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!
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.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice president, Professor Welshman Ncube attended a Gukurahundi memorial event at the weekend.
The memorial event was held at Bhalagwe…
Professor Ncube paid tribute to victims of Gukurahundi atrocities.Thousands of villagers were murdered by the Zanu PF regime at the height of the Gukurahundi atrocities.
“The People’s Vice President @mdczimbabwe Prof @Welshman_Ncube today was amongst the leadership that attended the unveiling of a Gukurahundi Victims Memorial Stone at Bhalagwe.
Thanks to Ibhetshu Likazulu for the sterling job.@nelsonchamisa
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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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A 20-YEAR-OLD man from Zhombe, Midlands Province died on admission to hospital after being attacked by a machete during a nasty fight with his neighbours whom he had provoked over an undisclosed grudge.
Allen Ndlovu of Dumezweni Village under Chief Ntabeni died upon admission to Kwekwe General Hospital where he had been rushed after being disarmed and attacked with his own machete.
Midlands Police spokesperson, Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the incident that occurred on Monday afternoon at Majanjathini Shops in Zhombe.
“Police are investigating a case of murder and assault emanating from a fight over a long-standing dispute. A 20-year-old man, Allen Ndlovu, died after being struck with a machete after the misunderstanding,” Inspector Mahoko said.
He said the now-deceased was the first to attack but was later disarmed and hacked with his own weapon.
“On 24 May around 3PM, Ndlovu was in the company of his brother Thokozani Ndlovu (24) at Majanjathini tuckshops where they met Tarisai Makore aged 35. A misunderstanding arose over a long-standing grudge involving Allen and Makore and his brothers. Allen, who was armed with a machete then struck Makore on the left hand,” said Inspector Mahoko.
Makore’s brothers, Mavhu Makore (38) and Vusa Mpinga (25) who were at their homestead near the shops, noticed the drama unfolding and ran to intervene.
Upon seeing the brothers approaching, the now-deceased tried to flee.
“The now deceased unfortunately tripped and fell and the two brothers caught up with him. They disarmed him and used his machete to strike him several times all over the body,” he said.
The matter was reported to police and Ndlovu was ferried to Kwekwe General Hospital where he died upon admission.
Makore was treated and discharged.
“Police are again appealing to members of the public to always prioritise settling disputes through dialogue and desist from violence,” said Inspector Mahoko.- Chronicle
By A Correspondent- Masvingo City socialite Juliet Jaboon who is related to former Bikita Zanu PF MP Jeppy Jaboon has died.
Patience Rakabota, a close friend confirmed the sad news to The Mirror today and expressed sadness over the loss of a close associate.
She died at Masvingo Provincial Hospital of severe chest pains and high blood pressure last night.
“I am disgusted by the death of JJ because she was a very close and lovely friend, I last talked to her on Saturday at Masvingo Provincial Hospital where she was admitted and I was jokingly advising her to reduce alcohol intake since her BP was getting worse, I can’t believe this honestly, Gracelands will never be the same without her, ” said Rakabota. Jaboon was a teacher at Sikato Primary School in Masvingo Rural District and is survived with one boy doing form 4. She was staying in the Majange area of Mucheke Suburb.”
I am in pain, JJ was very friendly and lovely, she was very close to her son especially after the death of her daughter recently in mysterious ways, pasi harigute,” said a close friend, Dzidzai Jiri who was collecting bereavement funds from friends on behalf of the family.
The Mirror has established that JJ will be buried tomorrow in Bikita and her body has since left Masvingo City.
By A Correspondent- Daggers have been drawn over opposition Zapu party presidency after the late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo’s son Sibangilizwe Nkomo expressed interest in the post.
In March, Nkomo resigned from the chairmanship of both the Joshua Nkomo Cultural Movement and the Joshua Nkomo Legacy Restoration Project Trust in order for him to pursue his political dream to become Zapu president.
The opposition party is set to hold its elective congress in August, and the party now appears to have been shaken by Nkomo’s interest to contest the top post.
Party presidential aspirants have sharpened their swords against Nkomo amid accusations that he wants to turn the party into a family dynasty.
Among his rivals is Iphithule Maphosa, who is the party spokesperson.
“We can’t then have inheritance hunters coming up in March 2021 to claim so and so told them to rescue the party after 40 years,” Maphosa said.
Other members eyeing the Zapu presidency are Matabeleland South chairperson Matthew Sibanda, secretary-general Strike Mkandla, Bernard Magugu and Mqondobanzi Magonya.
“At Zapu, we have been toiling to build an institutional organisation whose existence rests on the foundations of equality, loyalty and constitutionalism. We do not have rules with name tags on them.
“We are not a family or clan dynasty. Leadership of the mother party is not hereditary. Neither is it sexually transmitted. If anybody is hunting for their missing inheritance package, Zapu is the wrong place,” Maphosa added.
Nkomo yesterday told Southern Eye that the accusations were coming from people that were scared to stand against him.
“If it was all about inheritance, I would not be contesting the presidency. I have always been a card-carrying member of Zapu from the 1970s, and I never, at any given time, joined other parties. In fact, I should hasten to point out that those throwing insults against me are exhibiting a political culture which is alien to Zapu. It’s a foreign culture which must be nipped in the bud,” Nkomo said.
He said he was confident of winning the presidency.
Initially, Zapu was supposed to hold its congress in April, but it was postponed to August due to logistical problems and the COVID-19 outbreak.
The late VP Nkomo was the long-time leader of PF Zapu, but in 1987, Nkomo’s PF Zapu signed a Unity Accord with the ruling Zanu PF to bring an end to the Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands regions.
In 2008, the late Dumiso Dabengwa led a number of ex-PF Zapu officials to form a breakaway faction from Zanu PF in order to relaunch Zapu.
Dabengwa led the rebirthed Zapu till he passed away in May 2019.
By James Gwati- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has now become a Covid-19 super spreader after he continues to break the pandemic’s guidelines set by the World Health Organisation.
Mnangagwa yesterday, gathered his party supporters in the CBD when he was unvailing Mbuya Nehanda statue. His supporters did not observe social distancing.
Last Friday, he addressed a huge gathering at Chief Njelele’s homestead in Gokwe South, in the Midlands province, where some of the attendees were not wearing masks.
The next day, he attended the memorial service of the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri in Chikomba district, where he attracted a sizeable gathering.
Shiri succumbed to COVID-19 in July last year and was buried at the National Heroes’ Acre.
By A Correspondent- A suspected thief from Rushinga was allegedly bashed to death by five people in Mazowe after they accused him of 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 government has transferred the Chiredzi District Lands Officer Mr Honest Mapfumo to Harare over accusations of improprieties in the administration of land allocations in the flashpoint district.
Mr Mapfumo was already under fire over reports of allegedly circumventing the Masvingo provincial leadership in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement in land allocations in Chiredzi which is predominated by sugar cane farming.
Sources said he was also now operating as a loner in land allocations after allegedly snubbing the district lands committee.
In a letter by the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Dr John Basera, dated May 19 2021, a copy which owns The Herald, Mr Mapfumo was ordered to report at the head office in Harare on 31 May.
He was also ordered to facilitate the hand-over and take-over processes to a new acting district lands officer designated by the provincial chief lands officer Mrs Tendai Mumera.
In his letter, Dr Basera said the decision to transfer Mr Mapfumo was motivated by “reports of administrative challenges on your performance in Chiredzi district.”
Chiredzi is a flashpoint district in land issues with Government officials usually going under crosshairs for irregularities in land allocations as demand for sugar cane plots remaining high.
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.
By A Correspondent- A 28-year old man from Fort Rixon has appeared in court for allegedly raping a ten-year-old minor.
The man, of plot 1 Thornville, Moyana Farm, Fort Rixon allegedly raped the minor on April 1.
He appeared before Bulawayo Magistrate Ms Rachael Mukanga on Wednesday and was remanded in custody to June 4.
Appearing for the state Miss Ashley Dube said the man visited the complainant’s place where he discovered that the minor’s parents away and took advantage of their absence to rape her.
“On April one, the man who resides at a neighboring plot proceeded to the complainant’s place of residence and discovered that the complainant’s parents were not around. The man invited the ten-year-old complainant to an abandoned house. Inside the house, the man removed the minor’s panties and knocked her to the ground. He raped the minor without using any protection,” she said.
By A Correspondent- Three Mazowe men have been arrested for mobbing and killing a suspected 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 James Gwati- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has defied Covid-19 guidelines set by the World Health Organisation for the third time in one week.
Mnangagwa yesterday, gathered his party supporters in the CBD when he was unvailing Mbuya Nehanda statue. His supporters did not observe social distancing.
Last Friday, he addressed a huge gathering at Chief Njelele’s homestead in Gokwe South, in the Midlands province, where some of the attendees were not wearing masks.
The next day, he attended the memorial service of the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri in Chikomba district, where he attracted a sizeable gathering.
Shiri succumbed to COVID-19 in July last year and was buried at the National Heroes’ Acre.
By James Gwati- The civil society has raised concern over the continued breaching of Covid-19 regulations by Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The civil society’s representative body, the Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition, on Wednesday issued a stern warning to Mnangagwa complaining about his continued covid-19 regulations violations.
” We have also noted with great concern that the ruling party, Zanu PF continues to defy Covid 19 lockdown regulations by embarking on events that attract huge gatherings,” said Crisis.
The unveiling of the Mbuya Nehanda statue yesterday was attended by hundreds of Zanu PF supporters in direct defiance of Covid 19 lockdown regulations on public gatherings.
This was the third time in a week that President Mnangagwa has gathered large gatherings in defiance of the World Health Organization (WHO) regulations on Covid 19.
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.
Zimbabwe Netball Association (Zina) Bulawayo province yesterday exposed players to Covid-19 after failing to abide by health guidelines during a Hope through Sports and Sports Grind sponsored Africa Day mini-tournament at Sobukhazi High School.
When Chronicle Sport arrived at the venue, it observed that players and officials didn’t follow laid down guidelines like wearing masks, sanitisation of match balls and players before and after each game.
People could not observe the covid-19 regulations of social distance and proper wearing of masks at the Sobukhazi Netaball Tourney in Bulawayo.
Thermometers for temperature checks were also not provided, while Covid-19 tests for players and officials were not done.
Zina Bulawayo province secretary Livonia Bhebhe, however, distanced her organisation from the tournament, saying they had nothing to do with the event.
People could not observe the covid-19 regulations of social distance and proper wearing of masks at the Sobukhazi Netaball Tourney in Bulawayo.
“Sorry, we have nothing to do with organisation of this tournament; I am here as a mere spectator so please leave Zina out of this,” said Bhebhe.
Despite her denial, other players and officials said Zina was the technical body for the tournament.
“Zina chose the participating teams as custodians of netball in the country,” said an official.- Chronicle
UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Barcelona Real Madrid and Juventus over their involvement in the European Super League plan.
The three teams are the only clubs from the original 12 yet to formally withdraw from the breakaway away league and are now facing a two-year ban from all UEFA competitions.
In a statement, UEFA said: “Following an investigation conducted by Uefa ethics and disciplinary inspectors in connection with the so-called ‘Super League’ project, disciplinary proceedings have been opened against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus for a potential violation of Uefa’s legal framework.
“Further information will be made available in due course.”
The other nine clubs who pulled out of the European Super League – including Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham – have apologized and will sacrifice 5% of their European competition revenue which makes a total of €15m (£13m) as part of a reconciliation agreement with the governing body.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
By Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi- Attached is a crime alert that has gone viral on social media platforms. The truth of the matter is, your identity can be stolen in so many different ways.
To protect the citizens of Zimbabwe I shall not focus on how your identity can be stolen because that will be educating “would-be” criminals to commit similar crime.
What is important is to demand that your identity is protected by your service providers, be it Banks, mobile money service providers, insurance and even the government has the duty to protect you.
Mind you I have forwarded this write up to the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Home Affairs, ZRP, RBZ, financial service providers, ZACC, mobile money providers, insurance companies, Registrar General and ICT professionals in Zimbabwe.
