FBC Bank (LTD) is in the eye of a bribery storm, following revelations that the bank attempted to give an inducement to a High Court judge to influence the ruling of a matter in which they were facing a lawsuit from a client.
ZimMorningpPost reports that the bank appeared in court on March 30 2021, and an emissary tried to bribe Justice Esther Muremba with a gift bag whose contents could not be immediately ascertained.
A source to the publication said:_Apparently FBC sent the judge a gift back on March 29, a day before she was set to hand down judgement on the matter in which FBC was dragged in._
_She said she was prepared to hand down judgment in Motion Court before she then received the gift bag._
_She walked in court and asked Mr Muchada who represented FBC to explain this ‘gesture.’_
_Muchada sought instructions from his client (FBC) and was told that it was an annual gift they give to all judges as Christmas gifts, Muremba fumed and asked them to take their gift back immediately and she also questioned the logic of receiving a Christmas gift in March._
ZimMorningPost further reports that enquiries at the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) established that Muremba was the only judge out of 30 High Court judges that received the Christmas ‘gift’ in March.
Reports suggest that a Harare lawyer Nigel Sithole filed an urgent chamber application to have his three digital platforms (Mobile Moola, USSD *220# and Noku) with FBC suspended after a stranger manipulated one of the platforms using his name and went on to dupe people in a rent to buy car scheme.
Sithole confirmed the FBC Bank bribery incident and praised Justice Muremba for upholding ethics and transparency.
He added:
_I was quite perturbed by the conduct of the bank and wonder what it is exactly was meant to be achieved by handing over this gift. Institutionally, this raises a lot of questions about the types of decisions made at the management level of FBC._
FBC Holdings group chief executive John Mushayavanhu said he was not competent to comment on matters dealt with at court adding that the matter was concluded.
In 2017, there were allegations that FBC Holdings (FBCH) was also sucked in another fraud storm involving a disputed US$3.4 million.
By A Correspondent- the Zimbabwe Republic Police has intensified its blitz on Kombis which are not operating under the Zupco banner.
The Police were last week instructed by the government to impound any kombi, company vehicle or private car which they could have seen pirating.
Last week the police in Bulawayo impounded kombis that were carrying school children.
“In enforcing the Government’s Covid-19 regulations on transporters, the police will ensure that company and school-owned buses, which have the requisite documents, proof of ownership and all relevant registration processes are allowed passage at roadblocks and checkpoints,” said national police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner, Paul Nyathi, told state media.
“The police will only impound public service vehicles such as kombis or buses, which are carrying passengers whilst they are not registered under the ZUPCO franchise.”
Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) is struggling to defend the low “O” level pass rate for the 2020 examinations which is lower than that of 2019.
Addressing a press conference yesterday, Zimsec chairperson, Professor Eddie Mwenje said the overall pass rate was pegged at 24,8 percent, a slight decrease from 31,6 percent for 2019.
The statistics show that the 2020 pass rate decreased by 6,8 percent from that of 2019.
Prof Mwenje said despite the decrease, the pass rate was still in range based on historical analysis.
He said in analysing the pass rate, members of the public should also consider the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prof Mwenje said it is also important to note that some countries that went into national lockdowns due to the pandemic also experienced a decrease in pass rates.
By A Correspondent- Five unidentified robbers stormed Thorncroft Primary School in Ruwa, blasted a safe and went away with US$30 000 cash.
The robbers who were armed with pistols first captured the security guard manning the premises before stealing the cash, including a Samsung TV and a Nokia Cellphone.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident.
“On May 1 2021, five unidentified men stormed a School in Ruwa and captured the guard before they blasted a safe and stole over US$30 000, Nokia cellphone, HP laptop and a Samsung TV.
“The ZRP reiterates that members of the public must not keep large sums of money in homes or business premises without corresponding security measures. Anyone with information to contact any nearest Police Station or call Complaints Desk on 0242 703631 or WhatsApp 0712800197.”
By A Correspondent- War Veterans have rejected a loan facility proposal which the government through the Finance minister Mthuli Ncube did table before them.
Mthuli recently announced a no pay increase for the war veterans and said the government, instead of going to give them being loans for income-generating projects.
The issue arose during a public hearing on the 2021 budget last week by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance with Hurungwe residents.
Hurungwe district war veteran Ben Chipanda said war veterans were now too old to embark on income-generating projects, adding that they, instead, wanted their stipends to be increased.
“War veterans are too old to take on chicken-rearing projects. Personally, as a war veteran, I am not happy over the move to allocate a fund for war veterans. I am speaking on behalf of many war veterans who failed to come here today at the meeting which was also not advertised well on time for planning purposes,” he said.
“The money allocated for us to venture into chicken rearing is like a joke to us. At our age (the majority of us are above 60 years) we cannot be keeping chickens as an income-generating project. We want cash. We are too old for chicken rearing. We must get cash so that we plan for our families.”
Chakari MP Andrew Nkani (Zanu PF), who chaired the meeting, said $37,5 million had been allocated to war veterans so that they could embark on projects to sustain themselves.
Nkani said last year, there was a recommendation for the 2021 budget to consider coming up with a revolving fund for women, youths and war veterans.
‘‘Treasury allocated $37,5 million to each sector through recapitalisation of Empower Bank, Zimbabwe Women Finance Bank, POSB, among others, that cater for small and medium businesses. This was also done for war veterans under National Venture Fund. It will empower and capacitate them to participate in the mainstream economy,’’ he said.
But war veterans said the majority of them now lived like “vagabonds” due to measly stipends they got against the continuously rising cost of living.
During the late former President Robert Mugabe’s era, war veterans got a $50 000 windfall each in 1997, but the majority of them blew it up as they could not embark on income-generating projects.
By A Correspondent- There was drama at the Harare Magistrates Court when police detectives arrested a key witness in the trial of ZIFA president Felton Kamambo who stands accused of bribing councillors to enable his ascension to the top post after he was declared a hostile witness.
A visibly infuriated Robert Matoka initially resisted arrest and shouted at the detectives asking why they wanted to summon him to the police station.
Matoka’s arrest came after he was declared a hostile witness by Harare regional magistrate Mrs Bianca Makwande following an application by prosecutor Mr Micheal Reza.
In the application, Mr Reza told the court that Matoka had departed materially from his two statements and therefore, should be declared a hostile witness.
Before leading evidence from Matoka yesterday, Mr Reza had told the court that if he testifies the truth he would be absolved from any form of prosecution but if he lies under oath that cover would be removed and he would be arrested.
Soon after Mrs Makwande’s ruling, Mr Reza told the court that Matoka had been declared a hostile witness and could now be arrested because the cover of not being prosecuted had fallen away.
By A Correspondent- Five unidentified robbers stormed Thorncroft Primary School in Ruwa, blasted a safe and went away with US$30 000 cash.
The robbers who were armed with pistols first captured the security guard manning the premises before stealing the cash, including a Samsung TV and a Nokia Cellphone.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident.
“On May 1 2021, five unidentified men stormed a School in Ruwa and captured the guard before they blasted a safe and stole over US$30 000, Nokia cellphone, HP laptop and a Samsung TV.
“The ZRP reiterates that members of the public must not keep large sums of money in homes or business premises without corresponding security measures. Anyone with information to contact any nearest Police Station or call Complaints Desk on 0242 703631 or WhatsApp 0712800197.”
By A Correspondent-Zanu PF youths in Manicaland are being used to block the former Finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa from taking part in the 2023 elections.
The youths are reportedly being used by Headlands Member of Parliament, Christopher Chingosho, whose constituency Chinamasa wants to take in the next election.
The youths are being used to frustrate the recycled politician so that he quits politics before the next polls.
Chingosho is said to be inciting the youths to invade Chinamasa’s and demand its partitioning on claims that it is oversized.
Last Friday, Headlands MP Christopher Chingosho (Zanu PF) invited the constituency’s commercial farmers and A2 farmers for an emergency meeting over the issue.
NewsDay has the invitation letter whose main agenda was the downsizing of farms and the formation of the Headlands development committee.
“All the A2 and commercial farm owners in Headlands constituency are required to attend the meeting in person and on time,” the letter read.
However, sources in Headlands told NewsDay that Chingosho was targeting Chinamasa’s farm as there were reports that the former Finance minister had plans to become MP for the area in 2023.
Chingosho is reportedly unleashing youths on those he believes to be his competitors in the constituency.
“The meeting took place, but Chingosho did not mention Chinamasa and Made by name. The issue is about underutilised farms owned by the big bosses, which are more than 400 hectares, and youths want some of the land that Made and Chinamasa are failing to utilise,” a source said.
“Both Chinamasa and Made definitely have oversized farms and youths want that land. Chinamasa’s farm in Headlands is called Tsukumai Farm and it is almost 3 000 hectares, while Made’s farm is almost 1 500 hectares (Tara Farm),” the source said.
“The reason Chingosho is also going after Chinamasa is that Chinamasa can’t win Rusape Urban (Makoni Central), so he is also looking for rural Headlands constituency in the next election in order to protect his interests.”
In the 2018 elections, Chinamasa lost the Makoni Central seat to David Tekeshe, now MDC-T.
However, a youth in Headlands told NewsDay on condition of anonymity, that they were actually eyeing large tracts of underutilised land in the hands of some party bigwigs.
“We as youths are suffering. We don’t have land, yet some of our big bosses have land which they are failing to fully utilise,” the youth said.
Chingosho confirmed the meeting, adding that in their recommendations, there was the issue of giving land to the youths.
“We had a meeting on Friday and we recommended giving our youths land and other groups of people after the downsizing of the farms, which was another recommendation we did. The issue of downsizing is a government policy and the issue has been addressed in Parliament,” he said.
“But here in Headlands, I believe the youths are the most affected when it comes to getting land.”
Chingosho, however, refuted the allegations that the downsizing of farms was targeting Chinamasa and Made.
“No, they are not being targeted. We are just following what the government said we should do,” he said.
Zanu PF provincial youth chairperson Tawanda Mukodza was not reachable for comment.
By A Correspondent- The violent brewing former liberation struggle fighters in karoi are vowing the Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s head and demanding that the government paymaster should give them more cash.
Mthuli recently announced a no pay increase for the war veterans and said the government, instead of going to give them being loans for income-generating projects.
The issue arose during a public hearing on the 2021 budget last week by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance with Hurungwe residents.
Hurungwe district war veteran Ben Chipanda said war veterans were now too old to embark on income-generating projects, adding that they, instead, wanted their stipends to be increased.
“War veterans are too old to take on chicken-rearing projects. Personally, as a war veteran, I am not happy over the move to allocate a fund for war veterans. I am speaking on behalf of many war veterans who failed to come here today at the meeting which was also not advertised well on time for planning purposes,” he said.
“The money allocated for us to venture into chicken rearing is like a joke to us. At our age (the majority of us are above 60 years) we cannot be keeping chickens as an income-generating project. We want cash. We are too old for chicken rearing. We must get cash so that we plan for our families.”
Chakari MP Andrew Nkani (Zanu PF), who chaired the meeting, said $37,5 million had been allocated to war veterans so that they could embark on projects to sustain themselves.
Nkani said last year, there was a recommendation for the 2021 budget to consider coming up with a revolving fund for women, youths and war veterans.
‘‘Treasury allocated $37,5 million to each sector through recapitalisation of Empower Bank, Zimbabwe Women Finance Bank, POSB, among others, that cater for small and medium businesses. This was also done for war veterans under National Venture Fund. It will empower and capacitate them to participate in the mainstream economy,’’ he said.
But war veterans said the majority of them now lived like “vagabonds” due to measly stipends they got against the continuously rising cost of living.
During the late former President Robert Mugabe’s era, war veterans got a $50 000 windfall each in 1997, but the majority of them blew it up as they could not embark on income-generating projects.
By A Correspondent-Zanu PF youths in Manicaland’s Headlands are reportedly eyeing farms that are owned by former President Robert Mugabe’s top allies.
One of the G-40 kingpins whose farm has been targeted is the former Agriculture minister Joseph Made, which the Zanu PF militia is claiming it is oversized.
Last Friday, Headlands MP Christopher Chingosho (Zanu PF) invited the constituency’s commercial farmers and A2 farmers for an emergency meeting over the issue.
NewsDay is in possession of the invitation letter whose main agenda was downsizing of farms and the formation of the Headlands development committee.
“All the A2 and commercial farm owners in Headlands constituency are required to attend the meeting in person and on time,” the letter read.
However, sources in Headlands told NewsDay that Chingosho was targeting Chinamasa’s farm as there were reports that the former Finance minister had plans to become MP for the area in 2023.
Chingosho is reportedly unleashing youths on those he believes to be his competitors in the constituency.
“The meeting took place, but Chingosho did not mention Chinamasa and Made by name. The issue is about underutilised farms owned by the big bosses, which are more than 400 hectares, and youths want some of the land that Made and Chinamasa are failing to utilise,” a source said.
“Both Chinamasa and Made definitely have oversized farms and youths want that land. Chinamasa’s farm in Headlands is called Tsukumai Farm and it is almost 3 000 hectares, while Made’s farm is almost 1 500 hectares (Tara Farm),” the source said.
“The reason Chingosho is also going after Chinamasa is that Chinamasa can’t win Rusape Urban (Makoni Central), so he is also looking for rural Headlands constituency in the next election in order to protect his interests.”
In the 2018 elections, Chinamasa lost the Makoni Central seat to David Tekeshe, now MDC-T.
However, a youth in Headlands told NewsDay on condition of anonymity, that they were actually eyeing large tracts of underutilised land in the hands of some party bigwigs.
“We as youths are suffering. We don’t have land, yet some of our big bosses have land which they are failing to fully utilise,” the youth said.
Chingosho confirmed the meeting, adding that in their recommendations, there was the issue of giving land to the youths.
“We had a meeting on Friday and we recommended giving our youths land and other groups of people after the downsizing of the farms, which was another recommendation we did. The issue of downsizing is a government policy and the issue has been addressed in Parliament,” he said.
“But here in Headlands, I believe the youths are the most affected when it comes to getting land.”
Chingosho, however, refuted the allegations that the downsizing of farms was targeting Chinamasa and Made.
“No, they are not being targeted. We are just following what the government said we should do,” he said.
Zanu PF provincial youth chairperson Tawanda Mukodza was not reachable for comment.
Douglas Mwonzora’s senators currently hold the share of control of the senate.
By Veritas | Senate Passes Constitution Amendment (No. 2) Bill
This afternoon the Senate of the Parliament of Zimbabwe passed theConstitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 2) Bill, as amended by the National Assembly.
The final reading was approved by 65 affirmative votes to 10 negative votes – sufficient to achieve the two-thirds majority of the membership of the Senate required by section 328(5) of the Constitution.
