Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday spoke a word of strength and comfort to Advocate Eric Matinenga’s family following the death of Takudzwa in a road accident.
President Chamisa encouraged the family to look up to the Lord for strength during the period of mourning.
“I know it’s a difficult phase for you but above all the Lord is our comforter,” said President Chamisa…
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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…
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Tinashe Sambiri|A delegation of MDC Alliance Assembly Of Women members was on Monday barred from seeing jailed human rights activist Makomborero Haruvizishe.
In a statement the MDC Alliance Assembly Of Women Harare Province castigated the Zanu PF regime for suppressing the rights of those in prison:
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.
Secretary for Communication
Harare Province Women’s Assembly
By Netsai Marova
It was an honour meeting His Excellency, the people’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa together with my Cde Sisters Joana Ruvimbo Mamombe and Cecillia R Chimbiri .
Am most indebted Your Excellency for the opportunity to engage and be heard, it feels more rejuvinating and inspiring. Indeed the future is young and exciting!
Business Correspondent|World Woman Foundation and Africa Investors Hub will launch their landmark partnership on July 2 at Meikles Hotel in Harare.
World Woman Foundation is a US based non-profit organization that seeks to create platforms for women to access capital for their projects.
Africa Investors Hub was formed by young Zimbabwean businessman Noel Mavura.
In a statement on Tuesday, Mavura said high profile entrepreneurs would attend the mega event.
“Our mega launch is scheduled for July 2 at Meikles Hotel in Harare. The event will run from 6pm to 9pm.
High profile entrepreneurs will grace the event.
This is a wonderful opportunity for potential businesspeople and those in business already to interact and interface with potential investors,” said Mavura.
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has challenged Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to apologize for denigrating and scandilizing the court.
Stunned by the High Court’s reversal of Luke Malaba’s reappointment by Emmerson Mnangagwa, Ziyambi accused the Judges of “working with the enemy to bring down the Second Republic.”
MDC Alliance Secretary for Justice, Hon Innocent Gonese challenged Ziyambi to retract his “reckless utterances.”
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By Jane Mlambo| According to media reports, the widow of late President Robert Mugabe, Grace is not feeling well and currently receiving treatment in Singapore.
The reports quote, Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwawo who is believed to have revealed Grace’s situation when he appeared on a South African television channel SABC on the 12th of May.
“He knows very well that Amai Mugabe is not well, she is out of the country. He knows that she is receiving treatment,” Zhuwawo said.
“He knows very well that she will not be able to attend,” he said.
“Yet he sent one of his officers to be the head of the delegation that went to deliver the summons to someone that they know very, very well, will not be available,” he added.
Mugabe died in Singapore in 2019 at the age of 95, nearly two years after being deposed in a military coup after governing Zimbabwe for 37 years.
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By A Correspondent- A jealous wife from Muriel Mine in Mashonaland West teamed up with her younger sister to assault her husband’s adulterous lover, colloquially known as a small house.
30-year-old Priscilla Femera received information from undisclosed sources that her husband was having an illicit affair with Precious Munyaradzi, 39.
This did not go down well with Femera who enlisted the help of her younger sister Anna Phiri to assault the alleged ‘homewrecker.’
The two sisters then agreed to go teach Munyaradzi a lesson at her place of residence. The two went to Munyaradzi’s home and Femera called her outside.
When Munyaradzi came out, Femera immediately attacked her and did not give her a chance to say or explain anything. The angry wife dragged Munyaradzi to the flower bed and furiously assaulted her. Phiri also joined in the fray as the two sisters assaulted their alleged love rival.
One of Munyaradzi’s neighbours, Godfrey Chapanda heard her screams of anguish and rushed to her aide, where he managed to restrain the two sisters.
Following the assault, Munyaradzi filed a police report. She also alleged that she had lost her iTel A16 mobile phone and US$65.
The two sisters appeared before Chinhoyi provincial magistrate Tapiwa Banda facing assault charges. They were found guilty and sentenced to 30 days in prison.
However, magistrate Banda spared them from going to prison after he gave them the option of paying a fine of $10,000 each.
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) last week nabbed a bogus soldier, Munamati Mkuhuleki Nyathi (36), for duping potential recruits while masquerading as a recruiting agent.
Nyathi was once a member of the ZNA and was discharged from the force for disciplinary reasons last year.
He was arrested for defrauding potential recruits in Guruve where the ZNA was conducting a recruitment.
In a statement yesterday, ZNA director public relations Colonel Alphios Makotore said: “A bogus soldier Nyathi Mkuhuleki Munamati (36) was apprehended by members of the ZNA military police at Guruve Centre last week for defrauding potential recruits US$140.
“Nyathi was discharged from the force in 2020.”
