CHIPINGE – A Chipinge woman has appeared in court after she allegedly whipped her seven-year old grand-daughter to death after accusing her of stealing ZWL$100. Edinah Makuyana (56) of Maengeni Village Daisyhill Chipinge appeared before Franklin Mkwananzi at Chipinge Magistrates Court facing murder charges.
Prosecutor Timothy Katsande said on Friday last week, at around 330pm, Makuyana checked her money which she kept in an empty camphor cream container and found nothing. She asked the two siblings Tadiwanashe Sithole and Sithandikile Masunungure who at first denied and later after threats Tadiwanashe admitted that she took the money. Makuyana took a sjambok and assaulted Tadiwanashe several times all over the body, the court heard.
After beating her, Makuyana told Tadiwanashe to sit under a mango tree. Tadiwanashe complained that her body was getting weak and she went and rested in the bedroom.
Makuyana checked on her at around 6pm and found her lying lifeless on a mattress. The accused was not asked to plead and the matter was remanded to May 24, 2021.
She was advised to apply for bail at the High Court.- The Mirror
BULAWAYO has recorded a third diarrhoea outbreak in 11 months with about 50 cases being reported in the high-density suburb of Emganwini.
Residents have accused the city council of failing to provide clean water, despite collecting rents and rates.
In June last year, there was a diarrhoea outbreak in the nearby Luveve suburb, which killed 13 people and infecting nearly 2 000. Raw sewerage had contaminated drinking water.
Last year in October about 100 people, mostly children, were treated for running tummies in Mzilikazi and surrounding suburbs. The latest development comes at a time the country is battling Covid-19 which has killed millions worldwide.
At least 25 households in Emganwini have reported severe diarrhoea in Emganwini and residents are flocking to Nketa Clinic and Mpilo Central Hospital for treatment.
The affected areas known as ama36 and ama37 had no running tap water when the Chronicle visited yesterday. Residents’ Chairperson of Ward 26 Mr Janana Ngwenya said residents were drinking contaminated water from taps…Chronicle
A Kwekwe businessman who tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival from India died upon arrival at Kwekwe General Hospital.
The businessman, Robson Kadenhe (76) and his wife, Mary of 22 Old Gokwe Road, Chicago Plots, Kwekwe returned from India on 29 April and both tested positive for COVID-19 on 9 May.
On Tuesday, the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa advised that contact tracing has detected positive cases in the family of the deceased.
The minister added that a student who had arrived from India on April 29 2021 tested negative after a PCR test was conducted and tested negative again when another test was conducted on the student after the death of Mr Kadenhe. She added:
To date, eleven COVID-19 cases are linked to the case of the person that died in Kwekwe.
The nation is advised that Genomic sequencing tests are being done to determine if there was an import of the Indian strain. All positive persons are quarantined at home, are stable and are being closely monitored.
India is having a difficult time with health experts arguing that the country is recording about three million new cases on a daily basis.
Official reports, however, put the number at around 300 000 daily. Source : Pindula News
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF has warned of a bloody 2023 election as the violent party has embarked on head counting of prospective voters.
Cornered …Zanu PF
The party’s Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu, told state media Tuesday, that they have oiled all their terror machinery as they prepare for the 2023 polls.
“This is an exercise aimed at quantifying our support base. “As part of reaffirming our legitimacy as a party, we have to go through such a rigorous process of membership head counting. Beyond the statistical logic of this process, the DCC restructuring is an opportunity to strategically reorganise ourselves in preparing for our 2023 election victory.”
Panicky Zanu PF Launches Command Voting
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF has warned of a bloody 2023 election as the violent party has embarked on head counting of prospective voters.
The party’s Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu, told state media Tuesday, that they have oiled all their terror machinery as they prepare for the 2023 polls.
“This is an exercise aimed at quantifying our support base. “As part of reaffirming our legitimacy as a party, we have to go through such a rigorous process of membership head counting. Beyond the statistical logic of this process, the DCC restructuring is an opportunity to strategically reorganise ourselves in preparing for our 2023 election victory.”
Tinashe Sambiri|Zanu PF is forcing teachers to join its structures in rural areas, it has emerged.
Teachers in Bikita District, Masvingo Province, are being forced to join Zanu PF cells.
A teacher informed MDC Alliance vice chairperson Hon Job Sikhala about the Zanu PF shenanigans in the rural areas.
“How are you Honourable Sikhala? I’m teaching in Bikita and we are being forced to form ZANU pf cells comprising women’s league, youth league @ every school.
I don’t know how our party can expose these shenanigans and stop abuse of rural teachers nurses and other govt employees…”
Hon Sikhala also blasted Ziyambi Ziyambi for attempting to trample on fundamental constitutional principles.
“The attempt by Ziyambi Ziyambi to overthrow our constitution will be resisted. Threatening everyone is unacceptable in the 21st century.
Declaration to persecute Judges coz they did not give a judgment in yr favor is primitive & stupid. He is behaving like a rebel & a terrorist”
Tinashe Sambiri|Zanu PF is forcing teachers to join its structures in rural areas, it has emerged.
Teachers in Bikita District, Masvingo Province, are being forced to join Zanu PF cells.
A teacher informed MDC Alliance vice chairperson Hon Job Sikhala about the Zanu PF shenanigans in the rural areas.
“How are you Honourable Sikhala? I’m teaching in Bikita and we are being forced to form ZANU pf cells comprising women’s league, youth league @ every school.
I don’t know how our party can expose these shenanigans and stop abuse of rural teachers nurses and other govt employees…”
Hon Sikhala also blasted Ziyambi Ziyambi for attempting to trample on fundamental constitutional principles.
“The attempt by Ziyambi Ziyambi to overthrow our constitution will be resisted. Threatening everyone is unacceptable in the 21st century.
Declaration to persecute Judges coz they did not give a judgment in yr favor is primitive & stupid. He is behaving like a rebel & a terrorist”
By Clifford Hlatywayo MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson
Instead of mastering the art of running the country properly, ZANU pf has mastered the art of violence, hate, terrorism, abuse, and killing innocent people.
ZANU pf and its handlers delight in unleashing violence on the people they are supposed to serve.
Violence, murder, corruption among other delinquencies are the characteristics of this political outfit.
Instead of sponsoring developmental projects in the country, they sponsor criminal activities (killings, rapes, abductions, vote-rigging, creating bogus opposition outfits).
The party abuses state institutions to achieve its nefarious agenda.
Members of state security are abused on a daily basis. They are instructed to instigate violence on the ordinary citizens and members perceived to be MDC Alliance linked.
ZANU pf is one party that enjoys inflicting pain on people.
We need more than 72 hours to chronicle all the abuses that this cruel and clueless party has done on the citizens.
People were killed, abducted, illegally detained without trial, properties destroyed including houses, livelihoods destroyed, a lot injured with others permanently disabled, people displaced, marriages were destroyed, livestock forcefully taken, women and children were forced to spend nights on the cold kumaBase where people were beaten and raped.
ZANU pf has robbed the people of their future. It abuses state institutions to rig elections and in 2018 stole the people’s victory.
Recently, after the High Court Judges agreed to constitutionally terminate former Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s term of office, ZANU PF member Ziyambi Ziyambi masquerading as Minister of Justice issued a stern warning on Justice Happias Zhou who gave the judgment.
This shows the wickedness of this desperate regime.
The time has come for the people to come together and join hands to put a final nail and end dictatorship in Zimbabwe.
Let’s converge as citizens to win Zimbabwe for Change.
The People’s victory is coming soon.
The People’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa is ready to lead the nation for the better.
Yesterday as the Harare Province Women’s Assembly Management we went to Harare Remand Prison to visit the national youth chairman Obey Sithole.
He was in high spirits despite his current incarceration and told us that in prison everyone hates Zanu PF because of its continued abuse of Zimbabwean citizens.
He encouraged us to find ways of aligning the laws so that there is a stipulated maximum period that one can spend in remand prison without his case being tried.
As there are currently prisoners who have been in remand for more than 8 years just because a judgement has been set aside. All prisoners deserve their day in court and proper legal representation as one is innocent until proven guilty.
We later went to Central prison to see leader Makomborero Haruzivishe but we were denied entry to see him which is a right that every prisoner has but the Mnangagwa government are further persecuting Mako while in prison.
All prisoners have rights
FreeMako
FreeObey
FreeZimbabwe
Secretary for Communication Harare Province Women’s Assembly
Countries around the world are rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, and a key topic of interest is their safety. Vaccine safety is one of WHO’s highest priorities, and we’re working closely with national authorities to develop and implement standards to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
Ensuring safety
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An external panel of experts convened by WHO analyses the results from clinical trials and recommends whether and how the vaccines should be used. Officials in individual countries decide whether to approve the vaccines for national use and develop policies for how to use the vaccines based on WHO recommendations.
After a COVID-19 vaccine is introduced, WHO supports work with vaccine manufacturers, health officials in each country and other partners to monitor for any safety concerns on an ongoing basis.
New vaccine technology Some COVID-19 vaccines have been developed with an approach that uses messenger RNA (mRNA). The mRNA vaccine technology has been studied for over a decade, including in the development of vaccines for Zika, rabies and influenza.
These mRNA vaccines have been rigorously assessed for safety, and clinical trials have shown that they provide a long-lasting immune response. mRNA vaccines are not live virus vaccines and do not interfere with human DNA. For more information on mRNA vaccines, see WHO’s explainer on the different types of COVID-19 vaccines.
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COVID-19 vaccines have been tested in large, randomized controlled trials that include people of a broad age range, both sexes, different ethnicities, and those with known medical conditions. The vaccines have shown a high level of efficacy across all populations. Vaccines have been found to be safe and effective in people with various underlying medical conditions that are associated with increased risk of severe disease. These include high blood pressure; diabetes; asthma; pulmonary, liver or kidney disease; and chronic infections that are stable and controlled.
Those who should consult with a doctor before vaccination include people with a compromised immune system, older people with severe frailty, people with a history of severe allergic reaction to vaccines, people living with HIV, and those who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Pregnancy
While pregnancy brings a higher risk of severe COVID-19, at present, very little data is available to assess vaccine safety in pregnancy. However, people at high risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus (such as health workers), or who have a history of underlying medical conditions that increase their risk of severe disease, may be vaccinated during pregnancy after consultation with their health care provider.
There is no evidence that suggests vaccination would cause harm during pregnancy.
Breastfeeding
The vaccine can be offered to those who are breastfeeding if they are part of a group recommended for vaccination (health workers, for example).
Safety of COVID-19 vaccines for children COVID-19 vaccine trials for children are currently under way, and when results become available, WHO will provide updated guidance for vaccination in children. Vaccine trials targeting adults were prioritized because COVID-19 has proven to be a more serious and dangerous disease among older populations.
Following proven health measures is still the best way to keep everyone, including children, safe from COVID-19. This includes keeping hands clean, practising sneezing and coughing into bent elbows, opening windows, wearing a mask if age-appropriate, and continuing physical distancing…
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Opposition MDC Alliance has said attempts by the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi to drag the Nelson Chamisa-led party into the legal proceedings that resulted in the ouster of former Chief Justice Luke Malaba was an act of desperation.
The party remarks after Ziyambi had issued a statement attacking the “captured” judiciary and MDC Alliance, whose members he accused of “being paid monthly allowances for causing turmoil in this country and for being arrested.” Ziyambi had said:
The situation now in this country is that there is a risk of judicial capture where the Judiciary has been captured by certain elements both within and outside Zimbabwe who want to destabilise the second Republic.
We are also aware of certain members of the opposition, the MDC Alliance, who are being paid monthly allowances for causing turmoil in this country and for being arrested.
The time may now have come to expose all these malcontents and economic saboteurs who are not sleeping until they bring down the second Republic.
We are now going to poke the enemy in the eye and confront it….
I want to make it clear today that we do not accept the decision of the High Court. We have a serious situation of a Judiciary that has been captured by foreign forces in this Country.
We are going to exercise our right in terms of the law and file an appeal against this baseless and meaningless decision of the High Court.
In response, MDC Alliance echoed Alex Magaisa’s sentiments that the constitutional crisis that resulted in the ouster of Malaba was due to a lack of interest in doing the right thing by the Ministry led by Ziyambi. Said the party:
The attempt by Minister Ziyambi to rope the MDC Alliance into its web of illegalities is an act of desperation. The Constitution must be respected. The failure to do so lies squarely at the hands of the Executive which has created this Constitutional crisis. #SaveOurConstitution- Pindula News
By A Correspondent- More than 140 healthcare workers have resigned from Bulawayo’s central hospitals, due to a government’s reluctance to address their plight.
Most of these healthcare workers are said to be trekking to the UK which recently embarked on massive recruitment in the face of Covid-19.
A total of 52 registered general nurses and two doctors resigned at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) this year.
The public institution has 659 nurses and 171 doctors to cater for all the hospitals within UBH.
Mpilo Central Hospital lost 77 nurses and seven doctors, a development which authorities say has crippled operations.
The 1 000-bed central hospital has 535 nurses and 196 doctors.
Both institutions serve patients from the southern region which includes Bulawayo, Midlands, Masvingo, Matabeleland North and South provinces.
By A Correspondent- Zimdancehall musician Winky D has scooped another international award after winning the Best African/ Dancehall Entertainer at the 39th edition of the International Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMA) held on Sunday in Jamaica.
The “Sekai” hitmaker was up against South African-based Zimbabwean Buffalo Souljah, Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy of Ghana and Nigerian singer Patoranking. Early in January, Winky D won the Best Dancehall Artiste 2020 Award at the African Entertainment Awards United States of America (AEAUSA).
Commenting on his Facebook post, Winky D said: “Blessing MaGAFA, your votes have counted!! This accolade will not push me onto an ego trip, far from it. It makes me realise that l should always appreciate the simple details of life.
“There is no act without an audience, as such l am forever indebted to all the Gafas and Gafaresses who sacrifice their time and hard earned money to attend my shows. For me, it’s a compromised act without good instrumentalists, so allow me to take time to big up the Vigilance Band, and more importantly honour the late uniquely talented ‘Scara the Drummer’.
“Hearty appreciation also goes to those who believed in my music from the day when l started preaching the ordeal of the ghetto youths when it was still unfashionable to talk reality. I will admit the love we exchanged during live shows, l also can’t wait for a return to normalcy.”
The IRAWMA awards show was hosted by Jamaican artistes Gramps Morgan and D’Angel.
The event was staged virtually due to Covid-19, with performances from top acts in reggae and dancehall, as well as other international performers.
It is the second consecutive year that the event is being staged online due to the onset of Covid-19, forcing the organisers, Martin’s International, to cancel the usual glitz and glamour of the red carpet. It was broadcast free on IRAWMA’s YouTube Channel, Irie FM, OnStage TV and PBC Jamaica with over 500 000 individuals across the globe watching the event.
Among the artistes who performed were Ziggy Marley, Beenie Man, Papa Michigan, Flourgan, Master KG of South Africa and Shatta Wale from Ghana.
Earlier, according to Ephraim Martin of Martin’s International, this year’s staging focused on heavy African influence. He said many artists from the African continent got support from their respective countries.
“This is the first time that we are seeing such a huge show of African entertainers,” said Martin.
“Africans just went crazy this year. One of the reasons is that in South Africa and Zimbabwe, in particular, the major media really stepped it up and made a huge thing and encouraged their people to participate and represent their country, as if it’s a sport.”
According to the organiser, more than 100 000 individuals across the globe participated in the voting process, which started on March 23 and ended on April 20 and was tallied by an ‘‘independent and reputable accounting firm”.
Josef Bogdanovich, Ziggy Marley and Papa Michigan, received special awards which were not opened for public voting. Bogdanovich got the award for Special Philanthropist, Marley for IRAWMA Hall of Fame/Lifetime Achievement for over forty years of contribution to reggae music, and Papa Michigan will receive the IRAWMA Award of Honour. -State media
By A Correspondent- Nine people lost cash amounting to R28 850 and US$90 and other valuables after they were attacked by gun-wielding robbers while they were on their way to South Africa, through an illegal entry point along the Beitbridge borderline.
National police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident which occurred on Thursday at around 4AM along Maphaye Bridge in Maphaye Village in Beitbridge.
He said the border jumpers were travelling in a Nissan Caravan vehicle along Phanda Mine Road when they found the road barricaded with boulders and four unidentified men who were armed with pistols pounced on them.