The number one crime in Zimbabwe is mobile money scam and the most affected is ecocash according to our Cyber research.
There is now an immediate need to use biometric facial recognition as a way of identifying clients. Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crime in Zimbabwe with the identities of thousands of individuals having been compromised in recent years.
The criminals use the identity theft to scam. Identity theft is a type of fraud that involves using someone else’s identity to steal money or gain other benefits.
Leading to an innocent person ending up being arrested. How this is done is easy, the criminal reproduces a plastic National Identity (ID), after getting information that a “target” has a lump sum in their mobile money account or is receiving some cash.
At say 4:25pm just before mobile money shop closes the criminal enters the shop advises the customer assistant that he/she has lost her phone or it is stolen and requests for a subscriber identity module (SIM) card replacement.
Once one is issued with a replacement SIM card,the actual SIM card owner is immediately blocked and the criminal will now have full access to your mobile money account and the owner does not have access to the mobile phone company because it will be closed for business.
The only time that one will get access to a mobile money service provider is at 8am the next day by then the mobile money wallet would have been wiped out.
There is now a need for mobile money companies to adopt the biometric facial recognition system and have a central database of all mobile money registered clients. Biometric face recognition technology is used worldwide for fighting crime, preventing fraud, securing public safety and improving customer experience across a vast range of locations and industries.
This is now the best technology that can be used to prevent mobile money fraud especially in Zimbabwe where 96 percent of all transactions are now being processed electronically.
The use of biometrics make use of our most unique physical features and behaviours to serve as digital identifiers that computers and software can interpret and utilise for identity-related applications. They can be used to identify someone in a biometric database or to verify the authenticity of a claimed identity.
We are urging Zimbabwe’s mobile money service provider to use biometric facial recognition to protect the vulnerable consumer who is now at the mercy of modern day criminals.
As a citizen of Zimbabwe remember there are laws (data protection act) that demand that your identity is protected and verified by your service provider.
You can also sue your service provider for negligence if fraud or a crime is committed that leads to your arrest.
If you need any further advise or your company needs advice, do not hesitate to contact me on 0772278161 or email [email protected]
Engineer Mutisi is the Chair of the ICT division of Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (ZIE) , a Board Member of the Zimbabwe Institute of Directors (IOD), a Member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) UK and a practising Engineer with Engineering Council of Zimbabwe (ECZ) Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.
Gareth Southgate has selected 33 players for his provisional England squad for the Euro tournament.
The selection includes the likes of Tottenham’s Harry Kane, Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold, Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling and John Stones, Man United’s Marcus Rashford.
Southgate is waiting until after the Champions League final before confirming the 26 players for the tournament in fear of injuries. The final selection will be announced on June 1 which is UEFA’s final deadline to name the squad for the Championships.
England’s provisional 33-man squad for Euro 2020:
Goalkeepers: Dean Henderson (Manchester United), Sam Johnstone (West Bromwich Albion), Jordan Pickford (Everton) & Aaron Ramsdale (Sheffield United)
Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Ben Chilwell (Chelsea), Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Ben Godfrey (Everton), Reece James (Chelsea), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Atletico Madrid), Kyle Walker (Manchester City) & Ben White (Brighton & Hove Albion)
Midfielders: Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Jesse Lingard (Manchester United/West Ham United), Mason Mount (Chelsea), Kalvin Phillps (Leeds United), Declan Rice (West Ham United) & James Ward-Prowse (Southampton)
Forwards: Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Jack Grealish (Aston Villa), Mason Greenwood (Manchester United), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) & Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa).- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Walter Musona is set for a return to the DStv Premiership, as his Sekhukhune United are on the verge on gaining promotion to the South African top-flight.
Sekhukhune, also home to the Zimbabwean duo of veteran goalkeeper Tapuwa Kapini and defender McClive Phiri, beat JDR Stars 3-1 but on the final day of the season but it was not enough for automatic promotion as they finished on 50 points‚ a point behind first-placed Royal.
The race for automatic promotion remains up in the air after the South African PSL announced shortly after the end of the final round of matches that it had been served with court papers with an arbitration award‚ which might affect the final GladAfrica Championship standings.
Sekhukhune were awarded three points by the league hierarchy, for their game against Polokwane City in January, which they lost 0-1 but argued that Rise and Shine had not fielded five under-23 players‚ as per NFD rules.
If that ruling stands, Sekhukune will be promoted to the DStv Premiership.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
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.
By A Correspondent- The late socialite and businessman Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure’s family plans to build a mausoleum before they conduct a memorial service for him.
Ginimbi’s sister, Juliet Kadungure told H-Metro’s Takawira “Photovet” Dapi that Ginimbi’s memorial service will be done after they hold their mother’s memorial service.
She said:
I think you are also aware that we also lost our younger brother called Andrew on 01 January 2019, before Ginimbi died.
Andrew passed on when our mother was on deathbed, we then failed to do Andrew’s memorial because our mother took the whole year whilst on deathbed due to cancer.
Our mother then died on 28 January 2020 last year. So my mother was a churchwoman, a church person, meaning her memorial was to gather more people.
Unfortunately, Ginimbi passed on the 8th of November, the same year (2020).
Juliet said it wasn’t proper for them to hold Ginimbi’s memorial first because he was the one who passed on last amongst the three.
She said:
So in normal circumstances, we should have started with Andrew’s memorial, followed by mom’s and then that of Ginimbi last.
But because our mother is the eldest of all, we are going to start with our mother’s memorial.
I am thinking of holding it on the 6th of June next month because that will be our mother’s birthday.
… From there, I will then calculate how much money and time it can take to construct a mausoleum.
Afterwards, the memorial for Ginimbi will surely be held after his mausoleum has constructed.
On reports claiming that Ginimbi’s casket was later found outside his mansion, Juliet said nothing of the sort ever happened.
She said:
How can a casket be found outside the grave? If it was true, journalists must have been there to prove to the world that surely that casket is coming out daily, mobva mari miriraka richibudaka pa-mansion pacho.
Nothing of that nature ever happened; I think you still remember also a picture of a Lamborghini car on fire during Ginimbi’s funeral, but Ginimbi’s Lamborghini is still intact and parked inside his garages at his mansion today.
Ginimbi’s mansion is still free to visit, it is still the same, you will not notice that Ginimbi is late, his property is still intact.
Zimbabwe Netball Association (Zina) Bulawayo province yesterday exposed players to Covid-19 after failing to abide by health guidelines during a Hope through Sports and Sports Grind sponsored Africa Day mini-tournament at Sobukhazi High School.
When Chronicle Sport arrived at the venue, it observed that players and officials didn’t follow laid down guidelines like wearing masks, sanitisation of match balls and players before and after each game.
People could not observe the covid-19 regulations of social distance and proper wearing of masks at the Sobukhazi Netaball Tourney in Bulawayo.
Thermometers for temperature checks were also not provided, while Covid-19 tests for players and officials were not done.
Zina Bulawayo province secretary Livonia Bhebhe, however, distanced her organisation from the tournament, saying they had nothing to do with the event.
People could not observe the covid-19 regulations of social distance and proper wearing of masks at the Sobukhazi Netaball Tourney in Bulawayo.
“Sorry, we have nothing to do with organisation of this tournament; I am here as a mere spectator so please leave Zina out of this,” said Bhebhe.
Despite her denial, other players and officials said Zina was the technical body for the tournament.
“Zina chose the participating teams as custodians of netball in the country,” said an official.- Chronicle
By A Correspondent- National Patriotic Front (NPF) spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has claimed former Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede was arrested for his opposition to the erection of Mbuya Nehanda’s statue in Haare without consulting the late spirit medium’s relatives.
Mudede (70) was arrested on Wednesday and subsequently taken to court charged with theft. He is out on free bail.
Mawarire asked why Mudede was only arrested recently when the alleged offence was committed nearly two decades ago.
The journalist-cum politician, who was the late former president Robert Mugabe’s close ally, also challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to exhume the remains of his father buried in Zambia and bring them home for a “proper” reburial before pushing for Mugabe’s exhumation. Mawarire wrote on Twitter:
Zimbabweans, have u ever wondered why former Registrar Gen Tobaiwa Mudede was arrested & arraigned before the courts last week? Well, Mudede is a Hwata, a Mhofu, a close relative of Charwe (Mbuya Nehanda medium) & was against the erection of Charwe’s statue without the consent of the Hwata family.
In anger, Idhii & Gen Racto reacted by having Mudede arrested for some alleged theft that happened 20 or so years ago. That’s how far the Junta-PF will go in pushing for their occultic shenanigans.
It’s quite clear that they left no stone unturned in their quest to erect that statue & do rituals during the ceremony. In the same way, they bulldozed over family concerns in their bid to erect a statue for Charwe, they are riding roughshod over Mugabe’s family in their attempts to exhume his body & do rituals at some supposed reburial at Heroes Acre.
But what I want to ask Pres @edmnangagwa & @nickmangwana is why should ED prioritise exhuming Mugabe when ED’s father lies buried in Mumbwa, Zambia? When is @edmnangagwa going to exhume his own father who is buried in a foreign country in order to ‘properly’ bury him in independent Zimbabwe?
Hasn’t Pres Mnangagwa told us about how his father fought colonialists in Southern Rhodesia until he had to be deported to Zambia?
So why should we have such a gallant son of the soil lie buried in a foreign land he was banished into by the racist colonial govt of the time?
Doesn’t it make sense, Cde @edmnangagwa, that you prioritise the exhumation & reburial of your father in independent Zimbabwe, even at the Heroes Acre, for out of his loins came forth our esteemed President?
President @edmnangagwa, doesn’t charity begin at home? Why would you want to exhume President Mugabe against the wishes of his children when your own father lies undisturbed in Zambia?
Don’t you think bringing your father home should take precedence over RGM exhumation & Charwe statue?
Surely, President @edmnangagwa, if u want people to respect you, stop suspecting there are some ulterior motives pushing you to exhume RGM or erect Charwe’s statue against the wishes of the two’s close family members, you should go ahead & exhume your father from Zambia and properly bury him in independent Zimbabwe?
I am asking as a genuine peace-loving Zimbabwean who understand the history of this country & its people.
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|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.
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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Shurugwi – A humiliated Shurugwi man set the family’s two-roomed house on fire after he was thoroughly beaten by his wife Susan Nhongo (41) during a physical fight. About $175 000 worth of property was destroyed during the incident that happened last month.
Jabulani Ncube (38) of plot 6 Manokore Farm in Shurugwi pleaded for leniency when he appeared before Magistrate Percy Mukumba at Shurugwi Magistrate Courta charged with malicious damage of property. Ncube said he decided to burn the family house after he lost a physical fight to his wife following an argument. The State said that Ncube who was drunk on the fateful day approached his wife and shouted obscenities leading to the fist fight which he lost resulting in him setting the house alight.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice president, Professor Welshman Ncube attended a Gukurahundi memorial event at the weekend.
The memorial event was held at Bhalagwe…
Professor Ncube paid tribute to victims of Gukurahundi atrocities.Thousands of villagers were murdered by the Zanu PF regime at the height of the Gukurahundi atrocities.
“The People’s Vice President @mdczimbabwe Prof @Welshman_Ncube today was amongst the leadership that attended the unveiling of a Gukurahundi Victims Memorial Stone at Bhalagwe.
Thanks to Ibhetshu Likazulu for the sterling job.@nelsonchamisa
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Own Correspondent| Controvesial Zimbabwean preacher and slayqueens godfather Isaac Makomichi has ordered married couples to have more s*x in order to have male twins.
Makomichi also said women should feel free to ask for s*x from their husbands.
In a programme called Chishanu Chaana Baba, Makomichi encouraged couples to have s*x at least 5 to 6 times a day…
Vana chihera vanotaurisa unomupa kashanu kana katanhatu pazuva,uchaona kuti kutaurisa kwese kunopera.Murume wese ngaakoshese mudiwa wake kudarika zvinhu zveso.”
