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Tinashe Sambiri|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has no appetite to deal with corruption, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said.

President Chamisa wrote on Twitter:
“The looting of covid-19 funds last year has not resulted in a single trial, let alone a conviction. That is open testimony that the supposed State authorities have no appetite to deal with corruption. Thanks to our African compatriots for this award which acts as such a reminder.”

President Chamisa also commended prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono for winning an award for exposing corruption:

“The ultimate prize is to give back where we came from, and not to take from the poor in what is known as looting. We hope that those who have caused so much suffering to our people will learn one or two things from this gesture. Well done brother Hopewell for remembering others.”

Below is Hopewell’s tweet:

I commit ALL the prize money from this important award to helping buy basic PPE for Murewa Hospital!

I would like to thank all the sources, journalists & citizens who helped me put together the exposures.

More importantly, I would like to thank @ZLHRLawyers for standing with me

Tinashe Sambiri|Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has no appetite to deal with corruption, MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said.

President Chamisa wrote on Twitter:
“The looting of covid-19 funds last year has not resulted in a single trial, let alone a conviction. That is open testimony that the supposed State authorities have no appetite to deal with corruption. Thanks to our African compatriots for this award which acts as such a reminder.”

He also commended prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono for winning an award for exposing corruption:

“The ultimate prize is to give back where we came from, and not to take from the poor in what is known as looting. We hope that those who have caused so much suffering to our people will learn one or two things from this gesture. Well done brother Hopewell for remembering others.”

Below is Hopewell’s tweet:

I commit ALL the prize money from this important award to helping buy basic PPE for Murewa Hospital!

I would like to thank all the sources, journalists & citizens who helped me put together the exposures.

More importantly, I would like to thank @ZLHRLawyers for standing with me

By way of this note, I would like to inform the MDC-A Party President, Nelson CHAMISA and the entire MDC-A family that I am not backtracking on my decision to quit the MDC-A, instead, I have decided to join the ruling Zanu PF Party.

I would like to thank my sisters and brothers in the MDC family for the political journey traversed since the party’s formation in 1999. However, after careful consideration and retrospection, particularly on how the MDC party has been conducting its business, I have sadly come to the conclusion that nothing constructive with regards to Democracy, Good Governance and the well-being of Zimbabweans in general would ever come out of the MDC- A. Over the years, I have observed the following among other issues that;

The party has been at the forefront of criticizing ZANU (PF) and ZEC for allegedly failing to conduct credible elections, yet MDC internal elections have always been marred with a lot of irregularities, Vote Rigging and buying as well as the imposition of candidates have become synonymous with MDC internal elections. The chaotic MDC-A and MDC-T elective Congresses quickly comes to mind.

The MDC Senior leadership’s intolerance to divergent views and power-hungry tendencies have caused serious divisions and disintegration of the party.

Similarly, the party’s retrogressive confrontational approach and violent tendencies have led to the unnecessary destruction of property, injury to innocent civilians and destabilization of the economy.

The party is good at criticising the ZANU (PF) Government, particularly on social media without coming up with tangible or practical solutions to the country’s challenges. President E.D MNANGAGWA soon after the 2018 Harmonised elections created a platform where all the country’s political players converge and contribute towards bringing the people of Zimbabwe together and share ideas on how to rebuild the country, yet the MDC-A keeps on excluding itself from this noble platform. Self exclusion from Polad vindicates the party’s self centered approach.

The MDC-A party has always held Western Governments in high esteem, welcoming advice from them with open arms irrespective of same’s hypocrisy, double standards and questionable track records with regards to Human Rights and the implementation of Democratic principles. The party shuns engaging local stakeholders and fellow Zimbabweans in general, yet these have the interests of the country at heart. It is sad to note that the MDC-A has not observed that political players in the Western countries to whom they very much like to draw lessons from find one another and engage whenever national interests are at stake.

I have decided to join the ruling Zanu Pf Party because of the party’s impeccable track record. The party has the interests of the people at heart as evidenced by community driven projects it has been implementing over the years. Furthermore, the party has over the years been successfully holding its internal elections and the party has always been open to dialogue whenever the country’s peace and stability is threatened.

I am also happy to announce that the Zanu Pf President and First Secretary Cde ED MNANGAGWA has welcomed me into the Zanu Pf family without any conditions to which I am very grateful.

In conclusion, the MDC-A need self introspection and a paradigm shift in ways it conducts business if it is to remain relevant in the Zimbabwean political arena.

Yours
L. TIMVEOS

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC MDC Alliance official, Ralph Magunje, who was arrested alongside 11 party members in Chinhoyi on Saturday, says he is determined to fight for change despite being intimidated by government agents.

The 12 MDC Alliance members were brutally assaulted by armed soldiers and police details.

Soldiers and cops raided the MDC Alliance offices while the 12 officials were making arrangements for the burial of a party member.

“Our arrest was a blessing in disguise. We managed to have a marathon of uninterrupted of Provincial Administration meetings in custody with binding resolutions. 2021 MDC Alliance Mash West we will get the ball rolling,” Magunje wrote on Twitter.

By A Correspondent- Ministry of Health and Child Care official Dr. Portia Manangazira was yesterday denied bail by Harare Magistrate yesterday, ZBC News reports.

Manangazira a Director of Epidemiology and Diesel Control in the Ministry of Health and Child Care is facing charges of abuse of office after she reportedly facilitated the employment of 28 of her relatives and authorizing payments without following due process.

According to the publication, she was denied bail for fear that she can influence witnesses: Dr Manangazire who appeared in court this Tuesday was denied bail on the basis that she could temper with evidence and interfere with state witnesses.

