi, could not attend after going into quarantine, following a contact with a person who later tested positive for the Covid-19, while South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was attending to urgent domestic matters.
The meeting, which was initially scheduled for last month, was postponed owing to the absence of two Heads of State.
There has been heightened concern over growing terrorist activities in Mozambique especially following the insurgent attacks on Palma- a coastal town in Cabo Delgado province – on March 24.
By A Correspondent- Positive use of social media has assisted the late Paul Matavire’s mother who has seen hundreds of Zimbabweans coming to her rescue from economic hardships the poor Mwenezi woman.
A clip of Mbuya Matavire appealing for assistance from Zimbabwean went viral on social media recently.
After the video clip sneaked into a WhatsApp group called Political Views which hosts politicians and prominent Zimbabweans, the platform’s administrator, Mrs Melody Chimboza the Administrator, Secretary Mr Isaac Ziki and Treasurer Mai Sibanda who started mobilising resources from group members for Mbuya Matavire.
Reports coming through indicate that Zinedine Zidane is set to leave Real Madrid for the second time in his managerial career.
The Frenchman left Los Blancos for the first time after the 2018 Champions League final in Kiev.
His charges failed to win a trophy this season despite courageously-shrugging off injuries to reach the Champions League semi-final, and took the La Liga battle with eventual winners and City rivals Atletico, right to the wire.
Renowned Sky Italia football journalist Fabrizio Romano, claims Zidane has decided to part ways with Madrid with immediate effect.
It is also being suggested that should Zidane end up leaving, Massimiliano Allegri, the former Juventus coach, will take over.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Since the days of the notorious female ‘ghost ‘ Peggy, never has it been that one can be caught.
It’s happened here in Gutu and the crook, likely Peggy’s son!, has been arrested.
I shall give you more details, for now, look at his dress code, cunningly evil.
Be very careful as thieves have devised these methods of dress so as to totally scare house owners, and other citizens so to steal from them and disappear.
This one ran out of luck when alert citizens physically stopped him while running.
Since the days of the notorious female ‘ghost ‘ Peggy, never has it been that one can be caught.
It’s happened here in Gutu and the crook, likely Peggy’s son!, has been arrested.
I shall give you more details, for now, look at his dress code, cunningly evil.
Be very careful as thieves have devised these methods of dress so as to totally scare house owners, and other citizens so to steal from them and varnish.
This one ran out of luck when alert citizens physically stopped him while running.
BY A CORRESPONDENT| A former City of Harare Councilor Norman Markham has raised serious allegations of state capture by a controversial land baron Kenneth Raydon Sharpe who is accused of corrupting the entire government structure resulting in him being awarded vast tracts of land.
In his answering affidavit to an ongoing court challenge to bar City of Harare from proceeding to dish prime city land to Sharpe as payment for the work done on the construction of Airport Road, Markham who is also Harare North legislator said Sharpe’s Augur Investments through one Tatiana Aleshina had extracted so much influence even from President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office to push the illegal acquisition of over 270 hectares of land at stand number 653 Pomona Township.
“An agreement for the construction of the Harare Airport road was made between the City of Harare and the 1st Respondent. That agreement was negotiated under an illegal environment where a commission was created despite the fact that a few weeks after the election of March 2008 lawfully elected Councillors existed,” said Markham.
However when the matter went to the Supreme Court on appeal, it is now evident from the Respondents’ own documents that pressure was made to bear on the City of Harare, through a directive from the 9th Respondent (President Emmerson Mnangagwa) in the form of a letter dated the 15th of May 2019 referred to in paragraph 72.4 of the 1st Respondent’s (Augur Investments) affidavit to withdraw all proceedings and settle,” added Markham.
He further revealed that Tatiana Aleshina was actively involved in pushing Local Government minister July Moyo and Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Virginia Mabhiza to visit Mnangagwa in order to force an out of court settlement which eventually saw Sharpe being given land for work he did not do.
“What she is in fact saying is that she uses her influenced to extract a forced settlement on the City of Harare. This is State Capture.
“She is therefore unfairly and mendaciously, name dropping and fingering innocent public officials none more important than the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.
“She is in fact saying to this Honourable Court that do not touch the Deed of Settlement. It was made at State House,” further noted Markham.
The now Harare North legislator is embroiled in a desperate bid to save City of Harare land from being taken by Sharpe who has emerged as one of the biggest land barons in the country with over 700 hectares scattered across the city.
The Warriors have remained unchanged on the latest FIFA Rankings released on Thursday.
Warriors
The national team is number 107 in the world while in Africa, it’s on the 24th place.
The latest rankings will be used in the seeding of the teams for the draw of the Afcon 2021 finals scheduled for January next year in Cameroon. The draw ceremony will take place on 25 June 2021.
Zimbabwe are among the twenty-three teams that qualified for the competition. The other place will be taken up by the winner in the postponed match between Benin or Sierra Leone.
Only eight teams – Sudan, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leon/Benin, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and Malawi – are placed below the Warriors meaning they are likely to be seeded together.
Meanwhile, Senegal still remains the highest ranked team on the continent while Belgium retained the top spot in the world.
World Top 10: 1. Belgium, 2. France, 3. Brazil, 4. England, 5. Portugal, 6. Spain, 7. Italy, 8. Argentina, 9. Uruguay, 10. Denmark.
Warriors star Teenage Hadebe is reportedly on the radar of American Major Soccer League side, Houston Dynamo.
The 25-year-old for Kaizer Chiefs defender is currently on the ranks of Turkish Super Lig side Yeni Malatyaspor, for whom he has had two impressive seasons since moving from the Soweto giants in 2019.
Hadebe was named in the the division’s team of the season in his debut campaign, and finished off the 2020/21 campaign on a high by scoring twice as well as providing an assist.
According to respected Turkish football journalist Salim Manav, Dynamo are interested in the services of the gangly central defender, and have tabled Malatyaspor an offer of €1.5 million, while talks are said to have commenced.
Until the Warriors’ 0-2 defeat to Zambia in the AFCON qualifiers dead rubber in which coach Zdravko Logarusic rested most regular players including Hadebe, the ever-reliable defender was the only player to have played every minute of Warriors games since 2019.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Antonio Conte will leave Inter after the two parties agreed to terminate the contract.
The gaffer will leave the club just three weeks after having won the team’s first Serie A title in 11 years. He was in charge for two years.
In statement, Inter said: “FC Internazionale Milano announces that it has reached an agreement for the consensual termination of the contract with the coach Antonio Conte.
“The whole Club would like to thank Antonio for the extraordinary work he has done, which culminated in winning the nineteenth Scudetto. Antonio Conte will remain forever in the history of our Club.”
According to reports, Conte had grown frustrated with the club’s lack of financial resources.
He was reportedly hoping to spend big this summer in a bid to ensure the club retain their grip on the Serie A, but the Nerazzurri are feeling the effects of the Covid pandemic and are being forced to cash in on a number of players.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has denounced the killing of innocent civilians in Uganda.
On Wednesday President Chamisa retweeted a statement released by the MDC Alliance:
“We stand with the people of Uganda who have endured gross human rights violations since the disputed 2021 elections. We urge the regime in Uganda to stop the atrocities & unlawful killings.
We stand with the people of Ethiopia & hope for an end to the conflict in the Tigray region.
The need for justice & accountability for atrocities committed is urgent. May the guns be silenced.”
President Chamisa added : “Freedom is a gift from God and Africa is our heritage. We will fight for both. Happy New Africa”
Reports coming through indicate that Zinedine Zidane is set to leave Real Madrid for the second time in his managerial career.
The Frenchman left Los Blancos for the first time after the 2018 Champions League final in Kiev.
His charges failed to win a trophy this season despite courageously-shrugging off injuries to reach the Champions League semi-final, and took the La Liga battle with eventual winners and City rivals Atletico, right to the wire.
Renowned Sky Italia football journalist Fabrizio Romano, claims Zidane has decided to part ways with Madrid with immediate effect.
It is also being suggested that should Zidane end up leaving, Massimiliano Allegri, the former Juventus coach, will take over.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
International organizations have come together to launch a new One Health High-Level Expert Panel to improve understanding of how diseases with the potential to trigger pandemics, emerge and spread.
The panel will advise four international organizations – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE); the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); and the World Health Organization (WHO) – on the development of a long-term global plan of action to avert outbreaks of diseases like H5N1 avian influenza; MERS; Ebola; Zika, and, possibly, COVID-19. Three quarters of all emerging infectious diseases originate in animals.
It will operate under the One Health Approach, which recognizes the links between the health of people, animals, and the environment and highlights the need for specialists in multiple sectors to address any health threats and prevent disruption to agri-food systems.
Key first steps will include systematic analyses of scientific knowledge about the factors that lead to transmission of a disease from animal to human and vice versa; development of risk assessment and surveillance frameworks; identification of capacity gaps as well as agreement on good practices to prevent and prepare for zoonotic outbreaks.
The panel will consider the impact of human activity on the environment and wildlife habitats. Critical areas will include food production and distribution; urbanization and infrastructure development; international travel and trade; activities that lead to biodiversity loss and climate change; and those that put increased pressure on the natural resource base – all of which can lead to the emergence of zoonotic diseases.
The panel will guide development of a dynamic new research agenda and draw up evidence-based recommendations for global, regional, national and local action.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said: “Human health does not exist in a vacuum, and nor can our efforts to protect and promote it. The close links between human, animal and environmental health demand close collaboration, communication and coordination between the relevant sectors. The High-Level Expert Panel is a much-needed initiative to transform One Health from a concept to concrete policies that safeguard the health of the world’s people.”
Dr QU Dongyu, FAO Director General, told the panel: “This panel will contribute to advancing the One Health agenda, by helping to better understand the root causes of disease emergence and spread, and informing decision-makers to prevent long-term public health risks. I encourage it to be a shining example of silo-breaking, systems thinking and open dialogue. Expectations for collective action and the need for effective collaboration have never been higher.”
Dr Monique Éloit, Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health noted: “The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder that collaboration across sectors is absolutely critical for global health. The newly established One Health High-Level Expert Panel will contribute to bringing together diverse scientific expertise.
United, we will better anticipate global health threats and work to control risks at the animal source. Our Organisation is proud to provide high-level expertise, along with our partners, to develop science-based ‘One Health’ strategies and programmes.
Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP observed: “To end the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution that threaten our peace and prosperity, we have to understand that human, animal and planetary health go hand in hand. We must do more to promote transformative actions that target the root causes of nature’s destruction. The One Health High-Level Expert Panel is an important step in recognizing the complex, multidisciplinary issues at the interface of human, animal, and environmental health.
