By A Correspondent- A state witness in the trial of former University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice-chancellor Levi Nyagura who is accused of single-handedly awarding a PhD to former First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday told the court that Claude Mararike, who supervised the awarding of the degree, was not qualified to do so since he was only a holder of a master’s degree.
Wilbert Sadomba, who said he was chairperson of the faculty of sociology, told court that he was not consulted and did not see Grace’s registration in the department.
Sadomba said there were minutes on how Grace got her PhD, but had no knowledge if the meeting ever took place.
He said Nyagura as the vice-chancellor had the sole responsibility of approving the awarding of degrees.
Sadomba said Justine Tandire, who was the research assistant, was also not qualified to be the assistant since he was appointed by a person who was not qualified.
But under cross-examination, Sadomba admitted that there were progress reports and research material to prove Grace’s awarding of the degree.
Sadomba also revealed that he was not a member of the sociology department at the time that Grace was a student at the university.
Last week, another witness, Julius Musevenzi, told the court that there were documents which showed that Nyagura was working with other UZ staff who were involved in admitting Grace as a PhD student.
Nyagura’s lawyer Tawanda Zhuwarara then asked the witness if he was admitting that the exUZ boss did not single-handedly award the degree to Grace, to which he said Nyagura was working with others.
Musevenzi also revealed that Mararike was responsible for ensuring that Grace complied with university regulations.
Chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi postponed the matter to tomorrow for trial continuation.
Allegations are that sometime in 2011, Nyagura single-handedly accepted and approved Grace’s application to study for a PhD in sociology without the knowledge and recommendations of the departmental board and faculty of higher degrees committee in violation of UZ quality assurance, guidelines and benchmarks.
It is alleged that during the same period, Nyagura covertly appointed Mararike and a Chaneta to supervise Grace’s thesis without the knowledge and approval of the departmental board of sociology.
Nyagura allegedly led supervisors and examiners to Grace’s Mazowe Estate where the defence of oral examination was purportedly done.
Ideally, the oral examination was supposed to be done on campus.
He allegedly abused his position by showing favour to Grace, who did not meet minimum requirements to study for the degree.
It is alleged Nyagura’s actions compromised the standards of the country’s education system.-Newsday
By A Correspondent- MDC Alliance legislators have confronted the government over “partisan” distribution of land saying even members of the opposition deserve to be allocated land since they are Zimbabweans also.
He made the remarks in Parliament during the ministerial question session while directing the questions to Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Anxious Masuka.
Sikhala said:
There are many people from the opposition who have applied for land.
We have heard that land is being distributed on a partisan basis.
His remarks were reiterated by Southerton legislator (MDC Alliance) Peter Moyo who asked why Government was taking long to identify land lying idle.
He said:
How many members from the opposition have benefited? We are all Zimbabweans and we deserve to be allocated land.
Only a handful of opposition members have benefited from the land reform programme with the majority refusing to take part when the initiative was launched at the turn of the millennium.
They argued that the programme was a ZANU PF initiative and they were also against the manner in which land was being distributed.
Minister Masuka denied allegations of partisan distribution of land saying there had been 200 000 applications of land, yet about 10 percent of these remained to be allocated.
The ministry of lands is reported to have asked both A1 and A2 farmers to submit productivity returns detailing what they had been doing on the allocated land as a way to identify unused land.
It is also reported that the process is being slowed down by over 8 000 land disputes that have spilt into the courts.-statemedia
By A Correspondent- South Africa says it will make use of drones and other technologies to tighten security at its borders to stop Zimbabweans and other foreigners from illegally crossing into the country.
The country’s Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Monday told broadcaster eNCA that the country was in the process of appointing commissioners to strengthen the Border Management Authority in dealing with illegal immigration.
Motsoaledi, however, warned that the measures to curb illegal immigration could result in loss of lives since no system was waterproof.
Zimbabwe’s borders are still closed for cross-border travel to curb the spread of COVID-19, which is forcing people who survive on cross-border trading to cross through illegal points of entry into South Africa.
Motsoaledi cited unemployment and hunger as the major push factors for illegal immigration, particularly for Zimbabweans.
“We are dealing here with social and economic systems in neighbouring countries,” Motsoaledi said.
“The borders during the apartheid were electric fence, the army, and all that, which we removed because we thought we are a democracy. Now we realise we made a terrible mistake by removing those and replacing them with nothing.
“South Africa is shortly setting up the Border Management Authority, whose mandate will be to secure the borders and stem the tide of illegal border crossings.”
Zimbabwe’s Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe said he was in a meeting when he was contacted for comment.
Motsoaledi said South Africa had to tighten security because the “desperate” Zimbabweans had improvised other tactics to defy the current security measures to eke out a living in the neighbouring country.
“People are illegally crossing through the border and the army is deployed where they cross over. Security is tight, but people still cross because this is out of desperation from what is happening in neighbouring countries, especially Zimbabwe,” he said.
“They go down the ladder to then cross the river but the army is waiting for them. We need a commissioner of the Border Management Authority, whose job is to deal with borders and we are already in the process of appointing two deputy commissioners.”
Motsoaledi, however, said ending illegal immigration depended on the neighbouring countries’ willingness to fix their economies and create jobs for their citizens.
South Africa, the most economically developed country in the southern African region, attracts thousands of migrants annually who seek jobs at farms and factories, but some get into the country through illegal cross points.
South Africa is home to more than three million Zimbabweans, a majority of them undocumented immigrants, who fled the country in search of jobs following the collapse of the economy two decades ago.-newsday
By A Correspondent- Purported People’s Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general Benjamin Rukanda has filed an urgent chamber application with the High Court challenging Justice Amy Tsanga’s ruling which nullified the expulsion of Tendai Biti and other former members of PDP from Parliament.
Justice Tsanga had ruled that Rukanda, who caused the expulsion of the six PDP members, was not a legitimate official of the PDP. Rukanda now wants an order stopping the execution of the judgment, arguing that the legislators could not be representatives in a party they no longer belong to.
Rukanda cited PDP officials Kucaca Ivumile Phulu, Settlement Chikwinya, Jacob Mafume, Arnold Batirai Dune, Simon Chanukah, Williams Madzimure, Regai Tsunga, Chelesile Mahlangu and the PDP led by Biti as first to ninth respondents, respectively.
Local Government minister July Moyo, Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda, Parliament of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission were cited as the 10th to 13th respondents, respectively.
“Their interests are now at MDC Alliance and a default judgment was handed down because I was not served with their urgent chamber application,” Rukanda’s lawyer Everson Chatambudza submitted.
The respondents obtained a default judgment against the second applicant on April 14, 2021 under case HC 5292/29. The applicants have filed an application for recession of the default order under case 1551/21 challenging the default order. The matter is still pending before the honourable court.
“The effect of the order is to render all other pending matters academic on a technicality without dealing with the real dispute between the parties on merits.
“The default order declared the second respondent, who defected to another political party as the secretarygeneral (Chikwinya), whose interests he is no longer representing, hence first applicant would suffer irreparable harm. Further ninth (Mahlangu), 11th (Mudenda) and 12th (Parliament) respondents might act according to the default order to the detriment of the applicants,” said Chatambudza.
“Upon verification, it was discovered that the purported summons upon which the default judgment was based had not been served on me at the time they were issued as alleged.
“Further, when I obtained a copy of the urgent chamber application from the High Court for the purposes of preparing an opposition to the confirmation of the provisional order, the summons had not been served on me. To make matters worse, when my legal practitioners filed the opposing papers to the confirmation, not the provisional order, the summons had not been served.”
Rukanda’s lawyer said the summons were served under strange circumstances “when the respondent knew very well that I was legally represented with my current lawyer”.-newsday
The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirms the arrest of six suspects and the recovery of a contraband of shoes and clothes at Tsungubvi Bridge, Mutare on 20 April 2021, following an ambush by a combined Security Services team on a special operation against smuggling in Manicaland.
The team blocked the road as the suspects’ six vehicles tried to flee from the scene, resulting in two of the vehicles having their tyres shot. The two trucks were found abandoned later.
The Security Services team managed to stop two other trucks and the four occupants were arrested, while two other trucks were found dumped near Headlands. As the security service members were carrying out some investigations two men appeared and offered them a bribe of US$ 9 000- 00 cash, leading to their arrest, bringing the total number of suspects arrested to six.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police will step up operations aimed at curtailing all illegal activities at all exit and entry points in the country.
[NYATHI. P] Assistant Commissioner Senior Staff Officer [Press, Public and International Relations] to the Commissioner General of Police Police General Headquarters
By James Gwati-The government has announced that all night clubs and bars will remain closed until further notice.
This was announced by the Information Minister, Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday after the government’s weekly cabinet briefing.
Mutsvangwa said the decision to maintain a ban on the opening of night clubs was arrived at after learning that the country was expecting a third wave of COVID-19 pandemic.
By James Gwati-Ex-Zanu PF youth leader, Kudzanayi Chipanga, was back in court over a case in which he was arrested for wearing President Emmerson Mnangagwa inscribed T-Shirt.
He appeared before a Harare Magistrate, Mr Stanford Mambanje, who postponed the case pending its determination by the Supreme Court.
He is jointly charged with former Local government minister, Ignatius Chombo, Innocent Hamandishe and Mathew Mleya on the same allegations.
It is alleged that between December 8 and 13, 2017, the trio connived to wear party regalia emblazoned with President Mnangagwa’s initials, although they knew they were no longer members of Zanu PF. They took photographs of themselves while wearing the regalia, including hats embroidered with the Zanu PF flag, inscribed “ED” and “Kutonga Kwaro”.
By A Correspondent| Local government minister July Moyo has told Harare North legislator Allan Norman Markham not to question his move to parcel out City of Harare land to controversial land developer Kenneth Raydon Sharpe saying his position allows him to administer all state land.
In 2019, July Moyo signed the deed of settlement which authorizes the transfer of 273 hectares of prime Harare land to Sharpe as payment for the work done in the construction of Airport Road.
This is despite the fact that City of Harare had won an appeal at the High Court which ruled that they did not owe Sharpe the US$15 Million payment for the construction of Airport road.
Local Government minister July Moyo says he has power to administer all state land on behalf of President Mnangagwa
Sharpe had earlier won an arbitration which City of Harare appealed against but were later forced by Moyo to negotiate with the fugitive businessman resulting in the Deed of Settlement in question.
Markham who sued Moyo, Sharpe and his aides Tatiana Aleshina and Michael John Van Blerk as well as President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the transfer of land to Sharpe was a fraudulent exercise citing a number of irregularities.
However Moyo subtly told Markham and his co-litigants Tavonga Savings Scheme and a Harare resident Jacob Pikicha not to question his decision to accede to transfer of land to Sharpe as he has power to administer all state land.
“The land in question is Stateland and its administration is assigned to the Minister of Local Government and Public Works by the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. There is therefore no corruption involved. The 6th Respondent therefore had authority to execute the deed of settlement,” said Moyo.
He further told Markham and his co-litigants to apply to the City of Harare and himself for allocation of stands saying they have no locus standi to block the transfer of land to Sharpe.
In his application, Markham together with Jacob Pikicha and Tavonga Savings Scheme wants the land deal between City of Harare and controversial ‘land baron’ Sharpe to be reversed on the grounds that it was not only illegal but a “grand theft” of land belonging to the people of Zimbabwe.
Kenneth Raydon Sharpe, the man at the centre of the controversial land transfer
“The signatories to that agreement namely Herbert Gomba and Hosiah Chisango (COH), who purported to act on behalf of the City of Harare did not have any authority from the City of Harare. The honourable Minister July Moyo lacked authority from the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and the Deed of Settlement itself is against the public policy of Zimbabwe, it being founded on illegal and extremely corrupt set of facts.”
Markham and his co-litigants labelled the agreement a complete fraud and a massive land heist against the people of Zimbabwe.
“Further the agreement represented a complete fraud, a massive land heist against the people of Zimbabwe. The Deed of Settlement is also a nullity because the agreement contained provisions that purport to grant criminal immunity to Augur Investments and its associates. To that extent, it is an agreement that offends the laws of Zimbabwe and in any event it’s an agreement contra to public morality,” further reads the application.
The Deed of Settlement entered between Mnangagwa, City of Harare and Sharpe says the parties involved will will not take any legal action against each other with undertaking to facilitate the transfer of 654 Pomona Township to Augur Investments within 14 days.
“Upon signature of this Deed of Settlement, the Minister (July Moyo), City of Harare and Augur undertake to withdraw all and any legal actions and proceedings, both civil criminal, pending against each other before the courts.
“The minister undertakes to instruct the Coghlan, Welsh and Guest to release the title deeds to stand number 654 Pomona Township to Augur. Immediately thereafter, the Minister and/or the President shall sign all and any documents necessary to facilitate and effect the transfer of the said stand to Augur or its nominee, Doorex Properties within 14 days.
“The COH guarantees that it has the requisite authority to sign this Deed of Settlement. The minister (July Moyo) warrants that he has the requisite authority from the Government of Zimbabwe and the President to sign this Deed of Settlement as well as all the necessary documents involved in the transfer of Stand 654 Pomona Township to Augur.
“Further to the above the above, the ministry and COH, in the spirit of Zimbabwe being open for business and to support Augur in its continued investments, undertake, subject to statutory compliance, to expedite the issuance of all and any necessary licences and permits to Augur and its related companies for any of its developments which it is carrying out in Harare.”
By A Correspondent- Former President Robert Mugabe’s dark horse, Ignatius Chombo is not yet off the hook as he this week appeared before a Harare magistrate, who indefinitely postponed the hearing of his several allegations.
Chombo appeared before Mr Stanford Mambanje and ex-Zanu PF youth leaders —Kudzanayi Chipanga, Innocent Hamandishe and Mathew Mleya on a case in which they allegedly wore some President Emmerson Mnangagwa T-Shirts while they had been suspended from involving in any zanu PF related activities.
Magistrate Mambanje differed the case pending a determination of the Supreme Court.
Chombo is also appearing on his own on criminal abuse and fraud charges and the cases were deferred to the same date.
It is alleged that on October 1, 2005, Chombo hatched a plan to defraud the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) under its “Other Crops and Livestock Support Facility”. Chombo allegedly applied for a loan amounting to $14 billion, which was to be repaid within 18 months and indicated his address as Allen Grange Farm, Rafingora.
He is said to have misrepresented that he would use the loan to buy agricultural equipment. The equipment included a 30-tonne lorry valued at $2 billion, 30-tonne truck valued at $1,5 billion, 200hp tractor four-wheel-drive valued at $2,5 billion, combine harvester valued at $5 billion, 52 dish roam disc valued at $1 billion, nine-row monosem planter valued at $1,2 billion, 2x500kg chicken feed mixer valued at $8 million. Instead, Chombo allegedly abused the money and it was investigated and established that he had imported various motor vehicles, including a Toyota Hilux Vigo for socialite Pokello Nare, which was delivered at 222 Samora Machel Avenue, Harare
By James Gwati-The clueless Zanu PF led government wants the laws of the country to be changed and allow its President Emmerson Mnangagwa to include Nelson Chamisa’s MDC-Alliance politicians in the cabinet, as opposed to conducting elections which would give a winner the mandate to select and appoint his own cabinet ministers.
Speaking in parliament this week during a debate on the Constitution Amendment Bill, Zanu PF MP for Buhera South, Joseph Chinotimba said instead of holding elections in 2023, his President Emmerson Mnangagwa should be given powers to chose cabinet ministers of his choice.
His utterances seem to suggest that his party was afraid of being defeated by the opposition in the next election.
“The President should nominate those he wants to work with. When we went to war, we did not say we want people from America to come and assist us in Zimbabwe. There is no need for us to move in tandem with what other countries are doing,” said Chinotimba in his contribution to the debate in Parliament.
“The President must nominate the Ministers that he wants to work with. If he chooses Job Sikhala to be the Minister, no one should stop him from doing so. This is a law that must be passed as we are moving towards the next elections.
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating the murder of a 34-year-old man following a brawl over a woman at a shebeen in Emganwini suburb on Monday.
The now-deceased Mr Nkosana Chipepera was stabbed by a man only identified as Vincent.
Mr Chipepera was drinking beer with Vincent before a fight broke out between the two over a woman identified as Ms Thandolwenkosi Nkomo.
Mr Chipepera died on the spot after he was stabbed with an unknown object. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident yesterday.
“One of the patrons only known as Vincent had a misunderstanding with Mr Chipepera over a woman whom they both claimed to be their girlfriend. Vincent took an unknown object and stabbed Mr Chipepera below the armpit,” said Insp Ncube.
He said Mr Chipepera collapsed in the sitting room and soon after the stabbing Vincent fled from the scene.
“An ambulance was called and upon arrival, the ambulance crew confirmed Mr Chipepera dead and his body was taken to UBH after police attended the scene,” said Insp Ncube.
He appealed for information that may lead to the arrest of Vincent.
Insp Ncube warned those violating lockdown regulations by operating shebeens that they risk being arrested.- The Herald
By James Gwati- MDC-T vice president Thokozani Khupe said the laws must be changed and allow the for interviews for anyone the President would have wanted to be in his cabinet.
Khupe said this in Parliament during a debate on the Constitution Amendment Bill, early this week.
“I would have preferred a situation where judges go through an interview where the majority of people will participate because normally, those interviews are publicised and televised.
“Every Zimbabwean will have an opportunity to listen to those interviews such that whoever gets to be the judge, they will say indeed, this person is qualified because we listened to their interviews,” she said.
RE: PETITION TO ARREST DOUGLAS TOGARASEI MWONZORA: CASE RB# 2236/12/2020
On my behalf and on behalf of the members of the Movement for the Democratic Change T (MDC-T) hereby petition the Ministry of Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs to arrest Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora for:
1. The theft of MDC T funds to the tune of $6 million
2. Money laundering in violation of Zimbabwe Foreign Currency Exchange Control Act
3. Blatant disregard of the country’s anti-corruption policy
We are coming to the Ministry guided by the Ministry’s Mission Statement:
“To promote an effective justice delivery system and provide legal services, rehabilitation that guarantee good governance, democracy and the rule of law”
It will be 4 months, April 27, 2021 since the theft case was reported December 26, 2020, recorded in RB # 2236/12/2020.
The Details of the case are contained in the Attached Affidavit #A1 attached.
Suffice to say Hon. Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, that theft of any kind, from any person or entity by anyone regardless of their political or economic position should be a top priority of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the Ministry of Justice. So far not in this case, WHY?
Hon Minister, we have provided the Zimbabwe Republic Police with overwhelming evidence of theft of funds as well as money laundering. Not only did we provide the money trail but also the names of individuals and companies used to launder the money. It is inconceivable that in the face of such overwhelming evidence Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora and his fellow accused have not be arrested and deposed for this criminal offence.
It is also inconceivable that the Government of Zimbabwe that prides itself for adhering to the rule of law is failing to show the world that all citizens regardless of their station, membership and or support for the ruling party are subject to the same laws that apply to ordinary citizens. We are having for a full 4 months now a situation where all animals are equal but some animals are equal than others. This Hon Minister cannot be good for our country and the principle of equality before the law.
I am imploring you Hon Minister to implement your Mission and ensure the rule of law in this instance.
For and on behalf of MDC T Members
Patson Murimoga
ID #04-101832 04
Attached Exhibit #A1
February, 2021
Complainant: Patson Murimoga
4406 Manyame Park
Chitungwiza
Telephone Number: 0772780298/0772155555
Zimbabwe Republic Police
Att: Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi
RE: FOLLOW UP ON DOUGLAS TOGARASEI MWONZORA THEFT CASE- RB# 2236/12/2020
I am writing to follow up on my report of December 26, 2020 alleging theft of Movement for Democratic T party funds by Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora and others. The case was reported on RB#2236/12/2020.
On Monday February 1st, 2020 there was a published Report by Fungai Mugari, Copy Attached detailing the alleged theft of party funds by Mwonzora and others. I am not the only person wondering why, in the face of such overwhelming evidence Mwonzora has not been arrested for this theft.
The Investigating Officers have so far done a sterling job identifying the various accounts used, accomplices within the MDC T and the illegal foreign currency dealers they engaged.
It appears to me that there is enough evidence of misappropriation. The MDCT Finance Director, Toddy Mapingire facilitated the withdrawal, delivery and collection of the illegally obtained foreign currency. He is the keeper of the paper trail. With the publication of this story I fear they may temper with evidence and witnesses. I strongly believe it is in the best interest of justice that Douglas Mwonzora, Todd Mapingire and others be arrested just like any other citizens would if they are accused of a similar crime.
Justice is blind and should be dispensed without fear or favor.
Yours Sincerely,
Patson Murimoga
ID # 04-101832 04
Cc. Officer in Charge CID
Attachment:
How Mwonzora Looted MDC-T Coffers
Fungai Mugari
Harare – Zimbabwean authorities are investigating the MDC-T for money laundering, fraud and violating
exchange control regulations after millions of dollars were siphoned from the party’s account to illegal
money changers.
According to a memorandum prepared by the police’s commercial crimes unit, Douglas Mwonzora with
the aid of one Toddy Mapingire, reportedly transferred a total of ZWL$6,355 000 to various accounts
linked to illegal money changers. The police’s commercial crimes unit has since enlisted the services of
RBZ’s Financial Intelligence Unit to investigate the matter further.