The court further noted that the accused is closely related to the 28 people whom she allegedly recruited and is therefore likely to influence them.

The court also noted that there is no bail condition that can stop the accused from influencing state witnesses because they are her relatives.

Manangazira will be back in court on 9 March 2021.-

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC MDC Alliance official, Ralph Magunje, who was arrested alongside 11 party members in Chinhoyi on Saturday, says he is determined to fight for change despite being intimidated by government agents.

The 12 MDC Alliance members were brutally assaulted by armed soldiers and police details.

Soldiers and cops raided the MDC Alliance offices while the 12 officials were making arrangements for the burial of a party member.

“Our arrest was a blessing in disguise. We managed to have a marathon of uninterrupted of Provincial Administration meetings in custody with binding resolutions. 2021 MDC Alliance Mash West we will get the ball rolling,” Magunje wrote on Twitter.

Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance national spokesperson, Advocate Fadzayi Mahere has said the popular movement will not be part of talks meant to please Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa- without resolving problems affecting the nation.

Mr Douglas Mwonzora is crying for dialogue with Zanu PF.

Advocate Mahere maintains the MDC Alliance stance on dialogue has not changed:

“The MDC Alliance will not participate in sham “dialogue” engineered by a Zanu PF proxy who usurped the will of the people.

No amount of crude propaganda will change our position as a matter of principle. Yes to reforms. No to elite pacts. Political power lies in the people.

Any political dialogue must be sincere and have as its main agenda the implementation of deep reforms.

This is the only way to return the country to legitimacy and democracy.

How can those with no mandate and a sinister agenda lead the way? How’s this different from POLAD?

What “new” dialogue push is being referred to? The citizens deserve sincere root & branch reform. We can’t have a repeat of the “Muzorewa-style” sham talks,” argued Advocate Mahere.

Tinashe Sambiri|A Non Governmental Organization based in Masvingo has released a position paper, citing concerns about the exclusion of minority groups from key electoral processes.

The Emmerson Mnangagwa led administration is accused of closing democratic space, relegating minority groups to the peripheries of decision making.

In its position paper, Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Development( MACRAD) notes that minority groups have the right to participate in key national processes.

See the MACRAD presentation:

Venda and Shangaan people

This paper is about the participation of indigenous minority groups in elections and various electoral processes in Zimbabwe.

The minority ethnic groups included herein are the Shangaan and the Venda. The Shangaan are the majority ethnic group scattered across four constituencies namely Chiredzi North, Chiredzi East, Chiredzi West and Chiredzi South of the Chiredzi district. Other Shangaan people are sparsely populated in Mwenezi West and Mwenezi East constituencies of Mwenezi district. Lastly, Venda ethnic group is concentrated in Beitbridge district located in Matabeleland South province. This paper focused on these two minority groups scrutinizing their participation in electoral processes in Zimbabwe.

The main aim is to interrogate how they exercise their rights in voting considering their minority status in the broader shrinking democratic space in Zimbabwe.

Understanding the indigenous/minority ethnic groups
Indigenous people are the first inhabitants or native social groups who have lived in particular geographical spaces over long period of time. They are referred to by various names such as, the Natives, the First people and the autochthonous people among others. The United Nations’ defines them as, ‘…..of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived. According to the IUCN, indigenous people are those who still practice their historical and unique traditions presented through well decorated tangible artefacts – dressing, musical instruments, jewellery and craft – and intangible cultural artefacts – language, dances, music and rituals. According to the UN, the indigenous people in modern days are considered as minority ethnic groups in national contexts. Their minority status emerged after being disoriented and dominated through physical conquest, settlement and occupation by bigger social groups.

Normative profiles of the Shangaan and the Venda

The Shangaan and the Venda are amongst the few indigenous minority groups found in Zimbabwe. Statistics showed that the Venda and Shangaan in conjunction with other minority groups constitute less than 10% of the Zimbabwean population. The country is dominated by the Shona speaking people who constitute 75% of the Zimbabwean population – the Shona speaking people appears in three tribal clusters namely Zezuru, Karanga and Manyika. Like other indigenous minority groups elsewhere, their participation in politics is not autonomous and in most cases they experience induced or directed participation.

(i) The Venda
The Venda people are a minority group found on the southern parts of Zimbabwe whilst the majority reside in South Africa. History tells that they originated from the Mapungubwe kingdom which was established by their ancestors in the 19th century. Furthermore, the Venda people belong to the Bantu language cluster which is common South Eastern Africa. Their primary language is Venda and their religion is in the domain of African Traditional Religion (ATR). The Venda’s ethnoreligion is their way of life which embraces close connection with their ethnic identity, cultural heritage and practice.

Interestingly, the Venda people have a very high esteem on their women. Ideally, the system of valuing women is quiet unusual when compared to other ethnic groups spread across Africa. In real practice, the Vendas encourage their women to occupy influential and senior positions in the society. In both the domestic and public spheres, aunties (known as Vhomakadzi) are very powerful in conflict resolution and management. In domestic spheres, they guarantee peace and serenity amongst family members – between and amongst siblings, in-laws and in marriages. Furthermore, they are the custodians of divine processes such as ritual performing and communication with the ancestors.

(a) Political economy
The Venda people domicile in the rural parts of Beitbridge town in Matabeleland South province. The district is bordered with Mozambique to the east, Botswana west and South Africa to the south. Ecologically, this district lies in region V. and is characterised by arid conditions and untenable topographic traits. Excessive temperature and low rainfall patterns makes it very difficult for rainfed farming. As a result, the Venda people are vulnerable to severe food insecurities. Alternatively, they rely much on animal husbandry – cattle are the common livestock produced. Others work in commercial farms in the district which produce oranges. The other dominant livelihood strategy amongst the Vendas is crossing to South either as petty traders or wage labor seekers. Their political economy is more South African than Zimbabwean.