A Masvingo based lady commented: “Tinogashira chose mashoko aPapa nemaoko maviri,vanhu vangamutuka hake asi amisa dzimba dzakawandisa uye vanhu vazhinji vari kuwana dzidziso yakakosha.”
However, a man named Lukas said he did not want such words to reach his wife’s ears as that would cause serious problems.
The State was on Monday told to take seriously proceedings into the matter in which former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo is accused of corruptly parcelling out State land and duping home-seekers through his cooperative.
Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje said the State was supposed to respond to Chombo’s application challenging his placement on remand on the six counts of corruption-related charges.
“The accused made an application on April 15 and the State has not responded. The State should respond before end of day today (yesterday) and should take the proceedings seriously,” said Mr Mambanje.
Prosecuting, Mrs Netsai Mushayabasa undertook to respond to the application before Chombo returns to court on Friday.
In his application prepared by his lawyer Professor Lovemore Madhuku, Chombo said the State had failed to name the people whom he allegedly duped and the amounts they lost.
Chombo claims the State should, at least by now, have established the amount of prejudice suffered considering that the offences were allegedly committed several years ago.
“To begin with, the complainants have not been named, the amounts have not been stated and given that the alleged offence occurred over a period of 15 years, it is strange how the State does not have an amount,” he said.
Chombo said the bank account said by the State to be the one used by home-seekers depositing money when buying stands from him, was not registered in his name and was not the one who opened the account.
He said the cooperative he is alleged to have used to defraud people was not registered and this was confirmed from the Registrar of Cooperatives.
In his application, Chombo also denied that he allocated 125 commonage stands to himself saying there was no title deeds registered in his name to prove the State’s allegations.
“The State has not so much as even bothered to mention a stand number of any stand allocated to myself, by myself let alone 125.
“There is only mention that residential stands 304, 318, 319, 320 and 322 of Plot 12 Philadelphia Farm are mine. Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said.
Chombo also denied owning the companies that the State alleges were allocated stands by him on Carrick Creagh Farm saying he was not a director or shareholder of any company.
“The first company Comverol Enterprises (Pvt) Limited, I am neither a director nor shareholder. How can these companies be deemed mine when I am neither a shareholder nor director? Cayford (Pvt) Limited does not exist.
“How can I be an owner of a company that does not exist,” he said.
Chombo distanced himself from Cavford (Pvt) Limited, which the State alleges he allocated a stand. He also denied handing over Order Farm to Sensene Investments saying there is a Constitutional Court judgment that dealt with the matter. Any decision that was made regarding the farm in question was as a result of a court order, Chombo said.
Chombo also denied instructing officials to sign a deed of settlement with Phillip Chiyangwa’s Pinnacle Holdings saying there was a Supreme Court order which narrated how the signing was made.
The State is expected to file its response on April 28, with Prof Madhuku making his oral submissions on May 10.
Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo- Literary, the office of the President, is of high honour, respected, and must be treated with integrity, but from my own observation, it has become a play ground, from whom ever wants to play with him.
I blame those who are managing the President, the PR team, who are responsible for rebranding the President , they must be flushed out, and bring in, a new competent team around him.
Honestly could you think that the President should be around Mealie Meal donations, and he should be seen receiving meal meal in front of cameras? What happened to Command Agriculture, Pfumvudza projects, which were spearheaded by the Government?
The next thing, you find the President in Kazungula official opening of the bridge, when most Heads of States had to dispatch envoys or Ambassadors? Was it necessary for him to be there in Kazungula, when he did not have any specific role to play on the function?
All these could be results of light-weight Presidency. For those who remember, at one point in time, when George Charamba mixed up Mugabe’s speech, it was reportedly that the former leader had none of it.
The same should apply to our current trajectory. The team should be responsible for advising the President, whether it is necessary for him to be part of those functions or not, and whether it is necessary for him to attend every summit or not.
The recent Mealie Meal donation function was out of order. He should have assigned someone like July Moyo, or even Mayor Wadyajena, or few Mps , senators to be in charge of the event, we have the likes of Opah Muchinguri etc.
President Mnangagwa is responsible for commissioning big projects, opening industries, car assemblies, signing mega deals, and he must be seen commissioning projects, not opening companies that were opened previously by the former President, Robert Mugabe.
The issue of renaming roads must be left to councilors or local Government Minister. Ground breaking ceremonies must stop, and focus on commissioning projects which contributes positively towards the national fiscus, and creating employment.
Last, but not least, those who are closer to you, will never tell you this, either they are protecting their few crumbs falling from the master’s table, or they are out of touch, but my biggest worry is the light-weight Presidency, which has befallen us.
Let’s focus on the bigger picture ” Development” !
Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo is the Head of Zimbabwe Institute of Strategic Thinking – ZIST, and he can be contacted at [email protected]
By Israel Dube- 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.”
By A Correspondent- Harare provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti, who has been reportedly unwell after being poisoned for fighting land barons and corruption, says he would continue busting graft despite threats to his life.
Muguti was appointed last year, but of late, he has been absent from office amid reports that he had been poisoned for exposing land barons.
Speaking in an interview with NewsDay on Tuesday, Muguti who returned to work last month said:
I am not commenting on that (poisoning) issue, but what I can only tell you is because of our job, our lives are always under threat.
We are living in violent and politically toxic times, and my job comes with its consequences and all I can say is that we are protected by the Lord Almighty.
We are not targeting individuals, we are targeting the wrongs being done by people and if we can fix that then we can go far.
Muguti said his name had been abused by namedroppers, while he also faces resistance from land barons who felt he had disturbed their “feeding trough”.
He said:
Let me be frank, my job as PDC has come under a lot of resistance because people feel we are removing them from their feeding trough. The abnormalities at the City of Harare had become the normal way of life.
… I am employed to create a conducive working environment in the city and not to make friends. My job requires energy, I cannot please criminals.
Muguti was reportedly poisoned after he stepped on several land barons’ toes, mostly those affiliated to the ruling ZANU PF party and the opposition MDC formations.
By A Correspondent- South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday dispatched International Relations minister Naledi Pandor to hand over tonnes of maize meal and other donations to his Zimbabwean counterpart President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Pandor, a vocal critic of Zimbabwe’s human rights abuses, handed over the consignment at State House in Harare.
“On behalf of President Cyril Ramaphosa, the government and the people of the Republic of South Africa, we are here today to hand over the support to the Republic of Zimbabwe as pledged by the Republic of South Africa,” she said.
“With the good rainy season in our region after the devastating droughts of El Nino, we have tapped into our land, and it has produced enough grains to allow us to share. The cost of our pledge was R50 million and from that amount, we were able to secure 450 000 bags of 12,5kg of maize meal.
“South Africa will be responsible for the transportation costs to Harare and for further delivery and distribution to the identified 12 districts.”
Pandor described Zimbabwe as “a friend who sticks with us through raging storms”.
“Zimbabwe has been that friend that stood with us as we braved through the storms of colonialism and apartheid. As the saying goes, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
“While we are hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, we do not forget that natural disasters remain cyclic pandemics, affecting millions of people across the world, for decades. They have killed scores of people, displaced people and deprived them of livelihoods and dignity. They continue to create vulnerable communities, in which people are robbed of their human rights to access food, healthcare, adequate water, housing, educational and recreational facilities.”
Pandor said natural disasters called for government, business and civil society to come together to rebuild the affected communities.
In a related development, president Mnangagwa on Saturday handed over cars to traditional chiefs.
The brand new Isuzu double-cab trucks were handed over to traditional chiefs, after doing the same in the run-up to the 2018 elections.
Zimbabwe has 286 chiefs, and the new vehicles come as ZANU PF has roped in the traditional leaders to mobilise support ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Speaking during the handover ceremony, President Mnangagwa implored the Chiefs to put the cars to good use adding that government will fulfil its promise to upgrade the status quo of traditional leaders.
He said:
We will stand by our pledge to ensure chiefs get access to electricity, water, good roads and vehicles every five years.
This I hope will enable you to execute your duties of uniting people, instilling and preserving our cultural values.
We want chiefs to exercise their duties by following up on those in rural area and towns who are troublesome and put them to order then I will rest assured of leading the united and peaceful nation.
This comes at a time when the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) faces an acute shortage of vehicles and hospitals across the country do not have enough ambulances.
Traditional leaders are supposed to play pivotal roles in communities as the custodians of cultural values, facilitating development and resolving disputes using traditional ways of conflict resolution but they have increasingly been abused by ZANU PF to commandeer their subjects to vote for the ruling party during elections.
By A Correspondent- Radiation therapy machines have broken down at Bulawayo’s Mpilo Central Hospital, imperilling the lives of over 100 cancer patients on a waiting list for treatment.
Mpilo is one of only two medical facilities in the country that treat cancer patients – the other is Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare, 450km away.
The hospital has two linear accelerators and a third machine for cervical cancer. One of the two linear accelerators which direct high-energy beams of radiation into a patient’s body to kill cancer cells has been out of service for months, and the other packed up on May 6, just over a month after it was repaired, patients told ZimLive.
One patient said: “Life in Zimbabwe is tough. It’s been two weeks and we’re being turned away because the machine is not working properly. My radiation sessions have been disrupted by exactly seven days.”
The patient said after enquiring if he could be transferred to Parirenyatwa, he was told he would need to start his 25-day treatment all over again “as radiation is supposed to be a continuous process.”
He added: “I fear for my life and that of a friend I met at Mpilo who is in a critical situation. The ministry of health should help us.”
Acting Mpilo Hospital CEO Professor Solwayo Ngwenya confirmed their machines had broken down.
In an emailed response to ZimLive, Prof Ngwenya said: “Please note that the machines are very sensitive and they break down constantly. This also happens to machines in Harare and we have treated patients from there when their machines break down.
“The government is working very hard to fix the latest problems. This time it is not the issue of the physicist.”
Previously when Mpilo’s cancer machines were working, the hospital had no physicist to carry out the treatment until one was seconded from Harare. Mpilo’s last two physicists had left for the United Kingdom.
Ngwenya said Zimbabwe currently had no engineers who can fix the machines.
“When they break down, we have to fly in engineers from South Africa, and that requires foreign currency which we don’t have. Whenever there are power outages and such other disturbances, the risk of breakdown increases exponentially,” Ngwenya explained.
He said they relied on the health ministry to secure foreign currency from treasury, adding that the issue had already been escalated with the ministry.
On Tuesday, shocking pictures taken by doctors emerged showing nurses carrying patients up a staircase because lifts were not working. The hospital is blaming power outages.
“The pictures you refer to were taken on Monday. ZESA was said to be doing a fault repair in the neighbouring suburbs so they cut power off most of the day. We used diesel generators to power lifesaving equipment, but unfortunately the lift is not powered by the generators,” Ngwenya said.
“We have been having these power cuts for sometime now. We used to have dedicated power supply from ZESA as a major strategic hospital. Unfortunately, we don’t have any dedicated line anymore and we continue to be at the mercy of power faults and cuts.
“We feel the pain and inconvenience that the staff and patients and their relatives have to go through. We hope that these issues will be attended soon by the relevant authorities.”
By A Correspondent- The State was on Monday told to take seriously proceedings into the matter in which former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo is accused of corruptly parcelling out State land and duping home-seekers through his cooperative.
Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje said the State was supposed to respond to Chombo’s application challenging his placement on remand on the six counts of corruption-related charges.
“The accused made an application on April 15 and the State has not responded.
“The State should respond before end of day today (yesterday) and should take the proceedings seriously,” said Mr Mambanje.
Prosecuting, Mrs Netsai Mushayabasa undertook to respond to the application before Chombo returns to court on Friday.
In his application prepared by his lawyer Professor Lovemore Madhuku, Chombo said the State had failed to name the people whom he allegedly duped and the amounts they lost.
Chombo claims the State should, at least by now, have established the amount of prejudice suffered considering that the offences were allegedly committed several years ago.
“To begin with, the complainants have not been named, the amounts have not been stated and given that the alleged offence occurred over a period of 15 years, it is strange how the State does not have an amount,” he said.
