Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa has the vision to lead the nation to prosperity, MDC Alliance Secretary General, Hon Charlton Hwende has said.

“Underestimate this man and the MDC Alliance at your own peril.

The Leader and the Party has a vision and a road Map to a People’s Government that we were given by our Last Congress.

Fighting a military dictatorship and a vampire State like the one led by ED requires a visionary leader who is Brave, Principled and does not waiver.

He refused to be bought by Zanu-PF that wanted to give him offices, money , body guards and a leader of official opposition title because he won the election and the people’s vote must be respected. Ultimately it’s about the people and the People know their genuine leader.

Lastly you can make jokes about his faith but God must always be praised and worshipped,” Hon Hwende said in a statement.

Tinashe Sambiri|Pressure groups and human rights activists have called for the immediate release of Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume.

Mafume was arrested by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwagwa as the cornered regime sought to seize control of the city of Harare.

“Jacob Mafume is innocent.

He is one of the many citizens being victimised by ZanuPf through the captured justice system.

Let’s take a moment to call for his freedom in whatever way we can.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” prominent activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe wrote on Facebook.

Tinashe Sambiri|Pressure groups and human rights activists have called for the immediate release of Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume.

Mafume was arrested by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwagwa as the cornered regime sought to seize control of the city of Harare.

“Jacob Mafume is innocent.

He is one of the many citizens being victimised by ZanuPf through the captured justice system.

Let’s take a moment to call for his freedom in whatever way we can.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” prominent activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe wrote on Facebook.

We condemn with all strongest terms the tribal attack by Shona youth,  two days back, that saw Thokozani Khupe pelted with water bottles, slapped and called a prostitute at an MDC T Congress in Harare, Mashonaland.

A woman exercising  her democratic right to freedom of speech cannot be a threat to anyone except tribalistic cowards in Mashonaland who do not want to be led by a Matabele person and bent on belittling, humiliating, causing pain and spilling innocent Matabele blood at any given opportunity.

The humiliating event exposed the hypocrisy by the government of Zimbabwe as it happened soon after the Unity Day event to show that there is no such thing as unity in Zimbabwe. It also shows that as Matabele people, Shonas are not, and will never be our brothers and sisters.

The government of Zimbabwe that is the custodian of the so called Unity Accord failed to condemn the tribal attack. Where are the Shona clerics, human rights groups,  women’s rights organisations and non- governmental organizations who usually make a deafening noise when a Shona woman is attacked or abused? Yes they are quiet, looking on the side and laughing as it is a hated and unwanted Matabele woman being attacked. They behaved the same way when Matabele people were being dastardly slaughtered by the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade during Matabeleland genocide.

In 2017 Morgan Tsvangirai himself sent Shona youth to beat up Thokozani Khupe for questioning his illegal appointment of Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri as vice presidents.

In 2018 the Shona youths, sent by another tribalist and coward, Nelson Chamisa, attempted to burn Thokozani Khupe in a thatched hut while she attended Tsvangirai’s funeral. She was told to go back to Matabeleland because Shonas cannot be led by Matabeles. She survived by the skin of her teeth as the rain extinguished the raging fires that were meant to take her life. Also in the same year, she was chased out of Harvest House by the same tribalistic Shona MDC Youth.

As the king of tribalism Chamisa, found it fit and good to abuse and beat up a Matabele woman, Thokozani Khupe soon after taking over MDC leadership through a coup, Douglas Modzora has done the same.

The intention is the same and there is one common enemy, politically and otherwise for Shona people. It is Matabele people. Shonas in their entirety do not want to be lead by a Matabele person, not even on a temporary basis.

That is why in all Zimbabwe political parties, the highest position Matabele can hold is that of second vice president. It is the same order in ZANUPF where Kembo Mohadi is second Vice President. He too was told by Mnangagwa that he will never rule Zimbabwe. He is a darling of the Shona people at the moment as he plays good boy politics. He is not vocal and brave like Khupe, he never questions any decision by his masters, 1st Vice President, Constantino Chiwenga and President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

It is the same order at MDC Alliance where Welshman Ncube (Matabele) is second Vice President. And soon another Matabele will take over as Vice President at MDC T where Mondzora has taken over the presidency after winning elections.

The Shona leaders and their supporters have demonstrated in many ways for 40 long years that they hate Matabele people. This they have said openly in public rallies and meetings for the whole to world hear.

The evil actions like Matabele genocide between 1980 and 1987, tribal marginalisation of Matabele people in all spheres of life and subtle genocide in the form of slaughtering of our languages, culture, identity and dignity demonstrate further the natural and unending tribal hatred against Matabele people.

To wallow in the false belief that we must remain as part of Zimbabwe in the face of these clear evil intentions to destroy our nations is too risky. Wake up and smell the coffee, Matabeles have no future in Zimbabwe!

Whether we like it or not, this leaves us with only one option as Matabele people, that is to restore the statehood of Matabeleland that was destroyed on 3 November 1893.

We know it will never be a walk in the park but we have no choice. For a new baby to be born there should be loss of blood. For a girl to lose her virginity and be prepared for the process of reproduction there should be loss of blood. And we all know that freedom is not cheap, it is bought at the highest price which is our own blood.

We call upon all Matebele MDC-T youth to viciously attack  any of the following: Douglas Monzora or Nelson Chamisa next time he sets  his foot in Matabeleland. If Mashonaland is a no go zone for Matabele leaders let Matabeleland be a hot furnace for Shona leaders.

Izenzo kungemazwi

Israel Dube
MLO Secretary for Information and Public Affairs

The Zimbabwe Republic Police has released the rest of the names of victims of a fatal road traffic accident that happened on 27 December at the 130KM peg along Harare-Nyamapanda road. 

Seventeen people perished in the accident. Below is the list of the rest of the names of the victims.

1. Anashe Rutsito (3),
2. Malcom Rutsito (3),
3. Simbarashe Mapuranga,
4. Audrey Mavhunga (30),
5. Tawanda Chikuza (2),
6. Makomborero Rutsito (13),
7. and Takudzwa Charuva (26) all from Mutoko;
8. Paidamoyo Dzikamidzi (33) and
9. Prosper Karimupfumbi (26) from Mudzi, and
10. Grace Madzinga (30) of Kadoma

By A Correspondent- High Court Judge Justice Benjamin Chikowero reportedly dismissed Marry Chiwenga nee Mubaiwa’s application to have her bail conditions reviewed so that she can travel to South Africa for treatment.

According to the publication, Justice Chikowero dismissed Mubaiwa Chiwenga’s application on the basis that she did not present the court with adequate information to warrant her bail conditions alteration.

The judgment releasing Marry Chiwenga ‘s application reads in part:

Applicant has placed inadequate information before the court to warrant alteration of her bail condition. In the result, the application is dismissed.

She has produced neither medical reports nor other medical records to substantiate her assertion that she had failed to obtain the care that she needs in this country.

I only have Mr Makarawo’s letter, written on November, 6, 2020.So there is that gap in the evidence.  What I have before me by way of Mubaiwa’s application is one sided.

It is true the National Prosecution Authority concedes that she is unwell, it is true also that she needs treatment, but that cannot be the end of the matter.

Indeed papers from her own doctors contain some grey areas. Mr Makarawo first attended to her on November 6, 2020.

He diagnosed her with lymphoedema and recommended that she be treated in South Africa because he believes that there are specialists there. I have already rejected his assertion that there are no lymphoedema specialists in Zimbabwe.