The Ministers for Foreign Affairs of France and Germany also joined the public launch of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel:
Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France commented: “The COVID-19 pandemic, whose zoonotic origin is strongly suspected, underlines how closely human, animal and environmental health are linked. It demonstrates the importance of the ‘One Health’ approach.
It is in this context that France, together with Germany, proposed the creation of such a Panel at the meeting of the Alliance for Multilateralism organized on the occasion of the Paris Peace Forum on 12 November 2020.”
Mr Heiko Maas, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Germany, said: “COVID-19 has painfully reminded us that the health of humans, animals and the environment around the world is closely connected: Nobody is safe until everybody is safe. This is what we have to bear in mind to prevent future pandemics.
The establishment of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel thus marks an important step in the right direction. Germany and France will continue to support the panel’s work.”
Source: World Health Organization
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Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has pointed out that registering to vote is the only way of ending Zanu PF tyranny.
The MDC Alliance is unrolling massive voter education programmes in and out of the country.
See full statement below:
If you don’t vote ,you automatically lose the fundamental right to complain against Zanupf looting and smuggling, Mdc Alliance Namibia Namibia echoes!
26 May 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia leadership and membership converged during the weekend to re-energise the base bracing to embrace the #CitizensConvergence4Change. As a committed and dedicated external assembly, we concurred that the future of our motherland is in our hands through our ability to register to vote in astronomical numbers to avert Zanupf rigging. Mdc Alliance Namibia Rundu Branch Spokesperson, Robson Ruhanya, made it clear to the social democrats available that they should go and register to vote in order to halt the corruption, closure of democratic space and illegal convictions of social transformers in Zimbabwe.
We resolved that the whole district should make registering to vote sexy and the norm so as to stop the routine rigging of the will of the people in 2023.
Revolutionaries in Namibia figured out that ,Zanupf is scared of a massive voter registration campaign because it will obviously make the breastfeeding of the ballot box a mammoth task. It was made clear to the constituency in Rundu, Namibia that the world is run by those who confront the devil through a serious commitment to fulfil the fundamental civic duty to vote. All members and leaders agreed to go and register to vote, vote come 2023 and further pledged to defend the vote constitutionally from Zanupf electoral fraudsters.
The democratic project in Namibia led by the astute leader President Advocate Nelson Chamisa ( Wamba Dia Wamba) vowed to continue with the #DiasporaVoteCampaign regardless of their full-blown campaign to go and register to vote at the nearest border towns.
Moreover, dictators have often fabricated high turn-outs in showcase elections for the purpose of rigging capitalising on voter apathy. Breastfeeding of the ballot transpires through voter suppression where the opposition members are intimidated, arbitrarily arrested and discouraged or prevented from exercising their significant right to vote. It was amicably concluded that this time the youths must dominate all polling stations, voting out looting, graft, nepotism, belly politics and gross abuse of universal fundamental basic human freedoms to associate and assemble to deliberate on serious national issues bedevilling our fatherless fatherland. The social transformers agreed that if one does not register to vote, he/she’s right to complain against Zanupf’s gross misgovernance will grabbed from him/her.
Furthermore, the Secretary General Simbarashe Ndoda made it categorically clear that when Zimbabwe was still in the Commonwealth, Zimbabweans were offered 2 year working visas in Britain. The route has been closed because of Zanupf misrule manifesting in the high levels of human butchery perpetrated by the state-sponsored militia. He went on to encourage the membership of Mdc Alliance Namibia to go register and vote in the motherland to open up closed global opportunities as a sure way of fullfilling our #GlobalAgenda. This is amid a high unemployment rate that has affected mainly the jobless youths in the country who are scratching their heads for a single nutritious meal per day.
More so , the Secretary General of the Women’s Assembly , Tarisai Nhira came in to sensitise women on their role in the Citizens Convergence for Change.
She identified women as central links between their unemployed children and their husbands. Since women have an undoubted influence in the lives of their vulnerable children and husbands who are scattered around the globe seeking better livelihoods, they must encourage and mobilise all victims of Zanupf thugocratic regime to register to vote, vote and be ready to defend the vote. The diaspora reflected great zeal to vote in 2023 after the revolutionary message from the women’s assembly.
In a nutshell, all social democrats around the globe should display their appetite to confront Zanupf through the vote. Genuine revolutionaries must fight for political and electoral reforms whilst registered to vote to counter rigging which has become a Zimbabwean election malady since 2002. Lets avoid contested elections by voting in our huge numbers.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Youth Assembly leader, Obey Sithole has challenged the Zanu PF regime to release jailed political activist Makomborero Haruvizishe.
Writing on Facebook on Wednesday Sithole boldly declared:
“Sunungura Mako!!! His freedom matters to us all, an attack to him is an attack to all of us. Zimbabwe shall be free.”
Zimbabwean youth Simbarashe Elias has also urged young people to support President Chamisa’s desire to restore the nation’s dignity and prosperity by registering to vote in numbers:
” THE YOUTH OF ZIMBABWE I GREET YOU ALL IN JESUS NAME.
I have come to beg you to register to vote- we have to create a future we all want in Zimbabwe come 2023.
Let’s give voting another chance. I’m very sure if we register to vote and then vote all of us youths. I’m sure they will not be able to rig the elections we need over 6 million votes from the Youths only for President Nelson Chamisa.
We can choose what we want for our country and I’m saying let’s start by registering. CHANGE IS COMING AND WE CAN MAKE CHANGE TO COME LET’S DO IT…
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Youth Assembly leader, Obey Sithole has challenged the Zanu PF regime to release jailed political activist Makomborero Haruvizishe.
Writing on Facebook on Wednesday Sithole boldly declared:
“Sunungura Mako!!! His freedom matters to us all, an attack to him is an attack to all of us. Zimbabwe shall be free.”
Zimbabwean youth Simbarashe Elias has also urged young people to support President Chamisa’s vision to restore the nation’s dignity and prosperity by registering to vote in numbers:
” THE YOUTH OF ZIMBABWE I GREET YOU ALL IN JESUS NAME.
I have come to beg you to register to vote- we have to create a future we all want in Zimbabwe come 2023.
Let’s give voting another chance. I’m very sure if we register to vote and then vote all of us youths. I’m sure they will not be able to rig the elections we need over 6 million votes from the Youths only for President Nelson Chamisa.
We can choose what we want for our country and I’m saying let’s start by registering. CHANGE IS COMING AND WE CAN MAKE CHANGE TO COME LET’S DO IT…
International organizations have come together to launch a new One Health High-Level Expert Panel to improve understanding of how diseases with the potential to trigger pandemics, emerge and spread.
The panel will advise four international organizations – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE); the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); and the World Health Organization (WHO) – on the development of a long-term global plan of action to avert outbreaks of diseases like H5N1 avian influenza; MERS; Ebola; Zika, and, possibly, COVID-19. Three quarters of all emerging infectious diseases originate in animals.
It will operate under the One Health Approach, which recognizes the links between the health of people, animals, and the environment and highlights the need for specialists in multiple sectors to address any health threats and prevent disruption to agri-food systems.
Key first steps will include systematic analyses of scientific knowledge about the factors that lead to transmission of a disease from animal to human and vice versa; development of risk assessment and surveillance frameworks; identification of capacity gaps as well as agreement on good practices to prevent and prepare for zoonotic outbreaks.
The panel will consider the impact of human activity on the environment and wildlife habitats. Critical areas will include food production and distribution; urbanization and infrastructure development; international travel and trade; activities that lead to biodiversity loss and climate change; and those that put increased pressure on the natural resource base – all of which can lead to the emergence of zoonotic diseases.
The panel will guide development of a dynamic new research agenda and draw up evidence-based recommendations for global, regional, national and local action.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said: “Human health does not exist in a vacuum, and nor can our efforts to protect and promote it. The close links between human, animal and environmental health demand close collaboration, communication and coordination between the relevant sectors. The High-Level Expert Panel is a much-needed initiative to transform One Health from a concept to concrete policies that safeguard the health of the world’s people.”
Dr QU Dongyu, FAO Director General, told the panel: “This panel will contribute to advancing the One Health agenda, by helping to better understand the root causes of disease emergence and spread, and informing decision-makers to prevent long-term public health risks. I encourage it to be a shining example of silo-breaking, systems thinking and open dialogue. Expectations for collective action and the need for effective collaboration have never been higher.”
Dr Monique Éloit, Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health noted: “The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder that collaboration across sectors is absolutely critical for global health. The newly established One Health High-Level Expert Panel will contribute to bringing together diverse scientific expertise.
United, we will better anticipate global health threats and work to control risks at the animal source. Our Organisation is proud to provide high-level expertise, along with our partners, to develop science-based ‘One Health’ strategies and programmes.
Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP observed: “To end the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution that threaten our peace and prosperity, we have to understand that human, animal and planetary health go hand in hand. We must do more to promote transformative actions that target the root causes of nature’s destruction. The One Health High-Level Expert Panel is an important step in recognizing the complex, multidisciplinary issues at the interface of human, animal, and environmental health.
The Ministers for Foreign Affairs of France and Germany also joined the public launch of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel:
Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France commented: “The COVID-19 pandemic, whose zoonotic origin is strongly suspected, underlines how closely human, animal and environmental health are linked. It demonstrates the importance of the ‘One Health’ approach.
It is in this context that France, together with Germany, proposed the creation of such a Panel at the meeting of the Alliance for Multilateralism organized on the occasion of the Paris Peace Forum on 12 November 2020.”
Mr Heiko Maas, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Germany, said: “COVID-19 has painfully reminded us that the health of humans, animals and the environment around the world is closely connected: Nobody is safe until everybody is safe. This is what we have to bear in mind to prevent future pandemics.
The establishment of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel thus marks an important step in the right direction. Germany and France will continue to support the panel’s work.”
Source: World Health Organization
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Tinashe Sambiri| While the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has been silent on Tapiwa Makore’s skull, he is exerting pressure on Britain to return Mbuya Nehanda’s head…
This has raised eyebrows as many suspect the cornered Zanu PF leader wants to perform rituals before the 2023 polls.
Mr Mnangagwa is also clandestinely pushing for the exhumation of his former boss Robert Mugabe’s remains for reburial at the National Heroes Acre.
Mr Mnangagwa, quoted by a State run daily paper said:
“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others.”
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe also said:
“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values.
However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress.”
Own Correspondent |A Non-Governmental Organisation Christian Care this week distributed menstrual hygiene management aid to 800 needy people in Masvingo as the menstrual hygiene day nears.