Col Makotore said circumstances around the issue were that Nyathi approached the complainants Michael Gunje (23) and Tatenda Chitsiga both from Guruve and promised to facilitate their recruitment into the ZNA.
He then gave the complainants assurance that they would get the job, citing that he was going to be assisted by a General since he was well connected.
Col Makotore said Nyathi further took the complainants to Harare on the pretext that he was going to introduce them to the said General where he allegedly dumped them near Harare Central Prison along the road leading to Josiah Magama Tongogara Barracks.
He said the matter came to light when the complainants made a report at the Harare District military police department, leading to the arrest of Nyathi.
Col Makotore said Nyathi was handed over to Guruve Police Station and appeared at Guruve Magistrate Courts last Saturday and remanded in custody.
He advised members of the public that the ZNA did not engage third parties in its recruitment processes.
“The ZNA would once again like to warn members of the public that it does not engage third parties on recruitment practices, neither charge a fee on applicants wishing to join the force,” said Col Makotore.
“Members of the public who are approached or come across these bogus soldiers should immediately report to the nearest police station or ZNA Military Police branches.”
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BY A CORRESPONDENT| A prominent Harare businessman George Katsimberis has written to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) over criminal charges filed by controversial land baron Kenneth Raydon Sharpe against him in a bid to confuse and frustrate the justice process.
Katsimberis wants his fraud charge to be scrapped off the role to allow him to freely testify against Sharpe and his accomplices without the threat of being punished for it.
Through his lawyer, Tendai Biti, Katsimberis said charges against him were filed months after he had reported Sharpe and his accomplices who include the now suspended City of Harare Town Clerk Hosiah Abraham Chisango for malicious damage to property and perjury.
He is the key witness on the two charges and now has to juggle from one court room to the other in what he believes is a breach of his rights to protection by the law.
“We write to you at the instance of our client Mr George Katsimberis who is facing criminal charges with the above reference number in the regional court.
“Mr Katsimberis, trial, is supposed to commence on 15 April 2021. We confirm that we have made several complaints against the Regional Prosecutor. The complaints on behalf of our client have been the following;
“That in any event, our client is facing charges, in a matter in respect of which in the very same court he is the key State Witness in charges by the State against witnesses in his own criminal proceedings namely, Michael Van Blerk, Pokugara Properties and others,” said Biti.
“In view of the above it will clearly be unconstitutional and in breach of our right to equal protection and benefit of the law and our client’s right to fairness, if our client were to face criminal proceedings,” further reads Biti’s letter.
Katsimberis has previously raised the same complain with the Special Anti-Corruption Unit in the office of the President (SACU) who promised to look into the issue.
In its letter to the Prosecutor General, SACU said the first reported case should be completed which in this case would have seen fraud charges against Katsimberis being scrapped off.
“SACU, therefore by copy of this letter advises your esteemed office and all the concerned parties to take note and consider how best justice can be saved in this case. SACU is of the view that the case which was reported first must be completed without threatening a witness with criminal charges on the same facts.
“It should be noted that these two cases relates to the same approved plan for the same stand. It should be made clear as well that George Katsimberis was the first to report and Pokugara Properties and Michael John Van Blerk were the first to be charged and after that a witness and complainant George Katsimberis was charged for the same facts before he took his stand on the witness stand,” said SACU head Thabani Mpofu.
He further urged the Prosecutor General to deal with corruption cases in a coordinated manner to avoid putting a witness in a situation where he feels as if he is being punished for testifying against Sharpe.
“Corruption related cases should be handled in a well-co-ordinated manner and a witness who is about to stand to testify in a case should not be made to be put in a situation which appear like he is being charged or punished for testifying against certain individuals,” added Mpofu.
By Wilbert Mukori- “Some people have said to me, ‘If you want us to believe you are no longer working for Zanu PF then tell us how Zanu PF rigged the elections!’ They say that expecting some Mafia like, Movie like, ways that are used to rig the elections. No!” Professor Jonathan Moyo told his audience in a recent SAPES Trust panel discussion.
“The major, major thing with ZEC vote rigging is undercounting the opposition votes by having 14 or 15 ballots in a supposedly 10 ballot – lot; whilst overcounting Zanu PF votes by having 7 or 8 ballots in a 10 ballot -lot. ZEC will do the same with 10 lot – bundles.”
He went on explain the critical importance of having election agents, “each Polling Station should have at least four election agents”, he said.
Even if one had eagle-eyed election agents who saw to it that very candidate, Zanu PF or opposition, 10 ballot – lot had exactly 10 ballots, every bundle had exactly 10 lots, etc. Counting may be the “major, major thing” still it is not the only thing that can go wrong.