The Bill as amended by the National Assembly has now been passed by both Houses of Parliament.
By A Correspondent- Aspiring Zanu PF Member of Parliament for Dangamvura-Chikanga constituency, Isau Mupfumi is promising gold mining claims to locals for them to vote for him.
The constituency fell vacant after the former legislator Prosper Mutseyami was recalled by Douglas Mwonzora of the MDC-T party.
The tired, recycled politician and G-40 Manicaland frontman, is telling the constituency that he had acquired 11 gold claims at Redwing Mine and each ward in the constituency would have its gold claim.
“All things are now in place and we are expecting the project to start running end of the week.
“We managed to acquire gold claims at Redwing Mine and each ward in the constituency will have its claim. We have a consensus with the bosses at the mine on what is needed to resume operations,” said Mupfumi.
Tinashe Sambiri|The bail application hearing for MDC Alliance duo, Hon Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri has been postponed again.
This means the duo will spend another night at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
The High Court Judge who was supposed to preside over the bail hearing indicated he was not feeling well.
The MDC Alliance has strongly condemned the political persecution of its members by the Zanu PF regime.
“One more night at the 2nd Republic’s Concentration Camp, Chikurubi Maximum Prison for Cecilia Cecillia R Chimbiri and Joana Ruvimbo Mamombe as the High Court judge did not turn up on flimsy excuse that he is unwell,” MDC Alliance Youth Assembly national spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma said in a statement.
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple”.
“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the pair tweeted.
They first met in the 1980s when Melinda joined Bill’s Microsoft firm.
The billionaire couple have three children and jointly run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The organisation has spent billions fighting causes such as infectious diseases and encouraging vaccinations in children.
The Gates – along with investor Warren Buffett – are behind the Giving Pledge, which calls on billionaires to commit to giving away the majority of their wealth to good causes.
Bill Gates is the fourth wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes, and is worth $124bn (£89bn).
He made his money through the firm he co-founded in the 1970s, Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company.
The pair both posted the statement announcing their divorce on Twitter.
“Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives,” it read.
“We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation, but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives.
“We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.”
How did they get together?
Melinda, now 56, joined Microsoft as a product manager in 1987, and the two sat together at a business dinner that year in New York.
They began dating, but as Bill told a Netflix documentary: “We cared a lot for each other and there were only two possibilities: either, we were going to break up or we were going to get married.”
Melinda said she found Bill – methodical it seems even in matters of the heart – writing a list on a whiteboard with the “pros and the cons of getting married”.
They got married in 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Lanai, reportedly hiring up all the local helicopters to stop unwanted guests flying over.
Bill, 65, stepped down from Microsoft’s board last year to focus on his philanthropic activities.
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple”.
“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the pair tweeted.
They first met in the 1980s when Melinda joined Bill’s Microsoft firm.
The billionaire couple have three children and jointly run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The organisation has spent billions fighting causes such as infectious diseases and encouraging vaccinations in children.
The Gates – along with investor Warren Buffett – are behind the Giving Pledge, which calls on billionaires to commit to giving away the majority of their wealth to good causes.
Bill Gates is the fourth wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes, and is worth $124bn (£89bn).
He made his money through the firm he co-founded in the 1970s, Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company.
The pair both posted the statement announcing their divorce on Twitter.
“Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives,” it read.
“We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation, but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives.
“We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.”
How did they get together?
Melinda, now 56, joined Microsoft as a product manager in 1987, and the two sat together at a business dinner that year in New York.
They began dating, but as Bill told a Netflix documentary: “We cared a lot for each other and there were only two possibilities: either, we were going to break up or we were going to get married.”
Melinda said she found Bill – methodical it seems even in matters of the heart – writing a list on a whiteboard with the “pros and the cons of getting married”.
They got married in 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Lanai, reportedly hiring up all the local helicopters to stop unwanted guests flying over.
Bill, 65, stepped down from Microsoft’s board last year to focus on his philanthropic activities.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has approved the National Sports Stadium to host upcoming World Cup qualifiers.
The road to Qatar 2022 starts next month with a blockbuster clash between the Warriors and and rivals Bafana Bafana, a clash which was originally scheduled to be staged at the National Sports Stadium but a stern warning by CAF on the state of the giant facility had put that into serious doubt.
CAF, in slapping the Felton Kamambo-led ZIFA board with a US$2000 fine, cited the uncleanliness of the stadium and lack of4 bucket seats when Zdravko Logarusic’s charges hosted Zambia there, in the last AFCON qualifier in March.
The continental governing body even warned that the Bafana Bafana clash can be played at at neutral venue outside the country should the authorities not comply.
They (CAF), based on the letter at our disposal, have however given the green light for the 60 000 seater to be the venue where the Warriors play their home games in the entire campaign.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Soweto giants Kaizer Chiefs have revealed that Warriors star Khama Billiat has started running, a sign that his injury might not be as worse as it looked.
The 30-year-old Aces Youth Academy graduate was kicked by Sundowns’ Andile Jali during Amakhosi’s DStv Premiership clash with the Brazilians two weeks ago and needed clutches to walk out of the stadium.
Chiefs coach Gavin Hunt revealed after his side’s loss to Chippa United that the pint-sized Zimbabwean winger would be out for ‘a number of games’ as he had been kicked on the same spot which had kept him out since January.
Delivering an update on players’ injuries ahead of today’s rescheduled league game against Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila on Tuesday, Amakhosi, on their Twitter handle, said Billiat is off the clutches and has started running.
Billiat’s road to recovery will be closely-monitored by Warriors coach Zdravko Logarusic. The Croat could not have the Mufakose-bred winger for the decisive Botswana and Zambia AFCON qualifiers due to injury and desperately needs him to be fit for the impending World Cup qualifier against South Africa next month.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance donated tick grease to villagers in Jichidza area, Zaka North at the weekend.
According to MDC Alliance Masvingo Youth Assembly provincial secretary, Gilbert Mutubuki, 100 villagers received tick grease for their cattle.
Mutubuki was accompanied by MDC Alliance Masvingo Provincial Youth Assembly vice chairperson Lovemore Mapuranga and secretary for welfare James Mukaro during the distribution process.
“We were in Zaka North, Jichidza and we distributed tick grease for cattle.
100 villagers received tick grease for their cattle. We also played soccer at Chitende Primary School as part of mobilization efforts,” said Mutubuki.
The Zanu PF administration is failing to supply chemicals required at diptanks in the area.
Manchester United could face sanctions after their EPL match against Liverpool was postponed on Sunday due to fan protests at Old Trafford.
Around two hundred fans broke into the stadium and invaded the pitch while more supporters demonstrated outside the venue just hours before the kick-off. The crowd was protesting against the club’s American owners, the Glazer family, following their involvement in the controversial European Super League.
United’s safety measures against Covid-19 for league matches were then breached and this forced both teams to remain at their hotels until a decision was made to call the game off.
According to UK newspaper, The Daily Mirror, Manchester United could be deducted points if the FA’s rules are put into effect.
Section 8.3.4 of the regulations states that if the Red Devils are found to have been at fault for the match not going ahead, Liverpool will be awarded three points.
It reads: “In the event of a match being abandoned due to the conduct of one Club or its members or supporters the Board has the power to order that the match is not replayed and to award either one or three points to the Club not at fault.
“It cannot levy a financial penalty due to the conduct of a Club.”
However, the publication further state that due to the fact that the police were among those to decide that the game could not commence, the Premier League would state that the decision was not up to United.
Section L.12 of the EPL regulations says: “A League Match shall not be postponed or abandoned except: (L.12.1.) when on the date fixed for it to be played either the Home Club or the Visiting Club is competing in a competition permitted by Rules L.9.1, L.9.2, and L.9.3; (L.12.2.) with the approval of or on the instructions of the officiating referee; (L.12.3.) by order of the police; (L.12.4.) by order of any other authority exercising its statutory powers to that effect; or (L.12.5.) on the instructions of or with the prior written consent of the Board.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Warriors striker David Moyo has been named in the Scottish Premier League team of the week.
The 26 year old, who is on the ranks of Hamilton Academical in the Scottish top-tier, scored the winner in his side’s 2-1 victory over St Mirren over the week.
His efforts have been rewarded by a place in the league’s best eleven.
Moyo made his Warriors debut in the Algeria AFCON qualifiers double header last November.
He could not feature in the decisive Botswana and Zambia games due to Covid-19 related travelling restrictions.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
What leads to medication-overuse headache, and how can you reduce your risk?
Becky Upham By Becky Upham Medically Reviewed by Jason Paul Chua, MD, PhD April 28, 2021 Medically Reviewed
a variety of pills colorful Too-frequent use of acute migraine drugs can lead to chronic daily headache.
Do you have headache days — in addition to migraine attacks — more often than you have pain-free days? If so, you may have medication-overuse headache (MOH).
Also called chronic daily headache or rebound headache, MOH most commonly occurs in people with a primary headache disorder such as migraine, cluster headache, or tension-type headache, according to the American Migraine Foundation. It’s caused by too-frequent use of acute medications, although exactly what “too frequent” means can depend on the drug being taken.
Medication-overuse headache isn’t only troublesome because you have near-constant head pain: MOH can also cause headaches that are resistant to preventive migraine medications, making acute therapies less effective as well.
Stewart Tepper, MD, professor of neurology at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, New Hampshire, spoke about medication-overuse headaches in his talk “Medications That Make Migraine Worse,” as part of the Sixth Annual Migraine World Summit, held March 17 to 25, 2021.
In addition to explaining how medication-overuse headache develops and how to reduce your risk, Dr. Tepper observed that the newest type of acute migraine treatment — a drug class called CGRP receptor antagonists, sometimes referred to as “gepants” (pronounced gee-pants) — does not carry the risk of medication-overuse headache.
Here’s what to know about medication-overuse headache.
Medication-Overuse Headache Has a Precise Definition The International Headache Society defines medication-overuse headache as a headache occurring on 15 or more days per month in a person with a preexisting primary headache disorder and developing as a consequence of regular overuse of acute or symptomatic headache medication for more than three months.
Different medications have different guidelines as to what constitutes overuse. The use of triptans, ergot alkaloids, combination analgesics (pain relievers), or opioids for 10 or more days of the month is considered overuse, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
MOST HELPFUL Is It a Migraine Attack or a Cluster Headache? Expert Advice on Managing Chronic Migraine How Long Will My Migraine Attack Last? Taking simple analgesics, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) — a drug class that includes aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), and naproxen (Aleve) — on 15 or more days a month also constitutes overuse.
Usually medication-overuse headaches resolve after the overuse is stopped, although people may undergo a period when their headaches get worse before they get better.
Quantity Matters in Medication-Overuse Headache, Not Quality Medication-overuse headache can feel different in different people, according to Tepper.
“What I tell people is that it doesn’t really matter if it’s front or back, right or left, up or down, mild, moderate, or severe. It’s not the quality of the headache, it’s the quantity of the headache,” he says.
The distinguishing feature of MOH is how often occurs, he says.
Any Day With Any Type of Headache Counts as a ‘Headache Day’ If you aren’t sure if what you’re experiencing is MOH, try keeping a calendar and counting the number of headache days you have. Don’t just count the days when you have symptoms of a migraine attack but rather all days with any type of headache, says Tepper.
Alternatively, he suggests counting the number of completely headache-free days you have. “How many days are crystal clear from the moment you open your eyes until the minute you go to bed at night, without a twinge of headache? The crystal-clear days should be at least 15 days per month in order to not be in chronic migraine,” he says.
Taking Certain Medications Just Once a Week Can Make Migraine Worse The two pain medications that are most likely to make migraine worse are butalbital, which is a barbiturate that is mixed with other pain medicines and is included in the medications Fioricet and Fiorinal, and opioids of any sort, says Tepper.
These types of medications can be used for emergency relief for a migraine attack but should be used with caution because of their risk for rebound headache, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
Opioids, also called narcotics, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, can cause headaches to worsen or become more frequent by using them just once a week. Butalbital is linked with overuse when used four times a month or more, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
These medications alter the pain regulatory systems of the brain in a bad way, and they not only worsen migraine attacks in terms of frequency, severity, and duration but also often make them untreatable, says Tepper.
Pain Medications Taken for Any Reason Can Lead to MOH Taking analgesics for reasons besides your migraine can still cause medication-overuse headache, according to StatPearls.
“Say you’re taking it for low back pain, the brain does not know the difference,” says Tepper, adding that the frequency of use and the type of medication are associated with the transformation to MOH.
The More Headache Days You Have, the Higher Your Risk for Chronic Daily Headache “The more headache days a person has, the more likely they are to transform to chronic migraine,” says Tepper. Studies conducted both in the general population and in clinics show that people who have 10 to 14 headache days per month are 20 times more likely to develop daily headache than people who have fewer than five headache days per month, he says.
“The frequency of the headache days is actually a big risk for transforming, and the frequency of headaches is linked to how many times somebody reaches for an acute medication to treat,” says Tepper, adding that although these are separate risks, they feed each other.
“It’s why we try so hard to reduce the total number of headache days per month, as well as the number of acute medication days per month,” says Tepper.
Caffeine Can Contribute to Medication-Overuse Headache Caffeine at 100 to 200 milligrams (mg) per day is probably enough to contribute to medication-overuse headache, says Tepper.
For reference, 8 ounces of coffee has between 80 and 100 mg of caffeine, and 12 ounces of a caffeinated soft drink has between 30 and 40 mg, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The headache medication Excedrin has 65 mg of caffeine per tablet.
However, many people are fond of their caffeine-containing beverages.
“I tend to try to work around the caffeine, as long as it’s not high-dose caffeine, to see if we can help them without taking away one of their pleasures,” says Tepper…
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Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple”.
“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the pair tweeted.
They first met in the 1980s when Melinda joined Bill’s Microsoft firm.
The billionaire couple have three children and jointly run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The organisation has spent billions fighting causes such as infectious diseases and encouraging vaccinations in children.
The Gates – along with investor Warren Buffett – are behind the Giving Pledge, which calls on billionaires to commit to giving away the majority of their wealth to good causes.
Bill Gates is the fourth wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes, and is worth $124bn (£89bn).
He made his money through the firm he co-founded in the 1970s, Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company.
The pair both posted the statement announcing their divorce on Twitter.
“Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives,” it read.
“We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation, but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives.
“We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.”
How did they get together?
Melinda, now 56, joined Microsoft as a product manager in 1987, and the two sat together at a business dinner that year in New York.
They began dating, but as Bill told a Netflix documentary: “We cared a lot for each other and there were only two possibilities: either, we were going to break up or we were going to get married.”
Melinda said she found Bill – methodical it seems even in matters of the heart – writing a list on a whiteboard with the “pros and the cons of getting married”.