“I can confirm that we recorded a robbery case which occurred in Maphaye area in Beitbridge. The complainants are suspected to have been on their way to South Africa where they wanted to cross through an illegal entry point. At around 4AM, they were travelling along Phanda Mine Road towards Limpompo River when they came to Maphaye River Bridge and when they came to the end of the bridge, they found it barricaded.
“The driver then tried to reverse when two unknown men appeared from the front of the vehicle while armed with pistols and they fired shots in the air. The other two suspects appeared from the back of the vehicle and blocked it with bricks to stop the driver from fleeing,” he said.
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF seems to have revived the party’s Harare terror campaign gang, Chipangano and promises to use the notorious thugs to force residents to vote for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the 2023 elections
The party’s Harare provincial political commissar, Kudakwashe Damson on Tuesday told the state media that the province started the cell restructuring exercise on May 10 last week.
“We are expecting to complete the exercise on June 6,” he said. “We want to ensure that those who are holding high offices are registered in their cells. Those who have defected from opposition parties are also registered in their respective zones.”
Zanu PF Harare provincial Youth Affairs chairman, Emmanuel Mahachi challenged the youth to take part in the restructuring exercise. “All those youths who are joining the party should now be registered in the cell restructuring exercise,” he said.
“We cannot have youth who claim to be our members yet they are not in the party structures.”
By A Correspondent- Four MDC Alliance councillors walked out of a Kadoma City Council Health Committee meeting last week in protest of finance director, Ms Faustian Zhou, whom they accused of underfunding the committee.
The councillors are accusing Ms Zhou of refusing to release funds towards the completion of a maternity ward, whose construction stalled at the foundation level.
A Housing Committee meeting which was scheduled for yesterday had to be rescheduled after committee members snubbed the sitting.
Ms Zhou, who was not present during the meeting, referred all the questions to Kadoma town clerk, Mr Malvern Dondo, whose cellphone was not reachable.
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF has tasked its recently reintroduced District Coordinating Committees (DCCs) to lead terror campaigns ahead of the 2023 elections
This was announced by the party’s Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu, to the state media, Tuesday
“This is an exercise aimed at quantifying our support base. “As part of reaffirming our legitimacy as a party, we have to go through such a rigorous process of membership head counting. Beyond the statistical logic of this process, the DCC restructuring is an opportunity to strategically reorganise ourselves in preparing for our 2023 election victory.”
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF has warned of a bloody 2023 election as the violent party has embarked on head counting of prospective voters.
The party’s Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu, told state media Tuesday, that they have oiled all their terror machinery as they prepare for the 2023 polls.
“This is an exercise aimed at quantifying our support base. “As part of reaffirming our legitimacy as a party, we have to go through such a rigorous process of membership head counting. Beyond the statistical logic of this process, the DCC restructuring is an opportunity to strategically reorganise ourselves in preparing for our 2023 election victory.”
By A Correspondent- Zanu PF has launched command voting where the party will be visiting households and force families to vote for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the 2023 general elections.
The party’s Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu, told state media Tuesday, that they have to go through a thorough and rigorous process of membership head counting.
“Following the successful conducting of District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections countrywide, the logical procedure was to restructure the DCCs,” he said.
By A Correspondent- More than 140 healthcare workers have resigned from Bulawayo’s central hospitals, due to a government’s reluctance to address their plight.
Most of these healthcare workers are said to be trekking to the UK which recently embarked on massive recruitment in the face of Covid-19.
A total of 52 registered general nurses and two doctors resigned at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) this year.
The public institution has 659 nurses and 171 doctors to cater for all the hospitals within UBH.
Mpilo Central Hospital lost 77 nurses and seven doctors, a development which authorities say has crippled operations.
The 1 000-bed central hospital has 535 nurses and 196 doctors.
Both institutions serve patients from the southern region which includes Bulawayo, Midlands, Masvingo, Matabeleland North and South provinces.
Kaizer Chiefs veteran Willard Katsande says although they are euphoric about the 4-0 emphatic win over Simba SC in the Champions League quarter final first leg, they are not losing focus of the job at handy in the return leg.
Katsande said the win was not a fluke but a culmination of hard work by the players despite the struggle in the domestic league.
” I know that many people didn’t give us a chance against Simba but that’s how football is. It might look like a surprise to some but it’s not. We worked for it. We have been working hard but it’s only that in the domestic league things have not been going according to plan,” said Katsande.
” In the Champions League, experience plays a part and we have a lot of experienced guys in the team. This experience has also been relayed to the young players. So now we have cut the celebrations and focus on the return leg.
” We are not getting carried away because over excitement is dangerous in football. We need calmness and strong mentality. Will this we can accomplish the mission and get into the semi finals.”
Chiefs need to safeguard their lead on Saturday when take on Simba in the return leg at Benjamin Mkapa stadium in Dar es Salaam.
Yesterday as the Harare Province Women’s Assembly Management we went to Harare Remand Prison to visit the national youth chairman Obey Sithole.
He was in high spirits despite his current incarceration and told us that in prison everyone hates Zanu PF because of its continued abuse of Zimbabwean citizens.
He encouraged us to find ways of aligning the laws so that there is a stipulated maximum period that one can spend in remand prison without his case being tried.
As there are currently prisoners who have been in remand for more than 8 years just because a judgement has been set aside. All prisoners deserve their day in court and proper legal representation as one is innocent until proven guilty.
We later went to Central prison to see leader Makomborero Haruzivishe but we were denied entry to see him which is a right that every prisoner has but the Mnangagwa government are further persecuting Mako while in prison.
All prisoners have rights
FreeMako
FreeObey
FreeZimbabwe
Secretary for Communication Harare Province Women’s Assembly
Yesterday as the Harare Province Women’s Assembly Management we went to Harare Remand Prison to visit the national youth chairman Obey Sithole.
He was in high spirits despite his current incarceration and told us that in prison everyone hates Zanu PF because of its continued abuse of Zimbabwean citizens.
He encouraged us to find ways of aligning the laws so that there is a stipulated maximum period that one can spend in remand prison without his case being tried.
As there are currently prisoners who have been in remand for more than 8 years just because a judgement has been set aside. All prisoners deserve their day in court and proper legal representation as one is innocent until proven guilty.
We later went to Central prison to see leader Makomborero Haruzivishe but we were denied entry to see him which is a right that every prisoner has but the Mnangagwa government are further persecuting Mako while in prison.
All prisoners have rights
FreeMako
FreeObey
FreeZimbabwe
Secretary for Communication Harare Province Women’s Assembly
United States-based Zimbabwean goalkeeper Tatenda Mukuruva has received a one-game ban for ‘unsporting behaviour’ during a recent league match.
The former Dynamos goalkeeper is on the ranks of Michigan Stars in the National Independent Soccer League (NISA), the third tier of American football.
Stars lost a league game away at Chattanooga last Saturday, with the end of the clash marred by incidents involving players from both teams and officials.
In response, NISA has issued a statement condemning it.
“The incident at the end of Saturday’s Chattanooga FC—Michigan Stars FC match can not be tolerated in our sport and will not be tolerated in our league. The Commissioner’s office has reinforced this position with the NISA member clubs,” reads the statement.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Kaizer Chiefs coach Gavin Hunt insists Warriors star Khama Billiat is still Amakhosi’s main attacking threat despite his season being punctuated by injuries.
Billiat recovered from the leg injury he sustained in January, only to be kicked by Sundowns’ Andile Jali on the same leg, when the two sides clashed last month.
The dimunutive Aces Youth Academy graduate has come under scrutiny for his performances for the Glamour Boys, with the club’s former player Linda Buthelezi recently- slamming him, saying the club must realease him because supposedly he is adding no value.
Hunt however insists the 30-year is the best attacking option for Chiefs.
“We’re running out of players again, another one injured. Khama Billiat is a big blow to us as well, he hasn’t played (much) this season and he’s our main attacking threat — that’s a huge blow,” Hunt said after Amakhosi’s 4-0 demolition of Simba SC in the CAF Champions League.- Soccer24 Zimbabwe
Belgium coach Roberto Martinez has named a 26-member squad for the rescheduled 2020 UEFA Euro Championship set for June.
The final selection includes Real Madrid duo of goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois Eden Hazard of Real Madrid, Chelsea’s Michy Batshuayi, Crystal Palace’s Christian Benteke, Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne and Inter’s Romelu Lukaku.
Martinez also selected a group of 11 reserve players who could step up in case of injuries ahead of the tournament, which opens on June 11.
Belgium will play in Group B opener against Russia on June 12 before facing Denmark and Finland in the following games.
BELGIUM SQUAD.
Goalkeepers: Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid), Simon Mignolet (Club Brugge), Matz Sels (Strasbourg)
Defenders: Jan Vertonghen (Benfica), Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham), Thomas Vermaelen (Vissel Kobe), Dedryck Boyata (Hertha Berlin), Jason Denayer (Lyon)
Midfielders: Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City), Axel Witsel (Borussia Dortmund), Youri Tielemans (Leicester), Leander Dendoncker (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Hans Vanaken (Club Brugge), Dennis Praet (Leicester), Thomas Meunier (Borussia Dortmund), Yannick Carrasco (Atletico Madrid), Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Dortmund), Timothy Castagne (Leicester), Nacer Chadli (Istanbul Basaksehir)
Forwards: Eden Hazard (Real Madrid), Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan), Dries Mertens (Napoli), Michy Batshuayi (Crystal Palace), Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace), Jeremy Doku (Rennes), Leandro Trossard (Brighton)
By A Correspondent- Chitungwiza Central Hospital physiotherapist who went missing a fortnight ago has been found dead in a well a stone throw away from his home.
The body of George Oposi, 38, was found in decomposing state near his Nyatsime Phase 3 home after a thorough search by his relatives and Zengeza 4 friends who intensified the search in groups on Sunday afternoon.
Some police officers had to guard the place on Sunday night after a report of a human body immersed in water was made with the police.
George Oposi was reportedly last seen on May 5 around 10pm after watching a televised football match.
A medical kit with health gloves, face masks, an empty beer bottle and a loaf of bread were also retrieved from the well.
Cash in both local and foreign currency, mobile phone and identification particulars were also found on him.
His body was retrieved by police sub aqua unit team a day after his friends had reported having seen a body of a dead person immersed in a well.
One doctor Eric Katsukunya described Oposi as his close friend saying he had last seen him a day before his disappearance.
“To me Oposi was not a colleague but a close friend that his death has emotionally affected me,” said Dr Katsukunya.
“I last had fun with him on May 5 and his wife informed me of his failure to reach home the following day.
“It touched me that until today (yesterday) I never had any energy to report for duty and I switched off my mobile phone soon after the discovery of Oposi’s body in a well.
“It’s sad for my friend to plunge into a well 30 meters away from his house; I am emotionally affected,” said Dr Katsukunya.
One Oposi family member Tinashe Chimhanda, 36, narrated how the deceased changed his life with business ideas and health information.
“We have been robbed of a loving man who helped many, especially myself with health information that kept me physically and mentally sound,” said Chimhanda.
“He assisted me in starting a business project that has changed my life and that of my family, he was a loving and caring man,” he said.
Oposi is survived by his wife Fungai Rutanhire and one child
Tinashe Sambiri|Zanu PF is forcing teachers to join its structures in rural areas, it has emerged.
Teachers in Bikita District, Masvingo Province, are being forced to join Zanu PF cells.
A teacher informed MDC Alliance vice chairperson Hon Job Sikhala about the Zanu PF shenanigans in the rural areas.
“How are you Honourable Sikhala? I’m teaching in Bikita and we are being forced to form ZANU pf cells comprising women’s league, youth league @ every school.
I don’t know how our party can expose these shenanigans and stop abuse of rural teachers nurses and other govt employees…”
Hon Sikhala also blasted Ziyambi Ziyambi for attempting to trample on fundamental constitutional principles.
“The attempt by Ziyambi Ziyambi to overthrow our constitution will be resisted. Threatening everyone is unacceptable in the 21st century.
Declaration to persecute Judges coz they did not give a judgment in yr favor is primitive & stupid. He is behaving like a rebel & a terrorist”
Kaizer Chiefs veteran Willard Katsande says although they are euphoric about the 4-0 emphatic win over Simba SC in the Champions League quarter final first leg, they are not losing focus of the job at handy in the return leg.
Katsande said the win was not a fluke but a culmination of hard work by the players despite the struggle in the domestic league.
” I know that many people didn’t give us a chance against Simba but that’s how football is. It might look like a surprise to some but it’s not. We worked for it. We have been working hard but it’s only that in the domestic league things have not been going according to plan,” said Katsande.
” In the Champions League, experience plays a part and we have a lot of experienced guys in the team. This experience has also been relayed to the young players. So now we have cut the celebrations and focus on the return leg.
” We are not getting carried away because over excitement is dangerous in football. We need calmness and strong mentality. Will this we can accomplish the mission and get into the semi finals.”
Chiefs need to safeguard their lead on Saturday when take on Simba in the return leg at Benjamin Mkapa stadium in Dar es Salaam.
Countries around the world are rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, and a key topic of interest is their safety. Vaccine safety is one of WHO’s highest priorities, and we’re working closely with national authorities to develop and implement standards to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
Ensuring safety
Millions of people have safely received COVID-19 vaccines. All of the approved COVID-19 vaccines have been carefully tested and continue to be monitored.
Like all vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines go through a rigorous, multi-stage testing process, including large clinical trials that involve tens of thousands of people. These trials are specifically designed to identify any safety concerns
An external panel of experts convened by WHO analyses the results from clinical trials and recommends whether and how the vaccines should be used. Officials in individual countries decide whether to approve the vaccines for national use and develop policies for how to use the vaccines based on WHO recommendations.
After a COVID-19 vaccine is introduced, WHO supports work with vaccine manufacturers, health officials in each country and other partners to monitor for any safety concerns on an ongoing basis.
New vaccine technology Some COVID-19 vaccines have been developed with an approach that uses messenger RNA (mRNA). The mRNA vaccine technology has been studied for over a decade, including in the development of vaccines for Zika, rabies and influenza.
These mRNA vaccines have been rigorously assessed for safety, and clinical trials have shown that they provide a long-lasting immune response. mRNA vaccines are not live virus vaccines and do not interfere with human DNA. For more information on mRNA vaccines, see WHO’s explainer on the different types of COVID-19 vaccines.
Safety of COVID-19 vaccines for different groups
COVID-19 vaccines have been tested in large, randomized controlled trials that include people of a broad age range, both sexes, different ethnicities, and those with known medical conditions. The vaccines have shown a high level of efficacy across all populations. Vaccines have been found to be safe and effective in people with various underlying medical conditions that are associated with increased risk of severe disease. These include high blood pressure; diabetes; asthma; pulmonary, liver or kidney disease; and chronic infections that are stable and controlled.
Those who should consult with a doctor before vaccination include people with a compromised immune system, older people with severe frailty, people with a history of severe allergic reaction to vaccines, people living with HIV, and those who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Pregnancy
While pregnancy brings a higher risk of severe COVID-19, at present, very little data is available to assess vaccine safety in pregnancy. However, people at high risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus (such as health workers), or who have a history of underlying medical conditions that increase their risk of severe disease, may be vaccinated during pregnancy after consultation with their health care provider.
There is no evidence that suggests vaccination would cause harm during pregnancy.
Breastfeeding
The vaccine can be offered to those who are breastfeeding if they are part of a group recommended for vaccination (health workers, for example).
Safety of COVID-19 vaccines for children COVID-19 vaccine trials for children are currently under way, and when results become available, WHO will provide updated guidance for vaccination in children. Vaccine trials targeting adults were prioritized because COVID-19 has proven to be a more serious and dangerous disease among older populations.
Following proven health measures is still the best way to keep everyone, including children, safe from COVID-19. This includes keeping hands clean, practising sneezing and coughing into bent elbows, opening windows, wearing a mask if age-appropriate, and continuing physical distancing…
Source: World Health Organization
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Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has accused the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa of abusing State Security agents in a bid to thwart opposition activities.
The MDC Alliance has also accused the Zanu PF regime of sponsoring thuggery at a time the economy is dwindling with each passing day.
See statement below:
By Clifford Hlatywayo MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson
Instead of mastering the art of running the country properly, ZANU pf has mastered the art of violence, hate, terrorism, abuse, and killing innocent people.
ZANU pf and its handlers delight in unleashing violence on the people they are supposed to serve.