Dr J van Heerden might have been treating Mubaiwa before her arrest on December 4, 2019, but no evidence was placed before me to prove that he or she attended to her since then

Earlier this month, photos of Marry Chiwenga ‘s hands with very large wounds circulated and she drew sympathy from people on social media who speculated that she is being persecuted by her former husband VP Chiwenga.-statemedia

By A Correspondent- Popular ZImdancehall chanter Soul Jah Love (real name Soul Musaka) was yesterday arrested after a promoter reported him to the police for receiving his money and not showing up to perform for the show he was paid for.

Musaka will appear in court today facing unnamed charges after the unidentified promoter who reportedly paid him $300 to perform at a Private show on Christmas Day laid charges against him.

Musaka reportedly pulled a similar stunt in South Africa in November and fans reportedly protested against the chanter and damaged property worth thousands of brands.-statemedia

Advocate Thabani Mpofu of the fulcrum and the pith fame was this Tuesday arrested and charged with obstruction of justice.

Mpofu had tweeted castigating Chicken Inn for releasing an alleged CCTV footage of MDC Alliance trio – Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova who were being accused of faking their abduction in May.

Read the tweet:

The problem with Chicken Inn is not that it released CCTV footage, rather; that it availed it’s name and facilities in aid of a fraudulent effort. This immoral, unethical & completely senseless gesture is what has appalled right-thinking people. Search your conscience Chicken Inn.

He was later released and he posted:

By A Correspondent | As ZimEye brings the most up to date 100% verified LIVE coverage of the goings on in the MDC-T party camp, we interview one of the contestants for the MDC-T Presidency, Elias Mudzuri who announces that he has blocked Dr Thokozani Khupe from holding her press conference at his house this morning.

The development comes half a day after the Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday disrupted Khupe’s earlier press conference scheduled for 5pm leading to it being cancelled. Eng Mudzuri also speaks on this cancellation.

In explanations for blocking Ms Khupe, Mudzuri says he is concerned about security threats against his family.

“I am bring threatened here and there and I don’t want people at my house,” he says.

ZimEye is Zimbabwe’s leading investigative news network whose many stories have led to the recovery of millions of dollars, while others have unearthed the largest cache of facts on human rights violations that have led to successful UN investigations plus several award winning civil litigations, the first ever since Rhodesia days.

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By A Correspondent- At least 300 workers fired by Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) five years ago, who have won a long-drawn legal battle to return to work, say they are owed $100 million in outstanding salaries by the struggling airline.

In High Court papers filed on December 24, in which they demand that AirZim administrator Reggie Saruchera be removed from the role, two unions representing the workers say this amount is rising daily because their relationship with the airline still subsists.

They say AirZim had an obligation to pay them monthly salaries.

The unions indicated that this amount has seen the combined debt accumulate since July 2015, when the airline “wrongfully, unlawfully and unfairly dismissed (them)…in a typical labour carnage or genocide” following the controversial Zuva judgment, which gave companies the power to fire workers at short notice.

The National Airways Workers Union and the Air Transport Union filed a case at the High Court on Christmas eve demanding that Saruchera be removed from his position for failing to comply with the December 7 Supreme Court order, which said they should return to work.

Saruchera is cited at the first respondent in the case, with AirZim being the second respondent.

“The conduct of the respondent has unduly and unjustifiably delayed the reconstruction of (AirZim) and frustrated the applicants’ members as employees who are now creditors to (AirZim) owed over $100 million, and the debt keeps mounting each passing day because the employer-employee relationship remains subsisting as was confirmed by the authoritative Supreme court judgment of December 7 2020,” the papers read.

“The balance of convenience definitely weighs in favour of the applicants in this matter as they are entitled to their wages and benefits in terms of the law.

“This honourable court is urged to grant this application to salvage applicants’ (workers) rights, which are at stake. The applicant’s members, who are reeling under social injustice, abject poverty and penury arising from deprivation of payment of their salaries and benefits as a source of eking out a living have been unjustly, wrongfully and unfairly forced to incur legal costs for this court application and it is just, fair and equitable that they be reimbursed,” the court papers said.

However, even if the airline agrees to draft them back to their positions, the workers will move into a totally different terrain as so much has changed at the national airline.

Back in 2015, AirZim was limping, but there was a semblance of hope following the arrival of two Airbus A320 jetliners, which were being used to open new routes and rebuild the airline’s lost markets. AirZim entered the Tanzanian market in 2016, only a year after relaunching the Harare-Lusaka route using the Chinese assembled MA60 airliners.

Most of this fleet has been grounded for various reasons.

And even before the COVID-19 pandemic grounded airlines this year, AirZim’s operations had been affected by a sea of hurdles including lack of capital and sliding passenger numbers.

The latest aircraft to be drafted into the AirZim fleet — two Boeing 777s acquired by the ill-fated Zimbabwe Airways from Malaysia in 2016, are too big to salvage the airline’s domestic and regional routes. But the workers believe that removing the State-appointed administrator would solve the airline’s problems.

“The first respondent has failed to execute his duties set out in the Act under which he was appointed an administrator, grossly neglecting payment of the applicant’s salaries and benefits owed and accruing from July 2015 running into millions of dollars, hence the application for his removal owing to failure to protect and safeguard the concerned employees’ right to be paid their salaries and wages,” the court application said.-Newsday

By A Correspondent- An angry mob that had gathered at the funeral of the police officer who was gunned down by her husband who is also a police officer attacked the late cop’s husband at the funeral of his wife.

Sergeant Tichaona Chirinhe gunned down a fellow police officer and his wife Julian Chirinhe, at their home in Unit F, Seke on Sunday. When that attack occurred at Julian’s funeral, Tichaona had been brought to the crime scene for indications.

People who spoke to the publication said they were surprised by the incident because all was well in the Chirinhe household:

We are not aware of any misunderstanding between the two, but we were shocked about this sad incident. It is our hope that the police will get to the bottom of the matter so that the law will take its course.

There was no quarrelling between these two, and I was shocked to discover that he had allegedly shot and seriously injured his wife before learning that the wife had passed on a few hours later.

According to eyewitness accounts:

The two had been married since 2006 and they had two children, aged 14 and seven. The neighbour, Ms Chiufama said that she was at her residence when she was approached by the suspect who was crying alleging that he had accidentally shot his wife and he wanted to be taken to the police station.

The couple’s 14-year-old daughter said on the day, the two had been on night duty and that her mother was the first one to arrive home at around 9am before she went out to pick up her husband at around 10.30am.

When the shooting occurred, the daughter was in the sitting room. When she heard a gunshot coming from the bedroom, she rushed to investigate.

It is alleged that she then found her father crying, saying that he had accidentally shot her mother as he was securing his firearm.

Sgt Julian Chirinhe was shot on the right part of her abdomen and the bullet exited through the left part of the abdomen.

Inspector Tsuro disarmed Sgt Tichaona Chirinhe of his service firearm, a PI pistol, before arresting him. When he was searched, he was allegedly found with a 9mm spent cartridge and seven 9mm live rounds which were in his trousers back pocket.-statemedia

By A Correspondent- Unidentified men clad in suits are reportedly threatening minor children that killed a soldier with death, Newsday reports.

The 3 minor children aged 15, 12, and 10 have reportedly been taken to a safe house after receiving threats from the suits-clad people.

This was revealed by an officer at one of the NGOs who is working alongside the Department of Social Welfare to ensure the children’s safety when he said:

Yes, I can confirm that several people clad in expensive suits have visited the minors’ place of residence looking for them and threatening to take revenge for the slain soldier.