In a memorandum to the Financial Intelligence Unit, police claim that there is reasonable suspicion that
Mwonzora and Mapingire contravened section 5(1)(a) of the Exchange Control Act and section 8(1) of
the Money-Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act, after they used the MDC-T BancABC account number
50863225502015 Heritage Branch to buy foreign currency equivalent to ZWL$6,355 000.
“Some time in December 2020, MDC-T party was granted $14 million by the Government of Zimbabwe
through the Political Parties Finance Act. The funds were deposited in MDC-T BancABC account number
50863225502015 Heritage Branch.
“On 18 December 2020, the accused persons (Mr. Mwonzora and Mr. Mapingire) transferred funds from
the MDC-T party said bank account into Bell Petroleum BancABC account number 15104045502014 a
sum of ZWL$2,800 000. On the same date, ZWL$1,755 000 was transferred into Madzara Trust CABS
account number 1129721914. In another batch ZWL$1,800 000 was transferred to a well-known illegal
money changer Martha Munandi account number 260126563. The funds were transferred in the
following batches ZWL$2 800 000, ZWL$1 755 000, ZWL$1 800 000 making a total of ZWL$6,355 000.
“The MDC-T party had no relationship or any contract with the said company, trust and individual
respectively; and as such there is reasonable suspicion that the accused persons were buying foreign
currency from the parallel market and used the accounts to facilitate their illicit activities. We have since
recorded a warned and cautioned statement from one of the accomplices who received commission from
one of the entities for performing the transactions,” read the police memorandum.
Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed that a police report had been made
against Mr. Mwonzora with the police commercial crimes unit seized with the matter.
Efforts to get a comment from Mwonzora were fruitless.
Breakdown of Douglas Mwonzora stoleng funds from MDC-T Gvt Grant
RTGs 1755000 transferred to cabs account number 1129721914, Madzara Trust (Dougie friend)
RTGs 1800000 transferred to account number 260126563, Martha munandi Trust she is related to the
late Cephas Makuyana.
2,8million transfered to Bel Petroleum campany which Tapiwa Mashakada is a Director (2.5Million was
withdrawn and given to Douglas Mwonzora) END
Teachers who are not reporting for duty risk losing their salaries after Cabinet yesterday reiterated that the “no work, no pay policy” will be enforced to ensure all teachers report for work.
The decision follows reports that a number of teachers were not reporting for duty claiming incapacitation.
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa confirmed the development yesterday at a post-Cabinet briefing.
“Cabinet was informed that the number of teachers reporting for duty had decreased,” she said.
“It is further noted that some of those reporting for duty are not teaching.
“Cabinet wishes to reiterate that negotiations for improved conditions of service remain open under the National Joint Negotiating Council and that the ‘no work, no pay policy’ will be strictly enforced.”
The Government offered a 25 percent salary increment to civil servants from this month while a further 50 percent would be effected in June.
Three weeks ago, Government met its employees and it outlined constraints being faced, emanating from a prolonged economic shutdown owing to the lockdown measures instituted to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, during which revenue generation was reduced to virtual insignificance.
Further, Government coffers are stretched since it is paying for vaccines, with the aim of administering doses to at least 10 million people to achieve herd immunity.
Government has set aside US$100 million to buy Covid-19 vaccines.- State media
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating the murder of a 34-year-old man following a brawl over a woman at a shebeen in Emganwini suburb on Monday.
The now-deceased Mr Nkosana Chipepera was stabbed by a man only identified as Vincent.
Mr Chipepera was drinking beer with Vincent before a fight broke out between the two over a woman identified as Ms Thandolwenkosi Nkomo.
Mr Chipepera died on the spot after he was stabbed with an unknown object. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident yesterday.
“One of the patrons only known as Vincent had a misunderstanding with Mr Chipepera over a woman whom they both claimed to be their girlfriend. Vincent took an unknown object and stabbed Mr Chipepera below the armpit,” said Insp Ncube.
He said Mr Chipepera collapsed in the sitting room and soon after the stabbing Vincent fled from the scene.
“An ambulance was called and upon arrival, the ambulance crew confirmed Mr Chipepera dead and his body was taken to UBH after police attended the scene,” said Insp Ncube.
He appealed for information that may lead to the arrest of Vincent.
Insp Ncube warned those violating lockdown regulations by operating shebeens that they risk being arrested.- The Herald
Dark Day in Zimbabwe as Government Passes Amendment Number 2 Bill to the Constitution
21 April 2021
Today, Zimbabwe marks a dark day in its post-independence history, a day after 191 Parliamentarians voted in the House of Assembly to pass Amendment Number 2 Bill to the Constitution.
Days after marking our 41st independence anniversary, a time at which we ought to be taking stock of progress made in consolidating our democracy, we mark a moment of monumental regression.
The Constitution of Zimbabwe was born out of a protracted constitutional struggle that started in the 1990s, finally meeting with success on 22 May 2013 when the new Constitution took effect.
Unfortunately, eight years later the gains registered are being reversed.
This Bill seeks to amend various clauses of the Constitution, with the result that the Bill wholesomely undermines the separation of powers, checks and balances, citizen participation, Parliamentary oversight and independence of institutions.
A constitution is for posterity. It is a legacy to our future and the generations of Zimbabweans to come.
It is an embodiment of our collective aspirations and the social contract of how we desire to conduct our national affairs.
It is not a document to be tempered with to satisfy the political desires or sectarian interests of the day.
Doing so has far-reaching consequences that would far outlive the architects.
When Parliament consulted the people in 2020, citizens risked the COVID-19 pandemic to attend public hearings.
The results of these nationwide hearings as observed by the Forum was a resounding NO! Citizens, civil society, the international community and the democratic opposition, all spoke against the amendments.
If our government was truly a government for the people, and if the leadership were truly a listening leadership, surely the democratic wishes of the majority would carry the day.
However, it is abundantly clear that the wishes of the people are a secondary consideration.
Notwithstanding the retrogressive substantive elements of the Bill, the procedures adopted in fast-tracking the Bill through Parliament is unlawful and unconstitutional as it contravenes subsections 328 (3) and (4) of the Constitution.
The Bill, which had been amended outside its original form days before the vote, was passed through Parliament without the requisite 90-day notice period being instituted by the Speaker of Parliament, to invite members of the public to express their views on the revisions to the original Bill.
The passage of the Bill, coming days after the passage of Amendment No. 1 Bill by the Senate, marks a clear sign of democratic relapse.
The amendments we are facing, expose rank insincerity on the part of the government when it participated in the Constitution-making process.
It appears that participation was a self-serving act of political preservation, as opposed to a vision-setting exercise and a commitment to follow the constitutional and democratic trajectory.
Zimbabweans participated in the March 2013 referendum, with 94.5% voting in favour, believing all were genuine in the process.
Ironically, while the current government had previously prior to 2013 refused to back provisions that appeared to be targeting individuals, at that time President Robert Mugabe, it seems that some of the present amendments are person-specific, in particular as they relate to the office of the Chief Justice.
It is clear that the Bill seeks to consolidate and solidify the President’s position ahead of the 2023 elections and beyond.
This insincerity has, in the intervening years, been supported by the attitudes and conduct that have been displayed, in the disregard of the law; unjustified continued suspension of by-elections; the slow pace of legislative alignment to the Constitution; halfhearted and feigned law reform, with the passage of laws such as the Maintenance of Peace and Order Act; manipulation and use of the criminal justice system against critics; and a retrogressive legislative agenda where laws such as the Patriot Bill are being proposed.
Citizens, the Forum, diplomatic missions, the African Union Chairperson and UN officials have all spoken out against this trend since November 2017, warning of democracy under threat.
The actions of the government betray a departure from the independence ideals of democracy and constitutionalism.
History has taught us that constitutionalism, respect for the law and respect for the democratic wishes of the people, unlock the benefits of socio-economic and political progress.
Our stubborn disregard of these truths that have been tested over time signifies dark days ahead.
The Forum registers its deepest exception to the stance taken by the government.
The MDC renegade Douglas Mwonzora was yesterday struggling to douse fires sparked by his decision to whip his MPs to support Zanu PF-championed constitutional changes that critics say would give President Emmerson Mnangagwa unchecked powers.
On Tuesday, Constitutional Amendment Bill No 2 sailed through the Lower House on a 191 to 22 majority, with Mwonzora’s MPs, except for four, voting for the amendment of the Constitution.
The move by Mwonzora, observers said, confirmed long-held suspicions that the MDC-T leader is a Zanu PF surrogate.
Mwonzora’s deputy, Thokozani Khupe, MPs Nomvula Mguni, Phelela Masuku and Paurina Mpariwa joined Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance legislators in rejecting the constitutional amendments that will see Mnangagwa appointing judges without public scrutiny and extend their terms of office after reaching retirement age.
The proposed changes will also see the scrapping off of the clause on running mates that was set to come into effect in 2023 to settle succession disputes and give Mnangagwa sole power to appoint his deputies.
Following its passage in the National Assembly, the Bill now goes back to Senate, where if it passes, will go to Mnangagwa for his signature to become law, sealing the contentious changes to the governance charter overwhelmingly voted for by the people in a referendum in 2013.
Khupe’s spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni said his boss voted against the Bill because she perceived the changes as retrogressive.
However, Mwonzora yesterday hastily convened a Press conference, where he painstakingly argued that his actions were in the public interest.
He said his party valued the empowerment of women and the youth, not the part that gave Mnangagwa power to handpick judges and his deputies.
“We were advancing the cause of women who constitute 52% of the country’s population,” Mwonzora said.
“We think the rights of the 52% are more important than the two clauses which give Mnangagwa power. Just to allay the fear, four out of the six clauses in the Bill are in the best interest of the majority of the people of Zimbabwe.
“You should also understand that it’s not over as the Bill will come to the Senate, where it would be debated. Amendment of the Constitution is a process, not a one-day thing.”
Speaking about his MPs who voted against the amendments, Mwonzora said the legislators had genuine cases because they were faced with a dilemma over the “sweet-bitter” Bill.
“I know there is a group you want to promote which voted ‘no’. That won’t be fair. We have vice-president Khupe and the deputy chief whip in the Assembly. Madam Khupe is the leader of the opposition and it’s her responsibility,” he said.
“She was there in Parliament and I don’t know whether she was there at the committee stage. I was not in Parliament. I didn’t vote in the Assembly and the Bill will come to the Senate.”
MDC-T chairperson Morgen Komichi, who voted against the Bill in Senate last week, appeared to be now toeing the opposition party line.
“There’s no democracy without youth and women, hence the Bill is talking of women and youth quota in Parliament and councils,” Komichi said yesterday.
“We have adopted a strategy to put food on the table of women and the youth. We are happy with the clauses as MDC-T. We don’t support clauses that give powers to Mnangagwa, but we lost during the vote.”
However analysts said even without Mwonzora’s input, the Bill would still have sailed through to the Senate, although the whole process had undermined the rights of the electorate.
“Even if Mwonzora’s MPs had not voted for the Bill, Zanu PF had always been the super majority, although not democratic enough to be trusted to make decisions on very important issues to do with the Constitution, the supreme law of the land,” said political analyst Eldred Masunungure.
“What happened yesterday (Tuesday voting for the Constitution Amendment Bill 2) was a subversion of the supremacy of the electorate which is a dangerous trail on the Zimbabwean democratic space?”
Another analyst, Alexander Rusero, said: “Government authorities can amend a constitutional clause or repeal a statutory instrument wherever they regard it necessary, as long as it will help them consolidate power.
“We have had only 19 constitutional amendments in 37 years, but we will have at least 30 in three years under the so-called new dispensation.”
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum said the procedures that were followed in passing the Bill through Parliament were unconstitutional since the citizens rejected the amendments last year during public consultations.
“Citizens, civil society, the international community and the democratic opposition, all spoke against the amendments,” the rights group said in a statement.
“If our government was truly a government for the people, and if the leadership were truly a listening leadership, surely the democratic wishes of the majority would carry the day.”
Legal think-tank Veritas said the Amendment Bill was flawed and unconstitutional because the clauses which were changed did not go through the normal procedure as stipulated in the laws of the land.
In its bulletin on Tuesday, Veritas said most of the changes which the National Assembly made to the Bill at committee stage materially alter clauses of the original Bill or added new clauses which were never in the original Bill.
“Hence, they are unconstitutional because they were made without going through the procedure laid down in section 328 of the Constitution,” Veritas said. -Newsday/additional reporting
Six prison officers and four inmates succumbed to Covid-19 following a spike in cases during the festive season.
During the festive season, the country recorded a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases with more than 1 000 cases and an average of 30 deaths being reported in a week.
On January 5 the country recorded 34 deaths which was the highest number of deaths recorded in a single day since the outbreak of the pandemic in March last year.
The country’s cumulative deaths reached 500 on January 10 and two weeks later the figure doubled to 1 005. The surge in Covid-19 infections was caused by the movement of people who travelled into and throughout the country during the festive season.
Government blamed members of the public’s complacency and negligence for the spike in cases and deaths during the festive period.
In an interview, Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu said despite the surge in cases during the festive period, they didn’t record alarming cases.
“We have four inmates and six prison officers who succumbed to Covid-19 during the festive period across the country. The numbers are not alarming given our population and we are happy that the situation is under control,” he said
“Comm-Gen Chihobvu said ZPCS was strictly adhering to the Ministry of Health and Child Care as well as the World Health Organisation’s health regulations.
He said the institution had put various measures in place at all prisons in the country to prevent the spread of the virus.
Comm-Gen Chihobvu said the suspension of prison visits by inmates’ relatives was part of the measures put in place to curb the spread of the pandemic.
“We have come up with a number of measures at our prisons meant to protect our inmates and staff from contracting Covid-19,” he said.
Comm-Gen Chihobvu said ZPCS has embarked on national awareness campaigns in all the prison stations in the country’s 10 provinces as part of measures to combat the spread of the pandemic.
Last year 43 inmates and 23 prison officers tested positive to Covid-19 at Bulawayo prisons and ZPCS reacted swiftly to ensure strict adherence to Covid-19 protocols. –Chronicle
In 1998 the pro-democracy movement established the NCA as a vehicle to fight for a democratic constitution.
By 2013 the movement through the MDC was able to achieve one of the best constitutions in Africa which was overwhelmingly voted for by the majority of Zimbabweans.
It was a long road to get to that point as ZANU PF resisted that democratisation agenda at every turn.
It is ironic that Douglas Mwonzora was part of this process and at one time a contestant for the Chairman’s post for the NCA. He used the same uncouth methods that he is now associated with to try to oust the then Chairperson, Lovemore Madhuku.
The majority members of NCA who were also members of MDC then stopped him in his tracks.
People poured cold water on his unbridled ambition to be Chairperson or President of anything.
During the GNU Mwonzora was given a second chance and made co-chair of COPAC to co-lead the development of a democratic constitution.
At the core of our grievance then was an Imperial Presidency where every conceivable state power was vested in the President. People sought to end that and rightly so they did through the 2013 constitution.
Eight years later, Douglas is now on the forefront of reversing the People’s gains. Instead of clamouring for the alignment of laws to the constitution he has joined hands with the evil regime to take us back where we are coming from.
With the threat of recall he has commandeered MPs to vote for Constitutional Amendment number 1 and 2 in order to entrench the power of the President and recreate an Imperial Presidency.
He has now proved to all and sundry that he is neither a democrat nor a constitutionalist but an opportunist and traitor.
He is doing so to ingratiate himself to the dictatorship with the hope that he can be given some crumps from the feeding trough.
Those who are following him please be warned that Douglas does things for himself and himself alone.
Now it is time for all progressive forces to stop the horse and its rider from purging our revered Constitution.
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Government has said teachers who have been absconding from work risk losing their monthly salaries as Government moves to enforce the principle of “No work no pay.”
The number of teachers reporting for duty has decreased since schools reopened last month as they are citing incapacitation.
According to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, the situation is more pronounced in Bulawayo and Harare as some teachers elsewhere have ignored the call for strike by their unions.
In Bulawayo, only 50 percent of teachers have turned up for duty with pupil attendance pegged at 68 percent.
Speaking during a Covid-19 Taskforce meeting in Bulawayo on Tuesday, Provincial Deputy Education Director Mr Thabani Sibanda said as of last Friday, the ministry sampled 75 schools for teacher and learner attendance.
From that sampling, statistics showed that the teacher attendance drastically dropped due to incapacitation notices forwarded to schools, districts and the province.
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has since asked school authorities to compile attendance registers saying there will be consequences for those who are not attending lessons.
In a post-Cabinet briefing yesterday, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said Government is worried about absenteeism of teachers. She also noted that some of teachers were reporting for duty but not teaching.
“Cabinet was informed that the number of teachers reporting for duty had decreased. It is further noted that some of those reporting for duty are not teaching,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
The minister said avenues were open for disgruntled teachers to engage their employer under the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC).
She said teachers who are not reporting for work will not be paid as Government enforces the no work, no pay policy.
“Cabinet wishes to reiterate that negotiations for improved conditions of service remain open under the National Joint Negotiating Council and that the no work, no pay policy will be strictly enforced,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
She said Cabinet also noted that the strong Covid-19 surveillance system that Government put in place has enabled the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to detect outbreaks early.
“Cabinet was informed that on 16th April 2021 more outbreaks were reported at two boarding schools, namely St David’s Bonda Girls School in Manicaland and Embakwe High School in Plumtree. One hundred and forty-five and 91 learners tested positive, respectively,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
She said the situation is under control with all the cases being mild and asymptomatic. The Ministry of Health and Child Care is testing and vaccinating members in the adjoining communities where the schools are located.
“All those found positive have been quarantined. The Ministries of Primary and Secondary Education; and Health and Child Care have intensified enforcement of the Covid-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in all schools and those found violating the preventive health measures will be sanctioned,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
On the issue of the ongoing Covid-19 vaccination programme which is being rolled out across the country, Minister Mutsvangwa said a total of 288 229 people received their first doses while 36 778 got the second jab.
The Ministry of Health and Child Care is carrying out vaccination campaigns all over the country with President Mnangagwa set to receive his second dose today at Kwekwe General Hospital.
The President received his first dose in the resort city of Victoria Falls where he launched the Second Phase of the national vaccination programme last month.
“The nation is advised that His Excellency the President will be receiving his second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine tomorrow (today) at Kwekwe General Hospital. Cabinet wishes to assure the nation that citizens can receive their second dose of the Covid-19 vaccines anywhere in the country without prejudice,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
She said the vaccination of residents in border towns has been prioritised and is well on course.
Government also approved the final Ministerial Action Plan that is compliant with the National Development Strategy 1 (2021-2025), which was presented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Dr Frederick Shava.
The ministry’s mission is to promote the political and socio-economic interests, the image and influence of Zimbabwe in the international community. It also seeks to protect the interests and safety of the Zimbabwean diaspora.
The deliverables of the Plan include the appointment of eight honorary consuls during the five-year period; establishment of 25 new export markets and facilitating 100 trade investment missions.
It also seeks to improve international relations through such undertakings as signing of 150 co-operation agreements and twenty-six Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (BIPPAs).
“The country’s image will be improved through the planned 650 public diplomacy and visibility initiatives both locally and internationally, including press releases, holding regular briefings with diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe and delivering lectures at universities and other key national institutions,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
“In line with the decentralisation and devolution thrust, the Ministry is in the process of establishing two provincial offices in Bulawayo and Victoria Falls.” –Chronicle
No true constitutionalist will ever back dictatorial amendment to the constitution.
Principle is King.Hypocrisy is terrible,betrayal is worse..I detest both. Those who truly believe in constitutionalism,thank you for your principled voting in e National Assembly.Pple shall govern- Advocate Nelson Chamisa
No true constitutionalist will ever back dictatorial amendment to the constitution.Principle is King.Hypocrisy is terrible,betrayal is worse..I detest both. Those who truly believe in constitutionalism,thank you for your principled voting in e National Assembly.Pple shall govern!
Tinashe Sambiri|Scores joined the MDC Alliance during the party’s rural mobilization initiative in Mhondoro- Mubaira, Mashonaland West Province at the weekend.
Mhondoro- Mubaira is traditionally regarded as a no go area for perceived Zanu PF opponents.
The MDC Alliance team was led by Secretary General Hon Charlton Hwende, Party Building Organising Secretary Hon Amos Chibaya and Secretary for Rural Strategy and Mobilization Hon Happymore “Bvondo” Chidziva.
“MDC Alliance People’s Secretary General Hon Chalton Hwende MDC Secretary General, Organising and Party building Secretary Hon Amos Chibaya, Secretary for Rural Strategy and Mobilisation Hon Happymore Chidziva, the Secretary for Social Welfare and Mash West Provincial Leadership was in Mhondoro Mubaira over the weekend visiting victims of political violence, orphans and Party structures. #CCC
Our Rural Mobilisation Dept led by Hon #HappymoreChidziva organised a two day visit to Mhondoro-Mubaira where the Secretary General Hon Chalton Hwende other party leaders visited child-headed families, the elderly, survivors of violence and opinion leaders, interfaced with local structures, youth recruited new members,” MDC Alliance said in a statement.
Tinashe Sambiri|The Constitutional Amendment bill has exposed Mr Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora’s hypocrisy, the MDC Alliance has said.
Mwonzora’s political formation is widely seen as a Zanu PF surrogate.
The MDC Alliance Namibia has pointed out that Mwonzora and his followers are “fake constitutionalists.”