Chombo said the bank account said by the State to be the one used by home-seekers depositing money when buying stands from him, was not registered in his name and was not the one who opened the account.
He said the cooperative he is alleged to have used to defraud people was not registered and this was confirmed from the Registrar of Cooperatives.
In his application, Chombo also denied that he allocated 125 commonage stands to himself saying there was no title deeds registered in his name to prove the State’s allegations.
“The State has not so much as even bothered to mention a stand number of any stand allocated to myself, by myself let alone 125.
“There is only mention that residential stands 304, 318, 319, 320 and 322 of Plot 12 Philadelphia Farm are mine. Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said.
Chombo also denied owning the companies that the State alleges were allocated stands by him on Carrick Creagh Farm saying he was not a director or shareholder of any company.
“The first company Comverol Enterprises (Pvt) Limited, I am neither a director nor shareholder. How can these companies be deemed mine when I am neither a shareholder nor director? Cayford (Pvt) Limited does not exist.
“How can I be an owner of a company that does not exist,” he said.
Chombo distanced himself from Cavford (Pvt) Limited, which the State alleges he allocated a stand .
He also denied handing over Order Farm to Sensene Investments saying there is a Constitutional Court judgment that dealt with the matter.
Any decision that was made regarding the farm in question was as a result of a court order, Chombo said.
Chombo also denied instructing officials to sign a deed of settlement with Phillip Chiyangwa’s Pinnacle Holdings saying there was a Supreme Court order which narrated how the signing was made.
The State is expected to file its response on April 28, with Prof Madhuku making his oral submissions on May 10.
By A Correspondent- Zanu-PF youth league secretary for indigenisation Mike Chimombe is under fire for allegedly fanning factionalism and sponsoring violent gangs that are reportedly decampaigning President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Chinhoyi.
Chimombe, who is also Affirmative Action Group (AAG) president, has reportedly turned into a terror campaign leader, terrorising residents in Makonde and Chinhoyi.
Information deputy minister Kindness Paradza recently wrote to the party’s national chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri asking her to intervene and rein in Chimombe.
In a letter to Zanu-PF chairperson and Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri dated May 10, 2021, Paradza, who is also Makonde MP and Zanu-PF district co-ordinating committee (DCC) chairperson, alleged that Chimombe and his rogue group had rendered some districts ungovernable.
“Chimombe is now behaving like a warlord in Makonde, in particular Chinhoyi constituency, where he has divided the party by sponsoring a gang of hooligans whose actions and behaviour are working against the party and our leader, His Excellency the President, Cde ED Mnangagwa.
“Cde chairman, if no action is taken against Mike Chimombe now, as your DCC chairman, I will be forced to abandon Chinhoyi and concentrate on Mhangura and Makonde constituencies only,” he said.
Chimombe is alleged to have unleashed hooligans who disrupted an inter-district meeting in Chinhoyi on May 8, 2021.
“This is now the second time that he (Chimombe) has done it, using the same hooligans who hide behind the party, simply because they will be wearing his hovhorosi (overalls) attire bearing a Zanu-PF logo,” Paradza said.
He further alleged that Chimombe’s “thugs” were terrorising bona fide party supporters, adding that there was no peace in Chinhoyi.
“Instead of us uniting as a party and fighting to regain the seat which has been under MDC since 2008, Mike Chimombe has seen it fit to drive away the support we currently have in Chinhoyi,” Paradza said.
He said the May 8 meeting was so violent that he had to be evacuated from the venue by security agents.
Police had to throw teargas canisters to disperse Chimombe’s marauding gangsters “who were visibly drunk”.
“They were accusing me of protecting the newly-elected Makonde DCC youth affairs secretary, Ketty Chanetsa, who they want removed and replaced with one of their own who had lost elections.”
The Makonde MP said the issue was reported to Mashonaland West provincial chairperson Ziyambi Ziyambi.
However, he said Ziyambi appeared powerless as Chimombe boasted that he was Mnangagwa’s confidante.
“When I was elected DCC chairman last December, both Mike Chimombe and Phillip Chiyangwa told me that they would do whatever it takes to undermine all the party programmes in Makonde simply because I had defeated their own preferred candidate, Misheck Nyarubero, whom they had sponsored against me,” Paradza said.
He further alleged that Chiyangwa and Women Affairs deputy minister Jennifer Mhlanga had pushed for the expulsion of Mnangagwa during the late former President Robert Mugabe’s era.
“I can assure you that if no action is taken against Mike Chimombe and to a larger extent Phillip Chiyangwa, then we will not recapture Chinhoyi from the MDC. But Zanu-PF is bigger than individuals,” he said.
Both Chiyangwa and Chimombe were not picking calls and also did not respond to questions sent to them on WhatsApp.
In the 2018 harmonised elections, Mnangagwa garnered only 9 000 votes against MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa’s 18 000 votes in Chinhoyi constituency.
By A Correspondent- A suspected thief from Rushinga was allegedly bashed to death by five people in Mazowe after they accused him of 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- Human rights lawyer Musa Kika filed an urgent High Court application on Tuesday seeking the arrest and jailing of Luke Malaba for contempt of court after showing up for work in defiance of a judgment blocking the extension of his tenure as Chief Justice.
Kika wants Malaba locked up at the notorious Chikurubi Maximum Prison for six months if he does not “forthwith and immediately” desist “from exercising the functions of Chief Justice of Zimbabwe either in a judicial or administrative capacity.”
Malaba’s world came crashing down on May 15 following a High Court ruling by Justices Happias Zhou, Edith Mushore, and Helena Charewa, that he had ceased to be a judge as President Emmerson Mnangagwa had violated the constitution by extending his contract by five years past his retirement at 70.
But the embattled former Chief Justice started reporting for duty on Monday with Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretary Walter Chikwana explaining that Malaba “has always been at work since the day the government noted an appeal in the Supreme Court against the order of the High Court. The suspension of the order is by operation of the law.”
But Kika countered in his application that the commission and justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi were mistaken “in taking the view that the appeal has suspended the operation of the judgment of this court.”
“This is for the reason that the judgment of the court is a declaratur and is for that reason not suspended by the noting of an appeal. The appeal noted by the second respondent does not accordingly have the effect of suspending the operation of the judgment of this court,” argued Kika, director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum.
Malaba’s shock ouster was triggered by two separate applications brought by Kika and the Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe (YLAZ).
Kika said the contempt charges were “of a serious nature”, adding the defendant must be convicted and “consequently be ordered to pay a fine in the sum of $1000,000.00”.
Furthermore, the human rights lawyer argued, Malaba must “be committed to Chikurubi [Maximum] Prison for a period of 6 months all of which is suspended on the grounds that he shall forthwith and immediately after service upon him of this order cease and desist from exercising the functions of chief justice of Zimbabwe either in a judicial or administrative capacity.”
Kika also asked the High Court to refer Malaba’s issue as “a registered legal practitioner” to the Law Society of Zimbabwe’s ethics and disciplinary committee for possible sanctions or any “such action as may be warranted by the circumstances of the matter.”
He said Malaba’s defiance was “calculated to prejudice the hearing of the appeal” which many lawyers say has created a “constitutional crisis” as all judges of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court are cited in the initial application, which effectively precludes them from hearing the case.
Calling the former top judge’s actions “not a small matter” that brings the “judiciary into disrepute”, the applicant said it was surprising that by reporting for duty, “It did not bother him that the country has an Acting Chief Justice.”
Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza was installed as Acting Chief Justice by the JSC soon after Malaba’s removal. And Kika argued that “there has not been any succeeding official declaration of any change in the circumstance.”
Kika’s lawyer Silvaine Vongai Tendere also contended in a certificate of urgency that contrary to the government’s position, “the appeal noted does not at any rate suspend the operation of the judgment of this court.”
“The authority of the court must be restored as a matter of urgency when the position of the first respondent is considered. The contempt also puts the judiciary into irremediable dispute,” said Tendere.
By A Correspondent- The government has repossessed over 80 mining concessions under the “use-it or lose-it” policy and a formal announcement will be made in due course.
Speaking to State media in a recent interview, Mines and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando said that the government will soon issue a formal announcement regarding the repossessed idle assets.
He said:
The ‘use-it or lose-it’ policy has been implemented. We will have formal announcements in due course.
But we have repossessed over 80 assets and we will do a formal update on that, and we will continue to do that (repossessing).
We have always warned that the time was up for all those mining titleholders who were holding onto the concessions for speculative tendencies at the expense of the country.
Under the ‘Zimbabwe is open for business’ mantra, those repossessed assets will be reallocated to potential investors who really want them for productive purpose in line with the National Development Strategy 1 Agenda.
The repossessed assets were in sub-sectors that include gold, coal, and chrome, among others.
In 2020, the government announced that it was also looking forward to re-sizing some of the concessions with a huge resource base and inordinate life spans and allocate them to potential investors.-StateMedia
By Jane Mlambo| MDC Alliance activist Cecelia Chimbiri has questioned the police over the selective application of the law after they allowed ZANU PF members to gather and toyi-toyi at the unveiling of Mbuya Nehanda statue yesterday.
Chimbiri who together with Harare West legislator, Joana Mamombe spend over two months in detention charged with breaching COVID-19 regulations accused the police of being ZANU PF.
“Police you arrest us and we spend 62 days etc in jails for just breathing in front of a court , How about this ? Are others above the law because they are Zanu , you need to explain this oh no wait you won’t because you are Zanu Pf police,” said Chimbiri.
Yesterday, ZANU PF members gathered at the Mbuya Nehanda statue in large numbers while some youths could be seen toyi-toying in breach of COVID-19 regulations.
Many opposition MDC Alliance members have been arrested and detained for breaching COVID-19 regulations including a case where Chimbiri and Mamombe were taken after addressing a press conference outside the Harare Magistrates Court.
By A Correspondent- Masvingo socialite Juliet Jaboon who is related to former Bikita Member of Parliament Jeppy Jaboon (ZANU PF) has died.
Juliet’s close friend, Patience Rakabota confirmed the news to Masvingo Mirror on Tuesday and expressed sadness over the loss of a close associate.
Rakabota disclosed that Juliet died at Masvingo Provincial Hospital of severe chest pains and high blood pressure on Monday night. She said:
I am disgusted by the death of JJ because she was a very close and lovely friend, I last talked to her on Saturday at Masvingo Provincial Hospital where she was admitted and I was jokingly advising her to reduce alcohol intake since her BP was getting worse, I can’t believe this honestly, Gracelands will never be the same without her.
Another close friend, Dzidzai Jiri who was collecting bereavement funds from friends on behalf of the family had this to say:
I am in pain, JJ was very friendly and lovely, she was very close to her son especially after the death of her daughter recently in mysterious ways, pasi harigute (death has an insatiable appetite).
Juliet was a teacher at Sikato Primary School in Masvingo Rural District and she leaves behind a child, a boy doing Form 4. She was staying in the Majange area of Mucheke Suburb.
She will be buried this Wednesday in Bikita and her body has since left Masvingo City.
An elderly woman from Hillside suburb in Bulawayo died mid-air on an Airlink flight number 4Z110 from Johannesburg to Bulawayo on Monday.
Jean Sicingiwe Khumalo who was in her sixties passed away on the flight that landed at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport just before midday.
Family spokesperson Lazarus Khumalo confirmed the death to Chronicle on Tuesday.
He said:
We confirm her death. She was an elderly person and was a stroke patient for the past six years or so. That is all that we can say about her health. Besides that, there isn’t much to say. We however request that our privacy be respected as we mourn.
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe spokesperson Annajulia Hungwe said Khumalo died during the last minutes of the hour-long flight.
Said Hungwe:
We had an unfortunate incident where a female passenger whom I cannot name because of ethical reasons died mid-air. Her death was confirmed upon landing at the airport.
We will get reports from the airline, law enforcement and also health authorities on the incident which will answer questions over how the passenger died.
Hungwe said health services were called to supervise the removal of the body in compliance with COVID-19 protocols.
She added:
Flight 4Z110 landed on schedule at the airport just before midday and had been due to return to Johannesburg at 12.35 PM.