The children were living in fear for their lives so we had to take them. Right now I cannot tell you the exact place we are keeping them because we are shifting them from one safe house to another around the country.

We remain baffled as to why men of such calibre had to hunt down minors.

The children allegedly killed Aaron Bhasopayi of One Commando Regiment as they were defending their mother who was being assaulted by Bhasopayi. Bhasopoyi was accusing the minor children’s mother as he was accusing her of touching his parent’s home in Masvingo.

By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Peace Projects (ZPP) has condemned the violence that occurred at the MDC T’s chaotic congress on Sunday and urged the party to not emulate the government’s violent tendencies.

Using the microblogging site Twitter ZPP said:

The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) condemns in the strongest terms, the violence that occurred at the MDC-T Extra-Ordinary Congress in Harare on 27 December 2020.

In some of the scenes of violence, some of the congress delegates can be seen physically and verbally assaulting one of the MDC-T presidential contestants @DrThoko_Khupe & her supporters in what is a deliberate and open attack on women’s participation in politics as a whole.

ZPP is concerned about the growing pattern where women are physically and verbally assaulted, and called all sorts of derogatory names for being participants and activists in politics and if not nipped, this threatens women’s participation in all leadership positions.

ZPP believes peaceful political contestation – as espoused in our Constitution – is the only progressive way to ensuring everyone, regardless of sex, ethnicity, tribe, and age, get their fair chances to use their Constitutionally guaranteed rights to participate in politics.

We also believe that as an opposition party, the MDC-T’s role is to hold to account the ruling party and government, and they should therefore not mirror the same violent tendencies.

While we cannot dictate how political parties – as voluntary organisations – conduct their business, we strongly condemn the use of violence, as this only serves to perpetuate a culture of intolerance. Intolerance has no place in a country that is supposed to be a democracy.

At the congress in question, Thokozani Khupe was escorted out of the election center, and a video of someone smacking her as she exits the auditorium circulated.

Advocate Thabani Mpofu of the fulcrum and the pith fame was this Tuesday arrested and charged with obstruction of justice.

Mpofu had tweeted castigating Chicken Inn for releasing an alleged CCTV footage of MDC Alliance trio – Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova who were being accused of faking their abduction in May.

Read the tweet:

The problem with Chicken Inn is not that it released CCTV footage, rather; that it availed it’s name and facilities in aid of a fraudulent effort. This immoral, unethical & completely senseless gesture is what has appalled right-thinking people. Search your conscience Chicken Inn.

He was later released and he posted:

By A Correspondent- The Warriors technical team is battling to secure passports for midfielder Denver Mukamba and striker Tawanda Nyamandwe ahead of the African Nations Championships (Chan) finals scheduled for Cameroon in just over two weeks.

Team manager Wellington Mupandare yesterday said the duo did not have travelling documents and they were racing against time to secure them.

Chan tournament, which is exclusively reserved for players plying their trades in their domestic leagues, start on January 16, but the final squad has to be submitted to the Confederation of African Football before Wednesday next week.

Mupandare said he had already applied for Mukamba’s passport and was praying that it would be issued this week.

He said Nyamandwe’s application would be submitted this week.

“We have already applied for Denver’s passport and we expect to receive it anytime this week,” Mupandare said.

Currently, there are some challenges in getting passports timeously as the Register-General’s Office is facing a huge backlog due to inadequate foreign currency to purchase passport consumables.

However, those travelling on national duty receive preferential treatment and Mupandare is hoping that the two will get the passports.

The duo is part of the 23-man squad that resumed training yesterday ahead of the finals.

The training squad was given a seven-day break last week for the Christmas holiday.

Mupandare said barring any eventualities, the players that have been called up should make the final list that will represent Zimbabwe at the Chan tournament.

Warriors head coach Zdravko Logarušic trimmed his squad ahead of the final phase of preparations where the team is expected to play two friendly matches against local teams before departure for Yaoundé.

Apart from Nyamandwe, Logarušic also made a surprise inclusion to his squad when he recalled goalkeeper Simba Chinani, who he had initially dropped from the squad last week.

King Nadolo, who had been doubtful for the tournament due to injury, has been included. Mupandare said he had started light training.

Other players, who are carrying knocks, but have been included are Peter Muduwa, Richard Hachiro and Leeroy Mavhunga. They are expected to be fit by the time the tournament starts.

Logarušic initially called 34 players in camp, but has been chopping and changing the squad after playing friendly matches against local sides.

By A Correspondent- The High Court has deferred Harare mayor Jacob Mafume’s bail hearing to today to allow the State to prepare its response.

Mafume is facing allegations of obstructing or defeating the course of justice after he allegedly attempted to bribe a witness.

He was arrested for the offence four days after he had been released on $30 000 bail at the High Court.  As part of the bail conditions, Mafume was ordered not to interfere with witnesses.

Mafume allegedly offered to pay US$1 500 to Edgar Dzehonye, a key witness in the case in which he is being accused of parcelling out land, so that he testifies in his favour in court.

The State alleges that Mafume violated his bail conditions and contacted Dzehonye, through a WhatsApp voice call, requesting to meet him and discuss his criminal case before the courts.

Meanwhile, Local Government minister July Moyo has reportedly suspended Jacob Mafume and his deputy Luckson Mukunguma with immediate effect until the conclusion of their court cases.

Mukunguma is currently out on bail after he was arrested following a manhunt by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc).

Zacc is investigating cases of alleged abuse of office.

It is alleged that he abused his office when he forced council to create and allocate four residential stands to his relatives namely Juliet Tipedze, Melody Magorimbo, Edith Chiota and Kerrington Ndimba in Highfields, ward five.

By A Correspondent- Bulawayo is recording an increase in diarrhoea cases, which is blamed on water shortages and contaminated water among other reasons as city fathers expressed fear of a typhoid outbreak.

Since March, confirmed diarrhoea cases have killed 13 in Luveve and surrounding suburbs, and infected hundreds of people in other suburbs.

While the city is battling water shortage after authorities decommissioned three supply dams, ageing water and sewage reticulation infrastructure is piling more woes as seen by incessant pipe bursts, resulting in contamination of potable water and residents getting ill.

Bulawayo City Council has announced that diarrhoea cases will be treated for free at its clinics.

A council report on health, housing and education showed that city fathers were worried about the diarrhoea outbreak.

“The province continued to roll out intensified emergency response mechanisms for all pillars to detect, contain, monitor, predict and manage the coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19) and gastro-intestinal diseases (GIT) outbreaks which continued to evolve,” the council report read in part.

“The perennial water shortages in the province had resulted in a sharp increase in diarrhoea cases as communities resort to alternative water sources which may be of unsafe quality.”

According to the report, Nkulumane, Maqhawe, Nketa, Entumbane, Magwegwe and Mzilikazi are cited as the city’s diarrhoea hotspots.

“There was a need to strengthen implementation of protective factors against contracting diarrhoea. Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), contact tracing, active case finding as well as health education, intensified shop inspections were some of the activities. The diarrhoea case investigations had continued aimed at containing a possible outbreak and to establish the aetiological agent(s),” the council report read.

“Bulawayo was on high alert for typhoid as it was endemic in some neighbouring cities.”

Typhoid is endemic in Harare. In 2019, Zimbabwe became the first African country to benefit from the World Health Organisation (WHO) funded mass Typbar-typhoid vaccination programme.