Menstrual hygiene management kits comprising Sanitary pads, sanitary bags, washing soaps, tooth pastes, tooth brushes, pants and combs were provided to the needy people in Masvingo urban by Christian Care at a ceremony held at the City of Masvingo Civic Centre gardens.
Masvingo City Council, government departments staff and Christian Care staff attended the ceremony. Christian Care, Projects Officer, Mr Aaron Ndaa, in his remarks said his organisation would not leave the residents of Masvingo alone at this trying time.
Noting that COVID-19 is worldwide pandemic that had griped the entire world, Ndaa said the NGO would continue to support the needy masses in Masvingo. Christian Care and City of Masvingo, he observed, were two brotherly organisations with an amicable working relationship which has produced fruits under the WASH Services in Emergencies project.
Speaking on the occasion, programs co-ordinator, Mr Albert Zvinorova said menstrual health and hygiene is at the core of women/girl’s health and as such it is their fundamental right and imperative for them to access proper menstrual products and practice menstrual hygiene every time, they undergo the experience. Menstrual Hygiene Day is to be celebrated on the 28th of May 2021.
I write to acknowledge with thanks your letter of 20th December 1985, in which you inform me about your meeting with the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons. I trust that the Group will discharge its unenviable task to the best of its ability. 1 shall eagerly await the results of its endeavour.
I must, however, frankly and honestly inform you that I take great exception to the second paragraph of your letter, especially the portion which reads as follows: I was frankly dismayed to hear the news that another landmine had exploded in Northern Transvaal on 15 December, this time involving substantial loss of life. I understand that it is your policy not to allow such attacks to be mounted from Zimbabwe and hope that you will continue to use your influence to try to prevent such incidents.”
I write to acknowledge with thanks your letter of 2fie/’December, 1985, in which you inform me about your meeting with the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persona. I trust that the Group will discharge its unenviable task to the best of its ability. I shall eagerly await the results of its endeavour. I must, however, frankly and honestly inform you that I take great exception to the second paragraph of your letter, especially the portion which reads as follows: I was frankly dismayed to hear the news that another landmine had exploded in Northern Transvaal on 15 December, this tune involving substantial loss of life. I understand that it is your policy not to allow such attacks to be mounted from Zimbabwe and hope that you will continue to use your influence to try to prevent such incidents.’
George Charamba
President @CyrilRamaphosa needs that proof more than me, who's too young as you said; see Cyril's latest speech which totally disproves your 1985 powerful letter's (frontline status) to London https://t.co/xx1GNA9xEH WATCH TO THE END!
Clearly, what you are trying to convey to me is not only your dismay at the landmine explosion but also your belief that the attack was mounted by the ANC from Zimbabwe and that, therefore, we must have allowed the ANC to use our territory as a base for such attacks. Surely, with a well-established embassy in Zimbabwe and several thousands of British nationals living all over our territory, you should be in a position to know that we have no ANC, PAC or SWAPO bases in this country. The fact that the explosions have occurred in the Northern Transvaal close to the border with us does not make Zimbawe responsible for them. Perhaps you are also aware that within a few days of the Northern Transvaal landmine explosions there was a serious attack upon an electric station close to Swaziland. And only last week, another landmine explosion occurred close to the border with Botswana. Do you want to tell me that these countries neighbouring South Africa must be held responsible for those ANC attacks merely because of their geographical contiguity to South Africa? Prime Minister, the ANC is not a Zimbabwean organisation and I have no influence on it. Therefore, the mode, timing, geography and targeting of the ANC attacks are entirely its own matter. But let it also be remembered that the ANC, PAC and other democratic forces in South Africa are waging a struggle for their freedom, a struggle for human rights, which is far nobler than your South African struggle for the sustenance of British economic interests. To me, the morality of their cause surely overrides the morality (in my view, the immorality!) of the British economic case.
I also find it surprising that the Northern Transvaal explosions should have been the first to dismay you. I suppose this is because the victims of the explosions were, for the first time, exclusively seven whites. What about the hundreds of blacks murdered by the apartheid regime within South Africa, and those others murdered by it across the border in Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Mocambique, Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe? Do they move your conscience at all? While white may be more beautiful for the British and their South African apartheid allies, black is also more beautiful for us of African descent ! Please, there can never be any question of my pleading with the A.N.C. to “prevent such incidents”, as you put it. You certainly seem to be unaware of the stand taken by the last summit of the O.A.U. urging the South African Liberation Movements to intensify their freedom struggle. That is the African position! It is also my position! Anyway, Comrade Oliver Tambo, the President of the ANC, lives in London, not in Zimbabwe, and hence it is quite an easy matter for you to express your views directly to him. The second paragraph of your letter also goes on to state, “but there are quite clearly limits to the South African Government’s tolerance if these incidents continue in the future.” This, indeed, amounts to a threat you are delivering to me on behalf of South Africa. But let me state quite clearly that we (that is, my Government and People) are not afraid of any invasion by South Africa. Whatever its military strength might be in relation to ours, we can never allow it to get away with any criminal act of blatant aggression. You can tell them that! It should not be forgotten that we won our freedom and independence through an armed revolutionary struggle. We remain prepared to defend that freedom and independence through the same struggle!
We, more than South Africa, have come to a stage where we can no longer allow our tolerance to be further stretched, and, certainly, we will not allow South Africa to engage with impunity in acts of direct aggression against us.
I am sure you know that in respect of Zimbabwe South Africa has, since Independence, been trying to destabilise both our political and economic systems. Even as I write you now, South Africa is training dissident and bandit recruits from Zimbabwe at at least two centres. We have thus been more sinned against that sinning. So, please do not add British insult to the injury being inflicted upon us by the Boers. I am sorry to have to write in this tone, but am constrained to do so by the import of the second paragraph of your letter.
Since the days of the notorious female ‘ghost ‘ Peggy, never has it been that one can be caught.
It’s happened here in Gutu and the crook, likely Peggy’s son!, has been arrested.
I shall give you more details, for now, look at his dress code, cunningly evil.
Be very careful as thieves have devised these methods of dress so as to totally scare house owners, and other citizens so to steal from them and varnish.
This one ran out of luck when alert citizens physically stopped him while running.
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has pointed out that registering to vote is the only way of ending Zanu PF tyranny.
The MDC Alliance is unrolling massive voter education programmes in and out of the country.
See full statement below:
If you don’t vote ,you automatically lose the fundamental right to complain against Zanupf looting and smuggling, Mdc Alliance Namibia Namibia echoes!
26 May 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia leadership and membership converged during the weekend to re-energise the base bracing to embrace the #CitizensConvergence4Change. As a committed and dedicated external assembly, we concurred that the future of our motherland is in our hands through our ability to register to vote in astronomical numbers to avert Zanupf rigging. Mdc Alliance Namibia Rundu Branch Spokesperson, Robson Ruhanya, made it clear to the social democrats available that they should go and register to vote in order to halt the corruption, closure of democratic space and illegal convictions of social transformers in Zimbabwe.
We resolved that the whole district should make registering to vote sexy and the norm so as to stop the routine rigging of the will of the people in 2023.
Revolutionaries in Namibia figured out that ,Zanupf is scared of a massive voter registration campaign because it will obviously make the breastfeeding of the ballot box a mammoth task. It was made clear to the constituency in Rundu, Namibia that the world is run by those who confront the devil through a serious commitment to fulfil the fundamental civic duty to vote. All members and leaders agreed to go and register to vote, vote come 2023 and further pledged to defend the vote constitutionally from Zanupf electoral fraudsters. The democratic project in Namibia led by the astute leader President Advocate Nelson Chamisa ( Wamba Dia Wamba) vowed to continue with the #DiasporaVoteCampaign regardless of their full-blown campaign to go and register to vote at the nearest border towns.
Moreover, dictators have often fabricated high turn-outs in showcase elections for the purpose of rigging capitalising on voter apathy. Breastfeeding of the ballot transpires through voter suppression where the opposition members are intimidated, arbitrarily arrested and discouraged or prevented from exercising their significant right to vote. It was amicably concluded that this time the youths must dominate all polling stations, voting out looting, graft, nepotism, belly politics and gross abuse of universal fundamental basic human freedoms to associate and assemble to deliberate on serious national issues bedevilling our fatherless fatherland. The social transformers agreed that if one does not register to vote, he/she’s right to complain against Zanupf’s gross misgovernance will grabbed from him/her.
Furthermore, the Secretary General Simbarashe Ndoda made it categorically clear that when Zimbabwe was still in the Commonwealth, Zimbabweans were offered 2 year working visas in Britain. The route has been closed because of Zanupf misrule manifesting in the high levels of human butchery perpetrated by the state-sponsored militia. He went on to encourage the membership of Mdc Alliance Namibia to go register and vote in the motherland to open up closed global opportunities as a sure way of fullfilling our #GlobalAgenda. This is amid a high unemployment rate that has affected mainly the jobless youths in the country who are scratching their heads for a single nutritious meal per day.
More so , the Secretary General of the Women’s Assembly , Tarisai Nhira came in to sensitise women on their role in the Citizens Convergence for Change. She identified women as central links between their unemployed children and their husbands. Since women have an undoubted influence in the lives of their vulnerable children and husbands who are scattered around the globe seeking better livelihoods, they must encourage and mobilise all victims of Zanupf thugocratic regime to register to vote, vote and be ready to defend the vote. The diaspora reflected great zeal to vote in 2023 after the revolutionary message from the women’s assembly.
In a nutshell, all social democrats around the globe should display their appetite to confront Zanupf through the vote. Genuine revolutionaries must fight for political and electoral reforms whilst registered to vote to counter rigging which has become a Zimbabwean election malady since 2002. Lets avoid contested elections by voting in our huge numbers.
Zanu-PF politburo member Tshinga Dube has described the situation in the country as abnormal as it could not sustain pensioners, hence the old guard’s reluctance to go into retirement.
The late President Robert Mugabe was often criticised for “recycling” the party’s old guard in Cabinet and the party.
The same script reads true under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, where the old guard, in office for years, still holds influential positions in the party and government.
Dube said the old guard should not be blamed for clinging to party and government posts as government pension was not enough to sustain them in retirement.
“You are saying we recycle the old guard, yes because the old guard too needs that power because they need to eat and live well,” Dube told journalists at the Bulawayo Media Centre during an event to commemorate Africa Day.
Dube, who turns 80 in a month, said he would still be in office “because my pension is so small that it will never satisfy my family”.
“So, I am forced to remain working, but in normal countries where things are done properly, you find that you retire when you get to the age of 50-60 because you are sure that you have enough pension that will satisfy you until you die,” he said.
“So, these are the circumstances that force people like us not to completely disappear from the scene because I will starve.”