However, health authorities took time to remove the body and carry out cabin disinfection procedures on the Embraer E170LR until 2 PM when the plane took off.
COVID-19 procedures were maintained at all costs. The passenger had a test certificate taken 48 hours before travelling showing that she was negative from the virus as required by Zimbabwean COVID-19 regulations.
Some parts of Harare will today experience a power supply interruption between 6 AM and 6 PM as the power utility will be carrying out maintenance works.
A statement by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), the power distribution arm of ZESA, reads:
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) would like to advise its valued customers in Harare Region that there will be a power supply interruption on Wednesday 26 May 2021 from 06.00-1800 hours for the purpose of carrying out critical maintenance works.
During this period, electricity will not be available in the following areas: Mandara, Chikurubi Maximum Prison, ZRP Support Unit, Donnybrook Park houses, NetOne main exchange, Dover rad, Court road, Chamberlain road, Cambridge road, parts of Harare Drive, The Grange, Beeston Road, Hayhill, Gletwyn and parts of Chishawasha.
Customers are advised to treat all circuits as LIVE during this period as power may be restored without notice.
The inconvenience caused is sincerely regretted.
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC)
By A Correspondent- Constitutional law expert Professor Lovemore Madhuku said an order for the exhumation and reburial of former President Robert Mugabe issued by a traditional chief this week is “outrageous” and “defies common sense and logic”.
Prof Madhuku said Chief Zvimba, real name Stanley Mhondoro, has no legal authority to order the exhumation of bodies, let alone decide where they are buried well outside his area of control. He said:
It clearly appears that the traditional court has gone outside its jurisdiction, for example, the whole point of exhuming a body is not governed by customary law in Zimbabwe.
If you want to exhume any body in any part of the country, you don’t go to a customary law court.
A customary community court in this case does not have the power to order what appears to have been ordered.
The furthest they can go is to try and say whether or not Grace Mugabe would have done something wrong here, but not to the extent of making an exhumation order, so that is a reviewable ground, you can take that court to a higher court and say that it went outside its jurisdiction.
Prof Madhuku said he was convinced that Chief Zvimba’s ruling “would not stand scrutiny in any superior court because it strikes me as extremely outrageous in its defiance of common sense or logic.”
Chief Zvimba’s court sat on 20 May, and its judgement was delivered to the Mugabe rural home in Kutama where his family buried him in line with his wishes.
The traditional court fined Mugabe’s widow, Grace, five cows and a goat, for violating cultural norms in burying the former president.
Chief Zvimba also gave Mugabe’s widow – who has been in Singapore for a year and who did not attend the hearing – up to 1 July to ensure Mugabe is reburied at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.
Meanwhile, Mugabe’s family and the former president’s supporters charge that Chief Zvimba is in fact fronting for President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao accused Mnangagwa of being the invisible force orchestrating the exhumation bid.
He said Mnangagwa believes that Mugabe was buried with a mystic sceptre that would give him commanding authority as a leader of Zimbabwe.
By A Correspondent- President Mnangagwa on Tuesday handed over 18 vehicles to traditional leaders and handed over the car keys to Chief Negomo who made headlines for humiliating the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai during the tenure of the inclusive government.
Handing over the vehicles at a brief ceremony held at a local hotel, President Mnangagwa said the Isuzu twin cab vehicles will go a long way in ensuring that traditional leaders were empowered and enhance their integrity in society.
Mnangagwa hands over car keys to Chief Negomo Traditional leaders who got vehicles are the fourth batch of chiefs who have benefitted from the Government’s ongoing programme.
Yesterday’s event was attended by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, Government Ministers, Chiefs Council deputy president Chief Mtshane Khumalo and several traditional leaders and senior Government officials.
By A Correspondent -Home Affairs Minister, and Zanu PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman, Kazembe Kazembe is reportedly blocking businessman, James Makamba from contesting him for the party’s provincial leadership in the looming elections.
Makamba was invited by locals to challenge Kazembe for the influential party position in Mashonaland Central after the latter had become unpopular.
Party insiders told Bulawayo24 that last week Kazembe sent police details to arrest Makamba at his rural home in Mount Darwin after his family and friends had gathered to welcome him.
Both Makamba and Kazembe could neither confirm nor deny the allegations.
“Police came and arrested Makamba accusing him of violating covid- 19 regulations but they were pleading with him that they were sent by Kazembe on political grounds since he showed interest in contesting him in the looming provincial elections, ” said the source.
Kazembe did not respond to questions sent to him by this Bulawayo24, while Makamba refused to comment on the issue.
Makamba’s alleged arrest has raised eyebrows within the Zanu PF camp in the province with locals arguing that Kazembe was ever mobilising huge crowds exceeding 50 people which are allowed under the Covid-19 set regulations.
“It is astonishing to note that Kazembe is using security agencies for political power in the name of violating covid 19 regulations yet he chairs a PCC with more than 100 people,” said Givemore Chatyoka.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently defied COVID-19 safety protocols set by his government after he gathered thousands of people for a cultural event in Gokwe South, hours before his Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who doubles as Health minister, placed the City of Kwekwe under a 14-day lockdown following the outbreak of the much-feared Indian variant of the disease in the Midlands city
The numbers show that a clinic the size of 100 square metres could have been constructed with the money used.
The cost of building a hospital per square metre in Northern Ireland is £1460.
The Nehanda statue’s metal bridge alone cost a whopping R2,1 million [£110,000] before labour and before import costs from South Africa. Correspondence with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, Zimra shows that the bridge’s steel was imported from South Africa.
Zimbabwe is one of the world’s largest producers of steel.
The erecting of the Nehanda statue comes at a time when Nehanda meternity ward, at Harare Hospital is in shambles as patients are forced to bring their own drinking water from home.
correspondence with Zimra over the metal bridge elements
By A Correspondent- President Mnangagwa on Tuesday handed over 18 vehicles to traditional leaders as part of his efforts to encourage traditional leaders to force people to vote for him in 2023.
Handing over the vehicles at a brief ceremony held at a local hotel, President Mnangagwa said the Isuzu twin cab vehicles will go a long way in ensuring that traditional leaders were empowered and enhance their integrity in society.
Mnangagwa hands over car keys to Chief Negomo Traditional leaders who got vehicles are the fourth batch of chiefs who have benefitted from the Government’s ongoing programme.
Yesterday’s event was attended by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, Government Ministers, Chiefs Council deputy president Chief Mtshane Khumalo and several traditional leaders and senior Government officials.
Below is a customs duty document which shows that on the Nehanda Statue officiated on the 25th May, the steel bridge alone cost the country more than R2,1 million.
By A Correspondent-The State was on Monday told to take seriously proceedings into the matter in which former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo is accused of corruptly parcelling out State land and duping home-seekers through his cooperative.
Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje said the State was supposed to respond to Chombo’s application challenging his placement on remand on the six counts of corruption-related charges.
“The accused made an application on April 15 and the State has not responded.
“The State should respond before end of day today (yesterday) and should take the proceedings seriously,” said Mr Mambanje.
Prosecuting, Mrs Netsai Mushayabasa undertook to respond to the application before Chombo returns to court on Friday.
In his application prepared by his lawyer Professor Lovemore Madhuku, Chombo said the State had failed to name the people whom he allegedly duped and the amounts they lost.
Zimbabwe Netball Association (Zina) Bulawayo province yesterday exposed players to Covid-19 after failing to abide by health guidelines during a Hope through Sports and Sports Grind sponsored Africa Day mini-tournament at Sobukhazi High School.
When Chronicle Sport arrived at the venue, it observed that players and officials didn’t follow laid down guidelines like wearing masks, sanitisation of match balls and players before and after each game.
People could not observe the covid-19 regulations of social distance and proper wearing of masks at the Sobukhazi Netaball Tourney in Bulawayo.
Thermometers for temperature checks were also not provided, while Covid-19 tests for players and officials were not done.
Zina Bulawayo province secretary Livonia Bhebhe, however, distanced her organisation from the tournament, saying they had nothing to do with the event.
People could not observe the covid-19 regulations of social distance and proper wearing of masks at the Sobukhazi Netaball Tourney in Bulawayo.
“Sorry, we have nothing to do with organisation of this tournament; I am here as a mere spectator so please leave Zina out of this,” said Bhebhe.
Despite her denial, other players and officials said Zina was the technical body for the tournament.
“Zina chose the participating teams as custodians of netball in the country,” said an official.- Chronicle
Nehanda Nyakasikana statue erected on 25th May 2021
Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana also known as Mbuya Nehanda (c. 1840–1898) was a svikiro, or spirit medium of the Zezuru Shona people of Zimbabwe. She was a medium of Nehanda, a female Shona mhondoro.(powerful and respected ancestral spirit) As one of the spiritual leaders of the Shona, she was one of the leaders of a revolt, the Chimurenga, against the British South Africa Company’s colonisation of Zimbabwe led by Cecil John Rhodes in 1889. She was a Hera of the Hwata Mufakose Dynasty. She and her ally who some historians claim was her husband, Sekuru Kaguvi were eventually captured and executed by the Company on charges of murder. She has been commemorated by Zimbabweans through the building of statues in her name, street names, hospitals, songs, novels, and poems. The legacy of the medium continued to be linked to the theme of resistance, particularly the guerrilla war that began in 1972. Her name became of increasing importance to the nationalist movements in Zimbabwe
The spirit Nehanda is said to be the mhondoro, a royal mudzimu (ancestral spirit) or “lion spirit”,that uses women as her mediums. The mediums are given the title Nehanda or Mbuya Nehanda.[6] One of the daughters of Nyatsimba Mutota, the first leader of the Munhumutapa state, was considered to possess this spirit.[7] Mhondoro spirits were revered spirits among the Shona, as it was believed that they could interpret the orders and wishes of Mwari, the senior deity.[8] The original Nehanda was considered to be Nyamhita, the daughter of the first Monomatapa Mutota, who was living in the escarpment north of Guruve in about 1430. Mutota was the founder of the Mutapa state. He had a son called Matope who later became the second Monomatapa. Matope was Nyamhita’s younger half brother, and to increase the power of Matope, Mutota ordered his son to sleep with his older half sister, Nyamhita, who became widely known as Nehanda. This incest ritual was believed to have resulted in the increase of Matope’s rule and empire. Matope handed over a part of his empire to Nehanda who became so powerful and well known that her spirit lived on in the human bodies of various spirit mediums until almost 500 years later when it was believed to occupy the body of the Mazoe Nehanda. During periods of possession by the spirit, spirit mediums were believed to be speaking with the voice and personality of the original Nehanda and not with their own
Charwe Nyakasikana was born in 1840, in what is today called the Chishawasha District located in Central Mashonaland. She was the daughter of a man named Chitaura, who was the younger son of Shayachimwe. Shayachimwe, founded the Hwata dynasty in the upper Mazowe valley in the late eighteenth century. She married and had two daughters and a son, but the name of her husband is not recalled. Living in the hills around Mazoe, Zimbabwe, in the mid 19th century, were various subchiefs including Chidamba. In Chidamba’s village lived Charwe Nyakasikana, who was considered to be the female incarnation of the oracle spirit Nehanda. D. N. Beach suggests that she became possessed by the spirit in 1884
As medium of the spirit Nehanda, Nyakasikana made oracular pronouncements and performed traditional ceremonies that were thought to ensure rain and good crops. She held great authority even before the 1896-7 rebellion. She was a powerful woman and staunchly committed to upholding traditional Shona culture. In a map drawn by missionaries (c. 1888) displaying work by the Church, there is a village called Nehanda’s. Mbuya Nehanda was instrumental in organising the nationwide participation in the First Chimurenga of 1896–7. King Lobengula recognized her as a powerful spiritual medium in the land. During the arrival of the first European settlers, Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana occupied an important and influential position in the religious hierarchy in Mashonaland, where she is the only recorded woman known to have held such a significant position during the 19th century.