See full statement:
Counterfeit Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora and cronies are Zanupf surrogates! Mdc Alliance Namibia condemns their “Yes Vote” to Constitutional Amendment No 2.
21 April 2021
How can genuine Constitutionalists vote against Constitutional Democracy? Rapacious and overzealous Mwonzora and his judicially-constructed MdcT’s political hypocrisy was absolutely unearthed when they teamed up with their fellow stomach politicians in Zanupf to reverse the gains of the 2013 hard-earned Constitution.
Mdc Alliance Namibia is not perplexed by these shenanigans from Zanupf morons and their enablers because it is now Mwonzora’s pay back time after getting full-time support to annihilate the People’s Agenda to fight corruption and gross abuse of human rights in Zimbabwe.
It is quite pathetic to see those who once claimed to be models of Social Democracy condemning Mdc Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa( Wamba Dia Wamba) of turning autocratic voting together with the oppressive regime to amend the unaligned constitution since 2013. The certified identity of Mdc-T was unravelled in the August House when they joined Zanupf dictators to vote in favour of Constitutional Amendment No 2 which gives Mr Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa the following powers to:1)Extend the terms of offices to judges who have reached 70 years, 2) Appoint or promote judges as he wishes without any public interviews, 3) Allow Mr Mnangagwa to appoint 7 unelected ministers. Mwonzora and cabal engaged in an illicit and toxic relationship with Zanupf thugocrats to reverse the revolutionary gains enshrined in the 2013 constitution.
Moreover, it very clear that the Zanupf-sponsored political outfit is now paying back to their masters and mistresses for the solidarity they are giving them in their futile attempt to decimate the People’s Party(Mdc Alliance) using the captured Courts, Parliament, Zec, Army, Police and all other securocrats. Right-minded citizens must not be shocked by the satanic move from Mwonzora because the same Zanupf party aided him with soldiers, police, state security apparatus and the courts to derail the freedom train. Mdc Alliance Namibia is committed and determined to fight against dictatorship. Mwonzora and cabal are just stomach politicians who have sold our Democratic project for 3pieces of silver.
Moreso, it was evidenced by the heavy presence of heavily armed police and soldiers at our Headquarters (Morgan Tsvangirai House) assisting the so-called Constitutionalists to illegally occupy our revolutionary house. Mdc T is now an extension of the Harare regime therefore our people must wake up and smell the coffee. Our MDC ALLIANCE MPs voted in favour of the people of Zimbabwe who were clear that all these provisions in the amendment no 2 were undemocratic and illegal since it is not part of what more than 4 million Zimbabwean nationals voted for. Mwonzora and cronies must stop blackmailing our late doyen of Constitutional Democracy Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai by entering into this anti-people agreement with Zanupf exploiting the legacy of our father of Constitutionalism.
Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia is cognisant to the fact that Mwonzora is doing all this evil to pay back for the Mdc Alliance money he robbed from Parliament through the Political Parties Finances Act. It is a public fact that MDC T is not Mdc Alliance which won elections and got rigged in 2018, therefore it is beyond nonsense to believe that its Constitutional for Mwonzora to grab the money that he squandered like Zanupf Satanists. The money belonged to the people who voted for complete change led by our powerful leader President Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia is certain that the betrayed citizenry in the National democratic revolution shall resist dictatorship in MDC T and support the genuine revolutionaries in the Mdc Alliance who are advocating for the alignment of the 2013 people-driven constitution not its unconstitutional amendment. As Mdc Alliance Namibia we are mobilising and recruiting the nationals in the diaspora to converge and confront these counterfeit or fake constitutionalists. Mwonzora and his politically -empty team are trying to disguise as democratic fighters but we have concluded that these are mercenary politicians who aim to grab everything left by the colonial repressive masters at the expense of poverty-stricken citizens who are scratching their heads for a single nutritious meal per day.
We need new and fresh leaders with the potential to promote Constitutionalism and Democracy ahead of dictatorship and authoritarianism. We need Alignment not Amendment, Mdc Alliance Namibia concluded but Mwonzora and cronies must be brought to order before 2023 elections.
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Tinashe Sambiri|The Constitutional Amendment bill has exposed Mr Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora’s hypocrisy, the MDC Alliance has said.
Mwonzora’s political formation is widely seen as a Zanu PF surrogate.
The MDC Alliance Namibia has pointed out that Mwonzora and his followers are “fake constitutionalists.”
See full statement:
Counterfeit Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora and cronies are Zanupf surrogates! Mdc Alliance Namibia condemns their “Yes Vote” to Constitutional Amendment No 2.
21 April 2021
How can genuine Constitutionalists vote against Constitutional Democracy? Rapacious and overzealous Mwonzora and his judicially-constructed MdcT’s political hypocrisy was absolutely unearthed when they teamed up with their fellow stomach politicians in Zanupf to reverse the gains of the 2013 hard-earned Constitution.
Mdc Alliance Namibia is not perplexed by these shenanigans from Zanupf morons and their enablers because it is now Mwonzora’s pay back time after getting full-time support to annihilate the People’s Agenda to fight corruption and gross abuse of human rights in Zimbabwe.
It is quite pathetic to see those who once claimed to be models of Social Democracy condemning Mdc Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa( Wamba Dia Wamba) of turning autocratic voting together with the oppressive regime to amend the unaligned constitution since 2013. The certified identity of Mdc-T was unravelled in the August House when they joined Zanupf dictators to vote in favour of Constitutional Amendment No 2 which gives Mr Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa the following powers to:1)Extend the terms of offices to judges who have reached 70 years, 2) Appoint or promote judges as he wishes without any public interviews, 3) Allow Mr Mnangagwa to appoint 7 unelected ministers. Mwonzora and cabal engaged in an illicit and toxic relationship with Zanupf thugocrats to reverse the revolutionary gains enshrined in the 2013 constitution.
Moreover, it very clear that the Zanupf-sponsored political outfit is now paying back to their masters and mistresses for the solidarity they are giving them in their futile attempt to decimate the People’s Party(Mdc Alliance) using the captured Courts, Parliament, Zec, Army, Police and all other securocrats. Right-minded citizens must not be shocked by the satanic move from Mwonzora because the same Zanupf party aided him with soldiers, police, state security apparatus and the courts to derail the freedom train. Mdc Alliance Namibia is committed and determined to fight against dictatorship. Mwonzora and cabal are just stomach politicians who have sold our Democratic project for 3pieces of silver.
Moreso, it was evidenced by the heavy presence of heavily armed police and soldiers at our Headquarters (Morgan Tsvangirai House) assisting the so-called Constitutionalists to illegally occupy our revolutionary house. Mdc T is now an extension of the Harare regime therefore our people must wake up and smell the coffee. Our MDC ALLIANCE MPs voted in favour of the people of Zimbabwe who were clear that all these provisions in the amendment no 2 were undemocratic and illegal since it is not part of what more than 4 million Zimbabwean nationals voted for. Mwonzora and cronies must stop blackmailing our late doyen of Constitutional Democracy Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai by entering into this anti-people agreement with Zanupf exploiting the legacy of our father of Constitutionalism.
Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia is cognisant to the fact that Mwonzora is doing all this evil to pay back for the Mdc Alliance money he robbed from Parliament through the Political Parties Finances Act. It is a public fact that MDC T is not Mdc Alliance which won elections and got rigged in 2018, therefore it is beyond nonsense to believe that its Constitutional for Mwonzora to grab the money that he squandered like Zanupf Satanists. The money belonged to the people who voted for complete change led by our powerful leader President Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia is certain that the betrayed citizenry in the National democratic revolution shall resist dictatorship in MDC T and support the genuine revolutionaries in the Mdc Alliance who are advocating for the alignment of the 2013 people-driven constitution not its unconstitutional amendment. As Mdc Alliance Namibia we are mobilising and recruiting the nationals in the diaspora to converge and confront these counterfeit or fake constitutionalists. Mwonzora and his politically -empty team are trying to disguise as democratic fighters but we have concluded that these are mercenary politicians who aim to grab everything left by the colonial repressive masters at the expense of poverty-stricken citizens who are scratching their heads for a single nutritious meal per day.
We need new and fresh leaders with the potential to promote Constitutionalism and Democracy ahead of dictatorship and authoritarianism. We need Alignment not Amendment, Mdc Alliance Namibia concluded but Mwonzora and cronies must be brought to order before 2023 elections.
AN Independence Day illegal party in Hwange ended in tragedy after a villager who grabbed a married woman to dance with her allegedly stabbed her protesting husband to death.
Matabeleland North police spokesperson Inspector Glory Banda said Advance Sibanda (33) of Makwandara Village under Chief Nekatambe died in the early hours of Monday, five hours after being stabbed by Bongani Dube (31) of Sialwindi in neighbouring Chief Dingani-Nelukoba’s area.
Dube is also admitted to St Patrick’s Hospital in Hwange under police guard with a deep stab wound on the thigh, although his attacker is not yet known.
Dube told police Sibanda stabbed him while some witnesses said he may have stabbed himself to appear as if he was attacked.
Police are investigating the allegations.
“I can confirm that we received a report of murder where a man died following an attack at a party,” said Insp Banda. “They were drinking beer at Makwandara grinding mill while celebrating Independence Day around 1am.
“Dube, who was dancing, grabbed Sibanda’s wife Ms Buhlebenkosi Ncube (18). Sibanda got angry and confronted Dube resulting in a misunderstanding.”
A fight ensued between Sibanda and Dube, who allegedly drew a knife from a pocket and stabbed Sibanda on the right armpit.
Insp Banda said people who were present saw Dube removing something from his pocket and stabbing Sibanda, although they did not clearly see the kind of weapon used.
Police later recovered a blood stained Okapi knife from Dube.
After being stabbed, Sibanda attempted to flee from the scene, but ran for about 36 metres and collapsed.
Police said some villagers carried Sibanda in a wheelbarrow to Makwandara Clinic at around 3am and on arrival they found Dube seated at the clinic with an injured thigh seeking medical assistance.
Sibanda died around 5am before he could be transferred to a hospital.
A report was made to the police who attended the scene and found members of the public still drinking beer and playing loud music at the murder scene, while there were traces of blood near the grinding mill.
Insp Banda said Mercy Rwafa, a member of the community who hosted the party, was arrested for holding an illegal party during lockdown and is detained at Dete Police Station.
He urged members of the public to desist from violence and violating lockdown rules.- The Herald
By A Correspondent-A Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje, has deferred a case in which the former president Robert mugabe’s dark horse, and former Public Works and National Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo is seeking the Supreme Court to interdict the lower court from hearing his cases.
Chombo approached the Supreme Court seeking a permanent stay of proceedings in the magistrates’ court, where he is facing several cases involving corruption, fraud and abuse of office.
He was arrested on allegations of wearing regalia emblazoned with President Mnangagwa’s initials, although they had been expelled from Zanu PF.
By A Correspondent-Knowledge Musona’s loan to KAS Eupen has come to an end following the conclusion of the Belgian Pro League regular season at the weekend.
The Warriors captain’s loan stint ended at the weekend after playing 76 minutes in their 3-2 win at Sporting Charleroi
The 30-year-old moved to RSC Anderlecht in 2018, but failed to get enough game time.
He then joined Eupen on a six-month loan deal in January last year.
Musona impressed and an agreement between Anderlecht and Eupen was reached for him to be loaned for another season.
Musona has reiterated on several occasions, his desire to stay at Eupen.
By James Gwati-The Harare Magistrates Court has today deferred indefinitely a case in which Ex-Zanu PF youth leader, Kudzanayi Chipanga, was arrested for wearing President Emmerson Mnangagwa inscribed T-Shirt.
Magistrate, Mr Stanford Mambanje, postponed Chipanga’s case pending its determination by the Supreme Court.
Chipanga is jointly charged with former Local government minister, Ignatius Chombo, Innocent Hamandishe and Mathew Mleya on the same allegations.
It is alleged that between December 8 and 13, 2017, the trio connived to wear party regalia emblazoned with President Mnangagwa’s initials, although they knew they were no longer members of Zanu PF. They took photographs of themselves while wearing the regalia, including hats embroidered with the Zanu PF flag, inscribed “ED” and “Kutonga Kwaro”.
By James Gwati-The clueless Zanu PF led government wants the laws of the country to be changed and allow its President Emmerson Mnangagwa to include Nelson Chamisa’s MDC-Alliance politicians in the cabinet.
This was suggested in parliament by the party’s MP for Buhera South, Joseph Chinotimba this week during a debate on the Constitution Amendment Bill.
“The President should nominate those he wants to work with. When we went to war, we did not say we want people from America to come and assist us in Zimbabwe. There is no need for us to move in tandem with what other countries are doing,” said Chinotimba in his contribution to the debate in Parliament.
“The President must nominate the Ministers that he wants to work with. If he chooses Job Sikhala to be the Minister, no one should stop him from doing so. This is a law that must be passed as we are moving towards the next elections.
By James Gwati- The detained MDC-Alliance youth leader and Harare West MP, Joana Mamombe, has suffered an acute stomach pain this evening while in her prison cell.
Reports coming from Prison sources said the young female lawmaker had been rushed to a local hospital where she is expected to get medical attention.
Zimeye.com will keep you posted on her condition and any other developments.
By James Gwati-Harare West lawmaker and MDC-Alliance youth leader, Joana Mamombe has been reportedly fallen ill inside her Chikurubi maximum prison cell.
Her party’s spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, twitted that Mamombe has been rushed to a Harare hospital by Prison authorities.
Zimeye.com is currently trying to communicate with the Prisons authorities to ascertain the gravity of Mamombe’s illness.
Below is Mahere’s tweet;
Please say a prayer for @JoanaMamombe. The prison formalities have been completed. She's now en route to a hospital in Harare via ambulance. She's suffering from acute stomach pain. We wish her a speedy recovery. She has gone through so much. #FreeJoanapic.twitter.com/iFr96EVsJZ
By James Gwati-Zanu PF MP for Buhera South Joseph Chinotimba yesterday worshipped President Emmerson Mnangagwa and pleaded his fellow party members to give him (Mnanagagwa)unlimited powers.
Chinotimba told Parliament during a debate on the Constitution Amendment Bill that “as we are moving towards the next elections” set for 2023, more power was needed in the hands of the President so he could set up a team he felt comfortable working with as opposed to Parliament having a say in who gets to work with the President.
By A Correspondent-Outspoken Zanu PF MP for Buhera South, Joseph Chinotimba, said his party should consider including opposition party members in government positions.
Chinotimba told parliament Tuesday that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s should be given those powers by the constitution even to appoint MDC-Alliance chairman, Job Sikhala in government.
“The President must nominate the Ministers that he wants to work with. If he chooses Job Sikhala to be the Minister, no one should stop him from doing so. This is a law that must be passed as we are moving towards the next elections.
The current state of the affairs is that a party that could have won an election only chooses its members to take up cabinet positions.
In 1998 the pro-democracy movement established the NCA as a vehicle to fight for a democratic constitution.
By 2013 the movement through the MDC was able to achieve one of the best constitutions in Africa which was overwhelmingly voted for by the majority of Zimbabweans.
It was a long road to get to that point as ZANU PF resisted that democratisation agenda at every turn.
It is ironic that Douglas Mwonzora was part of this process and at one time a contestant for the Chairman’s post for the NCA. He used the same uncouth methods that he is now associated with to try to oust the then Chairperson, Lovemore Madhuku.
The majority members of NCA who were also members of MDC then stopped him in his tracks.
People poured cold water on his unbridled ambition to be Chairperson or President of anything.
During the GNU Mwonzora was given a second chance and made co-chair of COPAC to co-lead the development of a democratic constitution.
At the core of our grievance then was an Imperial Presidency where every conceivable state power was vested in the President. People sought to end that and rightly so they did through the 2013 constitution.
Eight years later, Douglas is now on the forefront of reversing the People’s gains. Instead of clamouring for the alignment of laws to the constitution he has joined hands with the evil regime to take us back where we are coming from.
With the threat of recall he has commandeered MPs to vote for Constitutional Amendment number 1 and 2 in order to entrench the power of the President and recreate an Imperial Presidency.
He has now proved to all and sundry that he is neither a democrat nor a constitutionalist but an opportunist and traitor.
He is doing so to ingratiate himself to the dictatorship with the hope that he can be given some crumps from the feeding trough.
Those who are following him please be warned that Douglas does things for himself and himself alone.
Now it is time for all progressive forces to stop the horse and its rider from purging our revered Constitution.
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Tinashe Sambiri|The Constitutional Amendment bill has exposed Mr Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora’s hypocrisy, the MDC Alliance has said.
Mwonzora’s political formation is widely seen as a Zanu PF surrogate.
The MDC Alliance Namibia has pointed out that Mwonzora and his followers are “fake constitutionalists.”
See full statement:
Counterfeit Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora and cronies are Zanupf surrogates! Mdc Alliance Namibia condemns their “Yes Vote” to Constitutional Amendment No 2.
21 April 2021
How can genuine Constitutionalists vote against Constitutional Democracy? Rapacious and overzealous Mwonzora and his judicially-constructed MdcT’s political hypocrisy was absolutely unearthed when they teamed up with their fellow stomach politicians in Zanupf to reverse the gains of the 2013 hard-earned Constitution.
Mdc Alliance Namibia is not perplexed by these shenanigans from Zanupf morons and their enablers because it is now Mwonzora’s pay back time after getting full-time support to annihilate the People’s Agenda to fight corruption and gross abuse of human rights in Zimbabwe.
It is quite pathetic to see those who once claimed to be models of Social Democracy condemning Mdc Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa( Wamba Dia Wamba) of turning autocratic voting together with the oppressive regime to amend the unaligned constitution since 2013. The certified identity of Mdc-T was unravelled in the August House when they joined Zanupf dictators to vote in favour of Constitutional Amendment No 2 which gives Mr Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa the following powers to:1)Extend the terms of offices to judges who have reached 70 years, 2) Appoint or promote judges as he wishes without any public interviews, 3) Allow Mr Mnangagwa to appoint 7 unelected ministers. Mwonzora and cabal engaged in an illicit and toxic relationship with Zanupf thugocrats to reverse the revolutionary gains enshrined in the 2013 constitution.
Moreover, it very clear that the Zanupf-sponsored political outfit is now paying back to their masters and mistresses for the solidarity they are giving them in their futile attempt to decimate the People’s Party(Mdc Alliance) using the captured Courts, Parliament, Zec, Army, Police and all other securocrats. Right-minded citizens must not be shocked by the satanic move from Mwonzora because the same Zanupf party aided him with soldiers, police, state security apparatus and the courts to derail the freedom train. Mdc Alliance Namibia is committed and determined to fight against dictatorship. Mwonzora and cabal are just stomach politicians who have sold our Democratic project for 3pieces of silver.
Moreso, it was evidenced by the heavy presence of heavily armed police and soldiers at our Headquarters (Morgan Tsvangirai House) assisting the so-called Constitutionalists to illegally occupy our revolutionary house. Mdc T is now an extension of the Harare regime therefore our people must wake up and smell the coffee. Our MDC ALLIANCE MPs voted in favour of the people of Zimbabwe who were clear that all these provisions in the amendment no 2 were undemocratic and illegal since it is not part of what more than 4 million Zimbabwean nationals voted for. Mwonzora and cronies must stop blackmailing our late doyen of Constitutional Democracy Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai by entering into this anti-people agreement with Zanupf exploiting the legacy of our father of Constitutionalism.
Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia is cognisant to the fact that Mwonzora is doing all this evil to pay back for the Mdc Alliance money he robbed from Parliament through the Political Parties Finances Act. It is a public fact that MDC T is not Mdc Alliance which won elections and got rigged in 2018, therefore it is beyond nonsense to believe that its Constitutional for Mwonzora to grab the money that he squandered like Zanupf Satanists. The money belonged to the people who voted for complete change led by our powerful leader President Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia is certain that the betrayed citizenry in the National democratic revolution shall resist dictatorship in MDC T and support the genuine revolutionaries in the Mdc Alliance who are advocating for the alignment of the 2013 people-driven constitution not its unconstitutional amendment. As Mdc Alliance Namibia we are mobilising and recruiting the nationals in the diaspora to converge and confront these counterfeit or fake constitutionalists. Mwonzora and his politically -empty team are trying to disguise as democratic fighters but we have concluded that these are mercenary politicians who aim to grab everything left by the colonial repressive masters at the expense of poverty-stricken citizens who are scratching their heads for a single nutritious meal per day.
We need new and fresh leaders with the potential to promote Constitutionalism and Democracy ahead of dictatorship and authoritarianism. We need Alignment not Amendment, Mdc Alliance Namibia concluded but Mwonzora and cronies must be brought to order before 2023 elections.
Tinashe Sambiri|Fearless cleric, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has challenged Zanu PF bigwigs- Including Emmerson Mnangagwa – to embrace the truth, confess and repent so that the nation can move forward.
Bishop Magaya reprimanded Mr Mnangagwa’s administration for protecting corrupt individuals.
He also denounced selective application of justice and t harassment of perceived government opponents in the country.
Below is Bishop Magaya’s argument:
REFLECTIONS ON 41 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE : THE CHURCHES PERSPECTIVE
It would not be incorrect to state that the past 41 years of our independence have more of heart rending experiences than joyous moments.
Looking back through memory lane, it becomes abundantly clear that there are indelible scars born out of the state induced inflictions upon the citizenry.