Even the eagle-eyed elections agents will not be able to check everything that all the ZEC officials especially since it is common knowledge that very often loyal Zanu PF officials and/or CIO double up as ZEC officials. The eagle-eyed election agent will not know that known Zanu PF supporters who are not on the voters’ roll are being allowed to vote whilst opposition supporters are being denied the vote under the pretext they are not on the voters roll when they are.
The 2008 elections were a watershed in that they revealed the wide spectrum of Zanu PF’s vote rigging capabilities from the blatant cheating in the six weeks “recounting” of the March vote to the use of wanton violence to turn over Tsvangirai’s 73%, according to Mugabe’s Freudian slip, to a massive 84% for Mugabe.
The 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) was a SADC initiative in which Zimbabwe was tasked to implement a raft of democratic reforms to ensure the vote rigging of 2008 would never be repeated ever again. The primary task of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms. Sadly, not even one reform was implemented.
SADC leaders wanted Zimbabwe’s 2013 elections to be postponed until the democratic reforms were implemented. “If you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done!” SADC leaders warned Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends, according to Dr Ibbo Mandaza who attended the June 2013 SADC summit in Maputo.
Zanu PF refused to have the elections postponed and played their trump card. Patrick Chinamasa, Zanu PF Minister of Justice and Parliamentary Affairs in the GNU called a press conference to explain.
“As Zanu PF we are of course contesting the idea that there is any need for reforms whether its media reforms, whether it’s Posa, whether it’s Aippa, we are contesting and we made it clear in the summit that the MDCs are accustomed to making generalised calls for reforms,” said Chinamasa.
“In particular I made a point that in 2011, July 2011 they were making these generalised calls and I specifically asked them to make their proposals specific and to table them with the forum of negotiators but up to now since 2011, no specific proposals to Posa or Aippa or to any of the pieces of legislation they complain about have been tabled for our consideration.
“We can only implement that which we have agreed, we cannot implement disagreements, they are not implementable. We can only implement that which we have agreed. If we do not agree then there is nothing to implement, until we agree on a particular reform then there is nothing to reform. If there are disagreements then it is up to the political parties to take those issues to an election so that those disagreements are part of the election manifestos of the respective parties…”
Professor Jonathan Moyo attended the post SADC summit press conference hosted by Minister Chinamasa. Of course, Professor Moyo knew the full import of both SADC leaders concerns on holding elections without first implementing the reforms and of Chinamasa’s statement blaming MDC leaders for having failed to submit reform proposals.
What is really infuriating is that MDC leaders themselves knew Zanu PF was rigging the 2013 elections and the “obvious” thing to have done was to boycott the elections. They continued and participated regardless out of greed as David Coltart readily admitted in his book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the (2013) elections,” wrote Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
David Coltart was an MDC-N Minister in the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
The July 2013 Zimbabwe elections went ahead with no democratic reform in place and Loo Behold Zanu PF blatantly rigged the plebiscite just as SADC leaders had predicted. By participating in the flawed elections MDC leaders gave the process “credibility” and by extension gave the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy, as MDC leaders knew.
It is important to emphasise that once MDC leaders had ignored SADC leaders’ warning not to participate in the flawed elections, the regional leaders were powerless censure Zanu PF for rigging the elections.
In 2018 history repeated itself because nothing had change, not even a token reform was implemented since the rigged elections in 2013, and so Zanu PF once again blatantly rigged the elections. All the opposition parties participated giving the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
History is set to repeat itself yet again in 2023 because, again, not even one token reform has been implemented and with two years left it is too late to implement any. It is clear, Zanu PF will rig the elections.
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC A, Douglas Mwonzora and his MDC–T and all the other opposition politicians who participated in the last election will do so again giving the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. Frankly, it would be hypocritical for any of them to boycott the elections to demand reforms because they did not do so in the past.
The SAPES Trust topic of discussion was “The Stampede Towards 2023 Elections: Is History about to Repeat itself in Zimbabwe?”
Of course, one would expect Professor Jonathan Moyo, a political academic and seasoned political practitioner, to know what the 2008 to 2013 GNU’s primary task was to implemented the raft of democratic reforms to stop the blatant vote rigging of 2008 being repeated ever again. Professor Moyo knows not even one reform saw the light of day, knows that Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders to forget about the reforms and, most important of all, he knows until we implement the reforms there will be no free, fair and credible elections. And knows that the opposition’s participation in these flawed elections is only giving legitimacy to vote rigging Zanu PF!