Spirit mediums at first promoted good relations between the Zezuru people and early European settlers. As white settlement increased in the land, according to sources Nehanda initially welcomed them by the pioneers and counseled her followers to be friendly towards them. “Don’t be afraid of them,” she said, “as they are only traders, but take a black cow to them and say this is the meat with which we greet you.” Unfortunately relationships became strained when the settlers started imposing taxes on the Matabele and conscripting them for various labor projects. Following the imposition of a “hut tax” and other tax assessments in 1894, both the Ndebele and Shona people revolted in June 1896, in what became known as the First Chimurenga or Second Matabele War. The rebellion, in Mashonaland at least, was encouraged by traditional religious leaders including Nyakasikana. Due to the cultural beliefs of the locals, the leading roles behind the rebellion were three spirit mediums. The rebellion was initiated in Matebeland in May 1896, the leading role there being Mukwati, in October 1896 Kaguvi and Nehanda from Mashonaland joined in; these were the three critical people behind the rebellion.
Kaguvi (aka Kagubi) was believed to be the spirit husband of the other great Shona spirit, Nehanda, and it may have been this connection which enabled him to persuade Mbuya Nehanda to preach the gospel of war in Mashonaland, which led to the first Chimurenga. The role as well as the influence of the spirit mediums in form of Kaguvi and Nehanda, cannot be understated. As far as the people were concerned Nehanda and Kaguvi were the voices of God aka ‘Mwari’. Kaguvi and later Nehanda (after being convinced by Kaguvi) preached that according to Mwari the cause of all the trouble that had come upon the land was the white man. They had brought the locusts and the rinderpest, and to crown it all the owners of the cattle which had died were not allowed to eat the meat of the carcasses, which had to be burned or buried. Mwari decreed that the white men were to be driven from the country; that the natives had nothing to fear because Mwari would turn the bullets of the white man into water. A public press photograph was taken of Nehanda and Kaguvi in 1897 to display their success.
After the end of the rebellion in 1897, Nyakasikana was captured and charged with the murder of Native Commissioner Henry Hawkins Pollard in 1896. She was found guilty after eyewitnesses claimed that she had ordered an associate to chop Pollard’s head off. Consequently, she was hanged in March 1898. Much mythology grew up around the difficulty involved in killing her.
Legacy
Nehanda’s heroism became a significant source of inspiration in the nationalist struggle for liberation in the 1960s and 1970s. Her name is now usually prefixed by the respectful title of Mbuya, or grandmother. The maternity section of Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare is named after her. The College of Health Sciences of the University of Zimbabwe is located there as well.
A 20-YEAR-OLD man from Zhombe, Midlands Province died on admission to hospital after being attacked by a machete during a nasty fight with his neighbours whom he had provoked over an undisclosed grudge.
Allen Ndlovu of Dumezweni Village under Chief Ntabeni died upon admission to Kwekwe General Hospital where he had been rushed after being disarmed and attacked with his own machete.
Midlands Police spokesperson, Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the incident that occurred on Monday afternoon at Majanjathini Shops in Zhombe.
“Police are investigating a case of murder and assault emanating from a fight over a long-standing dispute. A 20-year-old man, Allen Ndlovu, died after being struck with a machete after the misunderstanding,” Inspector Mahoko said.
He said the now-deceased was the first to attack but was later disarmed and hacked with his own weapon.
“On 24 May around 3PM, Ndlovu was in the company of his brother Thokozani Ndlovu (24) at Majanjathini tuckshops where they met Tarisai Makore aged 35. A misunderstanding arose over a long-standing grudge involving Allen and Makore and his brothers. Allen, who was armed with a machete then struck Makore on the left hand,” said Inspector Mahoko.
Makore’s brothers, Mavhu Makore (38) and Vusa Mpinga (25) who were at their homestead near the shops, noticed the drama unfolding and ran to intervene.
Upon seeing the brothers approaching, the now-deceased tried to flee.
“The now deceased unfortunately tripped and fell and the two brothers caught up with him. They disarmed him and used his machete to strike him several times all over the body,” he said.
The matter was reported to police and Ndlovu was ferried to Kwekwe General Hospital where he died upon admission.
Makore was treated and discharged.
“Police are again appealing to members of the public to always prioritise settling disputes through dialogue and desist from violence,” said Inspector Mahoko.- Chronicle
Zimbabwe Netball Association (Zina) Bulawayo province yesterday exposed players to Covid-19 after failing to abide by health guidelines during a Hope through Sports and Sports Grind sponsored Africa Day mini-tournament at Sobukhazi High School.
When Chronicle Sport arrived at the venue, it observed that players and officials didn’t follow laid down guidelines like wearing masks, sanitisation of match balls and players before and after each game.
People could not observe the covid-19 regulations of social distance and proper wearing of masks at the Sobukhazi Netaball Tourney in Bulawayo.
Thermometers for temperature checks were also not provided, while Covid-19 tests for players and officials were not done.
Zina Bulawayo province secretary Livonia Bhebhe, however, distanced her organisation from the tournament, saying they had nothing to do with the event.
People could not observe the covid-19 regulations of social distance and proper wearing of masks at the Sobukhazi Netaball Tourney in Bulawayo.
“Sorry, we have nothing to do with organisation of this tournament; I am here as a mere spectator so please leave Zina out of this,” said Bhebhe.
Despite her denial, other players and officials said Zina was the technical body for the tournament.
“Zina chose the participating teams as custodians of netball in the country,” said an official.- Chronicle
A three-roomed house belonging to MDC-Alliance spokesperson for Chikomba West Constituency Noel Kureva was set alight on Saturday afternoon destroying property worth US$3 000, Masvingo Mirror reports.
The incident happened at around 3 PM when Kureva and his family were away.
Kureva confirmed the incident and he suspects an act of violence from ZANU PF activists.
The matter was reported at Beatrice Police Station under RRB number 4321996.
MDC-Alliance Youth Secretary for Chikomba West Constituency Nyemudzai Mubayiwa told the publication that Kureva has been receiving threats from the ruling party.
Mubayiwa said ZANU PF supporters wanted Kureva to vacate a plot he occupies allegedly because he is a member of an opposition party.
He expressed concern at the increasing number of cases of political violence in Mash East, the hotbed of political killings in previous elections.
However, ZANU PF Chairman for Mashonaland East province Michael Madanha distanced the ruling party from the incident which he said was against the Zimbabwean culture. Madanha said:
As ZANU PF, we do not support this kind of terrorism. We are much against this behaviour and we are saying the issue must be investigated by the Police so that the criminals are apprehended.
There are some individuals who want to tarnish our political party as we are towards the elections and they try to cover up using the ZANU PF name.
Again, we should not be hesitant to talk about the in-house fights in the opposition party and this might be also the cause.
Property including sofas, television sets, radio, cement, maize, groceries, bicycles and blankets was lost in the inferno.- Masvingo Mirror
By A Correspondent | The below picture (arrowed) circulated on Tuesday with many Zimbabweans alleging that it is the controversial Chief Zvimba who wants to exhume the remains of former President Robert Mugabe.
As we look to interview him today, ZimEye is reliably told the man is not at all Chief Zvimba.
Zvimba South MP Hon. Phillip Chiyamba told ZimEye the man is not Chief Zvimba. Further details are to be published on due course.
ZANU-PF members violating the COVID-19 regulations which require ALL gatherings to be less than 50. The same police in attendance chased away Beatrice Mtetwa and Fadzai Mahere from addressing the press citing COVID-19 laws, and arrested @JoanaMamombe and @ceechimbiri2pic.twitter.com/g6hgR6fqlS
Harare provincial development co-ordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti, who has been reportedly under the weather after being poisoned by his nemeses for fighting land barons and corruption, yesterday vowed that he would not be intimidated and would continue busting graft despite threats to his life.
Muguti was appointed last year, but of late, he has been absent from office amid reports that he had been poisoned for exposing land barons. He spoke for the first time yesterday following his return to work last month.
“I am not commenting on that (poisoning) issue, but what I can only tell you is because of our job, our lives are always under threat,” Muguti told NewsDay.
“We are living in violent and politically toxic times, and my job comes with its consequences and all I can say is that we are protected by the Lord Almighty. We are not targeting individuals, we are targeting the wrongs being done by people and if we can fix that then we can go far,” he said.
Muguti said his name had been abused by namedroppers who were viciously fighting him because they felt he had disturbed their “feeding trough”.
“Let me be frank, my job as PDC has come under a lot of resistance because people feel we are removing them from their feeding trough. The abnormalities at the City of Harare had become the normal way of life.
“From the economic side, economic sabotage had become a way of life and so were land barons in the same manner as drugs are now viewed as a way of life. My job as a senior government official is to bring order in the province. I am not employed to make
friends. I am employed to create a conducive working environment in the city and not to make friends. My job requires energy, I cannot please criminals,” he said, adding that he believed in servant leadership.
“People try to even forge my signature in their deals, but that will all come to an end. Let us make corruption unattractive and call a spade a spade. We will descend on all economic crimes in the city.”
Sources said Muguti was reportedly poisoned after he stepped on several land barons’ toes, mostly those affiliated to the ruling Zanu PF party and the opposition MDC formations after the Justice Tendai Uchena land audit report stated that over US$3 billion worth of land was lost in a scam involving top politicians. -Newsday
The state was on Monday told to take seriously proceedings into the matter in which former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo is accused of corruptly parcelling out State land and duping home-seekers through his cooperative.
Ignatius Chombo
Chombo, is facing charges among others, of abuse of office and fraud involving the parceling out of land in Harare and Zvimba communal lands.
Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje said the State was supposed to respond to Chombo’s application challenging his placement on remand on the six counts of corruption-related charges.
“The accused made an application on April 15 and the State has not responded. The State should respond before end of day today (yesterday) and should take the proceedings seriously,” said Mr Mambanje.
Prosecuting, Mrs Netsai Mushayabasa undertook to respond to the application before Chombo returns to court on Friday.
In his application prepared by his lawyer Professor Lovemore Madhuku, Chombo said the State had failed to name the people whom he allegedly duped and the amounts they lost.
Chombo claims the State should, at least by now, have established the amount of prejudice suffered considering that the offences were allegedly committed several years ago.
“To begin with, the complainants have not been named, the amounts have not been stated and given that the alleged offence occurred over a period of 15 years, it is strange how the State does not have an amount,” he said.
Chombo said the bank account said by the State to be the one used by home-seekers depositing money when buying stands from him, was not registered in his name and was not the one who opened the account.
He said the cooperative he is alleged to have used to defraud people was not registered and this was confirmed from the Registrar of Cooperatives.
In his application, Chombo also denied that he allocated 125 commonage stands to himself saying there was no title deeds registered in his name to prove the State’s allegations.
“The State has not so much as even bothered to mention a stand number of any stand allocated to myself, by myself let alone 125.
“There is only mention that residential stands 304, 318, 319, 320 and 322 of Plot 12 Philadelphia Farm are mine. Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said.
Chombo also denied owning the companies that the State alleges were allocated stands by him on Carrick Creagh Farm saying he was not a director or shareholder of any company.
“The first company Comverol Enterprises (Pvt) Limited, I am neither a director nor shareholder. How can these companies be deemed mine when I am neither a shareholder nor director? Cayford (Pvt) Limited does not exist.
“How can I be an owner of a company that does not exist,” he said.
Chombo distanced himself from Cavford (Pvt) Limited, which the State alleges he allocated a stand. He also denied handing over Order Farm to Sensene Investments saying there is a Constitutional Court judgment that dealt with the matter. Any decision that was made regarding the farm in question was as a result of a court order, Chombo said.
Chombo also denied instructing officials to sign a deed of settlement with Phillip Chiyangwa’s Pinnacle Holdings saying there was a Supreme Court order which narrated how the signing was made.
The State is expected to file its response on April 28, with Prof Madhuku making his oral submissions on May 10. -Herald
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum’s Executive Director, Dr Musa Kika, on 25 May 2021 filed an urgent court application seeking the committal of former Chief Justice (CJ) Luke Malaba to Chikurubi Prison for a period of 6 months for defying a High Court order issued by Justices Zhou, Mushore and Charehwa on 15 May 2021.