They got married in 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Lanai, reportedly hiring up all the local helicopters to stop unwanted guests flying over.
Bill, 65, stepped down from Microsoft’s board last year to focus on his philanthropic activities.
Tinashe Sambiri|The bail application hearing for MDC Alliance duo, Hon Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri has been postponed again.
This means the duo will spend another night at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
The High Court Judge who was supposed to preside over the bail hearing indicated he was not feeling well.
The MDC Alliance has strongly condemned the political persecution of its members by the Zanu PF regime.
“One more night at the 2nd Republic’s Concentration Camp, Chikurubi Maximum Prison for Cecilia Cecillia R Chimbiri and Joana Ruvimbo Mamombe as the High Court judge did not turn up on flimsy excuse that he is unwell,” MDC Alliance Youth Assembly national spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma said in a statement.
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance donated tick grease to villagers in Jichidza area, Zaka North at the weekend.
According to MDC Alliance Masvingo Youth Assembly provincial secretary, Gilbert Mutubuki, 100 villagers received tick grease for their cattle.
Mutubuki was accompanied by MDC Alliance Masvingo Provincial Youth Assembly vice chairperson Lovemore Mapuranga and secretary for welfare James Mukaro during the distribution process.
“We were in Zaka North, Jichidza and we distributed tick grease for cattle.
100 villagers received tick grease for their cattle. We also played soccer at Chitende Primary School as part of mobilization efforts,” said Mutubuki.
The Zanu PF administration is failing to supply chemicals required at dip tanks in the area.
By A Correspondent- Young female entrepreneur Julian Mutukudzi has been locked in an ownership and lease wrangle with Indian Businessman Kiran Patel.
It is alleged that Kiran Patel unlawfully broke into his tenant’ offices leased to Julian Mutukudzi the owner of Gotcha Nyama at her Newlands branch, during the lockdown period.
President ED Mnangagwa declared a national lockdown as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses were shut down and only essential services were allowed to operate.
Restaurants and restaurant owners were not spared by the national lockdown. It was during this period that Kiran Patel allegedly evicted Julian Mutukudzi and Gotcha Nyama security from the Newlands premises demanding full payment of lockdown rentals.
Barely two months later into the lockdown, Patel allegedly started conducting take away restaurant business as evidenced by a post he made on his Facebook page in May scouting for orders.
Gotcha Nyama was unlawfully evicted and Patel the landlord refused to compensate the tenants for the improvements they had made to the place and also confisticated their stock, equipment, utensils and even paperwork.
Mutukudzi has approached the courts seeking legal recourse but it is alleged that Patel is using his financial muscle to frustrate the young entrepreneur.
There are allegations of missing dockets and stagnant processes to frustrate the young Zimbabwean as she seeks justice and resolution of the Gotcha Nyama saga.
The young entrepreneur who recently gave birth was seen for months heavily pregnant making rounds at the courts.
Gotcha Nyama was featured in several news outlets as a thriving restaurant which had built a unique reputation and clientele before the lockdown.
Patel was not available for comment, while Mutukudzi refused to comment saying the matter was before the courts.
What leads to medication-overuse headache, and how can you reduce your risk?
Becky Upham By Becky Upham Medically Reviewed by Jason Paul Chua, MD, PhD April 28, 2021 Medically Reviewed
a variety of pills colorful Too-frequent use of acute migraine drugs can lead to chronic daily headache.
Do you have headache days — in addition to migraine attacks — more often than you have pain-free days? If so, you may have medication-overuse headache (MOH).
Also called chronic daily headache or rebound headache, MOH most commonly occurs in people with a primary headache disorder such as migraine, cluster headache, or tension-type headache, according to the American Migraine Foundation. It’s caused by too-frequent use of acute medications, although exactly what “too frequent” means can depend on the drug being taken.
Medication-overuse headache isn’t only troublesome because you have near-constant head pain: MOH can also cause headaches that are resistant to preventive migraine medications, making acute therapies less effective as well.
Stewart Tepper, MD, professor of neurology at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, New Hampshire, spoke about medication-overuse headaches in his talk “Medications That Make Migraine Worse,” as part of the Sixth Annual Migraine World Summit, held March 17 to 25, 2021.
In addition to explaining how medication-overuse headache develops and how to reduce your risk, Dr. Tepper observed that the newest type of acute migraine treatment — a drug class called CGRP receptor antagonists, sometimes referred to as “gepants” (pronounced gee-pants) — does not carry the risk of medication-overuse headache.
Here’s what to know about medication-overuse headache.
Medication-Overuse Headache Has a Precise Definition The International Headache Society defines medication-overuse headache as a headache occurring on 15 or more days per month in a person with a preexisting primary headache disorder and developing as a consequence of regular overuse of acute or symptomatic headache medication for more than three months.
Different medications have different guidelines as to what constitutes overuse. The use of triptans, ergot alkaloids, combination analgesics (pain relievers), or opioids for 10 or more days of the month is considered overuse, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
MOST HELPFUL Is It a Migraine Attack or a Cluster Headache? Expert Advice on Managing Chronic Migraine How Long Will My Migraine Attack Last? Taking simple analgesics, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) — a drug class that includes aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), and naproxen (Aleve) — on 15 or more days a month also constitutes overuse.
Usually medication-overuse headaches resolve after the overuse is stopped, although people may undergo a period when their headaches get worse before they get better.
Quantity Matters in Medication-Overuse Headache, Not Quality Medication-overuse headache can feel different in different people, according to Tepper.
“What I tell people is that it doesn’t really matter if it’s front or back, right or left, up or down, mild, moderate, or severe. It’s not the quality of the headache, it’s the quantity of the headache,” he says.
The distinguishing feature of MOH is how often occurs, he says.
Any Day With Any Type of Headache Counts as a ‘Headache Day’ If you aren’t sure if what you’re experiencing is MOH, try keeping a calendar and counting the number of headache days you have. Don’t just count the days when you have symptoms of a migraine attack but rather all days with any type of headache, says Tepper.
Alternatively, he suggests counting the number of completely headache-free days you have. “How many days are crystal clear from the moment you open your eyes until the minute you go to bed at night, without a twinge of headache? The crystal-clear days should be at least 15 days per month in order to not be in chronic migraine,” he says.
Taking Certain Medications Just Once a Week Can Make Migraine Worse The two pain medications that are most likely to make migraine worse are butalbital, which is a barbiturate that is mixed with other pain medicines and is included in the medications Fioricet and Fiorinal, and opioids of any sort, says Tepper.
These types of medications can be used for emergency relief for a migraine attack but should be used with caution because of their risk for rebound headache, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
Opioids, also called narcotics, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, can cause headaches to worsen or become more frequent by using them just once a week. Butalbital is linked with overuse when used four times a month or more, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
These medications alter the pain regulatory systems of the brain in a bad way, and they not only worsen migraine attacks in terms of frequency, severity, and duration but also often make them untreatable, says Tepper.
Pain Medications Taken for Any Reason Can Lead to MOH Taking analgesics for reasons besides your migraine can still cause medication-overuse headache, according to StatPearls.
“Say you’re taking it for low back pain, the brain does not know the difference,” says Tepper, adding that the frequency of use and the type of medication are associated with the transformation to MOH.
The More Headache Days You Have, the Higher Your Risk for Chronic Daily Headache “The more headache days a person has, the more likely they are to transform to chronic migraine,” says Tepper. Studies conducted both in the general population and in clinics show that people who have 10 to 14 headache days per month are 20 times more likely to develop daily headache than people who have fewer than five headache days per month, he says.
“The frequency of the headache days is actually a big risk for transforming, and the frequency of headaches is linked to how many times somebody reaches for an acute medication to treat,” says Tepper, adding that although these are separate risks, they feed each other.
“It’s why we try so hard to reduce the total number of headache days per month, as well as the number of acute medication days per month,” says Tepper.
Caffeine Can Contribute to Medication-Overuse Headache Caffeine at 100 to 200 milligrams (mg) per day is probably enough to contribute to medication-overuse headache, says Tepper.
For reference, 8 ounces of coffee has between 80 and 100 mg of caffeine, and 12 ounces of a caffeinated soft drink has between 30 and 40 mg, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The headache medication Excedrin has 65 mg of caffeine per tablet.
However, many people are fond of their caffeine-containing beverages.
“I tend to try to work around the caffeine, as long as it’s not high-dose caffeine, to see if we can help them without taking away one of their pleasures,” says Tepper…
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Tinashe Sambiri|Unruly Zanu PF elements bashed MDC Alliance Mashonaland East Youth Assembly member, George Madziva for inserting President Chamisa’s picture as his mobile phone wallpaper.
The rowdy Zanu PF mob led by a DCC youth chairperson, confronted Madziva in Murehwa and severely bashed him.
Police are reluctant to bring the culpritsto book…
Read full report below:
MDC Alliance Mash East Youth Leader Attacked By ZANU PF Thugs Over President Chamisa Wallpaper
Mashonaland East MDC Alliance Youth Assembly member, George Madziva was attacked by a mob of ZANU PF thugs led by their youth District Coordinating Committee (DCC) Chairman on Saturday in Murehwa.
Madziva who is Mashonaland East Youth Secretary for Local Government said he was attacked at the instigation of a ZANU PF DCC Youth Chair who confronted him for putting President Nelson Chamisa’s picture as his phone wallpaper.
The notorious ZANU PF DCC Chairman then called his gang who ambushed Madziva on his way home.
Madziva sustained a badly fractured arm and bruises all his body from the vicious attack.
Among the thugs that attacked Madziva, there was one Masendeke, a known ZPCS Warden stationed at Murehwa Centre.
Madziva has since made a report at ZRP Murehwa and it is our sincere hope that the police will genuinely pursue the case.
Since the turn of the millennium, Murehwa has become one of the epicenters of politically motivated violence targeting opposition members.
In the post 2008 elections violence many lost limps, lives and property at the hands of a ZANU PF militia group, the Green Bombers.
It is for that reason as MDC Alliance Youth Assembly we are totally opposed to the re-establishment of a partisan National Youth Service recently approved by Emmerson Mnangagwa’s cabinet.
It is time we deploy our own Peace Officers to protect our parents in rural areas as we head towards the 2023 watershed elections.
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Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
Tinashe Sambiri|Unruly Zanu PF elements bashed MDC Alliance Mashonaland East Youth Assembly member, George Madziva for inserting President Chamisa’s picture as his mobile phone wallpaper.
The rowdy Zanu PF mob led by a DCC youth chairperson, confronted Madziva in Murehwa and severely bashed him.
Police are reluctant to bring the culpritsto book…
Read full report below:
MDC Alliance Mash East Youth Leader Attacked By ZANU PF Thugs Over President Chamisa Wallpaper
Mashonaland East MDC Alliance Youth Assembly member, George Madziva was attacked by a mob of ZANU PF thugs led by their youth District Coordinating Committee (DCC) Chairman on Saturday in Murehwa.
Madziva who is Mashonaland East Youth Secretary for Local Government said he was attacked at the instigation of a ZANU PF DCC Youth Chair who confronted him for putting President Nelson Chamisa’s picture as his phone wallpaper.
The notorious ZANU PF DCC Chairman then called his gang who ambushed Madziva on his way home.
Madziva sustained a badly fractured arm and bruises all his body from the vicious attack.
Among the thugs that attacked Madziva, there was one Masendeke, a known ZPCS Warden stationed at Murehwa Centre.
Madziva has since made a report at ZRP Murehwa and it is our sincere hope that the police will genuinely pursue the case.
Since the turn of the millennium, Murehwa has become one of the epicenters of politically motivated violence targeting opposition members.
In the post 2008 elections violence many lost limps, lives and property at the hands of a ZANU PF militia group, the Green Bombers.
It is for that reason as MDC Alliance Youth Assembly we are totally opposed to the re-establishment of a partisan National Youth Service recently approved by Emmerson Mnangagwa’s cabinet.
It is time we deploy our own Peace Officers to protect our parents in rural areas as we head towards the 2023 watershed elections.
DefyOrDie
People’sAgenda2021
CitizensConvergenceForChange
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
Tinashe Sambiri|The bail application hearing for MDC Alliance duo, Hon Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri has been postponed again.
This means the duo will spend another night at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
The High Court Judge who was supposed to preside over the bail hearing indicated he was not feeling well.
The MDC Alliance has strongly condemned the political persecution of its members by the Zanu PF regime.
“One more night at the 2nd Republic’s Concentration Camp, Chikurubi Maximum Prison for Cecilia Cecillia R Chimbiri and Joana Ruvimbo Mamombe as the High Court judge did not turn up on flimsy excuse that he is unwell,” MDC Alliance Youth Assembly national spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma said in a statement.
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple”.
“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the pair tweeted.
They first met in the 1980s when Melinda joined Bill’s Microsoft firm.
The billionaire couple have three children and jointly run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The organisation has spent billions fighting causes such as infectious diseases and encouraging vaccinations in children.
The Gates – along with investor Warren Buffett – are behind the Giving Pledge, which calls on billionaires to commit to giving away the majority of their wealth to good causes.
Bill Gates is the fourth wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes, and is worth $124bn (£89bn).
He made his money through the firm he co-founded in the 1970s, Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company.
The pair both posted the statement announcing their divorce on Twitter.
“Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives,” it read.
“We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation, but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives.
“We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.”
How did they get together?
Melinda, now 56, joined Microsoft as a product manager in 1987, and the two sat together at a business dinner that year in New York.
They began dating, but as Bill told a Netflix documentary: “We cared a lot for each other and there were only two possibilities: either, we were going to break up or we were going to get married.”
Melinda said she found Bill – methodical it seems even in matters of the heart – writing a list on a whiteboard with the “pros and the cons of getting married”.
They got married in 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Lanai, reportedly hiring up all the local helicopters to stop unwanted guests flying over.
Bill, 65, stepped down from Microsoft’s board last year to focus on his philanthropic activities.
By A Correspondent- Little known opposition Ma’at Zimbabwe leader Neferkare Nembaware says his party has all the credentials to dislodge MDC as the country’s main opposition.
He said MDC has squandered its chance to become the biggest alternative to Zanu-PF through a combination of poor strategy and recurrent infighting.
Speaking from his United Kingdom base, Nembaware said if given the chance by voters, his party was ready to provide the much-needed alternative leadership in the country.
He accused MDC in its various formations of betraying citizens as recently witnessed by one of the factions’ backing of the Zanu-PF sponsored Constitutional Amendment No 2 he said sought to create an imperial President through excessive powers to be granted to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
“The lack of leadership and confusion in the MDC has become a major threat to freedom in Zimbabwe as seen by the voting patterns in this Constitutional Amendment,” Nembaware said.