Yet Professor Jonathan Moyo has not only encouraged Nelson Chamisa and his MDC A to participate in the flawed 2018 elections and is he is doing so again for the 2023 elections knowing fully well this is foolish. It is no secret that Professor Moyo was Zanu PF’s chief strategist and propagandist and has played a major role in the establishment and retention of the de facto one-party dictatorship. And so one comes full circle to where we started and ask again; ‘If you want us to believe you are no longer working for Zanu PF then tell us why you want us to participate in rigged elections?”
Headlands police officer-in-charge Norbert Ngandini is in the eye of a political storm after allegedly joining Zanu-PF-aligned Headlands Development Association (HDA), which deals with land issues.
The HDA is the brainchild of Headlands MP Christopher Chingosho (Zanu-PF) and was formed almost two weeks ago.
It recently torched a storm when it announced that oversized farms owned by party bigwigs in the constituency would be targeted for downsizing.
Sources who attended the recent HDA meeting expressed dismay that Ngandini, who is a police officer, had joined the association.
“We are not happy that the Headlands officer-in-charge was co-opted into a political organisation called Headlands Development Association run by Headlands MP Chingosho. It’s illegal for police officers to do so as they are not allowed to join political formations,” the source said.
“The officer-in-charge is a committee member, but we are told that he is feeling the pressure over the position.”
Ngandini, however, refuted the allegations saying they were mere rumours. He said he had since approached his police bosses to discuss the issue.
“These are just rumours, people are saying all sorts of things. I think you can contact my bosses at district and provincial levels over the matter. I last met MP Chingosho a long time ago, and you can even ask him,” Ngandini said.
Chingosho yesterday said he could not comment on the issue as he was in a meeting.
But reports in Headlands revealed that Chingosho was at loggerheads with party bigwigs like former Agriculture minister Joseph Made and former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa over land issues. Chinamasa is reportedly eyeing Chingosho’s Headlands constituency in the 2023 harmonised elections.
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By A Correspondent- MDC Alliance Councillor for ward 17, Chikanga Dangamvura Constituency and other party members yesterday maintained roads in their ward.
Unlike Zanu pf members who are highjacking government projects and trying to use them as their projects ahead by elections which are coming soon, MDC Alliance Councillor and members are using their own resources, truck, diesel and other tools.
Speaking to ward 17 Councillor John Nyamhoka he said, “We are maintaining the road not because we are going for a by election any time soon but it is our duty as the residents.
“We used to do it since long back using our own resources with MDC Alliance members without being paid.”
Last week, Chikanga Dangamvura Constituency Zanu pf Candidate Esau Mupfumi who was rejected by the people during the 2018 election was seen taking a selfie in front of a Road department grader working in ward 17 and posted on social media platforms claiming that the project was his.
A week before, Mupfumi tried to hijack the Council program of free medication. He made noise on social media and said the project was his again.
In the last election, Mupfumi was heavily defeated by MDC Alliance’s Prosper Mutseyami. The electorate from the constituency rejected him for his known behaviour of donating things and taking them after elections.
He is also a known lier. He is on record lying that he put Wi-Fi for the Youths in the Constituency yet he put it at the office which he used when he was the Member of Parliament.
He also donated an ambulance at Dangamvura Clinic but took it after he was defeated.
By A Correspondent- Media personality, digital mogul, and Philanthropist Samantha Musa, who is affectionately known as Misred finally launched her first book titled ‘Be Faithful To Your Happiness’ yesterday.
To spread a little bit of happiness during her book launch, Misred personally gifted several ladies and gentlemen with pink roses, bookmakers, and special notes to mark the release of her debut book.
She was distributing the roses, bookmakers, and special notes to anyone passing by, wishing them a blessed day.
Speaking about the book at her private birthday party held in Harare last week to celebrate her 32nd birthday, Misred said,
“The book is a journey on how I moved from cheating to being faithful to my happiness. In that journey, I learnt that happiness is an inside job and not a feeling or event. When I was going through many trials including sickness and couldn’t share with anyone I found solace in writing. I would find myself writing every time and that is how the book was birthed.”
The book is readily available for purchase on her website www.imisred.com and in stores around Zimbabwe.
Misred is undoubtedly a multi-talented star, besides being a radio personality, she is also a social influencer, philanthropist, brand ambassador, events MC, Tv presenter, and now she an author.
By A Correspondent- As cases of murder continue to surge, another missing man from Chikanga was found dead in a waterlogged trench near St Mary’s Secondary School, Mutare.
The dead body of Ashley Muranda (29) who went missing on Sunday night was only found yesterday floating in a trench by pupils on their way from school.
Muranda’s mother, Preacher Chidende told Manica Post that her son was drunk when he was last seen at around 10 pm on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the police confirmed the incident and said investigations are in progress.
This comes barely a day after the body of a Chitungwiza Central Hospital physiotherapist who went missing a fortnight ago was found in a well a stone throw away from his home.