Mugabe often slept in meetings as he resisted calls to step down over old age.
A number of ministers have also been caught napping on camera while attending international conferences and other State events mostly due to old age.
According to Dube, a former minister of Political Detainees and Restrictees, the Zanu-PF old guard will never willingly give up political power to the youth.
“You say we are depriving young people of getting into influential positions. Let me tell you one thing, power is not given. It is taken. You can never be given power on a silver platter no matter what,” he said.
“That’s why even now when we had to take this power we have, we had to fight. Many people died. Some had to be in prison for a long time. So young people like yourself, if you believe that you must be given power, you are wrong, you must work for it.”
This is to inform you that last night one of our staff residences was destroyed by a massive fire. It affected 39 health workers and their families. We were lucky that no one was seriously injured. One person suffered a broken ankle and another had smoke inhalation effects but is stable. Our thoughts are with the affected members and their families. The hospital is arranging temporary alternative accommodation for them.
Some staff residents reported seeing sparks of fire from an electrical distribution box, and we suspect that this could be the cause of the fire. However, the Fire Brigade is working on further forensic investigations to establish the exact cause of the fire.
The estimated cost of damage to property is around US$500 000.00. We hope to rise up from this terrible setback and continue to give service to many of our patients.
Since the days of the notorious female ‘ghost ‘ Peggy, never has it been that one can be caught.
It’s happened here in Gutu and the crook, likely Peggy’s son!, has been arrested. I shall give you more details, for now, look at his dress code, cunningly evil.
Be very careful as thieves have devised these methods of dress so as to totally scare house owners, and other citizens so to steal from them and varnish.
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Below is one of them who has been arrested in Gutu. This one ran out of luck when alert citizens physically stopped him while running. ARE YOU ONE OF HIS VICTIMS?
Own Correspondent |A Non-Governmental Organisation Christian Care this week distributed menstrual hygiene management aid to 800 needy people in Masvingo as the menstrual hygiene day nears.
Menstrual hygiene management kits comprising Sanitary pads, sanitary bags, washing soaps, tooth pastes, tooth brushes, pants and combs were provided to the needy people in Masvingo urban by Christian Care at a ceremony held at the City of Masvingo Civic Centre gardens.
Masvingo City Council, government departments staff and Christian Care staff attended the ceremony. Christian Care, Projects Officer, Mr Aaron Ndaa, in his remarks said his organisation would not leave the residents of Masvingo alone at this trying time.
Noting that COVID-19 is worldwide pandemic that had griped the entire world, Ndaa said the NGO would continue to support the needy masses in Masvingo. Christian Care and City of Masvingo, he observed, were two brotherly organisations with an amicable working relationship which has produced fruits under the WASH Services in Emergencies project.
Speaking on the occasion, programs co-ordinator, Mr Albert Zvinorova said menstrual health and hygiene is at the core of women/girl’s health and as such it is their fundamental right and imperative for them to access proper menstrual products and practice menstrual hygiene every time, they undergo the experience. Menstrual Hygiene Day is to be celebrated on the 28th of May 2021.
By Leonard Koni| Zimbabweans from across the globe have decided to bury their political differences and donated cash and kind to the late Paul Matavire’s mother who is from Mwenezi Resettlement scheme.
Despite pressing economic hardships Zimbabweans try very hard to help each other.
Mrs Melody Chimboza the Administrator, Secretary Mr Isaac Ziki and Treasurer Mai Sibanda were the members who started mobilising resources from group members two weeks ago and the response was positive.
The WhatsApp group called Political Views does not only discuss politics but also discuss social welfare issues. It consists of people from different political backgrounds regardless of their political affiliations.
With the support from the members of the group they mooted the idea of helping the late Paul Matavire’s mother Makanani Mafirechuma Matavire (84) who is languishing in poverty and in need of support.
The group is composed of MDC-Alliance, Zanu PF, LEAD etc who have decided to bury their political differences and pulled their resources together to support and honour Mrs Mafirechuma Matavire for what his son did during his musical career.
Paul Matavire was a blind Zimbabwean musician and songwriter born in Maranda, Mwenezi District.
The artist broke into the music industry and rose to fame in the 1980s when he joined the Jairos Jiri Band based in Bulawayo at the Jairos Jiri Rehabilitation Centre. Born on 3 August 1961, Maranda Paul Matavire died on18 October 2005 aged 44 in Rutenga, Zimbabwe.
The late artist was affectionately known as ‘Doctor Love’ because of his assuaging sweet love lyrics. He bragged in his musical career that he was lovable, very handsome and could sweet talk a lady of whatever character.
His genre of music was sungura, jit and rhumba. Some of his greatest hits were Asipo haapo, Tanga wandida, Kamoto kamberevere, Basa rinopera.
Prominent figures who have also donated to Gogo Mafirechuma Makananani Matavire include Presidential Spokesperon Mr George Charamba and MDC-Alliance Vice Chairperson Hon Job Sikhala.
Some of the members who also contributed reiterated that, this has nothing to do with politics but the spirit of Ubuntu and compassion.
By A Correspondent= Scores of ZANU PF youths on motorbikes have invaded a farm owned by war veteran and businessman Frederick Mutanda in retaliation for his court application challenging the extension of Luke Malaba’s term as Chief Justice by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mutanda said he had counted 25 motorbikes and four vehicles after the youths sent from Harare – camped on his farm in Mutorashanga, Mashonaland West province.
He said:
I got a call from the police on Tuesday morning informing me of an imminent invasion of my farm by party (ZANU PF) youths from Harare.
The youths claimed that I’m anti-government. I left them at the farm yesterday (Wednesday).
On 11 May, Mutanda joined the Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe in suing the Judicial Service Commission, Malaba and the Attorney General after Mnangagwa purported to extend the Chief Justice’s term by five years past the retirement age of 70. In an affidavit,
Mutanda said:
With great respect, I am disappointed that more than 41 years ago as a teenager, I together with other comrades suspended the enjoyment of our youth and went into the armed struggle voluntarily to fight oppression.
I envisaged a country in which every citizen would enjoy the fruits of the liberation war.
The Constitution before its amendment is such fruit, yet the older generation is not opening opportunities for those for who we fought the liberation war. This is most regrettable, it must be corrected.
The High Court on 15 May ruled that a term limit extension for senior judges under a constitutional amendment that had been rushed through parliament cannot benefit an incumbent.
The three-judge panel ruled that Malaba had therefore ceased to be Chief Justice and a judge when he reached the age of 70 on the same day.
The government is appealing the High Court decision.
Zimbabweans from across the globe have decided to bury their political differences and donated cash and kind to the late Paul Matavire’s mother who is from Mwenezi Resettlement scheme.
By Leonard Koni- Despite pressing economic hardships Zimbabweans try very hard to help each other. Mrs Melody Chimboza the Administrator,Secretary Mr Isaac Ziki and Treasurer Mai Sibanda were the members who started mobilising resources from group members two weeks ago and the response was positive.
The WhatsApp group called Political Views does not only discuss politics but also discusses social welfare issues. It consists of people from different political backgrounds regardless of their political affiliations.
With the support from the members of the group they mooted the idea of helping the late Paul Matavire’s mother Makanani Mafirechuma Matavire (84) who is languishing in poverty and in need of support.
The group is composed of MDC-Alliance, Zanu PF, LEAD etc who have decided to bury their political differences and pulled their resources together to support and honour Mrs Mafirechuma Matavire for what his son did during his musical career.Paul Matavire was a blind Zimbabwean musician and songwriter born in Maranda, Mwenezi District.
The artist broke into the music industry and rose to fame in the 1980s when he joined the Jairos Jiri Band based in Bulawayo at the Jairos Jiri Rehabilitation Centre. Born on 3 August 1961, Maranda Paul Matavire died on18 October 2005 aged 44 in Rutenga, Zimbabwe.
The late artist was affectionately known as ‘Doctor Love’ because of his assuaging sweet love lyrics. He bragged in his musical career that he was lovable, very handsome and could sweet talk a lady of whatever character.
His genre of music was sungura, jit and rhumba. Some of his greatest hits were Asipo haapo, Tanga wandida, Kamoto kamberevere, Basa rinopera.
Prominent figures who have also donated to Gogo Mafirechuma Makananani Matavire include Presidential Spokesperon Mr George Charamba and MDC-Alliance Vice Chairperson Hon Job Sikhala.
Some of the members who also contributed reiterated that, this has nothing to do with politics but the spirit of Ubuntu and compassion.
Since the days of the notorious female ‘ghost ‘ Peggy, never has it been that one can be caught.
It’s happened here in Gutu and the crook, likely Peggy’s son!, has been arrested. I shall give you more details, for now, look at his dress code, cunningly evil.
Be very careful as thieves have devised these methods of dress so as to totally scare house owners, and other citizens so to steal from them and varnish.
VIDEO LOADING BELOW….
Below is one of them who has been arrested in Gutu. This one ran out of luck when alert citizens physically stopped him while running. ARE YOU ONE OF HIS VICTIMS?
ZLHR: For the third time in May, @PoliceZimbabwe on Wednesday once again forbade our lawyer Gift Mtisi from briefing journalists on outcome of court proceedings for @daddyhope. A truckload of anti-riot police officers was also deployed outside courthouse as Chin’ono appeared in court.
By A Correspondent- A 29 year old woman from Gokwe scalded her stepson, 9, with cooking oil for allegedly stealing maize grain, and then denied her medical treatment fearing her abuse would come to light, police said.
Progress Mushonga, from Murairwa Village under Chief Chireya, also blocked the boy from going to school after dipping his finger in boiling oil as punishment for the suspected offense.
The victim was said to have exchanged the maize grain for Jolly Jus, a powdered cool drink.
Midlands Provincial police spokesperson Emmanuel Mahoko told ZimLive that they were “investigating a physical abuse case where a 9-year-old male juvenile was burnt with boiling cooking oil after being accused of stealing maize by his stepmother.”
“It is alleged the complainant admitted to the accusations and stated that he had exchanged the maize grain for jolly juice and apologized. This did not go down well with the suspect who hurled insults at the juvenile,” Mahoko said.
He added: “It is further alleged that she went on to boil cooking oil in a pan and dipped the juvenile’s fingers into the boiling cooking oil. The suspect denied the complainant health care to treat the burns despite the fact that he had suffered severe injuries. She further did not allow him to go to school to allow the wounds to heal first.”
The provincial police spokesperson said the issue came to light after an anonymous tip-off that led police to raid Mushonga’s homestead and apprehend her.