Violence, murder, corruption among other delinquencies are the characteristics of this political outfit.
Instead of sponsoring developmental projects in the country, they sponsor criminal activities (killings, rapes, abductions, vote-rigging, creating bogus opposition outfits).
The party abuses state institutions to achieve its nefarious agenda.
Members of state security are abused on a daily basis. They are instructed to instigate violence on the ordinary citizens and members perceived to be MDC Alliance linked.
ZANU pf is one party that enjoys inflicting pain on people.
We need more than 72 hours to chronicle all the abuses that this cruel and clueless party has done on the citizens.
People were killed, abducted, illegally detained without trial, properties destroyed including houses, livelihoods destroyed, a lot injured with others permanently disabled, people displaced, marriages were destroyed, livestock forcefully taken, women and children were forced to spend nights on the cold kumaBase where people were beaten and raped.
ZANU pf has robbed the people of their future. It abuses state institutions to rig elections and in 2018 stole the people’s victory.
Recently, after the High Court Judges agreed to constitutionally terminate former Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s term of office, ZANU PF member Ziyambi Ziyambi masquerading as Minister of Justice issued a stern warning on Justice Happias Zhou who gave the judgment.
This shows the wickedness of this desperate regime.
The time has come for the people to come together and join hands to put a final nail and end dictatorship in Zimbabwe.
Let’s converge as citizens to win Zimbabwe for Change.
The People’s victory is coming soon.
The People’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa is ready to lead the nation for the better.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Masvingo Provincial Youth Assembly secretary, Gilbert Mutubuki has been acquitted of charges of inciting public violence.
Mutubuki was arrested in July 2019 for allegedly inciting public violence after resisting attempts by war veterans to seize land belonging to Chiredzi villagers.
Mutubuki is also the councillor for ward 18, Chiredzi West.
“I was arrested for inciting public violence in Chiredzi July 2019.
It was after War Veterans wanted to evict people from their land in Chitepo Village.
Today I was found not guilty by a Triangle Magistrate Court.
Tinashe Sambiri|Zanu PF is forcing teachers to join its structures in rural areas, it has emerged.
Teachers in Bikita District, Masvingo Province, are being forced to join Zanu PF cells.
A teacher informed MDC Alliance vice chairperson Hon Job Sikhala about the Zanu PF shenanigans in the rural areas.
“How are you Honourable Sikhala? I’m teaching in Bikita and we are being forced to form ZANU pf cells comprising women’s league, youth league @ every school.
I don’t know how our party can expose these shenanigans and stop abuse of rural teachers nurses and other govt employees…”
Hon Sikhala also blasted Ziyambi Ziyambi for attempting to trample on fundamental constitutional principles.
“The attempt by Ziyambi Ziyambi to overthrow our constitution will be resisted. Threatening everyone is unacceptable in the 21st century.
Declaration to persecute Judges coz they did not give a judgment in yr favor is primitive & stupid. He is behaving like a rebel & a terrorist”
By A Correspondent- The government has threatened to de-register five schools run by the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland after the church’s decision to levy all Lower Six students a mission fund of US$900.
According to a local publication, the mission fund which is payable directly to the church has triggered an outcry from local communities, parents and stakeholders who described it as exorbitant, elitist and exclusionary.
The schools are St Faith’s High, St David’s Bonda Girls’ High, St Mary’s Magdalene, St Augustine’s High and St Mathias’ Tsonzo.
On Monday the Manicaland Provincial Education Director (PED), Mr Edward Shumba instructed school heads at the schools to either stick to approved fees which should be paid on a pro-rata basis or stop enrolment of Form Five students.
Meanwhile, the principals at the schools have defied the Government directive and continued demanding the US$900 and tuition fees ranging from $12 000 to $20 000, depending on the school.
Shumba asserted that if the church remains defiant, the schools will be de-registered or become trust schools.
He said:
They think they can make any rules they want in their schools but that is illegal. This will get them in a heap of trouble. They must do away with the US$900 or stop enrolment.
Their actions are in violation of Section 21 of the Education Act which bars any responsible authority from charging school fees and levies other than those approved by the ministry.
If they were as genuine as they claim, they should own up and admit their wrongdoing.
The church is getting its 20 per cent share from the school fees and it has no legal basis to insist on a mission fund of US$900.
If they remain defiant, we will de-register them or as they argue, they can become trust schools and compete with other such schools. We will then withdraw our civil servants from there.
It is either they are Government aided mission schools or strictly private, not both.
Anglican Diocese registrar and lawyer, Ashel Mutungura, argued that the diocese is allowed to charge the mission fund.
He said the church is using the money to improve infrastructure at its schools. Said Mutungura:
In the past, this money was being used to buy food for boarder students. The church has to maintain its properties. We are using the mission fund to develop our properties.
We have put up a new block at St Faith’s High School and dormitories at St David’s Bonda Girls’ High as well as St Anne’s Goto. If anything, we have done wonders using those funds.
Countries around the world are rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, and a key topic of interest is their safety. Vaccine safety is one of WHO’s highest priorities, and we’re working closely with national authorities to develop and implement standards to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
Ensuring safety
Millions of people have safely received COVID-19 vaccines. All of the approved COVID-19 vaccines have been carefully tested and continue to be monitored.
Like all vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines go through a rigorous, multi-stage testing process, including large clinical trials that involve tens of thousands of people. These trials are specifically designed to identify any safety concerns
An external panel of experts convened by WHO analyses the results from clinical trials and recommends whether and how the vaccines should be used. Officials in individual countries decide whether to approve the vaccines for national use and develop policies for how to use the vaccines based on WHO recommendations.
After a COVID-19 vaccine is introduced, WHO supports work with vaccine manufacturers, health officials in each country and other partners to monitor for any safety concerns on an ongoing basis.
New vaccine technology Some COVID-19 vaccines have been developed with an approach that uses messenger RNA (mRNA). The mRNA vaccine technology has been studied for over a decade, including in the development of vaccines for Zika, rabies and influenza.
These mRNA vaccines have been rigorously assessed for safety, and clinical trials have shown that they provide a long-lasting immune response. mRNA vaccines are not live virus vaccines and do not interfere with human DNA. For more information on mRNA vaccines, see WHO’s explainer on the different types of COVID-19 vaccines.
Safety of COVID-19 vaccines for different groups
COVID-19 vaccines have been tested in large, randomized controlled trials that include people of a broad age range, both sexes, different ethnicities, and those with known medical conditions. The vaccines have shown a high level of efficacy across all populations. Vaccines have been found to be safe and effective in people with various underlying medical conditions that are associated with increased risk of severe disease. These include high blood pressure; diabetes; asthma; pulmonary, liver or kidney disease; and chronic infections that are stable and controlled.
Those who should consult with a doctor before vaccination include people with a compromised immune system, older people with severe frailty, people with a history of severe allergic reaction to vaccines, people living with HIV, and those who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Pregnancy
While pregnancy brings a higher risk of severe COVID-19, at present, very little data is available to assess vaccine safety in pregnancy. However, people at high risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus (such as health workers), or who have a history of underlying medical conditions that increase their risk of severe disease, may be vaccinated during pregnancy after consultation with their health care provider.
There is no evidence that suggests vaccination would cause harm during pregnancy.
Breastfeeding
The vaccine can be offered to those who are breastfeeding if they are part of a group recommended for vaccination (health workers, for example).
Safety of COVID-19 vaccines for children COVID-19 vaccine trials for children are currently under way, and when results become available, WHO will provide updated guidance for vaccination in children. Vaccine trials targeting adults were prioritized because COVID-19 has proven to be a more serious and dangerous disease among older populations.
Following proven health measures is still the best way to keep everyone, including children, safe from COVID-19. This includes keeping hands clean, practising sneezing and coughing into bent elbows, opening windows, wearing a mask if age-appropriate, and continuing physical distancing…
Source: World Health Organization
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Yesterday as the Harare Province Women’s Assembly Management we went to Harare Remand Prison to visit the national youth chairman Obey Sithole.
He was in high spirits despite his current incarceration and told us that in prison everyone hates Zanu PF because of its continued abuse of Zimbabwean citizens.
He encouraged us to find ways of aligning the laws so that there is a stipulated maximum period that one can spend in remand prison without his case being tried.
As there are currently prisoners who have been in remand for more than 8 years just because a judgement has been set aside. All prisoners deserve their day in court and proper legal representation as one is innocent until proven guilty.
We later went to Central prison to see leader Makomborero Haruzivishe but we were denied entry to see him which is a right that every prisoner has but the Mnangagwa government are further persecuting Mako while in prison.
All prisoners have rights
FreeMako
FreeObey
FreeZimbabwe
Secretary for Communication Harare Province Women’s Assembly
By Clifford Hlatywayo MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson
Instead of mastering the art of running the country properly, ZANU pf has mastered the art of violence, hate, terrorism, abuse, and killing innocent people.
ZANU pf and its handlers delight in unleashing violence on the people they are supposed to serve.
Violence, murder, corruption among other delinquencies are the characteristics of this political outfit.
Instead of sponsoring developmental projects in the country, they sponsor criminal activities (killings, rapes, abductions, vote-rigging, creating bogus opposition outfits).
The party abuses state institutions to achieve its nefarious agenda.
Members of state security are abused on a daily basis. They are instructed to instigate violence on the ordinary citizens and members perceived to be MDC Alliance linked.
ZANU pf is one party that enjoys inflicting pain on people.
We need more than 72 hours to chronicle all the abuses that this cruel and clueless party has done on the citizens.
People were killed, abducted, illegally detained without trial, properties destroyed including houses, livelihoods destroyed, a lot injured with others permanently disabled, people displaced, marriages were destroyed, livestock forcefully taken, women and children were forced to spend nights on the cold kumaBase where people were beaten and raped.
ZANU pf has robbed the people of their future. It abuses state institutions to rig elections and in 2018 stole the people’s victory.
Recently, after the High Court Judges agreed to constitutionally terminate former Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s term of office, ZANU PF member Ziyambi Ziyambi masquerading as Minister of Justice issued a stern warning on Justice Happias Zhou who gave the judgment.
This shows the wickedness of this desperate regime.
The time has come for the people to come together and join hands to put a final nail and end dictatorship in Zimbabwe.
Let’s converge as citizens to win Zimbabwe for Change.
The People’s victory is coming soon.
The People’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa is ready to lead the nation for the better.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Masvingo Provincial Youth Assembly secretary, Gilbert Mutubuki has been acquitted of charges of inciting public violence.
Mutubuki was arrested in July 2019 for allegedly inciting public violence after resisting attempts by war veterans to seize land belonging to Chiredzi villagers.
Mutubuki is also the councillor for ward 18, Chiredzi West.
“I was arrested for inciting public violence in Chiredzi July 2019.
It was after War Veterans wanted to evict people from their land in Chitepo Village.
Today I was found not guilty by a Triangle Magistrate Court.
By A Correspondent- A 15-year-old girl from Shurugwi and her father Moses Munikwa (41) have been arraigned before the courts on allegations on conniving and stealing US$12 500 from a woman who was looking after the girl.
The duo allegedly also stole RTGs14 000.
Munikwa and his daughter who is doing Form 1 appeared before Shurugwi Magistrate Percy Mukumba recently facing charges of theft and unlawful entry into Elizabeth Nkala (72)’s house at 23/24 Chrome Street in Shurugwi.
It is the State case that Nkala who is related to the two was staying with accused’s daughter including paying her fees at Booms College in Shurugwi. Nkala ran some business and she has buildings that she is renting out.
The girl realised that Nkala kept a lot of money in the house and she allegedly told her father about this and the two connived to steal it.
From February 2021 up to end of March 2021 the complainant collected rentals from her shops and kept in different places in her house.
The girl connived with her father to come and steal the money. On April 4, 2021 at about 930am the complainant and the girl left the house for church. The accused was left hiding under some steps inside the house by her daughter.
The complainant got home first after church as the girl remained in town looking for bread. She discovered that her bedroom was upside down with the key lock broken. She realised that US$12 500 and RTGS$14 000 RTGS which was in a purse was missing.
Her son Maxwell reported the case to Police leading to the arrest of the accused who was nabbed in Epworth.
By A Correspondent- Controversial social media personality and comedienne Mai Titi has hit back hard after she was fired via social media for alleged unprofessionalism.
United Kingdom-based Burundi’s Billy Jeremiah Brown (BJB) Films dropped a bombshell on Tuesday morning when they announced that they had fired Mai Titi.
The comedian, real name Felistus Edwards, had been working on BJB’s feature film, “A Life To Regret” co-starring alongside Congolese Rumba musician, Awilo Longomba.
BJB Films posted on social media:
“It’s sad to announce that we had to terminate Mai Tt’s role and replaced her with ANGEL MARY KATO due to lack of professionalism on set and whilst living and working with other celebrities as well as the crew.
We love Zimbabweans that’s why we picked someone from Zim but unfortunately we could not continue with her.”
This did not go down with the firebrand media personality who responded by making her own allegations against BJB Films. She accused the studio of not paying her and of wanting to take advantage of her.
The outspoke actress wrote on her social media page:
We go where we get paid where we are not used and taken advantage of because at the end of the day we got kids to take care of. We are Artists we deserve better. Where we are used we shift.
Fam link up with me on the 29th of May alongside Casper Nyovest.
CHIPINGE – A Chipinge woman has appeared in court after she allegedly whipped her seven-year old grand-daughter to death after accusing her of stealing ZWL$100.
Edinah Makuyana (56) of Maengeni Village Daisyhill Chipinge appeared before Franklin Mkwananzi at Chipinge Magistrates Court facing murder charges.
Prosecutor Timothy Katsande said on Friday last week, at around 330pm, Makuyana checked her money which she kept in an empty camphor cream container and found nothing. She asked the two siblings Tadiwanashe Sithole and Sithandikile Masunungure who at first denied and later after threats Tadiwanashe admitted that she took the money.
Makuyana took a sjambok and assaulted Tadiwanashe several times all over the body, the court heard.
After beating her, Makuyana told Tadiwanashe to sit under a mango tree. Tadiwanashe complained that her body was getting weak and she went and rested in the bedroom.
Makuyana checked on her at around 6pm and found her lying lifeless on a mattress. The accused was not asked to plead and the matter was remanded to May 24, 2021. She was advised to apply for bail at the High Court.
By Munyaradzi Gwisai| Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi’s unhinged, incendiary attack on the judiciary, particularly Judge President George Chiweshe, a perceived securocrat stalwart thought to be allied to a Zanu PF faction loyal to vice president Constantino Chiwenga, reflects a qualitative change in the elite factional and tribal fights in the junta – increasingly approximating the levels of 2017.
Between on the one hand the tribalised Lacoste faction (around an emerging Midlands-centred Karanga elite aristocracy. Which is trying to lure into an alliance, as junior partners, other historically aggrieved sections of the anti-colonial nationalist movement, namely Karanga elites from Masvingo and sections of the ex-ZIPRA, ZAPU and Ndebele elites-the so-called South-South Alliance).
And on the other, a tribalised Chiwenga-led securocrat grouping supported by the hitherto dominant and entrenched Zezuru elite aristocracy that faces displacement by the Karanga elite aristocracy.
Ziyambi’s inflammatory statement discloses the Lacoste faction’s panic over a re-emerging cross-party elite alliance of the military- state-judicial and opposition elites backed by imperialist powers that were the framework that facilitated the November 2017 coup
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s crude drive for a tribalised and regionalised imperial life presidency in Constitutional Amendment No. 2, perceived brazen corruption of the First family, its cronies especially in the cartels and the now year-long unrelenting savage attacks on the MDC Alliance have created the basis for this emerging anti-Mnangagwa elite alliance, for now playing out in the judiciary, especially the High Court.
Underlying all this as in 2017, is an unresolved, deepening economic crisis and huge austerity attacks on workers, youths, the poor and lower-middle classes. For now, it remains an intra-ruling class, middle class inspired and driven conflict, which may potentially lead to another military intervention as in the November 2017 coup. Or fizzle out if the junta elites find one another.
And in which the opposition middle class elites will again be played to provide a popular face to save a regime in terminal crisis as in November 2017 or the 2009 Government of National Unity (GNU). And cry afterwards. But what may be different from November 2017 is the role of the working class and urban youths. In 2017 they were naive pawns used by the middle elites across the political divide.