The body of George Oposi, 38, was found in a 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.
Police officers had to guard the place on Sunday night after a report was made.
His body was only retrieved by the police sub-aqua unit a day after his friends had reported having found a body in a well.
Oposi was reportedly last seen on May 5 at around 10 pm after watching a televised football match.
A medical kit with medical 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.
Politicisation of subsided mealie-meal and food aid by ruling Zanu-PF party officials during the COVID-19-induced lockdowns compounded hunger among vulnerable communities in most parts of the country, a Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) report has revealed.
ZPP alleged that the ruling Zanu-PF party was denying food handouts to opposition party supporters.
In its April 2021 report released yesterday, ZPP claimed that only Zanu-PF card-carrying members received food aid during the lockdown period.
“Some Zanu-PF leaders purchased all the subsidized mealie-meal and went on to sell it to Zanu-PF members only, thus depriving thousands of people desperately needing the staple food, but did not have Zanu-PF membership cards,” the report read.
“The partisan distribution of government food aid is a recurring problem in most rural areas which have been extensively reported on by various civil society organisations. It has left thousands of people food insecure when they desperately need food assistance during the difficult times of COVID-19,” the ZPP said.
Zanu-PF national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo could not immediately comment on the allegations as he said he was in a meeting.
But the ruling party has in the past denied reports of politicising food aid.
The ZPP added that assessments by the World Food Programme, the Southern African Development Community and the Zimbabwe Vulnerable Assessment Committee confirmed that over eight million people, which is about 60% of the population faced hunger, starvation, and food insecurity.
“A study conducted by ZimStat in June 2020 showed that about 84% of people in the rural areas were unable to have a balanced diet due to lack of money to buy nutritious foods.”
The human rights watchdog stated that government had failed to provide adequate assistance to the vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic due to lack of funds.
“The broken and dysfunctional social service delivery system in the country cannot withstand the impacts of the pandemic due to several years of underfunding and neglect by government. Nonetheless, there is an opportunity to redress the ongoing crisis by ensuring that socio-economic rights are placed at the centre of the COVID-19 response and recovery plans.”
ZPP urged government to urgently release funds for disbursement to vulnerable and marginalized people.
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By A Correspondent- Five armed robbers allegedly gang-raped three women when they raided a family from Upper Rangemore in Bulawayo last Wednesday at around 7 PM.
The gang also robbed the family of US$10, ZAR50 and $180, a jersey, and a travellers’ bag before disappearing into the darkness.
The robbers who were armed with a machete, a small axe and three knives are said to have used an unlocked door to gain entry into the house.
Bulawayo Acting Provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed the incident.
She said:
We are investigating an armed robbery case where five suspects armed with a machete, small axe and three knives broke into a house in Upper Rangemore on Wednesday around 7 PM. The armed robbers used an unlocked door to enter the house.
Asst Insp Msebele said the gang proceeded to the sitting room where the family was watching television and demanded their valuables.
She said:
Two of the accused persons grabbed the male complainant (28), searched him and took an Itel cellphone, Samsung cellphone, Vodafone cellphone, and cash amounting to US$10, ZAR50, $180 from his trousers pocket.
The accused persons tied all the complainants’ hands and feet using shoelaces.
She said the gang proceeded to the female complainant (21) and took US$5 which was in the pocket of her skirt. Said Asst Insp Msebele:
The gang then force-marched the three female complainants aged 21, 19 and 15 to the kitchen where they took turns to rape them without protection.
The complainants made a report at Nkulumane Police Station the following day around 5 AM.
Asst Insp Msebele added:
Three female complainants were referred to Mpilo Hospital for medical examination and treatment.
Total value stolen is US$245, ZAR50, $180. Investigations are in progress at Nkulumane police station.
She appealed to anyone with information that can lead to the arrest of the accused persons to contact any nearest police station.
By A Correspondent- Police in Manicaland have launched a manhunt for a Rusape man who allegedly murdered his wife after stumbling upon a love text message in her mobile phone.
Manicaland police spokesperson, Inspector Luxon Chananda confirmed the murder to NewsDay.
Milton Chihobo (35) of Muziti village under Chief Chiduku had a misunderstanding over a text message, which he had seen in his wife, Martha Chinawa’s phone. The message revealed that Chinawa had an extra-marital affair with an unnamed person.
He struck her on the left cheek and the back of the head with an axe, resulting in her death.
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By A Correspondent- Gweru City Council has assured its restive workers that they will not be retrenched when the local authority implements its staff rationalisation exercise.
Mayor Josiah Makombe last week said that the downsizing exercise would happen naturally as those that retire or resign would not be replaced, including deceased employees.