The juvenile was referred to Gokwe Provincial hospital for treatment, Mahoko said, adding police were appealing to “guardians of young children to treat them with the utmost care, the same way they would do their own children. Any ill-treatment of young children, if detected, attracts serious consequences as prescribed by the law.”
The Canadian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christina Buchan, has expressed concern at how journalists in Zimbabwe are treated, noting that media workers continued to face violations, despite them being declared essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Journalists, even though they were considered essential workers during the pandemic continued to face detention and arrest,” she said at a World Press Freedom Day roundtable meeting held at the Canadian ambassador’s residence last Friday.
“There have also been concerns on proposed laws such as the Cybersecurity and Data Protection Bill, with some human rights activists fearing that the Bill contains some provisions that will obstruct the role of the media in the fight against corruption.”
Ambassador Buchan noted that attacks and acts of intimidation against journalists and other media professionals were on the rise across the world.
“There is also a trend toward increased restrictions on free expression online, resulting from measures taken by some governments to censor or control digital technologies,” she lamented.
In 2021, MISA Zimbabwe recorded at least 52 journalists that had either been harassed, intimidated, assaulted or jailed.
The roundtable meeting was organised jointly by the Canadian embassy and MISA Zimbabwe.
Ambassador Buchan noted that there had been some progress though in terms of the regulatory framework, particularly the repeal of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) and the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act in 2020.
This year marked the 30th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, the seminal document that gave birth to World Press Freedom Day.
This year’s celebrations were held in Windhoek, Namibia, where MISA Zimbabwe played a prominent role, with its director, Tabani Moyo, acting as the moderator for the Africa Forum.
MISA Zimbabwe also launched the inaugural Southern Africa Press Freedom Report
By A Correspondent- Chief Magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has said the daring thieves who stole a copy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s 2020 Independence Day speech and a laptop were granted bail because warrants of arrest against them were not on the docket.
The thieves have so far skipped bail after they were remanded to April 22 by Kwekwe magistrate Cheryl Tembo. This sent tongues wagging with others alleging underhand dealings and corruption.
Trymore Jakarasi (35) of Pumula North in Bulawayo, and Shepherd Madaka (29) of Budiriro 3, Harare, were granted $5 000 bail each when they initially appeared before the courts.
Their alleged accomplice, Tinashe Matete Dube (27), of Glen View 3 in Harare, who is currently admitted at Gweru General Hospital after he was moved from Kwekwe General Hospital, was remanded in custody.
Dube is facing an attempted murder charge after he tried to run over police sergeant Misheck Mubika when the suspected thieves were cornered at Cooler Box Bottlestore in Kwekwe.
The three were part of a fourmember gang which was on the police “wanted list” for stealing a laptop and Mnangagwa’s speech from one of his security aides.
According to Mutevedzi, it was not mentioned that the gang was on the Criminal Investigations Department Masvingo’s “most wanted list” for theft from cars under case number CR17/06/2020. He also said it was also not mentioned in court that the notorious gang was reported at Dzivarasekwa Police Station, Harare, under case number CR155/04/20.
“When I first heard that the gang was granted bail under unclear circumstances, I immediately launched investigations on the matter. After the probe, I discovered that the warrants of arrest were not on the docket, neither were they mentioned in court,” he said.
“I want to make this clear to every Zimbabwean that under the free Zimbabwe, everyone is entitled to bail. It doesn’t mean that if someone is granted bail, he or she has been found not guilty.”
Watch the Zimbabwe Council of Churches organised constitutional symposium on amendment number 2 which was recently passed in parliament and accented by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Speakers include, Alex Magaisa, Professor Lovemore Madhuku, Namatai Kwekweza and Professor Athur Mutambara and many others.
By A Correspondent| Econet Wireless founder and Chairman Strive Masiyiwa has set the record straight on his recent listing as Britain’s first black billionaire saying it does not mean he is now a British citizen.
Masiyiwa was recently named as Britain’s first black billionaire in what sparked mixed reactions from Zimbabweans and the rest of Africa.
Responding to one Chrispin Joseph Beer-Sheba who said the business mogul had been mentioned as the First Britain black billionaire, Masiyiwa said he remains Zimbabwean who has just been recognised in the United Kingdon the same way he has been listed on the American Forbes rich list.
Below is the screenshot to Masiyiwa’s response and confirmation of being Zimbabwean…
By A Correspondent- A magistrate’s court at Mwenezi, Masvingo Province, was on Thursday forced to adjourn after an Agritex officer’s wife wailed in court.
According to Masvingo Mirror, Siphelile Maroyi, the sex-starved wife to Rindai Tsvairai, told the court that she last made love to her husband three years ago.
Maroyi wailed in the middle of a civil matter after declaring that her husband was lying that he still loves her.
She said that her husband’s love went cold three years ago and since then she never bedded him.
Maroyi said Tsvairai had since married another wife and stopped caring for his children.
Mwenezi Resident Magistrate Honesty Musiiwa stopped the proceedings and only resumed the hearing when Maroyi had regained her composure.
Maroyi had approached the court for a protection order which she was granted.
She accused her husband of domestic violence and said that he recently came to the company house which they used to stay at Neshuro in the company of his niece to collect a refrigerator, sofas and other goods.
The wife told the court that they had 115 herds of cattle they had accumulated together but Tsvairai flatly refused and said only 15 cattle are in their stock card.
Tsvairai said his wife refused to go and stay at their rural home after they left the company house.
Zanu-PF politburo member Tshinga Dube has described the situation in the country as abnormal as it could not sustain pensioners, hence the old guard’s reluctance to go into retirement.
The late President Robert Mugabe was often criticised for “recycling” the party’s old guard in Cabinet and the party.
The same script reads true under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, where the old guard, in office for years, still holds influential positions in the party and government.
Dube said the old guard should not be blamed for clinging to party and government posts as government pension was not enough to sustain them in retirement.
“You are saying we recycle the old guard, yes because the old guard too needs that power because they need to eat and live well,” Dube told journalists at the Bulawayo Media Centre during an event to commemorate Africa Day.
Dube, who turns 80 in a month, said he would still be in office “because my pension is so small that it will never satisfy my family”.
“So, I am forced to remain working, but in normal countries where things are done properly, you find that you retire when you get to the age of 50-60 because you are sure that you have enough pension that will satisfy you until you die,” he said.
“So, these are the circumstances that force people like us not to completely disappear from the scene because I will starve.”
Mugabe often slept in meetings as he resisted calls to step down over old age.
A number of ministers have also been caught napping on camera while attending international conferences and other State events mostly due to old age.
According to Dube, a former minister of Political Detainees and Restrictees, the Zanu-PF old guard will never willingly give up political power to the youth.
“You say we are depriving young people of getting into influential positions. Let me tell you one thing, power is not given. It is taken. You can never be given power on a silver platter no matter what,” he said.
“That’s why even now when we had to take this power we have, we had to fight. Many people died. Some had to be in prison for a long time. So young people like yourself, if you believe that you must be given power, you are wrong, you must work for it.”
Harare magistrate Vongai Guwuriro yesterday dismissed journalist Hopewell Chin’ono’s application for exception to the public violence charge, saying the issues raised against him have to be heard in a trial.
Chin’ono’s trial on charges of inciting public violence kicked off last week where he applied for an exception to the charges, arguing that he had no case to answer.
The journalist was represented by lawyer Gift Mtisi.
The State alleges that Chin’ono incited the public, through his Twitter handle, to participate in public violence ahead of the foiled July 31 protests last year.
Chin’ono pleaded not guilty to incitement to participate in a gathering with intent to promote violence, breach of peace or bigotry or alternatively incitement to commit public violence.
Last month, the High Court quashed his other charge of communicating false information, saying the law used to arrest him in January no longer existed.
Government has conceded that it was found wanting in the implementation of previous economic blueprints and now pins its hopes on its ambitious National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) to cure the current economic ills.
The NDS1 is the second blueprint launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration, following in the footsteps of the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP), which was launched in 2018 to run for two years but fell flat.
Zimbabwe has in the last three decades launched several economic recovery plans which missed their targets due to failure by authorities to implement reforms and keep expenditure within budget.
But the southern African nation is in the throes of its worst economic crisis in more than a decade underpinned by the continuing collapse of its Zimdollar on the more representative parallel market.
Its economic plight was made worse by the outbreak of the coronavirus that caused lockdowns which resulted in companies shedding jobs in an effort to stay afloat.
However, speaking during the postCabinet briefing yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said NDS1 was the magic wand to steer the economy on a growth trajectory and stabilise the exchange rate.
Critics say the authorities are maintaining an artificial exchange rate of $84,70 to the greenback while trading at $140 on the verdant black market.
“Noting that previous economic blueprints, albeit with similar targets, have fallen short on implementation, NDS 1 is premised on the need for bold and transformative measures that will ensure achievement of the country’s vision of an empowered and prosperous upper middle-income society by 2030,” Mutsvangwa said.
“This framework is set to steer the economy on a growth trajectory averaging 5%, supported by a sustainable annual fiscal deficit target of around 1,2% of GDP [gross domestic product], exchange rate stability and single digit inflation.”
Mutsvangwa said government would do away with “unmitigated and unbudgeted subsidies” as they undermined fiscal consolidation objectives under the new policy.
“The nation is informed that consistent with the overarching goal of the National Development Strategy 1:20212025 (NDS 1), it has become necessary that a guiding framework with regard to subsidies be established,” she said.
“Such a framework should ensure subsidies meet a specific public policy objective to remedy an identified market failure and are of the minimum size, necessary to achieve such an objective.”
Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector is heavily dependent on subsidies.
Currently, government is financing several programmes in the agricultural sector, including farm mechanisation, inputs and selling price support for crops such as maize, soyabeans, cotton and wheat.
“Subsidies that are being provided will have explicit identified funding sources, with costs adequately quantified to determine fiscal sustainability,” Mutsvangwa said.
On COVID-19, Cabinet said the pandemic was still wreaking havoc across the country and urged the public to remain vigilant.
On the B.1.617 variant which is prevalent in India and was detected in a localised outbreak in Kwekwe, she said government had put up stricter measures to address the problem.
“Going forward, implementation focus will be directed towards high-impact targets that will transform the livelihoods of the citizenry guided by careful identification of the measurement criteria for targets and outcomes … Cabinet considered a report on the Tripartite Negotiating Forum meeting which was held on April 22, 2021 as presented by the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare.”
On civil servants’ salaries engagement, she said: “The nation is advised that government emphasised the need to strengthen the sectoral determination of salaries and wages through NECs [national employment councils] as well as maintain the stability of the economy and the prevailing foreign currency auction system.”
Mutsvangwa also said Cabinet considered and approved the proposed engagement of a private partner in the implementation of a national biometric database for the production of e-passports, national identity cards and birth certificates.