(ii) The Shangaan
The Shangaan people (also referred to as Tsonga) are a minority group largely concentrated in Chiredzi district whilst others are scattered in some parts of Mwenezi district in Masvingo province. Broadly, the Shangaan people are also found in the Limpopo province of South Africa and Mozambique. Their main language is Xichangana or Shangaan which is directly related to Zulu and Ndebele. This language has five dialects which are as follows are, Hlanganu (Ihlanganu), Dzonga (Xidzonga), N’walangu (Xin’walungu), Bila (Xibila) and Hlengwe (Xihlengwe)

(a) The Shangaan’s political economy in Chiredzi and Mwenezi
Chiredzi Mwenezi
Chiredzi District is one of the seven administrative districts in Masvingo province and it’s found in the south eastern part of Zimbabwe which boarders Mozambique and South Africa.

It is also found amongst the least developed areas in Zimbabwe. This area receives less than 650mm of rain per annum hence making it more vulnerable to droughts. As a result, the Shangaan relies much on mixed farming of small grains and livestock production. Apart from farming, the youth and the able boded in Chiredzi relies much on working in commercial sugarcane plantations whilst majority migrate to South Africa for greener pastures. Mwenezi is one of the seven administrative districts in Masvingo province. People living there are a mixture of Karanga and Shangaan. It is amongst the least developed districts in Zimbabwe. Different parts of Mwenezi district are found agro-ecological region 4 and 5 respectively. Like Chiredzi, this district is prone to severe droughts especially on rainfed smallholder farming. They also depend on livestock production inclusive of cattle and goats. Other livelihood strategies include working in sugarcane plantations and migrating to South Africa for better life chances.

Legislatives whither indigenous minority groups’ democratic political participation
The American Centre for Peace and Diplomacy (ACPD) (2006) conceptualized participation as the inclusive – individuals and communities – process of making decisions in all ongoing political processes. This means that, all people, regardless of differences in ethnicity, age, gender, religion etc, should be accorded the same platform and capacity to meaningfully contribute in all political decisions without discrimination and prejudice. Calls for equality on political participation amongst individual and minority groups are all noted in both domestic, regional and international legal instruments.

In Zimbabwe the rights to political participation are granted by constitution, Electoral Act (EA) and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). The constitutional chapter below and it subsequent sections in the Zimbabwean Constitution stipulates the following inclusive rights of individuals and minority groups in participating in electoral processes in Zimbabwe.

THE daring thieves, who allegedly stole a copy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Independence Day speech and a laptop last year were on Monday granted bail by Kwekwe magistrate Cheryl Tembo despite the police having valid warrants of arrest in Harare and Masvingo.

Trymore Jakarasi (35) of Pumula North, Bulawayo, and Shepherd Madaka (29) Budiriro 3, Harare, were granted $5 000 bail each when they appeared before Tembo, while Tinashe Matete Dube (27) of Glen View 3, Harare, was remanded to his hospital bed at Kwekwe General Hospital.

Dube is also facing attempted murder charges after he tried to run over a police sergeant, Misheck Mubika, after they were cornered and arrested at Cooler Box Bottlestore in Kwekwe last Wednesday.

The three were members of a four-member gang that was on the “wanted list” for stealing a laptop and Mnangagwa’s speech from a car driven by one of his security aides.

The same gang was on the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Masvingo’s “most wanted list” for theft from cars under case number CR17/06/2020.

The notorious gang was reported in Dzivaresekwa, Harare, under case number CR155/04/20, after breaking into a vehicle belonging to Mnangagwa’s unnamed aide last year, where they stole various goods including a laptop and the President’s prepared speech.

-Newsday

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Jane Mlambo| Controversial Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has suggested that Vice Preside Kembo Mohadi may have resigned from his post following damaging reports of his sexual scandals leaked to the public by local publication including ZimEye.

Postig o Twitter this morning, Mliswa said he is hearing reports of Mohadi resigning while questioning precedence that would set to other top Government officials whom he said were equally guilty of the same offences.

“If what I’m hearing is true and VP Mohadi has resigned, what precedence does this set? If alleged immorality affects a single man so drastically, what’s going to happen to the married Govt Ministers and MPs engaged in such illicit affairs? Will they resign too?,” said Mliswa.

Mohadi has dominated headlines after his phone calls to a number of women including his office assistants leaked to the media where he was soliciting for sexual favors.

By Leonard Koni| Zimbabwe’s ruling party Zanu PF has been for time immemorial leading in hijacking funerals especially of celebrities.

The party was shamelessly at it again this time around when they declared Saul Musaka popularly known as Soul Jah Love in the Zimbabwean dancehall music. The party has gained  notoriety for fighting over celebrities’ corpses!

They also did the same at the late Dr Oliver Mtukudzi’s funeral. The same happened when former President Cde Robert Mugabe. Mugabe of course was their own person but before he died, he broadly refused to be entered at the National Shrine.

Last week Zanu PF were on steroids printing banners for Soul Jah Love’s image declaring him a provincial hero. That was done to lure the ghetto youths who ended up chanting slogans at his burial praising President Emmerson Mnangwa.

The question that immediately comes into mind is, if he did not sing about Zanu PF was he going to be declared a provincial hero? Another question is , will they declare Winky D like they did to Soul Jah Love?

Who should decide to declare an individual who would have served the country with colours a hero status?

Should that be left to be decided by a certain clique of people from the ruling party like what we are witnessing from Zanu PF?

Imagine upon death, the ZANU-PF politburo decides who should be declared a hero. Three options exist namely, district, provincial and national hero.