Remember the Matabeleland massacres stretching from 1983 to 1987. Remember a bloody violence season from late 1988 to 1990 following Tekeres formation of Zimbabwe Unity Movement( ZUM ).
Remember the economic structural adjustment program ( ESAP ) in the early 90s that left many poorer. Remember the land seizures with atrocities associated with them. Remember the two decades of state sponsored killings, abductions, maiming’s , destruction of homes and peoples livelihoods since the formation of the MDC in 1999.
The cycle within which we are currently ,is characterized by continued protection of the corrupt, deceitfulness of the highest order, continued abductions, arbitrary arrests, selective application of the law and reversal of the gains of the democratic struggle through unreasonable and hatred driven recalls of parliamentarians and councillors under the guise of the law.
Resulting from this has been hurts, mistrust, a very divided nation, glaring absence of commonly shared values and a national unifying vision among many such ills.
The church’s position is that going forward, we can only return to normalcy if we embrace the truth. The bible says in John 8 vs 32, ” You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. There is no amount of gimmick and propaganda that can replace the truth.
Knowing this ,the Psalmist puts forward in chapter 85 vs 10 four personified concepts as central to the healing of any nation. He writes, “Truth and mercy will meet together. Justice and Peace will kiss”. A careful examination of the syntax presented here by this amazing prophetic poet shows that : first , truth telling is the starting point.
What is it that has happened before. Who has killed who ? Who was behind the Matabeleland massacres, 2008 post harmonized elections , first of August shootings etc. ? What is the foundation of true nationhood? Second, truth alone will not work.
After truth is told and confession made, mercy ensues. When there is mercy, there is forgiveness. True forgiveness happens easily when there is contrition of heart and brokenness of spirit.
Third, justice not just retributive one but restorative justice will move the nation forward. Justice is against selective application of the law.
Justice must not just be done but must be seen to be done. Forth, when justice happens, peace will be a natural outflow. Peace will kiss justice.
In conclusion , I want to make reference to a peace building scholar by the name Lederach. He talks about reconciliation as having three paradoxes hat it has to deal with.
He says , “One reconciliation promotes an encounter between the opening of an expression of a painful past on the one hand, and the search for the articulation of a long term interdependent future, on the other. Two, reconciliation provides a place for truth and mercy to meet where concerns for exposing what has happened and for letting go in favor of renewed relationships are validated and embraced.
Three, reconciliation should give time and space for both justice and peace”.
The Zimbabwean political leadership has the responsibility to make things right. The church should deeply reflect on thee things and facilitate healing of the nation through the aforesaid process. God save Zimbabwe.
Tinashe Sambiri|Fearless cleric, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has challenged Zanu PF bigwigs- Including Emmerson Mnangagwa – to embrace the truth, confess and repent so that the nation can move forward.
Bishop Magaya reprimanded Mr Mnangagwa’s administration for protecting corrupt individuals.
He also denounced selective application of justice and t harassment of perceived government opponents in the country.
Below is Bishop Magaya’s argument:
REFLECTIONS ON 41 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE : THE CHURCHES PERSPECTIVE
It would not be incorrect to state that the past 41 years of our independence have more of heart rending experiences than joyous moments.
Looking back through memory lane, it becomes abundantly clear that there are indelible scars born out of the state induced inflictions upon the citizenry.
Remember the Matabeleland massacres stretching from 1983 to 1987. Remember a bloody violence season from late 1988 to 1990 following Tekeres formation of Zimbabwe Unity Movement( ZUM ).
Remember the economic structural adjustment program ( ESAP ) in the early 90s that left many poorer. Remember the land seizures with atrocities associated with them. Remember the two decades of state sponsored killings, abductions, maiming’s , destruction of homes and peoples livelihoods since the formation of the MDC in 1999.
The cycle within which we are currently ,is characterized by continued protection of the corrupt, deceitfulness of the highest order, continued abductions, arbitrary arrests, selective application of the law and reversal of the gains of the democratic struggle through unreasonable and hatred driven recalls of parliamentarians and councillors under the guise of the law.
Resulting from this has been hurts, mistrust, a very divided nation, glaring absence of commonly shared values and a national unifying vision among many such ills.
The church’s position is that going forward, we can only return to normalcy if we embrace the truth. The bible says in John 8 vs 32, ” You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. There is no amount of gimmick and propaganda that can replace the truth.
Knowing this ,the Psalmist puts forward in chapter 85 vs 10 four personified concepts as central to the healing of any nation. He writes, “Truth and mercy will meet together. Justice and Peace will kiss”. A careful examination of the syntax presented here by this amazing prophetic poet shows that : first , truth telling is the starting point.
What is it that has happened before. Who has killed who ? Who was behind the Matabeleland massacres, 2008 post harmonized elections , first of August shootings etc. ? What is the foundation of true nationhood? Second, truth alone will not work.
After truth is told and confession made, mercy ensues. When there is mercy, there is forgiveness. True forgiveness happens easily when there is contrition of heart and brokenness of spirit.
Third, justice not just retributive one but restorative justice will move the nation forward. Justice is against selective application of the law.
Justice must not just be done but must be seen to be done. Forth, when justice happens, peace will be a natural outflow. Peace will kiss justice.
In conclusion , I want to make reference to a peace building scholar by the name Lederach. He talks about reconciliation as having three paradoxes hat it has to deal with.
He says , “One reconciliation promotes an encounter between the opening of an expression of a painful past on the one hand, and the search for the articulation of a long term interdependent future, on the other. Two, reconciliation provides a place for truth and mercy to meet where concerns for exposing what has happened and for letting go in favor of renewed relationships are validated and embraced.
Three, reconciliation should give time and space for both justice and peace”.
The Zimbabwean political leadership has the responsibility to make things right. The church should deeply reflect on thee things and facilitate healing of the nation through the aforesaid process. God save Zimbabwe.
FIFA has conducted the draws for both men and women football at the rescheduled 2020 Olympics.
Sixteen men’s teams and twelve women’s teams have been drawn into seven groups.
Africa is represented by three sides in the men’s competition namely South Africa, Egypt and Ivory Coast while Zambia is in the women’s tournament.
Both the men’s and women’s Olympic Football Tournaments will be played in a group stage, followed by quarter-finals, semi-finals and bronze medal and gold medal matches.
The Olympics will start on 23 July and ends on 8 August in Tokyo.
Draw results:
Men’s Olympic Football Tournament
Group A: Japan, South Africa, Mexico, France.
Group B: New Zealand, Korea Republic, Honduras, Romania.
Group C: Egypt, Spain, Argentina, Australia.
Group D: Brazil, Germany, Côte d’Ivoire, Saudi Arabia.
Women’s Olympic Football Tournament
Group E: Japan, Canada, Great Britain, Chile.
Group F: China PR, Brazil, Zambia, Netherlands.
Group G: Sweden, USA, Australia, New Zealand.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Golden Arrows have reportedly moved to secure the future of Knox Mutizwa after initiating discussions for a new contract.
The Zimbabwean’s current deal is set to expire at the end of this campaign.
And according to Soccer Laduma, Arrows want to avoid losing key players ahead of the new season and have started efforts to retain some of them, including the 27-year old.
However, it remains unclear if Mutizwa will accept the new contract offer following reports that he is wanted elsewhere in the South African Premier Soccer League.
The striker is said to be among the shortlisted players wanted by Kaizer Chiefs when their transfer ban comes to an end in August.
Meanwhile, fellow countryman Divine Lunga has also been linked with an exit with Mamelodi Sundowns reportedly interested in snapping him up in the next transfer window.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Stade de Reims defender Wout Faes has lauded teammate Marshall Munetsi’s versatility, describing the Zimbabwe international as a magnificent player.
Munetsi’s versatility allows him to play in holding midfield as well as in central defence, two positions the Mabvuku-bred star is very comfortable in.
In the last two league games he has played well in defence, a development hailed by Faes.
“For a group he is a magnificent player! He has versatility and is able to adjust in positions the coaches require him to fit in and above all, he does it well, ” said the Belgian ahead of Reims’ Ligue 1 clash with Marseille.- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
The European Super League has revealed the way forward after it was forced to suspend its plans for a new league.
Twelve clubs had pledged to join the controversial £4.6 billion competition but it suffered a still birth after several teams pulled out due to huge backlash from their fans and worldwide condemnation, including politicians.
England had six sides in the proposed tournament namely Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and Arsenal while the remaining six places were made up of three teams from Spain – Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona and Italian trio Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan.
A crisis meeting was called on Tuesday evening and a decision was made to suspended the project, just 48 hours after it had been announced.
A statement released after the meeting reveals the core members of the Super League are now proposing a new European competition.
“The European Super League is convinced that the current status quo of European football needs to change,” read Tuesday’s statement.
“We are proposing a new European competition because the existing system does not work. Our proposal is aimed at allowing the sport to evolve while generating resources and stability for the full football pyramid, including helping to overcome the financial difficulties experienced by the entire football community as a result of the pandemic.
“It would also provide materially enhanced solidarity payments to all football stakeholders.”- Soccer 24 Zimbabwe
Tinashe Sambiri|Scores joined the MDC Alliance during the party’s rural mobilization initiative in Mhondoro- Mubaira, Mashonaland West Province at the weekend.
Mhondoro- Mubaira is traditionally regarded as a no go area for perceived Zanu PF opponents.
The MDC Alliance team was led by Secretary General Hon Charlton Hwende, Party Building Organising Secretary Hon Amos Chibaya and Secretary for Rural Strategy and Mobilization Hon Happymore “Bvondo” Chidziva.
“MDC Alliance People’s Secretary General Hon Chalton Hwende MDC Secretary General, Organising and Party building Secretary Hon Amos Chibaya, Secretary for Rural Strategy and Mobilisation Hon Happymore Chidziva, the Secretary for Social Welfare and Mash West Provincial Leadership was in Mhondoro Mubaira over the weekend visiting victims of political violence, orphans and Party structures. #CCC
Our Rural Mobilisation Dept led by Hon #HappymoreChidziva organised a two day visit to Mhondoro-Mubaira where the Secretary General Hon Chalton Hwende other party leaders visited child-headed families, the elderly, survivors of violence and opinion leaders, interfaced with local structures, youth recruited new members,” MDC Alliance said in a statement.
Tinashe Sambiri|Fearless cleric, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has challenged Zanu PF bigwigs- Including Emmerson Mnangagwa – to embrace the truth, confess and repent so that the nation can move forward.
Bishop Magaya reprimanded Mr Mnangagwa’s administration for protecting corrupt individuals.
He also denounced selective application of justice and t harassment of perceived government opponents in the country.
Below is Bishop Magaya’s argument:
REFLECTIONS ON 41 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE : THE CHURCHES PERSPECTIVE
It would not be incorrect to state that the past 41 years of our independence have more of heart rending experiences than joyous moments.
Looking back through memory lane, it becomes abundantly clear that there are indelible scars born out of the state induced inflictions upon the citizenry.
Remember the Matabeleland massacres stretching from 1983 to 1987. Remember a bloody violence season from late 1988 to 1990 following Tekeres formation of Zimbabwe Unity Movement( ZUM ).
Remember the economic structural adjustment program ( ESAP ) in the early 90s that left many poorer. Remember the land seizures with atrocities associated with them. Remember the two decades of state sponsored killings, abductions, maiming’s , destruction of homes and peoples livelihoods since the formation of the MDC in 1999.
The cycle within which we are currently ,is characterized by continued protection of the corrupt, deceitfulness of the highest order, continued abductions, arbitrary arrests, selective application of the law and reversal of the gains of the democratic struggle through unreasonable and hatred driven recalls of parliamentarians and councillors under the guise of the law.
Resulting from this has been hurts, mistrust, a very divided nation, glaring absence of commonly shared values and a national unifying vision among many such ills.
The church’s position is that going forward, we can only return to normalcy if we embrace the truth. The bible says in John 8 vs 32, ” You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. There is no amount of gimmick and propaganda that can replace the truth.
Knowing this ,the Psalmist puts forward in chapter 85 vs 10 four personified concepts as central to the healing of any nation. He writes, “Truth and mercy will meet together. Justice and Peace will kiss”. A careful examination of the syntax presented here by this amazing prophetic poet shows that : first , truth telling is the starting point.
What is it that has happened before. Who has killed who ? Who was behind the Matabeleland massacres, 2008 post harmonized elections , first of August shootings etc. ? What is the foundation of true nationhood? Second, truth alone will not work.
After truth is told and confession made, mercy ensues. When there is mercy, there is forgiveness. True forgiveness happens easily when there is contrition of heart and brokenness of spirit.
Third, justice not just retributive one but restorative justice will move the nation forward. Justice is against selective application of the law.
Justice must not just be done but must be seen to be done. Forth, when justice happens, peace will be a natural outflow. Peace will kiss justice.
In conclusion , I want to make reference to a peace building scholar by the name Lederach. He talks about reconciliation as having three paradoxes hat it has to deal with.
He says , “One reconciliation promotes an encounter between the opening of an expression of a painful past on the one hand, and the search for the articulation of a long term interdependent future, on the other. Two, reconciliation provides a place for truth and mercy to meet where concerns for exposing what has happened and for letting go in favor of renewed relationships are validated and embraced.
Three, reconciliation should give time and space for both justice and peace”.
The Zimbabwean political leadership has the responsibility to make things right. The church should deeply reflect on thee things and facilitate healing of the nation through the aforesaid process. God save Zimbabwe.
No true constitutionalist will ever back dictatorial amendment to the constitution.
Principle is King.Hypocrisy is terrible,betrayal is worse..I detest both. Those who truly believe in constitutionalism,thank you for your principled voting in e National Assembly.Pple shall govern- Advocate Nelson Chamisa
No true constitutionalist will ever back dictatorial amendment to the constitution.Principle is King.Hypocrisy is terrible,betrayal is worse..I detest both. Those who truly believe in constitutionalism,thank you for your principled voting in e National Assembly.Pple shall govern!
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Tinashe Sambiri|The Constitutional Amendment bill has exposed Mr Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora’s hypocrisy, the MDC Alliance has said.
Mwonzora’s political formation is widely seen as a Zanu PF surrogate.
The MDC Alliance Namibia has pointed out that Mwonzora and his followers are “fake constitutionalists.”
See full statement:
Counterfeit Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora and cronies are Zanupf surrogates! Mdc Alliance Namibia condemns their “Yes Vote” to Constitutional Amendment No 2.
21 April 2021
How can genuine Constitutionalists vote against Constitutional Democracy? Rapacious and overzealous Mwonzora and his judicially-constructed MdcT’s political hypocrisy was absolutely unearthed when they teamed up with their fellow stomach politicians in Zanupf to reverse the gains of the 2013 hard-earned Constitution.
Mdc Alliance Namibia is not perplexed by these shenanigans from Zanupf morons and their enablers because it is now Mwonzora’s pay back time after getting full-time support to annihilate the People’s Agenda to fight corruption and gross abuse of human rights in Zimbabwe.
It is quite pathetic to see those who once claimed to be models of Social Democracy condemning Mdc Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa( Wamba Dia Wamba) of turning autocratic voting together with the oppressive regime to amend the unaligned constitution since 2013. The certified identity of Mdc-T was unravelled in the August House when they joined Zanupf dictators to vote in favour of Constitutional Amendment No 2 which gives Mr Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa the following powers to:1)Extend the terms of offices to judges who have reached 70 years, 2) Appoint or promote judges as he wishes without any public interviews, 3) Allow Mr Mnangagwa to appoint 7 unelected ministers. Mwonzora and cabal engaged in an illicit and toxic relationship with Zanupf thugocrats to reverse the revolutionary gains enshrined in the 2013 constitution.
Moreover, it very clear that the Zanupf-sponsored political outfit is now paying back to their masters and mistresses for the solidarity they are giving them in their futile attempt to decimate the People’s Party(Mdc Alliance) using the captured Courts, Parliament, Zec, Army, Police and all other securocrats. Right-minded citizens must not be shocked by the satanic move from Mwonzora because the same Zanupf party aided him with soldiers, police, state security apparatus and the courts to derail the freedom train. Mdc Alliance Namibia is committed and determined to fight against dictatorship. Mwonzora and cabal are just stomach politicians who have sold our Democratic project for 3pieces of silver.
Moreso, it was evidenced by the heavy presence of heavily armed police and soldiers at our Headquarters (Morgan Tsvangirai House) assisting the so-called Constitutionalists to illegally occupy our revolutionary house. Mdc T is now an extension of the Harare regime therefore our people must wake up and smell the coffee. Our MDC ALLIANCE MPs voted in favour of the people of Zimbabwe who were clear that all these provisions in the amendment no 2 were undemocratic and illegal since it is not part of what more than 4 million Zimbabwean nationals voted for. Mwonzora and cronies must stop blackmailing our late doyen of Constitutional Democracy Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai by entering into this anti-people agreement with Zanupf exploiting the legacy of our father of Constitutionalism.
Furthermore, Mdc Alliance Namibia is cognisant to the fact that Mwonzora is doing all this evil to pay back for the Mdc Alliance money he robbed from Parliament through the Political Parties Finances Act. It is a public fact that MDC T is not Mdc Alliance which won elections and got rigged in 2018, therefore it is beyond nonsense to believe that its Constitutional for Mwonzora to grab the money that he squandered like Zanupf Satanists. The money belonged to the people who voted for complete change led by our powerful leader President Advocate Nelson Chamisa.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia is certain that the betrayed citizenry in the National democratic revolution shall resist dictatorship in MDC T and support the genuine revolutionaries in the Mdc Alliance who are advocating for the alignment of the 2013 people-driven constitution not its unconstitutional amendment. As Mdc Alliance Namibia we are mobilising and recruiting the nationals in the diaspora to converge and confront these counterfeit or fake constitutionalists. Mwonzora and his politically -empty team are trying to disguise as democratic fighters but we have concluded that these are mercenary politicians who aim to grab everything left by the colonial repressive masters at the expense of poverty-stricken citizens who are scratching their heads for a single nutritious meal per day.
We need new and fresh leaders with the potential to promote Constitutionalism and Democracy ahead of dictatorship and authoritarianism. We need Alignment not Amendment, Mdc Alliance Namibia concluded but Mwonzora and cronies must be brought to order before 2023 elections.
By A Correspondent| As government goes ahead to push through constitutional amendments to turn Emmerson Mnangagwa into a monster leader with powers far greater than President Robert Mugabe’s, just what type of a country is this lovely nation about to turn into? Hard Video V11s show the ZANU PF leader saying he believes that all election winners are mere corpses, literally.
In a chilling warning during the same function where he said if he were God, he would deprive all MDC supporters of oxygen, Mnangagwa told a Masvingo gathering in April 2015, democracy is only found among corpses.
Emmerson Mnangagwa
He spoke in the Shona vernacular saying, “to all of us here I always ask where are the majority, among the living or among the corpses?
“They are among the dead.
“Democracy says we must go to the majority. That’s why there is death on earth.
“It’s democracy, those who win elections are the majority.”
"All of us here I always ask where are the majority, among the living or among the corpses? They are among the dead. Democracy says we must go to the majority. That's why there is death on earth. It's democracy, those who win elections are the majority" – Mnangagwa. @TeamZim3pic.twitter.com/87CIBvLGZ3
Tinashe Sambiri|Fearless cleric, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has challenged Zanu PF bigwigs- Including Emmerson Mnangagwa – to embrace the truth, confess and repent so that the nation can move forward.
Bishop Magaya reprimanded Mr Mnangagwa’s administration for protecting corrupt individuals.
He also denounced selective application of justice and t harassment of perceived government opponents in the country.
Below is Bishop Magaya’s argument:
REFLECTIONS ON 41 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE : THE CHURCHES PERSPECTIVE
It would not be incorrect to state that the past 41 years of our independence have more of heart rending experiences than joyous moments.
Looking back through memory lane, it becomes abundantly clear that there are indelible scars born out of the state induced inflictions upon the citizenry.
Remember the Matabeleland massacres stretching from 1983 to 1987. Remember a bloody violence season from late 1988 to 1990 following Tekeres formation of Zimbabwe Unity Movement( ZUM ).
Remember the economic structural adjustment program ( ESAP ) in the early 90s that left many poorer. Remember the land seizures with atrocities associated with them. Remember the two decades of state sponsored killings, abductions, maiming’s , destruction of homes and peoples livelihoods since the formation of the MDC in 1999.
The cycle within which we are currently ,is characterized by continued protection of the corrupt, deceitfulness of the highest order, continued abductions, arbitrary arrests, selective application of the law and reversal of the gains of the democratic struggle through unreasonable and hatred driven recalls of parliamentarians and councillors under the guise of the law.
Resulting from this has been hurts, mistrust, a very divided nation, glaring absence of commonly shared values and a national unifying vision among many such ills.
The church’s position is that going forward, we can only return to normalcy if we embrace the truth. The bible says in John 8 vs 32, ” You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. There is no amount of gimmick and propaganda that can replace the truth.
Knowing this ,the Psalmist puts forward in chapter 85 vs 10 four personified concepts as central to the healing of any nation. He writes, “Truth and mercy will meet together. Justice and Peace will kiss”. A careful examination of the syntax presented here by this amazing prophetic poet shows that : first , truth telling is the starting point.
What is it that has happened before. Who has killed who ? Who was behind the Matabeleland massacres, 2008 post harmonized elections , first of August shootings etc. ? What is the foundation of true nationhood? Second, truth alone will not work.