The WHO recommends the introduction of the Typbar-typhoid conjugate vaccine to be prioritised in countries with the highest burden of typhoid disease or a high burden of an antimicrobial-resistant strain.

Zimbabwe meets the two criteria.

In addition to the seasonal outbreak, the country has been experiencing a high level of resistance to the standard first line antibiotic treatment against typhoid.

-Newsday

Laque Davis has opined that the appointment of Nelson Chamisa to be the party’s Vice President in 2016 was a necessary evil given what he called the junta’s project to decimate the MDC.

Below is the full thread by Laque who also opined that there is a chance the Khupe led MDC T will split:

This is quite sad In the context of how @mdczimbabwe was decimated through this junta project, all in the name of #democracy, #constitutionalism & #protecting the legacy of MT, who simply should be allowed to rest peacefully for he has no more role in the land of the living

If the end has ever justified the means, then the “illegality” of appointing @nelsonchamisa as VP & heir apparent, (with Mudzuri as some buffer) was a necessary evil.

With all his well-documented misgivings, Nero leads the only significant, authentic & united MDC faction. I bullishly put my head on the chopping board through the prediction attached below

Argued:

1. a) the MDC-T EOC wasn’t likely to be held this year
2. b) it would be chaotic in the event that it was

Even sarcastically threatened to post my nudes (@M_Jay94) 

Interestingly, an excitable @DMwonzora early on exonerated @mdczimbabwe  by thanking them for distancing themselves from the HICC event

What this then means is that all the chaos that ensued can not be linked to @nelsonchamisa, as per Douglas’s poor chance at a jibe.

As for Dr Khupe…although she will most certainly have the last laugh…she miscalculated gravely. Many moons ago, I questioned the wisdom behind abandoning her own MDC-T faction, choosing to side with the double trouble that is Mwonzora & Komichi. She dug her own grave

But more importantly, before about an hour ago, she was going out of her way rubbishing claims that money was misappropriated, more so by Tsikamutanda. In an embarrassing somersault, she thundered “…they are using the money they stole to rig this election..”What money now

She openly pointed fingers at DM, accusing him of masterminding the heist she claims transpired this evening. But perhaps she was keeping this as her joker card.More so after phoning the wrong @adv_fulcrum. What business does ED’s Tabani have with her & her party Congress?

Here is what’s likely to happen. Mwonzora was poised to win this shambolic poll. DM’s backers will politically resist attempts to have it nullified. Dr Khupe will successfully have this result set aside. DM’s faction will start experiencing the wrath of State systems….

The MDC-T will split. Before this formally happens, the allegations against DM will resurface The results will be successfully nullified & Mwonzora will be arrested & suspended, both for “the rigging” & the alleged stolen funds. Khupe will eventually win at some 2021 EOC

I paused a bit and refreshed my twitter feed. Apparently,Dr Khupe has already “suspended Mwonzora”…& she has the backing of Baba Abrahama. Sekuru Mudzuri left HICC much earlier

So it’s now Zanu-Khupe-Komichi-Mudzuri vs Mwonzora. The latter’s backers should be very worried.

Again, Sr Khupe has promised to pursue the issue concerning the stolen money. She will do this with a straight face regardless of how she exonerated Mwonzora earlier today. It doesn’t matter whether she has any case or not It’s politics & her victory matters to the State.

It is also quite ironic, that the same @ShakespeareMuk1 who DM & Khupe accused of attempting to burn them in a hut, at the instigation of @nelsonchamisa (never mind that no report was made), was again at the center of MDC-T skirmishes today. Indeed a festive of absurdities.

Has @nelsonchamisa been vindicated? Whose violent mobs were calling Dr Khupe “hure”?

I’m not in any party structures 2 play petty party politics as I tweet these boring threads,I don’t feel smart Can you claim to be wise for predicting mud after some heavy rains? enkosi!

Douglas Mwonzora won the party Presidency against Khupe yesterday and both parties have not issued a statement on the way forward.

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Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa has the vision to lead the nation to prosperity, MDC Alliance Secretary General, Hon Charlton Hwende has said.

“Underestimate this man and the MDC Alliance at your own peril.

The Leader and the Party has a vision and a road Map to a People’s Government that we were given by our Last Congress.

Fighting a military dictatorship and a vampire State like the one led by ED requires a visionary leader who is Brave, Principled and does not waiver.

He refused to be bought by Zanu-PF that wanted to give him offices, money , body guards and a leader of official opposition title because he won the election and the people’s vote must be respected. Ultimately it’s about the people and the People know their genuine leader.

Lastly you can make jokes about his faith but God must always be praised and worshipped,” Hon Hwende said in a statement.

Tinashe Sambiri|Pressure groups and human rights activists have called for the immediate release of Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume.

Mafume was arrested by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwagwa as the cornered regime sought to seize control of the city of Harare.

“Jacob Mafume is innocent.

He is one of the many citizens being victimised by ZanuPf through the captured justice system.

Let’s take a moment to call for his freedom in whatever way we can.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” prominent activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe wrote on Facebook.

By A Correspondent | As ZimEye brings the most up to date 100% verified LIVE coverage of the goings on in the MDC-T party camp, we interview one of the contestants for the MDC-T Presidency, Elias Mudzuri who announces that he has blocked Dr Thokozani Khupe from holding her press conference at his house this morning.

The development comes half a day after the Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday disrupted Khupe’s earlier press conference scheduled for 5pm leading to it being cancelled. Eng Mudzuri also speaks on this cancellation.

In explanations for blocking Ms Khupe, Mudzuri says he is concerned about security threats against his family.

“I am being threatened here and there and I don’t want people at my house,” he says.

ZimEye is Zimbabwe’s leading investigative news network whose many stories have led to the recovery of millions of dollars, while others have unearthed the largest cache of facts on human rights violations that have led to successful UN investigations plus several award winning civil litigations, the first ever since Rhodesia days.

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Tinashe Sambiri|Pressure groups and human rights activists have called for the immediate release of Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume.

Mafume was arrested by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwagwa as the cornered regime sought to seize control of the city of Harare.

“Jacob Mafume is innocent.

He is one of the many citizens being victimised by ZanuPf through the captured justice system.

Let’s take a moment to call for his freedom in whatever way we can.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” prominent activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe wrote on Facebook.

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Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa has the vision to lead the nation to prosperity, MDC Alliance Secretary General, Hon Charlton Hwende has said.

“Underestimate this man and the MDC Alliance at your own peril.

The Leader and the Party has a vision and a road Map to a People’s Government that we were given by our Last Congress.

Fighting a military dictatorship and a vampire State like the one led by ED requires a visionary leader who is Brave, Principled and does not waiver.

He refused to be bought by Zanu-PF that wanted to give him offices, money , body guards and a leader of official opposition title because he won the election and the people’s vote must be respected. Ultimately it’s about the people and the People know their genuine leader.

Lastly you can make jokes about his faith but God must always be praised and worshipped,” Hon Hwende said in a statement.

By A Correspondent- Police in Bulawayo rescued a man who feared for his life at the hands of his wife by confiscating an axe that she was threatening to use on him for wanting out of their marriage.

This came to light at the Bulawayo Civil Court where Faith Ncube was seeking a protection order against her husband Robson Mbasera.

Ncube claimed her husband was verbally and physically harassing her and their children.

“I am applying for a protection order against my husband because he is abusive. He verbally abuses me together with the children. He also physically abuses me and tells our children that he is not their father and that I’m having an affair with a police officer.