I think the method is a bit flawed and needs some touch ups and a little bit of panel beating in order for it to sound more national than being partisan.

Mugabe deliberately sidelined Zimbabwean nationalist leader, Ndabaningi Sithole, as the president became increasingly dictatorial.

Heroes and heroines are naturally born and not accorded by man but by the Almighty. Unfortunately we have seen those outside the revolutionary party not being declared heroes simply because they don’t tow along the lines.

George Shaya, Leonard Dembo real name Kwangwari Gwaendepi and Mukudzei Mudzi just to mention a few may not be heroes by declaration but citizens see them as such.

Declaring someone a hero status must not be limited and decided by a political party or politburo only but there must be a national consensus. It must be a collective national issue where all stakeholders are involved and should sound national.

The declaration of national heroes must be handled by an independent body not by this ZANU PF politburo which declares their supporters heroes.

Email – [email protected]Twitter – @LeokoniWhatsApp- +27616868508

Own Correspondent | Temba Mliswa’s ex-lover
Susan Mutami is attracting headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Several social media users claim Susan relys on love juju to entice rich guys.

According to an audio clip circulating on WhatsApp one lady is heard accusing Susan of using love muti.

“Susan usade kushamisira,siyana naMP vedu wanzwa,munhu wepi anoshandisa mushonga achitora varume vevanhu,pasina ma love charms hauna zvauri iwewe.

Ziva zvekuinda kuna Makomichi n’anga yako,uchiba varume vevanhu,ukataurisa uchaguma wanyara and yu know me very well,”said the lady.

Susan is yet to respond to the allegations.

Makomichi is a Masvingo -based preacher who is reportedly working with slay queens to destroy people’s marriages through love charms.

POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a 21-year-old domestic worker from Bradfield suburb for allegedly sexually abusing her employer’s 10-year-old son.

In a Twitter statement, the police urged parents and guardians to be wary of people they are leaving their children with as some of them are abusive.

“The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) encourages parents to always monitor their children whilst playing and avoid leaving them with irresponsible persons as they might end up being abused. This follows a case of aggravated indecent assault which occurred on Saturday in Bradfield, Bulawayo where a male juvenile (10) was sexually abused by a housemaid (21),” read the statement.

Meanwhile, a teenager from Harare was raped by a 33-year-old after being told by a self-proclaimed prophet that the rapist would be her husband.

“Harare woman (19) was raped on several occasions between January and February 2021 by a suspect (33) after receiving a prophetic message from an alleged prophet who indicated to her that the man will be her future husband. The spiritualist concealed the offence when it was reported to him by the victim,” read the police statement.

“The ZRP encourages members of the public to report all cases of sexual abuse promptly and avoid trusting strange prophetic utterances from pastors and prophets.”- Chronicle

TWO brothers who were fighting each other at a shrine after the elder brother accused his sibling of having an affair with his wife allegedly turned on a Good Samaritan who had tried to stop the fight and killed him.

One of the two brothers allegedly held the Good Samaritan upside down with his feet up and head down while the other one stabbed him several times all over the body with a knife.

Pardon Guzhumura (22) was allegedly killed by Emmanuel Matura (21) and Felix (25) while his mother known as Madzimai Nancy – a self-proclaimed prophet- and some sect members watched helplessly.

The incident happened around 11pm on Monday at a shrine belonging to Madzimai Nancy in Greenvale, Gweru.

Madzimai Nancy’s shrine is popular with artisanal miners and people who want to be cleansed of evil spirits.

Sources said Felix and Emmanuel worked together as artisanal miners and would consult Madzimai Nancy together so that she could assist them to get gold when panning.

“On Monday morning, Felix and Emmanuel visited Madzimai Nancy’s shrine in Greenvale for prayers so that they get gold when panning. Madzimai Nancy told them to return at night since she consulted for people spiritually only at night,” said the source.

The source said the brothers spent the day drinking beer before making their way to Madzimai Nancy’s shrine around 10pm.

When they got to the shrine, Felix’s pregnant wife was allegedly being prayed for by Madzimai Nancy.

The source said Felix allegedly ordered Madzimai Nancy to consult and confirm if the pregnancy was indeed his or Emmanuel’s.

“Felix and Emmanuel started fighting each other with Felix accusing his brother of being in love with his wife,” said the source.

It is at this stage, the source said, that Madzimai Nancy’s son intervened.

“The brothers turned on him with Emmanuel holding him upside down Undertaker (WWE Wrestling superstar) style while Felix stabbed him before they ran away from the shrine,” said the source.

Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the alleged murder of Guzhumura at his mothers’ shrine by the two brothers.

“I can confirm that two brothers Felix and Emmanuel Matura who had gone for spiritual cleansing at a shrine in Greenvale, Gweru, allegedly killed Pardon Guzhumura following a misunderstanding. Guzhumura was assaulted first before he was stabbed several times all over his body,” he said.

Insp Mahoko said the matter was reported to the police who attended the scene before Guzhumura was rushed to Gweru Provincial Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The two suspects were arrested and they are assisting police with investigations.

“As the police, we appeal to members of the public to desist from using violence to solve their problems. The police are there to solve problems and so are community leaders because violence leads to loss of property and lives,” he said.- Chronicle

A 32-YEAR-OLD Lupane man has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to rape a 78-year-old woman in a bush.

Bright Bhukanana Moyo (32) of Gudubhu village allegedly pounced on the elderly woman last Thursday as she walked through a bush.

He allegedly pinned her to the ground in an attempt to rape her but when she screamed a neighbour rushed to the scene and he fled.

The woman whose identity cannot be mentioned for ethical reasons was reportedly walking along a path in a bush near Gudubhu village when the incident occurred.