Makombe said the job evaluation exercise was carried out six years ago, and would be implemented anytime soon as it was expected to reduce council’s wage bill.
“You would remember that in 2015, a job evaluation exercise was carried through the help of the German International Co-operation,” he said.
“As council, we are at an advanced stage in implementing this exercise. The job evaluation is aimed at cutting the workforce from the current 1 400 to 790.
“It should, however, be understood that although the evaluation would see us reducing the workforce by almost half, no worker is going to be retrenched.”
Makombe said downsizing would ensure that workers that were not in critical departments were not replaced when they left employment.
would save for service delivery. Over the years, council has been shelving plans to implement the job evaluation exercise after management and councillors said they needed more time to consider the merits and demerits of the exercise.
The local authority collects around $1,2 million every month in revenue, but employment costs gobble about $1,3 million monthly, leaving nothing for service delivery.
By A Correspondent- Headlands police officer-in-charge Norbert Ngandini is in the eye of a political storm after allegedly joining Zanu-PF-aligned Headlands Development Association (HDA), which deals with land issues.
The HDA is the brainchild of Headlands MP Christopher Chingosho (Zanu-PF) and was formed almost two weeks ago.
It recently torched a storm when it announced that oversized farms owned by party bigwigs in the constituency would be targeted for downsizing.
Sources who attended the recent HDA meeting expressed dismay that Ngandini, who is a police officer, had joined the association.
“We are not happy that the Headlands officer-in-charge was co-opted into a political organisation called Headlands Development Association run by Headlands MP Chingosho. It’s illegal for police officers to do so as they are not allowed to join political formations,” the source said.
“The officer-in-charge is a committee member, but we are told that he is feeling the pressure over the position.”
Ngandini, however, refuted the allegations saying they were mere rumours. He said he had since approached his police bosses to discuss the issue.
“These are just rumours, people are saying all sorts of things. I think you can contact my bosses at district and provincial levels over the matter. I last met MP Chingosho a long time ago, and you can even ask him,” Ngandini said.
Chingosho yesterday said he could not comment on the issue as he was in a meeting.
But reports in Headlands revealed that Chingosho was at loggerheads with party bigwigs like former Agriculture minister Joseph Made and former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa over land issues. Chinamasa is reportedly eyeing Chingosho’s Headlands constituency in the 2023 harmonised elections.-newsday
By A Correspondent- Zimbabwean Angela Kumirai has made history in the United States after she was selected as one of the top 25 finalists out of 10 000 university students to implement a social impact idea.
Kumirai is a graduate cum laude (with higher grades) from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Chemistry and in Health and Society.
She was chosen as one of the finalists after she came up with a pharmaceutical initiative which seeks to improve Zimbabwean medication acquisition experience in distant areas to ensure that locals can easily access medicines.
“Kumirai is a Zimbabwean girl who grew up on a plot in Gweru, where she did her education at Fletcher High School as the head girl and she was able to achieve 20 points at Advanced Level, passing subjects such as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Computing,” she said in a description of herself.
Kumirai urged Zimbabweans to vote for her so that she could win the competition.
Only top 10 winners will recieve funding for their projects.-newsday
By A Correspondent- The government is investigating car sales that have inundated Harare with a view to establishing their legality.
Addressing the media in Harare on Tuesday, Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Harare Metropolitan Province Oliver Chidawu said there is a need to restore order in the city. Chidawu said:
We have this city being turned, in fact, all roads are being turned into car sales. We have noticed in some areas like Lomagundi Road where there are a lot of car sales.
We do not know the process that has been followed. We are now emphasising that we want orderliness.
We want to ensure that we follow planning and if people are following planning, we have no problems with them, but what we have noticed is within that, some of our members of staff probably have been compromised in doing things which may not be above the law.
Chidawu also bemoaned the conversion of golf courses into residential stands, vowing that corrective measures will be taken.
He said:
We want to correct that so it is really not about a witch-hunt at all, but it is about getting things done properly. We want order in Harare and as you are aware, we had instances where golf courses were sold.
-statemedia
By A Correspondent- Politicisation of subsided mealie-meal and food aid by ruling Zanu-PF party officials during the COVID-19-induced lockdowns compounded hunger among vulnerable communities in most parts of the country, a Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) report has revealed.
ZPP alleged that the ruling Zanu-PF party was denying food handouts to opposition party supporters.
In its April 2021 report released yesterday, ZPP claimed that only Zanu-PF card-carrying members received food aid during the lockdown period.
“Some Zanu-PF leaders purchased all the subsidized mealie-meal and went on to sell it to Zanu-PF members only, thus depriving thousands of people desperately needing the staple food, but did not have Zanu-PF membership cards,” the report read.