“We are currently on separation and whenever he comes to where I am staying and finds a male visitor, he alleges that he is my boyfriend. When he also comes, usually around midnight he enters the house through the window and threatens to kill me saying my mother will collect my corpse at the mortuary,” complained Ncube.

She said Mbasera was also in the habit of shouting at her sisters, labelling them prostitutes.

“He tells me that he hates me and my family. He also shouts at my sisters saying they are prostitutes and that is why they are not married. He also annoys me by saying since I’m disabled he wants to marry another wife and start a new life,” she said.

In his counter argument, Mbasera refuted all the allegations as fabrications. He said he was the one who was living in perpetual fear after his wife threatened to axe him.

“I am opposed to her application. Firstly, what happened is that where she stays is my workplace. I am a caretaker there. She has two sisters who came to stay with us and their children. That is when we started having a conflict and I left to look for another place.

“In fact, she is the one who is violent she once threatened to axe and stab me with a knife. The axe was taken by the police and is being kept at the Bulawayo Central Police Station. The police even counselled us so that we live amicably and that is when she asked for forgiveness and promised not to do it again,” said Mbasera.

Presiding magistrate Nomasiko Ndlovu ordered both parties to keep peace by not verbally and physically abusing each other.

Ncube was also ordered not to deny her husband access to the house.-statemedia

The cause of death however could not be immediately established by the time of writing.

Choruma, a former Highlanders and national team midfielder with numerous championship medals won with Highlanders at the turn of the millennium, was in his early 40s. He was among the directors of Zifa Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Division Two side Sabona Mzilikazi.

More details follow..

By A Correspondent- The government of Zimbabwe will pay for the funeral expenses of the 18 people who perished in a horror crash on Sunday.

The horror crash claimed the lives of 8 members of the Rutsito family, and 7 family members from the Chitimbe family who were all traveling for the holidays when their cars collided close to Mutoko Business Center.

The government through the Department of Civil Protection Director Mr. Nathan Nkomo said the government will meet all hospital bills and funeral expenses:

For those with funeral policies, Government will assist with $2 500 per head and for those without funeral policies, Government will avail coffins and transport. To those who are currently hospitalised, Government will assist by meeting all the medical bills.

A family member of the Rutsito Family expressed sadness over the tragedy and said: We are pained by this unexpected death which took away eight people from our family. Masimba Rutsito was my brother and was aged 39. He and his family had come home to visit from Harare. On their way back, that is when they met their fate.

He was driving the Isuzu double cab and in the car were 12 people who included his wife Audrey Mavhunga, his children Malcom, Naishe and Makomborero. Also in the car was our uncle, Simbarashe Mapuranga and his wife Grace Madzinga together with their child, Samuel. All these perished in the accident.

Those who were injured are Kupakwashe and Maxwell Rutsito, Patricia Mapuranga and one Gamuchirai who was a maid to Masimba’s family.T hey have been transferred to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals and they are critical. They need our prayers. We are in great pain.

The Chitimbe family lost Abigail Chitimbe (30), Nyasha Chikuza (7), Tawananyasha, Major Mushumbi (7), Sandra Kanobata (19) and Ngaakudzwe Nkolomah (1) according to the family spokesperson Mr Richard Chitimbe who said:

My sister Abigail and her two children Nyasha and Tawananyasha had visited a relative in Tabudirira, a few kilometers from here. She took with her, three of my elder sister’s children Major, Sandra and Ngaakudzwe.

On their way back, they were given a lift in a BMW vehicle which had a head on collision with an Isuzu vehicle. They all died. The family is in pain. We were looking forward to seeing them here yesterday, only to receive the bad news.

We will bury them tomorrow (today). We are appealing for any kind of assistance from well wishers to help in conducting burial of our family members.-statemedia

COMING UP AT 8pm

State  Media – Govt will meet funeral expenses for 18 people who died in a horrific road accident near Mutoko Business Centre on Sunday afternoon.

Eight members of the Rutsito family, seven from the Chitimbe family and three people, who are still to be identified, perished in the accident.

Both families are from Mutoko and were travelling on holiday.

The accident occurred at the 130km peg along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway when a white Isuzu KB double cab truck belonging to the Rutsito family and travelling towards Murehwa, collided head-on with a BMW in which the Chitimbe family had boarded a lift that was travelling towards Mutoko.

Fourteen people died on the spot, while the remainder succumbed to their injuries on admission to Mutoko Hospital.

The director in the Department of Civil Protection Mr Nathan Nkomo said the Government will assist in the burial of the deceased.

“For those with funeral policies, Government will assist with $2 500 per head and for those without funeral policies, Government will avail coffins and transport.

“To those who are currently hospitalised, Government will assist by meeting all the medical bills,” he said.

When The Herald arrived at the scene, wreckages of both vehicles were still present.

Passing motorists would stop to catch a glimpse of the mangled vehicles.

A member of the Rutsito family in Mutoko, Mr Munyaradzi Kabasa, confirmed that eight members of his family died in the crash.

“We are pained by this unexpected death which took away eight people from our family. Masimba Rutsito was my brother and was aged 39. He and his family had come home to visit from Harare. On their way back, that is when they met their fate.

“He was driving the Isuzu double cab and in the car were 12 people who included his wife Audrey Mavhunga, his children — Malcom, Naishe and Makomborero. Also in the car was our uncle, Simbarashe Mapuranga and his wife Grace Madzinga together with their child, Samuel. All these perished in the accident.

“Those who were injured are Kupakwashe and Maxwell Rutsito, Patricia Mapuranga and one Gamuchirai who was a maid to Masimba’s family.

“They have been transferred to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals and they are critical. They need our prayers. We are in great pain.”

He said the family was yet to deliberate on the burial arrangements.

The Herald also managed to track down the Chitimbe family who also live in Mutoko District.

Dozens of mourners were already gathered at the Chitimbe homestead.

The Chitimbe family lost six members — Abigail Chitimbe (30), Nyasha Chikuza (7), Tawananyasha, Major Mushumbi (7), Sandra Kanobata (19)and Ngaakudzwe Nkolomah (1).

Chitimbe family spokesperson Mr Richard Chitimbe said they have already finished burial arrangements.

“My sister Abigail and her two children Nyasha and Tawananyasha had visited a relative in Tabudirira, a few kilometers from here. She took with her, three of my elder sister’s children Major, Sandra and Ngaakudzwe.

“On their way back, they were given a lift in a BMW vehicle which had a head on collision with an Isuzu vehicle. They all died. The family is in pain. We were looking forward to seeing them here yesterday, only to receive the bad news.

“We will bury them tomorrow (today). We are appealing for any kind of assistance from well wishers to help in conducting burial of our family members,” said Mr Chitimbe in tears.

The Mashonaland East Department of Civil Protection yesterday requested the Government to declare the accident, a national disaster.

Mashonaland East Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Aplonia Munzverengwi, sent a message of condolence to the families of the deceased and wished the injured, a speedy recovery.

Meanwhile, one person died while 10 others were injured when a Inter Africa bus plying the Harare-Mutare road veered off the road at the 100 km peg along Harare-Mutare road.

National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident in a statement.

“The ZRP is investigating the circumstances which led to the death of a woman aged 44 years old and injury to other 10 passengers when an Inter Africa Bus (Mukumba Brothers) travelling from Harare to Mutare veered off the road at the 100 km peg along Harare-Mutare Road, Macheke on December 28, 2020. The driver failed to control the bus and it landed on the right side. The victim was then trapped.” – Herald

The Meteorological Services Department has projected that Depression/Cyclone/Storm Chalane will likely hit Zimbabwe on Wednesday. Below is MSD’s statement.