He was referring to the Douglas Mwonzora led MDC-T whose MPs voted in favour of the controversial Bill.
Nembaware said MDC was mortally wounded to a point where it could nolonger be seen giving Zanu-PF any real threat in the 2023 polls.
“The MDC is mortally wounded and divided. It’s impossible to defeat Zanu-PF at the polls. Zimbabweans now need to quickly and urgently rally behind a Third Way that will take on Zanu-PF as a United front in 2023,” he said.
The politician said his party was capable of delivering the much-needed change to the country.
“If Zimbabweans don’t quickly realise the MDC has now become a liability in its divided form, then change is unlikely to come soon.
“This is actually a serious concern as officially, there is no more opposition in parliament, and this cannot be parliamentary democracy.
“There’s is a leadership crisis in the MDC. We cannot bury our heads in the sand anymore and pretend all is well. The only Third Way left now in Ma’at-Zimbabwe Party, with solid, visionary leadership. Zimbabweans have reached the crossroads – make or break decision.
“It is abysmal that the President gets all those powers to extend beyond retirement age the service of judges. This is open to manipulation. Right now, the so-called main opposition is comatose,” he said
By A Correspondent- Diaspora remittances have overtaken foreign aid, as Zimbabweans abroad sent home over US$1 billion in 2020, the highest ever contribution made to the local economy, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube said.
The remittances surpassed the previous year’s amount of US$635.7 million, exceeding projections made by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe which had projected to receive US$940 million by year end.
“It has gone very well for us in terms of remittances from our own Diaspora abroad. Whereas you know, last year, we received something like US$1 billion, which is a record inflow,” said the finance minister while addressing journalists in Bulawayo over the weekend.
Prof Ncube cited that the increase was possibly due to use of formal channels that remained operational during the Covid-19 pandemic, which had introduced lockdowns in most countries and closed certain sectors.
“Maybe some of it has to do with the fact that, you know, the Diaspora had to use formal channels (of sending money) because of Covid-19. So, we saw maybe an increase due to that. But really, that just shows you it is a steady inflow of external resources into the economy and is targeted to families for investment. So it’s a good amount of influence,” he said.
The finance minister added that remittances were also on the rise in other African countries and importantly had overtaken foreign aid.
“In fact what is happening all over Africa is that diaspora remittances have overtaken foreign aid. In almost all countries, remittances have overtaken foreign aid as the largest inflow into the economy to support vulnerable families, because that’s what the Diaspora do, they support their families,” Prof Ncube said.
In terms of the remittances considered as a form of aid, they had become the largest form of aid into any economy, noted the finance minister.
“And Zimbabwe is such a good example, right. And that’s something that cuts across Africa at large. So that’s basically some of the highlights of our economy,” he said.
In 2019, total remittances totalled US$1.15 billion, with non-governmental organisations remittances contributing US$519.49 million.
Leader of the African Diaspora Global Network, a migrant-rights organisation based in South Africa, Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda, said these statistics indicated how much people in the Diaspora worked hard to support their families back home.
“Most of the households now have at least one sibling or relative in the Diaspora, and as a sign of Ubuntu, they have to send help back home. They have to because the Zimbabwean economy is harsh for locals, which is reason why people seek greener pastures elsewhere,” he said to CITE in an interview.
“In as much as we praise those in the Diaspora, it’s sad that Zimbabweans now have to survive on money coming form outside. This also shows how hard it is for migrants who have to work hard , some having several odd jobs to make ends meet.”
The Warriors will next month host neighbours South Africa in a 2022 World Cup qualifier on home soil after CAF cleared the National Sports Stadium to stage international matches.
There had been lingering doubts over the fitness of the facility after ZIFA had been slapped with a US$2 000 penalty by the continental football motherbody over some technical frailties, raising concerns over the stadium’s ability to host the encounter.
Already, the venue has hosted some AFCON qualifying games albeit on a temporary homologation after it had been banned from staging international matches last year.
And with several aspects of the issues raised by CAF, including the lack of bucket seats in the entire stadium still to be addressed, there were possible threats for the Warriors to play on neutral venue.
However, CAF have since released a communique with the list of approved stadiums to host the upcoming 2022 World Cup qualifiers including the National Sports Stadium.
The Warriors will host Bafana Bafana between June 5-8 before they travel to Ethiopia four days later.
The squad will play Ghana back-to-back in the second window in September by which time the National Sports Stadium is expected to have been fully refurbished.
By A Correspondent- Two notorious machete wielding car hijackers who were elusive to the police after allegedly robbing a Mazowe man of his Toyota Runx were nabbed and dragged to court yesterday.
Tawanda Mufundirwa (27) and Mukundi Mufundirwa (20) appeared before Bindura magistrate Samantha Dhlamini who remanded them in custody to tomorrow for bail application.
The state led by Sheila Kudzai Maribha alleged on March 26 around 11pm at Mazowe mine the two brothers and their accomplice who is at large ambushed Agent Kabvundu(26) and robbed him of his Toyota Runx registration number AEO-5620 together with his clothes.
It is further alleged upon approaching the ambush one of the suspects emerged from the grass purporting to be drunk and fell in front of the car.
Kavhundu disembarked to check on suspect and two of the suspects pounced on him wielding machetes.
They force marched him on the back seat and drove for metres with him before stripping him of his clothes.
PUBLIC figures who include prophets, artistes and sports personalities have been urged to observe Covid-19 regulations when moving around.
The call follows recent video footage of Prophet Passion Java where he and a number of people were seen disregarding social distancing and not wearing facemasks in Gweru, Kadoma and Bulawayo.
Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said no report against the prophet was lodged during his travel in Kadoma and Gweru.
“Police have not received any report against Prophet Passion in connection with his journey to Kadoma and Gweru where a number of people jostled at his vehicle in a video circulating on social media,” said Ass Comm Nyathi.
“However, we are urging public figures like him to observe Covid-19 regulations that includes proper wearing of facemasks, observing social distancing, hand sanitising and avoid gatherings.
“Covid-19 is real and continuing to take lives and government is still to lift national lockdown measures set to curb the continued spread of the pandemic,” he said.
In the video footage circulating on social media Prophet Passion is seen addressing a number of people who rushed to his vehicle and another person taking some photographs without facemasks.
Justice Tawanda Chitapi of the Harare High Court postpones ruling on bail appeal by MDC Alliance duo Cecilia Chimbiri and Joana Mamombe a second time, says he has a toothache.
By A Correspondent- An N. Richards Wholesalers employee collapsed and died while pushing a trolley on Sunday morning, a few hours after sending birthday wishes to his fiancé whom according to friends he was planning to marry in the near future.
Terrence Matseka (27), who worked as a till operator at N. Richards Chipinge, collapsed at around 11 am and was taken to Chipinge District Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Matseka’s workmates were left shell-shocked by the sudden death. The deceased had a Degree in Rural and Urban Planning from Great Zimbabwe University (GZU).
The deceased’s father Kilford Matseka confirmed the death. He said that his son had no ailments and the death came as a great shock to everyone.
A post mortem was expected to be conducted today with burial set for tomorrow.-MasvingoMirror
By A Correspondent- In a shocking development, thieves are stealing tombstones from a graveyard at Unit L cemetery in Chitungwiza.
Relatives who spoke to ZimEye said the thieves ransacked the graveyard and they were shocked to see that tombstones had been removed from their deceased relatives’ graves when they had visited intending to cut the grass around the grave and place flowers.
“We visit once every month to cut the tall grass around this area and put flowers. The challenge is that around this area very few people visit their relatives buried here so we end up cutting grass at the graveyard to clear the way for us to access our mother’s grave.”
Some of the graves are now in a sorry state and you can hardly see if anyone is buried there. Like this area where the tombstone was stolen, the deceased here were buried in 1998 March so you can imagine the time that has lapsed.”
Said a council official manning the graveyard who only identified himself as sekuru meaning uncle:
“This is not new. The thieves come here and when they fail to remove the tombstones they break them.
We have picked several of the labelled tombstones after the thieves dropped them and we suspect that they might have dropped them because they thought they were about to be caught.
There is not much that we can do because this normally happens around this time of the year when there is tall grass. We are too few to maintain the graveyard which is very big.”
He said the other challenge that they faced was that politically affiliated people were building their houses inside the graveyard where some had even dug wells that they used to draw drinking water.
Said another resident Paul Bhende:
“We have new housing developments and i do not think that council is even aware of them. They have encroched into the graveyard. We just see politically affiliated land barons parcelling out land and this is really sad. How do you even build a structure inside a graveyard? Its shocking.
This has paved way for the thieves to come in and out because it becomes difficult for the council security guys to track what is going on. Chitungwiza municipality must take charge before we have people digging up the dead.”
We publish below pictures of the new housing developments that have encroched into the graveyard.
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Efforts to get a comment from the local authority was work in progress by the time of writing….
MDC Alliance youth leaders Cecelia Chimbiri and Joana Mamombe are back in court today where High Court judge, Justice Tawanda Chitapi is expected to make a determination on their bail appeal.
The duo have spend more than a month in remand detention following their arrest in March after addressing a press conference outside the Harare Magistrate court demanding the immediate release of convicted activist Makomborero Haruzivishe.
Industry and Commerce, Dr Sekai Nzenza, last week met a delegation from India but they did not practise social distancing neither were they wearing face masks. Should she be arrested?
By A Correspondent- The Chief Coordinator of COVID-19 Response in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Dr Agnes Mahomva, has said the law must take its course amid reports that a minister flouted COVID-19 regulations.
Reports suggest that the minister of Industry and Commerce, Dr Sekai Nzenza, last week met a delegation from India but they did not practise social distancing neither were they wearing face masks.
Dr Mahomva, however, refused to comment on Minister Nzenza’s case she said:
People have always been breaking the law even before COVID-19. People steal cattle, people steal cars, people are breaking the law all over and if anyone breaks the law, the law must take its course. Various laws are broken and people just have to comply so I can’t comment on a specific issue of someone breaking it. The law should take its course.
The meeting happens amid reports that India is experiencing an unprecedented coronavirus spread and transmission rate that has catapulted the daily new cases to about 300 000 (official figure) or 3 million (medical experts).
Official reports say India recorded 386 452 news cases on Friday last week, while deaths from COVID-19 jumped by 3 498.
It is believed that the sheer magnitude of infections in India in a short period of time suggests an ‘escape variant’ may be overwhelming any prior immunity from natural infections in those populations.
The reports that the minister flouted COVID-19 regulations are worrying and those actions put the nation at risk as there is a possibility that the ‘escape variant’ from India could have been imported.
Zimbabwe’s public health system is collapsed, therefore, has limited capacity to deal with such variants.
By Leornard Koni- When President Emmerson Mnangagwa grabbed power with the assistance of the military in November 2017, a lot of people were willing to work with him to improve the country’s battered image but unfortunately all this went down the drain.
The country has witnessed both repression and poverty increasing under his leadership. We took a wrong turn in 2017.
Today the regime and its political surrogates including Thokozani Khupe, Douglas Mwonzora and foul mouthpieces are working hard around the clock and determined to bar MDC-Alliance powerful leaders who are vocal to the inept and clueless government to contest in the forthcomimg 2023 harmonised elections.
If Nelson Chamisa was nothing as they want to portray it, we were supposed to experience a total blackout on him but everyday the government’s mouthpieces are awash with Nelson Chamisa’s stories.
Those who think that Douglas Mwonzora,Thokozani Khupe and Morgen Komichi have become all of a sudden political gladiators must have their brains examined by a specialist. Targeted leaders of the opposition are the likes of MDC-Alliance President Nelson Chamisa and Vice a President Tendai Biti because they are vital cogs in running the people’s struggle.
The Zanu PF government led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is working in connivance with Douglas Mwonzora to make sure that MDC-Alliance is completely decimated and that it does not see the political sun rising in 2023.
Through the unfashionable Patriot Bill which they are trying to push hard to become a law, Zimbabwe’ s democracy is slowly being sentenced to a slaughter house.
This Patriotic Bill is a North Korean and apartheid style type of an oppressive legislative piece worst than Robert Mugabe’s draconian Aippa. Its Zanu PF which has perfected the art of asking for sanctions through abuses of human rights.
What Zimbabweans should know is that our beautiful nation is not short of people who are patriotic but is short of sound leadership which must think outside its quadruple. Zimbabwe is well endowed with hard working people who just need little supervision to jump start them into production.
The whole of last year Zanu PF under Mnangagwa spent much of its time and resources working extra hard during the Covid19 pandemic trying to annihilate ans frustrate the MDC-Alliance.
They went on to seize its assets at Morgan Richard Tsvangirayi House, jailing of its cadres, political activists and engineering illegal recalls of its members of parliament.
What Zanu PF does not know is that it is on the other side campaigning very hard for MDC-Alliance. This is not new they also did that during the time Morgan Tsvangirayi was still alive.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s insatiable ideological appetite to create a Chinese model of politics should not be tolerate under what circumstances.
By A Correspondent- Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Kirsty Coventry said that her ministry will reinvigorate the National Youth Service (NYS) programme giving it a whole new look to ensure it meets international best practice.
Speaking to the Portfolio Committee on Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture, Minister Coventry said the programme will target school leavers and youths between the ages of 15 and 35 to equip them with life skills.
She said:
The youth service is a program where our youth, specifically for the ministry we will be focusing on out of school youths from the ages of 15 -35 where we will provide them with life education skills, training and workshops.
We are revitalising what was the program, with a completely new program and a way to move forward.
This is being done in many different countries around the world in the US, Israel, Germany, Tanzania and in Zambia, and it works very well.
The NYS was introduced in 2000 by the then Minister for Gender, Youth and Employment Border Gezi with the first training camp being established in Mount Darwin in 2001.
The “Green Bombers’, as they are derisively called because of their green uniforms, were mostly used to perpetrate violence on opposition supporters ahead of the crucial 2002 Presidential election.
By Patrick Guramatunhu- It was the great Physicist, Albert Einstein, who said insanity was doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
My aunt, whose husband worked at a mental hospital, told me a story of a mental patient using a leaking bucket to water the garden. Within minutes the patient would be soaked in water and mud but making very little progress in watering the garden. Someone may even remind the patient that he was not making progress because of the leaking bucket.
The patient would pause, suddenly aware the bucket was leaking. He suggested carrying the bucket on his head, beaming with pride at this ingenuous solution. Of course, all he succeeded in doing is get himself soaked in water and mud from head to foot.
For years, I thought I knew what insanity meant. Now, I realize just how easily seemingly rational people can be transformed into doing the same repetitive acts, over and over again expecting a different result, one associates with the insane.