“The partnership will increase the passport production capacity to four million units per year, resulting not only in the clearance of the current backlog, but also meeting the daily demand and enabling the country’s embassies to issue passports to Zimbabwean citizens abroad.”
By A Correspondent| The opposition MDC Alliance has accused the ruling Zanu PF party of closing the democratic space through enactment of draconian legislations in preparation of the 2023 elections.
MDC Alliance Spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere said human rights abuses and arbitrary arrests of its activists and pro-democracy campaigners were on the increase in what points to President Emmerson Mnangagwa move to consolidate power by any means necessary.
“The regime is in pre-election panic mode as it seeks to introduce a patriotic bill to legislate against free speech, free conscience and to uphold the conduct of demanding a better society,” said Mahere.
“Citizens have not been spared from the early facts of the poorly managed economy, despite the regime’s propaganda and attempt to paint a false picture of economic improvement. People’s livelihoods remain in constant threat with teachers, doctors and other civil servants earning slave wages.”
Mahere said jailed or formerly imprisoned activists including Obey Sithole, Joanna Mamombe, and Allan Moyo, were victims of the “weaponization of the bail application process to ensure that citizens are unjustly incarcerated.”
The government’s reintroduction of the National Youth Service (NYS), a notorious programme known for churning out violent youth militia was “designed to entrench fear and cause violence ahead of the elections,” Mahere added.
Mahere also slammed the recent constitutional amendments saying they were engineered “to entrench dictatorship and to concentrate power in the hands of one individual.”
Speaking at the same conference, party election officer Ian Makone said the MDC Alliance was pushing for electoral reforms on two fronts.
“There are those that require changes in legislation, and in particular the alignment of the Electoral Act to our constitution. On several occasions, we have made reference to it and it was like knocking against a brick wall,” he told journalists.
“I sincerely hope this time with the combined voices from all discerning citizens that change will happen, we have done it before and the result is we got a constitution authored by Zimbabweans which they are trying to decimate.”
The second approach, Makone said, “concerns activities that are within the purview by the law of ZEC [Zimbabwe Electoral Commission] themselves.”
By A Correspondent| Known back home as a humble businessman, the South Africa-based Zimbabwean entrepreneur Justice Maphosa – chief executive and founder of Bigtime Strategic Group – has all but shown that compassion and a Godly call to serve humanity should never be limited to one’s home country as he has become a household name across the Limpopo.
The media-shy owner of the international conglomerate with interests in various economic sectors including aviation, farming, IT, and farming has for years now been on a philanthropic spree, from building schools for economically challenged South African communities, to paying salaries for the teachers and other staff members.
A man who rose like a Phoenix, from very humble beginnings to become a admired business owner, Maphosa has remained rooted in his philanthropist work. In the Eastern Cape province, Maphosa has transformed Upper Corana Junior Primary School into a modern learning institute, and regularly donates uniforms and stationery to the learners.
In a telephonic interview with this publication, Mavis Nomandla Manqina who is the principal of the school in Lebode, said Maphosa has adopted the school like “a personal child.”
“When you speak of Mr Justice Maphosa, to us you speak about a father of our community. I am the Principal of Upper Corana junior Primary School in Lebode, Eastern Cape,” Manqina said.
“To us, Mr Maphosa has adopted this school as his child, and he ensures that we are taken care of in different ways as the school needs.
“We cannot say he has been a friend to us, but he is family. He is a man who saved our community, and revived hope in our children. We have known Mr Maphosa for over five years now,” she said.
“We knew him when we were desperately looking for a sponsor who could help our school. Our learners are affected heavily by poverty in this area, and many of them are orphans due to the HIV pandemic.”
Manqina also said besides transforming the delapidated infrastructure, Maphosa has also availed salaries for four extra teachers.
“He has added four teachers to our school administration, which he pays for, monthly. He has also added hospitality staff who support our teaching staff.”
Maphosa, according to the principal, has stood by his word when he committed that he would provide school uniforms, stationary and other basic needs for learners.
Some Zimbabweans based in South Africa began to know of Maphosa when he rose to the occasion last year – during the grips of the Covid-19 pandemic, which worsened poverty and unemployment.
“Working with the Zimbabwe Consulate and the Embassy, Mr Maphosa came through and assisted quite a number of our people,” said Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Community in South Africa, Nicholas Ngqabutho Mabhena.
“The Consulate was broke and could not assist anyone. So Maphosa came in and hired buses to ferry people back home. People had lost jobs and hundreds were stranded in South Africa. They were homeless as they could not afford to pay rentals anymore and the only hope was to go back home.
“They were transported back to Zimbabwe for free. Several busses were hired to ferry those people. That was a noble gesture on his part and we are really grateful.”
Mabhena said he first met Maphosa when the businessman sponsored an event to commemorate the life of Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo at Wits University.
“We were all impressed by the manner in which – from very humble beginnings – he had risen to be where he is now, at the top of the corporate world in South Africa. That is something which has been very difficult for most Zimbabweans and you know that as the Zimbabwean community we have many of our people who are struggling to make it in South Africa, particularly in business,” Mabhena said from his Johannesburg base.
By A Correspondent- Eighteen students at Bondolfi Teachers’ College here have tested positive for Covid-19 with the entire student population of over 300 being put under quarantine.
Authorities in the Ministry of Health and Child Care here have, however, cautioned against panicking saying the situation was being attended to.
Masvingo Covid-19 taskforce provincial spokesperson Mr Rodgers Irimai says authorities are currently scrambling to assess the situation and it’s ramifications on the war against the pandemic.
He cautioned that the situation was under control with all the 303 on-boarding students under mandatory quarantine for two weeks.
Covid-19 cases had lulled in Masvingo with the province recording zero cases for successive weeks until the latest blemish from one of the oldest private teacher training institutions in Masvingo.
The trial of 6 Midlands MDC Alliance leaders including Youth Provincial Chair Sekai ‘Muchaina’ Marashe is set to commence today at Kwekwe Magistrate’s Court at 0900 hours.
The six are being persecuted by prosecution on a trumped up charge of “Public Violence”.
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s motorcade Thursday morning caused untold congestion at the corner Glenara Avenue and Chiremba road when he was leaving for Mozambique.
His Excellency, President @edmnangagwa has left for Maputo, Mozambique to attend a double Troika Summit. The Summit will consider the report of the SADC Technical Team which was tasked to assess the threat of terrorism in Mozambique. VP Chiwenga is acting President in his absence pic.twitter.com/zJHaJ0X9PE
Below is the transcript of a brief conversation in which Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife, Marry, pours her heart out on her ordeal, saying among other things that she has been banned from seeing her children, and it is now nearly 2 years since the last contact. She also says that Emmerson Mnangagwa will it confront his deputy because he is afraid of him.
Marry speaks to ZimEye’s Simba Chikanza (Simba).
COMING UP TODAY Did I have to go through all of those things? Do you know how painful it is to live 'somewhere' where you end up counting how many underpants and braas you have? – @MarryMubaiwapic.twitter.com/apvE6RY6Xu
Simba: Can you hear me Marry: I can yes who is calling? Simba: It’s Simba. Simba Chikanza Marry: Yes Simba kanjani ? Simba: How are you feeling Marry: Not too well I am not too well haa I am not too well; this nightmare must end because do you know, if maybe If I was seeing my children maybe things could have been better maybe I could recover….(cut) PHONE CALL RINGING…. Marry: I was saying that maybe if I was seeing my children, you know, maybe by now I would be better you know but now uuum almost 2yrs huh?
I don’t have access to my children.
Simba : Not even a phone call? Marry: Nothing, absolutely nothing absolutely nothing zero….. like I don’t exist Simba: No communication whatsoever from him? Marry: Absolutely nothing nothing nothing I have heard of evil people; this is beyond evil. This is beyond evil. What do you tell children about their mother? Unoti kuvana mai venyu varipi? – what will you tell the children regards the whereabouts of their mother? … What will you say about the whereabouts of their mother? What do you say to them. What will you say about their mother’s whereabouts? Where is she? Because surely by now if he has got any common sense at all he knows that the things that he has been saying or whatever the things that he has been told do not exist, it’s a lie..but ya he went to extremes, he went to extremes. Who can survive not seeing the children for almost two years? My daughter, my daughter is going to be ten, my son is going to be nine and my other son is going to be…. oh he is seven.
I have not seen them in almost 2 yrs; you know how important it is for us mothers to take your son infact to take your child to school like on their first day of grade 1. I was denied that opportunity so aahhh hakuna; there is nothing like that like I don’t know ….I don’t …. I have lost a considerable amount of weight I am a slim person but now I have come from slim to skinny like oooh aaah yeah… yeah… I don’t know coz I don’t know what else to do I mean because obviously the judiciary is conflicted. I spoke to number 1 because I thought oh ok that maybe as his boss he could knock some sense into him but nothing Simba: When was the last time you spoke to number 1?
Marry: Oh yeah I haven’t spoken to him in a while because I just thot that maybe waal let me just stop because ndakaona ndakaona you know like vanga va…like he stopped responding to my messages eeeeh he stopped responding to my messages after I sent him lots of messages bamkuru my children bamkuru my children bamkuru my children noothing nothing nothing. Simba: And that was last year or the previous year; was that last year 2020 or this year? Marry: What? Simba: Was that last year or this year? Marry: No this year ….This year 2021. Yeah Over the phone over the phone I think physically he would be scared to see me he would be afraid to see me number 2 anovatyisa meaning that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is afraid of vice president Constantino Chiwenga. Simba: Really Marry: Yah Yah Aag I don’t know. I don’t know what else to do; I don’t know where else to go; I don’t know what else to say like I have spoken written everything; nothing. Simba: There is one thing perhaps that we haven’t done last time when we spoke you had asked me for space to speak and we would pursue an interview like this where you will just pour your heart out..I spoke to SABC and they were ready I think you were too down at that time. Marry: Do you know I have been in and out of hospital yeah I have been in an out of hospital like and you know like and do you know that there are some things that happen in life and you would never think that aah maybe this is only practical and only happens in movies only or whatever I am just like I am never ever never ever in my life did I think kuti I would one day need to convince somebody that I am actually sick. Court case that occurs in hospital for people to come and say that they want to see if she is sick…(chuckle). They actually did that to come into hospital.