Both women managed to identify Moyo and reported the matter to the police leading to his arrest last Friday.

Moyo was not asked to plead to attempted rape when he appeared before Lupane resident magistrate Mr Ndumo Masuku.

He was remanded in custody to Thursday for plea recording.

Prosecuting, Mr Derick Nkosilathi Ndlovu said Moyo wrestled the woman to the ground.

“On 18 February, the accused met the complainant in a bushy area in Gudubhu. He grabbed her by the body and wrestled her to the ground,” said Mr Ndlovu.

He said Moyo pinned the elderly woman down as he attempted to rape her.

The complainant screamed and a neighbour whose name has also been concealed, rushed to the scene.

Moyo fled from the scene when he saw her approaching.

The two women reported the matter to the police leading to Moyo’s arrest.- Chronicle

The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance (MDC-A) will only take party in dialogue that is genuine and whose agenda is the implementation of far-reaching political and electoral reforms, a senior party official has said.

Responding to a headline by a daily publication that has been pushing the dialogue agenda for some time now, MDC-A party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said that the implementation of deep reforms is the only way to return the country to legitimacy. She wrote on Twitter:

The MDC Alliance will not participate in sham “dialogue” engineered by a Zanu PF proxy who usurped the will of the people.

No amount of crude propaganda will change our position as a matter of principle. Yes to reforms. No to elite pacts. Political power lies in the people.

Any political dialogue must be sincere and have as its main agenda the implementation of deep reforms.

This is the only way to return the country to legitimacy and democracy.

How can those with no mandate and a sinister agenda lead the way? How’s this different from POLAD?

Mwonzora succeeded Khupe who was a keen participant of POLAD under their MDCT outfit. When did the MDC T leave POLAD?

What “new” dialogue push is being referred to? The citizens deserve sincere root & branch reform. We can’t have a repeat of the “Muzorewa-style” sham talks.

The MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora has been pushing for dialogue outside the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) framework but the ruling ZANU PF party has ruled that out.

On its party, the MDC-A has insisted on one-on-one dialogue with ZANU PF outside POLAD but the latter has always reiterated its stance that dialogue will only take place within the POLAD framework.- Pindula News

In the past week, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) and Women and Law in Southern Africa – Zimbabwe (WLSA) have noted with increased concern, allegations of sexual misconduct against various public officials on mainstream and social media platforms.

Most notably, Vice President, Kembo Mohadi has in the past few days faced allegations of engaging in sexual intercourse with a married subordinate, in addition to purportedly engaging in sexual trysts at his government office. In defence of the Vice President, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana took to his social media platforms to assert that the allegations against the Vice President were spurred by insecure men and people who failed to mind the business of two consenting adults. 

In Bulawayo, High Court judge, Justice Mabhikwa, has been embroiled in an embarrassing sex scandal that involves an affair with a young subordinate. The young lady allegedly leaked nude images of the judge and sexually explicit WhatsApp messages from his phone to family, friends and professional colleagues after she became suspicious that he was involved in an affair with another lady. 

The Forum and WLSA are deeply troubled with the allegations as they involve engagements of a sexual nature by persons in positions of power with subordinate personnel. The allegations evidently implicate a culture of abuse of office and power by public officials for sexual advantage. Public officials are held to the highest standard of professional ethics and conduct which they are obliged to promote and maintain. This is premised on the fact that public officials carry out their duties on a premise of public trust and are vested with power that cannot be abused for personal gain or sexual exploitation. 

In view of this, the remarks by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana, on his social media platforms are particularly unsettling as they uphold a culture that is inconsistent with the legal, moral and ethical code that binds public officials. The act of engaging a subordinate for sexual benefit directly flies in the face of the tenets upon which public officials exercise their mandate and the position of power that they are imbued with. 

The Forum and WLSA join all progressive Zimbabweans and calls for the immediate investigation into the alleged acts of misconduct and a call to account. A failure to make a stand and ensure that there is accountability would be to severely undermine the fundamental values and principles that public officials stand upon, and that which the public draws on for confidence in its government.

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC MDC Alliance Secretary General Hon Charlton Hwende has ruled out dialogue with “captured” Douglas Mwonzora and Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.

According to Hon Hwende, Mwonzora and Mnangagwa must review their failed attempt to destroy the MDC Alliance.

“Mwonzora and ED must dialogue and assess their failed project of killing the MDC Alliance.

They have failed to dislodge President @nelsonchamisa. They have failed to kill the People’s resolve for a People’s Government.

How can you dialogue with thieves? One stole the 2018 Presidential Election and helped his puppet to steal our MPs, Money and Head Office.

Tatamba zvakwana!!! We are busy mobilizing and educating our people so that they can be ready to engage in a People’s Dialogue and reclaim their stolen vote, Presidency, MPs and our Buildings.

That dialogue will be held in the streets soon,” said Hon Mwonzora.

An alleged intimate affair between Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa and a member of the support staff in Bulawayo, Ms Oratile Nare, is being investigated by the Judicial Service Commission after nude pictures and raunchy

WhatsApp messages, allegedly from the judge’s phone, circulated at the weekend.
Allegations are that Justice Mabhikwa and Ms Nare, an assistant of fellow Bulawayo judge Justice Maxwell Takuva have been in an intimate relationship and that Ms Nare, jealous over what she allegedly believes is another girlfriend of the judge, reportedly forwarded what are described as the judge’s exchanges with the other woman to almost all his contacts, including a judges’ group.

“The Judicial Service Commission has taken note of the offensive material circulating on various media platforms and the alleged relationship between a member of the Judiciary and a member of the support staff,” said the JSC in a statement.