Kika, who was the applicant in the matter which was joined with another application filed by the Young Lawyers Association, secured a declaratory order in terms of which the High Court declared that Malaba’s tenure as a judge and Chief Justice of Zimbabwe had come to an end at 00:00hrs on the 15th of May 2021. However, in complete defiance of this order, the former CJ presented himself at his office on 24 May 2021.
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) Secretary, Walter Chikwanha, was quoted in The Herald newspaper of 25 May 2021 as having confirmed the return of Malaba because of an appeal which the JSC noted. Kika however submits in his founding affidavit that the JSC’s view that the appeal has suspended the operation of the judgment of the High Court is incorrect as the judgment of the court is a declaratur and is for that reason not suspended by the noting of an appeal. He further stated that as a jurist of distinction, Malaba is aware of this position but has simply decided to be in contempt of court.
Kika seeks to have the prison term suspended on the grounds that Malaba shall forthwith cease and desist from exercising the functions of CJ either in a judicial or administrative capacity. Kika is also seeking to have an order that the record of these proceedings be placed before the Law Society’s Disciplinary and Ethics Committee for it to take any action that it may find advisable and appropriate, considering the circumstances of the matter.
Tinashe Sambiri|Women have nothing to celebrate on Africa Day…
This was said by the MDC Alliance Assembly Of Women in a statement on Africa Day celebrations.
See statement below:
MDC ALLIANCE ASSEMBLY OF WOMEN STATEMENT ON AFRICA DAY
The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women joins the rest of Africa today 25 May in celebrating Africa Day.
This is the day when Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed which later changed to African Union (AU) in 2001. Zimbabwe is a member of this body where the promotion of International Cooperation with due regard for the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the core objectives.
We celebrate this day with tears on our cheeks as women, mothers and girls of the African continent who continue to suffer economically, politically and socially because of policies and decisions made by leaders who do not want to give us our Democratic space. Africa is dominated by leaders who are dictators and who want to cling on to power through undemocratic means such as election rigging, torturing and silencing voices of dissent, sexually abusing female politicians unlawful detentions and killing of opposition members amongst others.
490 million people in Africa are living in extreme poverty whilst more than 72% of Zimbabweans live below the National Poverty Line (NPL) of which women and girls constitutes a bigger percentage of this.
Women and girls continue to live under difficult conditions where they cannot afford basic needs like sanitary wear, clean environment, sound health delivery system and many more because of collapsed economies due to poor governance and misplaced priorities. Women empowerment and gender equality remains a myth.
We continue to experience abductions and sexual harrassment from security officers who are supposed to be protecting us. The governments have become perpetrators and the AU is silent about all this. It has become a toothless bulldog which cannot protect its citizens from violations of the human rights as witnessed by its quite diplomacy in the case of the trio Joanna Mamombe Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova which got the intervention of the International bodies and Embassies whilst African Union remained silent.
We are much worried as women when crimes against humanity especially against women just go unpunished and wonder who will actually protect us. Our country is being governed by terrorists who are being protected by the AU leaving the majority of the citizens doubting its sincerity.
This is not the Africa we want. As women we want the Africa that respects women and girls, promotes democracy, allows all freedoms to prevail and promotes free and fair elections, hence we are calling for every women in the continent to resist dictatorship and speak out.
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Barbara Gwangwara Tanyanyiwa Spokesperson- MDC Alliance Assembly of Women
By Dr Masimba Mavaza | Zimbabweans received the unveiling of the great statue of Mbuya Nehanda the first ever recorded Woman army commander after Deborah of the bible. Many were elated and praised His Excellency, the president for bestowing this honour on the heroine and commander and a great spiritual guide ever to grace Zimbabwe.
However there were pockets of professional opposing figures like Hopeless Chin’ono and some social media misfits who took turns to criticise the erection of Mbuya Nehanda’s statue. Besides the confused Chin’ono the former minister of Information Prof Jonathan Moyo posted again criticising the decision to erect the statue. Jonathan Moyo can be excused he is always opposing anything as long as it is done in the new dispensation. As for Hopewell Chin’ono we all know he is singing for his supper.
To understand the culture of erecting statues let us first understand what a statue is.
Statue definition is – a three-dimensional representation usually of a person, animal, or mythical being that is produced by sculpturing, modeling, or casting. It is the likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.
A statue is a sculpture representing one or more people or animals, normally full-length, as opposed to a bust, and at least close to life-size, or larger. Statues have been produced in many cultures from from prehistory to the present; the oldest known statue dating to about 30,000 years ago. The world’s tallest statue is over 500 feet. Many statues are built on commission to commemorate a historical event, or the life of an influential person. Many statues are intended as public art, exhibited outdoors or in public buildings. Some statues gain fame in their own right, separate from the person or concept they represent, as with the Statue of Liberty.
Statues can teach us about history, but they do not convey some immutable truth from the past. Instead, they are symbolic of the fixed ideas of a specific community regarding its past, as captured at a particular point in time. They commemorate individuals and celebrate a romanticized vision of the past. They provide neither context nor an explanation of events but they carry history and honour. Amid a country full of idiots who are hell-bent on tearing down statues in a cathartic frenzy, it is worth sparing a moment to reflect on why we erected those statues in the first place. While those who are short minded think that a monument’s primary purpose is to glorify great dead person, the reality is that they were meant to be symbols of hope and progress.
World over nations have expressed their gratitude to the heroes by curving their immortality in a statue. The common question we get from those who love opposing is:What purpose do statues serve? This question came to the fore when Zimbabwe announced plans for a memorial commemorating the great medium and army commander in her own right Chihera Charwe Nyakasikana Nehanda the great.
Many detractors raised blocking unhelpful statements like the government had not consulted members of the Mazoe community and the Nehanda family before publicising them.
This was merely the latest in a succession of recent episodes that have fuelled debates over the purpose of public monuments in society.
One may want to doubt the importance of a statue he must learn from the past few years have seen ongoing campaigns in the US to have Civil War statues commemorating Confederate figures removed from public spaces. Counter-campaigners have sought to maintain those statues as they are. What these episodes all have in common is that, within each, monuments have become lightning rods for wider conflicts between competing visions of history. It shows further that there is great honour in a statue. It becomes a symbol of gratefulness and seed meant to have an eternity effect on the generations to come.
These issues do little to alter the central point; that Zimbabwe, as we know and love it, would not exist without Mbuya Nehanda Chihera mukuru and her great leadership. All they do is suggest that the decision to focus so exclusively on Nehanda was a deliberate one.
Nehanda was ultimately chosen because she was a great canvas on which to project Zimbabwean values. She was a commander and a medium pushing the boundaries of knowledge and courage to her army. She went on to lead the second Chimurenga from the grave. And above all she was a woman from humble origins whose meritocratic success captured the hopes and aspirations of a society oppressed and raised under fear. It took the Nehanda courage to raise a successful rebellion called the second Chimurenga. No amount of money can stop the bestowing of such an honour.
Zimbabweans know that it was “an augury of the future of these great lands, our very commander was one who fought her way to success through spiritual and physical efforts, by the sword and by the spear but persevering dignity. Her life is a noble example to the people of Zimbabwe who lived under institutions which freely open the door of fame and power to all who display courage and ability.” That is why we erect statues, not to glorify the dead, but to inspire the living. “sentiment about great events and great men to whom the country owes much is but the spark which fires men to similar achievement.”
Perhaps one of the reasons the opposition and Hopeless are so determined to tear down everything to do with statues is because they no longer believe that such inspiration is necessary. Identity politics teaches that your race, gender and class determine your life virtually without your input; the individual and their endeavour count for naught. Circumstances certainly play their role, but they do not determine our fate. Giving in to predestination eliminates all purpose in human life. Zimbabweans are not quite the monument builders. We have always put up commemorating statues some representing many in one.
The arguments being spread around by those who are not appreciating the honour bestowed upon Nehanda comes across as borderline silly, but it is never just about Nehanda or dwelling on the past. It is about the great society that is being constructed where Nehanda had tread. As that society faces new challenges, maybe we need some inspiration. statues should be preserved because they teach people about the past. But is viewing a statue actually an effective way of learning about history?
An insightful way of understanding the erection of statutes is to examine the attitudes of past societies to their public monuments. Developments in 19th-century Europe, in particular, have the potential to unlock a fresh vantage point onto this contemporary issue. In that era, many political communities pursued state-building programmes that involved appropriating history to serve interests in the present. Nations devoted substantial energy and resources to commemorating heroes from the past in monumental form.
These monuments continue to shape the fabric of European cities. The gilded bronze statue of Joan of Arc installed in Paris’ Place des Pyramides in 1874, for example, remains a familiar sight in the French capital. Every summer, Joan greets the Tour de France as its riders circle the city’s historic heart during the final stage of the race. The statue of Richard I erected outside London’s Palace of Westminster in 1860 still stands proudly outside the home of Parliament. Richard’s unyielding bronze gaze has watched over defining events in the past 150 years. The fate of the grand statue of Frederick the Great erected on Berlin’s Unter den Linden in 1839 has been intertwined with the history of the city. During the Second World War, the monument was encased in protective cement.
The ways in which monuments were used in 19th-century Belgium aptly illustrate wider European trends and attitudes in that era.
In contrast to more venerable nations such as England and France, Belgian state-builders could not point to continuity through long-standing institutions and structures that had existed for centuries.. As a result, the ideas and aspirations which shaped their efforts came into focus more clearly through statues than in other states.
Seeking to use the past to stimulate feelings of communal solidarity, Zimbabwean political elites have commissioned – and provided substantial levels of funding for – scores of new monuments for the nation.
Zimbabwe’s government has signalled its intention to carry out ‘a national task’ by sponsoring the creation of new statues ‘to honour the memory of the Zimbabweans who had contributed to the glory of their country’.
This wave of Zimbabwean statuomania is not just about conveying an interpretation of the past. It is one element of a programme intended to mediate the relationship between the past and the present. We must remember that the history of every people is written in its monuments. They reveal, without diminishment or partiality, their mores, their beliefs, their institutions. This is true for all eras and applicable to all countries, and will particularly be confirmed in Zimbabwe.
This rather self-conscious effort to assert that Zimbabwean monuments are impartial serves to confirm that precisely our heritage is contained in the monument.
The statues do not simply convey neutral, incontrovertible information about the past puts the past in a pushing position pushing us into our future. Again they present a particular view of history, one which had it that while Zimbabwean nationhood had only become a political reality in 1980. Mbuya Nehanda’s statue will be an impulse that will be shaped the hearts and minds of the inhabitants of the Nation.
Those who will visited the capital will be able to see a tangible version of this history, cast in bronze and carved in stone.
So it is unpatriotic to criticise the honour bestowed on Charwe Chihera Nyakasikana Nehanda.
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is forcing villagers to fund the construction of a clinic in Mwenezi District.
Those who fail to comply with the directive will be punished, it has emerged.
The MDC Alliance has described the victimisation of villagers by the regime as dereliction of duty.
Read statement below:
Dereliction Of Duty By Mnangagwa’s Govt As Villagers Are Forced To Pay For Construction Of A Clinic
25-05-2021
In a clear dereliction of duty by Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime, villagers in Mwenezi East constituency are being forced make monetary contributions towards construction of a clinic in a resettlement area known as Janhi or Petronella farm.
While the Constitution of Zimbabwe on Section 29 clearly state that it is the role of the State ‘to ensure provision of basic, accessible and adequate health services throughout Zimbabwe”, Mnangagwa’s regime through chiefs and headmen are collecting money from poor villagers in Mwenezi.
Section 76 of the Constitution also guarantees for the Right to Healthcare for every citizen and this can never be misconstrued to mean citizens must fund for their own healthcare facilities.
Shockingly, villagers in Mwenezi East under Chief Negari are being forced to pay R20 per household for the construction of a clinic.
Ironically, the same regime that is coercing villagers to pay for construction of health facilities rejected MDC Alliance President, Nelson Chamisa’s offer to build a hospital in Gutu rural district.