After truth is told and confession made, mercy ensues. When there is mercy, there is forgiveness. True forgiveness happens easily when there is contrition of heart and brokenness of spirit.
Third, justice not just retributive one but restorative justice will move the nation forward. Justice is against selective application of the law.
Justice must not just be done but must be seen to be done. Forth, when justice happens, peace will be a natural outflow. Peace will kiss justice.
In conclusion , I want to make reference to a peace building scholar by the name Lederach. He talks about reconciliation as having three paradoxes hat it has to deal with.
He says , “One reconciliation promotes an encounter between the opening of an expression of a painful past on the one hand, and the search for the articulation of a long term interdependent future, on the other. Two, reconciliation provides a place for truth and mercy to meet where concerns for exposing what has happened and for letting go in favor of renewed relationships are validated and embraced.
Three, reconciliation should give time and space for both justice and peace”.
The Zimbabwean political leadership has the responsibility to make things right. The church should deeply reflect on thee things and facilitate healing of the nation through the aforesaid process. God save Zimbabwe.
Sekuru ava vanonzi vakati kana njuzu achinge avada,vakazvipira havo kutengesa mombe dzose dzakauya pamaroora evana vavo,kunonzi mukuru ava vaichemachema nema video aNjuzu avakaona
The jury sent an unmistakable message today that George Floyd’s death was unnecessary and criminal, that every individual accused or suspected of a crime has a right to his day in court and should not be slaughtered on a public sidewalk and that a nation that purports to be a beacon of law, justice and equality is better than what we saw in that video. We are pleased that the jury convicted Chauvin on all three charges: second-degree unintentional murder and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. It sends a strong message. While we are delighted by the jury’s verdict, we are mindful that there’s still a lot of work ahead of us. Our criminal justice system remains deeply flawed. Black people disproportionately remain victims of police brutality and are more likely to be pulled over or cited for negligible or phantom traffic violations. Let us not relent in our efforts to press our local, state and federal elected officials for police reform, particularly as it relates to qualified immunity, bias training, de-escalation training and uniform hiring standards. My prayer is that this will ignite a safer society where justice is equally allocated to absolutely everyone irrespective of socio-economics, race, religion or gender. Thank you to the many officers who do not stoop to such atrocities and honestly work toward protecting us every day.
By A Correspondent- A woman from Gokwe North District was seen playing “nhodo“, a traditional game using gold ore resulting in a gold rush in the area about two weeks ago.
More than 8 000 people from all walks of life have since descended on the Tongogara community to illegally extract the mineral.
Law enforcement agencies have been deployed to deal with crime, and clamp down on disregard of COVID-19 regulations and serious land degradation and pollution in the area.
Addressing a meeting comprising traditional leaders, legislators and government officials at Gokwe Nembudziya growth point on Monday to discuss the new discovery and the rush by illegal miners, Gokwe North District development coordinator, Martin Musakanda said:
It is confirmed that a woman picked up a piece of gold ore from the place in question.The gold ore was then discovered by knowledgeable community members after noticing that the woman was using the ore to play a traditional game called nhodo.
She eventually led the community to the place, which subsequently led to a massive movement of people from all walks of life to the place.
Musakanda urged the government to deal with the social vices that have sprouted in the area, which is located about 50 kilometres from the Nembudziya growth point.
He said:
We recommended that the illegal activities be stopped forthwith and allow formal processes to take place, that the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development takes the lead, holders of prospecting licences register with the local rural district council, security areas to take charge and that a community share ownership be mooted.
In line with Government’s devolution agenda, we recommended that a community share ownership scheme be created.
Speaking at the same occasion, Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena expressed concern that traditional leaders were stopped by some police officers from carrying out traditional rituals at the site.
The European Super League (ESL) was collapsing on Tuesday night after all six English clubs announced their intentions to withdraw from the competition, less than 48 hours after it was launched.
The dramatic turn of events came after the six clubs, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur faced a furious backlash from fans and the British government.
Chelsea was the first to go followed by Manchester City and then, shortly before 11 pm, by Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham.
Manchester United’s executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward, a key architect of the planned breakaway, also resigned after his position became untenable.
Meanwhile, in the early hours on Wednesday, the Super League vowed to “reshape the project”, insisting it could still go ahead. ESL said in a statement:
Despite the announced departure of the English clubs, forced to take such decisions due to the pressure on them, we are convinced our proposal is fully aligned with European law and regulations.
Given the current circumstances, we shall reconsider the most appropriate steps to reshape the project, always having in mind our goals of offering fans the best experience possible while enhancing solidarity payments for the entire football community.
As it stands, Italian clubs AC Milan, Internazionale and Juventus as well as the Spanish trio Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid and Barcelona are the only teams left in the competition.-TheGuardian
By A Correspondent- South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the violence that led to the death of President Idriss Déby of Chad on Tuesday.
A Chadian army spokesperson announced on Tuesday that Deby succumbed to injuries that he sustained over the weekend while fighting insurgents in the north of the country.
A statement issued by the Presidency of South Africa read:
President Ramaphosa has, on behalf of the government and people of South Africa, extended his deepest condolences to the fallen President’s family as well as the government and people of Chad.
President Ramaphosa has furthermore expressed the concern of the South African government at developments in the Republic of Chad involving armed groups.
President Ramaphosa says an immediate cessation of violence is necessary to bring peace and stability to the Republic of Chad as part of ending conflict on the continent.
In a statement read out on state television yesterday, Chadian army spokesman General Azem Bermandoa Agouna said Deby, 68, “has just breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield” over the weekend.
General Mahamat Kaka, the son of the deceased Chadian leader, was named interim head of state pending fresh elections that will be held after 18 months.
The news of Deby’s death came after provisional election results released on Monday showed that Deby had won a sixth term. He had been in power since 1990 following an armed rebellion.
Deby won 79.3 per cent of the vote in the 11 April presidential election, the results showed.
He had postponed his victory speech to supporters and instead went to visit Chadian soldiers on the frontlines.
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ByA Correspondent- A Chinese company, Beifa Investments (Pvt) Ltd, which recently clashed with villagers in Dinde, Hwange over its coal exploration activities in the area, has lodged a complaint with the ruling ZANU PF party against a local official, Never Tshuma.
In a letter addressed to the ZANU PF Hwange District Coordinating Committee and dated 15 April 2021, Beifa Investments project manager, Zhou Zheng Qiao, who gave the company’s address as 19 Breach Road, Borrowdale, Harare, appealed to the ruling party to intervene for an amicable resolution of the conflict.
Zhou accused Tshuma, the ZANU PF Dinde Chairman, of unlawfully disrupting the implementation of the coal exploration project in the area.
Never Tshuma (45), of Katambe Village, under Chief Nekatambe, also chairs the Dinde Development Association has since been arrested and brought before a magistrate for allegedly inciting fellow villagers to disrupt Beifa Investments’ activities.
Tshuma was, however, granted $10 000 bail by a Hwange court on Saturday. He will be back in court on 17 May for routine remand.
Below is Zhou’s letter to ZANU PF:
Attention: Chairman
15 April 2021
Dear Sir RE: COMPLAINT AGAINST ZANU PF HWANGE
We write to complain against the ZANU PF Hwange Central Constituency for sending the shadow MP to unlawfully disrupt the implementation of the coal exploration project in Dinde.
The shadow MP introduced himself as Reeds Dube and he was in the company of Never Chuma who introduced himself as ZANU PF Dinde chairman.
They came driving the ZANU PF Hwange Central Constituency vehicle (Reg Number: AEN 7737). He said he was sent by the speaker of Parliament who is also sending the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee to Dinde in the near future.
The two ZANU PF officials incited the community members to resist our site mobilisation.
He told the people to beat up the investors and burn the tent. The ZRP officers were there and they warned them against such unlawful activities.
We are surprised that while the government granted us the Special grant to carry out the project, the same ruling party sends its officials to resist its implementation.
We are a law-abiding company and we wish to lawfully implement the project without disturbing the host communities.
The project is a project of national importance as it will feed into our proposed 270 Mega Watts Power Plant which is one-third of the Hwange installed capacity.
The project will go a long way in alleviating the power crisis obtaining in the country.
We appeal to your office to address these issues amicably.
Your consideration of our complaint is greatly appreciated.
By A Correspondent- Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has resolved to build residential flats for its employees as part of its new housing policy. The issue was revealed in recent council minutes which indicated that 77 council staff members were on the waiting list for council accommodation.
The accommodation policy will come at a time when council is failing to meet the demand for houses, with the housing backlog now exceeding 100 000.
“The total of all flats was 56. Furthermore, there had been an increase of demand for the council accommodation by staff due to high rentals that were even pegged in the elusive US dollar. The current waiting list stood at 77 as at November 30, 2020,” the council report said.
“Under the proposed flats policy, the criteria for council employees to be considered for staff accommodation include, among others, that one has to be registered in the flats waiting list, essential category or those who work odd hours, critical areas shortage staff, staff affected by peculiar circumstances like divorce, those who did not own houses in the city, staff who had been in council for not less than 10 years …”
The local authority owns a number of residential flats at Parthhurst, Tregene, Howard and Coles courts, among others.
In July 2006, council resolved to turn the residential flats into council staff accommodation, with non-council workers given up to January 2007 to vacate the premises.
However, council documents show that a number of non-council employees are still residing at the premises at a time when the local authority is facing a high demand for staff accommodation.
Reports show that less than 30 000 housing stands have been availed in the past decade despite a growing number of people in need of houses.
Council once sought a partnership deal with the Local Government ministry for the construction of residential flats at the sprawling Cowdray Park and Emganwini high-density suburbs to ease the city’s housing backlog.
The BCC has also lifted the suspension on the sale of housing stands on pre-sell to prevent desperate home-seekers setting up illegal settlements.
Under the model, beneficiaries provide necessary funds for servicing of their stands after entering into a payment plan with the council in which an initial deposit of 25% to 35% is paid.
The balance is paid on final completion of servicing of the stands.-newsday
The uncivil dance of tribalism is arguably the most wobbly and unentertaining spectacle at our embassies. This primitive practice of ethnicity is a debilitating epidemic currently eating into the intestines and lungs of the social fabric of Zimbabwe in the broader context. It maliciously strangulates the little remaining social cohesion.
Alarmingly, the scourge has grown into a monstrous pandemic with its wings now spread globally through, among other ills, the systematic but shamelessly selective deployment of Shona-speaking people in government-jobs in all ministries locally, and internationally as ambassadors and consul generals.
Presumably, the same applies to junior staff on other assignments at these embassies as undeniably exposed by the recent protest march by the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) in Pretoria, South Africa. These wizardly Stone Age deployments unequivocally qualify the teapot-shaped village as an outright ethnic clay-pot that should be rejected with the disdain it deserves by even the aroma-starved food it cooks.
Lucifer’s dancing stage The institutionalization of tribalism by the Zimbabwe government and its like-minded primitive individuals since the attainment of independence from Britain in 1980, has catastrophically strained social and tribal relations between the people of Mashonaland and Matabeleland with the former having become the self-baked superior tribe over the latter.
In levels far worse than during the colonial era, the people of Matabeleland find themselves economically, politically, culturally and socially disempowered by the predominantly Shona government which has overtly portrayed itself as an advocate for Shona interests and a symbol of the recolonization of Matabeleland by some black ethnic master.
Unbelievably, Lucifer’s dancing stage is sadly set. All areas of existence in Matabeleland are now under the unwelcome control of the people from Mashonaland. Government departments are led and staffed by them, be it registry, education, land affairs, health or any other applicable sector. Interestingly and inalterably, the history of oppression and deprivation shows that when faced with the monster of exploitation, people stand up. The peacetime violence and Lucifer’s clumsy dance on the Matabeleland stage is further strangling and amputating social cohesion, and should be castrated as a matter of urgency.
The sad dance of cousins! Like the situation in all the local ministries and various aspects of life and existence in Matabeleland, the Zimbabwe diplomatic missions are unaccountably Shona-dominated, thereby shamelessly exposing the thread-bare disenfranchisement of the people of Matabeleland.
Diplomatic missions are the microcosm of the larger world of each country and depict what happens in the country concerned. Indeed, the Zimbabwe diplomatic missions unfailingly paint the sorry and desolate picture of the everyday political, social and economic exclusion of Matabeleland in all aspects of existence. It is the case of some form of boring dance by boney and melancholic cousins.
One wonders, who appoints or gets appointed to lead or work in our diplomatic missions and why? What criteria is used or what qualifications are required? One can hardly avoid wondering at the coincidence that grants only a certain tribe to possess those qualifications or credentials. The confused frenzy of mothers-in-law and the cousins’ husbands and wives should simply be halted!
Mother-in-law’s lungs exposed! If anything exposed the tribal diplomatic appointments, it is the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP)-led protest march held on the 8th of April, 2021 at the Zimbabwe Embassy in Pretoria. Among the litany of issues, the march was held to express the disgust of the people of Matabeleland about their unending inhumane treatment by government as second-class citizens even at international level. Viewed as a gigantic violation of human rights, the discrimination is in collision course with the country’s constitution which is being molested at any given opportunity.
Empirically, the demonstration effortlessly unearthed the unappealing and primitive world of tribalism that appears rife at all the country’s thirty-nine (39) embassies and consulates worldwide. The watershed revelation should be owl-egg on the face of the ZANU PF government. The manner of staffing at the embassy in Pretoria fails to speak to any of the languages and cultures of Matabeleland.
On meeting the protesters, the ambassador confirmed that none of his staff could speak any of the languages of Matabeleland. In that vein, the protest march laid bare the thinnest threads holding the relations between Mashonaland and Matabeleland and justified the demands of the protesters. Unquestionably, the story of the veiled cousins and mothers-in-law was acted live on stage, thereby displaying their lungs and intestines for all to see! However, for the doubting Thomases, the list of Zimbabwe’s diplomatic missions (as per the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 2018) may suffice.
List of Zimbabwe’s ambassadors globally! 1. Angola: Major Gen. (Rtd) Tando Madzvamuse 2. Australia: Mr T. Mhishi 3. Belgium: Mrs A. Mashingaidze 4. Botswana: Batiraishe Henry Mukonoweshuro 5. Brazil: Mr G. G. Gapare 6. Canada: Mrs R. M. Chikwira 7. China: Lt. Gen. (Rtd) M. Chedondo 8. Cuba: Mr I. G. Mudzimba 9. DRC: Mr W. Chinenere 10. Egypt: Air Marshal (Rtd) S. Shumbayaonda 11. Ethiopia: Mr A. R. Chimbindi 12. Germany: Mr P. Chikawa 13. Ghana: Mr K. Chinoza 14. India: Dr G. M. Chipare 15. Indonesia: Ms S. Nyamudeza 16. Iran: Mr C. Mapanga 17. Italy: Ms M. Chauke 18. Japan: Mr T. Abu-Basuthu 19. Kuwait: Mr Chrispen Toga Mavodza 20. Malawi: Mrs H. Mafudze 21. Malaysia: Mr G. Magwenzi 22. Mozambique: Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Douglas Nyikayaramba 23. Namibia: Mr R. Chikava 24. Nigeria: Mr M. Ranga 25. Russia: Brig. Gen. N. M. Sango 26. Rwanda: Prof. Charity Manyeruke 27. Algeria: Mr V. Ntonga 28. Senegal: Mr James Maridadi 29. Singapore: C. D. Nhema 30. South Africa: Mr D. Hamadziripi 31. Sudan: Dr E. B. Runganga Gumbo 32. South Sudan: Brian Bere 33. Sweden: Mrs Alice Mashingaidze 34. Tanzania: Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe 35. Turkey: Mr Alfred Mutiwazuka 36. UAE: Mr J. Ndlovu (late) 37. UK: Rtd Col. C. Katsande 38. USA: Mr A. M. Mutembwa 39. UN: Dr F. Shava 40. Zambia: Ms G. R. Takawira
List of Zimbabwe’s consular officers 1. Johannesburg: Chengetai Murahwa 2. Cape Town: Mrs E. T. Mudambo 3. Beira: Mr S. Kudarawanda 4. Lubumbashi: Mrs S. Muteta 5. Hong Kong: Mr Alfred Mutiwazuka 6. Milan: Mr George EI Badoui (Honorary Consul General) 7. Seoul (Korea Republic): Mr Young-chul Baik (Honorary Consul General) 8. Bangkok (Thailand): Dr Kriengsak Charoenwongsak (Honorary Consul General)
In the circles of diplomatic professionalism, embassies and consulates should represent the policies and interests of their home countries. However, with reference to the nature and cultural orientation of the names above, can we strongly argue that the above list adequately represents the multicultural society that Zimbabwe should be? What policy are the appointments premised on?
In the National Assembly Hansard of 24 April 2021, Vol. 47 No. 37, Hon. Themba Mliswa (MP for Norton Constituency) argues that the appointments of rugby personnel for the Zimbabwe team are both racial and tribal because the appointees are from Matabeleland. More so, he states: “My supplementary question… is that the policy of this Government is to look inside first and not outside”. Lensing the ambassadorial list into context, one wonders what “to look inside first” means as the esteemed parliamentarian does not seem to view the appointment of coaches from Matabeleland as being in adherence to government policy, yet for example, the deployment of Shona-speaking teachers to teach ECD in Matabeleland schools has not been condemned by him and the supposedly tribally-sensitive parliament. It is interesting why the generality of the august house has been deafeningly silent on the culturally cannibalistic deployment of diplomatic missions. Is it because the hellish deployment excludes those classified as “foreigners from South Africa” by the crab-like Monica Mutsvangwa and her superior mahumbwe tribal club in their lawless goose play of ethnicity? Considering the culturally diverse nature of the country, the ten provinces could have been accorded say, four (4) diplomatic appointments each. This could provide a semblance of a balanced pendulum boasting at least twelve ambassadors and/or one consul general allocated to Matabeleland; meritocracy being the guiding principle. Sadly, that cannot be.
Conclusion Ultimately, the wobbly dance of tribalism in our embassies and elsewhere by all concerned is a menace that should be frowned upon, tail-docked and decisively fettered for the benefit of not only the marginalized communities, but “the second round of the first republic” as well. Zimbabwe’s embassy tribalism, like any other, should be seen for what it is: a disaffecting tale of a clique of cousins, village-boys and mothers-in-law.
Those who can, let them hear!
Nhlanhla Moses writes in his personal capacity and can be contacted on: WhatsApp: +27 73 386 2303 Email: [email protected]
Ruling Zanu PF party officials in Gokwe North district have accused local police officers of leading an illegal mining syndicate and blocking locals and traditional leaders from mining following a gold rush in the area.
Speaking during a Gokwe North district co-ordinating committee meeting on Monday, local legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena condemned the behaviour of the police officers.
Wadyajena, who is Gokwe-Nembudziya MP, said there were reports of elements within the police force engaging in illegal mining activities and harassing villagers.
“What is even worrying is that chiefs were also blocked by the police from investigating the matter,” he said.
“Our people are not benefiting. We took up the issue of community share ownership schemes and the people led by the chiefs should benefit and that is what we want.”
A report produced by the district development committee members who visited the area with officials from the President’s Department, the police and council stated that over 8 000 people had invaded the area, resulting in an increase in cases of violence, prostitution and other criminal activities.
“The place is a haven for criminal activities,” the report read in part.
The report recommended that all the illegal activities must stop forthwith.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commisioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the gold rush and warned police officers allegedly engaged in illegal activities to refrain from such activities.
“There was an alleged gold rush, police were called in to restore order and there are processes by the relevant ministry for people to get relevant papers. lf there are officers working outside the law, we will move in and take action,” Nyathi said.
By A Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa has completely dissolved the office of the second vice President previously occupied by Kembo Mohadi with his aides redeployed to other government departments in a move that could mean no immediate plans to fill the vacant seat reserved for former ZAPU members.
According to the 1987 Unity Accord, a former ZAPU member occupies one of the presidium seats.
Previously, Dr Joshua Nkomo, John Landa Nkomo, Joseph Msika and later Phelekezela Mphoko occupied the vice President seat.
In a statement last night, chief secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda said David Marapira who was the Minister of State in the Office of the Vice President is now in charge of monitoring and implementation of special agriculture-related programmes.
Reverend Paul Bayethe Damasane, who was Permanent Secretary in the Office of former VP Mohadi, has been promoted to deputy chief secretary for Social Services Sector with special responsibility for monitoring programmes in the Ministries of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation; National Housing and Social Amenities; Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare; and Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development including their parastatals.
He said Engineer Amos Marawa, former Permanent Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure Development has been elevated to the post of national co-ordinator (deputy chief secretary grade) responsible for flagship programmes and projects in the Office of the President and Cabinet.
“In that capacity, Eng Marawa will be responsible for providing technical leadership in supporting the formulation and implementation of high impact flagship infrastructural programmes and projects in the provinces, in close consultation with Ministers of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution,” said Dr Sibanda.
Corruption in the health sector has stifled service delivery despite the existence of many organisations that fight corruption, a report by Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI-Z) revealed yesterday.
TI-Z said health sector corruption had resulted in the majority of citizens losing confidence in local health systems, while government officials sought treatment abroad.
The TIZ report launched yesterday also said illicit financial flows were rampant within the health sector as noted by corrupt procurement procedures, cross-border smuggling and theft of medical supplies resulting in severe shortcomings in health service provision.