Zimbabwe is in a serious economic and political mess. 41 years and counting of rampant corrupt, gross mismanagement and tyrannical rule have reduced the middle income nation with a promising future in 1980 into one of the poorest nation on earth. Zimbabwe has been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and murderous Zanu PF dictatorship all these last 41 years; the party rigged elections and hence the nation’s failure to remove it from office.
It took the nation twenty years to finally arrive at the consensus that Zanu PF was remaining in office because the party rigged the election. The solution was for the nation to demand democratic changes to ensure free, fair and credible elections. The people have risked life and limb these last 21 years to elect MDC leaders into power on the strengths the party would bring about the democratic changes the nation was dying for.
After 21 years and counting, 5 of which in the 2008 to 2013 GNU, MDC leaders have failed to deliver even one democratic change. Not even one change!
Since the GNU debacle MDC leaders have all but abandoned the core task of implementing the democratic reforms to ensure free and fair elections. The party leaders have been participating in flawed and illegal elections, knowing fully well that Zanu PF still enjoyed the dictatorial powers to rig elections. The new MDC strategy and belief is to win rigged elections – carrying the leaking bucket on the head – and, even after two election disasters, there are some who continue to advocate this as the solution to end Zanu PF rule.
Leonard Koni is certain the Nelson Chamisa and his MDC A will win the 2023 rigged elections, his latest Bulawayo 24 article says it all – “Zanu-PF afraid of Nelson Chamisa”.
“Today the regime (Zanu PF) and its political surrogates including Thokozani Khupe, Douglas Mwonzora and foul mouthpieces are working hard around the clock and determined to bar MDC-Alliance powerful leaders who are vocal to the inept and clueless government to contest in the forthcoming 2023 harmonised elections,” Koni claimed.
“Those who think that Douglas Mwonzora, Thokozani Khupe and Morgen Komichi have become all of a sudden political gladiators must have their brains examined by a specialist.”
Very few thinking Zimbabweans out there would dispute the fact Thokozani Khupe, Douglas Mwonzora and Morgen Komichi are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. The three were senior leaders in the MDC during the 2008 to 2013 GNU that failed to implement even one democratic reform, proving there and then that they were corrupt and incompetent. What the three have done ever since, such as participate in flawed elections and thus giving legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF, was piling more damning evidence they are sell outs.
Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti and many other MDC A leaders were Khupe and Mwonzora’s colleagues in the MDC throughout the GNU and therefore are equally guilty of failing to implement the reforms. And Chamisa and company are equally guilty of participating in flawed and illegal elections in 2013 and 2018.
“The whole of last year Zanu PF under Mnangagwa spent much of its time and resources working extra hard during the Covid19 pandemic trying to annihilate and frustrate the MDC-Alliance,” Koni argued.
Anyone familiar with the MDC family story knows that Chamisa seized power following Morgan Tsvangirai’s death in February 2018 and that it was this that has brought about the implosion in MDC-T and MDC A. By refusing to accept his wrongdoing Chamisa has made a bad situation worse.
Blaming Zanu PF for MDC’s implosion is just as foolish as Zanu PF blaming the sanctions for country’s economic meltdown. Everyone knows that root cause of the meltdown is the rampant corruption and gross mismanagement and the sanction’s contribution is tiny.
No doubt portraying Nelson Chamisa and his MDC A colleagues as squeaky clean, although they are peas from the same pod as Mwonzora and company, will help the former win the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bait to entice the opposition to participate in these flawed elections.
As long as Zanu PF retains its dictatorial powers to blatantly rig the elections, not even one token reform has been implemented since the July 2018 elections, Zanu PF will win another landslide victory in the 2023 elections.
Leonard Koni’s claim that Zanu PF is decimating Nelson Chamisa and his MDC A because the Mnangagwa is afraid of losing the 2023 elections is therefore nonsense. Koni knows that MDC A will never ever win rigged elections, the claim that Zanu PF is afraid of MDC A is a cheap give away to fool the naïve and gullible just as the mental patient above was fool by suggestion to carry the bucket on his head. Carrying the bucket on the head was not going to stop the leak no more than the rhetorical claim Zanu PF was afraid on MDC A going to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections.
It is now just over two years to the July 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections, there is no time to implement any meaningful reforms. It is clear the 2023 elections will be flawed and illegal, Zanu PF will once again blatantly rig the elections. After 41 years of rigged elections it will be insane to participate hoping for a different result – hoping to win rigged elections.
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Vice National Chairperson, Cecilia Chimbiri and Secretary for Policy and Research, Hon Joana Mamombe’s bail hearing is set for today at 0900 hours at the High Court in Harare.
The duo are maliciously charged for addressing a press conference at Rotten Row Magistrate Courts demanding the release of Makomborero Haruzivishe who has since been convicted and sentenced to 14 months in prison for blowing a whistle.
Chimbiri and Mamombe have been languishing at Chikurubi Maximum Prison for close to two months now.
We have it on good authority that there is a clear directive from ZANU PF authorities to make sure that Cecilia Chimbiri, Joana Mamombe and Netsai Marova get punished by a series of pre-trial imprisonments for exposing the junta after their abduction in April last year.
Since their abduction, the trio have been in and out of prison at any slightest move as a means by the state to fix them.
We believe that our female youth leaders are innocent and are victims of a male chauvinistic old guard that has a serious phobic of the capacity of women in general.
In our new government led by the astute MDC Alliance leadership of President Nelson Chamisa, abductions, pre-trial detentions and callous disrespect of women will be a thing of the past.
Free all political prisoners!
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The trial of a ZANU PF member, Goodman Tamuona Musariri on charges of undermining or insulting the authority of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was expected to commence at the Bindura Magistrates Court this Monday.
According to his lawyers, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Musariri was arrested in 2020 in connection with his posts on social media.
He is accused of circulating messages on three WhatsApp groups endorsing Vice President Constantino Chiwenga to take over leadership of the ZANU PF party as President Mnangagwa lacks authority and drive to lead the ruling party and Zimbabwe.
Musariri allegedly posted messages on three WhatsApp groups namely “People’s General Xi-wenga” “Zanu PF Mash Central Build Up” and “Legacy of our struggle” of which he is the administrator.
He is being represented by lawyers Tinomuda Shoko and Mutape Paidamoyo Saurombe of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.-Pindula News
NEW DELHI. – India is going through the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic as the single-day spike crossed 400 000 cases last week, and the total tally almost reached 20 million.
Amid the prevailing conditions, the overall Indian economy, mired in a recession since last year due to Covid-19, has been dragged down further by the second wave of the pandemic.
Most industries and the manufacturing sector are either shut or working at a much lesser capacity. The workforce in non-essential services has moved back home and is working online. Once again, offices have been closed and supplementary businesses depending on corporate employees, like the food and hospitality sector, have been hit hard.
In a bid to curb the raging pandemic, more than 10 states, including Delhi, have imposed partial or complete lockdowns, and five states, such as Nagaland, are observing night curfews.
While essential services are allowed to operate, the rest have been shut till further notice. The work-from-home mode in both government offices and private enterprises is encouraged, and people are suggested to stay indoors unless it is very urgent to step out.
Food industry worst hit
Small restaurant owners, online food suppliers and hotel chains are the worst hit. Ramesh Chandrikant, who runs a chain of restaurants in Gurugram, an IT hub adjoining Delhi, said he had expected things to return to normal as new Covid-19 cases per day had come down to the level of below 10,000 by the end of January.
“But then this second wave hit the country, and the situation changed from bad to worse. After nearly one year of the pandemic, we were expecting that it was all over and all IT and software firms’ employees would return to their offices. Now, I don’t see them coming back anytime soon this year,” said Chandrikant.
“Most of the IT and software firms’ employees stay here alone or as a couple with both husband and wife working.
“Most of them depended on our food services, and we had a good business all these years before Covid-19,” he added. “Now, since nearly 90 percent of them are working from homes located in different states, our business is totally ruined.”
Ulhas Shantaram Muke, president of the largest tiffin suppliers’ association in the financial capital Mumbai, also had a similar story to tell.- Xinhua
Philanthripist Bill Gates together with his wife, Melinda, have both announced divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple”.
“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the pair tweeted.
Bill and Melinda Gates – credit: agencies
They first met in the 1980s when Melinda joined Bill’s Microsoft firm.
The billionaire couple have three children and jointly run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The entity has spent billions fighting causes such as infectious diseases and encouraging vaccinations in children.
“We have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives,” they said in a statement. “We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.”
Bill Gates was formerly the world’s richest person and his fortune is estimated at well over $100 billion. How the couple end up settling their estate and any impact on the foundation will be closely watched, especially after another high-profile Seattle-area billionaire couple recently ended their marriage.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos finalized their divorce in 2019. MacKenzie Scott has since remarried and now focuses on her own philanthropy after receiving a 4% stake in Amazon, worth more than $36 billion.
The Gateses were married in 1994 in Hawaii. They met after she began working at Microsoft as a product manager in 1987.
In her 2019 memoir, “The Moment of Lift,” Melinda Gates wrote about her childhood, life and private struggles as the wife of a public icon and stay-at-home mom with three kids. She won Bill Gates’ heart after meeting at a work dinner, sharing a mutual love of puzzles and beating him at a math game.
She also detailed the ways they navigated imbalances in their marriage and parenting journey and noted how working together at the foundation made their relationship better.
“Bill and I are equal partners,” Melinda Gates said in a 2019 interview with The Associated Press. “Men and women should be equal at work.”
The Seattle-based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the most influential private foundation in the world, with an endowment worth nearly $50 billion. It has focused on global health and development and U.S. education issues since incorporating in 2000.
While both are global figures, Melinda Gates has increasingly built her profile as a champion of women and girls. The former tech business executive launched her private Pivotal Ventures investment and incubation company in 2015 and recently partnered with Scott for a newly announced equity challenge.
David Callahan, founder of the Insider Philanthropy website and author of “The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age” says it’s too early to know how the divorce will affect the Gates foundation and the wider philanthropic community.
Although the couple say they will continue to work together at their foundation, Callahan suggests Melinda Gates could still pursue her own philanthropic work.
“You can imagine two separate tracks where they’re both working together at the foundation, and each is pursuing their own independent philanthropy outside the foundation,” Callahan said.
He said the possibility of Melinda Gates opening another philanthropic foundation would have a dramatic impact.
“Nobody knows what the terms are of their divorce agreement. But if Melinda Gates ends up with just some portion of that wealth and turns to creating her own foundation, it would be among one of the biggest foundations probably in America,” Callahan said.
As the public face of the foundation’s COVID-19 grants and advocacy work, Bill Gates has come under fire for being a staunch supporter of intellectual property rights for vaccine makers. While the tech icon says protecting the shots’ recipes will ensure incentives for research and development, critics claim that mentality hampers supply in favor of drug company profits.
Last year, Bill Gates said he was stepping down from Microsoft’s board to focus on philanthropy.
He was Microsoft’s CEO until 2000 and since then has gradually scaled back his involvement in the company he started with Paul Allen in 1975. He transitioned out of a day-to-day role in Microsoft in 2008 and served as chairman of the board until 2014. – AP, BBC – Additional reporting
India recorded its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic yet with 3,689 deaths in the last 24 hours and one more state going into lockdown as the nation’s creaky healthcare system is unable to cope with the massive caseload.
Sunday was the fourth straight day India recorded more than 3,000 deaths as the second wave of the pandemic carries on unabated and keeps setting grim new records. Altogether 215,542 people have died from COVID-19 in the country.
The number of cases surged to 19.5 million with 392,488 new infections, government data showed. India became the first country to cross 400,000 daily cases on Saturday.
Healthcare systems are overwhelmed and a shortage of medical oxygen has emerged as the most serious challenge.
Thirty-four patients died because of oxygen shortages in hospitals in the capital New Delhi and the states of Andhra Pradesh and Haryana on Saturday, the Times of India reported.
Thirty-one more with COVID-19-like symptoms and “breathing difficulties” died in a hospital in Uttar Pradesh state, the report cited authorities as saying.
Nearly 10 Indian states and union territories have imposed some form of restrictions, even as the federal government remains reluctant to impose a national lockdown.
The eastern state of Odisha became the latest to announce a two-week lockdown, joining Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal. Other states, including Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan have either imposed night curfews or weekend lockdowns. –ALJAZEERA
NEW DELHI. – India is going through the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic as the single-day spike crossed 400 000 cases last week, and the total tally almost reached 20 million.
Amid the prevailing conditions, the overall Indian economy, mired in a recession since last year due to Covid-19, has been dragged down further by the second wave of the pandemic.
Most industries and the manufacturing sector are either shut or working at a much lesser capacity. The workforce in non-essential services has moved back home and is working online. Once again, offices have been closed and supplementary businesses depending on corporate employees, like the food and hospitality sector, have been hit hard.
In a bid to curb the raging pandemic, more than 10 states, including Delhi, have imposed partial or complete lockdowns, and five states, such as Nagaland, are observing night curfews.
While essential services are allowed to operate, the rest have been shut till further notice. The work-from-home mode in both government offices and private enterprises is encouraged, and people are suggested to stay indoors unless it is very urgent to step out.
Food industry worst hit
Small restaurant owners, online food suppliers and hotel chains are the worst hit. Ramesh Chandrikant, who runs a chain of restaurants in Gurugram, an IT hub adjoining Delhi, said he had expected things to return to normal as new Covid-19 cases per day had come down to the level of below 10,000 by the end of January.
“But then this second wave hit the country, and the situation changed from bad to worse. After nearly one year of the pandemic, we were expecting that it was all over and all IT and software firms’ employees would return to their offices. Now, I don’t see them coming back anytime soon this year,” said Chandrikant.
“Most of the IT and software firms’ employees stay here alone or as a couple with both husband and wife working.
“Most of them depended on our food services, and we had a good business all these years before Covid-19,” he added. “Now, since nearly 90 percent of them are working from homes located in different states, our business is totally ruined.”
Ulhas Shantaram Muke, president of the largest tiffin suppliers’ association in the financial capital Mumbai, also had a similar story to tell.- Xinhua
Five unidentified men stormed a School in Ruwa and captured the guard before they blasted a safe and stole over US$30 000, Nokia cellphone, HP laptop and a Samsung TV.
The incident happened on Saturday.
In a statement, the Zimbabwe Republic Police, ZRP said it reiterates that members of the public must not keep large sums of money in homes or business premises without corresponding security measures.
Anyone with information to contact any nearest Police Station or call Complaints Desk on 0242 703631 or WhatsApp 0712800197.
The trial of a ZANU PF member, Goodman Tamuona Musariri on charges of undermining or insulting the authority of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was expected to commence at the Bindura Magistrates Court this Monday.
According to his lawyers, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Musariri was arrested in 2020 in connection with his posts on social media.