“The partisan distribution of government food aid is a recurring problem in most rural areas which have been extensively reported on by various civil society organisations. It has left thousands of people food insecure when they desperately need food assistance during the difficult times of COVID-19,” the ZPP said.
Zanu-PF national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo could not immediately comment on the allegations as he said he was in a meeting.
But the ruling party has in the past denied reports of politicising food aid.
The ZPP added that assessments by the World Food Programme, the Southern African Development Community and the Zimbabwe Vulnerable Assessment Committee confirmed that over eight million people, which is about 60% of the population faced hunger, starvation, and food insecurity.
“A study conducted by ZimStat in June 2020 showed that about 84% of people in the rural areas were unable to have a balanced diet due to lack of money to buy nutritious foods.”
The human rights watchdog stated that government had failed to provide adequate assistance to the vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic due to lack of funds.
“The broken and dysfunctional social service delivery system in the country cannot withstand the impacts of the pandemic due to several years of underfunding and neglect by government. Nonetheless, there is an opportunity to redress the ongoing crisis by ensuring that socio-economic rights are placed at the centre of the COVID-19 response and recovery plans.”
ZPP urged government to urgently release funds for disbursement to vulnerable and marginalised people.
-newsday
By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa said that his government respected the decision on former Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s case made by the High Court on Saturday.
In a tweet on Tuesday night, Mnangagwa said the administration respects the independence of the country’s judiciary, hence, every citizen should respect court rulings. He wrote:
In Zimbabwe, the independence of our judiciary is vital to the survival of our democracy. When our courts speak, all Zimbabweans should listen.
The Government of Zimbabwe wholeheartedly respects the independence of our judiciary.
This comes after Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had threatened unspecified action on the three judges who ruled against the extension of the former Chief Justice’s term of office by five years.
A few hours after the ruling was delivered on Saturday, Ziyambi accused the three High Court judges – Justices Happias Zhou, Jester Helena Charehwa and Edith Mushore of being captured by foreign forces.
Meanwhile, Ziyambi and Attorney-General Prince Machaya on Monday appealed the High Court ruling at the Supreme Court.
By A Correspondent- MDC Alliance members who visited incarcerated political activist Makomborero Haruzivishe in prison have been denied entry of visit.
Makomborero is being held at Central Prison following his sentence of 14 months in jail after being convicted for inciting public violence and resisting arrest.
By A Correspondent- Factionalism has rocked Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial structures with war veterans clashing with the newly elected party leadership.
War veterans led by Happison Muchechetere who was recently elected the Zanu PF Veterans of the Liberation Struggle League (ZVLSL) Mashonaland West provincial chairperson is clashing with Kindness Paradza the deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, and Zanu PF Makonde District Coordinating Committee chairman.
Muchechetere at the Zanu PF Zvimba North inter-district weekend meeting held at Kamwaza Hall in Raffingora publicly challenged Paradza.
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.
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.
-Pindula News; NewZimbabwe
By A Correspondent- Public Service Commission (PSC) has warned pensioners of fraudsters who are targeting them, judging by the number of reported cases.
There have been several cases of fraud in recent months as criminals hack into pensioners’ bank accounts.
In a statement, the PSC urged pensioners to stay alert as far as their bank accounts are concerned to avoid falling prey to the fraudsters.
“The Public Service Commission advises its valued pensioners and those with pensioner relatives that there are mounting incidents of financial fraud targeting pensioner bank accounts. The commission urges all pensioners to stay alert where their bank accounts are concerned, to avoid falling prey to pension fraudsters,’’ read the statement.
PSC advised pensioners not to give out personal information to anyone asking online or over the phone and to ignore unexpected investment offers on their pensions.
“Never give out personal information to anyone asking online or over the phone, personal information such as personal identification number (PIN), ID number, date of birth, bank account number, next of kin, phone numbers and email address,’’ read the statement.
“Ignore unexpected investment offers on your pension unless you trust the source. If you are contacted for these details, rather go in person to the bank where the message claims to originate from.’’
Personal and financial information is used by criminals online. With stolen identity, a criminal may be able to access bank accounts or obtain credit/debit cards or loans in one’s name and potentially take all savings.
The PSC encouraged pensioners to notify financial institutions and the police if their particulars are stolen.
Last month, police arrested two suspects on allegations of fraudulently applying for a SIM replacement card belonging to another person before using it to dupe several people of cash.
-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.
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
At a time when Chinese citizens are allowed into the country without any checks since January last year, a situation that’s worsened COVID levels, after a year and 4 months, Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has decided to charge its own returning citizens quarantine fees.