But today, they have learnt from that bitter experience. And most importantly the unrelenting and unmitigated neoliberal austerity war on them under finance minister Mthuli Ncube, especially the U.S. dollar wage debauchery theft in a dollarised economy has radicalised the working classes and youths. And improved their potential unity.
As shown by the unprecedented walkout from the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) by disparate labour federations following their joint unions Wage Summit, including those historically sympathetic to the regime. The current deepening intra-elite fights can potentially develop into a wider inter-class social political conflict with revolutionary implications, if the working class and youth move in as a separate and independent force.
The present situation will dramatically change if the working classes and youths seize the moment and enter into the equation – adding their economic anti-austerity class demands to the democratic ones already at play around the retirement of Malaba and Amendment No. 2. No other class under capitalism possesses the same level of social weight and power and capacity to unite all oppressed classes against oppression and exploitation as the working class.
This is the lesson of Sudan 2019, Malawi 2020, Egypt, 2011 and Zimbabwe, January 2019 and December 1997. And of course, most important historically, the 1917 Revolutions in Russia. And the most critical demand that today motivates and inspires workers across federations, politics, unioinisation, gender or tribe is that of restoration of the September 2018 U.S. dollar salaries and pensions.
This supported by demands for the return of all kombis. And 100 percent U.S. dollar payments for all small tobacco, cotton, maize rural farmers and artisanal miners as the economy has dollarised. And an immediate moratorium on all school, college, university tuition and exam fees for the coming second term.
United action, including protests, boycotts, general strikes and national shutdowns, organised around these demands and led by a united front led by workers, can win widespread support and dramatically change the current situation. Forget 2023, the regime will not reform itself out of power as previously stated by one of its former ideologues. Peoples power is the solution.
But the pre-condition to avoid a repetition of November 2017 is the independent class action, organisation and leadership of the resistance by a united front led by the advanced workers supported by the radical youths.
Such united and immediate intervention by the working class and youths can decisively change and transform the current escalating intra-elite fights into a revolutionary inter-class economic and political struggle and correct the mistakes of November 2017. Are the advanced workers and youths ready to take up this historic challenge?
Munyaradzi Gwisai is a leading member of the International Socialist Organisation and a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Zimbabwe. Views expressed are personal.
I need to say much about the believed tsvimbo ya Mugabe. It seems most people don’t understand how culture determines the future, past and present.
This is my own opinion though subject to debate. 1999 when MDC was launched at Rufaro stadium,
The late president Morgan Tsvangirai was handed tsvimbo by 4 medium spirits (mhondoro) from the 4 corners of Zimbabwe. The meaning of such a development was that, what ever was there before was no more relevant.
If Mugabe had his tsvimbo, who gave him. If it was that cultural powerful then because of himself Mugabe or his crew, the power departed. Midzimu Haigare pane tsvina fullstop.
This was the reason why Morgan was handed the second tsvimbo. Let me put it in simple terms here. If my father passes on, tsvimbo goes to first born son. But do our medium spirits believe in line with our beliefs, no.
Unless by tradition the first born will get the tsvimbo but the blessings will go to the young responsible and caring brother. This is too deep most might fail to understand. But that’s reality. Our duty is to maintain and keep the values of our family names, who so ever don’t keep the values the spirits will reject them.
So being the first born and having the stick you can also be condemned and have no blessings.
Let’s find out why Morgan Tsvangirai was handed this.
We need to understand again his family line. Is it by choice or by calling?
From there tofamba netsoro yacho tosvika again pa next juncture. Why spirit mediums gave him. This is where we look at the first things like:
The legitimacy of RG Mugabe as the Zimbabwe president.
How he is leading the country.
Take for example, the chiefs. These are traditional leaders who by right are not supposed to divide or select people they lead on any dorm of class. They are suppose to lead all fairly.
But what do they do.? They apply selective tendencies in their areas. So now tell me which spirit medium would operate or bless such leaders, it’s a lot of examples I can give.
And I do believe that was the reason why Morgan was handed this. So what Mugabe had was just a stick nothing else.
He failed as a trusted leader to deliver. He divided the people. People ran away from homesteads for fear, some killed, some villages burnt and as a leader as a country what was done to correct all that.?
These are some of the reasons why the power starts shifting.
Anyway back to Tsvangirai, most people don’t understand what I am now about to say. If Tsvangirai passes the stick to Chamisa because he was not able to lead anymore . Why don’t our noble minds ask these questions…. How did Chamisa come to join Morgan? How did he rise up there in the manner he did? Who is he really?
His family line again comes to play. If we get answers to these questions, then we are in a position to see this.
Did you ever notice that…. Every person in the world used to marvel at RG Mugabe? How he talked, how he articulated certain issues, Mugabe had natural power to connect himself with who ever. Go and check his speeches and audiences before 1995, and see how connected you get, and the rest.
Till after that Mugabe lost his relevance, a new kid was born. Follow the trend. Lets come to Morgan. How the same happened, now Chamisa, you can’t resist listening to the young man. This is the power I am talking about. Deny it or accept it but that’s my observation. Chamisa might be the one with the real power.
Why not consult from the spirits themselves and they will tell you what needs to be done.
By A Correspondent- A 25 year old man from Village 3 in Gutu has appeared in court facing charges of raping his five-year old daughter.
Godfrey Magava pleaded guilty last week before Masvingo Regional Magistrate Bishard Chineka and he was sentenced to 18 years in jail.
Police investigating the case found the girl’s blood stains on the sheets where she was raped by her father.
The State said that sometime in April at around 9am accused went to his mother-in-law Sosina Matikizha’s place. The mother-in-law is the one who stayed with the complainant for four years.
Magava forcibly took away his daughter from Matikizha arguing that he wanted to go back home and send her to school. The grandmother resisted but to no avail.
On April, 29 at around 10pm Magava who shared the blankets with his daughter removed her pant and rape her.
Chiedza Magava who was sleeping in the other room heard the girl screaming the whole night and alerted other villagers the following morning.
Two concerned neighbours Christopher Munyaradzi and Aleck Mazhindu approached the accused person and took the girl back to her grandmother.
Liberty Hove represented the State.
The complainant’s grandmother discovered the rape when she was bathing the complainant. Her private parts had bruises. She interviewed the girl who divulged the rape
A report was made at Gutu Police Station who attended to the scene.
By A Correspondent- Bulawayo beauty, Cocoa (real name Ellain Qhawelihle Ncube) has been selected to represent Zimbabwe at the Miss Eloquent Africa pageant that is set to take place in Nigeria in September.
The beauty was shortlisted by organisers of the pageant as one of the semi-finalists alongside Harare-based models Nomatter Shamuyarira and Nicole Madimutsa. Following public votes, Cocoa and Madimutsa were selected to represent Zimbabwe.
They will now vie for the crown against models from the host Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana and Angola.
Cocoa said she is humbled by the support she got from fellow Zimbabweans and beyond in order to represent the country at the finals.
“My votes were the highest and I’m very grateful for this support. Following this selection, my target is to proudly represent the country at the finals,” said Cocoa.
Cocoa as one of the representatives, will automatically be the pageant’s local licence holder for next year’s Miss Eloquent Africa Zimbabwe pageant.
Miss Eloquent Africa is a non-governmental organisation based in Nigeria that seeks to empower young African women using pageantry. It is also a tool to promote African culture and unite Africans. The pageant was set up primarily with the aim to change the perception of how people view the girl child.
SUBJECT: GOVERNANCE OF THE NATION OF ZIMBABWE IN THE WRONG HANDS, AS THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE,PARLIAMENT,SENATE,SUPREME AND CONSTITUNAL COURT FAILS TO INTERPRET THE LAWS WHICH THEY ENACTED AND PROMULGATED!!!!
The President of Zimbabwe Centre For Equal Opportunities ZCEO, Mr Paddington Japa Japa has castigated the Biased Judicial System in Zimbabwe, Minister of Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi, Zanu Pf dominated Parliament and Senate of Zimbabwe for Grossly and Dangerously misleading the Nation, by failing to interpret the Laws which they themselves enacted and Promulgated. There is nothing as Dangerous and Shameful as being led by a Government and a Judiciary System with hundreds of Lawyers, A Judiciary with Judges of the Supreme and Con Court who commit Judiciary Fraud, a Parliament and a Senate full of uneducated and a few educated Legislators who are so incompetent and biased that they can’t even interpret the laws that they have enacted. The Minister of Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi mislead the Nation and sold the Nation a dummy and even lying to the President that he could amend some sections of the 2013 Constitution and could extent the retirement age of the Chief Justice from 70 years beyond yet it is impossible to do so according to Saturday 2021 High Court Judgement by Honourable Judge Happias Zhou and two others. Oooh what a big Shame on you 9 Con Court Judges for committing the biggest Judiciary Fraud in Zimbabwe and we have lost faith in whatever you shall do in future. You deceived the Nation where you used your Powers as Judges of the Highest Court in the Land to mislead the President, Parliament, Senate and the whole Nation that Parliamentary Business from a Previous Parliament can be carried forward to a New Parliamentary Term yet it is illegal to do so.
Paddington Japa Japa
WHAT THE LEGAL EXPERTS SAID, I QUOTE “Constitutional Crisis no 1.”
The Minister of Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs admission that there was no Constitutional Bill before the Senate when it voted on 6 April 2021 purportedly to Pass Amendment No 1.That Constitutional bill had lapsed on the eve of the 2018 Elections when the legislature which was introduced in 2017, was dissolved by Operation of law as stated in Section 147 of the Constitution. The implication of this is that Amendment No 1 was passed unconstitutionally and is therefore invalid. President Mnangagwa was misled to sign amendment no 2. Yet there is no sign that He has signed Amendment No 1.Hoping that the Signature that was put by President Mugabe was enough, what a big mistake.
The root of this Constitutional Crisis around Amendment No 1 started at the Judiciary when the 9 Judges of the Con Court issued an incompetent Order in March 2020.The Original Amendment No 1 had been successfully challenged by Legal experts Innocent Gonese and Jessie Majome, who argued that the Act was invalid because Constitutional Amendment Procedures had been violated. Having upheld their argument, the Court should have issued a declaration of invalidity of the Act that was signed by President Mugabe, this would have meant it was Null and Void. However for reasons never cogently explained by the Court, it changed the Goal Posts and declared that the Bill, and not the Act was unconstitutional. This is incredulous because it was the Act, not the Bill that was being challenged by Gonese and Majome. Why then did the Court changed the Goal Posts, giving the applicants less than what they had asked for?
How could 9 Judges of the Highest Court in the Land not picked up that error, one Judge could have noticed the mistake and issued a dissenting opinion, so what it mean is that the Judges connived to ignore an error they had made and passed a biased Judgement. They all concurred in issuing a patently incompetent incorrect Order. It can only be surmised that the Court deliberately did so to create the facade that the violations that had been done, identified, and upheld could be corrected by the Senate .A decree of invalidity of the Act would have removed that mistake. But this short changed Gonese and Majome because they were challenging the validity of the Act and not the Bill. It is like now a challenge against Amendment No 2 which is no longer a challenge against the Bill, but the Act. If that challenge is upheld, it would invalidate the Act requiring the Government to start the whole process afresh.
The other problem was that the time the Court issued the Order giving an option to Parliament to correct the errors in voting the constitutional bill, upon which they were supposed to vote, had already lapsed under Section 147 of the Constitution. There was then no Constitutional Bill to vote on. The Court was then directing the Legislature to Commit a Constitutional violation. This is made worse by the fact that the Con Court is the ultimate guardian of the Constitution. Yet in this case it gave an Order actively encouraging violation of the Constitution. This is very Dangerous and Unprofessional when the Constitutional Court behaves like that, a Shield for the Constitution is turned into a weapon against it.
For its Part the Legislature should have considered the matter independently in which case it would have realized that it could not carry out the Court Order, because to do so would violate Section 147 of the Constitution. Since the Constitution is the Supreme law of the land its violation in the name of carrying out a Biased Court Order would result in a Constitutional Crisis in the Country. Parliament could have approached the Court to correct its unlawful Order but it did not, or to give further lawful directions, pointing to Section 147 as Authority for its inability to carry out the Order, because there was no Constitutional Bill before it. The only other way to correct this Constitutional Crisis was for the executive to restart the entire process under section 328 of the Constitution. Instead the Legislature voted on the non-existent and therefore invalid Bill, extending the chain of illegalities and errors.” Close Quote!!!!
Oooh what a Shame on you biased 9 Con Court Judges you are a disgrace to the Legal Profession, and you the entire Lower and Upper Houses of Legislature in Zimbabwe, you are a bunch of uneducated and few educated Legislatures as was once said by Temba Mliswa, except for the 19 wise MDCA Legislators who did not take part in that facade.
Now when the Chamisa lead MDCA Political Party says the Judiciary in Zimbabwe is Captured, many fools rebuked President Chamisa and His Party, calling him all sorts of bad names and saying he is inexperienced, now who has the last lough, were are we now, back to basics and the drawing board. This is the Biggest Judiciary Fraud that has broken Historical records. Shame on you Malaba and your Cabal of Judiciary Fraudsters!!!!
What does this mean to all Zimbabweans???? What must be done is for the Law Society of Zimbabwe to set up a Panel of experienced Lawyers in the Private Practice to review all Judgements that have been done so far by the Supreme and Court Courts under the term of office under Chief Justice Malaba, to check for major Judiciary errors and Constitutional violations. We as Zimbabweans have now lost any trust in this biased Judiciary System, that has been badly exposed by the Gonese and Majome Constitutional no 1 and No 2 Amendment Bill challenge.
Shame on you Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, the only way for you is to do the honourable thing by resigning, Shame on you Zanu PF dominated lower and Upper houses of Parliament, you are full of Junk, including the Parliamentary Legal Committee, you are a disgrace to the Nation and the International Community. Except for the few 19 MDC-A MPS left in Parliament, who did the right thing by not participating in that Biggest Judiciary and Parliamentary Fraud Process. There is need for that Panel of Legal experts to review the Malaba led Judgement of the July 2018 General Election outcome were President Mnangagwa of Zanu Pf was declared the winner. Judge Malaba and your entire Supreme Court Judges who participated in in this fraud you have soiled your reputations for ever to the extent that no one shall ever trust to employ you, even if you leave the JSC today.
THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE PADDINGTON JAPA JAPA IS AN MDC-A NC AND NEC MEMBER, ZCEO PRESIDENT A CIVIC SOCIETY ORGANISATION, SOCCER ADMINSTRATOR, AN EVANGELIST AND TEACHER OF GOD’ S WORD, HOLDER OF BSC HONS PSYCHOLOGY DEGREE.
By A Correspondent- Two brothers who were wrongfully arrested and convicted of rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1983 have been granted US$75 million as compensation.
The two black Americans, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown had already spent 31 years in prison when it was discovered that they were actually innocent.
The Associated Press reported that the substantial payout comes after the brothers pursued civil action against law enforcement for violating their civil rights during interrogations that led to the convictions for the crime in Red Springs, N.C.
McCollum and Brown, then 19 and 15, respectively, struggled with basic reading and writing because of their intellectual disabilities.
Their lawyers argued that the two were coerced into signing confessions that implicated them in the rape and murder of Sabrina Buie, a girl who was found in a soybean field behind a grocery store in Red Springs, a small town near the South Carolina border.
The girl was reportedly found naked except for a bra, and she had been raped and suffocated with her own panties.
The brothers were brought in by police on a tip from a “confidential informant,” who happened to be a 17-year-old classmate who was acting on rumours she heard around the school.
After enduring hours of questioning without a lawyer present, they signed confessions that were written for them that implicated the other of rape and murder.
They were sentenced to death in 1985. But in 2009, McCollum reached out to the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, an independent organization created by the state’s General Assembly.
The commission found DNA evidence on a Newport cigarette butt pulled from the crime scene. As they discovered, the DNA matched up with another man who had been convicted of a similar rape and murder that occurred less than a month after Buie was found dead.
They were released from prison in 2014 after the courts agreed that DNA evidence was enough to exonerate them.
The brothers’ most recent award will be safeguarded by guardians who were appointed by and will be overseen by the court.
Love &respect 2 those who believed in my music 4rm day 1 when l started preaching ordeal of ghetto youths when it was “unentertaining”2 talk reality.This goes out to all who have supported me through coming for shows, the Vigilance band and every Gafa around the globe. Thank you pic.twitter.com/r1egDKQkfk
By A Correspondent- Dancehall musician Wallace “Winky D” Chirimuko has added another international gong to his cabinet after scooping the Best African Dancehall Entertainer at the 2021 International Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMA) virtual ceremony.