“In the past year, there has been a surge in interest on the impact of corruption on the public health sector due to the novel coronavirus. Eighty-one percent of the respondents in the research agreed that they had witnessed, experienced or heard of corruption occurring in the public health sector. As a result of the low wages and poor working conditions, public health workers have resorted to moonlighting, absenteeism, illegal referrals and bribery,” the report said.
Zimbabwe last year scored 24% in the corruption perception index compiled by TI-Z and was ranked 157 out of 180 countries in terms of fighting corruption.
Respondents who participated in the TI-Z study said they had resorted to paying bribes in cash or kind, including sex transactions to solicit for healthcare services from health workers.
“Pharmaceutical companies are sometimes left out in the bidding process while briefcase companies with links to politically exposed persons are given preferential treatment. It is like what happened in the Covidgate scandal, where Drax International, a company which was only two weeks old, was awarded a US$60 million tender.”
TI-Z urged government to improve remuneration and general welfare of health workers to curb corruption.
“The Health and Child Care ministry and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission should commission a comprehensive corruption assessment that analyses the perception of risks and vulnerabilities within the health sector,” the watchdog stated.
Commenting on the TI-Z report, Community Working Group on Health executive director Itai Rusike said: “Our government’s poor record of public service delivery, alongside corruption, cronyism and mismanagement even in a pandemic and in emergency situations requires not just our oversight, but an active role in shaping and delivering an equitable national vaccination rollout programme”.
By A Correspondent| Former Health and Child Care minister Dr David Parirenyatwa’s daughter Ruvheneko has filed for divorce from her husband of seven years saying their marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation.
Ruvheneko who is a radio personality was married to Tendai Basil Mafara told the court that she has not been living with her husband since 2016.
“I married defendant out of community of property and according to the matrimonial laws of Zimbabwe in Harare on the 19th of April 2014 and this marriage subsists,” said Parirenyatwa-Mafara.
“My marriage relationship with defendant has irretrievably broken down to the extent that there is no reasonable prospect of the restoration between us of a normal marriage relationship.”
She added, “Defendant and I have been unable to maintain common interests or a loving relationship as should subsist between husband and wife and defendant and l have been living apart since October 2016 and have no intentions of resuming cohabitation with each other.
“This is confirmed by defendant who signed an affidavit of waiver consenting to the divorce.”
The two did not have any children together.
Parirenyatwa-Mafara said she was able to look after herself after their divorce is formalised.
According to court papers, parties also agreed that each will retain some matrimonial assets in their respective names.
However, Ruvheneko said she wanted possession of the couple’s Mercedes Benz ML350.
The summons were filed on March 31, 2021 and set down for hearing on April 15.
Mafara did not oppose the summons.
In the case of Kasukuwere’s daughter, Natasha Lucian Nyasha Zinyemba nee Kasukuwere is also divorcing her husband, Shingirai David Zinyemba.
The two were married in terms of the Marriage Act Chapter 5:11 on December 6 2019 and the marriage still subsists.
Natasha says there was no hope to reconcile.
“The marriage between the parties has broken down irretrievably to such an extent that the parties can no longer live together as husband and wife more particularly in that the plaintiff and defendant have irreconcilable differences which are incapable of resolution,” read the summons.
“The plaintiff has lost love and affection towards the defendant and the parties have been living separately and have not shared the matrimonial bed since March 2021,” she said.
“The defendant has specifically told the plaintiff that he has grown out of the marital union and he does not wish to continue forcing the relationship.”
She also said each party has got the capacity to take care of itself and to that end, the issues of maintenance did not arise.
By A Correspondent| A forensic pathologist for the defence of fired Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin is a Zimbabwean-born former chief medical examiner for the state of Maryland, who graduated from the University of Cape Town.
Fowler was born in Bulawayo. He completed medical school at the University of Cape Town in 1983 and did a residency in forensic pathology before moving to Baltimore in 1991. He is also a former professor at Johns Hopkins University and served as Maryland’s chief medical examiner until he resigned in 2019. He is currently being sued in federal court by Black’s family.
Fowler testified Wednesday that George Floyd’s death was caused by his pre-existing heart condition, use of fentanyl and meth, and carbon monoxide he inhaled from a nearby police cruiser.
“All of those combined to cause Mr. Floyd’s death,” Dr. David Fowler said.
Fowler told jurors Floyd was living with up to a 90% narrowing of his arteries before he died. He said Chauvin’s kneeling on Floyd was not a significant factor in his death, and that Chauvin’s knee wasn’t near Floyd’s airway.
Chauvin is charged with murder and manslaughter. Floyd died in May 2020 after Chauvin kneeled on him for more than nine minutes while he was pinned to the ground and handcuffed.
The medical examiner in the case has called the death a homicide, but Fowler said there were so many contributing factors that he would consider the manner of death “undetermined.”
Fowler’s testimony differs from that of medical experts called by the prosecution. Dr. Martin Tobin, an expert pulmonologist, testified that, “a healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died.”
Dr. Jonathan Rich, a cardiologist and one of the state’s final witnesses, testified Monday that while Floyd had high blood pressure, his heart was “exceptionally strong.”
Prosecution witnesses testified Floyd died from a lack of oxygen caused by being pressed into the asphalt ground with his hands cuffed behind his back, and Chauvin kneeling on him for more than nine minutes.
None of those witnesses mentioned carbon monoxide from the nearby patrol car as a possible contributing factor.
By A Correspondent- Police in Bulawayo yesterday blocked an anti-government demonstration organised by the secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP).
The MRP wanted to take to the streets to protest the persecution of its members by State security agents.
“Police did not only ban the march, but as per their culture of handling MRP matters, they also deployed heavily armed police officers in anti-riot gear … prompting the party’s security department to advise the defiant Bulawayo provincial leadership and members led by chairperson Bioz Makhalima to call off the march in order to ensure the security of members,” the MRP said in a statement.
“The people’s party leadership felt that it was not strategic and, therefore, unnecessary to let members of the party get arrested and brutalised at a time when others are already languishing in remand at Khami Prison for no apparent reason.”
Currently, nine MRP activists are caged at Khami Remand Prison following their arrest for participating in a flash demonstration outside the Bulawayo Central Police Station early last month.
A Bulawayo magistrate last Friday shot down the activists’ application for bail, insisting that the State had a strong case against them.
By A Correspondent- The National Assembly passed the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 on Tuesday, giving President Emmerson Mnangagwa new sweeping powers to appoint judges without public scrutiny and extend their term of office after reaching retirement age.
The vote, carried by a 191 to 22 majority, came after a judicial-approved purge of the main opposition MDC Alliance MPs, who continue to face rapid expulsions from Parliament and replacements by pliant members from the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T, a Zanu-PF surrogate.
There were, however, signs of a growing rebellion in the Mwonzora camp after four aligned MPs, including deputy leader Thokozani Khupe, Nomvula Mguni, Phelela Masuku, and Paurina Mpariwa joined Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance lawmakers and voted against the amendment which will also kill the “running mate” clause, and allow Mnangagwa to appoint his deputies, instead of elected vice presidents.
The Chamisa MPs who rejected the alterations include Livingstone Chimina, Patrick Dube, Joel Gabuza, Innocent Gonese, Shapespear Hamauswa, Norman Allan Markham, Phelela Masuku, Daniel Molokela, Edwin Mushoriwa, Stella Ndlovu, Jacob Nyokanhete, Tose Wesley Sansole, Trevor Saruwaka, Job Sikhala, Godfrey Sithole, Jane Nicola Watson, Jasmine Toffa, Illos Nyoni, and David Tekeshe.
The Bill now returns to the Senate, where Morgen Komichi, the chairman of MDC-T, previously voted against it – before heading to Mnangagwa’s desk for his assent.
Critics say the changes are a “dangerous” gambit by the ruling Zanu-PF party to concentrate and consolidate power for Mnangagwa, who toppled the late former president Robert Mugabe in a military coup in 2017.
The amended charter will allow Mnangagwa, with non-binding suggestions from the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), to elevate sitting judges to higher courts without subjecting them to public interviews.
It also gives him the power to extend by up to 5 years contracts of judges serving in the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court who have reached the retirement age of 70 “subject to a favourable medical report.”
Tendai Biti, MDC Alliance vice president, took aim at “Zanu-PF [and its] MDC-T surrogates” for passing a “viciously mutilated Constitutional Amendment No. 2 that seeks to extend Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s term.”
Mabala’s retirement clock strikes on May 15 when he turns 70, and it is widely expected that, in line with the adjustments, Mnangagwa will cheerfully renew his term after the Chief Justice delivered a controversial electoral victory for him over Chamisa in 2018.
Biti said the Constitution, approved overwhelmingly by Zimbabweans across the political divide in a 2013 referendum, was “sacrosanct and should not be a tool for authoritarian consolidation.”
He vowed: “We will fight this abomination. Emmerson’s disrespect of the constitution and total violation of decency and the rule of law sets him apart as the greatest existential threat to the Zimbabwe State. In three years, Zimbabwe has descended into a little outpost of fascism and state failure, thanks to politics of greed, violence, and idiocy.”
Khupe’s refusal to join colleagues and vote with Zanu-PF despite a whipping system puts her on a renewed collision course with her boss after a bitter fallout last December when she lost the MDC-T presidency to Mwonzora in a congress marred by violence and ballot fraud.
A spokesman said Khupe voted “against the amendment because, in her view, it is a violation of the letter and spirit of the Constitution.”
“What’s wrong about a judge who is going to preside over our maters to be publicly interviewed for all to be convinced that indeed this person is fit to hold the position that they seek? asked MDC-T Senator Khaliphani Phugeni, a Khupe ally.
He said erasing the public interviews process for judges and putting the responsibility solely in the hands of Mnangagwa did not augur well for the independence of the judiciary.
“You look at the devolution deal, it’s completely watered down. That’s not the devolution that our people voted for. So Dr. Khupe said she could not be part of that,” Phugeni told ZimLive.
He added: “On the women side, the constitution says there should be 50-50 gender representation in Parliament or in all institutions of the State. Now look at what they are doing, we are going with a piecemeal approach, we are basically saying, no, we are just going to extend your quota, which does not go anywhere near 50 percent.”
By Patrick Guramatunhu- “POLAD’s biggest achievement is its mere existence as a platform where political leaders and parties from different backgrounds and persuasions are able to exchange ideas on how best to move the country forward. Political tolerance has already been born, it is now growing. It’s irreversible fruits will be felt with time,” Professor Lovemore Madhuku, one opposition leaders who joined Mnangagwa’s POLAD.
We must be clear where we are as a nation and then what we need to do to “move the country forward”.
Zimbabwe is in economic ruins; the economy has collapsed sending unemployment soaring to 90% plus, basic public services such as education and health care are barely functioning and 49% of the population is now living in extreme poverty. The economic situation is causing heartbreaking human suffering and it is socially and politically unsustainable.
Zimbabwe is facing the most serious existential threat in the nation’s history. The threat of the nation being thrown into social unrest and chaos comparable to what is happening in Libya or Syria is real and urgent.
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s dramatic economic meltdown is the four decades of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and rank lawlessness earning the nation the pariah state status. And as long as the nation remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who rig elections to extend their stay in office; there will be no meaningful economic recovery.
The A1 objective of the 2023 elections is to end the curse of rigged elections, pariah state and bad governance. And thus revive the economy, end the tragic human suffering and avert the pending social unrest.
Therefore anything that is helping to end the curse of rigged elections and pariah state will move the country forward. POLAD, by its nature and composition, is to justify the status quo and not to dismantle it.
Mnangagwa made it crystal clear, the number condition for joining POLAD was the acceptance of the July 2018 elections as having been free, fair and credible and of Mnangagwa and Zanu PF as the legitimate president and government. How anyone could ever accept Zimbabwe’s flawed and illegal elections as free and fair, beggars belief.
It comes as no surprise therefore that POLAD has not demanded, much less implemented, any meaningful democratic reforms to ensure the next elections are free, fair and credible. Madhuku and his fellow opposition politicians in POLAD and those like Chamisa and his MDC A who refused to join POLAD are all going to participate in the 2023 elections with no reforms in place. How that can ever be considered moving the nation forward is nonsensical.
We need free, fair and credible election process to get good and competent leaders. Corrupt and incompetent leaders would want flawed and illegal election process in which they invariably emerge as the winners. There is no disputing the fact that Zimbabwe’s elections are flawed and illegal.
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability. Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards,” stated the EU Observer Mission final report.
ZEC has repeatedly failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’s roll, a legal and common sense requirement; for Pete’s sake!
The only rational reason why Zimbabwe’s opposition politicians have participated in the country’s flawed and illegal elections is greed. David Coltart, MDC A Treasurer General, admitted his book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the (2013) elections,” wrote Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
Four of the main MDC factions plus three other opposition parties did form a coalition, the MDC A, just before the 2018 elections and yet they still went on to participate in the elections for the same reason as in 2013 – greed.
It should be noted that the opposition politicians knew that by participating in the flawed and illegal elections they were “giving the process credibility” and, by extension, giving the results legitimacy.
“To be sure, because of POLAD, the political environment under which the 2023 general elections will be held will be the best since independence in 1980,” continued Professor Madhuku.
It is no secret that Zanu PF will tone down its fiery rhetoric and restrain its violent operatives as long as the party is assured of electoral victory.
Indeed Zimbabwe is in this precarious economic and political situation of economic ruins, tragic human suffering and threatening social instability precisely because the nation has sort to appease Zanu PF’s insatiable greed for political power, wealth and influence.
Surely 2023 general elections must be about free, fair and credible elections and good governance and not about yet another rigged elections just to appease Zanu PF. It is not the survival of Zanu PF that is at issue here but the survival of Zimbabwe.
RE: PETITION TO ARREST DOUGLAS TOGARASEI MWONZORA: CASE RB# 2236/12/2020
On my behalf and on behalf of the members of the Movement for the Democratic Change T (MDC-T) hereby petition the Ministry of Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs to arrest Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora for:
The theft of MDC T funds to the tune of $6 million
Money laundering in violation of Zimbabwe Foreign Currency Exchange Control Act
Blatant disregard of the country’s anti-corruption policy
We are coming to the Ministry guided by the Ministry’s Mission Statement:
“To promote an effective justice delivery system and provide legal services, rehabilitation that guarantee good governance, democracy and the rule of law”
It will be 4 months, April 27, 2021 since the theft case was reported December 26, 2020, recorded in RB # 2236/12/2020.
The Details of the case are contained in the Attached Affidavit #A1 attached.
Suffice to say Hon. Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, that theft of any kind, from any person or entity by anyone regardless of their political or economic position should be a top priority of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the Ministry of Justice. So far not in this case, WHY?
Hon Minister, we have provided the Zimbabwe Republic Police with overwhelming evidence of theft of funds as well as money laundering. Not only did we provide the money trail but also the names of individuals and companies used to launder the money. It is inconceivable that in the face of such overwhelming evidence Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora and his fellow accused have not be arrested and deposed for this criminal offence.
It is also inconceivable that the Government of Zimbabwe that prides itself for adhering to the rule of law is failing to show the world that all citizens regardless of their station, membership and or support for the ruling party are subject to the same laws that apply to ordinary citizens. We are having for a full 4 months now a situation where all animals are equal but some animals are equal than others. This Hon Minister cannot be good for our country and the principle of equality before the law.
I am imploring you Hon Minister to implement your Mission and ensure the rule of law in this instance.
We all live in a community were we have plumbers, welders, tailors, carpenter, builders, etc. As part of our commitment to increase web presence we are offering FREE web development train a trainer programme to Zimbabwean youths.
Zimbabwe is battling with youth unemployment and starting a business or engaging in self-employment is increasingly seen as part of a strategy to address the youth employment challenge.
Hansole is an information and communication technology (ICT) and a member of Zimbabwe Internet Service Providers Association (ZISPA). Our intention is to train website developers who will become train a trainer within their communities.
We are looking for ICT individual from Zimbabwe’s all ten provinces to join our train a trainer program who will return to their provinces, towns or cities and districts to train individuals who have access to the internet and a computer.
All you need is basic computer skills. This is a program that will lead to at least 3,000 youths per year and creating youths who are self employed.
For one to develop a website all they need is to register a domain, we provide access to the Cpanel (control panel). In the cpanel there is hundreds of templates which a train a trainer website developer can chose from and it will take an average developer only 15 minutes to develop and publish a website of international standard.
Zimbabwe’s education does not empower our youths to have entrepreneur skills and average young people find it more difficult than adults to engage in business because they have less capital in the form of skills, knowledge and experience, collaterals and less access to business network.
The ICT is the only sector that can empower our youths and what makes Zimbabwe’s environment ideal is it is dominated by the informal sector that is desperate to sell its products and services.
The Zimbabwean government is now pushing for entrepreneurship education and training programmes which are an important component of any strategy to promote entrepreneurial activity among young people.
This is ideally valuable means for shaping young people’s attitudes and competencies to become self-employed. Where schools do not promote entrepreneurship as an option for young people, us as employers can lobby for its incorporation into the curriculum.
Youth unemployment has become the global “number one” policy issue for governments and multilateral agencies with many many countries experiencing endemically high levels. In response, most governments and international organizations are introducing more active labour market interventions to address youth unemployment.
To complement this initiative Hansole is proposing to train as many youths as possible who will be creating website for the plumber, welder, tailor, motor mechanic, shop owners infact all the small to medium enterprises and informa sector.
If you would like to know more about this progamme please do not hesitate to contact us +263772278161 or [email protected]
HARARE, ZIMBABWE, April 16, 2021 – The European Union (EU) funded Transforming Zimbabwe’s Dairy Value Chain for the Future (TranZDVC) project will on 23 April 2021 hand over 147 in-calf heifers to 121 dairy farmers (59 women) in 18 districts from 10 provinces. We Effect Zimbabwe, along with its co-implementing partners; Zimbabwe Association of Dairy Farmers (ZADF), Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) and Zimbabwe Dairy Industry Trust (ZDIT) imported the in-calf heifers from South Africa.
The in-calf heifers landed in Zimbabwe at a cost of US$1,358 per animal. The imported Jersey and Friesen-Jersey crosses passed animal diseases tests for Enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL), Johne’s disease, Foot and Mouth, Bovine Tuberculosis and Brucellosis.
TranZDVC is part of an EU funded Zimbabwe Agricultural Growth Programme (ZAGP), a response to tackle challenges within the country’s livestock sector through financial support from the EU amounting to €40 million.
ZAGP seeks to contribute to the development of a diversified and efficient agriculture sector that promotes inclusive green economic growth.
Covering Zimbabwe’s 10 provinces, the programme is addressing the weaknesses and gaps in livestock value chains that have hampered the sector from increasing productivity, production, and incomes to their potential. Focus is on increasing profitability, building the capacity of farmers, service institutions, and private sector through increased investment, institutional reforms and policy alignment.
“Started in 2019, TranZDVC is a four-year initiative targeting 4,000 small to medium-scale dairy farmers and larger anchor dairy farms and aims to address the root causes of the underperformance of the dairy value chain in Zimbabwe”, said Dr Edson Chifamba, the TranZDVC Project Coordinator.
Dr Chifamba added: “Through the importation of the in-calf heifers, TranZDVC will increase the production of milk in Zimbabwe from 75 million litres (in 2018) to 120 million litres (by 2022) per year and increasing the participation of small-scale farmers, especially women and youth, in the dairy value chain.’’
Zimbabwe’s dairy herd of 123,000 cows in 1990, at one point, produced more than 260 million litres of milk annually, but production declined over the years, with an estimated 39,000 dairy cows left. In 2020, the nation produced 76.7 million litres of milk against an annual demand of 130 million litres hence there is a deficit of more than 54 million litres.
To date, TranZDVC has assisted more than 33 smallholder farmers across 15 districts in 10 provinces to access 200 imported heifers on a 1:1 matching grant facility. The target is to procure 500 heifers with farmers matching with 500 heifers totalling 1,000 heifers during the life of the project. These additional 1000 heifers will contribute over 5.5 million litres of milk annually.
The first 200 heifers were distributed through processors who matched for their small-scale farmers – anyone producing less than 200 litres of milk per day. The 200 heifers were distributed to 33 beneficiaries (24 males and 9 females) through processors based on their 2018 milk intake and their work with small-scale farmers. These were Dairibord (70 heifers), Dendairy (50), Prodairy and Kelshemer (45), Kefalos (25) and Nestle, 10.
The last batch of 153 heifers will be distributed to 134 smallholder farmers (50 women) in May this year. The animals are being distributed directly to small-scale farmers as follows: 45% to existing small-scale farmers, 45% percent to new farmers aligned to processors and/integrators while 10 percent goes to green fields- new dairy farmers.
Over the two years, the project has reached more than 4000 smallholder farmers, 36 percent of whom are women.
For additional information, please contact TranZDVC project coordinator, Dr Edson Chifamba, at [email protected]
Over 100 families who were last week evicted from the Anglican Church-owned Cyrene Farm at Mcwazini area in Figtree, Matabeleland South Province, by the Sheriff of the High Court, have since returned to the property.
The villagers were in 2003 ordered by the High Court under case number HC2444/03 to vacate the property within seven days following an application by the Anglican Church.
The villagers were served with the eviction papers on Wednesday last week, two decades after they had occupied the farm at the height of the land reform programme in 2000.
According to the writ of ejectment, the eviction order followed a judgment by High Court Judge President Justice George Chiweshe directing the villagers who were represented by six members, to vacate the farm.