He is accused of circulating messages on three WhatsApp groups endorsing Vice President Constantino Chiwenga to take over leadership of the ZANU PF party as President Mnangagwa lacks authority and drive to lead the ruling party and Zimbabwe.
Musariri allegedly posted messages on three WhatsApp groups namely “People’s General Xi-wenga” “Zanu PF Mash Central Build Up” and “Legacy of our struggle” of which he is the administrator.
He is being represented by lawyers Tinomuda Shoko and Mutape Paidamoyo Saurombe of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.-Pindula News
An N. Richards Wholesalers employee collapsed and died while pushing a trolley on Sunday morning, a few hours after sending birthday wishes to his fiancé whom according to friends was planning to marry shortly.
According to Masvingo Mirror, Terrence Matseka (27), who worked as a till operator at N. Richards Chipinge, collapsed at around 11 am and was taken to Chipinge District Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Matseka’s workmates were left shell-shocked by the sudden death. The deceased had a Degree in Rural and Urban Planning from Great Zimbabwe University (GZU).
The deceased’s father Kilford Matseka confirmed the death to Chipinge Times.
He said that his son had no ailments and the death came as a great shock to everyone.
A post mortem was expected to be conducted today with burial set for tomorrow.- The Mirror
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered law enforcement agents to arrest chefs implicated in the looting of Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara)’s funds, running into millions of United States dollars which was exposed by Auditor-General Mildred Chiri’s 2017 and 2019 reports.
In a report tabled before Parliament recently, PAC recommended swift government action and that authorities should ensure that the looters pay back the money.
“The committee’s recommendations (are that) the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) should investigate abuse of office by all (Zinara) officials, whose activities are covered in the report.
Disciplinary action and, where appropriate, criminal proceedings should be taken against them,” the report read in part.
“Illegal allowances paid to members of Zinara’s board should be refunded within six months.”
If the parliamentary committee has its way, involved parties are expected to pay back millions of US dollars allegedly milked from the national roads administrator at a time when the country’s roads are in a dilapidated state and have been declared a state of disaster.
“Between 2011 and March 2016, board members were paid a total of US$673 744 in fees and allowances without approval of the parent ministry. In 2018, each board member received Christmas hampers worth US$9 600,” PAC said.
It also emerged that in 2013, seven senior managers received gym equipment worth US$4 000 each, while all female employees received hair allowances which cost a total of US$24 500 from 2011 to 2013.
The payments, it emerged, were not processed through Zinara’s payroll. The committee also recommended that within three months, Zinara should seek expert help to develop systems and procedures for good corporate governance.
Zinara also did not have a sound human resources policy which ensured that qualified people were employed, which resulted in it engaging under-qualified managers.
The director of administration and human resources was said to be a holder of a Diploma in Biblical Studies and was appointed to the post without having been interviewed.
The committee recommended that the Minister of Transport should report to Parliament within two months on corrective measures taken to protect the interests of Zinara and Zimbabwe.
“The Committee’s report and the AG’s forensic audit report should be referred to Zacc, the police and the National Prosecuting Authority for criminal investigation.”
On contracts that did not perform well, the committee recommended that within three months, Zinara should take disciplinary action against its officials who were involved in the improper contracts. -Newsday
Tinashe Sambiri|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has a penchant for causing the suffering of citizens, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said.
President Chamisa also denounced the ZUPCO monopoly saying it is exposing passengers to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
The ZUPCO monopoly is causing chaos in central Harare as hundreds jostle for the few available buses.
“COMMAND TRANSPORT MUST END!
The illegal ZUPCO monopoly has; -left many jobless and desperate.
-Brought suffering leaving many stranded or in crowded rickety buses and resorting to insecure open trucks.
-ZUPCO is potentially a COVID-19 super spreader but the 4×4 ‘Chefs’ don’t just care. #BringbackKombis,” said President Chamisa in a statement.
Tinashe Sambiri|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has a penchant for causing the suffering of citizens, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said.
President Chamisa also denounced the ZUPCO monopoly saying it is exposing passengers to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
The ZUPCO monopoly is causing chaos in central Harare as hundreds jostle for the few available buses.
“COMMAND TRANSPORT MUST END!
The illegal ZUPCO monopoly has; -left many jobless and desperate.
-Brought suffering leaving many stranded or in crowded rickety buses and resorting to insecure open trucks.
-ZUPCO is potentially a COVID-19 super spreader but the 4×4 ‘Chefs’ don’t just care. #BringbackKombis,” said President Chamisa in a statement.
ZANU PF and MDC-T yesterday allegedly whipped their senators into line ahead of today’s vote for the passage of the Constitutional Amendment (No 2) Bill, amid fears that the proposed law changes will make fundamental changes to the Constitution.
Zanu PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi said ruling party legislators met “to deal with housekeeping issues”.
“Of course, if there is a vote and we have a routine meeting, we also discuss how to proceed and ensure everybody comes, and we see where we stand then we see the numbers and encourage people to come,” Togarepi said.
“We do not do a caucus because we have a crisis, we don’t have a crisis in terms of our approach to issues in Parliament where you find that in other political parties there is dissent or anything. We don’t have that in Zanu PF and it is, therefore, just a routine caucus,” he said.
MDC-T spokesperson Witness Dube said party legislators were ordered to oppose the Bill although their colleagues in the National Assembly joined forces with Zanu PF to pass the Bill last month.
Dube, however, referred further questions to the party chief whip in the National Assembly Paurina Mpariwa who was not picking up calls.
If the Bill passes, it will among other provisions give unfettered power to the President, including doing away with the running mate clause and handpicking judges, as well as increase the tenure of the proportional representation women’s quota to 2033, among several other amendments.
The scrapping off of the clause on running mates is set to come into effect in the 2023 elections to settle Zanu PF succession disputes and give the President the prerogative to appoint his deputies.
Impeccable party sources last week said the MDC-T leadership ordered opposition legislators to criticise the Bill publicly in Parliament, but when it comes to voting, some of its members must assist Zanu PF to garner the much-needed two-thirds majority in Senate.
The Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill sailed through the Lower House on a 191 majority against only 22 MPs from the MDC Alliance and four from Mwonzora’s faction who opposed it. -Newsday
Tinashe Sambiri|Twelve female political activists have been arrested and jailed by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s misogynistic administration over the past 14 months.
The big question is:why does Emmerson Mnangagwa hate young women?
Netsai Marova is among those who are being persecuted by the regime.
Below is her presentation:
All women in this picture have two or more pending cases in court for trial.
The Zimbabwean justice system in seeking to please the master dicator, chose persecution by prosecution for women who dare to be on the frontline advocating for change.
Hard as it is, being detained and forced to stand trial on trumped up unlawful charges, women of this generation are standing strong to ensure change is delivered is our lifetime.
A Shurugwi woman has complained that her former husband, a Police Chief Superintendent based at Buchwa in Zvishavane is refusing to sign summons for him to appear before a magistrate in a maintenance case.
Nothankosi Ncube said she has been looking after her daughter since birth 12 years ago without any assistance from Superintendent Gevas Vengesai.
She told Magistrate Sithabile Zungula last week that Vengesai is abusing his position as a Police officer to refuse to sign the summons. She also said all Police officers who are Vengesai’s juniors are also refusing to entertain her.
Superintendent Gevas Vengesai said he was not going to sign the summon.
She said she could have done the process through the messenger of court but the process is too expensive for her and is now appealing for anyone who could help to intervene and ensure that her maintenance case is heard.
“I have a child who is 12 years old that he did no support from birth. I went to Buchwa and gave the summons to Police officers who phoned him but he refused to come to the office. I had to sit and wait for him but still he refused to sign when I talked to him.
“Police officers who talked to me said that the issue was a hot one and they would not risk losing their jobs,” said Ncube.Source : The Mirror
What leads to medication-overuse headache, and how can you reduce your risk?
Becky Upham By Becky Upham Medically Reviewed by Jason Paul Chua, MD, PhD April 28, 2021 Medically Reviewed
a variety of pills colorful Too-frequent use of acute migraine drugs can lead to chronic daily headache.
Do you have headache days — in addition to migraine attacks — more often than you have pain-free days? If so, you may have medication-overuse headache (MOH).
Also called chronic daily headache or rebound headache, MOH most commonly occurs in people with a primary headache disorder such as migraine, cluster headache, or tension-type headache, according to the American Migraine Foundation. It’s caused by too-frequent use of acute medications, although exactly what “too frequent” means can depend on the drug being taken.
Medication-overuse headache isn’t only troublesome because you have near-constant head pain: MOH can also cause headaches that are resistant to preventive migraine medications, making acute therapies less effective as well.
Stewart Tepper, MD, professor of neurology at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, New Hampshire, spoke about medication-overuse headaches in his talk “Medications That Make Migraine Worse,” as part of the Sixth Annual Migraine World Summit, held March 17 to 25, 2021.
In addition to explaining how medication-overuse headache develops and how to reduce your risk, Dr. Tepper observed that the newest type of acute migraine treatment — a drug class called CGRP receptor antagonists, sometimes referred to as “gepants” (pronounced gee-pants) — does not carry the risk of medication-overuse headache.
Here’s what to know about medication-overuse headache.
Medication-Overuse Headache Has a Precise Definition The International Headache Society defines medication-overuse headache as a headache occurring on 15 or more days per month in a person with a preexisting primary headache disorder and developing as a consequence of regular overuse of acute or symptomatic headache medication for more than three months.
Different medications have different guidelines as to what constitutes overuse. The use of triptans, ergot alkaloids, combination analgesics (pain relievers), or opioids for 10 or more days of the month is considered overuse, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
MOST HELPFUL Is It a Migraine Attack or a Cluster Headache? Expert Advice on Managing Chronic Migraine How Long Will My Migraine Attack Last? Taking simple analgesics, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) — a drug class that includes aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), and naproxen (Aleve) — on 15 or more days a month also constitutes overuse.
Usually medication-overuse headaches resolve after the overuse is stopped, although people may undergo a period when their headaches get worse before they get better.
Quantity Matters in Medication-Overuse Headache, Not Quality Medication-overuse headache can feel different in different people, according to Tepper.
“What I tell people is that it doesn’t really matter if it’s front or back, right or left, up or down, mild, moderate, or severe. It’s not the quality of the headache, it’s the quantity of the headache,” he says.
The distinguishing feature of MOH is how often occurs, he says.
Any Day With Any Type of Headache Counts as a ‘Headache Day’ If you aren’t sure if what you’re experiencing is MOH, try keeping a calendar and counting the number of headache days you have. Don’t just count the days when you have symptoms of a migraine attack but rather all days with any type of headache, says Tepper.
Alternatively, he suggests counting the number of completely headache-free days you have. “How many days are crystal clear from the moment you open your eyes until the minute you go to bed at night, without a twinge of headache? The crystal-clear days should be at least 15 days per month in order to not be in chronic migraine,” he says.
Taking Certain Medications Just Once a Week Can Make Migraine Worse The two pain medications that are most likely to make migraine worse are butalbital, which is a barbiturate that is mixed with other pain medicines and is included in the medications Fioricet and Fiorinal, and opioids of any sort, says Tepper.
These types of medications can be used for emergency relief for a migraine attack but should be used with caution because of their risk for rebound headache, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
Opioids, also called narcotics, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, can cause headaches to worsen or become more frequent by using them just once a week. Butalbital is linked with overuse when used four times a month or more, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
These medications alter the pain regulatory systems of the brain in a bad way, and they not only worsen migraine attacks in terms of frequency, severity, and duration but also often make them untreatable, says Tepper.
Pain Medications Taken for Any Reason Can Lead to MOH Taking analgesics for reasons besides your migraine can still cause medication-overuse headache, according to StatPearls.
“Say you’re taking it for low back pain, the brain does not know the difference,” says Tepper, adding that the frequency of use and the type of medication are associated with the transformation to MOH.
The More Headache Days You Have, the Higher Your Risk for Chronic Daily Headache “The more headache days a person has, the more likely they are to transform to chronic migraine,” says Tepper. Studies conducted both in the general population and in clinics show that people who have 10 to 14 headache days per month are 20 times more likely to develop daily headache than people who have fewer than five headache days per month, he says.
“The frequency of the headache days is actually a big risk for transforming, and the frequency of headaches is linked to how many times somebody reaches for an acute medication to treat,” says Tepper, adding that although these are separate risks, they feed each other.
“It’s why we try so hard to reduce the total number of headache days per month, as well as the number of acute medication days per month,” says Tepper.
Caffeine Can Contribute to Medication-Overuse Headache Caffeine at 100 to 200 milligrams (mg) per day is probably enough to contribute to medication-overuse headache, says Tepper.
For reference, 8 ounces of coffee has between 80 and 100 mg of caffeine, and 12 ounces of a caffeinated soft drink has between 30 and 40 mg, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The headache medication Excedrin has 65 mg of caffeine per tablet.
However, many people are fond of their caffeine-containing beverages.
“I tend to try to work around the caffeine, as long as it’s not high-dose caffeine, to see if we can help them without taking away one of their pleasures,” says Tepper…
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Zimbabwean goalkeeper George Chigova has been sidlined by injury, just two weeks after making his long-awaited debut for SuperSport United.
The big goalkeeper, who deputises captain Ronwen Williams at the Pretoria-based side, played his first game since returning to the club at the beginning of the season, when they lost 0-1 to Golden Arrows on April 22.
He is said to have suffered a knock during Matsatsantsa’s stalemate with Swallows FC a week later.
The injury forced him out of yesterday’s 1-1 draw with Baroka and Kaitano Tembo had to put third choice Boalefa Pule in goal, as Williams is also still out injured.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
By A Correspondent- Farm-workers have joined the country’s working-class in denouncing the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration which they said is allowing employers to pay them slave wage.
The farm workers said Workers Day was meaningless to them given the paltry salaries they are being paid.
Through the National Employment Council for the Agricultural Industry of Zimbabwe farm-workers said the lowest paid farm-worker is getting a paltry $4 000, which is not enough to cushion them in the hyperinflationary environment and the dollarized economy.
Progressive Agriculture and Allied Industries Workers Union of Zimbabwe general-secretary Raymond Sixpence said there was a need for the government to address the plight of farmworkers whose situation was dire.
“They do a lot for the country and the agrarian-based economy, but they remain ignored. Something needs to be done,” he said.
By A Correspondent- The desperate Zanu PF party has gone to town celebrating former MDC members in Masvingo’s Sunday Zanu PF provincial coordinating committee meeting attendance.
Tongai Matutu, James Makore, William Zivenge, and Pascal Mudzikisi attended the Zanu PF PCC meeting on Sunday at Great Zimbabwe University School of Education Complex.