The award comes after another prestigious Best Dancehall gong he received at the African Entertainment Awards, USA (AEAUSA) held in New Jersey, United States.
Held in Jamaica on Sunday evening under the theme Reggae and World Music Still Rise, this year’s 39th edition of the awards were co-hosted by grammy award-winning reggae artiste Gramps Morgan and dancehall’s self-proclaimed first lady D’Angel.
It was the second consecutive year for the IRAWMA awards ceremony to be staged virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced the organisers, Martin’s International, to cancel the usual red carpet event.
In his category, the Gafa hitmaker battled for honours with Patoranking (Nigeria), fellow countryman Buffalo Souljah, Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale (all from Ghana).
In celebrating the milestone, Winky D yesterday posted on his official social media platform, FanFacebookpage: “I wanna thank everyone who voted for Winky D DiBigman. We have won another international award. It is coming home. Happy yacho can’t hide. We did it! #vigilancefamily, #haisikidsgame#bababhurama.”
Winky D’s post was followed by a series of congratulatory messages from his fans and fellow musicians.
Another Zimbabwean artist Vachi Kepwe Di Poet was also a nominee at the awards vying for the Best Poet/Spoken Word Entertainer gong.
At the ceremony, Josef Bogdanovich, Ziggy Marley and Papa Michigan received special awards which were not open for public voting.
Bogdanovich got the award for special philanthropist, Marley for IRAWMA Hall of Fame/Lifetime Achievement for over 40 years of contribution to reggae music, and Papa Michigan received the IRAWMA Award of Honour.
Douglas Mwonzora, leader of the opposition MDC-T outfit, who has been widely viewed as a Zanu-PF appendage, has rapped government over its recent attack on High Court judges for ruling against the extension of former Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s retirement age to 75.
This was despite the fact that Mwonzora’s party voted together with Zanu-PF in passing the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No 2) Bill which gave President Emmerson Mnangagwa unfettered power to appoint judges and extend their retirement age beyond the current 70 years.
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi at the weekend went ballistic, accusing justices Happias Zhou, Edith Mushore and Jester Helena Charehwa who made the land landmark ruling of being captured by foreign forces.
Mwonzora’s spokesperson Lloyd Damba told NewsDay that his boss was not in support of the unwarranted attack on judges.
“He does not condone the attack of the Judiciary because he (Mwonzora) is on record defending the same judges of the High Court as well as the Supreme Court when they passed the judgment against Nelson Chamisa (MDC Alliance leader) on the party leadership issue. These judges were attacked by the same hypocritical academics that are condemning Justice minister (Ziyambi) for doing what they did,” Damba said.
He said Mwonzora was a democrat who believed, not only in the separation of powers, but the independence of the Judiciary since he is a practising lawyer.
By A Correspondent- Five cable thieves who were convicted on 50 counts of copper theft crimes committed between 2016 and 2018 were among first offenders to be charged under the amended legislation.
In February, the five were found guilty of 50 counts of copper theft-related crimes in the Cape Town High Court. Two other people who were charged alongside the five accused were found guilty posthumously as they died during the trial.
The group stole copper cables belonging to Eskom and Telkom in the Namaqualand and Western Cape regions. They were slammed with a cumulative 1,250-year sentence.
Prosecution of people who have been arrested for cable theft changed when the Criminal Matters Amendment Act of 2015 came into effective on June 1 in 2016.
The Act created far harsher sentencing and bail conditions for people who damage essential infrastructure for services such as transport, power, water and communications.
The law created a new offence, which is the damaging of infrastructure that disrupts the provision of essential services, whether publicly or privately owned.
Cable theft previously was prosecuted as malicious damage to property, which gave those convicted of the crime lesser sentences. In the 2016 legislation there are minimum sentences of three years for first-time copper thieves and a maximum of 30 years for those involved in instigating such crimes.
Eskom has estimated that it spends R2bn a year in replacing stolen cables.
Municipalities have also been hit by cable theft, particularly on their electricity distribution networks. The Passenger Rail Agency of SA has also suffered losses which forced the closure of many of its routes during the lockdown as thieves helped themselves to infrastructure due to a lack of security.
That picture above is from a CVR office reception desk.
What amuses me is :
1)that the price for licence collection is $US 40 yet you have paid production fee when you were given blue copy.
2) they say we don’t have the production capacity but if you pay they will give you that licence before 3 working days..
3) why is it that 4000 RTGS is written with a ball pen yet the government have working printers at that office. Isn’t that a case of fraud or something else?
May you please look into this case and may the responsible authorities please respond.
I have a plea to all of you and it is my sincere hope that you will be able to help.
Those results that you see below belong to a child who is staying next door to my house here in Chinhoyi.
These results belong to this child who is living with a disability and is not so able bodied.
Ordinary level results
The child is partially blind and only sees with his left eye which is also short sighted.
The other eye is totally blind.
It is said that this boy was rejected by his biological father because of disability and was raised by the mother’s relatives.
Currently, where this child is staying, life is not at all rosy and the boy is facing a lot of challenges.
This boy wrote his grade 7 examinations in 2010 and passed but was told that there was no money to proceed to the next stage, secondary school.
He has not been attending school until 2017 after a well wisher adviced him to go to the social welfare in order to proceed with his education.
And true, after approaching the social welfare, he got assistance and started Form 1 in 2018 before sitting for his ordinary levels last year where he attained 7 grade C and better passes.
The problem now is that he wishes to proceed to A level but at Jairos Jiri, there are no A level classes.
He was advised by the social welfare to go to Lower Gwelo High School.
The challenge now is that they do not offer any assistance, uniforms, books, bus fare or anything.
The people that he is staying with are not making any effort to assist him to the extent that i ended up giving him the bus fare (US$10) to go and pick up his results in Kadoma.
I am appealing on anyone who is able to assist this child to get hold of him on his number below……
By A Correspondent| Popular comedienne Felistas Murata has been kicked out of a Tanzanian movie cast after being accused of unprofessionalism.
Mai Titi landed a role in a film that also featured popular Democratic Republic of Congo musician Awilo Longomba but the producers were pissed off by her lack of professionalism.
The movie is called ‘A Life To Regret’
Posting on their Facebook page, BJB Films said they appreciate Zimbabwean actors, they were let down by Murata whom they accused of lacking professionalism on set as we as with the crew
By Dorrothy Moyo | In 2016, a baby was rescued from a latrine toilet in Zimbabwe’s Mvuma town. The below is a recent video clip of an incident reportedly in Nyagatovu, Kigali, Rwanda as a 1 year old baby was rescued from a toilet by alert residents.
Nyagatovu is a few kilometres from the Kigali Airport and the below footage was taken by on lookers.
The incident raises questions on what needs to be done to protect kids from falling into pits like this one.
by creating a man sized hole on the toilette without harming the baby inside, and a brave man by the names of HAKIZIMANA Pierre volunteered to enter the toilet to carry the baby back to the surface and in doing so they save the baby's life. pic.twitter.com/YwXsA1d4V3
— BANAMWANA Hoffman Prince (@prince_hoffman) May 17, 2021
By A Correspondent- A Lupane man went to a homestead in Gomoza where he asked for food while claiming to be hungry, but suddenly pounced on a girl and slit her throat before stabbing her several times in the stomach.
The suspect whose age was not given, has been identified as Lucky Ncube from Gomoza.
Villagers effected a citizen’s arrest on Ncube hours later after circulating a description of him on WhatsApp.
Chronicle could not get the girl’s details and age as family members were not reachable, while police were not available for comment.
Sources close to the matter, however, said Ncube was not related to the family.
He asked for food and after eating, Ncube allegedly approached children who were playing in the yard and grabbed one of them before slitting her throat with a knife.
The other children ran away in terror to inform elders who found the girl bleeding before she died.
Neighbours ran after the suspect and apprehended him, but he escaped and fled as they led him to St Paul’s Police Base.
The family quickly wrote a message on WhatsApp and sent it to Zanu-PF District Co-ordinating Committee chair for Lupane, Cde Permanent Sibanda, who circulated it on various WhatsApp groups with a description of the suspect.
The suspect was apprehended at Lupane Centre hours later and handed over to the police.
The girl’s uncle, Mr Lungisani Tshuma, was said to have gone to St Luke’s Hospital in the same district yesterday to visit a family member who is hospitalised, but his daughter, Thubelihle, who answered the phone, confirmed the incident which occurred on Saturday afternoon.
“Yes, it’s true but I don’t have much details. My father went to St Luke’s but police took my cousin’s body and arrested the suspect. She had seven wounds on the throat and intestines were also protruding,” said Thubelihle.
She said the suspect was not familiar to her and her family as he was a stranger.
Cde Sibanda thanked the community for swiftly responding to the matter. “I got a message from a relative of the girl and sent it to various groups in Lupane. We are still trying to understand the motive behind slaying of a young innocent girl although we are told the suspect could be mentally ill,” said Cde Sibanda.
“The suspect was apprehended by the community and as they led him across Shangani River to St Paul’s Police Base he escaped and fled. However, using the information we had dispatched, he was quickly spotted and was re-arrested in Lupane.”
Matabeleland North police spokesperson Inspector Glory Banda could not confirm the matter as he was out of office.
By Nomusa Garikai- “Top lawyer, Thabani Mpofu, said Ziyambi faces contempt of court charges and the lawyers have drafted a complaint to the Registrar of High Court, Judge President George Chiweshe, and all cited judges following Ziyambi’s weekend outburst,” reported a local publication.
“After Saturday’s High Court ruling, the Justice Minister claimed the country’s judiciary was “captured” by unnamed hostile foreign powers and the government would not accept that.”
“Owing to the gravity of the matter we wish to advise that we have firm instructions from our consultant to take the necessary action, including the institution of proceedings for contempt of Court should the law not be faithfully and scrupulously adhered to,” said Mpofu.
The lawyers’ consultant is Musa Kika, the director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum.
“Whilst an appeal can, all things being equal, be lodged against a declaratur, the position in law is that an appeal does not suspend the operation of the declaratur,” said Mpofu.
I am persuaded to think we have too many lawyers in Zimbabwe and, worst of all, many of them are mediocre.
One of the favourite career paths of our lawyers is politics and so many of the leaders in both Zanu PF and MDC are lawyers. Each of the two parties have had their fair share of legal blunders. Many people questioned the rational of Nelson Chamisa’s claim that he won the July 2018 presidential race with 2.6 million votes and yet failed to produce the V11 forms, Polling station vote count summary sheet. Advocate Thabani Mpofu was Chamisa’s lawyer in this Constitutional Court challenge.
The Court challenge on the Constitution Amendment Bill No 2 has already shown that both the President and Minister of Justice have village idiots for legal advisors!
The Zanu PF regime has a narcissistic obsession with itself especially as regards its competence, the regime wants to portray an image it is infallible. To admit doing wrong would soil the infallible image and so must be resisted at all cost. Zanu PF has spent billions of dollars sprucing up its imagine many PR companies in USA and UK love the regime for it.
Mugabe was so fastidious about trivial matters he would ironed his socks and yet did nothing to arrest even one swindler he admitted “swindled the nation of US$15 billion in diamond revenue”! He was the swindler in chief and that is the point exactly! Still, all Zanu PF cronies are schooled claiming infallibility to hide their incompetence.
And so we should not be surprised that Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi did not admit his office had mishandled the Amendment Bill and instead accused the three High Court judges, in this matter, of being “captured”.
However, one has to question the wisdom of charging Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi of contempt of court for accusing the judges of being captured especially when the judiciary is indeed captured by the regime itself.
Many people have said Zimbabwe’s judiciary is captured by Zanu PF because of such foolish judgements as Justice George Chiweshe’s ruling that the November 2017 coup was “legal, justified and constitutional”!
When Didymus Mutasa, Joice Mujuru and many other Zanu PF bigwigs were booted out of the party in 2014, Didymus Mutasa threatened to sue Mugabe. “In whose Court!” the dictator replied dismissively!
If the Court was to censure Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi for saying the judges were captures; are we not throwing the door open to censure to all criticism of the Court for fear of contempt of court charges. Poor Didymus Mutasa would have faced the double jeopardy; punished by being denied the right to sue Mugabe and punished again for daring to repeat Mugabe’s own boastful words as his reason for dropping the case.
Zimbabwe is facing a serious economic meltdown that has resulted in mass unemployment, the collapse of basic services such as education and health care and 49% our people now live in abject poverty, according to the WB’s latest report. The root cause of the economic turmoil is the country’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections.
The country had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and to draft a democratic constitution during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform and sold the nation a febrile constitution which has failed to deliver the democratic freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections. The great irony is MDC has so many lawyers and legal advisors.
The nation would rather see all these MDC leaders, some lawyers in their own right, and their legal advisor focus their attention of delivering free, fair and credible elections, sue ZEC for failing to produce a verified voters’ roll, sue the Police for failing to arrest Zanu PF thugs forcing rural teachers to attend Zanu PF rallies, etc. Do something useful and relevant for a change!
Suing Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi for saying judges are captured is frivolous, to say the least, especially in the face of the very serious economic, social and political challenges the nation is facing!
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has changed strategy and is now on the hunt for school teachers who are charging money for extra-lessons.
It is believed that in some instances there are teachers who are corruptly working with school administrators and sharing the proceeds.
Statutory Instrument (SI) 1 of 2020 makes it illegal for teachers to conduct paid extra lessons.
It also prohibits teachers from selling items such as uniforms and snacks to learners.
Conducting extra lessons on school premises is actually considered a breach of the teacher’s professional code of conduct.
Last week, the anti-corruption watchdog visited some of the schools that are being implicated in corrupt activities in Harare and ran compliance checks on their operations.
They also carried out inquiries and educated learners as well as both teaching and non-teaching staff on the law.
Zacc’s prevention and corporate governance general manager Dr Munyaradzi Magiga said apart from conducting extra lessons, some school administrators were merging the School Development Committee (SDC) accounts with that of the school, something which has created loopholes for corruption.
“We have received many reports, some coming through the media, our website as well as individuals coming to our offices. They have been complains that teachers are conducting paid extra lessons, which is illegal.
“We are already running some compliance checks at schools while live investigations are also underway,” he said.
Teachers, he said, should “not improvise outside the limits of the classroom”, adding that extra lessons should only be done for free as a catch-up mechanism for classes that are behind in covering their syllabus.
He said paid extra lessons are making education inaccessible for the poor.
“This is actually a nationwide problem. Parents and guardians should be guarded from being fleeced by teachers demanding payment for extra lessons.
“We cannot create bottlenecks in the education system that is supposed to benefit everybody. We want to go back to the basics and make sure that nobody increases the cost of education.”
There are allegations that some teachers are conducting paid extra lessons after hours, while others are absconding normal working hours to prioritise children who would have paid cash only.
Reports indicate that some school teachers are charging learners between US$5 and US$20 every month for extra lessons.
Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s Con Court verdict that gave Mnangagwa the presidency, was dismissed by a SADC level Supreme Court review, as the Malawi Supreme Court Jurists found it to be a baseless ratio.
WHY IS MNANGAGWA BLOWING TAXPAYER MONEY ON LUKE MALABA ALONE OUT OF ALL JURISTS IN ZIMBABWE?
The High Court robbed the former Chief Justice Luke Malaba, of his last 24 hours in office, the Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, acting on Mnangagwa’s instructions said yesterday.
Ziyambi makes this statement as he appeals the judgement passed last Saturday afternoon which retired Malaba.
The statement which comes 2 days after the man issued a threat against the three judges who passed the verdict, is a 3 page rendition.
It reads in part: The High Court further erred in finding that the 2. Respondent attained the age of 70 at 00.00hrs on the 15th of May 2021 when by virtue of section 336 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe the 2″ Respondent attained the age of 70 at the end of day on the 15th of May 2021, that is at 00.00hrs on the 16th of May 2021.
Yesterday, members of the Harare Province Women’s Assembly went to Remand Prison to visit our Youth Chair, Obey @TereraiSithole. He was in high spirits despite his current incarceration. He said that in prison everyone hates Zanu PF because of its continued abuse of the citizens. pic.twitter.com/mAofOho7Js
— Citizens' Coalition for Change (@CCCZimbabwe) May 18, 2021
By A Correspondent| Firebrand lawyers Tendai Biti and Advocate Thabani Mpofu have vowed to take government head-on over moves to mutilate the constitution as witnessed by desperate attempts to extend Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s term of office.