Mwenezi district is one of Zimbabwe’s main faces of poverty due to its semi-arid conditions and poor annual rainfall and like most communal areas in the country, villagers survive on less than 1US dollar per day.
It is an insult to the great people of Mwenezi East constituency who have traditionally voted for ZANU PF since 1980 but the same party in government is shouldering them with extra responsibilities to fund their own healthcare facilities.
It is time the people of Mwenezi East transfer their vote to a pro-poor and pro-people MDC Alliance party led by President Nelson Chamisa.
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Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
State Media- An elderly woman from Hillside suburb in Bulawayo died mid-air on an Airlink flight number 4Z110 from Johannesburg to Bulawayo on Monday.
Mrs Jean Sicingiwe Khumalo who was in her sixties succumbed on the flight that landed at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport just before mid-day. A Chronicle news crew yesterday visited the family’s residence where mourners are gathered.
sudden death…Mrs Jean Sicingiwe Khumalo
Family spokesperson Mr Lazarus Khumalo said: “We confirm her death. She was an elderly person and was a stroke patient for the past six years or so. That is all that we can say about her health. Besides that, there isn’t much to say. We however request that our privacy be respected as we mourn.”
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe spokesperson Mrs Annajulia Hungwe said Mrs Khumalo died during the last minutes of the hour-long flight.
“We had an unfortunate incident where a female passenger whom I cannot name because of ethical reasons died mid-air. Her death was confirmed upon landing at the airport. We will get reports from the airline, law enforcement and also health authorities on the incident which will answer questions over how the passenger died,” said Mrs Hungwe.
She said health services were called to supervise the removal of the body in compliance with Covid-19 protocols.
“Flight 4Z110 landed on schedule at the airport just before midday, and had been due to return to Johannesburg at 12.35PM. However, health authorities took time to remove the body and carry out cabin disinfection procedures on the Embraer E170LR until 2PM when the plane took off.
“Covid-19 procedures were maintained at all costs. The passenger had a test certificate taken 48 hours before travelling showing that she was negative from the virus as required by Zimbabwean Covid-19 regulations,” said Mrs Hungwe.
Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said police attended the scene.
“We received a report of an incident where a female passenger at Airlink died mid-air and was confirmed dead when the plane landed. We are still investigating the cause of the death. Reports will be collected from the airline, and also health authorities into the incident,” said Inspector Ncube. – Chronicle
Luis Suárez says he will not leave Atletico Madrid this summer after he helped the side to its first league title in seven years.
The Uruguayan striker joined Atletico last year from Barcelona on a two-year contract and the deal included a clause that would have allowed him to leave on a free transfer this year.
Speaking on Sunday during the team’s title presentation at their Wanda Metropolitano stadium, the 34-year-old affirmed his position, saying he is going nowhere next season.
Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has betrayed the true Pan African agenda, the MDC Alliance Youth Assembly has said.
Mr Mnangagwa stands accused of allowing his bootlickers to steal and plunder national resources at will.
Below is MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma’s statement on Africa Day celebrations:
25 May 2021
Exactly 58 years after the formation of Organization of African Unity (OAU now AU) on this day, there is virtually nothing to write home as far as fulfillment of vision and aspirations of Africa’s founding fathers is concerned.
OAU, a noble platform created by revolutionaries and visionaries has been reduced to a club of dictators coalescing under the new banner of African Union (AU).
Where we used to have genuine African revolutionaries like Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah, we now have a clueless bunch of compradors, the likes Dambudzo Emmerson Mnangagwa and Kaguta Yoweri Museveni who use live bullets on their own citizens all for power.
The current looting lot we now have as our rulers are nothing more than conduits of expropriation and plunder of Africa’s natural resources.
Here in Zimbabwe, the campradors masquerading as the Second Republic are busy reversing the liberation agenda.
Vast tracks of land is being parcelled out to Chinese imperialists in Hwange and Dendairy white capitalists in Chilonga at the expense of black Africans who are being evicted from their ancestral lands.
These compradors who now pose as liberators have become the new found love for imperialists from all over the world for they pose no hindrance nor any harm to imperial interests but act as conduits to siphon Africa of her rich mineral wealth.
Imagine a whole President mortgaging our country all for obsolete buses from Belarus!
Africa’s founding fathers must be turning in their graves.
Behold, criminals running the affairs of our motherland!
Cry Mother Africa cry!
But all is not doom in our mother continent. We have a fine crop of new politicians with an unfathomable desire for an African success story.
From Zimbabwe’s Nelson Chamisa to South Africa’s Julius Malema and Uganda’s Bobi Wine, the continent can dare to dream again.
Happy Africa Day Zimbabwe!
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Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
Types, Health Benefits, Nutrition Facts, Cooking Methods, and More Moira Lawler By Moira Lawler Medically Reviewed by Kelly Kennedy, RD May 3, 2021
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Healthy food sometimes seems prohibitively expensive, but it doesn’t need to be. Case in point: legumes, the family of foods that encompasses beans, peas, and lentils, according to the Mayo Clinic.
While legumes are a nutritional powerhouse, that’s not all they have going for them — they’re also inexpensive, easy to find in stores, and versatile enough to work in a wide variety of dishes.
“They provide nourishment in a form that is inexpensive, highly storable, and delicious,” says Laura Poe, RDN, who is in private practice in Viroqua, Wisconsin. “They’re an affordable way to ‘stretch’ a meal, adding nutrition and bulk for very little cost.”
Legumes in their many forms should definitely be on your radar if you’re trying to cut down on your meat intake.
Beans and lentils are staples in plant-based diets thanks to their nutritional profile. “[Legumes] can make a superb high-protein substitute for meat in almost every dish,” says Shannon Henry, RDN, a registered dietitian with EZCareClinic in San Francisco. “Their refined and cooked texture means that they can fit perfectly into balls and patties. You can also use them in soups, casseroles, burgers, chili, and tacos.”
What Are Legumes? Legumes belong to the Fabaceae or Leguminosae family. According to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the terms “legumes,” “pulses,” and “beans” are sometimes used interchangeably, but legumes technically refer to the entire plant (including the leaves, stems, and pods) while a pulse is the edible seed (such as beans, peas, or lentils). Examples of legumes include:
Adzuki beans (aka red beans) Anasazi beans Black-eyed peas Edamame Fava beans Garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas) Lentils Soy nuts Peanuts are also technically a legume, according to Food Insight.
Legumes are a staple food in Mediterranean diets. People who live in Mediterranean countries consumed between 8 and 23 grams (g) of legumes per day, while Northern Europeans consumed less than 5 g a day, according to one study.
Common Questions & Answers What are some examples of legumes? The legume family includes beans, peas, lentils, soybeans (or soy nuts), and peanuts.
What is the difference between beans and legumes? Are legumes good or bad for you? Which nuts are legumes? Are legumes anti-inflammatory? What Are the Health Benefits of Legumes? Legumes in their various forms have been shown to have the following benefits.
Provide Key Nutrients Legumes are surprisingly nutritious, Henry says. They contain protein, fiber, B vitamins, iron, folate, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and zinc, according to MedlinePlus.right up arrow They’re also low in fat and calories. According to past estimates, a half-cup serving of legumes contains about 115 calories, 1 g fat, 20 g carbohydrates, 8 g protein, and 7 to 9 g fiber.
“Legumes are among the highest-fiber sources of carbohydrates, giving them a lower glycemic index than other carb sources and helping with blood sugar control,” Poe says. Deliver Antioxidants “Beans and [other] legumes [contain] antioxidants that help prevent cell damage and [premature] risks,” Henry says. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, antioxidants can prevent or delay cellular damage, and people who eat an antioxidant-rich diet have a lower risk of several diseases — including cardiovascular disease, stroke, and cancer.
Promote a Healthy Heart It’s a good idea to limit your intake of red meat (like beef, lamb, and pork) because of the saturated fat content, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).right up arrow Lentils and beans are great substitutes — not only to help you reduce your meat intake, but to tap into some heart-healthy benefits. According to past research, eating legumes can lower blood pressure and inflammation, which are two risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
May Lower the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Legumes may also aid in preventing and managing serious health conditions, including type 2 diabetes and related conditions such as hypertension and high cholesterol, according to past research.
A study published in March 2017 in Clinical Nutrition found that regular consumption of legumes — especially lentils — as part of a Mediterranean diet led to a 35 percent lower risk of diabetes among older adults with a high cardiovascular risk. Those researchers found that substituting legumes for half a serving a day of eggs, bread, rice, and baked potato also helped lower type 2 diabetes risk.
Offer a Plant-Based Protein Legumes are a great meat-free protein source and can take the place of meat in many recipes, Henry says. Following a predominantly plant-based diet — such as a vegetarian diet, a vegan diet, or a flexitarian diet — over a meat-heavy one may help lower your risk of heart disease, stroke, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and many cancers, according to the AHA. Plant-based diets were also associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association in August 2019.
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Kwekwe City’s intensified localised lockdown came into full swing yesterday, with a heavy police presence in the central business district, coupled with strict enforcement of existing general Covid-19 regulations for those entering shops and banking halls.
Service providers such as ZESA did not allow more than five people inside banking halls to ensure social distancing.
Zupco buses also spread out passengers on buses from yesterday, meaning many residents took a long time to get to the outer suburbs.
“We have been asked to make sure that we sanitise commuters getting into the bus and to limit them to two passengers per seat.
“We are strictly adhering to that because that is the first thing they check at police roadblocks to ensure we are compliant, said Mr Alfonse Mushayi, a Zupco driver plying the City-Mbizo route.- The Herald
By A Correspondent- South Africa has donated 5 625 tonnes of mealie meal worth 50 million rands to Cyclone Idai victims which struck Eastern parts of the country in 2019 claiming, hundreds of lives and leaving a trail of destruction to property and infrastructure.
The first batch of 272 tonnes was handed over to President Mnangagwa this morning at State House by South Africa Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Grace Pandor.
By A Correspondent- Chief Justice Luke Malaba is back at work following the noting of appeal by the Government challenging the High Court decision nullifying the extension of his tenure.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Attorney-General Advocate Prince Machaya last week separately filed their notices of appeal against an urgent High Court judgment made on May 15.
They are challenging the High Court decision to annul the extension of Justice Malaba’s service beyond the age of 70 on the grounds that the recent Constitutional Amendment allowing judges, including the Chief Justice, the option of serving to 75 could not include sitting judges of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts but did include sitting judges of the High Court.
The noting of an appeal to the Supreme Court effectively suspends the order of the High Court paving way for Chief Justice Malaba to be back in the revered judicial office by operation of law.
This also means that Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza who had assumed the position of acting Chief Justice reverts to her position as Chief Justice Malaba’s deputy.
In an interview yesterday, Judicial Service Commission Secretary Mr Walter Chikwanha confirmed that Chief Justice Malaba was back at work and executing his judicial functions.
“Chief Justice Malaba has always been at work since the day the Government filed a notice of appeal against the decision of the High Court,” he said.
“It’s by operation of the law. Once the appeal was filed the order of the High Court was in effect suspended until the determination of the appeal.” On May 15, High Court judges — Justices Happias Zhou, Edith Mushore and Jester Charewa blocked the Government move to extend Justice Malaba’s tenure by five years as allowed by Constitutional Amendment Act Number 2.
In terms of that Act, the retirement age for all judges is now 70 but every judge has the option to serve until the age of 75 so long as they are mentally and physically fit to do so and exercise that option before their 70th birthday.
This the Chief Justice did and with his medical certificate has his term extended. The three High Court judges ruled that the Chief Justice ceased to be the Chief Justice upon reaching 70 years on Saturday and that the option of an extension of service did not apply to incumbent judges of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court.
However, Minister Ziyambi and Adv Machaya want the judgment of the High Court set aside.
Chief Justice Malaba attained the age of 70 on Saturday, but as the now amended section of the Constitution allows, he exercised his option before his birthday to continue until 75 and submitted the required medical certificate that he was in good mental and physical health.
The Judicial Service Commission has since announced that Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza is now the acting Chief Justice, pending the outcome of the appeal.