WHAT?: TROPICAL DEPRESSION CHALANE

WHERE?: IN THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL

WHEN?: MONDAY, 28 DECEMBER 2020

WATCH OUT FOR (in the next 24hours)!:

• Move westward toward the Mozambique coast
• Intensification into a Tropical Storm
• Rain-bands (cloud bands) extending at least 500km from centre of the system.
• WHAT TO DO:
• Have a contingency plan in place in case of adverse weather •Know your escape route to the nearest emergency centre if need be
• Have emergency numbers close
• Have a few provisions, first aid kit, torch, essential documents and medication in a waterproof-easy to carry bag/satchel
• Keep following the regular updates and monitor your environment or call MSD Provincial Officers:

Manicaland: +263 712 504 107

Mash East : +263 772 429 036

Masvingo : +263 738 387 218
Stay Weather-Ready and Environment Smart

HOW?: Today, Monday 28 December 2020, Tropical Depression Chalane entered warmer water of the Mozambique Channel where it is expected to re-intensify into a Tropical Storm. Similar to Cyclone Dineo, the system should sweep across the country from Wednesday 30 December Into the New Year.

This should give continuous rain over much of the country, with localized heavier downpours (in excess of 50 mm In 24 hours) probable especially over high ground (areas along the main watershed into the Eastern Highlands). Such copious rain from Wednesday 30 December 2020 through to Friday 01 January 2021 may result in reduced visibility during some sharp downpours and flash flooding in areas of poor drainage as well as along river basins; mudslides and landslides as well as collapse of walls, due to excessive moisture, remain probable. These rains should ease off as we get into the weekend.

A detailed Alert should follow soon

Dewa Mavhinga, the director of Human Rights Watch, Southern Africa says Mambo’s Chicken have taken it too far by joking over the alleged assault on former MDC-T interim leader, Thokozani Khupe at the party’s congress held Sunday.

It is alleged that Khupe was slapped by one of Douglas Mwonzora’s supporters as she tried to stop or influence the cancellation of the congress which she said was being rigged in Mwonzora’s favour.

Mambo’s Chicken made an advert which made fun of the incident.

Said Mambo’s Chicken:

Huyai tikupei Huku. Monday Blues don’t have to SLAP so hard

In response to the advert, Mavinga said:

Mambo’s Chicken @mamboschicken must not joke about violence against Madam Khupe. Stop #GBV. Not funny! Say Sorry!

Some, however, alleged that Khupe likely staged the slap while some said it was not gender-based violence but political violence.

As the congress degenerated into chaos, Khupe and other presidential contestants left the HICC auditorium where the elective congress was being held.

The party’s Independent Electoral Management Body eventually announced that Mwonzora had a landslide victory after polling 883 votes out of a declared 1 027 total ballots issued.

By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appealed for divine intervention to protect the country against a new COVID-19 strain that has been confirmed in some countries, including neighbouring South Africa.

Mnangagwa said this in his address during the annual December Thanksgiving and Dedication Service, now in its fourth edition, which was held at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo.

South Africa recently recorded a new COVID-19 variant, known as 501.V2, which is blamed for a resurgence in infections, hospitalisations and deaths.  Another COVID-19 strain, known as P681H was reported in Nigeria last week.

Countries such as Germany, Israel, Turkey, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia have since suspended flights from South Africa, which is the hardest hit nation on the African continent with nearly one million infections to prevent new infections in their countries.

“We must equally redouble our prayers as this pandemic is on the resurgence, and we must seek God’s protection as a nation,” Mnangagwa said.

“While the rest of the region, the continent and the world suffered heavily, I believe that our God whom we praise as a nation protected us to date,” he added as he quoted Psalms, 124, verses 1-4 to buttress his point.

The thanksgiving event, which was organised by the Faith for the Nation Campaign, a grouping of various church denominations founded in 2000, was held under the theme “Celebrating the Nation’s Progress towards Vision 2030”.

The inaugural 2017 edition was marred by mini anti-Mnangagwa protests organised by the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) over his role in the Gukurahundi massacres but they were in no-show this time.

“While we continue to fast and pray for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic as it requires a spiritual and humble petition for God’s protection, I urge us all to comply with guidelines by my government guided by the World Health Organisation (WHO),” Mnangagwa said.

As at Friday last week, Zimbabwe had recorded 12 963 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 519 recoveries and 341 deaths. Health experts have called on authorities to close the borders to prevent the spread of the new COVID-19 variant citing the country’s teetering health delivery sector where basic drugs and medicines are in short supply.

Meanwhile, Mnangagwa also seemed to suggest the need for urgency by the Southern African and Development Community (Sadc) leaders and the African Union to fight the insurgency in neighbouring Mozambique.

Recently, Mnangagwa posted a tweet saying Zimbabwe was ready to help Mozambique battle the Islamist militants. Over 2000 people have been killed in that country, and nearly 450 000 others were forced to flee their homes owing to the insurgency that was first reported in October 2017.

“Our progress as a nation also depends on peace in our nation, and in the countries surrounding us. There is no country that will develop in environments of violence, but countries develop in environments of peace, tranquillity, love and unity,” Mnangagwa said.

“We thank God for the peace that continues to prevail in our motherland Zimbabwe. Let us pray that God will give us wisdom as leaders of Southern Africa, Sadc and Africa Union, and the African continent to seek lasting solutions to address unconstitutional insurgencies both internally and externally driven.”

In November, Sadc  leaders revealed that they were in the process of putting together a reaction force to deal with the Mozambique crisis following an extraordinary organ Troika Summit held in Botswana.

Reverend Andrew Wutaunashe, the event’s co-ordinator was among some of the speakers at the thanksgiving ceremony.  He claimed that Mnangagwa’s participation in the liberation war was a calling from God.

“I think we should clap our hands to the Lord for empowering us to have a free nation, and dignity to worship him as free men and women and the sacrifices of men like Mnangagwa who sacrificed so that we have freedom.  Maybe that was a calling from God…,” Wutaunashe said.

Matabeleland North and South chiefs led by the Zimbabwe Chiefs Council (ZCC) president Fortune Charumbira attended the event.-Newsday

By A Correspondent- President of the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA), Enock Dongo yesterday said there has been a worrying increase in the number of nurses infected with COVID 19.

Although Dongo said he did not have an official figure yet, he told NewsDay that the number of nurses infected with the coronavirus was rising sharply since the scrapping of flexi hours.

The flexi-working hours for nurses were scrapped by the Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga in May this year.  He ordered that instead of nurses working two days a week on a rotational basis, they should report for duty daily.

Chiwenga launched an ambitious health restructuring policy meant to revamp the health sector, and among the changes he scrapped off the flexi-hours which meant shorter working hours for nurses.

Dongo warned that in January they would go back to court to force government to uphold the High Court judgments that said nurses were correct and were entitled as a matter of right to continue with the flexible working-hour system. Both judgments are a matter of public record under case numbers HC6507/20 and HC7099/20.

“Now that nurses are testing positive for COVID-19 due to the scrapping of flexi-hours, we have no choice but to approach the courts,” Dongo said.

“They are in contempt of court and should be jailed. How can they just ignore a ruling of the court.”

Meanwhile, Zina has called for dissolution of the Health Services Board (HSB) which it has described as “weak”.

“It is shameful that instead of apologising to nurses, the government is the one seeking to be appeased.