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, the two refuted claims that they were being paid by foreign powers to capture the judiciary.
They said their main agenda for filing the High Court application was not political, but the protection of the country’s Constitution.
“We are not pursuing any political agenda. We want to protect the Constitution of the country which was approved by 93% of Zimbabweans in a referendum. We are prepared to die for that Constitution,” said Biti.
Biti and Mpofu told journalists that whilst the government could appeal against the judgment, the legal position is that an appeal does not suspend the operation of the High Court’s Saturday ruling.
“We have thought these things through. We know what may or what may not happen. We are prepared to fight, not only in defence of our consultant but the Constitution of Zimbabwe, judicial independence and democracy.”
The lawyers’ consultant is Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum director Musa Kika who engaged the legal counsel to file the High Court challenge.
By A Correspondent- The South African woman arrested last week at Robert Mugabe International Airport while allegedly smuggling into Zimbabwe US$7 770 000 worth of cocaine from Brazil, yesterday denied dealing in dangerous drugs when she appeared in court.
Shila Khumalo (50) of Johannesburg denied dealing in cocaine when she appeared before Chief Magistrate Mr Munamato Mutevedzi.
The charges had been upgraded from possession of dangerous drugs to dealing in the drugs since the amount allegedly seized could only be used for sale.
Khumalo was arrested last week at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport after sachets of contraband cocaine were found in plastic balls stashed in her undergarments.
Upon her arrest she allegedly swallowed 53 plastic balls of the drug before she excreted some of them.
The State applied for custodial remand to allow her to excrete the remaining balls.
She denied the charges when asked to plead by Mr Mutevedzi.
Appearing for the State, Mrs Tinashe Makiya alleges that on May 9 detectives received information to the effect that Khumalo was travelling from Brazil aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight and was expected to land at the airport the following day.
The court heard that on May 10 detectives from CID Drugs and Narcotics teamed up with members of the CIO and Zimra at the airport and intercepted Khumalo while she was passing through the immigration counter at around 1.30pm.
She was searched and she was found with the whitish substance suspected to be cocaine in her undergarments.
The State said the tests made on the substance were positive to cocaine.
Khumalo is expected to be back in court on May 26 for trial.-statemedia
By A Correspondent- Smart Mbonga (36), who bashed his wife Privilege Chiworiso(31) a police officer based in Shamva after accusing her of cheating has been convicted.
Bindura magistrate RuramaiChitumbura sentenced Mbonga to six months in prison for the offence
The magistrate however suspended the three months custodial sentence on condition of good behavior and payment of a $6000 fine.
In passing the sentence Chitumbura said both parties were not in good books hence there was room for lying hence she passed a lighter sentence.
Prosecutor Carson Kundiona alleged on February 10,Chiworeso was with her friend Grace Mhandu when herhusband started accusing her of having an extra marital affair.
He became violent and pushed Mhandu aside and attackedhis wife with a pocket knife.
After the attack the accused stormed out leaving his wife in pain in the company of herfriend.
She reported the matter to the police leading to the arrest of accused.
By A Correspondent- A 32 year old suspected armed robber who was part of a six-men gang that raided a house in Chitungwiza before robbing the occupants US$7 000 cash and a cellphone has been arrested as armed robbery cases continue to increase countrywide.
The robbers first attacked a couple that was in the house while demanding cash at gunpoint.
They ransacked the house before jumping into their getaway car, a silver Toyota Allion.
However, some alert members of the public who heard the commotion managed to apprehend one of the suspects while the others escaped in their getaway car.
Investigations are still in progress.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest.
“The ZRP confirms the arrest of a Chitungwiza man aged 32 in connection with an armed robbery case which occurred on May 12, 2021.
“The suspect, together with five other accomplices, who are still at large, stormed a house in Chitungwiza armed with a revolver pistol and attacked the complainant with his wife demanding cash,” he said.
“They ransacked the house and stole US$7 000 cash and a Samsung A33 phone. Some neighbours gave a chase to the suspects leading to the arrest of one suspect while the other five drove off in their getaway car, a Silver Toyota Allion.”
Asst Comm Nyathi said they were still looking for the other suspects who are still at large.
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe has received disturbing reports of teacher victimization in Wedza District by an identified ruling party( Zanu Pf) official, one individual named Kahonde who has been on a terror campaign of moving around schools forcing teachers to form Zanu Pf cells and threatening them with unspecified action.
This is a disturbing trend whilst not a new phenomenon under Zanu Pf iron fisted rule of coercion and threats, it is now worrying how such cases of teachers being forced to toe the Zanu line are increasing especially as the country heads towards the 2023 polls and grim memories of 2008 are conjured by this kind of reckless behavior.
Teachers are not political pawns meant for political subterfuge by those in power, ARTUZ condemns in the strongest terms possible the forcing of teachers to partake in the political activities of political parties, the role of teachers in societies is that of educators not political.
Zanu Pf has constantly abused the school system to maintain their grip hold on power and with reference to past scenarios, ARTUZ is worried that this situation will further degenerate into chaos and violence as witnessed in the past were teachers have been abducted, tortured or even killed for failing to support the ruling party’s programs.
ARTUZ calls upon the Zimbabwe Republic Police to launch an immediate investigation on the Wedza victimization of teachers and use every available resource at their disposal within the framework of the law to stop such a direct attack on the constitution of Zimbabwe and the teaching profession.
ARTUZ is keeping a keen eye on these proceedings and will not hesitate to name and shame the perpetrators of such actions.
By A Correspondent- Three young Shamva women were arraigned before a Bindura magistrate for stealing 251 maize cobs at a farm in Bindura.
Tanaka Mandala (30),Lizy Mandala(20) and Dadirai Chimwanda (28) pleaded guilty to the charge before magistrate Samantha Dhlamini who fined them $5000 each.
The convicts told the court that they were forced by desperation to commit the offense since they had no food to feed their children.
“Your worship this offense was committed because of desperation, we are young mothers and we needed food to feed our children please pardon us,” pleaded the women.
Prosecutors Victoria Choga and Shiella Kudzai Maribha told the court that on May 16, the trio entered Tawanda Topson’s farm in Bindura and started secretly harvesting maize cobs.
A security guard spotted them from a distance, gave chase and caught up with Tanaka who had a baby strapped at her back which rendered her ineffective to flee.
Tanaka implicated her accomplices leading to their arrest.
By A Correspondent- Seke district has recorded the highest number of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)s in Mashonaland East Province since the beginning of the lockdown putting its HIV prevalence rate at 12.7 percent, the National Aids Council (NAC) has revealed.
Speaking during an HIV prevention awareness outreach in Seke, NAC District Aids Coordinator for Seke Mrs Florence Nyandoro said they were making efforts to combat new infections through the “Keep Affected Population Model.”
Mrs Nyandoro said the model, which is targeting sex workers, is aimed at reducing new infections as they are being enlightened on the dangers of STIs and HIV and how best can they protect themselves through risk assessment programmes.
“We did what we term hotspot mapping and realised that Seke district has the highest number of STIs in Mashonaland East,” she said.
“Our STI cases were a cause for concern and were multiplying during the lockdown. We were a bit strained. We have a prevalence rate of 12.7 percent of HIV but we are happy that sex workers in this district are accepting the model.
“They (sex workers) are taught about different types of STIs and we are encouraging early detection and treatment.”
Mrs Nyandoro said they were making efforts in teaching sex workers in Seke district on how best they can prevent the spread of STIs and HIV.
“We want ladies to know what to do when they encounter HIV. We have HIV prevention models through peer educators and we are also acting on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) issues in the community.
“Each peer educator is expected to have 25 to 36 sex workers under her. They do risk assessment depending on the risk faced by the sex worker. They also produce reports with a manual on issues to do with self-awareness,” she said.
By A Correspondent-Zanu PF government has targeted three Judges who reversed his reappointment of Chief Justice, Luke Malaba.
Mnangagwa’s ally and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi Monday evening announced that the government had filed a notice of appeal against Saturday’s High Court decision to annul the extension of Chief Justice Malaba’s service beyond the age of 70.
The appeal is against the entire judgment by three judges, Justices Happias Zhou, Edith Mushore and Justice Jester Charewa on Saturday blocking the extension by President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Chief Justice Malaba’s service by five years.
The trio ruled that Chief Justice ceased to be the Chief Justice upon reaching 70 years on May 15, 2021, and that the extension of the service does not apply to incumbent judges of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court.
By A Correspondent-The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has announced that there will be a two-day power interruption this week.
The power utility’s subsidiary, Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company which is responsible for the transmission and distribution of electricity from the power stations, as well as its retailing to end-users, said the anticipated power interruption will be caused by maintenance taking place on the Electricity Vending System.
” The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) would like to advise its valued customers that there will be interruption of the Prepaid Electricity Vending system on Thursday, 20 May 2021 at 1030pm to Friday, 21 May 2021 at 0600hrs to facilitate routine maintenance of the system to ensure continued efficient service delivery,” said ZESA.
“Customers on the prepaid channel are urged to ensure that they purchase enough power to avoid running out of credit during the maintenance period,” ZESA said.
By A Correspondent- Former MDC Alliance deputy treasurer, Lilian Timveous last week graduated from Zanu PF’s Chitepo School of Ideology.
“I graduated from Chitepo School of Ideology and I have realised that all along I believed in wrong things. This party, Zanu-PF is a party to follow and everyone should do so because it is a stable party and has liberation war credentials,” she said.
Timveous together with former legislator Blessing Chebundo defected to the ruling Zanu-PF party recently.
By A Correspondent | The High Court robbed the former Chief Justice Luke Malaba, of his last 24 hours in office, the Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says.
Ziyambi makes this statement as he appeals the judgement passed last Saturday afternoon which retired Malaba.
The statement which comes 2 days after the man issued a threat against the three judges who passed the verdict, is a 3 page rendition.
It reads in part: The High Court further erred in finding that the 2. Respondent attained the age of 70 at 00.00hrs on the 15th of May 2021 when by virtue of section 336 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe the 2″ Respondent attained the age of 70 at the end of day on the 15th of May 2021, that is at 00.00hrs on the 16th of May 2021.
By A Correspondent-Zanu PF government, late yesterday filed a notice of appeal against the High Court decision to annul the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s service beyond the age of 70.
The appeal is against the entire judgment by three judges, Justices Happias Zhou, Edith Mushore and Justice Jester Charewa on Saturday blocking the extension by President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Chief Justice Malaba’s service by five years.
The trio ruled that Chief Justice ceased to be the Chief Justice upon reaching 70 years on May 15, 2021, and that the extension of the service does not apply to incumbent judges of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court.
By A Correspondent- A Chirundu is battling for his life after surviving a lion attack.
Isaiah Chitenje (48) from Chirundu town was last Thursday saved from the lion by people who made noise while throwing stones until the lion released him.
Kariba district police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Misheck Ngorima confirmed the incident.
“A male adult was attacked by a lion on May 13 at around 1822hrs in the Chirundu area. The victim was coming from Chirundu business centre and proceeding to Tiger Safaris where he works. While on the way, about 500 metres from Chirundu Border Post, lions appeared and one of them attacked him.
“He was assisted by locals who came to the scene and threw stones after hearing his screams. The lion ran away. The man was taken to Mutendere Hospital in Zambia where his condition is reported to be stable.
Human-wildlife conflicts are said to be on the increase despite efforts by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority to curb them. A fortnight ago, a man from the Mahombekombe suburb in Kariba was lucky to survive after being attacked by an elephant.
A child was recently attacked by a hyena in Masvingo and left severely injured.
He is currently admitted at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare where he is battling for life.
A 37 year-old jilted married man was struck dead with an iron bar in a row over who should spend the night with a lover.
Bernard Chiwanza met his fate at the hands of a tenant who sided with his lover Petronella Makuvatsine, 30, that he leaves as the latter was housing another man at her Stoneridge lodgings on Saturday night.
Chiwanza is reported to have paid an unwanted visit to his lover and the latter refused to open the door for him since another man was already in the house.
Irked by the development, Chiwanza was reported to have forced the door open and it hit Maxwell Tapera who pulled an iron bar and hit him on his head and he died instantly.
Tapera who is a co-tenant with Makuvatsine was arrested and is detained at Mbare police station where he is leading police with investigations.
Mourners are gathered at Chiwanza’s family house in the same suburb.
Makuvatsine told H-Metro that she had lost faith and love for Chiwanza as her new married lover was paying for her rentals and daily bread.
“I have been seeing Chiwanza for the past four years that at one time I eloped to his family house after falling pregnant,” said Makuvatsine.
“I spent a week sleeping outside his family house’s yard and I want to believe that it affected the baby and upon giving birth the baby later passed on.
The Elderly Petition BCC Over High Rentals “Chiwanza abandoned me and his family and went to his rural home in Mutoko and returned when he learnt of my return to my house.
“He lost affection for me and stopped paying my rentals leading me to accept love to a new married lover who is now looking after me.
“Chiwanza came to my house without notice after he heard that someone was paying for my rentals that is why I refused to open the door for him leading to this mishap.
“Hama dzake ndidzo dzichataurirana nevaridzi vepamba paaponderwa ini kana vachida kundipinza pazviri vanotanga vandiripa mwana wangu wandakaita naye akafa ndisina kudya pfuma yake.
“Tapera came and attacked Chiwanza with an iron bar when he was reasoning with my uncle for him to return to his family and that is how it ended.- H-Metro
By Patrick Guramatunhu | Ever since his University of Zimbabwe student days, Arthur Mutambara has earned a reputation of being very loud, bombastic and loves baffle; he even blasts his opponents out of the water from nowhere. The intervening years at Oxford University, five years as Deputy Prime Minister, etc. have made him even more arrogant and ravening!
“Consequently, the Zimbabwean junta is scared stiff of a second coup d’état. Hence, they are busy coup d’état-proofing their administration through the unconstitutional amendments, establishing a tribal hegemony, a clansman-based patronage system and systemic corruption,” argued our bombastic Professor in his SAPES Trust discussion.
Of course, this is just nonsense. It is true the regime is scared of another coup or civil uprising still it is nonsense to argue it will stop the coup by entrenching itself as a de facto one party state because that is what caused the November 2017 military coup.
If Robert Mugabe was alive today, he would have been the first one tell Mutambara that these are things Zanu PF has done ever since getting into power in 1980 resulting in the economic meltdown and tyrannical oppression of the last 41 years. By instituting the de facto one-party dictatorship Mugabe stifled debate and democratic competition and sacrificed quality. By rigging elections Zanu PF slammed the door shut to peaceful change and fostered violent change.
“We are only targeting criminals around him who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice. As soon as we have accomplished our mission we expect that the situation will return to normalcy,” announced the November 2017 coup spokesperson Maj Gen S B Moyo.
“To both our people and the world beyond our borders: We wish to make it abundantly clear that this is not a military takeover of Government. What the Zimbabwe Defence Forces is doing is to pacify a degenerating political, social and economic situation in our country which if not addressed may result in violent conflict.”
As we know Mnangagwa has all but failed to revive the Zimbabwe economy because he failed to stamp out corruption and the other evils that had turned Zimbabwe into a Banana Republic and pariah state. Of course, it is stupid to suggest the very things that turned Zimbabwe into a pariah state and a prime candidate for social unrest and coup under Mugabe will, somehow, “coup d’état-proof” Mnangagwa’s regime!
The November 2017 military coup changed nothing of substance and so Zimbabwe is still socially and politically unstable. And since the country is seemingly incapable of holding free, fair and credible elections; the stage is set for yet another military coup and/or violent civil unrest.
I say “seemingly incapable of holding free, fair and credible elections” because it is within our power as a nation to end this curse of rigged elections. We have endured rigged elections for the last 41 years and counting the three main stakeholders have lacked the intellect to know how to end the curse and/or lacked the will and vision to do it.
First and foremost, Zanu PF created the de facto one-party dictatorship that has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist since the country’s independence in 1980. The Zanu PF thugs have enjoyed absolute power and all the benefits of influence and wealth it brought. They have become addicted to absolute power and the looted wealth and they are not going to risk losing it by implementing the democratic reforms and holding free and fair elections.
“The 2018 elections were a forgone conclusion. They had to be won by the junta, by any means necessary,” argued our bombastic Professor in his SAPES Trust discussion.