“The Commission wishes to advise that investigations into the matter are underway and the public will be advised of the results thereof in due course.”

Ms Nare had reportedly went through Justice Mabhikwa’s phone sometime during the night and discovered that the judge had sent pictures of his body to another woman only identified as Petty or Patie.

The indecent package comprised the judge’s raunchy messages exchanged with Patie or Petty, who also sent the judge pictures of her body. – Herald

Tinashe Sambiri|An MDC Alliance Youth Assembly official has urged Zimbabweans in the diaspora to fight for their democratic right to participate in the 2023 polls.

MDC Alliance UK and Ireland Province Youth Assembly Organization Secretary, Valeria Karimakwenda challenged the Zanu PF government to allow Zimbabweans in the diaspora to participate in the 2023 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

See Valerie’s statement below:

By Valerie Karimakwenda MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Organising Secretary
UK and Ireland Province

ZANU PF, remittances and the vote denied diaspora…

It doesn’t matter where you are, be it Ottawa, Sell, Mombasa or Sydney, ZANU PF perpetual violation of your fundamental constitutional liberties is will always haunt you.

Your right to vote, is violated on the grounds that you are in the diaspora.

ZANU PF can’t stomach a diaspora vote, which is pro-opposition, a constituency that is politically informed, a divorce from the usual native political apathy.

Shamefully, for ZANU PF, remittances from the same diasporans are more than welcome, for one, they don’t threaten ZANU PF entrenched hold on power, on the other, they bolster its stay by providing an avenue for rent seeking and subsequent patronage.

One would almost say, ZANU PF deliberately forces its own citizens into the diaspora so that the foreign currency it cannot generate at home is generated elsewhere, where it thus is expropriated by ZANU PF. 

If the diaspora vote had been realized in the last election, and added, thus to the two million votes garnered by the charismatic, vibrant and people’s choice leader, President Nelson Chamisa, ZANU PF would have missed goodbye the power it desperately has held on for at least three decades. Consequently, restoration of rule of law, equality before the law, transparency and accountability would have seen corrupt, self serving and enriching politicians rotting in jail, while loosing all they had illegally gained. This was a situation ZANU PF wanted to avoid at all costs. 

To insulate itself, against the combined power of the opposition, propped by both local and diaspora votes, ZANU PF, on grounds of technicalities such as security, funding, ruled out involvement of the potentially game changing diaspora.

This is regardless of the fact that international funders, interested in seeing a morphing of Zimbabwe into a fully fledged democratic space had indicated a reliably dependable interest in funding the crucial diaspora vote.  The sidelining of the diaspora in this regard thus served to illustrate the insecurities of ZANU PF and the accompanying fears. 

Remittances expose ZANU PF hypocrisy, incompetence and failure. This is the same ZANU PF that recently said it wants total control of all of elective  offices lost 2023 elections. Remittances expose ZANU PF by illustrating that the remittances are a symptom of a dysfunctional economy.

Immigrants, from Zimbabwe, leave Zimbabwe in desperation, which can only be relieved through usually an exploitative modus vivendi with some of the destinations, such as South Africa, where the exploitation is premised on the lack of proper and legal documentation of the migrants, and more stable but high living standards countries in the West, such as Sweden.

Remittances send home, on the individual basis, are also indicative of a dependent native population, counting on the remittances from abroad, worked for by people frustrated by ZANU PF’s politics of marginalization, exclusion, rent seeking and inconsistent economic policies which have attacked the industry, especially private sector, for example, through rule by law and active violations of sanctity of property, which consequently, discourages investments which would have created opportunities for the diasporas’.

Since this is a politically frustrated constituency, politically informed on issues like the need for civilian engagement and participation in governance, the primacy of accountability and transparency among other crucial issues, Zanu Pf has an existential fear of this diaspora force to contend with. In its attempt to seek change, which the opposition seeks to usher in, Zanu Pf finds, despite its existential need for the remittances, a survival and security guaranteed blocking of the diaspora vote.

But how does the remittances benefit Zanu Pf? In a political economy characterized by run away inflation, a ridiculously, profiteering motivated high cost of living, Zanu Pf enjoys a pacified population, which is the recipient of the remittances, which conveniently is in more stable hard currencies, among them, Rands, US dollars, pounds and Euros. With a pacified population in political apathy mode, constantly put in check by the ever present threat of unleashing the repressive, brutal state apparatus, Zanu Pf can thus continue to pillage and plunder the country’s natural and man made resources, preserving its power in the process.

In addition, Zanu Pf tentacles in so many sectors, among them, public transport in the form of Zupco, fuel industry among others, sell their services and products in foreign currency, in any economy in which helicopter money and apparent collusion between private sector and politically exposed persons with interests and active involvement in cartels for instance listed above, it becomes crucial for Zanu Pf to mop up the little foreign currency trickling in the form of remittances. With the little foreign currency taken away by Zanu Pf in this manner, the money is then used to buy, illegally,  gold, which is smuggled for more foreign currency which will be used for further political financing which will see a secured cartel flourishing. The political financing keeps Zanu Pf in power, enhancing it’s chances of survival.

The diaspora, although largely unaware of the impact their remittances have on ZANU PF stay on power, can change how ZANU PF gets to benefit.

They can make use of decentralized finance, such as digital money and digital money platforms such as cryptocurrencies, which can circumvent ZANU PF access to the little precious foreign currencies in remittances. In addition, the diaspora ought to encourage financial literacy, and development of self sufficient systems, to limit the influence cartels have on Zimbabweans, for instance the Mielie-meal l cartel, which can be circumvented by investments by the diaspora in small grains for subsistence consumption, cartels like fuel sector, can be paralyzed if the diaspora invested in nee, green sustainably electric and it solar vehicles, denying the cartels access to foreign currency, among other innovative solutions and responses to an exploitative ZANU PF. In the process, without diaspora vote, but diaspora strategic initiatives, ZANU PF is weakened by a strategy of attrition.