The MDC rebels were welcomed by Zanu PF’s Christopher Mutsvangwa and Ezra Chadzamira, the Masvingo Zanu PF provincial chairman.
Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has regrettably announced that the pass rate for the 2020 Ordinary Level results which it has just released was slightly lower than that of 2019.
Addressing a press conference today, Zimsec chairperson, Professor Eddie Mwenje said the results will also be accessible online to candidates as well as authorised personnel through the examination body’s portal available at www.zimsec.co.zw from 1000p.m this evening.
He said the overall pass rate was pegged at 24,8 percent, a slight decrease from 31,6 percent for 2019.
The statistics show that the 2020 pass rate decreased by 6,8 percent from that of 2019.
“However, historical analysis indicates that in 2014, a pass rate of 22,4 percent was recorded while in 2017 the country had a pass rate of 28,7 percent.
“This means that 2020 results are within range and this is commendable considering the devastating conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is also important to note that some countries that went into national lockdowns due to the pandemic also experienced a decrease in pass rate,” said Prof Mwenje.
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has rubbished President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Workers Day statement and called the Zanu PF leader to order.
Mnangagwa on Saturday in his Wokers’ Day speech claimed that his government had ushered in a sense of optimism to the country’s workers compared to the Mugabe era.
However, ZCTU president Peter Mutasa said Mnangagwa’s utterances showed that he was not in touch with reality.
“It is either the President is out of touch with the lived experiences of workers and the poor, or he is being misinformed. Life is terrible for workers and clearly, the Mugabe era was far better for workers than this era,” Mutasa told NewsDay yesterday.
“His (Mnangagwa) government has implemented policies that hurt workers more than at any particular moment in the independent State. While we appreciate the fact that he remembered May Day, we would want his government to urgently address the erosion of workers’ salaries.
“Workers are enslaved and starving and no amount of words can change this. We need immediate remedial action that ensures that workers earn US dollars or US dollar-based salaries commensurate with how prices of goods and services are increasing. Without that his statement remains hollow and an insult to the suffering workers.”
Farmworkers also said Workers Day was meaningless to them given the paltry salaries they are being paid.
The National Employment Council for the Agricultural Industry of Zimbabwe said the lowest paid farm worker got a paltry $4 000, which is not enough to cushion them in the hyperinflationary environment and the dollarized economy.
Progressive Agriculture and Allied Industries Workers Union of Zimbabwe general-secretary Raymond Sixpence said there was a need for the government to address the plight of farmworkers whose situation was dire.
“They do a lot for the country and for the agrarian-based economy, but they remain ignored. Something needs to be done,” he said.
A pensioner who spoke to NewsDay said: “Been to the pension fund this morning, got the payslip. Net is zero. So what is happening is to those with funeral policies, the price is too high and if you have medical aid, you get nothing.”
By A Correspondent- The Zanu PF led government has of late been diverting the people’s attention by celebrating MDC defections instead of turning around the economy.
The country’s economy continues to deteriorate despite Mnangagwa’s said efforts to improve people’s standards of living.
Employment on the other hand has become useless as the few that have remained at work earning slave wages which are way below the poverty datum line.
Speaking to NewsDay Sunday, the Zimbabwe Congress Of Trade Unions president Peter Mutasa Mnangagwa’s should be realistic. “It is either the President is out of touch with the lived experiences of workers and the poor, or he is being misinformed. Life is terrible for workers and clearly, the Mugabe era was far better for workers than this era,” Mutasa said.
“His (Mnangagwa) government has implemented policies that hurt workers more than at any particular moment in the independent State.
“Workers are enslaved and starving and no amount of words can change this. We need immediate remedial action that ensures that workers earn US dollars or US dollar-based salaries commensurate with how prices of goods and services are increasing,” he said.
Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has announced 2020 Ordinary Level results are out and school with the authorities saying that the pass rate is slightly lower than that of 2019
Addressing a press conference today, Zimsec chairperson, Professor Eddie Mwenje said the results will also be accessible online to candidates as well as authorised personnel through the examination body’s portal available at www.zimsec.co.zw from 1000p.m today.
He said the overall pass rate was pegged at 24,8 percent, a slight decrease from 31,6 percent for 2019.
The statistics show that the 2020 pass rate decreased by 6,8 percent from that of 2019.
“However, historical analysis indicates that in 2014, a pass rate of 22,4 percent was recorded while in 2017 the country had a pass rate of 28,7 percent.
“This means that 2020 results are within range and this is commendable considering the devastating conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is also important to note that some countries that went into national lockdowns due to the pandemic also experienced a decrease in pass rate,” said Prof Mwenje.
By A Correspondent- MDC rebels in Masvingo, Sunday attended their inaugural party provincial coordinating committee meeting.
Led by the ex-Masvingo Urban legislator and deputy minister Tongai Matutu, the rebels said they would be loyal to their new home.
Matutu and former MDC Senator James Makore,ex-MDC stalwart in Zaka William Zivenge, and businessman Pascal Mudzikisi who contested the 2018 elections as an independent candidate attended their first Zanu PF PCC meeting yesterday at Great Zimbabwe University School of Education Complex.
They were welcomed by Zanu PF Secretary for Science and Technology in the politburo, Christopher Mutsvangwa and Zanu PF Masvingo provincial chair Cde Ezra Chadzamira.
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance will not be pushed by Zanu PF surrogates to change its name.
This was said by the party’s Organizing Secretary, Amos Chibaya at the weekend.
Rather the party would focus on mobilization and recruitment programmes, Cbibaya said.
See full statement below:
Mdc Alliance Namibia inspired by the clarion call for visibility and mobilisation from the International Organiser, Hon Amos Chibaya during SA Pec meeting in Cape Town.
02 Sunday 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia was really inspired by the clarion call for the leadership to embrace the #RegisterToVoteCampaign.
The pragmatic Organiser made it point blank to the Council that Mdc Alliance is targeting 6 million votes in 2023. It was clear that mobilisation, recruitment, radicalisation of the base was the only way to win Zimbabwe for complete change. He encouraged the leadership to be part of the national discourse through voting since it is their civic right. Elections belong to the people of Zimbabwe regardless of their geographical location.
The provincial leaders exhibited their zeal to work tirelessly to defend the People’s President and the People’s Agenda must be a dream come true through participatory democracy. It was further clarified to the audience that if one does not vote, he/she loses the constitutional right to complain against Zanupf corruption and daylight looting of national resources. The world is run by those who show up through visibility activities in branches and districts and the provincial leadership must supervise and guide democratic activities in the party.
Moreover, the International Organiser articulated the issue of rebranding. He reiterated that our name remains Mdc which was formed on September 11 1999.
The democratic project that was led by our late late doyen of Democracy Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, may his dear revolutionary soul rest in eternal power. He said,” hatiitiswe tinoita tega” meaning we can’t be forced to change our name by desperate Zanupf and their surrogates.
As social democrats, we must commit and dedicate ourselves to defending the People’s Agenda.
Moreso, responding to the concerns from the PEC about the elected officials who are sleeping on duty, Hon Organiser urged the leadership to submit vacant posts of which I think they did to fill in the gaps.
Hon Chibaya made it clear that it was the mandate of the provincial council to do anything for the good and growth of the party. He emphasized that leaders should not be limited to chanting slogans, but real pragmatic approach to the national democratic struggle was the sole way to achieve Constitutional Democracy.
The Organiser advocated for various political activities in the branches and districts as a sure of building solidarity among Democratic Forces to converge for complete change.
In a nutshell, as Mdc Alliance Namibia, we are very grateful to our Provincial Executive Council leaders for organising a successful meeting which came up with sound revolutionary resolutions. 11 districts including Namibia, Botswana and Zambia converged in Capetown to map the way forward.
It was such an exhilarating experience. Thanks the International Organiser for giving us the support that we need to see from committed leadership.
The Organiser unearthed that the party is going respond to the arbitrary arrests and illegal convictions of our ardent democratic fighters such as Cde Makomborero Haruzivishe, Hon Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri, Tungamirai Madzokere, Last Maengahama, Commander Obey ‘Luther’Sithole, and many others who are mere victims of a Fascist manifestation.
A Shurugwi woman has complained that her former husband, a Police Chief Superintendent based at Buchwa in Zvishavane is refusing to sign summons for him to appear before a magistrate in a maintenance case.
Nothankosi Ncube said she has been looking after her daughter since birth 12 years ago without any assistance from Superintendent Gevas Vengesai.
She told Magistrate Sithabile Zungula last week that Vengesai is abusing his position as a Police officer to refuse to sign the summons. She also said all Police officers who are Vengesai’s juniors are also refusing to entertain her.
Superintendent Gevas Vengesai said he was not going to sign the summon.
She said she could have done the process through the messenger of court but the process is too expensive for her and is now appealing for anyone who could help to intervene and ensure that her maintenance case is heard.
“I have a child who is 12 years old that he did no support from birth. I went to Buchwa and gave the summons to Police officers who phoned him but he refused to come to the office. I had to sit and wait for him but still he refused to sign when I talked to him.
“Police officers who talked to me said that the issue was a hot one and they would not risk losing their jobs,” said Ncube.Source : The Mirror
A Shurugwi woman has complained that her former husband, a Police Chief Superintendent based at Buchwa in Zvishavane is refusing to sign summons for him to appear before a magistrate in a maintenance case.
Nothankosi Ncube said she has been looking after her daughter since birth 12 years ago without any assistance from Superintendent Gevas Vengesai.
She told Magistrate Sithabile Zungula last week that Vengesai is abusing his position as a Police officer to refuse to sign the summons. She also said all Police officers who are Vengesai’s juniors are also refusing to entertain her.
Superintendent Gevas Vengesai said he was not going to sign the summon.
She said she could have done the process through the messenger of court but the process is too expensive for her and is now appealing for anyone who could help to intervene and ensure that her maintenance case is heard.
“I have a child who is 12 years old that he did no support from birth. I went to Buchwa and gave the summons to Police officers who phoned him but he refused to come to the office. I had to sit and wait for him but still he refused to sign when I talked to him.
“Police officers who talked to me said that the issue was a hot one and they would not risk losing their jobs,” said Ncube.Source : The Mirror
Inter Milan have been crowned Italian Serie A champions, to end Juventus’ decade-long dominance.
The title triumph was confirmed on Sunday after second-placed Atalanta drew 1-1 against Sassuolo.
The result left Inter, who beat Crotone 2-0 on Saturday, with an unassailable 13-point lead at the top of the Serie A standings with four games of the season to play.
Inter’s championship is their first in eleven years and their nineteenth overal. It also marks the end of Juve’s run of nine consecutive title wins.
Juventus are fifth and are now fighting for a Champions League spot.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
The game between Manchester United and Liverpool has been postponed after hundreds of angry Manchester United fans invaded the Old Trafford pitch and broke several cameras.
The fans are protesting against the club’s American owners, the Glazer family following their involvement in the controversial European Super League.
Both teams have been held back at their team hotel by the police, while match referee Michael Oliver has been turned away from the ground.
Manchester United have now released a statement confirming the game has been postponed.
“Following discussion between the Police, the Premier League, Trafford Council and the clubs, our match against Liverpool has been postponed due to safety and security considerations around the protest today,” said United.
“Discussions will now take place with the Premier League on a revised date for the fixture.”- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Khama Billiat has been ruled out for the remainder of the season due to the injury he sustained against former club Mamelodi Sundowns recently.
With four games before the end of the season, the club doctors ruled that Billiat would not have recovered.
Billiat who missed Zimbabwe’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Botswana and Zambia in March will also be racing against time to be fit to face South Africa in a World Cup qualifier early next month.- Zim Diaspora Sports Connect
Tinashe Sambiri|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has a penchant for causing the suffering of citizens, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said.
President Chamisa also denounced the ZUPCO monopoly saying it is exposing passengers to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
The ZUPCO monopoly is causing chaos in central Harare as hundreds jostle for the few available buses.
“COMMAND TRANSPORT MUST END!
The illegal ZUPCO monopoly has; -left many jobless and desperate.
-Brought suffering leaving many stranded or in crowded rickety buses and resorting to insecure open trucks.
-ZUPCO is potentially a COVID-19 super spreader but the 4×4 ‘Chefs’ don’t just care. #BringbackKombis,” said President Chamisa in a statement.
High riding Benni McCarthy is the new Bafana Bafana coach and is set to be unveiled on Wednesday.
According to a high ranking SAFA official, McCarthy will take charge of Bafana Bafana in a negotiated arrangement which will see his assistants at AmaZulu Siyabonga Nomvethe and Moeneeb Josephs assist him at the national team.
McCarthy who has had a stellar show at AmaZulu taking them into the title race, will take full charge of Bafana Bafana at the end of the season.
His first assignment will be against Zimbabwe on 5 June in Harare in a World Cup qualifying match.
What leads to medication-overuse headache, and how can you reduce your risk?
Becky Upham By Becky Upham Medically Reviewed by Jason Paul Chua, MD, PhD April 28, 2021 Medically Reviewed
a variety of pills colorful Too-frequent use of acute migraine drugs can lead to chronic daily headache.
Do you have headache days — in addition to migraine attacks — more often than you have pain-free days? If so, you may have medication-overuse headache (MOH).
Also called chronic daily headache or rebound headache, MOH most commonly occurs in people with a primary headache disorder such as migraine, cluster headache, or tension-type headache, according to the American Migraine Foundation. It’s caused by too-frequent use of acute medications, although exactly what “too frequent” means can depend on the drug being taken.
Medication-overuse headache isn’t only troublesome because you have near-constant head pain: MOH can also cause headaches that are resistant to preventive migraine medications, making acute therapies less effective as well.
Stewart Tepper, MD, professor of neurology at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, New Hampshire, spoke about medication-overuse headaches in his talk “Medications That Make Migraine Worse,” as part of the Sixth Annual Migraine World Summit, held March 17 to 25, 2021.
In addition to explaining how medication-overuse headache develops and how to reduce your risk, Dr. Tepper observed that the newest type of acute migraine treatment — a drug class called CGRP receptor antagonists, sometimes referred to as “gepants” (pronounced gee-pants) — does not carry the risk of medication-overuse headache.
Here’s what to know about medication-overuse headache.
Medication-Overuse Headache Has a Precise Definition The International Headache Society defines medication-overuse headache as a headache occurring on 15 or more days per month in a person with a preexisting primary headache disorder and developing as a consequence of regular overuse of acute or symptomatic headache medication for more than three months.
Different medications have different guidelines as to what constitutes overuse. The use of triptans, ergot alkaloids, combination analgesics (pain relievers), or opioids for 10 or more days of the month is considered overuse, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
MOST HELPFUL Is It a Migraine Attack or a Cluster Headache? Expert Advice on Managing Chronic Migraine How Long Will My Migraine Attack Last? Taking simple analgesics, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) — a drug class that includes aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), and naproxen (Aleve) — on 15 or more days a month also constitutes overuse.