“The purpose of those polls was to cure and sanitise the coup d’état of November 2017. Otherwise, what would be the point of the military intervention? Why carry out a coup d’état, commit treason, and then hand over power to the opposition? It would not make sense.
“Now, today in 2021, we have a military-based regime, a product of a coup d’état. In 2023 we will still be within the context of a coup d’état!”
Mutambara was only stating the obvious and should have left it at that and not go off at a tangent about Mnangagwa pursuing all the tribal hegemony, a clansman-based patronage system and systemic corruption to coup d’état proof the regime. All these activities only show this is a regime that, either, has no clue what got the nation into this mess much less what to do to escape.
Or else Mnangagwa knows that corruption and mismanagement are the root causes of the economic meltdown, for example, but is powerless to stamp them out. The Godfathers of corruption and the Joint Operations Command, the Junta that booted Mugabe out of office when he threatened their power and licence to loot. Mnangagwa will too be booted out of office if he threatened to stamp out corruption.
The MDC leaders have their golden opportunity during the 2008 to 2013 GNU to implement the democratic reforms and end the curse of rigged elections. They failed to get even one reform implemented.
Mugabe bribed them with the trapping of high office and MDC leaders were bust enjoying themselves they forgot why they were in the GNU. Yes, even our Oxford University Professor, was himself bamboozled and outwitted by Mugabe!
Ever since the GNU debacle, MDC leaders have participated in flawed and illegal elections; knowing fully well Zanu PF was rigging the elections and worst of all knowing that by participating they were giving legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF.
So, why have MDC leaders continued to participate in these flawed elections regardless, you might ask? Answer: they also know that Zanu PF is giving away a few of the gravy train seat to entice the opposition. The opposition have found the bait irresistible.
In the 2018 elections; there were 23 presidential candidates and 130 political parties plus thousands of independent candidates contested for the parliamentary seats! Mnangagwa has given this as proof Zimbabwean elections are free, fair and credible and has dismissed all calls for democratic reforms.
Both the Chamisa led MDC A and the Mwonzora led MDC-T are gearing for the 2023 elections, regardless of the fact not even one token reform was implemented and therefore Zanu PF will once again rig the process. The two parties are fighting over the few gravy train seats and bragging rights to coveted title of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party.
The only other political players who could put an end to this political circus of rigged elections are the Zimbabwe electorate by demanding that reforms must be implemented and refusing to participate in meaningless election. Sadly, this is easier said than done!
Zanu PF has used its dictatorial and coercive powers to turn many people especially rural voters into nothing short of medieval serfs beholden to the overbearing landlords, Zanu PF thugs. The party has already started mobilising and training the war veterans and youth militia, the green bombers, the party’s foot-soldiers. There are reports of teachers in rural Mutoko being forced to attend Zanu PF rallies and to register as Zanu PF voters. The rural voters, who constitute 60% of the electorate, will frog-marched to participate in the 2023 elections.
The next significant segment of the electorate is the opposition supporters; the MDC leaders have always come up with all manner of “Wining In Rigged Election (WIRE) strategies” to justify why they keep participating in these flawed elections. They have never admitted it is out of greed for the bait gravy train seats. What matters is the naïve, gullible and now increasingly desperate (for change) public have believed all this nonsense.
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The people of Zimbabwe have been dragged into these meaningless rigged elections for the last 41 years and counting. It is insane to keep participating expecting to win rigged elections which Zanu PF has carte blanche powers to rig. The challenge is not for us, the voters, to work hard to jump three metres because even if we do achieve that, Zanu PF will raise the bar to 3.5 metre to 4 m, etc. We will never ever win this rat race!
The sane thing to do is to demand the implementation of the democratic reforms and restore all the freedoms and rights of all Zimbabweans including the right to free and fair elections and the right to life itself. Only then can the elections go ahead. This is not rocket science, it is common sense or should be! – SOURCE: zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
TWO people died and four sustained severe injuries when a Toyota Dyna they were travelling in sideswiped with an Inter Africa bus and overturned at the 204km peg along Masvingo-Mbalabala Road.
Matabeleland South acting police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Thabani Mkhwananzi confirmed the accident which occurred last Thursday at around 1PM.
He said the Toyota Dyna was enroute to Mbalabala from Zvishavane with 10 passengers on board.
Asst Insp Mkhwananzi said the deceased are Fidelis Mpofu (30) of Dolo Village and Joshua Zhou (19) of Chingechuru Village both in Mberengwa district in the Midlands Province.
He said Mpofu died on the spot while Zhou died upon admission at Filabusi District Hospital.
“I can confirm that I received report of an accident which occurred on Thursday at around 1PM along Masvingo-Mbalabala road involving a Toyota Dyna and Inter Africa bus where one passenger from the private vehicle died on the spot and the other died upon admission at Filabusi District Hospital. Four passengers sustained severe injuries,” said Asst Insp Mkhwananzi.
He said the four injured passengers are still admitted at Filabusi District Hospital and are in a stable condition.
Asst Insp Mkhwananzi said Mr Oliver Makese from Gwanda was driving a Toyota Dyna with 10 passengers on board following a Toyota Camry. Upon approaching the 204km peg the driver of Toyota Camry applied emergency brakes after he saw livestock on the road.
He said Mr Makese was speeding and had not maintained a safe following distance. Mr Makese tried to overtake encroaching on the right lane where he avoided a head-on collision with an Inter Africa bus resulting in a sideswipe.
The Bodies of the deceased were ferried to Filabusi District Hospital mortuary awaiting post-mortem.
Asst Insp Mkhwananzi appealed to motorists to adhere to road traffic rules and regulations to avoid accidents.- State media
By Nomusa Garikai | “Top lawyer, Thabani Mpofu, said Ziyambi faces contempt of court charges and the lawyers have drafted a complaint to the Registrar of High Court, Judge President George Chiweshe, and all cited judges following Ziyambi’s weekend outburst,” reads the report.
It continues stating:
“After Saturday’s High Court ruling, the Justice Minister claimed the country’s judiciary was “captured” by unnamed hostile foreign powers and the government would not accept that.”
“Owing to the gravity of the matter we wish to advise that we have firm instructions from our consultant to take the necessary action, including the institution of proceedings for contempt of Court should the law not be faithfully and scrupulously adhered to,” said Mpofu.
The lawyers’ consultant is Musa Kika, the director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum.
“Whilst an appeal can, all things being equal, be lodged against a declaratur, the position in law is that an appeal does not suspend the operation of the declaratur,” said Mpofu.
I am persuaded to think we have too many lawyers in Zimbabwe and, worst of all, many of them are mediocre.
One of the favourite career paths of our lawyers is politics and so many of the leaders in both Zanu PF and MDC are lawyers. Each of the two parties have had their fair share of legal blunders. Many people questioned the rational of Nelson Chamisa’s claim that he won the July 2018 presidential race with 2.6 million votes and yet failed to produce the V11 forms, Polling station vote count summary sheet. Advocate Thabani Mpofu was Chamisa’s lawyer in this Constitutional Court challenge.
The Court challenge on the Constitution Amendment Bill No 2 has already shown that both the President and Minister of Justice have village idiots for legal advisors!
The Zanu PF regime has a narcissistic obsession with itself especially as regards its competence, the regime wants to portray an image it is infallible. To admit doing wrong would soil the infallible image and so must be resisted at all cost. Zanu PF has spent billions of dollars sprucing up its imagine many PR companies in USA and UK love the regime for it.
Mugabe was so fastidious about trivial matters he would ironed his socks and yet did nothing to arrest even one swindler he admitted “swindled the nation of US$15 billion in diamond revenue”! He was the swindler in chief and that is the point exactly! Still, all Zanu PF cronies are schooled claiming infallibility to hide their incompetence.
And so we should not be surprised that Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi did not admit his office had mishandled the Amendment Bill and instead accused the three High Court judges, in this matter, of being “captured”.
However, one has to question the wisdom of charging Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi of contempt of court for accusing the judges of being captured especially when the judiciary is indeed captured by the regime itself.
Many people have said Zimbabwe’s judiciary is captured by Zanu PF because of such foolish judgements as Justice George Chiweshe’s ruling that the November 2017 coup was “legal, justified and constitutional”!
When Didymus Mutasa, Joice Mujuru and many other Zanu PF bigwigs were booted out of the party in 2014, Didymus Mutasa threatened to sue Mugabe. “In whose Court!” the dictator replied dismissively!
If the Court was to censure Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi for saying the judges were captures; are we not throwing the door open to censure to all criticism of the Court for fear of contempt of court charges. Poor Didymus Mutasa would have faced the double jeopardy; punished by being denied the right to sue Mugabe and punished again for daring to repeat Mugabe’s own boastful words as his reason for dropping the case.
Zimbabwe is facing a serious economic meltdown that has resulted in mass unemployment, the collapse of basic services such as education and health care and 49% our people now live in abject poverty, according to the WB’s latest report. The root cause of the economic turmoil is the country’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections.
The country had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and to draft a democratic constitution during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform and sold the nation a febrile constitution which has failed to deliver the democratic freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections. The great irony is MDC has so many lawyers and legal advisors.
The nation would rather see all these MDC leaders, some lawyers in their own right, and their legal advisor focus their attention of delivering free, fair and credible elections, sue ZEC for failing to produce a verified voters’ roll, sue the Police for failing to arrest Zanu PF thugs forcing rural teachers to attend Zanu PF rallies, etc. Do something useful and relevant for a change!
Suing Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi for saying judges are captured is frivolous, to say the least, especially in the face of the very serious economic, social and political challenges the nation is facing! – SOURCE: zsdemocrats.blogspot.com
TWO men today appeared in court for allegedly attempting to kill another man following an altercation sparked by a soccer match between Chelsea Football Club and Leicester City played over the weekend.
Ezra Kanyawa and Blessing Farai Mhlanga appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with attempted murder after they tried to kill Commerce Munamati over the match.
The trio were watching the match at bar in Harare’s city centre.
Kanyawa and Mhlanga, who were being represented by lawyer Mr Liberty Gono, were not asked to plead to the charges when they appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Dennis Mangosi, who remanded them in custody to May 31.
Mr Lancelot Mutsokoti appeared for the State.- The Herald
By A Correspondent- Happison Muchechetere who was recently elected the Zanu PF Veterans of the Liberation Struggle League (ZVLSL) Mashonaland West provincial chairperson said they will fix factionalism in the party.
Muchechetere who is the former Chief Executive Officer of the State broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) made the remarks while addressing a Zanu PF Zvimba North inter-district weekend meeting held at Kamwaza Hall in Raffingora.
The meeting came after violent clashes between ZANU PF factions at the party’s DCC meeting in Chinhoyi recently with reports suggesting that some of the involved youths were in Kindness Paradza’s camp.
Kindness Paradza is the deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services.
Speaking at the weekend, Muchechetere warned:
What is happening in some areas like Makonde cannot be tolerated. We as war veterans will come to fix it. If we hear of any youth who continues committing offences we will not hesitate to deal with them, we won’t let them do as they please._
_What we watch on social media pains us as war veterans, seeing youths, after being offered alcohol, dare point fingers at the chairman in public. A chairman of the party?
_Some break bottles saying ‘we want to fight’. Do you know war? If you have an appetite for violence we can take you to Mozambique where there is real war so that you appreciate real war._
_We implore youths to uphold the party ideology to respect elders, even the Bible and clergyman say ‘respect your father and mother so that your days on Earth are multiplied._
Violent clashes in Chinhoyi reportedly erupted after one youth officer confronted Paradza, pointed a finger accusing him of failing to lead the DCC.
Police in Chinhoyi last week arrested four Zanu PF activists Simbarashe Guvheya (40), Zivanai Busai (37), Ruth Chikukwa (40) and Mirriam Mudoti (42) popularly known as “Boko Haram”.
Simbarashe Guvheya and Zivanai Busai are said to be loyal to Paradza.
Police had to fire tear smoke to quell the riotous situation that unfolded at the ill-fated meeting of 45 Zanu PF DCC chairpersons from the Chinhoyi constituency.
The activists have since appeared in court for alleged involvement in intra-party violence and were released on a $10 000 bail each.
Opposition MDC Alliance has said attempts by the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi to drag the Nelson Chamisa-led party into the legal proceedings that resulted in the ouster of former Chief Justice Luke Malaba was an act of desperation.
The party remarks after Ziyambi had issued a statement attacking the “captured” judiciary and MDC Alliance, whose members he accused of “being paid monthly allowances for causing turmoil in this country and for being arrested.” Ziyambi had said:
The situation now in this country is that there is a risk of judicial capture where the Judiciary has been captured by certain elements both within and outside Zimbabwe who want to destabilise the second Republic.
We are also aware of certain members of the opposition, the MDC Alliance, who are being paid monthly allowances for causing turmoil in this country and for being arrested.
The time may now have come to expose all these malcontents and economic saboteurs who are not sleeping until they bring down the second Republic.
We are now going to poke the enemy in the eye and confront it….
I want to make it clear today that we do not accept the decision of the High Court. We have a serious situation of a Judiciary that has been captured by foreign forces in this Country.
We are going to exercise our right in terms of the law and file an appeal against this baseless and meaningless decision of the High Court.
In response, MDC Alliance echoed Alex Magaisa’s sentiments that the constitutional crisis that resulted in the ouster of Malaba was due to a lack of interest in doing the right thing by the Ministry led by Ziyambi. Said the party:
The attempt by Minister Ziyambi to rope the MDC Alliance into its web of illegalities is an act of desperation. The Constitution must be respected. The failure to do so lies squarely at the hands of the Executive which has created this Constitutional crisis. #SaveOurConstitution- Pindula News
By Brian Mari | Myself, Hon Job Sikhala, Dr Masimba Mavaza and Mr Wilbert Mukori had a debate Sunday night on the Malaba Retirement Judgement. Unfortunately I lost connection for almost the entire interview only to return 5 minutes before the end.
https://youtu.be/7jNp72VF74k
Let me say this, I do not want to debate things where one mixes politics and legal things. Courts are not political forums. It is unfair to scandalise the courts on political cards while failing to bring in technicals.
Here is my comment which I could not share on air: Sorry to Dr Mavaza who is a PhD holder of law but pretends to be a grade R because of political allegiance.
1) The whole mistake in this issue is not only with Zanu as I noticed during interview but also the lawyers representing the case as well as my fellow colleagues on the panel.
2) Once you fail to present the case to Zanu they then take advantage.
3) The point is you do not discus section 186 of the new constitution without referring to section 340 of constitution.
4) It will be a big mistake if Judges also write a Judgement that miss section 340 of the constitution.
5) Section 186 (1) talks of Judges being appointed on a non renewable contract of 15 years and state that they must retire at reaching 70 years and so on. That is called tenure.
6) Talking of amendments or original 2013 constitution on section 186 tenure does not apply to Luke Malaba and the rest of the current bench.
7) The first word to interpret in section 186(1) is “appoint” as in relationship to Luke Malaba and the rest.
https://youtu.be/jZv30sDUyc0
8) This is were you first have to go to section 340 (1) (b)of the constitution.
9) You will see that Luke Malaba was appointed Chief Justice not “in terms of” section 180 of the current Constitution but in terms of section 340(1)(b) that is to say “appoint on promotion”.
10) A Judge is appointed “in accordance with section 180” and not “in terms of section 180.” Read section 180(1) it is clear that Judges are appointed “in accordance with section 180”.
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11) It looks very minor difference to say “appointed in terms of” and then another say “appoint in accordance with” but this is where the difference divide us.
12) Section 180 (1) say “appoint in accordance with this section”. That leaves “terms outside” which means terms are somewhere else. The section is just there for a procedure.
13) The procedure is, one has to first comply with qualifications in section 177.
14) If you read section 177 you will see that one qualify to be a Constitutional Court if “He or she has been a judge of a court with unlimited jurisdiction in civil or criminal matters in a country in which the common law is Roman-Dutch or English, and English is an officially recognised language; “
15) Now you can see that in interviews, people can come from different backgrounds. Some will have been Judges of other Country’s Courts or resigned in previous contracts but in this case, Malaba was a serving Deputy Chief Justice when he was interviewed on 12 December 2016. His qualification as a Judge were from his record of service. He already had a tenure of a Judge of Constitutional Court Judge in his record of service.
16) Malaba did not establish a new tenure by being promoted to be Chief Justice. He was appointed Chief Justice “in accordance with section 180” and not “in terms of section 180.”