The article is meant to show that either way, ZANU PF benefits from the diaspora, be it through exodus of politically informed people, dangerous to its hold on power or through insulation of the native population against conflict petri dishes such as inflation, giving ZANU PF, in the process, a free hand for more plunder and looting.

However, the diaspora, can play a strategic role, in ensuring a strategic culmination of ZANU PF and its subsequent loss of power, ushering in alternative government focused on change

Tinashe Sambiri|An MDC Alliance Youth Assembly official has urged Zimbabweans in the diaspora to fight for their democratic right to participate in the 2023 polls.

MDC Alliance UK and Ireland Province Youth Assembly Organization Secretary, Valeria Karimakwenda challenged the Zanu PF government to allow Zimbabweans in the diaspora to participate in the 2023 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

See Valerie’s statement below:

By Valerie Karimakwenda MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Organising Secretary
UK and Ireland Province

ZANU PF, remittances and the vote denied diaspora…

It doesn’t matter where you are, be it Ottawa, Sell, Mombasa or Sydney, ZANU PF perpetual violation of your fundamental constitutional liberties is will always haunt you.

Your right to vote, is violated on the grounds that you are in the diaspora.

ZANU PF can’t stomach a diaspora vote, which is pro-opposition, a constituency that is politically informed, a divorce from the usual native political apathy.

Shamefully, for ZANU PF, remittances from the same diasporans are more than welcome, for one, they don’t threaten ZANU PF entrenched hold on power, on the other, they bolster its stay by providing an avenue for rent seeking and subsequent patronage.

One would almost say, ZANU PF deliberately forces its own citizens into the diaspora so that the foreign currency it cannot generate at home is generated elsewhere, where it thus is expropriated by ZANU PF. 

If the diaspora vote had been realized in the last election, and added, thus to the two million votes garnered by the charismatic, vibrant and people’s choice leader, President Nelson Chamisa, ZANU PF would have missed goodbye the power it desperately has held on for at least three decades. Consequently, restoration of rule of law, equality before the law, transparency and accountability would have seen corrupt, self serving and enriching politicians rotting in jail, while loosing all they had illegally gained. This was a situation ZANU PF wanted to avoid at all costs. 

To insulate itself, against the combined power of the opposition, propped by both local and diaspora votes, ZANU PF, on grounds of technicalities such as security, funding, ruled out involvement of the potentially game changing diaspora.

This is regardless of the fact that international funders, interested in seeing a morphing of Zimbabwe into a fully fledged democratic space had indicated a reliably dependable interest in funding the crucial diaspora vote.  The sidelining of the diaspora in this regard thus served to illustrate the insecurities of ZANU PF and the accompanying fears. 

Remittances expose ZANU PF hypocrisy, incompetence and failure. This is the same ZANU PF that recently said it wants total control of all of elective  offices lost 2023 elections. Remittances expose ZANU PF by illustrating that the remittances are a symptom of a dysfunctional economy.

Immigrants, from Zimbabwe, leave Zimbabwe in desperation, which can only be relieved through usually an exploitative modus vivendi with some of the destinations, such as South Africa, where the exploitation is premised on the lack of proper and legal documentation of the migrants, and more stable but high living standards countries in the West, such as Sweden.

Remittances send home, on the individual basis, are also indicative of a dependent native population, counting on the remittances from abroad, worked for by people frustrated by ZANU PF’s politics of marginalization, exclusion, rent seeking and inconsistent economic policies which have attacked the industry, especially private sector, for example, through rule by law and active violations of sanctity of property, which consequently, discourages investments which would have created opportunities for the diasporas’.

Since this is a politically frustrated constituency, politically informed on issues like the need for civilian engagement and participation in governance, the primacy of accountability and transparency among other crucial issues, Zanu Pf has an existential fear of this diaspora force to contend with. In its attempt to seek change, which the opposition seeks to usher in, Zanu Pf finds, despite its existential need for the remittances, a survival and security guaranteed blocking of the diaspora vote.

But how does the remittances benefit Zanu Pf? In a political economy characterized by run away inflation, a ridiculously, profiteering motivated high cost of living, Zanu Pf enjoys a pacified population, which is the recipient of the remittances, which conveniently is in more stable hard currencies, among them, Rands, US dollars, pounds and Euros. With a pacified population in political apathy mode, constantly put in check by the ever present threat of unleashing the repressive, brutal state apparatus, Zanu Pf can thus continue to pillage and plunder the country’s natural and man made resources, preserving its power in the process.

In addition, Zanu Pf tentacles in so many sectors, among them, public transport in the form of Zupco, fuel industry among others, sell their services and products in foreign currency, in any economy in which helicopter money and apparent collusion between private sector and politically exposed persons with interests and active involvement in cartels for instance listed above, it becomes crucial for Zanu Pf to mop up the little foreign currency trickling in the form of remittances. With the little foreign currency taken away by Zanu Pf in this manner, the money is then used to buy, illegally,  gold, which is smuggled for more foreign currency which will be used for further political financing which will see a secured cartel flourishing. The political financing keeps Zanu Pf in power, enhancing it’s chances of survival.

The diaspora, although largely unaware of the impact their remittances have on ZANU PF stay on power, can change how ZANU PF gets to benefit.