Of course they did they did they did because I hadn’t showed up for court and they were told she is sick and they didn’t believe that I was sick they wanted to come and see I had the magistrate the pps my lawyers the police the what ah yah I am telling you Simba: Do you remember which magistrate was that. Would you remember? Marry: Huh? Simba: Do you remember which magistrate this was that came to court Marry: Aggg I can’t remember her name .I can’t remember her name . like they change every other time I go to court. It’s not the same person all the time I have lost track of who is who and what is what but yeah she came to the hospital. Simba: We would want to give you an opportunity so you can scream this beyond just print so a proper audio broadcast like this…. Marry: It’s been hell. It’s been hell…
By A Correspondent- Police in Bindura is hunting for two men from Mazowe who are on the run after they had killed a suspected Rushinga thief for stealing a solar panel and groceries.
Mashonaland Central provincial police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the incident, which occurred last Friday, and identified the deceased as Rutendo Manyika.
“I can confirm a murder case at Plot 10, Mazowe where a Rushinga man was killed by five assailants, of which two of them have since been arrested and three are still at large,” he said.
Allegations are that Manyika broke into Tambudzai Musambo (58)’s tuckshop and stole goods worth US$76.
Passers-by allegedly alerted the tuckshop owner, who teamed up with Tafara Tinarwo, Alexander Manyika, Elliot Tauro and Talent Mapuwei and meted out instant justice on him.
Steven Chidavaenzi (41) discovered the dead body the next day and filed a police report, leading to the arrest of Musambo and Tinarwo.
By A Correspondent-The trial of former Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges has hit a brick wall following indications that the Prosecutor General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi wants the matter to be dealt with at the High Court.
Prosecutor Mr Garudzo Ziyadhuma told the court that he received a directive from the PG requiring that the ex-minister be indited at the High Court.
“We are applying that this matter should be postponed to June 16 as documents of the indictment are being processed and are expected to be complete in three weeks,” said Mr Ziyadhuma.
Chief magistrate Mr Munamato Mtevedzi remanded the matter to June 16 to allow the accused to be properly indicted at the High Court.
The former minister recently had his reporting conditions relaxed by Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje.
The magistrate agreed to vary the reporting conditions for Moyo, who had been reporting three times a week at the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC).
In his application, Moyo pleaded with the court to make him report once a week at the ZACC offices, saying reporting thrice a week had become a burden on him.
In his ruling, Mr Mambanje said Moyo demonstrated his willingness to stand trial by abiding by his reporting conditions despite the State failing to furnish him with a trial date up to now.
Gold panners are costing the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) millions of dollars annually through vandalism of railway infrastructure by mining along railway lines across the country.
Illegal gold mining has contributed to train accidents that have led to the death of three people in the last 18 months.
The NRZ said Esigodini and Beitbridge in Matabeleland South, Shurugwi, Kwekwe in the Midlands and Bindura in Mashonaland Central are some of the areas that have been hard hit by the gold panning activities.
Government recently took a position to deploy security agents in Beitbridge to ward off gold panners operating along the railway line.
NRZ is now running a campaign aimed at identifying and arresting those damaging the railway infrastructure across the country.
In an interview yesterday, NRZ public relations manager Mr Nyasha Maravanyika said while Government deployed security agents to Beitbridge the problem is widespread in most areas with gold.
“It’s very massive especially in most parts of the country. The Minister (of Transport and Infrastructure Development Felix Mhona) mentioned Beitbridge but this is happening in many places. Other areas are Bindura, Kwekwe in the Great Dyke and Shurugwi, Esigodini and Beitbridge. These are the main areas that are hit by the illegal gold miners. Most of the time they conduct mining operations under the railway line,” said Mr Maravanyika.
“You will find that the railway line rests on big holes and this affects the railway line as there will be no balance and at the end of day, we lose millions in terms of money and lives are lost as well. The NRZ has taken a proactive role in terms of alerting the Government about the illegal gold panning.
Let’s also take note that in terms of the Railways Act, no human activities should be done at least 45 metres from either side of the railway line. These illegal gold panners are right along the railway line, sometimes they even take away some of our rail infrastructure.”
He said the parastatal has lost about $3,6 million through gold panning related vandalism of infrastructure and theft of copper cables in the past four years.
Mr Maravanyika said the vandalism of infrastructure has also led to death and called on courts to impose stiffer penalties on NRZ infrastructure vandals.
“We have also been let down by the judiciary giving perpetrators between three to six months sentences. As NRZ we are lobbying for deterrent sentences. The railway line is part of important national infrastructure and needs to be protected. By imposing heavy custodial sentences, we will protect not just the economy but lives. In the past 18 months we have lost three people through accidents which could have been avoided,” said Mr Maravanyika.
Last week, Government was informed that gold panners operating at Matopos Research Institute Farm are threatening international research work aimed at improving agriculture in Southern Africa and beyond, through land degradation that has affected studies on crops and caused the death of pedigree breeding livestock.
The panners are also affecting pastures with farmers complaining that they are losing livestock as a result of haphazard gold panning activities in farms and communal areas.
Minister of State in the Office of the President and Cabinet in charge of monitoring and implementation of special agriculture-related programmes, David Marapira last week directed Ministers of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution to work closely with the security agents and decisively deal with the illegal gold panners as their operations were threatening economic subsectors. – Chronicle
After the government Acting Minister of Health and Child Care Rtd General Chiwenga confirmed that the Indian Covid 19 variant had been responsible for the deaths of people in Kwekwe, everyone thought the government would act responsibly.
ZanuPF President and First Secretary Mnangagwa last weekend held a rally in Gokwe about 200km away from Kwekwe City.
How many ZanuPF people from the red zone Kwekwe City travelled to Gokwe rally?Although our rural areas people live not as crowded as in urban areas but they have relaxed lockdown regulations and WHO safety standards.
The irresponsible behavior being exhibited by the government (ZanuPF) on Covid 19 is dangerous and health genocide to human kind.
Mr Mnangagwa must show the seriousness in fighting the pandemic rather than staging his supersonic spreaders of the virus rallies.
Mr Mnangagwa
It was going to be interesting and positive if the rallies ZanuPF is holding were used to campaign for vaccination. It was going to be beneficial if ZanuPF was encouraging all those who would have attended the rally to get vaccinated with ZBCTV broadcasting live thousands receiving treatment on rally venue.
??✋???Patriotic Papa JC speaks when things are not good!!!
A man from Dete in Matabeleland North died on the spot when he was run over by a truck after jumping off the vehicle while it was still in motion.
Gonyet crash
The incident occurred at around 3.30 PM on Africa Day near Lubimbi, Dongamuzi in Dete.
Matabeleland North police spokesperson Inspector Glory Banda confirmed the incident yesterday.
“A Mitsubishi Canter truck was carrying six passengers. Upon reaching Mangena bus stop one of the passengers wanted to disembark but the driver did not see the hand signal given by the passenger and kept moving,” said Insp Banda.
He said the passenger jumped off the moving vehicle and it ran over his head, killing him on the spot.
Insp Banda said the police attended the scene and investigations are underway. “As police we would like to urge motorists to adhere to road regulations and adhere to speed limits. Most of these roads have potholes,” he said. Insp Banda said members of the public should use Zupco for public transport.
Motorists are urged to strictly adhere to road rules and regulations as well as Covid-19 guidelines.
In January this year, a 25-year-old man sustained serious injuries and later died after he attempted to jump onto a moving truck and was dragged for about 200 metres.
Last year, a 90-year-old man died after he was hit by a haulage truck while crossing the Masvingo-Beitbridge Road in Lutumba area in Beitbridge. – Chronicle
Pressure is mounting on the British to return the head of Mbuya Nehanda whose statue was unveiled by President Mnangagwa, according to State media reports…
While unveiling the bronze statue, mounted on a footbridge, the President reiterated Government’s desire to have the body of the First Chimurenga liberation war icon returned home for proper and befitting interment.
“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others,” said President Mnangagwa.
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe also underscored the importance of returning the head that was stolen by the British colonial settlers over a century ago to the country.
“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values. However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress,” said Minister Kazembe.- State media
Our Fathers, Mothers and real comrades in ZPRA must not fear the Independence of The Republic of Matabeleland. Worry not, for upon independence, The Republic of Matabeleland (RoM) under MLO shall recognise the huge role you played to defeat colonialism and compensate you accordingly for the job well done.
Where the Zimbabwe Shona supremacist government sees enemies and foreigners who are not worthy to be recognised for delivering the independence of Zimbabwe, we see disciplined cadres and heroes, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters that fought and defeated white colonialism. Heroes more than worthy to be recognised and no amount of cash can compensate them for fighting in the Rhodesian war.
You shall be given the dignity, respect and status fit for the real heroes who fought and defeated colonialism. All your properties in Matabeleland except weapons, that were forcefully taken by the Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe shall be given back to you.
You shall occupy a good spot in the long list of Matabele heroes like the founder of Matabele nation himself, His Majesty King Mzilikazi, King Lobengula, Imbizo, Insukamini, etc. Later to be joined by an exciting new generation of up and coming Matabele horoes and heroins currently fighting for the restoration of Matabeleland state.
It was not your fault that the struggle was hijacked by Shona supremacists who pretended to be your comrades and later turned against you to stab you in the back.
They undermine your leading role in the struggle and label you as cowards that were always on the run during the war. They put a dissident tag on your foreheads to kill, torture and politically persecute you. They took your wartime records and your properties through armed robbery. They distorted Zimbabwe war history to erase your participation, they continue to humiliate, treat you as liabilities of the war and second class citizens.
It is only weak cowards who can do this to make it up for their well known wartime deficiency. Clueless nation builders who reject the corner stone. That is evidenced by the impending split of shaky Zimbabwe that will birth the independent and sovereign Republic of Matabeleland (RoM). The reason why Zimbabwe is now a dept ridden failed state without its own currency.
No! Your dignity and pride should be restored and it is only your people from Matabeleland that can do that in the new Republic of Matabeleland that is arising.
Given the self created political and economic crisis, that bedevils Zimbabwe currently, clear tribal oppression, segregation, Shona hegemony and hatred towards Matabeles, all ZPRA cadres would concur with us that the Zimbabwe struggle was a lost cause that Matabeles must not have pursued. It is a fake idea that was not worth a single drop of Matabele blood. It is a big lie and political blunder that must be corrected as a matter of urgency by all bona fide Matabele citizens including ZIPRA members.
Instead of bringing independence and freedom that the people of Matabeleland have been yearning for in the last 128 years. It brought us more pain and more suffering.
When you heard the cries of black people suffering under white minority oppression, you stood up and took up arms to fight the white supremacist system. The people of Matabeleland are groaning today, they have been doing so for the last 41 years. The reason is still oppression.
This time under black Shona majority oppression. Thus, the only noticeable change in Matabeleland is the colour of the oppressor.