The order granted by Justice Chiweshe reads: “The respondents and any persons claiming through them as well as other persons presently in unlawful occupation of Cyrene Farm, Figtree, be and are hereby ordered to vacate Cyrene Farm together with all their property and possessions immediately upon service of this order, failure of which the Deputy Sheriff with the assistance of officer-in-charge Figtree are hereby authorised and directed to evict the respondents.”
The farm has been at the centre of a wrangle between the Anglican Diocese Church of Matabeleland and the villagers who argue that they were allowed to remain on the farm by the Government after it gazetted the property for land redistribution on November 14, 2014 under General Notice 467 of 2014.
When Chronicle visited the farm yesterday, most of the villagers had returned to the property insisting that their stay was within the confines of the law.
Mcwazini Village secretary Mr Lutha Maduna said tempers flared soon after villagers were served with the eviction order and anti-riot police had to intervene.
“We were busy conducting our routine chores when the Sheriff of the High Court accompanied by Anglican Church officials, a group of youths and police arrived at the farm. The Sheriff produced an eviction order and they started removing our properties,” he said.
“In some cases, tempers flared as villagers resisted the move and police had to intervene to save the situation from degenerating into chaos. This is not the first time that we have been evicted and what is shocking is that at one time the Minister of State for Matabeleland South Provincial Affairs visited the farm and assured us that no one would evict us.”
Mr Maduna said the latest evictions have left the villagers shocked and confused.
Another villager Ms Lucky Bhebhe, a mother of six, said they were legally resettled by Government.
“The church is victimising us for no apparent reason. They came here last week and ordered us to vacate the farm as they removed our properties from our houses and dumped them along the Bulawayo-Plumtree highway,” she said.
“Some of my property such as my wardrobe was extensively damaged while being taken out of my bedroom. It was a sad scenario as we were being evicted and children were screaming while the elderly fainted as they watched helplessly as their goods were being thrown out of their huts.”
Health experts yesterday warned that the third wave of COVID-19 had already hit the country as evidenced by the surge in new infections in the past few weeks, a situation which poses a huge challenge to the already ailing public healthcare system.
Stakeholders in the health sector told NewsDay that a new wave of COVID-19 has been spreading quietly in communities since the Easter holidays when schools recorded a spike in infections.
From an average of around 22 cases on March 30, the Health ministry’s daily updates have indicated that this has ballooned to 79 cases and with the cases continuing to rise.
To date, the country has recorded 37 859 cases and 1 553 deaths.
“The third wave is unfortunately here and is building up faster than we can imagine,” said Mpilo Central Hospital acting chief executive Solwayo Ngwenya.
“While it may seem like it is under control, the virus is spreading at an alarming rate in communities that have become complacent and no longer adhere to World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines,” Ngwenya said.
He said the figures might even be more than what is being reported because of the country’s failure to test extensively.
“The situation in schools is difficult. If we wait for that month when schools close, the infection and viral spread will be out of control. If indeed there are infections, they should close down the schools. However, the major worry is that the students will take the virus into the community,” he said.
The Primary and Secondary Education ministry on Monday demanded that students at learning institutions should undergo daily screening for the virus.
But Ngwenya insisted that this would be difficult to enforce.
“It is not achievable to try and contain the situation within schools. Schools are always going to be super spreaders, government was warned. They will contribute a lot to the third wave. We will not be able to cope with a massive health emergency of this pandemic,” he said.
Harare City Council’s health services director Prosper Chonzi in a video on posted on Facebook yesterday warned of a health emergency as winter approaches.
“We are anticipating a third wave as we are going into winter and we are anticipating that we get more and more cases coming. The situation might look as if everything is back to normal, but we are still having cases of COVID-19 at our units and in schools,” he said.
“The vaccination programme rollout has started in earnest and we are happy that Harare is contributing more than 60% of the national figures as far as vaccination is confirmed, but the numbers are still not where we want them to be.
“The good thing about the vaccine is that if you get infected and you receive your two doses of the vaccine, the chances of you getting hospitalised are very few as you will also not develop severe diseases,” Chonzi added.
As a result of the looming new variants of the deadly virus, the United Nations (UN) yesterday urged nations to adopt preventive measures against COVID-19 as the pandemic was still far from over.
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres in a tweet said countries worldwide had failed to effectively deal with the COVID-19 pandemic as evidenced by an increase in the number of new infections and deaths.
“So far, the global response to COVID-19 is a test we have failed. And the crisis is far from over. We need to heed the lessons now to prevent successive waves of infection, avoid a lengthy global recession and get back on track to fulfil the global goals,” he said.
Local health experts said global statistics indicated that the virus was still vicious.
Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe Association president Johannes Marisa said: “Even if they are vaccinated, people still need to adhere to WHO guidelines of wearing masks, sanitising and social distancing. Most importantly, we need to avoid gatherings. Gatherings risk new infection and development of new variants.”
Speaking from Beitbridge yesterday after a tour of vaccination centres in the country, principal director in the Health ministry, Maxwell Hove said his ministry would recommend the opening of border posts to President Emmerson Mnangagwa only if 23 000 or more residents in the border town get vaccinated.
Hove told journalists that only 2 000 people in Beitbridge had so far been vaccinated, with most frontline workers yet to get the jab.
“We will recommend that the border be opened when we are sure all workers have been vaccinated. We must all be aware of the spread of the disease, which is through travelling. The borders must be safe first,” Hove said.
Zimbabwe has kept its borders closed due to COVID-19, although its neighbours Botswana and South Africa have since opened theirs.
An Independence Day illegal party in Hwange ended in tragedy after a villager who grabbed a married woman to dance with her allegedly stabbed her protesting husband to death.
Matabeleland North police spokesperson Inspector Glory Banda said Advance Sibanda (33) of Makwandara Village under Chief Nekatambe died in the early hours of Monday, five hours after being stabbed by Bongani Dube (31) of Sialwindi in neighbouring Chief Dingani-Nelukoba’s area.
Dube is also admitted to St Patrick’s Hospital in Hwange under police guard with a deep stab wound on the thigh, although his attacker is not yet known.
Dube told police Sibanda stabbed him while some witnesses said he may have stabbed himself to appear as if he was attacked.
Police are investigating the allegations.
“I can confirm that we received a report of murder where a man died following an attack at a party,” said Insp Banda.
“They were drinking beer at Makwandara grinding mill while celebrating Independence Day around 1am.
“Dube, who was dancing, grabbed Sibanda’s wife Ms Buhlebenkosi Ncube (18). Sibanda got angry and confronted Dube resulting in a misunderstanding.”
A fight ensued between Sibanda and Dube, who allegedly drew a knife from a pocket and stabbed Sibanda on the right armpit.
Insp Banda said people who were present saw Dube removing something from his pocket and stabbing Sibanda, although they did not clearly see the kind of weapon used.
Police later recovered a blood stained Okapi knife from Dube.
After being stabbed, Sibanda attempted to flee from the scene, but ran for about 36 metres and collapsed.
Police said some villagers carried Sibanda in a wheelbarrow to Makwandara Clinic at around 3am and on arrival they found Dube seated at the clinic with an injured thigh seeking medical assistance.
Sibanda died around 5am before he could be transferred to a hospital.
A report was made to the police who attended the scene and found members of the public still drinking beer and playing loud music at the murder scene, while there were traces of blood near the grinding mill.
Insp Banda said Mercy Rwafa, a member of the community who hosted the party, was arrested for holding an illegal party during lockdown and is detained at Dete Police Station.
He urged members of the public to desist from violence and violating lockdown rules.
By A Correspondent- Ruling Zanu-PF party officials in Gokwe North district have accused local police officers of leading an illegal mining syndicate and blocking locals and traditional leaders from mining following a gold rush in the area.
Speaking during a Gokwe North district co-ordinating committee meeting on Monday, local legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena condemned the behaviour of the police officers.
Wadyajena, who is Gokwe-Nembudziya MP, said there were reports of elements within the police force engaging in illegal mining activities and harassing villagers.
“What is even worrying is that chiefs were also blocked by the police from investigating the matter,” he said.
“Our people are not benefiting. We took up the issue of community share ownership schemes and the people led by the chiefs should benefit and that is what we want.”
A report produced by the district development committee members who visited the area with officials from the President’s Department, the police and council stated that over 8 000 people had invaded the area, resulting in an increase in cases of violence, prostitution and other criminal activities.
“The place is a haven for criminal activities,” the report read in part.
The report recommended that all the illegal activities must stop forthwith.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the gold rush and warned police officers allegedly engaged in illegal activities to refrain from such activities.
“There was an alleged gold rush, police were called in to restore order and there are processes by the relevant ministry for people to get relevant papers. If there are officers working outside the law, we will move in and take action,” Nyathi said.-Newsday
Eccentric Member of Parliament for Buhera South, Joseph Chinotimba (Zanu-PF) has called for more powers to be vested in the hands of President Emmerson Mnangagwa so that he can appoint whoever he wants to be the Cabinet.
Chinotimba told Parliament during a debate on the Constitution Amendment Bill that “as we are moving towards the next elections” set for 2023, more power was needed in the hands of the President so he could set up a team he felt comfortable working with as opposed to Parliament having a say in who gets to work with the President.
This, Chinotimba reasoned, could lead to more unity as even members of the opposition could be appointed Ministers on the benevolence of the President.
“The President should nominate those he wants to work with. When we went to war, we did not say we want people from America to come and assist us in Zimbabwe. There is no need for us to move in tandem with what other countries are doing,” said Chinotimba in his contribution to the debate in Parliament.
“The President must nominate the Ministers that he wants to work with. If he chooses Job Sikhala to be the Minister, no one should stop him from doing so. This is a law that must be passed as we are moving towards the next elections.
“No one should be elected by Parliament but only the President. Let us not copy what South Africa or America is doing because we should not copy laws. So, my point is the President must elect the people that he wants to work with.”
The debate in Parliament centered on whether the Constitution should be amended to allow the President to appoint top judges as opposed to the current setup where the judges go through public interviews.
Adding to the debate, MDC-T vice president Thokozani Khupe said the status quo was a better option than concentrating powers in the hands of the President.
“I would have preferred a situation where judges go through an interview where the majority of people will participate because normally, those interviews are publicised and televised.
“Every Zimbabwean will have an opportunity to listen to those interviews such that whoever gets to be the judge, they will say indeed, this person is qualified because we listened to their interviews,” she said.
By A Correspondent- The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday said teachers were still heavily incapacitated after they were paid between $13 300 and $17 000 this month after government effected a 25% increment, which is part of the 70% staggered increase which they were offered last month.
In a statement yesterday, PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou said despite that 50% of their increment is still to be effected, teachers would continue to demand the pre-October 2018 salary levels of between US$520 and US$550, or their equivalent in local currency.
“At a time when salaries of MPs and ministers have increased tremendously, (Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain) Mathema does not see the effects of the erosion of teachers’ purchasing power parity. To assume that teachers earning as little as $13 300, after the latest 25% unilateral government toxic award, can survive, pay fees for their children, and report for work daily, is to ask for too much,” Zhou said.
“We want to remind Mathema that we do not eat infinite collective begging which he calls bargaining. Government has since October 2018 failed to restore the purchasing power parity of teachers’ salaries.”
On Monday, Mathema said government would implement a no-work, no-pay policy on truant teachers, adding that their names were being recorded for onward transmission to the Public Service Commission.-Newsday
By A Correspondent- An Independence Day illegal party in Hwange ended in tragedy after a villager who grabbed a married woman to dance with her allegedly stabbed her protesting husband to death.
Matabeleland North police spokesperson Inspector Glory Banda said Advance Sibanda (33) of Makwandara Village under Chief Nekatambe died in the early hours of Monday, five hours after being stabbed by Bongani Dube (31) of Sialwindi in neighbouring Chief Dingani-Nelukoba’s area.
Dube is also admitted to St Patrick’s Hospital in Hwange under police guard with a deep stab wound on the thigh, although his attacker is not yet known. Dube told police Sibanda stabbed him while some witnesses said he may have stabbed himself to appear as if he was attacked.
Police are investigating the allegations.
“I can confirm that we received a report of murder where a man died following an attack at a party,” said Insp Banda.
“They were drinking beer at Makwandara grinding mill while celebrating Independence Day around 1am.
“Dube, who was dancing, grabbed Sibanda’s wife Ms Buhlebenkosi Ncube (18). Sibanda got angry and confronted Dube resulting in a misunderstanding.”
A fight ensued between Sibanda and Dube, who allegedly drew a knife from a pocket and stabbed Sibanda on the right armpit. Insp Banda said people who were present saw Dube removing something from his pocket and stabbing Sibanda, although they did not clearly see the kind of weapon used.
Police later recovered a blood stained Okapi knife from Dube. After being stabbed, Sibanda attempted to flee from the scene, but ran for about 36 metres and collapsed. Police said some villagers carried Sibanda in a wheelbarrow to Makwandara Clinic at around 3am and on arrival they found Dube seated at the clinic with an injured thigh seeking medical assistance.
Sibanda died around 5am before he could be transferred to a hospital.
A report was made to the police who attended the scene and found members of the public still drinking beer and playing loud music at the murder scene, while there were traces of blood near the grinding mill.
Insp Banda said Mercy Rwafa, a member of the community who hosted the party, was arrested for holding an illegal party during lockdown and is detained at Dete Police Station. He urged members of the public to desist from violence and violating lockdown rules.-statemedia
By A correspondent- A villager from Dinde, Hwange was arrested on last Friday for allegedly inciting fellow villagers to resist a coal exploration exercise by a Chinese company in the area.
Never Tshuma (45), of Katambe Village, under Chief Nekatambe chairs the Dinde Development Association.
He appeared before Hwange magistrate Aeline Munamati facing two counts of inciting violence.
Tshuma was, however, granted $10 000 bail by a Hwange court on Saturday. He will be back in court on 17 May for routine remand.
He was represented by Joylyn Change of Muvhiringi and Associates. Tshuma denies the charges.
The charges against Tshuma arose after he allegedly addressed villagers on 14 April saying the Chinese firm, Beifar Investment, should remove a tent that it had pitched in the area.
The villagers had gathered near the tent, saying they never consented to the investment programme in their area.
Police advised the community that Beifer investment had a special grant from the Ministry of Mines to explore coal in the area.
Tshuma allegedly told the community members to immediately remove the tent, which they did.
He was subsequently arrested and continued to order the community to accompany him to police.
By A correspondent- In a rather bizarre case, a member of the Johanne Marange Apostolic sect has blinded his wife of 50 years for betraying him by leaving the church.
An unrepentant Andrew Feshiti admitted to causing his wife’s blindness and bragged that she will only be healed if she comes back to the church.
The rather bizarre case came out after 80-year-old Gogo Farasia Feshiti approached Chief Saunyama’s traditional court seeking recourse.
Gogo Farasia who is now partially blind accused her husband of causing the blindness as a means of punishing her for leaving the church.
She said that she left the church last year when she discovered that her husband is into the occult and possesses goblins to enable him to be powerful and to be feared in the church and in the community.
The octagenarian further alleged that her husband had given over one of their daughters to the goblins. According to the anguished Gogo Farasia, as a result of this unholy covenant, the daughter had been married and widowed 3 times.
She said that since she left the church, she is being tormented by her husband’s goblins which are now sexually abusing her.
“I have since left my matrimonial home, I’m now staying with my daughter and the goblins have decided to punish me with blindness.
“The goblins tell me point blank that I belong to them and that if I keep resisting their advances, they will kill me.”
Feshiti who was at the court was unmoved by his wife’s anguish and freely confessed to causing the blindness. He accused his wife of betraying him and warned that there is a price to pay for such a betrayal.
In a chilling declaration, the elderly man said: “What makes her think that she can leave it and get away with such betrayal?
“There is a price to pay and in this case, it is her sight. What I have is mightier than what she has and she should not try stopping me, otherwise, she will lose,”
“I am a holy man and this curse will only be removed if she repents and reverts back to be our church member. God blessed my actions,” he said.
Feshiti then told the court officials not to summon him to court without seeking the approval of the leadership of the Johanne Marange Apostolic sect. He claimed that the church’s tenets do not allow him to attend court sessions.
True to his word, Feshiti did not attend the next court hearing. Chief Saunyama has since written to the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church leaders asking for Feshiti to be directed to appear before the court.
By Showbiz Reporter | There was drama when the socialite, Loveness Mahachi Mutandagayi, popularly known as Diva Malaika who was kidnapped shortly after her story of violent domestic abuse became public 2 months ago, resurfaced to challenge people who have been accusing her of drug addiction.
Some Mahachi family members, her own siblings connived with her abusive husband, allegedly to obtain favours from the ZB bank Chief Executive Officer.
Mr Ronald Mutandagayi who is out on bail, told ZimEye that he was reacting to an attack using hot water by her.
But his 15 year old daughter who filmed the flooring incident has told ZimEye, that it is not true her father was attacked using hot water; saying the abuse only happened after he was confronted over alleged cheating.
In the same interview with ZimEye early March, Mutandagayi indicated that the alleged water attack did not happen on the same day.
Soon after the incident was made public, Malaika was visited on at her house by several men who kidnapped her and she says she positively identified one of them as Mutandagayi’s lawyer. The couple’s daughter told ZimEye her mother was taken away by police officers acting on orders of the dad who “pulled a fast one” on her.
Around that time several Mahachi family members bombarded ZimEye with abusive telephone calls demanding that the video of the attack must be taken down. One of them, who is based in South Africa, Jaweet Mahachi said he was the one behind the seizing of his sister because he was concerned over “drug addiction.”
Around that time, there were a few influential personalities who circulated the allegations of drug addiction to describe Loveness Mutandagayi’s character, inciting that she requires emergency Mental Health Act law enforcement. As a result she was seized in front of her daughter and the lass was forced to change statements during a live broadcast, just as the mother, Diva Malaika was abducted. Now after six weeks of solitary confinement, Malaika has come out to challenge everyone of those peddling the allegations. VIDEO LOADING BELOW….
Below is the video of a gonyet driver who deliberately targets another motorist and pushes the victim out of the road. The footage has resurfaced during discussions over how roadside assassinations have been carried out in Zimbabwe since 1979. Victims include Gen Josiah Tongogara and in recent days, the late Mines Minister Edward Chindori Chininga.
By A Correspondent -A Mutare based lady of the night is thanking her lucky stars after she received a massive windfall of US$15 000 from an apparently satisfied client who had hired her for a single night.
The free-spending client is suspected to be an illegal gold panner, mukorokoza in local parlance, who had been shunned by the thigh vendor’s colleagues due to a distinct lack of hygiene.
The Eastern Review has learned from The Weekender that the incident in question happened to a Mutare based lady of the night who is professionally known as Joyie.
According to Joyie’s colleagues and other witnesses who spoke to the publication, when the client approached the ladies of their night seeking to hire them, a lot of them avoided him. They claimed that he was visibly shabby and was clad in a pair of dirty tattered black jeans, a black T-shirt and a rugged pair of shoes that had seen better days. He also said to have been emitting a strong body odour and seemed to be drunk.
As a result of this, he seemed unappealing and most of the girls avoided him. However, Joyie was brave enough to put up with the man for the night, despite his lack of charm. According to some of the girls who overheard the negotiations, Joyie agreed to spend the whole night with the man for US$15.
The next morning, Joyie was stunned when the client added a few more zeros to the amount they had agreed on.
One of the thigh vendors narrated the events of the morning to the publication as follows: “She screamed and we were all startled with the noise. We gathered in the corridor to hear the news. One of Joyie’s friends who had also shunned the client fainted. To be honest, we were all shocked. Joyie flaunted the money on her bed and asking us to take her pictures,”
Another girl added: “The man told Joyie that he was adding more zeros to his $15 offer and gave her a breakdown. He said US$5 000 was meant for her lobola, the other US$5 000 was for her upkeep, while the remaining US$5 000 was for her car.”
Joyie is reported to have left the place where she was staying fearing that she would be robbed. She also seems to have temporarily stopped using her known number as it has been unreachable since her US$15 000 windfall.
Caught on camera and confirmed to be one of the directors linked to the Dinde Chinese Coal scandal, a certain Mr Lazarus Kwidini is seen in the picture below.
Mr Lazarus Kwidini, who has been very vocal in support of the Chinese coal project in Dinde, appear to be having a very important meeting with a Beifa Investments official pic.twitter.com/0Kxu8XcImy
Chad’s President Idriss Déby has died of his injuries following clashes with rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, the army has said.
The announcement came a day after provisional election results projected he would win a sixth term in office.
The government and parliament have been dissolved. A curfew has also been imposed and the borders have been shut.
Déby, 68, spent more than three decades in power and was one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.
An army officer by training, he came to power in 1990 through an armed uprising. He was a long-time ally of France and other Western powers in the battle against jihadist groups in the Sahel region of Africa.
Déby “breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield”, an army general said on state TV on Tuesday.
He had gone to the front line, several hundred kilometres north of the capital, N’Djamena, at the weekend to visit troops battling rebels belonging to a group calling itself Fact (the Front for Change and Concord in Chad).
A state funeral is due to take place on Friday.
A military council led by Déby’s son, a 37-year-old four star general, will govern for the next 18 months.
Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno will lead the council, but “free and democratic” elections will be held once the transition period is over, the army said in its statement.