“The HSB is supposed to represent us on issues of our welfare, but it is not doing anything. It is so weak. In 2021 we want a new start and, therefore, the HSB must go.”

Dongo said the HSB has caused untold suffering on the nurses and ultimately contributed to the poor state of the hospitals.-Newsday

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Youth Assembly national organising secretary, Godfrey Kurauone, has described the Thokozani Khupe and Douglas Mwonzora Congress as a fiasco.

According to Kurauone only 1025 members voted meaning there was no quorum at the Congress.

“So these are the people who were supposed to vote at the MDC-T Congress according to their Constitution:

2070- provincial Executives
2520- Distric executives
1958-Ward Chairpersons
168 -National Executives
All MPs,Mayors and Council Chairs

6718 people were supposed to be delegates plus all MPs,Mayors and Council Chairpersons.

Only 1025 people voted according to the results of the Congress.

Where is the Quorum you Constitutionalists?

Quorum Quorum Quorum, Kurauone argued.

According to Kurauone only 1025 members voted meaning there was no quorum at the Congress.

“So these are the people who were supposed to vote at the MDC-T Congress according to their Constitution:

2070- provincial Executives
2520- Distric executives
1958-Ward Chairpersons
168 -National Executives
All MPs,Mayors and Council Chairs

6718 people were supposed to be delegates plus all MPs,Mayors and Council Chairpersons.

Only 1025 people voted according to the results of the Congress.

Where is the Quorum you Constitutionalists?

Quorum Quorum Quorum, Kurauone argued.

Let’s Embrace Constructive Criticism- MDC Alliance Official

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance official, Grademan Mbira, has implored party members to embrace constructive criticism.

This follows articles written by prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of the popular movement.

As a councillor and a public official, I am very happy with the feedback from Hopewell “Daddy Hope” Chin’ono.

True democrats must be able to easily embrace positive criticism. Constructive criticism is when we are given feedback from others on how we can improve our programmes.

Daddy Hope has challenged me to work towards building the best possible institution which thrives for the betterment of people’s lives. I have to listen to advice from others which, I believe, will benefit individuals, institutions and societies.

It is not our culture to attack those who criticise us, we rather must be empathetic to them. There’s always something to learn from their comments.

Thanx for the feedback Daddy Hope, I salute you,”said Mbira in a statement.

This follows articles written by prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of the popular movement.

As a councillor and a public official, I am very happy with the feedback from Hopewell “Daddy Hope” Chin’ono.

True democrats must be able to easily embrace positive criticism. Constructive criticism is when we are given feedback from others on how we can improve our programmes.

Daddy Hope has challenged me to work towards building the best possible institution which thrives for the betterment of people’s lives. I have to listen to advice from others which, I believe, will benefit individuals, institutions and societies.

It is not our culture to attack those who criticise us, we rather must be empathetic to them. There’s always something to learn from their comments.

Thanx for the feedback Daddy Hope, I salute you,”said Mbira in a statement.

A MUTARE magistrate has ordered a detective and the police to pay $151 000 compensation to a 15-year-old Sakubva teenager who was brutally assaulted by the former in 2019 during investigations over a stolen cellphone.

The minor’s parents sued ZRP for inhuman and degrading treatment after the teenager was handcuffed and assaulted by Detective Assistant Inspector Jefinias Mazambani. Mutare magistrate, Mr Lazarus Murendo, presided over the case and on November 25 handed down his judgment in favour of the teenager.

As a result of the assault, the teenager bled profusely. He was later released from police custody without being charged.

It was alleged that despite being released from custody without any charges pressed against him, Mazambani made impromptu visits to the juvenile’s Sakubva residence and continued assaulting him.

He sustained injuries which include a perforated eardrum, facial swelling and swelling on his knees.

In his judgment, Mr Murendo said the assault was severe and he suffered excruciating pain, hence he should be paid damages amounting to $151 191 as compensation.

“The second and third defendants (Commissioner-General of the Police and the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage) are being sued in their official capacities as the employers of the first defendant (Mazambani) and as such, are deemed to be vicariously liable for the conduct of the first defendant committed during the course and scope of his employment.

“While the first defendant denied any wrong-doing, the evidence on record and his criminal conviction and sentence conclusively lead to the only reasonable conclusion that he indeed assaulted the plaintiff severely leading to serious injuries being inflicted,” he said.-Manica Post

Thokozani Khupe has claimed she is still of MDC-T Affairs.

Khupe has also dismissed Douglas Mwonzora’s victory at the weekend Congress as null and void.

Watch video below:

Zimbabwean Prophet Goes Into Hiding After Altercation With “Satanists”

Tinashe Sambiri|
The leaders of the Satanic Church in South Africa have reportedly written a letter to controversial Zimbabwean preacher Isaac Makomichi asking him to join them.

Makomichi’s personal assistant claimed the prophet received an email requesting him to to join the Satanic church or they will destroy him if he fails to do so.

He further claimed that the letter was signed by one Junior Norton.

He also said the church was about to make a police report.

Makomichi was not immediately available for a comment on the matter.

Sources claim he has since fled to Ghana via South Africa to seek spiritual protection.

“Makomichi has gone to Ghana to seek protection. What I know is he currently is not in Zimbabwe,” said one church leader.

Makomichi’s personal assistant claimed the prophet received an email requesting him to to join the Satanic church or they will destroy him if he fails to do so.

He further claimed that the letter was signed by one Junior Norton.

He also said the church was about to make a police report.

Makomichi was not immediately available for a comment on the matter.

Sources claim he has since fled to Ghana via South Africa to seek spiritual protection.

“Makomichi has gone to Ghana to seek protection. What I know is he currently is not in Zimbabwe,” said one church leader.

The Federation of Eastern and Southern Africa Road Transport Associations has called for urgent intervention at the Beitbridge Border Post between South Africa and Zimbabwe where a humanitarian disaster is unfolding.

The association’s CEO Mike Fitzmaurice said that Covid-19 regulations and restrictions introduced at the beginning of December had severely compromised the flow of traffic through both sides of the border post.

Fitzmaurice said reports of corruption were rife with some traffic officials said to be accepting bribes of R 1000 from drivers who jump the queues.

During the first three weeks of December, the cost of delays at Beitbridge was almost R88 million per week.

Queue time delays for trucks amounted to R609 million per week.

-ANA

President of the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA), Enock Dongo yesterday said there has been a worrying increase in the number of nurses infected with COVID 19.

Although Dongo said he did not have an official figure yet, he told NewsDay that the number of nurses infected with the coronavirus was rising sharply since the scrapping of flexi hours.

The flexi-working hours for nurses were scrapped by the Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga in May this year.  He ordered that instead of nurses working two days a week on a rotational basis, they should report for duty daily.

Chiwenga launched an ambitious health restructuring policy meant to revamp the health sector, and among the changes he scrapped off the flexi-hours which meant shorter working hours for nurses.

Dongo warned that in January they would go back to court to force government to uphold the High Court judgments that said nurses were correct and were entitled as a matter of right to continue with the flexible working-hour system. Both judgments are a matter of public record under case numbers HC6507/20 and HC7099/20.

“Now that nurses are testing positive for COVID-19 due to the scrapping of flexi-hours, we have no choice but to approach the courts,” Dongo said.

“They are in contempt of court and should be jailed. How can they just ignore a ruling of the court.”

Meanwhile, Zina has called for dissolution of the Health Services Board (HSB) which it has described as “weak”.

“It is shameful that instead of apologising to nurses, the government is the one seeking to be appeased.