Yes you could charge all travelers, but Mnangagwa’s (dubbed Ramakhopa)’s administration could surely do better than forcing its own taxpayers while giving strangers smooth massage.
This is in line with the Statutory Instrument No 108 of 2021 in relation to the country’s ports of entry and exit, it was announced yesterday.
In a post-Cabinet briefing yesterday, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa encouraged members of the public should to go to their nearest health facility to receive their Covid-19 vaccine.
She said this will help the country achieve the required herd immunity to control the spread of the disease.
“Cabinet wishes to advise that citizens returning to Zimbabwe will now be quarantined at their own expense. Furthermore, those travellers found to be positive for Covid-19 will be isolated at an isolation centre at their own expense,” she said.
“With regard to stepping up surveillance of the public transport system, the nation is informed that the Vehicle Inspectorate Department, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) are flushing out the unregistered vehicles.”
She said 7 012 vehicles have been impounded for failure to display number plates and illegal operations (mshikashika).
“Cabinet also wishes to inform the public that the Public Health (Covid-19 Prevention, Containment and (National Lockdown (No.2) Order, 2020 published in Statutory Instrument (SI) 200 of 2020 was amended on Friday 14 May 2021 and published in SI 119,” she said.
“The major highlight of the amendment is that it now defines persons entering Zimbabwe into three categories. These include returning citizens or residents of Zimbabwe; and nationals or ordinary residents of a Sadc country in transit through Zimbabwe to another Sadc country.”
Cabinet also heard that a Covd-19 patient from Kwekwe died on arrival at Kwekwe General Hospital on May 12, 2021.
“Contact tracing has detected positive cases in the family of the deceased, further there was a student who had arrived from India on the 29th of April 2021 and the student was PCR negative. Another test was conducted on the student after the death of the Covid-19 case and results were negative,” she said.
Minister Mutsvangwa said to date, 11 Covid-19 cases are linked to the case of the person that died in Kwekwe.
She advised the nation that Genomic sequencing tests are being done to determine if there was an import of the Covid-19 strain that is wreaking havoc in India.
Minister Mutsvangwa said the country remains on course to conduct a census within the prescribed timeframe for the 2023 elections.
“The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works is expected to conclude the boundary proclamations for Wards, Districts and Provinces in order to ensure that enumeration areas are correctly assigned. Thereafter, the Census Field Mapping Exercise can be finalised before actual enumeration proceeds,” she said.
“Census field mapping involves subdividing the whole country into smaller geographical units called enumeration areas with an average of 80 to 120 households.
Cabinet is pleased to report that 55 percent of the country has so far been successfully mapped, despite up to 10 months of programmed time having been lost to Covid-19 restrictions.”
For the first time in the history of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZimStat) will go paperless during census enumeration since the Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) technique will be employed during data collection.
Given that this is the first time Zimbabwe will use the paperless CAPI technique, more than one pilot census will be run to test the technology, with re-tests being conducted.
“This will last up to the first quarter of 2022. The actual population census will therefore start in April 2022, with the Census results expected in August 2022, paving way for the Constituencies Delimitation in October 2022 as 31 December 2022 is the last day allowed for delimitation,” she added…Herald/additional analysis
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
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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.”
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.
Secretary for Communication
Harare Province Women’s Assembly
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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- More than 140 healthcare workers have resigned from Bulawayo’s central hospitals.
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.
-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.
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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.
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Obey Sithole’s Message Of Hope From Prison…
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.
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.
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.
“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.
© Zim Diaspora Sports Connect
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.
Aluta continua
We are in charge
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.
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|Harare giants Caps United are ready to take on Yadah FC in a Chibuku Super Cup tie on Saturday.
Caps United also known as the Cup Kings are already thinking of CAF games ahead…
“We are not sure if @FcYadah still uses anointing oil but they can only minimize the damage.
Chibuku 2021 Champions are here. We can only start preparing for CAF games.
We are Makepekepe We host the church boys in our opening Chibuku match on Saturday.
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.
Aluta continua
We are in charge
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.
Good morning Zimbabwe We Move.
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.
Masvingo Mirror
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.
Good day ZimEye
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.
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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.
PRESS STATEMENT.
Sunday 16 May 2021
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.
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.
-Washington Post
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, Fan Facebook page: “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.
-Newsday
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.
-Newsday
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.
Dear Editor
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.
Concerned citizen
Dear Editor
Greetings to you all.
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.
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……
0775350421
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 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.
-State Media
By A Correspondent | This week the world watches as the ZANU PF President Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa blows taxpayer money fighting the High Court to Re-Employ the aged judge who gave him presidency despite clear evidence that the 2018 elections were rigged to his favour using the military, as broadcast and made clear on the state television, ZBC.
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.
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.
The full submission is below