He later issued a statement naming the 14 other generals who will make up the new governing body.
A BBC Monitoring journalist tweeted a copy of the notice:
#Tchad's new leader Mahamat Idriss Deby has named 15 generals to the Transitional Military Council (TMC) that will govern the country for the next 18 months. pic.twitter.com/1K3vuJrilO
Experts have told the BBC and other broadcasters that the move is unconstitutional, and that the speaker of parliament should take over when a sitting president dies before organising elections.
Ahead of the election on 11 April, Déby campaigned on a platform of bringing peace and security to the region. Provisional results showed he had 80% of the vote.
But there had been growing unhappiness over his government’s management of Chad’s oil resources. – BBC
Below is the video of a gonyet driver who deliberately targets another motorist and pushes the victim out of the road. The footage has resurfaced during discussions over how roadside assassinations have been carried out in Zimbabwe since 1979. Victims include Gen Josiah Tongogara and in recent days, the late Mines Minister Edward Chindori Chininga.
The two seven-year-old cousins killed last week on their way home from school in central Mutasa are suspected to have been murdered by their uncle who allegedly tried to throw search parties off the scent by giving false information as the community mobilised to find the missing children.
Dilan and Melissa Benza were killed at an abandoned homestead halfway on the direct 4km route between Mbaza Primary School and their home. Their bodies, with deep neck cuts and throats slit, were dumped in a disused toilet. Search parties followed a trail of blood found at the homestead when searching the day after the killings.
While initial reports suggested the bodies were intact, there are now suspicions that blood was extracted and that some body parts could have been taken.
Solomon Manyau (48) is a maternal uncle to Dilan, and a member of Mbaza Primary School’s School Development Committee. He emerged as the prime suspect because when the searches started on the afternoon of Tuesday last week he allegedly said he had last seen the children near the Kavhuru homestead about 4km from the school, and then later changed his story and said he had last seen them near the school looking for wild fruits, hubva or tsubvu.
Although Manyau was the first to be picked up, police then wanted to talk to Passmore Sambaza, thought to be the last person seen with the children. But he allegedly tried to flee the area and was reportedly picked near London Stores as he was leaving.
Manyau and Sambaza are expected to appear in court today (Wednesday) for initial remand.
Whoever killed the small children took advantage of the overgrown surroundings of the abandoned Sambaza homestead.
The tall grass gave the murderers enough cover to execute their mission without drawing any attention from passers-by.
Although post-mortem results are still to be given, Melissa’s father, Mr Douglas Benza, believes that the children were killed for rituals. He said some people who had close scrutiny of the two children’s bodies moments after being retrieved from the Blair toilet where they had been thrown, said some body parts were missing.
The agitated community did not mince its words when a visit was made to the area at the weekend, demanding justice to the perpetrators.
Dilan’s mother, Ms Lydia Manyau, who had emotions choking her regularly during the 18-minute narration of the events had no kind words to her relative, Solomon.
“It pains to lose your child in such a cruel manner. On that day, I woke up early and prepared breakfast and lunchbox for my son. Dilan and Melissa are cousins and were just inseparable even in death. They would walk to and from school together.
“There was an SDC meeting at the school, and I also attended the meeting, but left a bit early. I never harboured thoughts that I would never see my son again. I went back home to attend to other chores. Being Grade One children, I expected them to arrive home earlier than other upper grades, but on that day they were not home on time.
“Around 3pm, I started having a feeling that something was amiss because the children would usually arrive home around 1pm. I checked with Melissa’s parents, who stay nearby and they said their daughter was still to arrive,” she said.
Ms Manyau said they spread word around Sambaza and Mhanda villages of the missing children. The Benzas are originally from Mhanda Village, but are currently staying in Sambaza Village.
“As it was getting dark, a neighbour suggested that we communicate with Solomon Manyau as he was among the last people to leave the SDC meeting at Mbaza Primary School. When he was phoned, Solomon indicated that he had last seen the children near the Kavhuru homestead. We combed the area, but failed to locate the children.
“We even searched the nearby Nhindiwa River to no avail. We phoned Manyau again and he said he had last seen the children near the school grounds looking for wild fruits. His narrations were not tallying and this prompted us to go back to the school.
“Although it was late at night, I braved the darkness to go and inquire with Dilan’s teacher. We were told that the two had left school around mid-day and I was left weak-kneed,” said Ms Manyau as emotions got the better of her.
The search continued the following day on Wednesday and the search parties were boosted by the seconding of Form Four and Six boys from Mbaza High School, leading to the discovery of the children in the pit latrine.
Mr Benza said although he is still to come face-to-face with the suspects following their arrest, he will never forgive them.
“I cannot fathom my daughter being brutally killed. When her body was retrieved from the pit latrine, she had dust all over showing that she had tried to resist, but was overpowered.
“I think Solomon’s inconsistent answers when he was phoned was a decoy to keep the search parties away from the crime scene as they were busy concealing evidence. We are also being told that there was a speeding car that was spotted around Sadziwa area around 10pm as we were searching for the children,” said Mr Benza.
“We are being told that death sentence was outlawed, but these people do not have a place in our society. Once convicted, they should be relocated to another area because I cannot continue interacting with them. They should also undergo the same pain that our children went through before they met their fate,” he said.
Mr Benza added: “I cannot believe it that at this time and age there are people who still believe in ritual killings. Why did they target our two innocent children. My heart is also bleeding as I recently lost another child in unclear circumstances. The child just complained of stomach pain and died before being attended to at the clinic.”- The Herald
By A Correspondent -A 37 year old man from Vhengere township in Rusape, Manicaland province recently lost his vehicle and other valuables to two passengers who he had offered a lift from Murambinda, Masvingo province.
Manicaland deputy provincial spokesperson Assistant Inspector Wiseman Chinyoka said Benson Nyabango was robbed of his car, a cellphone and US$150.
“Nyabango was driving from Murambinda to Rusape and when he reached Chani turn-off, he picked the suspects who had asked for a lift to Rusape,” he said.
“One of the suspects sat on the front seat while the other sat at the back behind the driver,” he added.
When they reached the 136 km peg, Nyabango slowed down to negotiate a pothole and the suspect who was sitting behind him strangled him with a seat belt while the other one allegedly pulled the hand brake.
The suspects dragged Nyabango out of the car and started assaulting him all over the body with fists and booted feet.
“They overpowered him and drove off towards Nyazura leaving him behind. Inside the car there was also a Techno cellphone and US$150. Nyabango was later assisted by a friend and filed a report at Nyazura police station,” said Ass Insp Chinyoka.
He said so far nothing had been recovered and the suspects were still at large.
An article circulating during the week claiming an Islamic group has threatened Zimbabwe, is false and misleading, ZimEye can reveal.
The article in a year old and is based on cheap-propaganda doctored by a disgraced terrorist running by the pen name, Matigary. The man, Taurai Chinyamakobvu was subsequently exposed on ZimEye and banned on the Twitter website (watch the program below)
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On the 8th May 2020, the famous whistleblower of the 2008 election rigging, Shepherd Yuda spoke concerning a leak he reported he received from military sources on alleged plans by ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.
LEAKED – YUDA SPILLS THE BEANS ON MNANGAGWA'S ALLEGED MILITARY PLOT IN MOZAMBIQUE https://t.co/FG98hMkICP
If Mnangagwa created Fake Terrorist Gwesela and killed 22,000 people saying army's hunting for him (for a whole 4yrs 1983-87), and then created Fake Polling stations for Filipe Nyusi in Masvingo (in 2019), what stops him from creating Fake Terrorists in Mozambique for pleasure?
Mozambican opposition says it’s the government soldiers killing civilians,
| ANALYSIS | There are some digital footprints from within as well as from outside Mozambique that suggest that the terrorists currently operating in that country were created by Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa so he can unleash military rule over the Beira corridor: it’s all about money and getting it by blood. He’s been doing this since 1983. He created Richard Gwesela (who was later killed by a newspaper article, literally), and up to as late as 2018 when we finally witnessed the Terrorist game played before our eyes on LIVE video. It’s a well known game by the politicians and innocent people die.
In recent weeks, we have been told of Christians being killed by so-called Islamic militants in Mozambique. Are they real terrorists and not mere political agents on a special assignment? Let’s hear from the Mozambicans themselves what they are both seeing and saying.
Of the 59 tweets published by ‘the Mozambican Islamic militant group,’ on a Twitter handle, 90% of them are attacking Zimbabwe; their very first one on the 29th April 2020, is a direct message to Emmerson Mnangagwa, and the last one, late Monday evening 9pm, refers to Zimbabwe. Why are these “terrorists” so obsessed with Zimbabwe beginning with their very first tweet?
Of the pictures published of the terrorists lately and on their Twitter account, FranceAlRasa, one is unmasked as a 2015 photo, and the second (used by a South African publication, Daily Maverick, which claims they got it via Telegram from the group last year, has its first citing way back in June 2018 over in Europe, Turkey, nowhere near Africa.
the pictures analysed by their digital Origins.
the collage of pictures from the so-called terrorist group
The Twitter account FranceAlRasa, was created on the 29th April 2020, well in advance of Mnangagwa’s visit there (just a day before).
The correlation of timing as well as the desperation to rebuild the economy using military metal all point to one thing – a brute politician’s methods repeated for over 37 years since the 4th of May 1983.
One possibility – mere malicious intent
One possibility suggests that the Twitter account was created by a merely malicious person who is seeking to agitate war against Emmerson Mnangagwa. This is a very strong likely, and many citizens are known for doing these things in the past as they vent their anger against the government. If this is the case however how did the individual (s) know that Mnangagwa would fly over to Mozambique at the end of the week? The person who did this could thus only be an insider, or at least one possessing insider state-knowledge.
Furthermore if that is true, on Sunday, the nation witnessed ZANU PF’s most prolific pressure group, screaming on social networks that the Zimbabwe National Army must be deployed to Mozambique with immediate effect, today. They said they must do this in order to crush ISIS. They are confident that they will win this war. Very soon ZANU PF will throw a party telling the whole world that Emmerson Mnangagwa is the only politician who can crush ISIS. He has done it in Mozambique! Perfect. We will all believe them, because we did not care to investigate.
And why is ZANU PF suddenly agitated for war?
Does Mozambique have Islamic militants? Who is funding them?
Since Mnangagwa created fake polling stations in Masvingo for Phillip Nyusi 7 months ago, and someone printed fake IDs for scores of Zimbabweans who have never set foot in Mozambique to vote for Nyusi, what is his next move? The current Chairman of the SADC Politics, Defence And Security, is well known for creating terrorists who work for him and his story is documented for a long 37 year period. It brings up the question of what SADC is all about when it appoints someone who has killed more blacks than apartheid South Africa to head its defence and security, but well this is a very very long discussion for another day. A very long one.
Local agencies in Mozambique quote the opposition in that country complaining that the state is murdering civilians.
Mozambique’s interior minister, Amade Miquidade, last month attacked what he described as dis-information spread by independent journalists who are calling into question the credibility of Mozambique’s security forces.
He also blasted Jose Manteigas, a spokesman for Renamo, the main opposition party, who has accused the country’s security forces of “murdering” civilians.
Miquidade said the security forces “will not tolerate these acts of subversion.”
Zitimar news agency, quotes Manteigas alleging that Mozambique’s security forces killed 12 civilians — including two Renamo members — when they attacked boats at jetties on Ibo island in mid-April.
In another report, the interior minister has claimed that security forces have since put the situation in Cabo Delgado under control.
“The situation in Cabo Delgado, at this moment, is under control. What does that mean? We have identified where the enemy is, what are their bases, what are their camps and their movements; while, the defence and security forces are strategically preparing for yet another offensive,” said Miquidade.
Seeing that Mnangagwa is officially assisting Nyusi with political direction, what kind of mentorship is Emmerson Mnangagwa giving the Mozambican leader, a professional one? How is the story unfolding?
So far, the report begins on the 4th May 1983, when Mnangagwa created fake terrorists having abducted and killed 6 western tourists. The victims were: Brett Baldwin, 23, of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Kevin Ellis, 24, of Bellevue, Wash.; Britons James Greenwell and Martyn Hodgeson; and Australians Tony Bajzeli and William Butler.
The Gwesela sequel.
ZIFA’s spokesperson, Xolisani Gwesela has in recent days responded to allegations by some quarters in Matebeleland who attack him saying that he is the son of the notorious so called dissident, Ranson or Richard Gwesela, a terrorist Mnangagwa created in the 1980s.
Gwesela is the infamous “immortal” character who the Zimbabwean military claimed they were after between 1983 and 1987 when they continued to kill civilians until more than 22,000 people were massacred. He was immortal for a whole 4 years and only “killed” when ZANU PF now wanted to sign a unity accord with Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU party in 1987.
Thousands of people sensationally flocked to a police station in Gweru on the 18th November 1987 for a glimpse of the bullet-riddled corpse of Zimbabwe’s most wanted “fugitive.”
Zimbabwe Republic Police say Richard Gwesela, a former guerrilla fighter, was a gang leader who terrorized the people of two provinces for four years.
Gwesela was alleged to have murdered 20 people in the Midlands and neighbouring Matabeleland provinces. He also was said to have raped women and robbed villagers.
In silence, onlookers walked past his body sprawled beneath a wanted poster offering $30,000 for him, dead or alive.
The state media said Gwesela was the country’s most wanted man, and was killed in a gunbattle with Zimbabwean security forces near Gweru “on Sunday,” earlier.
His death was reported for the first time three days later, on the Wednesday. There were no independent investigations to confirm the state media report.
His mother and an uncle identified the corpse as Gwesela, and police fingerprints confirmed the identity, according to the state media report.
″Gwesela had killed more than 20 people since he started operating in the area,″ Enos Nkala, home affairs minister in charge of police, told reporters. ″Now he is going to join them, whether in heaven or hell, we don’t know,” he said.
NEW TWIST.
33 years later, some Mthwakazi activists have begun claiming ZIFA’s Gwesela was rewarded the sports job for a sterling role the supposed father played as an insider who staged for Emmerson Mnangagwa during Gukurahundi in order to kill civilians, pursuing Emmerson Mnangagwa’s terror operation to kill people under the guise of flushing out dissidents.
One activist makes the above chilling allegations (pic).
Responding however, ZIFA’s Mr Xolisani Gwesa told ZimEye, the so called Gwesela was not even a real Gwesela.
He said: “This writer is waffling. I am shocked by these ghastly falsehoods.
“I am the son of the late Chief Gwesela whose real name was Cornelius Nobody Gwesela Ndebele who died in 1996.He was never a dissident. The so called “dissident Gwesela” was never a Gwesela and his real name was Zedious Mangena.
“I am holder of a Masters Degree in Media and Society studies, Post grad Diploma in Media , Bsc Honours degree , Diploma in Management and Diploma in Sport Management.
“I have over 15 years experience in media management and sport management and events coordination. I joined Zifa purely on merit.
“The Gweselas are also from Zhombe and not Lower Gweru. The Gweselas are also from Zhombe and not Lower Gweru.”
ZIMBABWE, THE WORLD’S FASTEST GROWING CROP ECONOMY SUDDENLY CRASHED FOLLOWING MNANGAGWA’S PRONOUNCEMENTS
Rhodesia, was once the worst hit African economy by both United Nations sanctions and a debilitating 14 year running civil war from within, and yet by 1976, it had been hailed as the world’s fastest growing crop economy. So what really went wrong? Soon after 1980, it was handed over to Robert Mugabe and his state security minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who less than 3 years later launched a military crackdown against civilians who he personally described as cockroaches who must be wiped out using DDT. That operation destroyed the economy in ways exactly similar to the recent 1 Aug 2018 military crackdown (which the Finance Ministry has told The Motlanthe Commission has cost the nation USD16 billion.) Zimbabwe’s economy began crumbling following Mnangagwa’s words on the 4th April 1983:
“Blessed are they who will follow the path of the Government laws, for their days on earth will be increased. But woe unto those who will choose the path of collaboration with dissidents for we will certainly shorten their stay on earth.”
As Minister of State Security, Mnangagwa was in charge of the brutal massacre of more than 22 000 Ndebele. He labeled dissidents ‘cockroaches’ and the killers of the Fifth Brigade army unit as ‘DDT,’ an insecticide.
Economy data shows how the country’s GDP crashed down following the operation, and effects were immediately felt from 1983 all the way to 1985.
Fast forward to the period 2004 – 2018 more evidence shows the correlation between economic performance and the rule of law, specifically human rights adherence.
MNANGAGWA’S METHOD.
But Mnangagwa’s method is different. He operates on the belief that an economy is only built by killing people, and his appetite for shedding blood is evident for 40 years to date during which he has killed more blacks than apartheid South Africa. On the 2nd January, 2020, he told residents of Kuwadzana, Harare that he will send the army after them once he suspects them to have stopped the rain. This came barely 2 years after he deployed the military to change election results and citizens for the first time witnessed soldiers opening fire against shoppers going about the day-to-day business.
What kind of mentorship is Emmerson Mnangagwa giving the Mozambican leader, a professional one?
There is no doubt that Mnangagwa will deny all this evidence even to the Mozambicans. But his file is now full and fat, a whole 37 years full.
If Mnangagwa created Fake Terrorist Gwesela and killed 22,000 people saying army's hunting for him (for a whole 4yrs 1983-87), and then created Fake Polling stations for Filipe Nyusi in Masvingo (in 2019), what stops him from creating Fake Terrorists in Mozambique for pleasure?
OVER 100 families who were last week evicted from the Anglican Church-owned Cyrene Farm at Mcwazini area in Figtree, Matabeleland South Province, by the Sheriff of the High Court, have since returned to the property.
The villagers were in 2003 ordered by the High Court under case number HC2444/03 to vacate the property within seven days following an application by the Anglican Church.
The villagers were served with the eviction papers on Wednesday last week, two decades after they had occupied the farm at the height of the land reform programme in 2000.
According to the writ of ejectment, the eviction order followed a judgment by High Court Judge President Justice George Chiweshe directing the villagers who were represented by six members, to vacate the farm.
The order granted by Justice Chiweshe reads: “The respondents and any persons claiming through them as well as other persons presently in unlawful occupation of Cyrene Farm, Figtree, be and are hereby ordered to vacate Cyrene Farm together with all their property and possessions immediately upon service of this order, failure of which the Deputy Sheriff with the assistance of officer-in-charge Figtree are hereby authorised and directed to evict the respondents.”
The farm has been at the centre of a wrangle between the Anglican Diocese Church of Matabeleland and the villagers who argue that they were allowed to remain on the farm by the Government after it gazetted the property for land redistribution on November 14, 2014 under General Notice 467 of 2014.
When Chronicle visited the farm yesterday, most of the villagers had returned to the property insisting that their stay was within the confines of the law.
Mcwazini Village secretary Mr Lutha Maduna said tempers flared soon after villagers were served with the eviction order and anti-riot police had to intervene.
“We were busy conducting our routine chores when the Sheriff of the High Court accompanied by Anglican Church officials, a group of youths and police arrived at the farm. The Sheriff produced an eviction order and they started removing our properties,” he said.
“In some cases, tempers flared as villagers resisted the move and police had to intervene to save the situation from degenerating into chaos. This is not the first time that we have been evicted and what is shocking is that at one time the Minister of State for Matabeleland South Provincial Affairs visited the farm and assured us that no one would evict us.”- Chronicle
AN Independence Day illegal party in Hwange ended in tragedy after a villager who grabbed a married woman to dance with her allegedly stabbed her protesting husband to death.
Matabeleland North police spokesperson Inspector Glory Banda said Advance Sibanda (33) of Makwandara Village under Chief Nekatambe died in the early hours of Monday, five hours after being stabbed by Bongani Dube (31) of Sialwindi in neighbouring Chief Dingani-Nelukoba’s area.
Dube is also admitted to St Patrick’s Hospital in Hwange under police guard with a deep stab wound on the thigh, although his attacker is not yet known.
Dube told police Sibanda stabbed him while some witnesses said he may have stabbed himself to appear as if he was attacked.
Police are investigating the allegations.
“I can confirm that we received a report of murder where a man died following an attack at a party,” said Insp Banda. “They were drinking beer at Makwandara grinding mill while celebrating Independence Day around 1am.
“Dube, who was dancing, grabbed Sibanda’s wife Ms Buhlebenkosi Ncube (18). Sibanda got angry and confronted Dube resulting in a misunderstanding.”
A fight ensued between Sibanda and Dube, who allegedly drew a knife from a pocket and stabbed Sibanda on the right armpit.
Insp Banda said people who were present saw Dube removing something from his pocket and stabbing Sibanda, although they did not clearly see the kind of weapon used.
Police later recovered a blood stained Okapi knife from Dube.
After being stabbed, Sibanda attempted to flee from the scene, but ran for about 36 metres and collapsed.
Police said some villagers carried Sibanda in a wheelbarrow to Makwandara Clinic at around 3am and on arrival they found Dube seated at the clinic with an injured thigh seeking medical assistance.
Sibanda died around 5am before he could be transferred to a hospital.
A report was made to the police who attended the scene and found members of the public still drinking beer and playing loud music at the murder scene, while there were traces of blood near the grinding mill.
Insp Banda said Mercy Rwafa, a member of the community who hosted the party, was arrested for holding an illegal party during lockdown and is detained at Dete Police Station.
He urged members of the public to desist from violence and violating lockdown rules.- The Herald