“The HSB is supposed to represent us on issues of our welfare, but it is not doing anything. It is so weak. In 2021 we want a new start and, therefore, the HSB must go.”

Dongo said the HSB has caused untold suffering on the nurses and ultimately contributed to the poor state of the hospitals.

-Newsday

By A Correspondent| Former MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe says she regretted joining forces with newly elected party leader Douglas Mwonzora whom she accused of vote fraud.

The two, together with many top party politicians, broke ranks with the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance to revive the MDC-T structures of 2014.

This followed a party leadership wrangle which was ignited by the death February 2014, of founding party leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

The national courts ruled Chamisa was not legitimate leader of the main opposition, something that saw Khupe and Mwonzora join forces to operate as the ‘original’ MDC-T.

However, the chaotic events of Sunday’s shambolic MDC-T extraordinary congress have driven a wedge between the allies with Khupe accusing Mwonzora of rigging the extraordinary election in his favour.

Khupe told the media Sunday night that she had suspended Mwonzora from his position, adding that she regretted working with the senator.

“I do have regrets now because I thought he was an honest person, I thought he was a genuine person, I thought he was somebody whom we were going to be working together and moving together in this journey of making sure that we deliver a better life to every Zimbabwean.

“Little did I know that he was going to be somebody who would be doing things in a fraudulent manner. I don’t expect that from a person of his calibre…It’s a sad reality,” Khupe said.

By A Correspondent| Former MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe says the opposition party will report newly elected party president Douglas Mwonzora’s alleged embezzlement of a total $6,3 million in party funds to the police.

Speaking to the media Sunday night, Khupe accused Mwonzora of unilaterally withdrawing the money from the opposition party’s bank account without both the knowledge and approval of his colleagues and later using it to rig Sunday’s MDC-T extraordinary congress in his favour.

Khupe was speaking some moments after she was forced to flee from the party’s congress at the Harare International Conference Centre when Mwonzora’s supporters were baying for her blood.

The followers were angered by Khupe’s bold announcement she was calling off the congress midway after some huge anomalies had emerged from the process.

But speaking from a safe place after her ordeal, the former deputy prime minister of the now defunct inclusive government accused her ally of stealing party funds.

“First, he (Mwonzora) took 300 000 (dollars) from the party coffers without anybody knowing and we said ahh, ok. And then 6 million (dollars) as we speak right now is missing; he can’t account for the money.

“If you see this whole conference, it is happening on credits. I had to go out of my way together with the national chairman (Morgen Komichi), we had to ask for credits and yet he is holding 6 million (dollars).

“That is the 6 million he used to rig this election and I cannot allow this to go ahead,” Khupe said, adding that they were going to report the matter to the police.

“Definitely, we are going to be doing that because he has to account for the money,” she said.

Earlier in the day, Mwonzora told journalists that claims of his embezzlement of party funds were a smear campaign by opponents.

Similarly, presenting MDC-T resolutions soon after the announcement of election results Monday morning, party top leader Tapiwa Mashakada said the party had resolved to hire independent auditors to audit the MDC-T funds before considering any police report.

https://twitter.com/ZimEye/status/1343601248608653313?s=19

VIDEO LOADING BELOW….
THE MDC-T’S THOKOZANI KHUPE SPEAKS TO ZIMEYE.COM ON MONDAY 28TH DEC 2020. FULL STORY ON ZIMEYE.COM

ZimEye will be livestreaming a press conference set to be held by the party’s former leader Dr Thokozani Khupe.

The presser is set to be held in Milton park Harare.

More details to follow……

ZimEye will be livestreaming a press conference set to be held by the party’s former leader Dr Thokozani Khupe.

The presser is set to be held in Milton park Harare.

The development comes after MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora pocketed 883 votes out of a declared 1 027 total ballots on Sunday at the party’s extra ordinary congress held a few meters away from Zanu Pf headquarters in Harare.

His arch rival, the former’ acting party leader Dr Khupe who polled 118 votes while Elias Mudzuri got 14 votes and Morgen Komichi at the tail end garnered a paltry 9 votes.

There were 1 027 ballots issued of which 1 026 were cast with 2 being spoilt ballots.

Khupe and Komichi were later assaulted and escorted out of the Harare International Conference Centre by security after Khupe nullified the whole voting process as null and void citing rigging.

More details to follow……

Thokozani Khupe has claimed she is still leader of the MDC T.

Khupe has also dismissed Douglas Mwonzora’s victory at the weekend Congress as null and void.

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By A Correspondent- Two candidates have pulled out of the Mutare Zanu PF district co-ordination committee (DCC) election rerun slated for today (Monday) in support of one candidate.

Four candidates participated in the first round and these were Binali Yard, Clever Muparutsa, Cecilia Gambe and Ivan Mbengo.

Yesterday Mbengo and Gambe told NewsDay that they had pulled out and were now supporting Yard, who now faces off against Muparutsa.

The first round was marred by allegations of rigging with some ballot papers found in bins, while others were burnt by party supporters were being paid to vote more than once.

Mbengo, a war veteran told NewsDay that the first round was scandalous.

“I have pulled out and am now supporting Yard because he has a cleaner record than the other candidates,” Mbengo said.

Gambe also confirmed pulling out but he declined to give reasons.

“I pulled out in support of Yard,” she said.

The election has exposed factionalism in the party, with Zanu PF Manicaland provincial chairperson Mike Madiro reportedly supporting Muparutsa while Zanu PF national chairperson Oppah Muchinguri is allegedly backing Yard.-newsday

By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police has revealed the identity of people who perished in a fatal road traffic accident at 130KM peg along Harare-Nyamapanda road. We present below the police statement in full.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirms the death of 17 people in a fatal road traffic accident which occurred at the 130 KM peg along Harare-Nyamapanda Road on 27 December 2020 at around 1740 hours.

A white Isuzu KB Double Cab which was travelling towards Murewa had a head-on collision with a white BMW vehicle going in the opposite direction. 14 people died on the spot while three died on admission at Mutoko Hospital. The driver of the Isuzu vehicle died on the spot. The bodies of the victims were taken to Mutoko District Hospital for Post Mortem and those injured were also admitted at the same institution. Meanwhile, eight of the victims have been identified by their next of kin as follows:

1. Sandra Kanobata, a female adult, aged 19, of number 14 Rufaro Street, Chinzanga Mutoko.
2. Abigal Chitimba, a female adult, aged 30, of number 14 Rufaro Street Chinzanga Mutoko.
3. Major Mushumbi a male juvenile, aged seven, of number 14 Rufaro Street, Chinzanga Mutoko.
4. Ngaakudzwe Nkolomah, a female juvenile, aged one year of number 14 Rufaro Street, Chinzanga Mutoko.
5. Nyasha Chikuza, a female juvenile, aged seven, of ChitsakaVillage, Chief Mutoko, Mutoko.
6. Masimba Rutsito, a male adult, aged 39, of Chingamuka Village, Chief Mutoko, Mutoko. (Isuzu Driver)
7. Kupakwashe Rutsito, a male juvenile, aged 13 of Chingamuka Village, Chief Mutoko, Mutoko.
8. Samuel Mapuranga, a male juvenile, aged two years of Estalia Village D, Kadoma.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police urges drivers to be considerate on the roads, avoid reckless driving conduct especially trying to overtake in situations which are not safe. Motorists should not exceed the loading capacity of vehicles when carrying goods and passengers. Let us all remember that road safety is a collective responsibility.