Usually medication-overuse headaches resolve after the overuse is stopped, although people may undergo a period when their headaches get worse before they get better.
Quantity Matters in Medication-Overuse Headache, Not Quality Medication-overuse headache can feel different in different people, according to Tepper.
“What I tell people is that it doesn’t really matter if it’s front or back, right or left, up or down, mild, moderate, or severe. It’s not the quality of the headache, it’s the quantity of the headache,” he says.
The distinguishing feature of MOH is how often occurs, he says.
Any Day With Any Type of Headache Counts as a ‘Headache Day’ If you aren’t sure if what you’re experiencing is MOH, try keeping a calendar and counting the number of headache days you have. Don’t just count the days when you have symptoms of a migraine attack but rather all days with any type of headache, says Tepper.
Alternatively, he suggests counting the number of completely headache-free days you have. “How many days are crystal clear from the moment you open your eyes until the minute you go to bed at night, without a twinge of headache? The crystal-clear days should be at least 15 days per month in order to not be in chronic migraine,” he says.
Taking Certain Medications Just Once a Week Can Make Migraine Worse The two pain medications that are most likely to make migraine worse are butalbital, which is a barbiturate that is mixed with other pain medicines and is included in the medications Fioricet and Fiorinal, and opioids of any sort, says Tepper.
These types of medications can be used for emergency relief for a migraine attack but should be used with caution because of their risk for rebound headache, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
Opioids, also called narcotics, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, can cause headaches to worsen or become more frequent by using them just once a week. Butalbital is linked with overuse when used four times a month or more, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
These medications alter the pain regulatory systems of the brain in a bad way, and they not only worsen migraine attacks in terms of frequency, severity, and duration but also often make them untreatable, says Tepper.
Pain Medications Taken for Any Reason Can Lead to MOH Taking analgesics for reasons besides your migraine can still cause medication-overuse headache, according to StatPearls.
“Say you’re taking it for low back pain, the brain does not know the difference,” says Tepper, adding that the frequency of use and the type of medication are associated with the transformation to MOH.
The More Headache Days You Have, the Higher Your Risk for Chronic Daily Headache “The more headache days a person has, the more likely they are to transform to chronic migraine,” says Tepper. Studies conducted both in the general population and in clinics show that people who have 10 to 14 headache days per month are 20 times more likely to develop daily headache than people who have fewer than five headache days per month, he says.
“The frequency of the headache days is actually a big risk for transforming, and the frequency of headaches is linked to how many times somebody reaches for an acute medication to treat,” says Tepper, adding that although these are separate risks, they feed each other.
“It’s why we try so hard to reduce the total number of headache days per month, as well as the number of acute medication days per month,” says Tepper.
Caffeine Can Contribute to Medication-Overuse Headache Caffeine at 100 to 200 milligrams (mg) per day is probably enough to contribute to medication-overuse headache, says Tepper.
For reference, 8 ounces of coffee has between 80 and 100 mg of caffeine, and 12 ounces of a caffeinated soft drink has between 30 and 40 mg, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The headache medication Excedrin has 65 mg of caffeine per tablet.
However, many people are fond of their caffeine-containing beverages.
“I tend to try to work around the caffeine, as long as it’s not high-dose caffeine, to see if we can help them without taking away one of their pleasures,” says Tepper…
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Tinashe Sambiri|Twelve female political activists have been arrested and jailed by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s misogynistic administration over the past 14 months.
The big question is:why does Emmerson Mnangagwa hate young women?
Netsai Marova is among those who are being persecuted by the regime.
Below is her presentation:
All women in this picture have two or more pending cases in court for trial.
The Zimbabwean justice system in seeking to please the master dicator, chose persecution by prosecution for women who dare to be on the frontline advocating for change.
Hard as it is, being detained and forced to stand trial on trumped up unlawful charges, women of this generation are standing strong to ensure change is delivered is our lifetime.
Tinashe Sambiri|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has a penchant for causing the suffering of citizens, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said.
President Chamisa also denounced the ZUPCO monopoly saying it is exposing passengers to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
The ZUPCO monopoly is causing chaos in central Harare as hundreds jostle for the few available buses.
“COMMAND TRANSPORT MUST END!
The illegal ZUPCO monopoly has; -left many jobless and desperate.
-Brought suffering leaving many stranded or in crowded rickety buses and resorting to insecure open trucks.
-ZUPCO is potentially a COVID-19 super spreader but the 4×4 ‘Chefs’ don’t just care. #BringbackKombis,” said President Chamisa in a statement.
What leads to medication-overuse headache, and how can you reduce your risk?
Becky Upham By Becky Upham Medically Reviewed by Jason Paul Chua, MD, PhD April 28, 2021 Medically Reviewed
a variety of pills colorful Too-frequent use of acute migraine drugs can lead to chronic daily headache.
Do you have headache days — in addition to migraine attacks — more often than you have pain-free days? If so, you may have medication-overuse headache (MOH).
Also called chronic daily headache or rebound headache, MOH most commonly occurs in people with a primary headache disorder such as migraine, cluster headache, or tension-type headache, according to the American Migraine Foundation. It’s caused by too-frequent use of acute medications, although exactly what “too frequent” means can depend on the drug being taken.
Medication-overuse headache isn’t only troublesome because you have near-constant head pain: MOH can also cause headaches that are resistant to preventive migraine medications, making acute therapies less effective as well.
Stewart Tepper, MD, professor of neurology at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, New Hampshire, spoke about medication-overuse headaches in his talk “Medications That Make Migraine Worse,” as part of the Sixth Annual Migraine World Summit, held March 17 to 25, 2021.
In addition to explaining how medication-overuse headache develops and how to reduce your risk, Dr. Tepper observed that the newest type of acute migraine treatment — a drug class called CGRP receptor antagonists, sometimes referred to as “gepants” (pronounced gee-pants) — does not carry the risk of medication-overuse headache.
Here’s what to know about medication-overuse headache.
Medication-Overuse Headache Has a Precise Definition The International Headache Society defines medication-overuse headache as a headache occurring on 15 or more days per month in a person with a preexisting primary headache disorder and developing as a consequence of regular overuse of acute or symptomatic headache medication for more than three months.
Different medications have different guidelines as to what constitutes overuse. The use of triptans, ergot alkaloids, combination analgesics (pain relievers), or opioids for 10 or more days of the month is considered overuse, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
MOST HELPFUL Is It a Migraine Attack or a Cluster Headache? Expert Advice on Managing Chronic Migraine How Long Will My Migraine Attack Last? Taking simple analgesics, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) — a drug class that includes aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), and naproxen (Aleve) — on 15 or more days a month also constitutes overuse.
Usually medication-overuse headaches resolve after the overuse is stopped, although people may undergo a period when their headaches get worse before they get better.
Quantity Matters in Medication-Overuse Headache, Not Quality Medication-overuse headache can feel different in different people, according to Tepper.
“What I tell people is that it doesn’t really matter if it’s front or back, right or left, up or down, mild, moderate, or severe. It’s not the quality of the headache, it’s the quantity of the headache,” he says.
The distinguishing feature of MOH is how often occurs, he says.
Any Day With Any Type of Headache Counts as a ‘Headache Day’ If you aren’t sure if what you’re experiencing is MOH, try keeping a calendar and counting the number of headache days you have. Don’t just count the days when you have symptoms of a migraine attack but rather all days with any type of headache, says Tepper.
Alternatively, he suggests counting the number of completely headache-free days you have. “How many days are crystal clear from the moment you open your eyes until the minute you go to bed at night, without a twinge of headache? The crystal-clear days should be at least 15 days per month in order to not be in chronic migraine,” he says.
Taking Certain Medications Just Once a Week Can Make Migraine Worse The two pain medications that are most likely to make migraine worse are butalbital, which is a barbiturate that is mixed with other pain medicines and is included in the medications Fioricet and Fiorinal, and opioids of any sort, says Tepper.
These types of medications can be used for emergency relief for a migraine attack but should be used with caution because of their risk for rebound headache, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
Opioids, also called narcotics, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, can cause headaches to worsen or become more frequent by using them just once a week. Butalbital is linked with overuse when used four times a month or more, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
These medications alter the pain regulatory systems of the brain in a bad way, and they not only worsen migraine attacks in terms of frequency, severity, and duration but also often make them untreatable, says Tepper.
Pain Medications Taken for Any Reason Can Lead to MOH Taking analgesics for reasons besides your migraine can still cause medication-overuse headache, according to StatPearls.
“Say you’re taking it for low back pain, the brain does not know the difference,” says Tepper, adding that the frequency of use and the type of medication are associated with the transformation to MOH.
The More Headache Days You Have, the Higher Your Risk for Chronic Daily Headache “The more headache days a person has, the more likely they are to transform to chronic migraine,” says Tepper. Studies conducted both in the general population and in clinics show that people who have 10 to 14 headache days per month are 20 times more likely to develop daily headache than people who have fewer than five headache days per month, he says.
“The frequency of the headache days is actually a big risk for transforming, and the frequency of headaches is linked to how many times somebody reaches for an acute medication to treat,” says Tepper, adding that although these are separate risks, they feed each other.
“It’s why we try so hard to reduce the total number of headache days per month, as well as the number of acute medication days per month,” says Tepper.
Caffeine Can Contribute to Medication-Overuse Headache Caffeine at 100 to 200 milligrams (mg) per day is probably enough to contribute to medication-overuse headache, says Tepper.
For reference, 8 ounces of coffee has between 80 and 100 mg of caffeine, and 12 ounces of a caffeinated soft drink has between 30 and 40 mg, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The headache medication Excedrin has 65 mg of caffeine per tablet.
However, many people are fond of their caffeine-containing beverages.
“I tend to try to work around the caffeine, as long as it’s not high-dose caffeine, to see if we can help them without taking away one of their pleasures,” says Tepper…
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Tinashe Sambiri|Twelve female political activists have been arrested and jailed by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s misogynistic administration over the past 14 months.
The big question is:why does Emmerson Mnangagwa hate young women?
Netsai Marova is among those who are being persecuted by the regime.
Below is her presentation:
All women in this picture have two or more pending cases in court for trial.
The Zimbabwean justice system in seeking to please the master dicator, chose persecution by prosecution for women who dare to be on the frontline advocating for change.
Hard as it is, being detained and forced to stand trial on trumped up unlawful charges, women of this generation are standing strong to ensure change is delivered is our lifetime.
A Shurugwi woman has complained that her former husband, a Police Chief Superintendent based at Buchwa in Zvishavane is refusing to sign summons for him to appear before a magistrate in a maintenance case.
Nothankosi Ncube said she has been looking after her daughter since birth 12 years ago without any assistance from Superintendent Gevas Vengesai.
She told Magistrate Sithabile Zungula last week that Vengesai is abusing his position as a Police officer to refuse to sign the summons. She also said all Police officers who are Vengesai’s juniors are also refusing to entertain her.
Superintendent Gevas Vengesai said he was not going to sign the summon.
She said she could have done the process through the messenger of court but the process is too expensive for her and is now appealing for anyone who could help to intervene and ensure that her maintenance case is heard.
“I have a child who is 12 years old that he did no support from birth. I went to Buchwa and gave the summons to Police officers who phoned him but he refused to come to the office. I had to sit and wait for him but still he refused to sign when I talked to him.
“Police officers who talked to me said that the issue was a hot one and they would not risk losing their jobs,” said Ncube.Source : The Mirror
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance will not be pushed by Zanu PF surrogates to change its name.
This was said by the party’s Organizing Secretary, Amos Chibaya at the weekend.
Rather the party would focus on mobilization and recruitment programmes, Cbibaya said.
See full statement below:
Mdc Alliance Namibia inspired by the clarion call for visibility and mobilisation from the International Organiser, Hon Amos Chibaya during SA Pec meeting in Cape Town.
02 Sunday 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia was really inspired by the clarion call for the leadership to embrace the #RegisterToVoteCampaign.
The pragmatic Organiser made it point blank to the Council that Mdc Alliance is targeting 6 million votes in 2023. It was clear that mobilisation, recruitment, radicalisation of the base was the only way to win Zimbabwe for complete change. He encouraged the leadership to be part of the national discourse through voting since it is their civic right. Elections belong to the people of Zimbabwe regardless of their geographical location.
The provincial leaders exhibited their zeal to work tirelessly to defend the People’s President and the People’s Agenda must be a dream come true through participatory democracy. It was further clarified to the audience that if one does not vote, he/she loses the constitutional right to complain against Zanupf corruption and daylight looting of national resources. The world is run by those who show up through visibility activities in branches and districts and the provincial leadership must supervise and guide democratic activities in the party.
Moreover, the International Organiser articulated the issue of rebranding. He reiterated that our name remains Mdc which was formed on September 11 1999.
The democratic project that was led by our late late doyen of Democracy Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, may his dear revolutionary soul rest in eternal power. He said,” hatiitiswe tinoita tega” meaning we can’t be forced to change our name by desperate Zanupf and their surrogates.
As social democrats, we must commit and dedicate ourselves to defending the People’s Agenda.
Moreso, responding to the concerns from the PEC about the elected officials who are sleeping on duty, Hon Organiser urged the leadership to submit vacant posts of which I think they did to fill in the gaps. Hon Chibaya made it clear that it was the mandate of the provincial council to do anything for the good and growth of the party. He emphasized that leaders should not be limited to chanting slogans, but real pragmatic approach to the national democratic struggle was the sole way to achieve Constitutional Democracy. The Organiser advocated for various political activities in the branches and districts as a sure of building solidarity among Democratic Forces to converge for complete change.
In a nutshell, as Mdc Alliance Namibia, we are very grateful to our Provincial Executive Council leaders for organising a successful meeting which came up with sound revolutionary resolutions. 11 districts including Namibia, Botswana and Zambia converged in Capetown to map the way forward.
It was such an exhilarating experience. Thanks the International Organiser for giving us the support that we need to see from committed leadership.
The Organiser unearthed that the party is going respond to the arbitrary arrests and illegal convictions of our ardent democratic fighters such as Cde Makomborero Haruzivishe, Hon Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri, Tungamirai Madzokere, Last Maengahama, Commander Obey ‘Luther’Sithole, and many others who are mere victims of a Fascist manifestation.
Congrats to both the O level candidates who passed 2020 exams & Trs who worked hard. We are worried of the drop of number of candidates who sat for exams.The 11% drop points to learners who failed to write because they had no access to edu.Enrolment never dropped but increased. pic.twitter.com/MGs414ZbCx
— Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe,ARTUZ (@ARTUZ_teachers) May 3, 2021