The black Shona oppression is more severe and more painful than the white minority oppression. Under the Zimbabwe Shona supremacist government we face all things inhuman, genocide, tribal hated, tribal segregation, tribal hegemony and gross human abuse. Indeed these are injustices to be fought by all means possible.
If we ask you to take up arms again and go back to the bush we will be asking too much from you. That is the duty of the young and energetic Matabeles. We are happy to affirm that it is a duty that they are ready to perform with loyalty and pride. Yours is to embrace, support and give guidance to Matabeleland struggle because it is a good thing to do and the fruits of freedom will be enjoyed by everyone including you. When its your time for departure, you shall rest in peace among your people knowing that you left the new Matabele generations free from slavery, genocide and tribal oppression.
Through maximum discipline and commitment our beloved ZPRA practiced “good violence”, that which brought the independence of masses in Zimbabwe. The same cannot be said of ZANLA that practices ” bad violence”, that of cutting off hands, burning with plastic, rapping, abducting, raping and shooting to kill unarmed civilians that they purport to have liberated.
Through maximum discipline, dedication, loyalty and sacrifice, Matabeles will deliver Matabeleland independence through “good violence.”
Viva good violence viva!
Izenzo kungemazwi!
Israel Dube MLO Secretary for Information and Public Affairs
Pressure is mounting on the British to return the head of Mbuya Nehanda whose statue was unveiled by President Mnangagwa, according to State media reports…
While unveiling the bronze statue, mounted on a footbridge, the President reiterated Government’s desire to have the body of the First Chimurenga liberation war icon returned home for proper and befitting interment.
“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others,” said President Mnangagwa.
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe also underscored the importance of returning the head that was stolen by the British colonial settlers over a century ago to the country.
“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values. However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress,” said Minister Kazembe.- State media
Mamelodi Sundowns won a record fourth DStv Premiership title with an emphatic 3-1 win over ten-man SuperSport United at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on Wednesday.
Lebohang Maboe, Aubrey Modiba and Themba Zwane scored for the champions, while Teboho Mokoena scored Matsatsantsa’s solitary goal on the night.
Sundowns have now won an 11th league title in the Premier Soccer League era with three games remaining in the 2020-21 season.
The victory moved Sundowns 10 points clear atop the league standings while SuperSport remains in sixth spot.
The latest title triumph saw the Brazilians extend their record number of DStv Premiership wins to 14.
Only five clubs have managed multiple league title victories in the 50-year history of the domestic competition.
Sundowns’ 2020-21 victory is their fourth in a row, also a new record in South African football, and puts them two wins ahead of Kaizer Chiefs, the next highest on the list with 12 league titles.
Chiefs have for years styled themselves as South Africa’s most successful club, and that remains true on the number of trophies won, but recent success has arguably put Sundowns ahead of them in the eyes of many.
The Brazilians now have more league titles, the most cherished prize in the local game, and their 2016 CAF Champions League success also outshines anything Chiefs have achieved in the past.
The only five sides that have won multiple league titles since the competition was first played in 1971 are Sundowns, Chiefs, Orlando Pirates (9), SuperSport United (3) and Durban City (2). -Supersport
Emmerson Mnangagwa, in his capacity as immediate former Chair of the SADC Organ Troika on Politics, Defence and Security, is today flying to Maputo, Mozambique for a session of the SADC Extraordinary Troika Summit.
Mnangagwa is expected to meet with his counterparts, Presidents Mogkweetsi Masisi of Botswana as current Chair, Cyril Ramaphosa as incoming Chair for the SADC Extraordinary Troika Summit, and the host President Filipe Nyusi.
The SADC Extraordinary Troika Summit is expected to receive a full report of the Technical deployment which was mandated on April 8, 2021, to produce a needs assessment report on the terrorist activity in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozambique.
The technical team which was supposed to table their report before the Ministerial Committee of the Organ on Politics, Defence, and Security on April 28, 2021, but the meeting was postponed.
The Committee is already digesting the contents of the report before submitting recommendations to the SADC Extraordinary Organ Troika Summit tomorrow.
This is indeed a crucial meeting whose adoption of recommendations by the three heads of State is expected to immediately trigger an active response which could see SADC deploying comprehensively to deal decisively with the terrorist menace in Mozambique.
To signal its seriousness in tackling the matter, SADC convened a Double Troika Summit in Maputo on April 8, 2021, at which a communique was issued to signal regional commitment to end the insurgency.
“Double Troika Summit received a report from the Organ Troika on the security situation in Mozambique, and noted with concern the acts of terrorism perpetrated against innocent civilians, women and children in some of the districts of Cabo Delgado Province of the Republic of Mozambique; condemned the terrorist attacks in strongest terms, and affirmed that such heinous attacks can not be allowed to continue without a proportionate regional response,” said SADC Secretariat in a communique.
The current harmonized efforts by the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence, and Security is aimed at preventing Mozambique from becoming another conflict hotbed in the region and continent at large.
This will have far-reaching consequences on the state of peace and security to the detriment of greater economic stability and growth.
The prevailing consensus and sense of urgency must be maintained to achieve the desired operational strength and effectiveness as well as to attract the necessary international goodwill.
These will be critical going forward so that a noble effort and initiative is not discredited.
SADC is driving Africa’s industrialisation agenda and therefore peace and stability will be indispensable imperatives for growing regional economies.
The Southern African Development Community region will have to attract quality investments to take advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for sustainable economic growth.- state media
Bondolfi Teachers’ College in Masvingo is now under lockdown after eighteen students tested positive for coronavirus.
The entire student population of over 300 was put under quarantine following the unprecedented positive tests.
Authorities in the Ministry of Health and Child Care have, however, cautioned against panicking saying the situation was being attended to.
Meanwhile, Masvingo COVID-19 taskforce provincial spokesperson Rodgers Irimai says authorities are currently scrambling to assess the situation and its ramifications on the war against the pandemic.
He cautioned that the situation was under control with all the 303 on-boarding students under mandatory quarantine for two weeks.
The government recently put Kwekwe District in the Midlands Province under lockdown after cases of the B.1.617 coronavirus variant or Indian variant were detected in Kwekwe City early this month.-The Herald
“Like what the Vice President (Dr Constantino Chiwenga) said, we now have the capacity for genomic sequencing that is to detect which particular variants are in circulation in the country…
“The B.1. 617 variant widely known as the Indian variant is under control in Zimbabwe…”
The deadly Covid-19 Indian variant that .,was detected in Kwekwe is being contained with no new cases recorded since confirmation of the first case last week.
Government activated its health emergency systems to diffuse the deadly — B.1. 617 — first detected in India after genomic sequencing tests revealed that it is now in Zimbabwe.
Part of the measures put in place by the Government was a localised lockdown for Kwekwe district as well as isolation of suspected cases among other things.
This particular variant has presented the world with a huge test in what had appeared to be a virus in check and India has so far been the hardest hit.
Zimbabwe had up to now defied odds with a thorough and effective response to the pandemic, and the latest variant is now under control.
An expert in the Ministry of Health and Child Care who is part of the advisory team that advises Government on Covid-19, Dr Raiva Simbi urged calm as the variant is being contained.
“There is no need to panic, people should adhere to the prescribed Covid-19 protocols and we will win this war,” he said.
“Like what the Vice President (Dr Constantino Chiwenga) said, we now have the capacity for genomic sequencing that is to detect which particular variants are in circulation in the country.
“The B.1. 617 variant widely known as the Indian variant is under control in Zimbabwe, we are still carrying out some samples but available results show that we have managed to control the spread,” said Dr Simbi.
“Like I said the evidence we have is that the situation is under control because we do not have any new cases, the positivity rate has not increased.
“The fear was that the variant will spread in the country, but the quick response by the Government to restrict movements in the area the virus was detected has helped in controlling the geographical spread of the virus.
“But our advice remains that people should continue adhering to the prescribed protocols to avoid a spike in infections,” he said.
Dr Simbi implored those who have not yet been vaccinated to be immunised and boost their chances of beating the virus if infected. He also advised those who have been vaccinated not to throw caution to the wind.
VP and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Chiwenga is on record encouraging people to be vaccinated as well as not to lose their guard.
In his address at the ongoing 74th World Health Assembly, VP Chiwenga said health promotions and the activation of systems to confront Covid-19 helped the country to respond to the pandemic.
The country’s ability to respond to the pandemic has received international rave reviews with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and China — where the virus was first detected — all commending the Government’s efforts. Herald
Tinashe Sambiri|Zimbabwean cleric, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has confronted the Zanu PF leader Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa over “introduction of paganism in the country.”
The cleric reprimanded Mr Mnangagwa for “attempting to divert the nation’s attention from the worship of one true God.”
Mr Mnangagwa wants to entrench the nation into paganism, according to the cleric.
According to biblical principles, paganism is an abomination before God.
See Bishop Magaya’s statement below:
Paganistic practices in Zimbabwean government; An abomination before God.
By Bishop Ancelimo Magaya
It saddens the heart to note that once again, today on May 25, ZIMBABWE witnesses yet another huge installment towards idolatry and paganism. The setting up of “Mbuya Nehanda” statue brings to memory attempts by king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to divert Daniel and his Hebrew companions from the worship of one true God as he entrenched the nation into paganism about 2500 years ago.
It is beyond doubt now that we have at the helm of this country, a leadership in form of President Mnangangwa who, though convenes national days of prayer at state house, is a pagan at core. There is a deep sense that our national political leadership visit spirit mediums at night to get instructions on how they should lead Zimbabwe. It is clear that Zimbabwe is being led by pagans and the abysmal extent of this paganism is shocking. It should be noted that the coincidence of the setting up of this statue with the developments in Zvimba where it is reported that the former president RG Mugabe’s remains must be redug is deliberately contrived to entrench this nation into deep paganism.
Zimbabweans and in particular the church should not be blind to issues behind issues here.
I call upon the church to rise in prayer and pull down all such demonic forces and practices expressed in these diabolic relics, statues , enchantments and charms associated with tempering with the bodies of the deceased under the guys of proper reburial.
Prophet Isaiah warns strongly that when a nation goes corrupt, unjust, violent and idolatry, the economy will go down ( Chapter 1 vs 1-23 ). Zimbabwe has all these combined.
President and cabinet, be warned. Also Zimbabweans should be told how much in terms of money has gone into this project.
Blessed is a Nation whose God is Jehovah not this religious syncretism.
“We are panting on the ground,” said Mpilo Hospital Clinical Director and acting CEO, Prof @Solwayo1 Ngwenya, as they battle a massive fire which is currently consuming the Doctor’s residence at one of Zimbabwe’s central hospitals!