17) He was appointed Chief Justice in terms of section 340(1)(b) which is “appointment on promotion”. That removes all the considerations of section 186(1) tenure from Malaba’s tenure.
18) We the go to section 13 of 6th schedule since Malaba’s tenure started from previous Constitution.
19) Section 13 of 6th schedule
20) 13.Any person who, immediately before the effective date, held or acted in a public office under the former Constitution continues to hold or act in that office, or the equivalent office under this Constitution, on the same conditions of service until the expiry of his or her term of office under those conditions of service or until he or she resigns, retires or is removed from office in terms of this Constitution or those conditions of service, as the case may be.
21) Now we know for a fact Malaba was a Deputy Chief Justice just before 2013. In the previous Constitution was also a tenure for Judges in section 86.
22) I am not interested in the obvious retirement conditions in section 86 of old constitution. That will fall into line.
23) I am concerned with section 86(3) of old constitution which is the one that causes the tenure of Judge of Supreme Court and High Court Judges to be carried over to new constitution.
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24) It says offices of Judges of Supreme Court and High Court shall not be abolished without the consent of the Judges. A similar provision is in section 186(6). We are however tracking Malaba’s tenure so his tenure cannot be abolished not because of section 186(6) of current constitution but because of s86(3) of old constitution.
25) This is were we as state in new constitution inherit a Judges tenure from previous constitution by way of 6th schedule. Including their pension savings in terms of section 20 of 6th schedule.
26) Section 2 of 6th schedule emphasise that 6th schedule “prevails, to the extent of any inconsistency, over all other provisions of this Constitution”.
27) This means section 13 Prevails over section 180(1) or section 186(1) or section 328(7).
28) That section 13 of 6th schedule will stay for the rest of the life of the constitution. You cannot amend it or repeal it because it is fulfilling a state obligation to keep the tenure of Judges to the last end of their contract.
29) That obligation can only be fulfilled by way of section 13 of 6th schedule as well as section 20 of same schedule. And it means Malaba “ continued to hold office Judge of Supreme Court/equivalent under new Constitution, on the same conditions of service until he retires”.
30) Since section 13 of 6th schedule is a provision that prevails over any other provision on tenure of all Judges including High Court Judges, that came from previous tenure, its text are final interpretation of what Malaba and his band, including Justice Zhou , should do.
31) In fact they retire at 65 and then elect to carry on for 5 years as in section 86 of previous constitution.
32) What the regime want to amend does not affect any Judge so far because no Judge has yet been purely appointed in terms of section 340(1)(a) under new constitution.
33) The regime went and amended section 180(4) and section 186(1). The fatal mistake they made in all their attempt was failure to interpret word “Appoint” and then fail to distinguish “appointing in terms of” as opposed to “appoint in accordance with”.
34) Tenure of a Judge is a continuation of service from the day you start to be a Judge to the last day you cease by retirement. Changing from High Court and promoted to Supreme Court or Constitutional Court Judge does not change tenure. Tenure is signed for the first time you join.
35) May be that is were I must stress why section 186(1)(b) was put in place.
36) It is known that a Judge of High Court or Supreme Court can apply to be Constitutional Court Judge. He or she must serve as Constitutional Court Judge for 15 years but because he or she is already a Judge with a tenure to serve until he or she turns 70.
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37) If a judge is not yet 70 years upon completion of 15 year term as Constitutional Court Judges, Section 186(1)(b) then says “after the completion of their term(as Constitutional Court Judge for 15yrs), they may be appointed as judges of the Supreme Court or the High Court, at their option, if they are eligible for such appointment”
38) This then stresses the point that 70 years of age in the Constitution is the tenure. Tenure is the right to be a Judge of the courts. It is not guided by changes that happen in between.
39) That is why the state also state that the post will not be abolished in the same tenure clause. If terms of appointment change, they only affect new appointments.
40) Those in office are appointed on promotion, which was always a package of tenure. They expected to be promoted right from day one. They got promoted. That does not bring new tenure.
41) Section 340 finishes it all. Malaba was appointed Chief Justice by promotion appointment. No need to talk about amendments because that amendment never changed the “tenure of existing Judges” . They are already Judges. They cannot be appointed as Judges again. They can only be promoted and that is section 340(1)(b).
42) Serving person’s tenure are normally changed by way of varying or modifying the conditions of service of each individual officer and section 340(1)(e) confirms.
43) However in our instances we have three sources of provisions that give conditions of service.
i) Section 86 of old constitution which is inherited by way of section 13 of 6th schedule
ii) Section 186 of 2013 constitution which is guided by appointments made in terms of section 340(1)(a) . Section 328(7) does not allow incumbent officer to benefit from any changes to conditions in section 186.
iii) It must be noted that section 180 is never a term of appointment. Its just a condition. It does not affect tenure.
iv) The last source is from amendment. That is if it passes the test of validity but still from reading the amendments it is clear that the amendments changed parts of s180 which are just conditions of appointment.
v) These conditions of appointment affect candidates from different backgrounds. Where upon succeeding in interview the appointment is done in terms of section 340.
44) It can be seen section 13 of 6th schedule, section 328(7) and section 340 are all not amended.
45) It means non of the Judges are affected by s186(1) or can benefit from it because no one has yet been appointed in terms of section 340(1)(a) on conditions of s186 of the original or the amended constitution.
A 37 year-old jilted married man was struck dead with an iron bar in a row over who should spend the night with a lover.
Bernard Chiwanza met his fate at the hands of a tenant who sided with his lover Petronella Makuvatsine, 30, that he leaves as the latter was housing another man at her Stoneridge lodgings on Saturday night.
Chiwanza is reported to have paid an unwanted visit to his lover and the latter refused to open the door for him since another man was already in the house.
Irked by the development, Chiwanza was reported to have forced the door open and it hit Maxwell Tapera who pulled an iron bar and hit him on his head and he died instantly.
Tapera who is a co-tenant with Makuvatsine was arrested and is detained at Mbare police station where he is leading police with investigations.
Mourners are gathered at Chiwanza’s family house in the same suburb.
Makuvatsine told H-Metro that she had lost faith and love for Chiwanza as her new married lover was paying for her rentals and daily bread.
“I have been seeing Chiwanza for the past four years that at one time I eloped to his family house after falling pregnant,” said Makuvatsine.
“I spent a week sleeping outside his family house’s yard and I want to believe that it affected the baby and upon giving birth the baby later passed on.
The Elderly Petition BCC Over High Rentals “Chiwanza abandoned me and his family and went to his rural home in Mutoko and returned when he learnt of my return to my house.
“He lost affection for me and stopped paying my rentals leading me to accept love to a new married lover who is now looking after me.
“Chiwanza came to my house without notice after he heard that someone was paying for my rentals that is why I refused to open the door for him leading to this mishap.
“Hama dzake ndidzo dzichataurirana nevaridzi vepamba paaponderwa ini kana vachida kundipinza pazviri vanotanga vandiripa mwana wangu wandakaita naye akafa ndisina kudya pfuma yake.
“Tapera came and attacked Chiwanza with an iron bar when he was reasoning with my uncle for him to return to his family and that is how it ended.- H-Metro
Tinashe Sambiri|Prominent lawyer Advocate Eric Matinenga’s son Takudzwa died in a horrific road accident at the weekend.
Advocate Matinenga rose to prominence when he successfully defended Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai during his treason trial in 2005.
In a statement, President Chamisa described Takudzwa as a budding professional.
“With heartache and sadness,I note the passing on of young Takudzwa Matinenga who died in a horrific traffic accident.
My sincere condolences to Advocate Matinenga,Amai & family. Taku was an energetic,loving and brilliant budding professional whose future was so promising. RIP,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
MDC Alliance spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi also described Takudzwa’s death as devastating.
“Yesterday, we woke up to the sad news that Takudzwa Matinenga had passed on. We’ve been robbed of a gifted chef, a talented actor & a young person who had so much creative genius to offer.
Deepest condolences to my friend & colleague, Adv Eric Matinenga & his wife, Mrs Miriam Matinenga.”
Tinashe Sambiri|Prominent lawyer Advocate Eric Matinenga’s son Takudzwa died in a horrific road accident at the weekend.
Advocate Matinenga rose to prominence when he successfully defended Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai during his treason trial in 2005.
In a statement, President Chamisa described Takudzwa as a budding professional.
“With heartache and sadness,I note the passing on of young Takudzwa Matinenga who died in a horrific traffic accident.
My sincere condolences to Advocate Matinenga,Amai & family. Taku was an energetic,loving and brilliant budding professional whose future was so promising. RIP,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter.
MDC Alliance spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi also described Takudzwa’s death as devastating.
“Yesterday, we woke up to the sad news that Takudzwa Matinenga had passed on. We’ve been robbed of a gifted chef, a talented actor & a young person who had so much creative genius to offer.
Deepest condolences to my friend & colleague, Adv Eric Matinenga & his wife, Mrs Miriam Matinenga.”
…we can confirm is that he died from Covid-19. His niece who recently returned from India tested negative while some other family members tested positive. We are therefore not sure of the source of the virus that claimed Mr Kadenhe’s life…
Kwekwe Mayoress Councillor Angeline Kasipo has urged residents not to panic following social media reports that a corona virus case with similar features to the strain prevalent in India had been detected in the mining town.
Her sentiments follow reports on some social media platforms claiming that popular businessman and music promoter, Robson Kadenhe had returned from India days before his death.
Cllr Kasipo said the local authority through the health department carried out all necessary investigations including contact tracing. The late Kadenhe succumbed to Covid-19 on May 12.
Apparently his niece had returned from India sparking speculation that the family had contracted the Indian variant.
“Our health department went on the ground after the death of Mr Kadenhe and the only thing we can confirm is that he died from Covid-19. His niece who recently returned from India tested negative while some other family members tested positive. We are therefore not sure of the source of the virus that claimed Mr Kadenhe’s life,” she said.
Cllr Kasipo said the report that was leaked on social media had caused alarm and despondency.
“I am not sure how the report that was prepared by our health department and was directed to the Provincial Medical Director found its way onto social media platforms. We have since apologised to the family and other stakeholders that might have been inconvenienced, this was not supposed to have happened,” she said.
Clr Kasipo said all necessary steps were taken in tracing contacts and tests have been sent to Harare where results will help map a way forward. She also confirmed that there were three confirmed cases at Goldridge Primary School and the cases were handled well.
“We went to the school and screened all the pupils and they tested negative except for the three who are on isolation and are conducting their lessons online,” said clr Kasipo. She said there were eleven active cases in the mining town.
“We have been recording zero cases for the past two months but now we have 11 active cases and I want to urge the people to continue taking precautionary measures like masking up, sanitizing and getting vaccinated. All our council clinics are offering vaccination services free of charge, so I urge people to get vaccinated,” she said. Kwekwe has a total of 246 cumulative cases. Chronicle
Tinashe Sambiri|Zanu PF provincial chairperson, Ezra Chadzamira has threatened to deal with party councillors who are boycotting meetings over failure to get allowances.
Zanu PF councillors in Chiredzi are not attending council meetings citing failure to get sitting allowances.
Chadzamira accused the councillors of failing to abide by Zanu PF principles .
Chadzamira also challenged the councillors to be to be loyal to the party.Chadzamira is also the Minister of State for Masvingo Province.
“I have heard received complaints about your behaviour. You should be loyal to the party. If hear such reports again you will be in trouble,” fumed Chadzamira.
STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO COMMENTS BY JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MINISTER HON. ZIYAMBI
ON 15 May 2021, the High Court of Zimbabwe in the urgent applications of Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe and Musa Kika issued an order to the effect of which was to inter alia confirm that the term of office of Honourable Justice Luke Malaba had expired and he had ceased to be the Chief Justice of Zimbabwe after attaining the age of 70 years.
In a statement issued on the same day, Hon. Ziyambi Ziyambi, the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs although professing to respect the above decision proceeded to criticise and demean both the decision and the Honourable Judge, who on behalf of the High Court delivered the judgment.
The criticism is in our view intemperate, less than measured and not befitting of an Honourable Minister of the Government of Zimbabwe.
It also contained threats to judicial independence which are unacceptable in a democratic nation and are inconsistent with the doctrine of the separation of powers as enshrined in our Constitution.
We are further concerned and disturbed by the patently false narrative in the statement that Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), is using money to capture various state institutions and to destabilise the Government of Zimbabwe.
There is not an iota of truth in these reckless and defamatory allegations. The Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs knows this only too well.
ZLHR is a law-based organisation of law-abiding legal practitioners whose sole objective is to promote and support observance of the rule of law and the promotion of constitutionalism.
In our efforts we have collaborated with both civil society and various arms of the Government of Zimbabwe; the Minster of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs will attest to this. We have litigated extensively in order to defend the indigent and defenceless and to uphold the rule of law. In this respect, our work speaks for itself. We take strong exception to the false and defamatory statements of and about ZLHR and our rights in this respect are fully reserved.
While we do not wish to comment on a matter which may very well be the subject of an appeal we point out that in our law a litigant who is unhappy with a court decision has the option of an appeal, where this is available and is not entitled to demean the court that handed down the decision or threaten unlawful action against the successful litigant or vent their anger on third parties, regardless of how disappointed they may be with the outcome.
The statement by the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs does enormous disservice to Zimbabwe and its citizens and sends the wrong message to all those who cherish justice and the rule of law.
It is our hope that on reflection, the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs will withdraw these gratuitously offensive, defamatory and false claims against ZLHR and his contemptuous utterances against the judiciary as they are unwarranted and harmful to the interests of Zimbabwe.
Countries around the world are rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, and a key topic of interest is their safety. Vaccine safety is one of WHO’s highest priorities, and we’re working closely with national authorities to develop and implement standards to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
Ensuring safety
Millions of people have safely received COVID-19 vaccines. All of the approved COVID-19 vaccines have been carefully tested and continue to be monitored.
Like all vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines go through a rigorous, multi-stage testing process, including large clinical trials that involve tens of thousands of people. These trials are specifically designed to identify any safety concerns
An external panel of experts convened by WHO analyses the results from clinical trials and recommends whether and how the vaccines should be used. Officials in individual countries decide whether to approve the vaccines for national use and develop policies for how to use the vaccines based on WHO recommendations.
After a COVID-19 vaccine is introduced, WHO supports work with vaccine manufacturers, health officials in each country and other partners to monitor for any safety concerns on an ongoing basis.
New vaccine technology Some COVID-19 vaccines have been developed with an approach that uses messenger RNA (mRNA). The mRNA vaccine technology has been studied for over a decade, including in the development of vaccines for Zika, rabies and influenza.
These mRNA vaccines have been rigorously assessed for safety, and clinical trials have shown that they provide a long-lasting immune response. mRNA vaccines are not live virus vaccines and do not interfere with human DNA. For more information on mRNA vaccines, see WHO’s explainer on the different types of COVID-19 vaccines.
Safety of COVID-19 vaccines for different groups
COVID-19 vaccines have been tested in large, randomized controlled trials that include people of a broad age range, both sexes, different ethnicities, and those with known medical conditions. The vaccines have shown a high level of efficacy across all populations. Vaccines have been found to be safe and effective in people with various underlying medical conditions that are associated with increased risk of severe disease. These include high blood pressure; diabetes; asthma; pulmonary, liver or kidney disease; and chronic infections that are stable and controlled.
Those who should consult with a doctor before vaccination include people with a compromised immune system, older people with severe frailty, people with a history of severe allergic reaction to vaccines, people living with HIV, and those who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Pregnancy
While pregnancy brings a higher risk of severe COVID-19, at present, very little data is available to assess vaccine safety in pregnancy. However, people at high risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus (such as health workers), or who have a history of underlying medical conditions that increase their risk of severe disease, may be vaccinated during pregnancy after consultation with their health care provider. There is no evidence that suggests vaccination would cause harm during pregnancy.
Breastfeeding
The vaccine can be offered to those who are breastfeeding if they are part of a group recommended for vaccination (health workers, for example).
Safety of COVID-19 vaccines for children COVID-19 vaccine trials for children are currently under way, and when results become available, WHO will provide updated guidance for vaccination in children. Vaccine trials targeting adults were prioritized because COVID-19 has proven to be a more serious and dangerous disease among older populations.
Following proven health measures is still the best way to keep everyone, including children, safe from COVID-19. This includes keeping hands clean, practising sneezing and coughing into bent elbows, opening windows, wearing a mask if age-appropriate, and continuing physical distancing…
Source: World Health Organization
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