They can make use of decentralized finance, such as digital money and digital money platforms such as cryptocurrencies, which can circumvent ZANU PF access to the little precious foreign currencies in remittances. In addition, the diaspora ought to encourage financial literacy, and development of self sufficient systems, to limit the influence cartels have on Zimbabweans, for instance the Mielie-meal l cartel, which can be circumvented by investments by the diaspora in small grains for subsistence consumption, cartels like fuel sector, can be paralyzed if the diaspora invested in nee, green sustainably electric and it solar vehicles, denying the cartels access to foreign currency, among other innovative solutions and responses to an exploitative ZANU PF. In the process, without diaspora vote, but diaspora strategic initiatives, ZANU PF is weakened by a strategy of attrition.

The article is meant to show that either way, ZANU PF benefits from the diaspora, be it through exodus of politically informed people, dangerous to its hold on power or through insulation of the native population against conflict petri dishes such as inflation, giving ZANU PF, in the process, a free hand for more plunder and looting.

However, the diaspora, can play a strategic role, in ensuring a strategic culmination of ZANU PF and its subsequent loss of power, ushering in alternative government focused on change

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC MDC Alliance Secretary General Hon Charlton Hwende has ruled out dialogue with “captured” Douglas Mwonzora and Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.

According to Hon Hwende, Mwonzora and Mnangagwa must review their failed attempt to destroy the MDC Alliance.

“Mwonzora and ED must dialogue and assess their failed project of killing the MDC Alliance.

They have failed to dislodge President @nelsonchamisa. They have failed to kill the People’s resolve for a People’s Government.

How can you dialogue with thieves? One stole the 2018 Presidential Election and helped his puppet to steal our MPs, Money and Head Office.

Tatamba zvakwana!!! We are busy mobilizing and educating our people so that they can be ready to engage in a People’s Dialogue and reclaim their stolen vote, Presidency, MPs and our Buildings.

That dialogue will be held in the streets soon,” said Hon Mwonzora.

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC MDC Alliance Secretary General Hon Charlton Hwende has ruled out dialogue with “captured” Douglas Mwonzora and Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.

According to Hon Hwende, Mwonzora and Mnangagwa must review their failed attempt to destroy the MDC Alliance.

“Mwonzora and ED must dialogue and assess their failed project of killing the MDC Alliance.

They have failed to dislodge President @nelsonchamisa. They have failed to kill the People’s resolve for a People’s Government.

How can you dialogue with thieves? One stole the 2018 Presidential Election and helped his puppet to steal our MPs, Money and Head Office.

Tatamba zvakwana!!! We are busy mobilizing and educating our people so that they can be ready to engage in a People’s Dialogue and reclaim their stolen vote, Presidency, MPs and our Buildings.

That dialogue will be held in the streets soon,” said Hon Mwonzora.

Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has described self-declarad opposition leader, Tinashe Jonasi as a drama king who needs to undergo a thorough psychiatric examination.

Jonasi threatened to harm MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa in an interview with an online publication.

Below is the MDC Alliance response to Jonasi’s utterances:

TINASHE JONASI MUST BE JAILED FOR TREASON AFTER THREATENING THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT ADVOCATE NELSON CHAMISA WITH DEATH, MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA ECHOES.

23 FEBRUARY 2021

Mdc Alliance Namibia is cognisant of the devilish and sadist efforts by Zanupf and their surrogates to decimate the People’s President Advocate Nelson Chamisa, our leader in the Mdc Alliance. Our message to Tinashe Jonasi is very clear. His attempt to deter and intimidate the People’s President will be resisted with equal measure. The Zanupf surrogate party Ideal Zimbabwe obviously epitomises an attempt by the regime to hoodwink the rest of the world pretending as if there is multi-party democracy in Zimbabwe whilst these are Zanupf-sponsored parties mend to deceive the international community.

Mdc Alliance Namibia is convinced that the ‘drama king’, Jonasi deserves a serious psychiatric examination so that he can sober up and regain his consciousness to comprehend the source of economic meltdown in the Motherland. It is foolhardy to believe that Mdc Alliance is perfecting sanctions which he said were brought by our late Icon of Constitutional Democracy Morgan Richard Tsvangirai may his dear soul rest in power. This politically inept Jonasi must face the reality and confront corruption and daylight looting of state resources practised by his greedy Zanupf enablers. We are quite aware that Jonasi is being condomised by Zanupf terrorists to derail the freedom train led by our political dynamo.

Moreover, the greatest sanction that we have in Zimbabwe is Zanupf and their proxies. Mdc Alliance Namibia is absolutely sure that Jonasi is an agent of the Zanupf thugocratic regime send to threaten our leader so that he ignores the gross misgovernance and abuse of human rights in Zimbabwe. As Mdc Alliance Namibia, we maintain that sanctions should go with great changes in the way political , economic and social issues are dealt with in the country. He must advice his Zanupf enablers to stop human butchery and senseless looting and corruption. Jonasi must kill the cartels who are busy looting billions and billions of dollars from our precious minerals.

Jonasi must kill Henrietta Rushwaya and her thieving racket who smuggle our minerals timeously for personal aggrandisement. Our VP Biti’s message to the World Bank was clear to say don’t give Covid-19 to Zanupf officials because of #demloot. He must butcher Obadiah Moyo who robbed us of our US$60 million dollars donated funds. Hands off our President and his people. We are tired of bootlickers of a clueless regime that has dismally failed to resuscitate the livelihoods of the Zimbabwean citizens. Let him face those who are looting not our diligent President Advocate Nelson Chamisa who is committed and dedicated to revamp the sunken economy.

In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia demands the immediate arrest of the thugocratic Ideal Zimbabwe President who confessed his appetite to murder our President. In a Constitutional Democracy, death threats are treasonous and unethical in the political arena. Lets the rule of law and Constitutionalism must their course.

Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya