BULAWAYO has recorded two more Covid-19 related deaths as the country recorded 97 new cases in the last 24-hour cycle, bringing the total number of cases to 12 422.
So far, the total number of people who succumbed to the deadly virus now stands at 322 while the national recovery rate stands at 81,4 percent.
Coronavirus cases are on the rise.
A total of 1 581 PCR tests were conducted yesterday and positivity was 6,6 percent.
According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care, all the 97 new cases local transmissions. The highest number of 50 cases was reported in Harare followed by Bulawayo which had 16 new cases.
Mashonaland East recorded 12 new cases while Masvingo had nine new cases. The Midlands has five cases. Matabeleland North and Manicaland had two new cases each while Mashonaland Central recorded one case.
“As of December 21, 2020 Zimbabwe, has now recorded 12 422 confirmed cases, 10 112 recoveries and 322 deaths,” reads the statement.-Chronicle
By A Correspondent- This month marks a year after the controversial prophet Talent Chiwenga said truck drivers and builders are lazy people who will die before 40.
He said this is because of the nature of their work, while adding that the two are worthless professions.
He mocked the texture of truck drivers and builders’ hands likening them to the backside of a tortoise’s backside.
Said Chiwenga:
“Greeting the person and then you’ll see that their hands are in such a terrible shape, hardened like a tortoise’s backside, and you ask yourself: are these real human hands?
“And the person literally thinks that they have a career, handling bricks.
“They will not be able to reach 40 years, the bricks destroy your back; it is just the same thing as driving a truck from DRC to Zimbabwe.
“This is hard labour, when you see a person reaching 10 years while doing such a job as a truck driver; they are a lazy, nyope.
“They don’t want to think. That (truck driving) is not a profession, a person could confidently say that they are a truck driver.
“For a person to do this job for over 10 years, travelling 5000 km, 5000 km 5000 km, sitting behind a big steering wheel like this, driving a mere gonyimbi(haulage truck).
“People are lazy but that laziness manifests itself in three dimensions: there are some people who are lazy because they do not have energy to work, they are weak people. I personally saw such people while growing up.
“To hold a simple plough, they are hit by a plough like this, while failing to bring it down.
‘They end up nearly killing someone’s child and you tell them to stand up and go and sit somewhere else.
“If you tell them to lead the cows, the whip hits them from behind, it goes the other way.
“They do not have ability to see the thing; they don’t have the excellency that some of us have.
“We used to finish everything using one hand; The other hand doing the driving, while my father would be saying, hurry up there is more field work tomorrow.
“We used to do it better than the person who is pulling. So now, you can end up being lazy, you are at loss of physical power. Or you can have physical power and you are at loss of mental power; now that one (the latter) is a serious disaster.”
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THE Gafa as Zimbabwean dancehall musician Winky D is popularly known did the nation on Monday after he was declared as this year’s Best Dancehall Artiste at the African Entertainment Awards United States of America (AEAUSA).
Riding high on his recent release Ragga Msambo trilogy, Winky D managed to shun competition from some of the world’s best musicians among them Patoranking, Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy, Samini, Navy Kenzo, Bebe Cool and Prince Bright.
AEAUSA is a non-profit organisation established in New Jersey in the USA to support, celebrate and uplift African Entertainment since 2015. The company uses entertainment as a platform to showcase an Africa that is united, self-sufficient, willing and able to evoke social change that matters most in the communities of Africans all over the world.
Taking to his social media pages yesterday, Winky D dedicated the award to his fans who have supported him on a career spanning about two decades.
He added that the award is a present for the festive season which is happening on a different note this year as it is subdued due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Allow me to express hearty appreciation to my musical family, the Gafas to whom I dedicate this award. I am forever humbled by the Gafa family’s uncompromising confidence and unwavering commitment to the Vigilance musical journey.
Surely, we are stronger together. This is a befitting festive bonus for the trilogy,” said Winky D.-Chronicle
FC PLATINUM skipper Petros Mhari has rallied his teammates to focus on avoiding conceding at home as they look to begin their CAF Champions League first round tie against Tanzanian giants Simba SC on a positive footing at the National Sports Stadium this afternoon.
The match, which kicks off at 3pm behind closed doors, will be broadcast live on ZBC Television.
Mhari, who is one of the most experienced players in the Zimbabwean side, yesterday said they do not expect to leave anything to chance.
The platinum miners are mindful of the strength of their opponents, who reached the quarter-finals of the same competition two years ago, and are aiming for a clean sheet ahead of the second leg set for the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam on January 6.
“Of course we know one or two things about Simba from watching them play in the Tanzanian league and also in these interclub competitions,” said Mhari.
“But since we are starting at home, we just need to make sure that we get a positive result out of this match. In fact, it would be best if we avoid conceding goals at home because these goals have the tendency of coming back to haunt you in the second leg.
“Football is just a game played over 90 minutes. We need to execute our game-plan well and make sure that we maintain maximum concentration the entire match,” Mhari said.
FC Platinum have reached the group stages in their last two consecutive campaigns and the target for this year is to go beyond the last 16 for the first time.
However, they face a tall order considering they are coming from a background of complete lockdown which saw football being cancelled this year while their opponents have been playing continuously.
FC Platinum had not played a competitive match since February 2020 but they still had it in them to beat Costa do Sol of Mozambique, home and away, in the preliminary round.
Mhari and his teammates are looking to build on the momentum to get their campaign going.-Chronicle
THREE passengers, including a minor, onboard a pirating Toyota Noah drowned when the vehicle was swept away after its driver attempted to cross a flooded river in Zvishavane at the weekend.
The three got out of the car through the windows but unfortunately drowned.
The other seven passengers and the driver managed to disembark from the vehicle and swam to safety.
Acting police spokesperson for Midlands Province, Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende confirmed the incident which she said occurred on Sunday around 6PM at Mutorahuku River near Kashamba Primary School on the outskirts of Zvishavane town.
She said the pirating Toyota Noah had 10 people on board.
“Police in Zvishavane are investigating a case in which three passengers drowned after the driver of a vehicle they were travelling in tried to cross a flooded river.
“The incident occurred on Sunday at around 6PM at Mutorahuku River near Kashamba Primary School on the outskirts of Zvishavane,” said Asst Insp Mukwende.
She said the deaths could have been avoided if the driver had not attempted to drive across the flooded river.
“Circumstances are that on the said date one Cornelius Manduku (48) of Village Runyararo under Chief Jahana in Insiza was driving a Toyota Noah from Zvishavane on the way back to Insiza with 10 passengers on board.
“Upon arrival at Mutorahuku River near Kashamba Primary School they found the river flooded,” she said.
Asst Insp Mukwende said the driver proceeded and attempted to cross the flooded river resulting in the car being swept away with 10 people on board.
She said the police identified the three deceased passengers Tariro Makwa (24), Aneno Manduku (39) and a minor Gertrude Mudhonga (9).
“The three, Manduku, Makwa and Mudhonga got out of the car through the windows and unfortunately drowned, while the other seven passengers and the driver managed to swim out of the flooded river,” said Asst Insp Mukwende.-Chronicle
Warriors head coach Zdravko Logarusic is likely to select either Dynamos captain Partson Jaure or Chicken Inn defender Ian Nekati to captain the Warriors at the sixth edition of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) to be held next year.
An insider told NewsDay that one of the two defenders will likely get the armband as both have gained invaluable experience by playing for the regular Warriors team. He said:
He (Loga) is likely to choose between Jaure and Nekati. Remember Nekati was the captain before the CHAN qualifiers and it is likely to be a toss-up between him and Jaure. It is highly likely one of them will be given the armband.
Jaure wore the skipper’s armband in 2014 when the Warriors reached the semi-finals in South Africa and also during the qualifiers for next year’s edition.
Zimbabwe is one of the only three teams that have appeared at the biennial soccer showcase since its inception in 2009 along with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
The Warriors will play hosts Cameroon in the opening match before facing the Stallions of Burkina Faso in the second match of Group A and conclude their group matches with a clash against the Eagles of Mali.
The tournament kicks off on January 16 and winds down on February 7.
– NewsDay
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has pointed out that the concept of unity has been drowned by violence and lawlessness in the country.
Below is President Chamisa’s Unity Day Message :
THE IDEA OF UNITY- MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa Unity Day Message
22 December 2020
Fellow Zimbabweans,
The bold font of divisions, destruction, violence and anarchy continues to override the voices of love, unity, peace, reason and development in our country.
This is largely because our nation-building project has not fulfilled the promise of the glorious days of independence.
We need true unity, peace and prayer to heal and build our nation. Peace and unity are the necessary ingredients for development and the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and rights.
However, it is important to understand the idea of unity. Unity is not about the coming together of bodies, commanded by the powerful in society. It is not an event signified by elite political pacts. Unity is a process by which minds are drawn together organically to achieve a common purpose.
Unity does not mean the absence of difference. Instead, it is a process that acknowledges, recognises and celebrates difference as a natural part of a normal society. Therefore, unity does not necessarily mean uniformity among peoples. Rather it recognises and promotes diversity and the beauty of it.
Indeed, unity does not mean compulsory conformity of the minority to the majority merely because the majority demand compliance. Rather, unity behoves the majority to recognise and respect minorities in whatever form because they matter too.
Politically, unity is a process in which parties of different political and ideological persuasions are allowed to pursue their cause while they come together to face common threats.
Unity does not criminalize diversity and alternative views. It is not tyranny of the centre. This why the devolution process, which is encapsulated in our Constitution, is essential for unity. Unity does not mean sweeping pain and tears of a people under the proverbial carpet. Rather, it is a process that is undergirded by truth-telling, acknowdgement of pain, remorse and reconciliation.
Where there is unity of purpose there is difference but a commitment to development and prosperity. Genuine unity does not produce an impoverished society. It exalts a people to prosperity. On this day, we should be celebrating. But too many of our people are in great pain because of socio-economic burdens that have become unbearable.
Currently, we experience too many divisions, violence, and hatred. This has made Unity Day become trite, vacuous and meaningless without the values and practices of unity that I have outlined. It has become a reminder of the ogre of violence, intolerance and hate speech that continue to engulf our nation.
Violence is intolerable. We note with disdain an increase in abductions and torture against its citizens including young leaders and activists. We have hundreds of MDC leaders in detention or on remand facing trumped-up politically-motivated charges. The consistent and persistent denial of citizens’ rights is a form of violence against political opponents.
The harassment, intimidation, illegal arrest of opposition leaders, activists, and professionals is repugnant to unity and peace. It’s deplorable how professionals have been harassed and persecuted during the course of the year simply because they have dared to exercise their freedoms. Unity does not mean a suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms. It celebrates and protects them.
Unity is not built on force. It is built upon foundations of love, understanding and appreciation of difference and diversity.
In a New Zimbabwe, under our new government, we propose a National Unity, Peace and Prayer Day. We do so in recognition of the fact that unity, peace and prayer are interconnected.
We recognise that unity is not merely a political slogan but rather, it is a reality that we must experience in all spheres, be it in our families, churches, workplaces civic organisations or government.
Nation building is an ongoing project that must produce conditions of unity in diversity. But we cannot build a nation when there is persecution. We call for an end to political persecution. Nation building requires justice to be done for the aggrieved in our communities.
We deserve to be united by our values, aspirations, constitution and human rights. No single organization is bigger than Zimbabwe. We must imagine a better, just and more prosperous Zimbabwe in which our diversity is celebrated, not condemned.
We owe it to ourselves and future generations as God’s people to embrace one another in unity, to pray for the prosperity of our nation. Prayer works with works. We should not wait for divine intervention when we can change our behaviour.
This day, I call upon families and all people of this country to embrace this day as a day we express our unity with one another. A day we find peace. A day we seek the Lord as we prepare for Christmas and the New Year holidays.
This day, I join you all in demanding true unity, peace and prosperity for us all as a people. We in the MDC are ready to play our part in finding a lasting solution to the national issues that bring us together as a nation. We will unite the nation and bring peace in the name of our Lord, without resorting to any forms violence which we abhor.
Peace is simple. Peace begins within. Peace begets peace. Peace breeds prosperity.
In our fractured nation, I wish you all a blessed Unity, Peace and Prayer day and we pray for unity and peace in our country.
Winning Zimbabwe for real change.Change that delivers!
God Bless you
For justice, peace, a shared vision, true unity and the cause of freedom,
Adv Nelson Chamisa
President MDC Alliance
Hundreds of Zimbabweans returning to the country for Christmas are spending up to two days to pass through Beitbridge Border Post as congestion persists at Sadc’s busiest inland port of entry.
Even commercial cargo is piling up on either side raising fears that most Zimbabweans, who rely on groceries from the neighbouring country, may spend the festive season without food.
There are long queues on either side of the border, despite official statistics showing that Christmas period traffic has declined by almost 70 percent this year compared to previous years.
The decline is attributed to Covid-19 travel restrictions. South Africa is home to many Zimbabwean migrant workers and a majority of them were not able to travel through the borders at the peak of the Covid-19 induced lockdowns in both countries.
Until December 1 only commercial cargo, bodies for burial and returnees, and diplomats on Government business were allowed to travel into either country.
Zimbabwe opened its land borders, including Beitbridge at the beginning of this month. Private motorists and pedestrians are now travelling under strict Covid-19 management protocols, which also come with curfews running between 10PM and 6AM in both countries.
However, the implementation of the curfew on the South African side of the border which runs between 10PM and 4AM coupled with strict Covid-19 screening is slowing the movement of traffic into either country.
After 10PM only commercial cargo is allowed to travel through Beitbridge Border Post, resulting in vehicles piling up on either side of the border. Travellers continue to spend at least 48 hours to pass through the border.
Although there appear to be many people at the border due to congestion, official statistics show that less than one-third of the usual volume of traffic during peak periods is using the border.
“Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the border used to handle at least 30 000 travellers per day and currently, the average figure is 6 500.
“The issue of implementing curfew regulations and slow Covid-19 screening has caused a lot of chaos,” said a border official.
An average of 50 Zimbabweans are arriving from South Africa by road daily under the self-repatriation facility.
According to an informal cross-border transporter, Mr Trust Ndlovu, the slow movement of traffic at the border is likely to see some families having a dull festive season.
“Something has to be done about the situation here. Imagine I haven’t moved for one kilometre since arriving at the border at 5 AM,” said Mr Ndlovu yesterday afternoon.
“When the Government re-opened the land borders, most of us were happy that we will be able to transport groceries and all the basic commodities we had failed to do at the peak of the lockdown.
“If we look at the rate at which things are moving here, we won’t manage to make deliveries to all our clients. This will be disastrous.”
Mr Albert Pinjisi who was travelling from South Africa said he had spent more than six hours at the border due to long queues. Another motorist, Mr Brian Tshabangu said; “We have a crisis here, we don’t know if we will be able to cross over to South Africa today. We have cleared everything on the Zimbabwe side and have been waiting in this queue for a very long time.”
Our news crew observed security officers strictly screening travellers for valid documents including passports and Covid-19 clearance certificates.
A total of 1 015 people have since December 10 been arrested at the border for violating immigration laws. -Chronicle
Three passengers, including a minor, onboard a pirating Toyota Noah drowned when the vehicle was swept away after its driver attempted to cross a flooded river in Zvishavane at the weekend.
The three got out of the car through the windows but unfortunately drowned. The other seven passengers and the driver managed to disembark from the vehicle and swam to safety.
Acting police spokesperson for Midlands Province, Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende confirmed the incident which she said occurred on Sunday around 6PM at Mutorahuku River near Kashamba Primary School on the outskirts of Zvishavane town.
She said the pirating Toyota Noah had 10 people on board. “Police in Zvishavane are investigating a case in which three passengers drowned after the driver of a vehicle they were travelling in tried to cross a flooded river.
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“The incident occurred on Sunday at around 6PM at Mutorahuku River near Kashamba Primary School on the outskirts of Zvishavane,” said Asst Insp Mukwende.
She said the deaths could have been avoided if the driver had not attempted to drive across the flooded river.
“Circumstances are that on the said date one Cornelius Manduku (48) of Village Runyararo under Chief Jahana in Insiza was driving a Toyota Noah from Zvishavane on the way back to Insiza with 10 passengers on board.
“Upon arrival at Mutorahuku River near Kashamba Primary School they found the river flooded,” she said.
Asst Insp Mukwende said the driver proceeded and attempted to cross the flooded river resulting in the car being swept away with 10 people on board.
She said the police identified the three deceased passengers Tariro Makwa (24), Aneno Manduku (39) and a minor Gertrude Mudhonga (9).
“The three, Manduku, Makwa and Mudhonga got out of the car through the windows and unfortunately drowned, while the other seven passengers and the driver managed to swim out of the flooded river,” said Asst Insp Mukwende.
She said the matter was reported to the police in Zvishavane who then attended the scene.
Asst Insp Mukwende warned motorists against crossing flooded rivers. “We appeal to motorists to exercise extreme caution and never attempt to cross flooded rivers.
“The rainy season is upon us and most rivers will be flooded so drivers should not risk lives by attempting to cross flooded rivers and streams,” she said. – Herald
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has pointed out that the concept of unity has been drowned by violence and lawlessness in the country.
Below is President Chamisa’s Unity Day Message :
THE IDEA OF UNITY- MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa Unity Day Message
22 December 2020
Fellow Zimbabweans,
The bold font of divisions, destruction, violence and anarchy continues to override the voices of love, unity, peace, reason and development in our country.
This is largely because our nation-building project has not fulfilled the promise of the glorious days of independence.
We need true unity, peace and prayer to heal and build our nation. Peace and unity are the necessary ingredients for development and the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and rights.
However, it is important to understand the idea of unity. Unity is not about the coming together of bodies, commanded by the powerful in society. It is not an event signified by elite political pacts. Unity is a process by which minds are drawn together organically to achieve a common purpose.
Unity does not mean the absence of difference. Instead, it is a process that acknowledges, recognises and celebrates difference as a natural part of a normal society. Therefore, unity does not necessarily mean uniformity among peoples. Rather it recognises and promotes diversity and the beauty of it.
Indeed, unity does not mean compulsory conformity of the minority to the majority merely because the majority demand compliance. Rather, unity behoves the majority to recognise and respect minorities in whatever form because they matter too.
Politically, unity is a process in which parties of different political and ideological persuasions are allowed to pursue their cause while they come together to face common threats.
Unity does not criminalize diversity and alternative views. It is not tyranny of the centre. This why the devolution process, which is encapsulated in our Constitution, is essential for unity. Unity does not mean sweeping pain and tears of a people under the proverbial carpet. Rather, it is a process that is undergirded by truth-telling, acknowdgement of pain, remorse and reconciliation.
Where there is unity of purpose there is difference but a commitment to development and prosperity. Genuine unity does not produce an impoverished society. It exalts a people to prosperity. On this day, we should be celebrating. But too many of our people are in great pain because of socio-economic burdens that have become unbearable.
Currently, we experience too many divisions, violence, and hatred. This has made Unity Day become trite, vacuous and meaningless without the values and practices of unity that I have outlined. It has become a reminder of the ogre of violence, intolerance and hate speech that continue to engulf our nation.
Violence is intolerable. We note with disdain an increase in abductions and torture against its citizens including young leaders and activists. We have hundreds of MDC leaders in detention or on remand facing trumped-up politically-motivated charges. The consistent and persistent denial of citizens’ rights is a form of violence against political opponents.
The harassment, intimidation, illegal arrest of opposition leaders, activists, and professionals is repugnant to unity and peace. It’s deplorable how professionals have been harassed and persecuted during the course of the year simply because they have dared to exercise their freedoms. Unity does not mean a suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms. It celebrates and protects them.
Unity is not built on force. It is built upon foundations of love, understanding and appreciation of difference and diversity.
In a New Zimbabwe, under our new government, we propose a National Unity, Peace and Prayer Day. We do so in recognition of the fact that unity, peace and prayer are interconnected.
We recognise that unity is not merely a political slogan but rather, it is a reality that we must experience in all spheres, be it in our families, churches, workplaces civic organisations or government.
Nation building is an ongoing project that must produce conditions of unity in diversity. But we cannot build a nation when there is persecution. We call for an end to political persecution. Nation building requires justice to be done for the aggrieved in our communities.
We deserve to be united by our values, aspirations, constitution and human rights. No single organization is bigger than Zimbabwe. We must imagine a better, just and more prosperous Zimbabwe in which our diversity is celebrated, not condemned.
We owe it to ourselves and future generations as God’s people to embrace one another in unity, to pray for the prosperity of our nation. Prayer works with works. We should not wait for divine intervention when we can change our behaviour.
This day, I call upon families and all people of this country to embrace this day as a day we express our unity with one another. A day we find peace. A day we seek the Lord as we prepare for Christmas and the New Year holidays.
This day, I join you all in demanding true unity, peace and prosperity for us all as a people. We in the MDC are ready to play our part in finding a lasting solution to the national issues that bring us together as a nation. We will unite the nation and bring peace in the name of our Lord, without resorting to any forms violence which we abhor.
Peace is simple. Peace begins within. Peace begets peace. Peace breeds prosperity.
In our fractured nation, I wish you all a blessed Unity, Peace and Prayer day and we pray for unity and peace in our country.
Winning Zimbabwe for real change.Change that delivers!
God Bless you
For justice, peace, a shared vision, true unity and the cause of freedom,
Adv Nelson Chamisa
President MDC Alliance
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa to release jailed ARTUZ Gender and Social Welfare Secretary for Masvingo Province, Sheila Chisirimunhu.
Chisirimunhu was sentenced to 10 months in prison.
See statement below :
21 DECEMBER 2020
MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA DISTRICT DEMANDS THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ARTUZ MASVINGO PROVINCE GENDER AND SOCIAL WELFARE SECRETARY SHEILA CHISIRIMUNHU.
Mdc Alliance Namibia district condemns the attempt by Zanupf terrorists to silence dissenting voices in the education fraternity. The conviction and sentencing of the Gender and Social Welfare Secretary from the vibrant teachers union(Artuz) led by the astute and radical leader President Obert Masaraure epitomises the serious weaponisation of the law to put opposition on mute.
Madam Sheila was convicted and sentenced to 10 months in prison which must be resisted by all right thinking teachers who comprehend the need to offer solidarity to a comrade who is being incarcerated for demanding a living wage. Teachers must continue fighting without deterrence.
Moreover, demonstrating against slave wages or unsalted peanuts in the civil service does not warrant any arrest worse imprisonment. Section 59 of the supreme law of the country provides the rights to demonstrate peacefully against gross misgovernance.
Zanupf must respect human rights and freedoms. Being incarcerated for demanding what is due is not only satanic but diabolic. Mdc Alliance Namibia district urges all genuine revolutionaries in the teaching fraternity to join hands against Zanupf authoritarianism. Sheila deserves solidarity from the rest of the civil servants who are wallowing in abject poverty.
Lets peacefully rise and constitutionally confront this unjust conviction against an innocent victim of Zanupf artificial poverty manifesting in suicidal policies in the education sector, rampant corruption and stomach politics of plunder and self-enrichment.
In a nutshell, all teachers and social democrats home and abroad must embrace dangerous freedom to win against monocracy in Zanupf goons. Zimbabweans must unite to reclaim the fruits of independence.
It is now imperative for Progressive Teachers’Union (PTUZ), ZIMTA and other Unions to drop their hypocrisy and offer solidarity to fellow comrades who appear to be confrontational for genuine transformation in the education sector.
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
SIKHALA COURT CASE- Your own child is not going to school because of Emmerson Mnangagwa- @PoliceZimbabwe cop listens attentively pic.twitter.com/sQnGdi3rd5
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Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has accused Zanu PF of trampling on the fundamental principles of national unity.
In a statement the vibrant movement also accused Zanu PF of using the unity accord to create a One -party State.
See statement below:
22 DECEMBER 2020
THE UNITY ACCORD WAS A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO CREATE A ONE-PARTY STATE (MONOCRACY), MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA POSTULATES.
Social democrats in Namibia agree with fellow opposition party ZAPU which was rejuvenated in 2009 after realising the hypocritical nature of Zanupf’s quest for peace and tranquillity in Zimbabwe after independence in 1980. Mdc Alliance Namibia is cognisant of the pretence and deception subjected to PF ZAPU then leader Cde Joshua Nkomo by the late Cde Robert Mugabe who deceived his opponent on the 22 December 1987.
It is clear that the Unity Accord was an unsuccessful attempt to get over the lunatic, dark and ugly chapter in the history of our motherland where more than 20 000 innocent citizens were ruthlessly butchered in cold blood for supporting a visionary leader different from Zanupf’s. The Unity Accord was the genesis of autocracy and totalitarianism in Zimbabwe since it generated state capture of the army, the police and the rest of securocrats.
This day is not worth celebrating because it epitomises DISUNITY than UNITY in the country. To date, the victims of Gukurahundi were never compensated or given any attention according to the fake agreement. The murderers and terrorists were not made accountable up to now. Sarcastically, the late Robert Mugabe called it ‘a moment of madness’ that deserves to be forgotten.
Moreover, the opposition ZAPU says it regrets signing the Unity Accord in 1987 with then ZANU after the ruling party has allegedly refused to abandon its hegemonic and violent tendencies in violation of the legendary agreement. This is incontrovertible evidence to prove that the Unity Accord laid the foundation of a One-party State. Now that ZAPU’s leader is deceased, Zanupf is now concentrating on the political behemoth (Mdc Alliance) through its surrogates in the names of Khupe,Mwonzora and cronies to decimate the people’s project. The effort to establish a One-party was resisted by ZAPU and the vibrant Mdc Alliance when they tried to use captured courts to usurp power from President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. “This will never come to fruition as long as social democrats in the country still exist under the sun. We are going to use all our organs to defend Constitutional Democracy in the motherland”, echoed Mdc Alliance Namibia Rundu Branch Spokesperson, Robson Ruhanya.
Moreso, celebrating Unity Day is tantamount to celebrating Flag Independence without deliverables. No Unity, No Tranquillity, No Harmony and No basic universal freedoms but they continue to force people to celebrate their festival of absurdities. The revival of ZAPU was a clear testimony of fake unity between the two parties. Trampling on human rights does not reflect any unity but politics hate and rhetoric. 22 December must be used to advocate for the compensation of the victims of state-sponsored mass killings during Gukurahundi.
To wind it up, Mdc Alliance Namibia advocates for a serious investigation of those who butchered our Matebeleland and Midlands relatives, friends and comrades. Perpetrators of these atrocities must be brought to book then we can commemorate the day together. #NoToImpunity #WeDemandJusticeToGukurahundiVictims
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
What are the signs and symptoms of typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever?
Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever have similar symptoms̵.
People usually have a sustained fever (one that doesn’t come and go) that can be as high as 103–104°F (39–40°C).
Other symptoms of typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever include
Weakness
Stomach pain
Headache
Diarrhea or constipation
Cough
Loss of appetite
Some people with typhoid fever or paratyphoid fever develop a rash of flat, rose-colored spots.
What do you do if you think you have typhoid fever or paratyphoid fever?
The only way to know for sure if an illness is typhoid fever or paratyphoid fever is to have a sample of blood or stool (poop) tested for Salmonella Typhi or Salmonella Paratyphi.
If you have a fever and feel very ill, see a doctor immediately.
How are typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever treated?
Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are treated with antibiotics.
When bacteria are resistant to antibiotics, the bacteria are not killed and their growth is not stopped when antibiotics are taken. Your doctor may order special tests to see if the bacteria causing your infection are resistant. Results from those tests may affect what antibiotic treatment you receive.
People who do not get appropriate antibiotic treatment may have fever for weeks or months and may develop complications. People who do not get treatment can die from complications of the infection.
The danger from typhoid fever or paratyphoid fever doesn’t end when symptoms disappear.
Even if your symptoms seem to go away, you may still be carrying Salmonella Typhi or Salmonella Paratyphi. If so, the illness could return, or you could pass the bacteria to other people. In fact, if you are a healthcare worker or work at a job where you handle food or care for small children, you may not be able to return to work until a doctor has determined you no longer carry the bacteria.
If you are being treated for typhoid fever or paratyphoid fever, it is important to do the following to lower the chance that you will pass the bacteria on to someone else.
Keep taking antibiotics for as long as the doctor has recommended.
Wash your hands carefully with soap and water after using the bathroom.Do not prepare or serve food for others.
Source: Centre For Disease Control And Prevention
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21 DECEMBER 2020
MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA DISTRICT DEMANDS THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ARTUZ MASVINGO PROVINCE GENDER AND SOCIAL WELFARE SECRETARY SHEILA CHISIRIMUNHU.
Mdc Alliance Namibia district condemns the attempt by Zanupf terrorists to silence dissenting voices in the education fraternity. The conviction and sentencing of the Gender and Social Welfare Secretary from the vibrant teachers union(Artuz) led by the astute and radical leader President Obert Masaraure epitomises the serious weaponisation of the law to put opposition on mute.
Madam Sheila was convicted and sentenced to 10 months in prison which must be resisted by all right thinking teachers who comprehend the need to offer solidarity to a comrade who is being incarcerated for demanding a living wage. Teachers must continue fighting without deterrence.
Moreover, demonstrating against slave wages or unsalted peanuts in the civil service does not warrant any arrest worse imprisonment. Section 59 of the supreme law of the country provides the rights to demonstrate peacefully against gross misgovernance.
Zanupf must respect human rights and freedoms. Being incarcerated for demanding what is due is not only satanic but diabolic. Mdc Alliance Namibia district urges all genuine revolutionaries in the teaching fraternity to join hands against Zanupf authoritarianism. Sheila deserves solidarity from the rest of the civil servants who are wallowing in abject poverty.
Lets peacefully rise and constitutionally confront this unjust conviction against an innocent victim of Zanupf artificial poverty manifesting in suicidal policies in the education sector, rampant corruption and stomach politics of plunder and self-enrichment.
In a nutshell, all teachers and social democrats home and abroad must embrace dangerous freedom to win against monocracy in Zanupf goons. Zimbabweans must unite to reclaim the fruits of independence.
It is now imperative for Progressive Teachers’Union (PTUZ), ZIMTA and other Unions to drop their hypocrisy and offer solidarity to fellow comrades who appear to be confrontational for genuine transformation in the education sector.
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
THE IDEA OF UNITY-
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa Unity Day Message
22 December 2020
Fellow Zimbabweans,
The bold font of divisions, destruction, violence and anarchy continues to override the voices of love, unity, peace, reason and development in our country.
This is largely because our nation-building project has not fulfilled the promise of the glorious days of independence.
We need true unity, peace and prayer to heal and build our nation. Peace and unity are the necessary ingredients for development and the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and rights.
However, it is important to understand the idea of unity. Unity is not about the coming together of bodies, commanded by the powerful in society. It is not an event signified by elite political pacts. Unity is a process by which minds are drawn together organically to achieve a common purpose.
Unity does not mean the absence of difference. Instead, it is a process that acknowledges, recognises and celebrates difference as a natural part of a normal society. Therefore, unity does not necessarily mean uniformity among peoples. Rather it recognises and promotes diversity and the beauty of it.
Indeed, unity does not mean compulsory conformity of the minority to the majority merely because the majority demand compliance. Rather, unity behoves the majority to recognise and respect minorities in whatever form because they matter too.
Politically, unity is a process in which parties of different political and ideological persuasions are allowed to pursue their cause while they come together to face common threats.
Unity does not criminalize diversity and alternative views. It is not tyranny of the centre. This why the devolution process, which is encapsulated in our Constitution, is essential for unity. Unity does not mean sweeping pain and tears of a people under the proverbial carpet. Rather, it is a process that is undergirded by truth-telling, acknowdgement of pain, remorse and reconciliation.
Where there is unity of purpose there is difference but a commitment to development and prosperity. Genuine unity does not produce an impoverished society. It exalts a people to prosperity. On this day, we should be celebrating. But too many of our people are in great pain because of socio-economic burdens that have become unbearable.
Currently, we experience too many divisions, violence, and hatred. This has made Unity Day become trite, vacuous and meaningless without the values and practices of unity that I have outlined. It has become a reminder of the ogre of violence, intolerance and hate speech that continue to engulf our nation.
Violence is intolerable. We note with disdain an increase in abductions and torture against its citizens including young leaders and activists. We have hundreds of MDC leaders in detention or on remand facing trumped-up politically-motivated charges. The consistent and persistent denial of citizens’ rights is a form of violence against political opponents.
The harassment, intimidation, illegal arrest of opposition leaders, activists, and professionals is repugnant to unity and peace. It’s deplorable how professionals have been harassed and persecuted during the course of the year simply because they have dared to exercise their freedoms. Unity does not mean a suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms. It celebrates and protects them.
Unity is not built on force. It is built upon foundations of love, understanding and appreciation of difference and diversity.
In a New Zimbabwe, under our new government, we propose a National Unity, Peace and Prayer Day. We do so in recognition of the fact that unity, peace and prayer are interconnected.
We recognise that unity is not merely a political slogan but rather, it is a reality that we must experience in all spheres, be it in our families, churches, workplaces civic organisations or government.
Nation building is an ongoing project that must produce conditions of unity in diversity. But we cannot build a nation when there is persecution. We call for an end to political persecution. Nation building requires justice to be done for the aggrieved in our communities.
We deserve to be united by our values, aspirations, constitution and human rights. No single organization is bigger than Zimbabwe. We must imagine a better, just and more prosperous Zimbabwe in which our diversity is celebrated, not condemned.
We owe it to ourselves and future generations as God’s people to embrace one another in unity, to pray for the prosperity of our nation. Prayer works with works. We should not wait for divine intervention when we can change our behaviour.
This day, I call upon families and all people of this country to embrace this day as a day we express our unity with one another. A day we find peace. A day we seek the Lord as we prepare for Christmas and the New Year holidays.
This day, I join you all in demanding true unity, peace and prosperity for us all as a people. We in the MDC are ready to play our part in finding a lasting solution to the national issues that bring us together as a nation. We will unite the nation and bring peace in the name of our Lord, without resorting to any forms violence which we abhor.
Peace is simple. Peace begins within. Peace begets peace. Peace breeds prosperity.
In this our fractured nation, I wish you all a blessed Unity, Peace and Prayer day and we pray for unity and peace in our country.
Winning Zimbabwe for real change.Change that delivers!
God Bless you
For justice, peace, a shared vision, true unity and the cause of freedom,
Adv Nelson Chamisa
President MDC Alliance
LIONEL Messi says his failed attempt to leave Barcelona in the summer has affected his form this season.
In August the Argentina forward said he wanted to exercise a clause in his contract which he said allowed him to leave on a free transfer.
But Barcelona refused, saying his €700 million release clause had to be met.
“I dragged everything into the start of the season a bit,” Messi (33) told Spanish television channel La Sexta.
“The truth is right now I’m feeling fine, but in the summer I had a very bad time.”
Messi equalled Brazil legend Pele’s record of 643 goals for a club by scoring for Barcelona in Saturday’s draw against Valencia.
It was Messi’s ninth goal in 17 appearances this season for Barcelona, who are fifth in La Liga.
Messi, who can leave Barcelona for free when his contract runs out at the end of the season, is able to negotiate with other clubs from January 1.
Barcelona interim president Carlos Tusquets, who took over until elections in January after Josep Maria Bartomeu resigned in October, has said that “economically speaking” Messi should have been sold in the summer.
Barcelona’s players agreed to wage cuts in November that will save the 26-time La Liga champions €122 million.-Chronicle
At least 10 000 suspected ghost workers have been struck off the Government payroll after a biometric registration exercise as the Second Republic walks the talk on its reforms aimed at restoring order in the civil service.
The eliminated names are of those whose biometric data was non-compliant under the exercise that was assisted by the World Bank.
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has also reassured its workers that their welfare remains a top priority in the coming year promising continued engagement on sustainable salaries while new non-monetary incentives, including another 120 buses to boost the fleet that brings civil servants to and from work, are being worked out.
Other existing non-monetary incentives such as affording civil servants housing schemes and duty rebate on vehicle imports will also be retained in 2021.
During last week’s workshop for the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Service Labour and Social Welfare, the PSC and the Apex Council grouping staff associations, PSC head of human capital development and management, Mr Moses Mhike, said the exercise of flushing out ghost workers was continuous.
“Ghost workers are no longer an issue. We have managed to account for those on the Salary Service Bureau,” he said.
“We conducted a biometric exercise to get the data of all civil servants and comparing with the Registrar’s office. We realised that about 10 000 were not biometric compliant and traced them at each and every work station.”
PSC Secretary Ambassador Jonathan Wutawunashe said the PSC simply eliminated ghost workers by withdrawing salaries to those who were non-complaint to the biometric exercise.
“We made sure that we stopped paying those non complaint and only the legitimate ones came forward. However, the exercise should be an ongoing thing,” he said.
The biometric registration was implemented with the assistance of the World Bank as part of efforts to weed out ghost workers and modernise management of the civil service.-The Herald
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Paul Nyathi
Extremely long traffic jams remain at the Beitbridge border post between Zimbabwe and South Africa.
One commuter told SABC News on Tuesday that “nothing is moving, everything is standing still”.
Newzroom Africa spoke to passengers who explained that several travellers had to leave in search for food, as they had been stuck at the border post for hours, while others had been queueing for days.
“Everyone here is very hungry. I’ve volunteered to walk to the Shell to buy water as people have no water and it’s very hot here”
Long queues were forming as cars and truck were backed up as far as 12 kilometres between Beitbridge and Musina. Several passengers told reporters that they had been queueing for more than three days.
COVID-19 DELAYS
While the post is usually busy over the festive season, additional delays were caused by earlier curfew times. Furthermore, travellers must be cleared under strict COVID-19 protocols.
Transport spokesperson, Matome Moremi-Tauetsoala explained that the situation will be addressed as the department is aware of congestion at the Beitbridge border post.
“Our team from SAPS and traffic have re-strategised their plans and they will put them into action not so long. The matter will be addressed and also the Minister of Home Affairs will be making an announcement that will also enhance the plans that we have now. We are calling on motorists to be patient with each other in the meantime.”
BY TOENDEPI SHONHE – African Arguments
The Global Compensation Deed agreement reached between the former white commercial farmers and the government of Zimbabwe on 29 July 2020 is expected to bring closure to the long-outstanding land dispute. The Compensation Deed specifies that the white commercial farmers who were evicted from their land without compensation under the fast-track land reform programme implemented from 2000 will be paid a total of US$ 3.5 billion for the improvements on the farms. The value of the land is excluded from the official agreed figures. The evaluation process began under President Robert Mugabe, but speeded up under the Emmerson Mnangagwa government.
The land question remains contentious, debated along ideological, political and economic lines. The dispute with global capital remains on the altar of sanctified ‘property rights’, the rule of law, and the observation of human rights. With compensation figures agreed and timelines set, however, the joint resource mobilisation committee will now be at work. What will this settlement mean for Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector, the national economy and politics, and geopolitics?
On the government’s part, this step is consistent with the ‘Zimbabwe is open for business’ mantra adopted after the November 2017 coup. It is premised on the idea that appeasing global economic powers opens up access to foreign direct investment (FDI). Under the ‘national reconciliation’ rubric, Zimbabwe’s first Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and South Africa’s President Mandela adopted similar policies in 1980 and 1994 respectively. In both cases this was effectively a capitulation to global geopolitics and international capital dictates – deferring the resolution of the land questions for both countries.
The Second Republic identified the resolution of the land question as a necessary step to appease global capital and gain reintegration into the global community – but this time also to meet the conditions set out in the United States of America sanctions law. The 2018 Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZIDERA) (S494) amendments demanded the enforcement of ‘the SADC tribunal rulings’ and compensation of the ‘dispossessed Zimbabwean commercial farmers and agricultural companies’. Established in 1992 by Article 9 of the SADC Treaty, the tribunal court lasted until 2010 when it was suspended at Zimbabwe’s bidding. Prospects of resuscitation are miniscule.
I argue that expectations that the ‘Compensation Deed’ will enable Zimbabwe’s welcoming into the global community, regaining food security, propelling economic growth and inclusive development are patently false, if over ambitious.
The first of these arguments is based on the issue of full respect for property rights: this entails payment for the full value of land and developments. However, Section 72 (3) of Zimbabwe’s constitution only covers ‘improvements’, not the land itself. That is why, beyond the US$ 3.5 billion agreed for farm improvements, an additional value of $3.2 billion for the value of land was agreed upon only in secrecy.
Secondly, most Zimbabweans were excluded from the deliberations (the government signed an elite deal with the former white farmers). It is little wonder there is broad opposition from varied sections of the population. Third, the agreement sought only to address property clauses; eschewing some aspects specified under United States sanctions centring on respect of human rights and the rule of law. ZANU (PF)’s unrelenting state-led abuses would have to stop. Fourth, not all the 3,000 dispossessed former white farmers voted in favour of the agreement. At least 4.5 per cent voted against the Deed, who combined with those holding land under bilateral trade agreements, also excluded from this Deed, may end up sustaining the land dispute. Moreover, ongoing land grabs, and joint ventures between former white commercial farmers, some foreigners, and resettled farmers as well as contract farming continue to displace the peasantry.
Finally, compensating the former colonisers confirms that ‘Black Lives Don’t Matter’ as some have argued. Importantly, there is no debate about the fact that this land was stolen from indigenous Africans during colonisation, from the late 1800s. Africans were proletarianised to work in the minority white economy and an exclusionary white-led accumulation model replaced Hurudza – the emerging black farmers.
Where was the sanctified ‘Property Clause’ during colonial dispossessions? This Eurocentric techno-modernistic conception predominating the land reform discourse was only applied after the ‘Land Apportionment Act of 1930’ to subjugate the Africans and protect the new white owners. This history is significant, yet only the veterans of the liberation struggle had voiced uneasiness over lack of compensation for Africans’ century-long land deprivation. Regrettably, as Zimbabwe prepares to borrow at least US$ 6.7 billion, mortgaging future generations, this history is disremembered, while the national economy, already in crisis, will likely continue sliding.
The signing of the Compensation Deed fortifies historical injustices, signifying that indeed black indigenous Africans continue not to matter. No wonder destitute former farm workers, excluded from the United States sanctions law, are also missing in the agreement as indigent former farm owners are prioritised.
Oddly, as neoliberalism takes root under the Second Republic, this external outlook solidifies how Africans are side-stepped and replaced by the Bretton Woods institutions in policy formulation processes and influence, notwithstanding local opposition from war veterans and some civil society groupings that might increase. Under the influence of the Chinese-Commandist-Capitalist model epitomised by the patronage prone ‘Command Agriculture’, of the Second Republic, the voices and interests of ordinary citizens are side-stepped.
Also torn in policy confusion, akin to the ruling party, is the opposition in its various fractions, providing neither alternative policies, narratives nor hope. Thus, the Chinese-Commandist-Capitalist patronage policy framing is motivated and driven by corruption, managed in familial and military closets. In spite of its Western outlook, serving only to hoodwink the global community, the patronage-prone policy advances an elite-centred primitive accumulation.
The technocratic land reform programme of the 1980s and 1990s was viable, nevertheless slow. Overemphasis of property rights eschewing the right to development for indigenous populations partly slowed the programme. Regrettably, Britain and the USA refused to honour the Lancaster House conference promises, never mind the various versions of explanations for the decisions. With the World Bank continuing to play an active role in the consummation of the Deed, can Zimbabwe expect a different outcome relative to the 1998 conference commitments and eventual default? The verdict is still to come out.
Nevertheless, this renders no excuse for the ongoing corruption and unrelenting human rights abuses in Zimbabwe today.
Renowned medical expert Dr Simbiso Ranga chips in to answer the BAME community the hot question, “to be vaccinated or not.”
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Parallel market Zipit rates have held steady within the 110-115 range although it seems that volume sellers were scarce within the past couple of days. At the same time, the local currency slipped against the US Dollar at the latest and last auction of 2020. The Zimbabwe dollar was down 0.061% to trade at 81.7866 for the rest of the year from 81.7368 in the previous week.
The depreciation comes as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe noted that reserve money was down by $1.76 billion to $15.99 billion in the week to December 11. Government deposits with the Central Bank increased by $1.68 billion while a total of $72.88 million was injected into the economy through issuance of currency.
At the auction, bids came in lower as they totaled 347 from the previous week’s 485 as companies entered their closed periods. A total of US$29.58 million was apportioned to both the Main Auction (US$27.91m) and SMEs (US$1.67m) which is down from US$31.9 million allotted last week. Highest and lowest allotted bids remained unchanged at 86 and 80 respectively. Likewise the spread between bids remained at 7.50%.
Raw materials continued to receive the highest allocation at US$13.8 million, Machinery and Equipment US$4.85 million, Fuel, Electricity and Gas US$2.7 million, Services $2.9 million. Other amounts below US$2 million were allotted to Consumables, Retail and Distribution, Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals and Paper and Packaging.
The difference in the average weighted rate and the highest bid was flat this week as it came in at 5.39% the same as the previous auction. The difference between the parallel market rate and the weighted average rate remained flat at 27.35% amid speculation that input purchases for the current agriculture season had pushed up the rate although it remained range bound.
The UK entered a new lockdown as it discovered a new strain of the coronavirus, and this has affected world travel and markets. Cryptocurrencies reacted in a bearish manner at week opening despite increased uptake of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. As a result Bitcoin lost 1.90% to $23 126.24. Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash also saw a day of losses on the market with the former shedding 5.13% to 618.94 whilst the latter closed 9.58% weaker at $327.50.
Source – finx
Renowned medical expert Dr Simbiso Ranga chips in to answer the BAME community the hot question, “to be vaccinated or not.”
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Zim Price Checker
A lot of people are going to be travelling this Christmas season. A popular question we often get is how much is the cost of travelling from here to there. Now we have you covered.
| From | To | USD$ |
|---|---|---|
| Harare | Mutare | $10.00 |
| Harare | Rusape | $7.00 |
| Harare | Marondera | $2.00 |
| Harare | Bulawayo | $15.00 |
| Harare | Norton | $2.00 |
| Harare | Chegutu | $5.00 |
| Harare | Kadoma | $8.00 |
| Harare | Kwekwe | $10.00 |
| Harare | Gweru | $12.00 |
| Harare | Mt Darwin | $10.00 |
| Harare | Bindura | $4.00 |
| Harare | Mazowe | $2.00 |
| Harare | Nyamapanda | $10.00 |
| Harare | Honde Valley Hauna | $11.00 |
| Harare | Chivhu | $4.00 |
| Harare | Nyanga Centre | $10.00 |
| Harare | Nyanga Nyamaropa | $10.00 |
| Harare | Nyanga Ruwangwe | $10.00 |
| Harare | Masvingo | $6.00 |
| Harare | Chinhoyi | $3.00 |
| Harare | Gokwe Centre | $10.00 |
| Harare | Gokwe Nembudziya | $10.00 |
| Harare | Chiredzi | $12.00 |
| Harare | Zvishavane | $10.00 |
| Harare | Murambinda | $7.00 |
| Harare | Murewa (Via Enterprise) | $3.00 |
| Harare | Murewa via Macheke | $4.00 |
| Harare | Murewa Mukarakate | $4.00 |
| Harare | Chipinge | $14.00 |
Renowned medical expert Dr Simbiso Ranga chips in to answer the BAME community the hot question, “to be vaccinated or not.”
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BY DR MASIMBA MAVAZA |Apostle Talent Chiwenga is a controversial street preacher who has a strong belief that he is the only one correct and everyone else is wrong. He believes that he is the mouth piece of God and that his word comes from God at least that is what his followers to believe. He is known to have a passion for insulting anyone and everyone. He lacks diplomacy and is known for rebuking church members in church while he is beaming their photos on the screen.
Those who have listened to his preaching do accept that he is knowledgeable of bible passages but he misses a lot on interpretation. Apostle Chiwenga has unexplainable obsession with Vice President Chiwenga, his own cousin brother. He does not mince his words and he will insult the vice president at any time he gets to do so. He again has become a renowned enemy of another Emmanuel Makandiwa. Talent Chiwenga’s beef with prophet Makandiwa is not known. Chiwenga hates Makandiwa with a passion.
Talent Chiwenga has become blubber who pukes vitriol on any politician and any person for no reason. He now is in a serious belief that everybody is against his life. He lives in a fear and he is always running away from his shadow. But Chiwenga has become so notorious that he has to do anything to be famous.
Last year Chiwenga while coming from South Africa was involved in a car accident where he killed his wife and two church members. Talent Chiwenga drove while he was sleepy tired and in his own words he was over speeding. In his ever righteous mentality Chiwenga claimed that he was set up by the CIO and that they wanted to kill him. He claimed further that they are the ones who caused his accident.
Up to this day Chiwenga has refused to be a man of God and take responsibility of his mistakes. He has been seeing shadows and he killed his wife in this accident and obviously blamed CIO.
Many people who commented on this believed that Chiwenga is a member of a cult which needs blood from him so that he can be rich and famous. This explains why Chiwenga with all helpers around him chose to go and drive himself to South Africa to receive some supernatural powers. his form of powers needs him to spill the blood with his own hands. His first blood was that of his wife and the others were collateral damage.
In 2020 in July Chiwenga again was involved in another car accident, which he admits in a video posted on You Tube that he deliberately opted to have a head on even though he could have avoided the accident. He admitted having decided to go for the car instead of pulling off the road or change a lane. He actually took pride in killing the occupants of the other car and he indeed insisted that he will not offer any apology. He tried to cover up his underworld activities by blaming ZANU PF. he dedicated an hour in his video to insult Masimba Mavaza whom he blamed for writing about him. This was the other blood he spilled in less than a year. Whose blood is he gunning for next and blame the CIO again for his callous shenanigans.
One psychiatrist Dr M Patel from the United Kingdom described the behaviour of Chiwenga as narcissistic.Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a long-term, mental health condition. NPD causes you to think that you are more important than other people. You need to be the centre of attention and to be admired by others. You want to control the people and events in your life. It is hard for you to stop your behaviours, even when you hurt others. You have trouble asking for help and trusting other people. These thoughts and behaviours cause problems with your relationships and daily activities. As a result you believe that you are always right and everybody is after your life. The exact cause of NPD is not known. NPD commonly occurs in early adulthood. NPD may develop if you did not have a secure relationship with your parents, or if that security was disrupted. Without secure attachment, you may not have learned how to respond appropriately to events and emotions. Chiwenga has never talked about his parents even one day; he only attacks his cousin brother who is the vice president of Zimbabwe.
Because Chiwenga has a mental disorder he sees his brother as a threat to him. He is not happy that his brother is being celebrated and this makes him feel challenged. He then goes against his brother and anyone whom he thinks that is doing better than him.
Not only is he angry with his brother, he is angry with anyone above him. He sees himself as the spokesperson of God. He wants to personalise God and that’s why he claims that his words are directly coming from God.
Chiwenga has shown signs of mental health which are
Chiwenga is a person who thinks he’s always right, even if he is not. He has exhibited high signs of arrogance and he believes that he is hated or despised by many people.
The actual point is Talent Chiwenga is a know-it-all a smarty-pants or what is called smart aleck he is an egotistical lost preacher. Talent Chiwenga is someone who thinks is always right but is, in fact, not right is often described as being cocksure. He is completely confident in his own ability or knowledge but with no justification. He thinks God was only found by him seven years ago.
The suspicion is that Chiwenga is deep is spiritualism which is a system of belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, especially through him. He has to shed blood for his powers to be recognised and he covers it all up by claiming that God has sent him. His church may be built on the blood of his wife not that of Jesus.
As a church leader he was supposed to be a strong but compassionate and wise leader. Recognition of the spiritual dimension of the human experience broadens the avenues of compassionate medical care and is not limited by culture or religion so the lack of compassion by Chiwenga and his love to insult shows that he is the son of the devil pretending to be working for God. If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel for that in pain or in emotional grief. The false consensus effect, also known as consensus bias, is a pervasive cognitive bias that causes people to “see their own behavioural choices and judgments as relatively common and appropriate to existing circumstances”. In other words, they assume that their personal qualities, the false-consensus effect which is on Talent Chiwenga can be contrasted with pluralistic ignorance, an error in which people privately disapprove but publicly support what seems to be the majority view when the majority in fact shares their (private) disapproval. So Talent Chiwenga has a mental health problem which most of his followers have failed to understand and have given him the Dutch courage. Talent Chiwenga is an arrogant someone who is arrogant thinks he is better or more important than other people and behaves in a way that is rude and too confident. He has become proud and thinks that he is now at the level of God. Talent Chiwenga is so conceited. Someone who is conceited behaves in a way that shows they think they are very intelligent, skilful, or attractive. he is self-satisfied showing how pleased he is about your own situation in a way that annoys other people.
Talent Chiwenga is an immodest person, someone who is immodest thinks that he is very good or smart and likes to talk about their achievements. He is someone who is superior he behaves in a proud way, as if he thinks that he is better or more important than other people. he is vain and egocentric behaving as if he is more important than other people, and need not care about them.
He is known to be very patronizing and behaving or speaking in a way that shows you think you are more intelligent or important than someone.
The way he attacks others shows that he is self-opinionated and has become very blasphemous. Talent Chiwenga may benefit from these few verses from the bible. God seeks humble men. Proverbs 12:23
(A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.)
(Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.)
(A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.)
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble. From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man’s hand comes back to him. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice. The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult. Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit. …
Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
Those who really care for Chiwenga, please get him some help. The love for power and the blood he has spilt is haunting him.
Nyasa Times
The High Court in Malawi has ruled that the legal extradition review of Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) leader prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary to South Africa be discontinued which means that the fierce legal battle for extradition procedures may now begin in earnest in the courts.
This follows a request by Director of Public Prosecution Steven Kayuni to withdraw a review application challenging Lilongwe principal resident magistrate Viva Nyimba’s decision to free the Bushiris unconditionally on the basis that there was no any warrant of arrest against them.
In his argument, Kayuni said the court should withdraw the review applications as there is a formal extradition request from South Africa where the two were on bail for fraud, theft and corruption charges.
Lawyer representing the Bushiris, Wapona Kita told the court that they have no objection to the state’s request.
This made Judge Mwale to rule that the case be discontinued as both parties have agreed.
Kita has since said that his clients are satisfied with the withdrawal as the magistrate’s court decision still stands.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has asked government to follow existing laws when processing the extradition of the then Bushiris, who fled South Africa amid charges of fraud and money laundering, observing that they have concerns of security that needs to be addressed.
Minister of Homeland Security Richard Chimwendo Banda said last week that he signed the extradition document following the laws governing extradition processes.
Paul Nyathi
Extremely long traffic jams remain at the Beitbridge border post between Zimbabwe and South Africa.
One commuter told SABC News on Tuesday that “nothing is moving, everything is standing still”.
Newzroom Africa spoke to passengers who explained that several travellers had to leave in search for food, as they had been stuck at the border post for hours, while others had been queueing for days.
“Everyone here is very hungry. I’ve volunteered to walk to the Shell to buy water as people have no water and it’s very hot here”
Long queues were forming as cars and truck were backed up as far as 12 kilometres between Beitbridge and Musina. Several passengers told reporters that they had been queueing for more than three days.
COVID-19 DELAYS
While the post is usually busy over the festive season, additional delays were caused by earlier curfew times. Furthermore, travellers must be cleared under strict COVID-19 protocols.
Transport spokesperson, Matome Moremi-Tauetsoala explained that the situation will be addressed as the department is aware of congestion at the Beitbridge border post.
“Our team from SAPS and traffic have re-strategised their plans and they will put them into action not so long. The matter will be addressed and also the Minister of Home Affairs will be making an announcement that will also enhance the plans that we have now. We are calling on motorists to be patient with each other in the meantime.”
Chronicle
Twenty-three people believed to be Zimbabwean nationals were injured when an Impala Tours bus they were travelling in overturned a few kilometres after passing Makhado town on Monday evening.
The cross-border bus was travelling from Johannesburg to Zimbabwe along the N1 highway.
The highway is one of the major roads which links South Africa and the rest of Sadc countries north of the Limpopo River.
According to the Ministry of Transport in Limpopo, one person was critically injured, while four others incurred serious wounds.
The ministry provincial spokesperson, for Limpopo, Mr Matome Moremi said 18 other passengers had minor injuries.
“The matter is still under investigation. We cannot give too many details at this stage.
“What are getting from the ground is that a total of 23 people from that bus were injured,” he said.
Our news crew is reliably informed that the injured were taken to Louis Trichardt Memorial Hospital for treatment.
The incident comes a few months after nine Zimbabweans were killed in a road accident in Polokwane when a bus they were travelling in overturned.
The N1 highway has become a death trap with over 40 people including Zimbabweans and Malawians have died in accidents in the last eight months.
Towards a shared Zimbabwean dream
The liberation icon, Joshua Nkomo, said at the signing of the Unity Accord in 1987, “… unity is not just the signing of documents, unity is
what follows.”
What has followed is a country at odds with its own ideals, a country that speaks the rhetoric of unity yet its citizens are imprisoned by
deeply rooted divisions made worse by the government’s inability to acknowledge the trauma and suffering of its citizens.
The injustices of the past continue to be swept under the carpet. The colonial era injustices, the liberation war era injustices, and
post-independence injustices must all be negated through a national process of truth telling, nation building, national healing and rehabilitative restorative justice.
The Gukurahundi atrocities remain glossed over and dismissed as mere “disturbances” while the victims continue to live with the trauma of. unhealed wounds left to fester through insincerity and negligence. The very fabric of the Zimbabwean dream continues to be eroded by the plague of greed and corruption as our people languish in poverty and hunger.
Murambatsvina left many homeless and hopeless. Violent elections and politically instigated violence have left many dead and wounded.
Government policies have eroded the peoples’ savings and wealth. Pensioners and the vulnerable are without any cushion against the
brutality of the harsh economic circumstances.
This is not unity. True peace and reconciliation require us to sincerely address the divisions in our society, to give voice to those who are marginalised and oppressed, to work together in common purpose to ensure the promises of liberation are enjoyed by every single Zimbabwean without fear or favour. Until this day comes, we cannot claim to be united or free.
We cannot preach unity when we pursue economic policies that widen the divide between the rich and the poor. We have seen the imposition of austerity measures that punish the poor, for the mistakes made by the selfish, ruling elite.
These economic policies do not unite us. They divide us.
Inequality is growing. It’s one of the biggest threats to the security of our country, and to our unity as a people.
This is not the unity Joshua Nkomo signed for.
The MDC will continue to fight for a truly united Zimbabwe where the ideals of freedom, democracy, peace, and reform belong to every citizen of our beloved nation.
True unity must be beyond just the unity of parties or its leaders. It must be a unity of all people of our beautiful Zimbabwe in vision, ideals, values and destiny.
We must all build the Zimbabwe we deserve and want-the shared Zimbabwean dream.
The entire country is in an anti corruption drive. The country is fighting corruption and Jonathan Moyo is taking up the mantle and defending a corrupt Magistrate, why would he do that?
Judicial Insiders have revealed that the Lunat fraud case (Ishmail Moosa Lunat and Mohamed Iqbal Lunat) involving 1.4 Million USD is set to go under review as the Magistrate Morgan Nemadire faces charges of abuse of office and corruption.
In October 2019, Magistrate Morgan Nemadire imposed a ZWL$700 fine on a Venezuelan national, Delcy Daymar Rodriguez Guererro, who was convicted of possessing more than 5kg of cocaine worth US$500,000. He has now been arrested for this decision and charged with abuse of public office(Corruption).
Morgan Nemadire is no stranger to controversy as he also freed Wicknell Chivayo who was jointly charged with the late Genius Kadungure (Ginimbi), saying there was no evidence linking Chivhayo to the alleged offence.
In 2008 Harare Magistrate Morgan Nemadire issued an arrest warrant against central bank governor Gideon Gono and his aide, Fortune Chasi, who failed to attend a court hearing where they were scheduled to testify in former Minister Bright Matonga’s trial.
In a surprise turn of events, former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo defended Nemadire for acquitting Ishmaiel Moosa Lunat. This has raised the eyebrows of investigators at the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission.
Prof Jonathan Moyo has been a staunch defender and supporter of the Lunats, exposing that the former Information Minister was contracted to win the Public Relations battle on behalf of the Lunats who managed to walk away with 1.4 Million USD they defrauded from Zakariya Patel.
Prof Jonathan Moyo said “The same Magistrate On 30 Nov 2020, Morgan Nemadire acquitted Ishmaiel Moosa Lunat of allegations of fraud levelled against him by Mohammed Zakariya Patel.”
Insiders revealed that a review and investigation of Morgan Nemadire’s cases will expose that Nemadire corruptly acquitted Lunat, when the evidence points and proves that Lunat is guilty. Jonathan Moyo is now in overdrive defending Lunats because he clearly has something to gain from the Lunat – Nemadire alliance.
Why is Jonathan Moyo taking such interest in the Lunat and Patel case?
Claris Magwenzi Freelance columnist
We publish here the address by the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, his Excellency Dr ED Mnangagwa on the occasion of Unity Day.
Today, the 22nd of December 2020 marks our Unity Day where we commemorate the historic signing of the 1987 Unity Accord by our leaders and Founding Fathers of the two liberation movements, ZANU and ZAPU.
Prior to that historic signing, an alliance was forged during the protracted struggle, resulting in our hard-won victory against settler colonialism and the attainment of our independence.
To this day, the Unity Accord which delivered and cemented lasting peace and unity, remains the bedrock of our nation’s stability.
Decades have passed since that historic event of our Unity Accord. However, its conceptualisation must now go beyond a narrow interpretation.
Therefore, today as we remember and celebrate Unity Day, let us recommit ourselves to the important virtues that bind us as a people and equally incorporate the importance of our unity within the transformative national economic agenda.
Our common goal should be to continue strengthening our unitary State, which is home to multiple cultures, all coexisting in harmony under one flag and one National Anthem. Individually and collectively, we bear the responsibility to bequeath present and future generations, an economically developed, modern and prosperous country.
Fellow countrymen;
The peace dividend of the Unity Accord should continue to permeate across all levels of our socio-economic spectrum.
The national peace which the Accord delivered must be safeguarded, cherished and nurtured towards driving our national development agenda.
As we focus on the future, and inspired by the new national trajectory of economic development; I challenge us all to draw from the fundamental principles of the Accord to unify and collate our collective capabilities, competencies and skills for the attainment of Vision 2030.
On its part, my administration remains decisive in ensuring that all Zimbabweans, have a sense of belonging and that they flourish and proper leveraging on their potential and our abundant natural resource endowments. This is indeed what our Founding Fathers envisaged when they committed to entrench unity as a critical pillar of our great nation.
Dear Compatriots;
Peace building, conflict resolution and management must remain a binding feature of our national development agenda. Where there are differences, we must aim to settle and resolve them through dialogue and engagement. Further guided by our national Constitution, heritage and traditional value systems; toxic politics and divisive tendencies have no room in our society. By and large, we are a peaceful people and nation.
My administration has the political will and boldness to confront the past to bring about healing and closure.
I am encouraged by the successes we are scoring towards building greater national cohesion and singleness of purpose informed by the lessons from the disturbances which characterised the early years of independence.
To date, a concrete course of action has been drawn out following inclusive interventions and meetings held with the traditional leadership and stakeholders of Matabeleland Provinces and parts of Midlands Province.
Recently, the Victoria Falls City Council an opposition dominated Local Authority granted me Freedom of the City of Victoria Falls. That gesture attest to the enduring lesson to our political actors on the need for maturity and always acting in the national interests.
Let us drive on this important Day to reaffirm our resolve to defend our national peace, sovereignty, independence and the right to chart and embark on the development of our great country.
Fellow Countrymen;
Equalisation and development that leaves no one behind validates out unity and belonging as a people. Under my administration, budgeting and the execution of projects are being used as a medium to give a voice, power and responsibilities to communities so that they decide which priority is and best for them. We have shifted our development paradigm to be more people centred.
In this regard, my government continues to diligently implement the Devolution Policy. This transformative policy is informed by our desire and commitment to bring about, balanced growth, modernisation, industrialisation and overall development which leave no one and no area of our country behind. This policy further underpins and reflects our pursuit to preserve unity and peace through the democratic participation of all communities in national development.
In the 2021 National Budget, a total of 19, 5 billion dollars was allocated for the implementation of devolution projects in the various Districts and Wards of our country. I, therefore, challenge all our people throughout the country to be active participants in deciding, crafting, prioritising, implementing and also monitoring projects undertaken under the auspices of their Local Authorities, through devolution Funds. The development course and destiny of our communities is now in our hands.
The important role of national infrastructure in connecting and uniting communities cannot be over emphasised.
To this end, Government has embarked on extensive modernisation and expansion of our national infrastructure for sustainable economic growth.
The completed and ongoing road, energy, mining, agriculture and irrigation development projects, among others, are impacting communities, and engender inclusive national development and progress.
Meanwhile, remarkable steps forward are evident in our economy. The successes delivered and the firm development foundation laid out by the Transitional Stabilisation Programme cannot be ignored. As such, we are stirred up and positive as we set out on another leg of our journey towards Vision 2030 as outlined in the National Development Strategy -1 (2021-2025). To bolster national unity let us consolidate the prevailing macro-economic stability and to ensure inclusive economic growth.
Meanwhile, the current agricultural season has had a good and promising start. Beyond this season, climate proofing our Agriculture through vigorous dam construction and irrigation development will remain a priority as we move to become a food secure nation.
The establishment of sustainable agriculture value chains and related exports are equally key.
Allow me to highlight that the Second Republic is built on a firm grasp and understanding of history as a material force for nation-building. To this end, our country was honoured by the African Union to host the Museum of African Liberation. This will go a long way towards the immortalisation of our rich liberation history and heritage. This, along with the telling of the “African Story by Africans” should mark a re-awakening in harnessing our past, as a strong building block for a harmonious, united nation and continent.
As we live in unity with our neighbours and take our place within the comity of nations, I am grateful that our citizens who had sought sanctuary in Botswana are back home and integrated with their families and communities. We thank the Government and people of Botswana for hosting them.
In the same vein, we recognise and commend the Pan-African spirit demonstrated by the Government of Kenya, which accorded the Shona speaking community in that country, Kenyan citizenship and further made Shona, one of the official languages.
Fellow Zimbabweans;
As we move into the future we must broaden the significance of Unity Day by recognising that unity and peace must be firmly rooted in our day to day interactions, daily chores and activities.
In the spirit of this Unity Day, I further urge families, communities, organisations, churches and other institutions to embrace national symbols such as our diverse languages, music, art and dance as well as our national fabric and dress to reinforce our oneness, national pride and identity.
Such an attitude will rally us to unleash our full potential towards economically prosperous and empowered society and the realisation of the Zimbabwe we want.
Finally, I once again appeal to the nation to remain mindful of the fact that Covid-19 is still with us. During this Festive season and beyond, our safety and that of our loved ones is priority. Let us never let our guard down.
With these remarks I wish you all Happy Unity Day as well as a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.
God Bless you!
God Bless Zimbabwe!
I thank you.
Paul Nyathi
Reports just received indicate that a Zimbabwean woman collapsed and died at the Beitbridge border post while waiting on a bus on Tuesday.
A report by eNCA indicates that Passengers travelling with the woman told reporters she “complained of fatigue and asked fellow passengers to pray for her”. She was reportedly also “feeling dizzy” and passed away soon after.
According to the bus driver, the woman approached him to ask if she could exit the bus because it was hot and she needed fresh air. She collapsed while exiting the bus, and passengers rushed to assist her.
The bus driver explained that they “held her and gave her water”. Her condition improved and she exited the bus. However, when she returned, she was unable to remain upright. The driver added:
“Some of the ladies in the bus started praying for her and pouring water on her head and giving her some water to drink. As time went by, she lost consciousness and passed away”.
THE late former Vice-President Dr Joshua Nkomo believes football was an effective vehicle to bring the people of Zimbabwe together and was instrumental in healing a past chequered with violence at the football stadia.
When the late Vice-President returned from prison in 1975, he, along other nationalists like Herbert Ushewokunze, was perturbed that tribalism was taking hold in most spheres of life including football.
He found it disgusting that some people were divided between Matabeleland Highlanders (now Highlanders) and Mashonaland United (now Zimbabwe Saints) in Bulawayo.
At the centre of the controversies were the tribal factions as the former club was viewed as a team for the Ndebeles and the latter a creation of the Shonas.
The rivalry between the two teams is said to have been so fierce that sometimes violent clashes between the supporters were the order of the day, before and after matches.
Former Highlanders chairman, Ndumiso Gumede, yesterday spoke at length about how the late Vice-President Nkomo was instrumental in convincing the then leaders of Mashonaland United and Matabeleland Highlanders to change the teams’ names.
Nkomo felt the names created tribal tensions at a time nationalists wanted unity to fight Ian Smith’s colonial regime.
Then in March 1975, the late nationalist invited the leadership from the two clubs and instructed them to drop the name Matabeleland and Mashonaland on their teams.
“He was a great man who had a deep passion for people. Maybe it was because of his background as a social worker, he just loved people. So he came to football games on many occasions either as an official guest or just for fun. He had this belief that football can be used as the bridge to bring people together.
“You definitely cannot forget the big role he played when he and other ex-political prisoners came out of detention in the mid-1970s. He was really worried that there were tensions that were centred largely on tribal grounds, especially in Bulawayo.
“He felt the names of the biggest two teams in the province — Matabeleland Highlanders and Mashonaland United — were actually fuelling the gravity of this problem.
“So he called the former Bulawayo Town Clerk, Mike Ndubiwa, and the clubs’ leadership and then persuaded them to drop the names that had the tribal connotations. We agreed to drop Matabeleland on our name and Mashonaland United changed their name completely to Zimbabwe Saints.
“All that was because he wanted people to work together and not to be divided by those silly tribal biases. Later on the Government decided that there should be a football trophy to commemorate unity and we played that for a number of years,” said Gumede.
He said ever since Bosso adopted the name Highlanders, the club’s identity changed and the narrative now transcends geographical, ethnic and racial borders and has become a symbol of national pride.
“I am surprised there are still some people who still think that Highlanders is a team for Matabeleland people. It’s not like that. The team is only housed in a certain region but the principle is that “ithimu yezwe lonke,” (loosely translated to “The team of the whole nation”).
“It’s a much wider and more encompassing team. It stands for something bigger. We have always had players from different backgrounds, coming from all over the country to play for Highlanders and at some point we were the only team with white players when many had none.
“That’s how football ought to be. It shouldn’t see race, tribe or gender,” said Gumede.
Three years ago, there was a heated debate whether the late Vice-President was Highlanders or Dynamos supporter following an interview carried by our sister paper, The Sunday News, with one of his former head of security, Nehemiah Nyathi.
Nyathi, who served as part of Dr Nkomo’s security team from May 1980 until July 1, 1999 when the Vice-President passed on, said Father Zimbabwe kept tabs on the country’s two biggest teams — Highlanders and Dynamos.
It was suggested in that interview that Dr Nkomo was an avid Dynamos supporter who would always demand to be kept posted on the team’s fixtures, results and log standings.
This claim was, however, disputed by journalist Ezra “Tshisa” Sibanda and Jabulani Hadebe of the Joshua Nkomo Foundation, who said Nkomo was a staunch Highlanders fan. But whatever his loyalty was, the debate shows he was a football enthusiast and a people-centered person who saw football as a uniting force.
Asked on how Dr Nkomo viewed the perception that Dynamos was a team for the Shona tribe while Highlanders was for the Ndebeles, Nyathi said the late Vice-President disliked such divisive notions.
“This talk of Dynamos belonging to Shona people and Highlanders being a Ndebele team comes from people who lack knowledge. There has never been a time when Highlanders has been dominated by Ndebele players.
“It (Highlanders) always had a mixture of people from different ethnic backgrounds. Dr Nkomo was against racial and tribal segregation and would always implore football administrators not to discriminate players on racial or tribal grounds,” Nyathi said.
A larger-than-life character that he was, Dr Nkomo has always volunteered his time to football matters. In 1984 he saved the situation at Highlanders, who suddenly found themselves without a chairman following the unexpected resignation of Malcom King midway through his term.
Highlanders members then unsuccessfully tried to lure back Gumede, whom King had served under as vice-chairman before assuming the chairmanship of Bosso.
“People tried to persuade me to take up the position but I refused because I had been there before. At the time, I felt that when I went to ZIFA it was an elevation.
“So coming back to lead Highlanders was like climbing from the university to do ‘O’ Level because I felt I had done my part and left the club with offices and their own properties.
“Then some courageous people approached the late Vice-President Nkomo and out of the blue I received a phone call. He said can you please come to my office we need to discuss something.
“When I got there he fired right away. “Who do you think you are?” “People want you to lead the club and you are refusing. What is that? You are the funniest person that I have ever seen because elsewhere people are fighting for positions and you are busy refusing. What’s that?”
“He went on to persuade me and before I knew it he had already called a journalist from The Chronicle and said “I am with Gumede right now, he has agreed to be the chairman.” So I changed my mind and had to do it. That’s just how influential he was.
“Then there was another incident again when we quarreled with the Bulawayo City Council over the increases in stadium rates which we felt were too steep.
“The Council insisted that we will not play at the stadium if we do not pay what they asked for and we said fine we will use Ross Camp.
“But we had a big problem with Ross Camp because we needed a much bigger venue for the big games, especially against Dynamos. So the Vice-President called myself, Frank Valdemarca from ZIFA and Ndubiwa of Bulawayo City Council to discuss the impasse.
“He lambasted Ndubiwa and openly told him that the amenities were meant for sport and sportspeople should be allowed to have access. We were very happy to hear Ndubiwa being lambasted but little did we know that he had also reserved some of his arsenal for us.
“He then turned to us and said “you football people don’t you know that these facilities were built at a huge cost. Don’t you know that they also need regular maintenance? So where do you think the Council will get the money from if you refuse to pay? I want to hear that you are paying for using the amenities.”
“So we had to find each other with the Council as we left his office and I must say we never had any more problems that time, thanks to his interventions,” said Gumede.
The multi-million-dollar High Glen Stadium in Budiriro remains a pipe-dream for Harare City Council, with land invaders having built almost 500 houses on the site, many of them rebuilds after previous structures were demolished.
In February last year, council said the 45 000-seater High Glen stadium would be completed in four years, but almost two years down the line, there is nothing to show except the almost 500 houses. While the houses on the site have been demolished almost annually, the site has neither been fenced nor has work started.
Land barons have been illegally subdividing land set aside for social amenities such as sports facilities, schools and recreation land, and for subdividing wetlands where development approval is now impossible.
The Government has made it clear that regularisation of such buildings cannot be contemplated. Potential regularisation may be possible only on stands that follow approved layout plans but where building started before services were put in place.
Recently around 190 houses on an invaded school site in Budiriro were demolished, an action resulting in the Government staying council plans for demolition until the end of the rainy season, but there are council officials who believe that the stadium site could be a special case for earlier demolition since houses have already been demolished there but people came back and rebuilt them.
Acting Harare town clerk Engineer Zvenyika Chawatama last Tuesday said more demolitions were on cards to pave way for the stadium. “The stand has been planned and set aside for the stadium,” he said.
“There are structures on the site put up by land invaders. These have been demolished and will be demolished again in due course.”
Eng Chawatama said while council was yet to conceptualise and adopt the stadium implementation model, that will be done during the master plan review process.
The High Glen stadium is expected to cater for high-profile games both domestic and international. Council had budgeted to spend $1,4 million on the designs of stadium using the pool of reserved funds provided for in the 2019 capital budget under the department of housing and community services. These were to be released to facilitate preliminary works of the designing and drawing of plans for construction of High Glen Stadium.
The stadium is part of the city’s infrastructure development programme and part of council’s responsibility to provide recreational facilities to residents.
At the moment, Harare has five stadiums including Rufaro, Gwanzura and Dzivaresekwa. Council spokesperson Mr Michael Chideme recently said the stadium was meant to see people around the Budiriro area coming to watch football matches, musical galas, and other sporting activities.
Crippling debt, lack of transparency and endemic corruption are sadly all too familiar stories in southern Africa. But now, in a landmark court ruling, Zimbabwean citizens have successfully demanded accountability from their government.
For citizens seeking truthful disclosure about exactly how much debt the country is in, the ruling made in their favour on 1 December signals a big victory in the fight for transparency. However, it stands to be seen to what extent government will comply with the ruling.
The ruling comes at a time when government has been pushing for constitutional amendments that would make the executive unaccountable to legislature regarding all foreign debts. Such an amendment would be a big blow to the quest for transparency. The government stands accused of guaranteeing loans from pan-African multilateral lender, Afreximbank, and other financiers using national resources without disclosure about the terms of the deals.
Harare North legislator Allan Norman Markham and the Community Water Alliance Trust, a civil society organisation, took finance minister Mthuli Ncube, the central bank and Afreximbank to court in September last year over the issue of full disclosure of financial agreements made by government and external lenders.
In his litigation, Markham sought the nullification of a USD500 million loan facility from Afreximbank to back the Zimbabwe currency, because it had been awarded without parliamentary approval. Zimbabwe had reportedly offered platinum production as collateral for the loan, in a move that showed lack of transparency.
Headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, Afreximbank was established in 1993 by African and non-African private and institutional investors for the purpose of financing, promoting and expanding intra-African and extra-African trade. However, most transactions between the government and Afreximbank have been made without full disclosure, in violation of section 300 (3) of the Constitution.
Zimbabwe’s finance ministry permanent secretary, George Guvamatanga, admitted, in earlier opposing papers, that the USD500 million loan should have had parliamentary approval, but argued that cancelling such loan would be a breach of contract.
Zimbabwe’s high court ruling compels finance minister Mthuli Ncube to publish all loans and guarantees entered into by government from 1 January 2019 to 1 December 2020. The finance ministry is also expected to gazette all details of the Afreximbank loans by January 2021.
The court did not grant Markham’s application to nullify the USD500 million loan facility but ruled that the terms of the agreement be made public.
1- Talent Chiwenga labels people who doubt his 90 day prophecy, "mad." He also says the 90d have not elapsed. "Are you sure the 90d have gone past? Are you really sure about it, or it's a speculation," he asks. He then contradicts self saying the 90 days have elapsed… pic.twitter.com/uX7sxivTKF
— ZimEye (@ZimEye) December 22, 2020
CLAIM: Talent Chiwenga says he is the only person who speaks genuinely for God, implying the only accurate voice of thought in Zimbabwe.
“The govt was supposed to invite the church, us, and me in particular, because I happen to be the only voice in Zimbabwe that speaks genuinely for God. (Video below inside article).
Is this true?
By Religion Reporter| Where are the two coffins? What happened to the 90 days of back November 2018 ? And where is Joab, where is Adonijah? – After failing to predict the Coronavirus and other plagues, the preacher who once claimed ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa did not send soldiers to shoot people on the 1st of August 2018 (saying that God told him so, contradicting several LIVE video broadcasts of Mnangagwa literally doing it), Talent Chiwenga has said he is the only voice of God in the country.
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Below was his statement in full:
“The government was supposed to invite the church, us, and me in particular, because I happen to be the only voice in Zimbabwe that speaks genuinely for God. (Video)
“You may hate me for all I care, but this is the truth.
“When they invite these people that they call prophets, men of God, bishops, they invite them to ratify the ungodly acts they are doing against the citizens and these so called men of God, the bishops , the prophets, they do not have the voice of God in them they have not heard from God.” – Talent Chiwenga
Meanwhile, the people of Kuwadzana, Harare were the worst brutalised by soldiers in August 2018 when Emmerson Mnangagwa deployed the army to kill many while changing election results, and on the 4th August local clinics told ZimEye.com of how military trucks would arrive at night and officers begin assaulting residents. Being reminded of these atrocities could not be any more hurting.
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VOICE 1 (Talent Chiwenga)- Izvozvi ndichitaura zvandirikuita izvi, havasirivo vaMnangagwa vakatuma ma soldier kupfura vanhu. Nyaya iyoyo irikutovanetsawo but havasikuziva kuti voita sei nayo. … Asi izvozvi zvandirikutaura izvi Mwari vakandiudza kuti havana kumbotuma vanhu.
VOICE 2 (ED) – Asiyo Ka. Deno taiziva kuti vanhu vekuKuwadzana vasingadi kuti mvura inaye, aaah, taingoti army kombai tirove.
Wanzwa here kutapira kunoita izwi raApostle Chiwenga achishandisa bhuku dzvene Bible achinyepera ruzhinji, zvekare achitoshandisa zita raMwari? Zvinoreva chii izvi?
FINDING: Judging the evidence over a 2 year period, we found this claim by Mr Talent Chiwenga misleading.
MINISTER of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube says 2021 will be a better year for Zimbabwe pinned on the projected positive performance of the agricultural sector.
Prof Mthuli Ncube was speaking to CNBC Africa Chief Editor Godfrey Mtizwa on a special economic programme.
He said the country has experienced negative growth owing to climate change-induced drought, COVID-19 pandemic though a positive growth rate of 7.4 percent will be registered next year.
“We expect a better 2021, we had a negative growth due to the pandemic and climate change-induced drought but next year we have projected a 7.4% growth. We are going to achieve this by taming inflation and stabilising the exchange rate. The growth projection is pinned on a better agricultural season which will mean better power supply for local industries,” he said.
On the current account surplus, Professor Ncube said the year will end on a USD1.2 billion surplus which improved from last year’s USD900 million owing to the introduction of the local currency, import substitution as well as export competitiveness.
“We expect Foreign Direct Investment to continue trickling in the natural resources sector, we have generous incentives. We have launched the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange with the whole point being to attract investors in the mining sector. What is critical is stability, we continue improving the environment of doing business,” he said.
Zimbabwe has arrears with international financial institutions which currently stands at USD6 billion while the foreign debt is at USD9 billion though the domestic debt is at less than 3% of GDP.
“We expect an economic recovery in 2021, a figure is high because we are coming from a low base, negative growth rate….we are expecting a better 2021. The fiscal position looks very strong, we have key infrastructure projects such as road construction, dam construction, power investment and Zimbabwe is a very peaceful and stable country compared other African countries hence the ability to attract foreign direct investment.
“National Development Startegy1 covers the next five years, inclusive growth, devolution agenda, stable environment, infrastructure ICT, creating USD 12 billion mining sector, resuscitation of ZISCO Steel and clearance of arrears,” he said.
Former Kaizer Chiefs winger Junior Khanye believes Khama Billiat is failing to get a perfect combination which has cost the Soweto giants in front of the goal this season.
Amakhosi have scored just seven goals in eight games this season, and they sit in the 13th position after picking seven points.
Speaking on iDiski TV, as cited by Goal, Khanye expressed his disappointment on Leonardo Castro whom he thinks is not linking up well with Billiat.
“I was happy to see Khama Billiat having a much better first half (against Bloemfontein Celtic),” he said. “The reality is that boy is giving them game after game, but the guy who receives his passes will be too far, and Castro is in the starting line-up week in, week out.
“Look at every team list, he is there. What is he giving to Chiefs?
“Can he create space for himself? He is lazy. When the team is attacking, he stops and drops and starts running slow. There is no work rate there. He is tall but cannot win areal balls. It tells you about his timing when the ball flies over him.”-Soccer 24
Gavin Hunt has admitted getting under pressure at Kaizer Chiefs following the team’s poor run this season.
AmaKhosi are rooted in the 13th position after winning one game in their eight games this term. They have picked just seven points out of a possible 24.
Speaking after their 1-1 draw against Bloemfontein Celtic on Saturday, coach Hunt said coaching Chiefs is the most stressful job he has ever had in his 25-year-career.
“Yes. It certainly is (the most stressful job),” the gaffer said, according to the Citizen. “It’s only been a few games, but it certainly is.
“It hasn’t been easy. Things have gone against us a little bit, but sometimes you’ve got to work harder for those things.”
Hunt also said the draw against Celtic was technically a defeat to him as he lost out on two crucial points.
“On the evidence of the chances created, I think it’s two points lost. We had some great opportunities in the first half, and they didn’t have any that I recall.
“They scored a wonder goal, and that was it. It’s more a matter of two points lost than the one gained,” he added.-Soccer 24
“Money is too good guys, have you ever smoked while flying in an airplane?,” an Ishmael Amuli lookalike screams on a short video. Who is this man, when was this, and what is he smoking?
LIONEL Messi says his failed attempt to leave Barcelona in the summer has affected his form this season.
In August the Argentina forward said he wanted to exercise a clause in his contract which he said allowed him to leave on a free transfer.
But Barcelona refused, saying his €700 million release clause had to be met.
“I dragged everything into the start of the season a bit,” Messi (33) told Spanish television channel La Sexta.
“The truth is right now I’m feeling fine, but in the summer I had a very bad time.”
Messi equalled Brazil legend Pele’s record of 643 goals for a club by scoring for Barcelona in Saturday’s draw against Valencia.
It was Messi’s ninth goal in 17 appearances this season for Barcelona, who are fifth in La Liga.
Messi, who can leave Barcelona for free when his contract runs out at the end of the season, is able to negotiate with other clubs from January 1.
Barcelona interim president Carlos Tusquets, who took over until elections in January after Josep Maria Bartomeu resigned in October, has said that “economically speaking” Messi should have been sold in the summer.
Barcelona’s players agreed to wage cuts in November that will save the 26-time La Liga champions €122 million.-Chronicle
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has pointed out that the concept of unity has been drowned by violence and lawlessness in the country.
Below is President Chamisa’s Unity Day Message :
THE IDEA OF UNITY- MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa Unity Day Message
22 December 2020
Fellow Zimbabweans,
The bold font of divisions, destruction, violence and anarchy continues to override the voices of love, unity, peace, reason and development in our country.
This is largely because our nation-building project has not fulfilled the promise of the glorious days of independence.
We need true unity, peace and prayer to heal and build our nation. Peace and unity are the necessary ingredients for development and the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and rights.
However, it is important to understand the idea of unity. Unity is not about the coming together of bodies, commanded by the powerful in society. It is not an event signified by elite political pacts. Unity is a process by which minds are drawn together organically to achieve a common purpose.
Unity does not mean the absence of difference. Instead, it is a process that acknowledges, recognises and celebrates difference as a natural part of a normal society. Therefore, unity does not necessarily mean uniformity among peoples. Rather it recognises and promotes diversity and the beauty of it.
Indeed, unity does not mean compulsory conformity of the minority to the majority merely because the majority demand compliance. Rather, unity behoves the majority to recognise and respect minorities in whatever form because they matter too.
Politically, unity is a process in which parties of different political and ideological persuasions are allowed to pursue their cause while they come together to face common threats.
Unity does not criminalize diversity and alternative views. It is not tyranny of the centre. This why the devolution process, which is encapsulated in our Constitution, is essential for unity. Unity does not mean sweeping pain and tears of a people under the proverbial carpet. Rather, it is a process that is undergirded by truth-telling, acknowdgement of pain, remorse and reconciliation.
Where there is unity of purpose there is difference but a commitment to development and prosperity. Genuine unity does not produce an impoverished society. It exalts a people to prosperity. On this day, we should be celebrating. But too many of our people are in great pain because of socio-economic burdens that have become unbearable.
Currently, we experience too many divisions, violence, and hatred. This has made Unity Day become trite, vacuous and meaningless without the values and practices of unity that I have outlined. It has become a reminder of the ogre of violence, intolerance and hate speech that continue to engulf our nation.
Violence is intolerable. We note with disdain an increase in abductions and torture against its citizens including young leaders and activists. We have hundreds of MDC leaders in detention or on remand facing trumped-up politically-motivated charges. The consistent and persistent denial of citizens’ rights is a form of violence against political opponents.
The harassment, intimidation, illegal arrest of opposition leaders, activists, and professionals is repugnant to unity and peace. It’s deplorable how professionals have been harassed and persecuted during the course of the year simply because they have dared to exercise their freedoms. Unity does not mean a suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms. It celebrates and protects them.
Unity is not built on force. It is built upon foundations of love, understanding and appreciation of difference and diversity.
In a New Zimbabwe, under our new government, we propose a National Unity, Peace and Prayer Day. We do so in recognition of the fact that unity, peace and prayer are interconnected.
We recognise that unity is not merely a political slogan but rather, it is a reality that we must experience in all spheres, be it in our families, churches, workplaces civic organisations or government.
Nation building is an ongoing project that must produce conditions of unity in diversity. But we cannot build a nation when there is persecution. We call for an end to political persecution. Nation building requires justice to be done for the aggrieved in our communities.
We deserve to be united by our values, aspirations, constitution and human rights. No single organization is bigger than Zimbabwe. We must imagine a better, just and more prosperous Zimbabwe in which our diversity is celebrated, not condemned.
We owe it to ourselves and future generations as God’s people to embrace one another in unity, to pray for the prosperity of our nation. Prayer works with works. We should not wait for divine intervention when we can change our behaviour.
This day, I call upon families and all people of this country to embrace this day as a day we express our unity with one another. A day we find peace. A day we seek the Lord as we prepare for Christmas and the New Year holidays.
This day, I join you all in demanding true unity, peace and prosperity for us all as a people. We in the MDC are ready to play our part in finding a lasting solution to the national issues that bring us together as a nation. We will unite the nation and bring peace in the name of our Lord, without resorting to any forms violence which we abhor.
Peace is simple. Peace begins within. Peace begets peace. Peace breeds prosperity.
In our fractured nation, I wish you all a blessed Unity, Peace and Prayer day and we pray for unity and peace in our country.
Winning Zimbabwe for real change.Change that delivers!
God Bless you
For justice, peace, a shared vision, true unity and the cause of freedom,
Adv Nelson Chamisa
President MDC Alliance
Former Warriors and Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar says he has to visit Zimbabwe on a mission to find inner peace before he dies.
Grobbelaar made the revelations as he explained the experiences from Zimbabwe’s war of independence in the 1970s which is still haunting him. The 63-year old had to put his early football career on hold to fight for the Rhodesian force against the black majority as part of the national service.
After serving in the army for eleven months, he moved to Canada to join Vancouver Whitecaps in 1979 before signing for the Reds in 1981 where he made 628 appearances over thirteen years.
In an interview with the Liverpool Echo newspaper, the ex-goalkeeper revealed: “Sometimes I wake up in sweats with images of what happened in the war days.
“Those will go once I go back to the places where these things happened. Going to relive where it happened will soften it, and I will put it to rest.
“It’s the African way that it’s done, but it is what I need to do. I have got two places to go and then it will soften it for me.
“I need to do it before I kick the bucket! I am allowed into Zimbabwe now, so…”
Grobbelaar was forced into exile by the previous government led by late president Robert Mugabe.
He returned to the country for the first time in eleven years in 2018.-Soccer 24
21 DECEMBER 2020
MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA DISTRICT DEMANDS THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ARTUZ MASVINGO PROVINCE GENDER AND SOCIAL WELFARE SECRETARY SHEILA CHISIRIMUNHU.
Mdc Alliance Namibia district condemns the attempt by Zanupf terrorists to silence dissenting voices in the education fraternity. The conviction and sentencing of the Gender and Social Welfare Secretary from the vibrant teachers union(Artuz) led by the astute and radical leader President Obert Masaraure epitomises the serious weaponisation of the law to put opposition on mute.
Madam Sheila was convicted and sentenced to 10 months in prison which must be resisted by all right thinking teachers who comprehend the need to offer solidarity to a comrade who is being incarcerated for demanding a living wage. Teachers must continue fighting without deterrence.
Moreover, demonstrating against slave wages or unsalted peanuts in the civil service does not warrant any arrest worse imprisonment. Section 59 of the supreme law of the country provides the rights to demonstrate peacefully against gross misgovernance.
Zanupf must respect human rights and freedoms. Being incarcerated for demanding what is due is not only satanic but diabolic. Mdc Alliance Namibia district urges all genuine revolutionaries in the teaching fraternity to join hands against Zanupf authoritarianism. Sheila deserves solidarity from the rest of the civil servants who are wallowing in abject poverty.
Lets peacefully rise and constitutionally confront this unjust conviction against an innocent victim of Zanupf artificial poverty manifesting in suicidal policies in the education sector, rampant corruption and stomach politics of plunder and self-enrichment.
In a nutshell, all teachers and social democrats home and abroad must embrace dangerous freedom to win against monocracy in Zanupf goons. Zimbabweans must unite to reclaim the fruits of independence.
It is now imperative for Progressive Teachers’Union (PTUZ), ZIMTA and other Unions to drop their hypocrisy and offer solidarity to fellow comrades who appear to be confrontational for genuine transformation in the education sector.
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has pointed out that the concept of unity has been drowned by violence and lawlessness in the country.
Below is President Chamisa’s Unity Day Message :
THE IDEA OF UNITY- MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa Unity Day Message
22 December 2020
Fellow Zimbabweans,
The bold font of divisions, destruction, violence and anarchy continues to override the voices of love, unity, peace, reason and development in our country.
This is largely because our nation-building project has not fulfilled the promise of the glorious days of independence.
We need true unity, peace and prayer to heal and build our nation. Peace and unity are the necessary ingredients for development and the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and rights.
However, it is important to understand the idea of unity. Unity is not about the coming together of bodies, commanded by the powerful in society. It is not an event signified by elite political pacts. Unity is a process by which minds are drawn together organically to achieve a common purpose.
Unity does not mean the absence of difference. Instead, it is a process that acknowledges, recognises and celebrates difference as a natural part of a normal society. Therefore, unity does not necessarily mean uniformity among peoples. Rather it recognises and promotes diversity and the beauty of it.
Indeed, unity does not mean compulsory conformity of the minority to the majority merely because the majority demand compliance. Rather, unity behoves the majority to recognise and respect minorities in whatever form because they matter too.
Politically, unity is a process in which parties of different political and ideological persuasions are allowed to pursue their cause while they come together to face common threats.
Unity does not criminalize diversity and alternative views. It is not tyranny of the centre. This why the devolution process, which is encapsulated in our Constitution, is essential for unity. Unity does not mean sweeping pain and tears of a people under the proverbial carpet. Rather, it is a process that is undergirded by truth-telling, acknowdgement of pain, remorse and reconciliation.
Where there is unity of purpose there is difference but a commitment to development and prosperity. Genuine unity does not produce an impoverished society. It exalts a people to prosperity. On this day, we should be celebrating. But too many of our people are in great pain because of socio-economic burdens that have become unbearable.
Currently, we experience too many divisions, violence, and hatred. This has made Unity Day become trite, vacuous and meaningless without the values and practices of unity that I have outlined. It has become a reminder of the ogre of violence, intolerance and hate speech that continue to engulf our nation.
Violence is intolerable. We note with disdain an increase in abductions and torture against its citizens including young leaders and activists. We have hundreds of MDC leaders in detention or on remand facing trumped-up politically-motivated charges. The consistent and persistent denial of citizens’ rights is a form of violence against political opponents.
The harassment, intimidation, illegal arrest of opposition leaders, activists, and professionals is repugnant to unity and peace. It’s deplorable how professionals have been harassed and persecuted during the course of the year simply because they have dared to exercise their freedoms. Unity does not mean a suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms. It celebrates and protects them.
Unity is not built on force. It is built upon foundations of love, understanding and appreciation of difference and diversity.
In a New Zimbabwe, under our new government, we propose a National Unity, Peace and Prayer Day. We do so in recognition of the fact that unity, peace and prayer are interconnected.
We recognise that unity is not merely a political slogan but rather, it is a reality that we must experience in all spheres, be it in our families, churches, workplaces civic organisations or government.
Nation building is an ongoing project that must produce conditions of unity in diversity. But we cannot build a nation when there is persecution. We call for an end to political persecution. Nation building requires justice to be done for the aggrieved in our communities.
We deserve to be united by our values, aspirations, constitution and human rights. No single organization is bigger than Zimbabwe. We must imagine a better, just and more prosperous Zimbabwe in which our diversity is celebrated, not condemned.
We owe it to ourselves and future generations as God’s people to embrace one another in unity, to pray for the prosperity of our nation. Prayer works with works. We should not wait for divine intervention when we can change our behaviour.
This day, I call upon families and all people of this country to embrace this day as a day we express our unity with one another. A day we find peace. A day we seek the Lord as we prepare for Christmas and the New Year holidays.
This day, I join you all in demanding true unity, peace and prosperity for us all as a people. We in the MDC are ready to play our part in finding a lasting solution to the national issues that bring us together as a nation. We will unite the nation and bring peace in the name of our Lord, without resorting to any forms violence which we abhor.
Peace is simple. Peace begins within. Peace begets peace. Peace breeds prosperity.
In our fractured nation, I wish you all a blessed Unity, Peace and Prayer day and we pray for unity and peace in our country.
Winning Zimbabwe for real change.Change that delivers!
God Bless you
For justice, peace, a shared vision, true unity and the cause of freedom,
Adv Nelson Chamisa
President MDC Alliance
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has accused Zanu PF of trampling on the fundamental principles of national unity.
In a statement the vibrant movement also accused Zanu PF of using the unity accord to create a One -party State.
See statement below:
22 DECEMBER 2020
THE UNITY ACCORD WAS A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO CREATE A ONE-PARTY STATE (MONOCRACY), MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA POSTULATES.
Social democrats in Namibia agree with fellow opposition party ZAPU which was rejuvenated in 2009 after realising the hypocritical nature of Zanupf’s quest for peace and tranquillity in Zimbabwe after independence in 1980. Mdc Alliance Namibia is cognisant of the pretence and deception subjected to PF ZAPU then leader Cde Joshua Nkomo by the late Cde Robert Mugabe who deceived his opponent on the 22 December 1987.
It is clear that the Unity Accord was an unsuccessful attempt to get over the lunatic, dark and ugly chapter in the history of our motherland where more than 20 000 innocent citizens were ruthlessly butchered in cold blood for supporting a visionary leader different from Zanupf’s. The Unity Accord was the genesis of autocracy and totalitarianism in Zimbabwe since it generated state capture of the army, the police and the rest of securocrats.
This day is not worth celebrating because it epitomises DISUNITY than UNITY in the country. To date, the victims of Gukurahundi were never compensated or given any attention according to the fake agreement. The murderers and terrorists were not made accountable up to now. Sarcastically, the late Robert Mugabe called it ‘a moment of madness’ that deserves to be forgotten.
Moreover, the opposition ZAPU says it regrets signing the Unity Accord in 1987 with then ZANU after the ruling party has allegedly refused to abandon its hegemonic and violent tendencies in violation of the legendary agreement. This is incontrovertible evidence to prove that the Unity Accord laid the foundation of a One-party State. Now that ZAPU’s leader is deceased, Zanupf is now concentrating on the political behemoth (Mdc Alliance) through its surrogates in the names of Khupe,Mwonzora and cronies to decimate the people’s project. The effort to establish a One-party was resisted by ZAPU and the vibrant Mdc Alliance when they tried to use captured courts to usurp power from President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. “This will never come to fruition as long as social democrats in the country still exist under the sun. We are going to use all our organs to defend Constitutional Democracy in the motherland”, echoed Mdc Alliance Namibia Rundu Branch Spokesperson, Robson Ruhanya.
Moreso, celebrating Unity Day is tantamount to celebrating Flag Independence without deliverables. No Unity, No Tranquillity, No Harmony and No basic universal freedoms but they continue to force people to celebrate their festival of absurdities. The revival of ZAPU was a clear testimony of fake unity between the two parties. Trampling on human rights does not reflect any unity but politics hate and rhetoric. 22 December must be used to advocate for the compensation of the victims of state-sponsored mass killings during Gukurahundi.
To wind it up, Mdc Alliance Namibia advocates for a serious investigation of those who butchered our Matebeleland and Midlands relatives, friends and comrades. Perpetrators of these atrocities must be brought to book then we can commemorate the day together. #NoToImpunity #WeDemandJusticeToGukurahundiVictims
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) yesterday announced the nominees for the virtual ZAA USA and Canada 2020 editions in a live broadcast online, which features a shortlist of the outstanding Zimbabwean people and organisations based in the North American countries.
The two editions will hold a combined virtual event with a segment for each, on 16 January 2021 after pushing the initial dates for the respective editions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Voting for both editions begin on 28 December on the ZAA website www.zimachievers.com
“The ZAA USA and Canada 2020 virtual edition is here to recognize, celebrate and honour some of the leading lights this year. It has been a difficult year for everyone but our people’s exploits have been a constant source of inspiration for all that Zimbabweans can and continue to do. I would like to congratulae all the nominees and thank our partners and everyone who has worked to fly the Zimbabwean flag high,” said ZAA Chairman Conrad Mwanza.
This year’s virtual edition is sponsored by global remittance company WorldRemit, funeral insurance firm ZororoPhumulani and South African-based property investment company Burmain Properties.
The nominees for both countries feature an impressive line-up headlined by motorcross sensation and humanitarian Tanya Muzinda, actor Tongayi Chirisa,entrepreneur Michael Maponga, Malume Thamu of Asakhane Live and Amanda Nothando, among others.
The Zimbabwean communities abroad have gone beyond their achievements to foster unity and charity among themselves together with the home communities, especially during these trying times.
“It has been a difficult year for most people but we are pleased with how people have come up with ways to support each other and those facing dire straits. There are many community based initiatives by various groups and individuals and even a fund set aside by well-wishers to help others. In it all, I am proud that we have not lost our roots as Zimbabweans and as ZAA we are happy to celebrate with our people once more,” said Savanna Madamombe at the nominee announcement event.
ZAA USA and Canada editions will be marking the 5th and 2nd anniversary, respectively, of celebrating Zimbabwean achievers around the world. The virtual event follows hot on the heels of the physical events held in December for the 6th annual ZAA SA in Johannesburg and the inaugural ZAA Botswana edition in Gaborone.
Here are the full list of nominees – ZAA USA
BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
Zweli’s Kitchen
Yangu Beauty
Braii Hut
NL4Better
Tisu Zim Goodies
Afriforce Data
Afro Land TV
FEMALE PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR
Letwin ‘Letty’ Manjala – (zimfitmums)
Kumbirai Musariri-Moretta – Leap Fitness
Tammy Mutasa
Sibongile Mlambo
Caroline Makamache-Dhewa – Rutendo Hope Foundation.
COMMUNITY CHAMPION AWARD
Dr. Simbiso Ranga
Dr. Monalisa Muchatuta
Chiwoniso Mpofu
Fredda Chanakira
COMMUNITY ORGANISATION OF THE YEAR
ZIMDFW Alliance
Zim Catholics USA
Love Sisters
Qoki Community Group USA
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN ENTERTAINMENT
Tongayi Arnold Chirisa
Godwin Jabangwe
Sue Ellen Chitunya
Brian Soko
Charles Chiyangwa
MUSIC ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Tinashe Chivaviro
Zivanai Masango
Sophia Shiraz
Brian Nhira
Rumbidzai Praise Magonga
Closer Music
Loveness Euhelio
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Tinashe Chivaviro
Letwin ‘Letty’ Manjala – Zimfitmums
Zivanayi Masango
Sibongile Mlambo
VIRTUAL EVENT OF THE YEAR
Christian Fellowship International – CFI
Women of Dominion Conference – WOD
Women of Faith Conference – WOFC
Women of Wisdom – WOW
VIRTUAL SHOW OF THE YEAR
Diaspora Talk – Savannah Madamombe
Let’s Talk – Pastor TD
SalveTV – Monica Kunzekweguta
The Dialogue with Pastor T – Pastor Teresa Dangwa
VOA Studio7 Live Shows
YOUNG ACHIEVERS AWARD
Tanya Muzinda
Michael Jonga
Michelle Makai
Maka Chikowero
FEMALE ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR
Sipho Gumbo
Skhumbuzo Moyo
Farai Machina
Rumbidzai Magoga
Ropa Mupambwa
MALE ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR
Kudzai King
Josh Jima
Tawanda Kanhema
Michael Maponga
Tendai Rukambe
Ralph Chambati
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT – PROFESSIONALS
Tatenda Shopera Ph.d
Dr Bhukekosi Dube
Dr. MonaLisa Muchatuta
Tawanda Kanhema
James Manyika
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SPORT
Tanya Muzinda
Benjamin Lock
Ngoni Makusha
Eddie Munjoma
OUTSTANDING AWARD – CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT
Ziva kwawakabva
Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa – Zimbabwe kids summer Camp
Children Can Conference -Rise Fellowship
Mbira Guild Zimbabwe
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION
Dr. Tererai Trent
Rudo Mudiwa
Prince Makawa Abudu
ZAA CANADA NOMINEES LIST
BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
263 True North Inc.
Michele’s event planning & catering services
Nakai Skincare and Cosmetics
Sima Shayla Mabaleka (Wellness empowered)
Celyn Roze
COMMUNITY CHAMPION AWARD
Prudence Zinzile Ntutha
Rev Tazvionepi Nyarota
Sara Moses
Malume Thamu (Asakhane Live)
Qoki Organisation
COMMUNITY ORGANISATION OF THE YEAR
Beauty of Africa
Boxed Hope Foundation
Sue’s Stokvel
Nqabayezwe Ndlovu (Best Option Health)
Qoki Community Group
Mothers Union -Anglicans
CULTURAL AMBASSADOR
Boluwatife Adefemi
Magdalene Lafontant
Takunda Rukuni
Sibongile Munjanja
Malume Thamu (Asakhane Live)
FEMALE ENTREPRENEUR AWARD
Linda/Lulu
Magdalene Lafontant
Nyasha Kudzaishe Chibangu
Thabi Francis
Lulu Mash (Liit Care Inc)
FEMALE PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR
Amanda Nothando
Ropa Mupambwa
Ruth Madziire
Yolanda Machena
Natasha Hescelle
Fadzaiishe Zarimba
MUSIC ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Calie Bonce
Chinowawa
Elvis bokosha
Tatenda Mahachi
Lawrence Sibanda(the general)
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Natalie Mudzurahona
Natasha Herschelle
Nyasha Chibangu
Sandra Maenzanise
SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR
Phillip Matombo
Kudakwashe Murasiranwa
YOUNG ACHIEVERS AWARD
Natasha Heschelle
Nyasha chibangu
Thabo Chinake
Boluwatife Adefemi
MALE ENTREPRENEUR AWARD
Dickson Maiden Financial advisor
Ronnie Mupambwa
MALE PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR
Mike Moyo (Master Moyo TV
MC Bonde
Malume Thamu (Asakhane Live)
ENDS.
……
CLAIM: Talent Chiwenga says he is the only person who speaks genuinely for God, the only voice in Zimbabwe announcing accurate predictions.
In 2018 he advised victims of the August military crackdown who are pursuing legal action saying that the ZANU PF leader, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa did not deploy the soldiers who abused them.
“The govt was supposed to invite the church, us, and me in particular, because I happen to be the only voice in Zimbabwe that speaks genuinely for God. (Video below inside article).
Is this true?
By Religion Reporter| Where are the two coffins? What happened to the 90 days of back November 2018 ? And where is Joab, where is Adonijah? – After failing to predict the Coronavirus and other plagues, the preacher who once claimed ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa did not send soldiers to shoot people on the 1st of August 2018 (saying that God told him so, contradicting several LIVE video broadcasts of Mnangagwa literally doing it), Talent Chiwenga has said he is the only voice of God in the country.
VIDEO LOADING BELOW…
Below was his statement in full:
“The government was supposed to invite the church, us, and me in particular, because I happen to be the only voice in Zimbabwe that speaks genuinely for God. (Video)
“You may hate me for all I care, but this is the truth.
“When they invite these people that they call prophets, men of God, bishops, they invite them to ratify the ungodly acts they are doing against the citizens and these so called men of God, the bishops , the prophets, they do not have the voice of God in them they have not heard from God.” – Talent Chiwenga
Meanwhile, the people of Kuwadzana, Harare were the worst brutalised by soldiers in August 2018 when Emmerson Mnangagwa deployed the army to kill many while changing election results, and on the 4th August local clinics told ZimEye.com of how military trucks would arrive at night and officers begin assaulting residents. Being reminded of these atrocities could not be any more hurting.
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VOICE 1 (Talent Chiwenga)- Izvozvi ndichitaura zvandirikuita izvi, havasirivo vaMnangagwa vakatuma ma soldier kupfura vanhu. Nyaya iyoyo irikutovanetsawo but havasikuziva kuti voita sei nayo. … Asi izvozvi zvandirikutaura izvi Mwari vakandiudza kuti havana kumbotuma vanhu.
VOICE 2 (ED) – Asiyo Ka. Deno taiziva kuti vanhu vekuKuwadzana vasingadi kuti mvura inaye, aaah, taingoti army kombai tirove.
Wanzwa here kutapira kunoita izwi raApostle Chiwenga achishandisa bhuku dzvene Bible achinyepera ruzhinji, zvekare achitoshandisa zita raMwari? Zvinoreva chii izvi?
FINDING: Judging the evidence over a 2 year period, we found this claim by Mr Talent Chiwenga misleading.
3 boys aged 10 and 11 reportedly drowned in a disused shaft they were swimming in Kuwadza in Harare over the weekend.
The shaft was left open by the Harare City Council, and it was filled with rainwater in which the boys were swimming when tragedy struck.
The incident was confirmed by ZRP National Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi who told the publication that:
The trio was playing in the shaft allegedly left by Harare City Council in Kuwadzana 5, in the Paddocks area. The shaft is filled with water. Reports are that at first they would go in the shaft one at a time. But they decided to jump in all of them, that is when they drowned.
The trio was playing in the shaft allegedly left by Harare City Council in Kuwadzana 5, in the Paddocks area. The shaft is filled with water. Reports are that at first they would go in the shaft one at a time. But they decided to jump in all of them, that is when they drowned.
Their parents started looking for them the whole night, but could not locate them. The following day, a Harare City Council employee found some clothes at the scene and also one of the bodies was floating.
ZRP Urged people to avoid water bodies.-The Herald
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has pointed out that the concept of unity has been drowned by violence and lawlessness in the country.
Below is President Chamisa’s Unity Day Message :
THE IDEA OF UNITY- MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa Unity Day Message
22 December 2020
Fellow Zimbabweans,
The bold font of divisions, destruction, violence and anarchy continues to override the voices of love, unity, peace, reason and development in our country.
This is largely because our nation-building project has not fulfilled the promise of the glorious days of independence.
We need true unity, peace and prayer to heal and build our nation. Peace and unity are the necessary ingredients for development and the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and rights.
However, it is important to understand the idea of unity. Unity is not about the coming together of bodies, commanded by the powerful in society. It is not an event signified by elite political pacts. Unity is a process by which minds are drawn together organically to achieve a common purpose.
Unity does not mean the absence of difference. Instead, it is a process that acknowledges, recognises and celebrates difference as a natural part of a normal society. Therefore, unity does not necessarily mean uniformity among peoples. Rather it recognises and promotes diversity and the beauty of it.
Indeed, unity does not mean compulsory conformity of the minority to the majority merely because the majority demand compliance. Rather, unity behoves the majority to recognise and respect minorities in whatever form because they matter too.
Politically, unity is a process in which parties of different political and ideological persuasions are allowed to pursue their cause while they come together to face common threats.
Unity does not criminalize diversity and alternative views. It is not tyranny of the centre. This why the devolution process, which is encapsulated in our Constitution, is essential for unity. Unity does not mean sweeping pain and tears of a people under the proverbial carpet. Rather, it is a process that is undergirded by truth-telling, acknowdgement of pain, remorse and reconciliation.
Where there is unity of purpose there is difference but a commitment to development and prosperity. Genuine unity does not produce an impoverished society. It exalts a people to prosperity. On this day, we should be celebrating. But too many of our people are in great pain because of socio-economic burdens that have become unbearable.
Currently, we experience too many divisions, violence, and hatred. This has made Unity Day become trite, vacuous and meaningless without the values and practices of unity that I have outlined. It has become a reminder of the ogre of violence, intolerance and hate speech that continue to engulf our nation.
Violence is intolerable. We note with disdain an increase in abductions and torture against its citizens including young leaders and activists. We have hundreds of MDC leaders in detention or on remand facing trumped-up politically-motivated charges. The consistent and persistent denial of citizens’ rights is a form of violence against political opponents.
The harassment, intimidation, illegal arrest of opposition leaders, activists, and professionals is repugnant to unity and peace. It’s deplorable how professionals have been harassed and persecuted during the course of the year simply because they have dared to exercise their freedoms. Unity does not mean a suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms. It celebrates and protects them.
Unity is not built on force. It is built upon foundations of love, understanding and appreciation of difference and diversity.
In a New Zimbabwe, under our new government, we propose a National Unity, Peace and Prayer Day. We do so in recognition of the fact that unity, peace and prayer are interconnected.
We recognise that unity is not merely a political slogan but rather, it is a reality that we must experience in all spheres, be it in our families, churches, workplaces civic organisations or government.
Nation building is an ongoing project that must produce conditions of unity in diversity. But we cannot build a nation when there is persecution. We call for an end to political persecution. Nation building requires justice to be done for the aggrieved in our communities.
We deserve to be united by our values, aspirations, constitution and human rights. No single organization is bigger than Zimbabwe. We must imagine a better, just and more prosperous Zimbabwe in which our diversity is celebrated, not condemned.
We owe it to ourselves and future generations as God’s people to embrace one another in unity, to pray for the prosperity of our nation. Prayer works with works. We should not wait for divine intervention when we can change our behaviour.
This day, I call upon families and all people of this country to embrace this day as a day we express our unity with one another. A day we find peace. A day we seek the Lord as we prepare for Christmas and the New Year holidays.
This day, I join you all in demanding true unity, peace and prosperity for us all as a people. We in the MDC are ready to play our part in finding a lasting solution to the national issues that bring us together as a nation. We will unite the nation and bring peace in the name of our Lord, without resorting to any forms violence which we abhor.
Peace is simple. Peace begins within. Peace begets peace. Peace breeds prosperity.
In our fractured nation, I wish you all a blessed Unity, Peace and Prayer day and we pray for unity and peace in our country.
Winning Zimbabwe for real change.Change that delivers!
God Bless you
For justice, peace, a shared vision, true unity and the cause of freedom,
Adv Nelson Chamisa
President MDC Alliance
THE IDEA OF UNITY-
22 Dec 2020
Fellow Zimbabweans,
The bold font of divisions, destruction, violence and anarchy continues to override the voices of love, unity, peace, reason and development in our country.
This is largely because our nation-building project has not fulfilled the promise of the glorious days of independence.
We need true unity, peace and prayer to heal and build our nation. Peace and unity are the necessary ingredients for development and the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and rights.
However, it is important to understand the idea of unity. Unity is not about the coming together of bodies, commanded by the powerful in society. It is not an event signified by elite political pacts. Unity is a process by which minds are drawn together organically to achieve a common purpose.
Unity does not mean the absence of difference. Instead, it is a process that acknowledges, recognises and celebrates difference as a natural part of a normal society. Therefore, unity does not necessarily mean uniformity among peoples. Rather it recognises and promotes diversity and the beauty of it.
Indeed, unity does not mean compulsory conformity of the minority to the majority merely because the majority demand compliance. Rather, unity behoves the majority to recognise and respect minorities in whatever form because they matter too.
Politically, unity is a process in which parties of different political and ideological persuasions are allowed to pursue their cause while they come together to face common threats.
Unity does not criminalize diversity and alternative views. It is not tyranny of the centre. This why the devolution process, which is encapsulated in our Constitution, is essential for unity. Unity does not mean sweeping pain and tears of a people under the proverbial carpet. Rather, it is a process that is undergirded by truth-telling, acknowdgement of pain, remorse and reconciliation.
Where there is unity of purpose there is difference but a commitment to development and prosperity. Genuine unity does not produce an impoverished society. It exalts a people to prosperity. On this day, we should be celebrating. But too many of our people are in great pain because of socio-economic burdens that have become unbearable.
Currently, we experience too many divisions, violence, and hatred. This has made Unity Day become trite, vacuous and meaningless without the values and practices of unity that I have outlined. It has become a reminder of the ogre of violence, intolerance and hate speech that continue to engulf our nation.
Violence is intolerable. We note with disdain an increase in abductions and torture against its citizens including young leaders and activists. We have hundreds of MDC leaders in detention or on remand facing trumped-up politically-motivated charges. The consistent and persistent denial of citizens’ rights is a form of violence against political opponents.
The harassment, intimidation, illegal arrest of opposition leaders, activists, and professionals is repugnant to unity and peace. It’s deplorable how professionals have been harassed and persecuted during the course of the year simply because they have dared to exercise their freedoms. Unity does not mean a suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms. It celebrates and protects them.
Unity is not built on force. It is built upon foundations of love, understanding and appreciation of difference and diversity.
In a New Zimbabwe, under our new government, we propose a National Unity, Peace and Prayer Day. We do so in recognition of the fact that unity, peace and prayer are interconnected.
We recognise that unity is not merely a political slogan but rather, it is a reality that we must experience in all spheres, be it in our families, churches, workplaces civic organisations or government.
Nation building is an ongoing project that must produce conditions of unity in diversity. But we cannot build a nation when there is persecution. We call for an end to political persecution. Nation building requires justice to be done for the aggrieved in our communities.
We deserve to be united by our values, aspirations, constitution and human rights. No single organization is bigger than Zimbabwe. We must imagine a better, just and more prosperous Zimbabwe in which our diversity is celebrated, not condemned.
We owe it to ourselves and future generations as God’s people to embrace one another in unity, to pray for the prosperity of our nation. Prayer works with works. We should not wait for divine intervention when we can change our behaviour.
This day, I call upon families and all people of this country to embrace this day as a day we express our unity with one another. A day we find peace. A day we seek the Lord as we prepare for Christmas and the New Year holidays.
This day, I join you all in demanding true unity, peace and prosperity for us all as a people. We in the MDC are ready to play our part in finding a lasting solution to the national issues that bring us together as a nation. We will unite the nation and bring peace in the name of our Lord, without resorting to any forms violence which we abhor.
Peace is simple. Peace begins within. Peace begets peace. Peace breeds prosperity.
In this our fractured nation, I wish you all a blessed Unity, Peace and Prayer day and we pray for unity and peace in our country.
Winning Zimbabwe for real change.Change that delivers!
God Bless you
For justice, peace, a shared vision, true unity and the cause of freedom,
Adv Nelson Chamisa
President MDC Alliance
Christmas Epistle to Friends and Relatives :
By Hon Job Wiwa Sikhala | 2020 has been a difficult year all round throughout the world because of the pandemic that came with devastating consequences to the livelihoods of mankind. Those who pulled through is not through their wiseness but by grace of the Lord.
In Zimbabwe ngoma ndiyo ndiyo. The suffering is with us. Looting of the national resources by Mnangagwa’s cabal and elements in the ruling elite escalated to the point of openly moving into the national airport with a huge consignment of gold bullions. Throttling of the democratic space became unprecedented. Human rights abuses intensified.
We witnessed unprecedented abductions in the history of mankind. Torture of the opponents of the regime became a national outcry. Arrests of political opponents became, the political weapon against the weak in our society. The weaponisation of the law against some of us hardened our resolve for a free society.
On 3rd of February 2020 I appeared for Treason trial in the city of Masvingo before Justice Garainesu Mawadze. My legal Team led by Beatrice Mtetwa of Blessing Nyamaropa, Jeremiah Bamu and Tinomudai Shoko fought like raging lions for justice to prevail. Thousands of Zimbabweans came in support. It was so heart warming that the people of Zimbabwe demonstrated their full support for their freedom. I was acquitted on the 14th of February and the city of Masvingo came to a standstill in celebrations. Thank you Zimbabwe once again.
My acquittal did not bring peace to my person. Strange things started to happen. Mnangagwa’s agents of sadism started to trail me wherever I was going. I informed all those who cared about my health that my life was in danger. I wrote to the Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda, informing him about weird and strangers who were following me wherever I was. I informed several Pastors, Apostles and Bishops about this. My friends in the international community were also informed. I kept them monitored wherever I was going by my security personnel. Luck was on my side as some in the system who were not happy with the plot to kill me came forward with red alert information. Thank you guys. Your love is great and unimaginable. Everything came to pass as advised.
My mind went ballistic the day I went to Court in Marondera. I was never ever agitated like the day in question. After my Court attendance, black window tinted Toyota Land Cruiser cruised behind me. After noticing it, I branched off into Wedza Turnoff just from Marondera. We agreed to park by the roadside under the tree. The Land Cruiser made a sudden u-turn by the railway line and came back roaring and turned into Wedza Turnoff. It must have been cruising around 180 or more kilometers per hour.
It only realised we did not go far and pass us in a speed of a bullet. We drove back to Marondera and allowed the mad cows to chase wind. I phoned one friend of mine and got into her car and drove me to Harare.
This is the day I resolved to confront these evil men and women. I could not take this abuse and threat to my life lightly. Threats should be to some limit. Then Jacob Ngarivhume approached me for a coordinated citizen confrontation against the system on corruption. We agreed that we incorporate issues to the hearts of many as well, that is human rights abuses such as torture, abductions and arbitrary arrests of political opponents of Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The ball started rolling. Several times we met at a church in Mt Pleasant which I will not mention for security reasons giving each others roles for the 31st of July.
The regime wanted it aborted through the arrest of myself, Jacob and Hopewell Chin’ono before the day. I knew this in advance. I informed Jacob Ngarivhume several times that they want to nab us and showed him messages I was receiving from my informants. They were trailing Jacob, myself and Hopewell and I advised them that our security conscience must be extremely high. When we were trailed from Mt. Pleasant to Newlands, Jacob realised that truly our security situation was extremely at danger. We agreed that we will never relent.
When the call came on the 20th of July early in the morning preparing to go to work, whilst bathing I saw the caller and knew that the situation was dangerous. Was told to immediately leave my house as the FERRET was on its way to my house, Hopewell Chin’ono and Jacob Ngarivhume’s places. I jumped out of the bathroom, asked my wife to throw clothes into my car and in my boxer shorts got into the car and there in the bush I went. I went to my rural home knowing well that no one will find me. I continued to make sure that 31st of July was not aborted.
When I phoned Hopewell that he must move out as I am informed that the FERRET was on its way to abduct him together with Jacob and that I have dispersed from home, he answered me in the low voice and told me that his house was already surrounded. I asked him to make noise as their mission was abduction and not arresting. He said Beatrice Mtetwa was on her way to his house. Had it not been of Beatrice Mtetwa’s swift reaction the mission was abominable.
When I got hold of Jacob he told me that he was praying by himself in the AFM Church next to his house. By the time he finished to say he was praying, I heard him screaming, “why are you doing this to me? Why are you doing this? Are you not ashamed to arrest me for exposing corruption?” I did cut off my phone knowing Mnangagwa’s agents arrived before the alert in time.
When the entire CIO counter intelligence department and different FERRET Teams were deployed to search for me everywhere in the country I was just in the village. I came to Tynwald the week I was arrested. I had only 9 days at the house.
This is the saddest year and saddest Christmas of all. But never forget that Zimbabwe paradotis. We all deserve good Christmas and Happy New Year. No one owns or have title Deeds for this country. It belongs to all of us.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you all . 2021 is the year I am looking up to.
THE IDEA OF UNITY- MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa Unity Day Message
22 December 2020
Fellow Zimbabweans,
The bold font of divisions, destruction, violence and anarchy continues to override the voices of love, unity, peace, reason and development in our country.
This is largely because our nation-building project has not fulfilled the promise of the glorious days of independence.
We need true unity, peace and prayer to heal and build our nation. Peace and unity are the necessary ingredients for development and the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and rights.
However, it is important to understand the idea of unity. Unity is not about the coming together of bodies, commanded by the powerful in society. It is not an event signified by elite political pacts. Unity is a process by which minds are drawn together organically to achieve a common purpose.
Unity does not mean the absence of difference. Instead, it is a process that acknowledges, recognises and celebrates difference as a natural part of a normal society. Therefore, unity does not necessarily mean uniformity among peoples. Rather it recognises and promotes diversity and the beauty of it.
Indeed, unity does not mean compulsory conformity of the minority to the majority merely because the majority demand compliance. Rather, unity behoves the majority to recognise and respect minorities in whatever form because they matter too.
Politically, unity is a process in which parties of different political and ideological persuasions are allowed to pursue their cause while they come together to face common threats.
Unity does not criminalize diversity and alternative views. It is not tyranny of the centre. This why the devolution process, which is encapsulated in our Constitution, is essential for unity. Unity does not mean sweeping pain and tears of a people under the proverbial carpet. Rather, it is a process that is undergirded by truth-telling, acknowdgement of pain, remorse and reconciliation.
Where there is unity of purpose there is difference but a commitment to development and prosperity. Genuine unity does not produce an impoverished society. It exalts a people to prosperity. On this day, we should be celebrating. But too many of our people are in great pain because of socio-economic burdens that have become unbearable.
Currently, we experience too many divisions, violence, and hatred. This has made Unity Day become trite, vacuous and meaningless without the values and practices of unity that I have outlined. It has become a reminder of the ogre of violence, intolerance and hate speech that continue to engulf our nation.
Violence is intolerable. We note with disdain an increase in abductions and torture against its citizens including young leaders and activists. We have hundreds of MDC leaders in detention or on remand facing trumped-up politically-motivated charges. The consistent and persistent denial of citizens’ rights is a form of violence against political opponents.
The harassment, intimidation, illegal arrest of opposition leaders, activists, and professionals is repugnant to unity and peace. It’s deplorable how professionals have been harassed and persecuted during the course of the year simply because they have dared to exercise their freedoms. Unity does not mean a suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms. It celebrates and protects them.
Unity is not built on force. It is built upon foundations of love, understanding and appreciation of difference and diversity.
In a New Zimbabwe, under our new government, we propose a National Unity, Peace and Prayer Day. We do so in recognition of the fact that unity, peace and prayer are interconnected.
We recognise that unity is not merely a political slogan but rather, it is a reality that we must experience in all spheres, be it in our families, churches, workplaces civic organisations or government.
Nation building is an ongoing project that must produce conditions of unity in diversity. But we cannot build a nation when there is persecution. We call for an end to political persecution. Nation building requires justice to be done for the aggrieved in our communities.
We deserve to be united by our values, aspirations, constitution and human rights. No single organization is bigger than Zimbabwe. We must imagine a better, just and more prosperous Zimbabwe in which our diversity is celebrated, not condemned.
We owe it to ourselves and future generations as God’s people to embrace one another in unity, to pray for the prosperity of our nation. Prayer works with works. We should not wait for divine intervention when we can change our behaviour.
This day, I call upon families and all people of this country to embrace this day as a day we express our unity with one another. A day we find peace. A day we seek the Lord as we prepare for Christmas and the New Year holidays.
This day, I join you all in demanding true unity, peace and prosperity for us all as a people. We in the MDC are ready to play our part in finding a lasting solution to the national issues that bring us together as a nation. We will unite the nation and bring peace in the name of our Lord, without resorting to any forms violence which we abhor.
Peace is simple. Peace begins within. Peace begets peace. Peace breeds prosperity.
In this our fractured nation, I wish you all a blessed Unity, Peace and Prayer day and we pray for unity and peace in our country.
Winning Zimbabwe for real change.Change that delivers!
God Bless you
For justice, peace, a shared vision, true unity and the cause of freedom,
Adv Nelson Chamisa
President MDC Alliance
At least 10 000 suspected ghost workers have been struck off the Government payroll after a biometric registration exercise as the Second Republic walks the talk on its reforms aimed at restoring order in the civil service.
The eliminated names are of those whose biometric data was non-compliant under the exercise that was assisted by the World Bank.
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has also reassured its workers that their welfare remains a top priority in the coming year promising continued engagement on sustainable salaries while new non-monetary incentives, including another 120 buses to boost the fleet that brings civil servants to and from work, are being worked out.
Other existing non-monetary incentives such as affording civil servants housing schemes and duty rebate on vehicle imports will also be retained in 2021.
During last week’s workshop for the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Service Labour and Social Welfare, the PSC and the Apex Council grouping staff associations, PSC head of human capital development and management, Mr Moses Mhike, said the exercise of flushing out ghost workers was continuous.
“Ghost workers are no longer an issue. We have managed to account for those on the Salary Service Bureau,” he said.
“We conducted a biometric exercise to get the data of all civil servants and comparing with the Registrar’s office. We realised that about 10 000 were not biometric compliant and traced them at each and every work station.”
PSC Secretary Ambassador Jonathan Wutawunashe said the PSC simply eliminated ghost workers by withdrawing salaries to those who were non-complaint to the biometric exercise.
“We made sure that we stopped paying those non complaint and only the legitimate ones came forward. However, the exercise should be an ongoing thing,” he said.
The biometric registration was implemented with the assistance of the World Bank as part of efforts to weed out ghost workers and modernise management of the civil service.-The Herald
There are unconfirmed reports that the Eagleliner bus which left Johannesburg for Zimbabwe yesterday overturned in Louis Trichardt South Africa today in the morning.
The accident happened on N1 near Ingwe Hotel outside Makhado towards Musina in Vhembe District accident involving several vehicles. The road is confirmed to be closed.
Those with relatives that boarded the bus have been asked to check with authorities as a number of passengers injured.
By A Correspondent- A Gwanda municipal police officer has been found drowned after failing to arrive home from work.
Amon Siduli, 55, was last seen leaving work on Saturday at 7PM.
His family raised the alarm when he did not arrive home in Garikai Township, and he failed to report for work on Sunday.
A search party finally found his body lodged against a tree after water subsided in a previously flooded river on Monday morning.
Matabeleland South police spokesperson Inspector Loveness Mangena said: “Our officers responded to reports of a body in the Manzamnyama River.
“The body had no visible injuries and was recovered to Gwanda General Hospital, but a post-mortem was waived by a magistrate.
“As police we urge members of the public not to attempt crossing flooded rivers as they risk drowning.”
A large crowd gathered to witness the recovery of Siduli’s body. He was still wearing his work uniform.
Locals blamed the low-lying bridge which is impassable when the river is flooded. They believe Siduli attempted to cross the flooded bridge and was swept away.
“Since the rains started last week, we have been experiencing floods. Some of the water is flowing into our houses and soon there will be a disaster. There must be proper drainage systems and foot bridges to avert such disasters,” said local resident Thembelani Sibanda.
The Civil Protection Unit (CPU) last week warned of heavy rains that will persist until the end of December, with flooding in places.
-ZimLive
Date: 21 December 2020
Press Statement
Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance would like to put it on record that, there is no unity in the colonial arrangement termed Zimbabwe. What the ZANU PF is celebrating ironically termed as unity day, is the celebration of the end of the gukurahundi genocide.
In essence, the Unity accord in Zimbabwe marked the symbolic start of the implementation of the 1979 grand plan, which saw Mthwakazi people subjected to systematic tribalism and all forms of state sponsored brutality.
The unity accord was signed to destroyed ZAPU which during that period was a party supported by all the provinces of Mthwakazi. The destruction of ZAPU was symbolic to the attack of Mthwakazi as a nation. Apart from that, the unity accord can be interpreted as a defeat treaty or surrendering treaty.
It also set the political precedent that is currently prevalent in all the political organizations in Zimbabwe, whereby people from Mthwakazi are rewarded with primitive positions which are used to advance the implementation of the 1979 grand plan and to promote the ZANU PF cause simultaneously.
As Mthwakazi people we must never forget what influenced this nonsensical unity day. This unity day was enforced by the 5th Brigade, a military wing which was specifically deployed in Matebeleland to kill all the people from Matebeleland.
This day must be used to remember pregnant women who died their bellies being cut by gun knives. This day must remind us of our innocent people who were buried alive for being Ndebele.
This day must serve as a reminder of our people who were burnt in their houses. This day must remind us of our people who disappeared and were never found up to this day.
We must never forget that, the master mind of gukurahundi genocide was Emmerson Mnangagwa and the father of Nelson Chamisa amongst others.
We must never forget that, the Unity accord marked the enforced shonalisation of Mthwakazi. As they celebrate this day in Zimbabwe, we must never forget that, as thwakazi nation we are not yet free from the brutality of colonization. Colonisation did not end in Mthwakazi, it just changed skin colour. This day must challenge us to unite and fight for the justice of our innocent people who died because of being Ndebele.
As they celebrate this day in Zimbabwe, in Mthwakazi we must lament and reflect on the negative effects of the implementation of the 1979 grand plan.
The 1979 grand plan has brought Shona teachers in Matebeleland who are contributing towards zero percent pass rates at our primary schools in Matebeleland. We must remember that, this day has forced millions of our people to run away from their mother land in search of a better life in other countries.
This day must remind us of our brothers who were killed in Limpopo river trying to cross border to look for a better life in South Africa. We must remember that, this day marked the beginning of wrong spellings of Ndebele words in our passports and almost a number of crucial documents.
As we celebrate this day, we must remember a number of trapped miners at Matshetshe
mine, in which the government refused to save their lives because they were from Matebeleland and up to today they are still underground, but the government of the day is
always quick to save miners from Mashonaland.
As we celebrate this day, we must remember that, a number of our youths are unemployed and have no means of survival. As a political party of Mthwakazi, we have endorsed this day as gukurahundi genocide commemoration day.
It is a day, which reminds us of the fact that, ZANU PF deployed gukurahundi soldiers to kill our people. This day is a reminder of Shona supremacy and all evils that comes with this concept. We must celebrate this day to remember our loved ones who were brutally killed and have never received justice.
Issued by: Mandlenkosi Nkomo
Secretary for Communications and Public Relations
By A Correspondent- Workers at Beitbridge Municipality yesterday reportedly staged a 2-hour sit-in protest over the nonpayment of COVID-19 allowances.
According to the publication, the 50 workers who protested said they decided to protests as a way to seek an audience with their superiors since they could not yield any result otherwise. The workers are reportedly demanding that the council pay them their 3 months allowances of $75 per month.
The publication alleges that:
To show their displeasure, the workers parked their service vehicles at the Dulivhadzimu and Main town offices and did not report to their usual workplaces between 7 AM and 9 AM.
This forced the management led by the Director of Administration, Mr Sathulani Moyo, to convene an urgent crisis meeting to salvage the situation. The workers said they were getting a raw deal because they were meant to perform their duties without proper personal protective gear and uniforms.
This comes barely a week after Bulawayo City Council workers also downed their tools as they were protesting late salary payments and low wages.
By Dr Masimba Mavaza- The controversial self-styled prophet ‘Apostle’ Talent Chiwenga admitted in a video p[osted on you tube that he made a conscious decision to kill the Late Sam Madzingira and his wife in a head on collision outside Norton in July 2023.
Talent Chiwenga is a prominent controversial Harare preacher and founder of Apostle T.F Chiwenga Ministries. Chiwenga is mostly known for criticizing politicians and other religious leaders during his sermons-.
Talent Chiwenga has been described as a person who suffers from lack of maturity. In his you tube video Chiwenga declared that he has no apology to give to the Madzingira family who have lost three people in one day. He went further to say that he is the one who is owed an apology and has no shred of remorse at all. He accused the deceased Sam Madzingira to be a ZANU PF CIO operative.
Sam Madzingira was coming from Bulawayo to Harare for the funeral of his sister Mrs Felistas Dimairo who had passed on after few hours of complaining of dizziness. Mr Sam Madzingira was driving a Mercedes Benz C class series when his car was involved in a head on collusion with The Controversial Prophet Talent Chiwenga just after the Norton Toll gate towards Harare.
Their car collided with a Landrover Discovery being driven by Talent Chiwenga killing them both on the scene.
Sam Madzingira has founded several schools which he was operating under a trust Turnup Enterprises, he was a director. His school had classes up to A level enrolling over a thousand students per year.
Madzingira oversaw a construction equipped well with the teachers’ staff rooms, headmaster/deputy headmaster’s office, reception, pupils’ toilets and classroom blocks already complete. The school’s construction project is being bankrolled by Madzingira’s Turnup study pack and it has become a state of the art school.
This New Bulawayo secondary school, Prestige High, in Cowdray Park suburb, opened its doors in January 2015. Madzingira was the school’s founder. Talking in 2015 Turnup Enterprises director Sam Madzingira, said the school would have nine blocks with three classes each.
The school, which will go up to A-Level, will accommodate up to 720 pupils.
Talent Chiwenga is man who has lived always running from shadows and this paranoia has made him kill an innocent grieving driver. To make things worse Chiwenga whom many people have said “he is the end of the time devil’s agent” chose to open wounds which were healing on the Madzingira family by accusing the dead and accuse him of having intentions of wanting to kill him.
This new confession by Chiwenga should take his case to another level. Chiwenga had the opportunity to avoid this accident but due to his mental problems clouded by the fear of assassination he chose to kill first.
What has angered most people is the fact that Talent Chiwenga turns this tragic episode into a political scene. Talent Chiwenga is a serious insane person who needs help. It is sad Chiwenga is in dire need of help, he preaches hatred and confrontation. Chiwenga does not know what a true reputation of the man of cloth is. A man of cloth must be advocating for peace, reasonableness, he must be of a stable temperament. Chiwenga is delusionary and exhibits traits of a lunatic who is attacking everybody in the spiritual and political world. In Chiwenga’s world everybody is wrong except him alone. Every pastor is a thief except him. Chiwenga is a special case who needs mental treatment sooner than later.
Talent Chiwenga is the incarnation of the devil. He is vile and an attention seeking liar. He is a hypocrite who killed his own wife because he was afraid of the CIO in his mind.
Chiwenga must be compassionate and stop hallucinating. No one is after his life.
He killed his wife and blamed ZANU PF. for it. Now he killed this innocent couple. When will he stop? These false prophets like Chiwenga must be ashamed of themselves. Chiwenga should have known better before he rushed to the press and social media accusing Madzingira and his wife to be CIOs.
Talent Chiwenga is a Thanatophist and needs mental treatment.
Thanatophobia, or fear of death, is a relatively complicated phobia. Many, if not most, people are afraid of dying but Chiwenga has such fear and has made up a person who will kill him. He now lives in the fear of being assassinated and as a result he is killing people in defence of his fears. He is seeing shadows after him and he is a lose canon and indeed insane. However, when feelings of intense fear and distress become overwhelming and prevent us from doing everyday activities, an anxiety disorder may be the cause. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health concern which has gripped Chiwenga and every idiot has a follower. They need to be freed from the demonic devilish spell of Talent Chiwenga. If his church members love him they must take him for treatment.
It is a pity that when someone is developing a serious mental illness with psychosis, such as schizophrenia, they usually don’t know it. “Part of ‘crazy’ is getting away from reality,” so Chiwenga has graduated in the world of insane and this is an idiot holding the bible and at the pulpit.
Paranoia is thinking and feeling like you are being threatened in some way, even if there is no evidence, or very little evidence, that you are. Paranoid thoughts can also be described as delusions.
There are lots of different kinds of threat you might be scared and worried about. Paranoid thoughts could also be exaggerated suspicions. For example, someone made a nasty comment about you once, and you believe that they are directing a hate campaign against you.
Chiwenga has a very advanced paranoia and if he is not helped now he will be destroying the whole world. Paranoid thoughts are usually to do with your ideas about other people and what they might do or think. It can be difficult to work out whether a suspicious thought is paranoid or not, especially if someone else says your thoughts are paranoid when you don’t think they are.
This could be a friend, family member or doctor, for example. People may think about risks in different ways and believe different things are good or bad evidence for suspicious thoughts. People might also believe different things based on the same evidence. Ultimately you have to decide this for yourself.
Paranoia is a symptom of some mental health problems but not diagnosis itself. Paranoid thoughts can be anything from very mild to very severe and these experiences can be quite different for everybody. Paranoia is an instinct or thought process which is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.
Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Paranoia is distinct from phobias, which also involve irrational fear, but usually no blame.
Making false accusations and the general distrust of other people also frequently accompany paranoia. For example, a paranoid person might believe an incident was intentional when most people would view it as an accident or coincidence.
Paranoia is a central symptom of psychosis. So the so called Apostle Talent Chiwenga is suffering from a high paranoia which has made him a danger to society.
A common symptom of paranoia is the attribution bias. These individuals typically have a biased perception of reality; often exhibiting more hostile beliefs. A paranoid person may view someone else’s accidental behaviour as though it is with intent or threatening.
An investigation of a non-clinical paranoid population found that feeling powerless and depressed, isolating oneself, and relinquishing activities are characteristics that could be associated with those exhibiting more frequent paranoia.
Some scientists have created different subtypes for the various symptoms of paranoia including erotic, persecutory, litigious, and exalted.
Due to the suspicious and troublesome personality traits of paranoia, it is unlikely that someone with paranoia will thrive in interpersonal relationships. Most commonly paranoid individuals tend to be of a single status.
According to some research there is a hierarchy for paranoia. The least common types of paranoia at the very top of the hierarchy would be those involving more serious threats.
The self-proclaimed holy one Chiwenga started his ministry by attacking the vice President whom he alleges is his cousin brother. Surprisingly the Vice President Chiwenga did not respond at all, not even a word. He now left Chiwenga and attacked every preacher he knows or heard of, he made himself a sworn enemy of prophet Makandiwa and yet Makandiwa remained silent. He attacked baba Guti, Mutendi Anglicans Seventh day Adventists almost every church and not even one responded to his lunacy. Now he forgot about church and is now attacking the politicians ZANU PF in particular and yet no one is responding to him
This point to the simple thing, this demon, pastor who finds pleasure in insulting people on you tube needs help. I personally feel sorry for this killer. Remember in his paranoia he killed his wife and two church members who had done nothing wrong. Talent Chiwenga killed them so that he can defend himself against the invisible enemies.
Talent Chiwengahas now been overwhelmed by the blood of those he killed and he now confesses on the You Tube.
A prophet who believes that he is the only one left is usually very wrong. First Kings 19v10 Elijah thought he was the only one left doing good God told him there are more than seven thousand more prophets. Talent you can be the only one who thinks is right. Please come back to the level of reality. Seek some help.
Be responsible apologise to the Mdzingiras and to your wife’s family. Please do not kill anyone else, no one is after your life.
By A Correspondent- The Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) came out guns blazing yesterday, slamming the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) for undermining business confidence following latest moves to charge Value Added Tax (VAT) on rice retrospectively.
Reports at the weekend suggested the tax collector was planning to charge VAT on rice packaged in 25kg bags and below retrospectively from February 2017.
The plan has unsettled business.
Yesterday, the CZR warned that Zimra’s controversial move confirmed government’s lack of clear and consistent policies, adding that it would affect millions of low-income families.
A VAT exemption for rice was announced through Statutory Instrument (SI) 9 of 2006, before being amended through SI 20 of 2017.
CZR said the regime under which rice was standard rated only remained in force until February 16, 2017 when SI 26A of 2017 was published repealing SI 20 of 2017.
It said the effect of the repeal was to restore the position set out in SI 9 of 2016 that all rice, including prepacked rice in packages of less than 25kg, would be exempt from VAT.
“The decision by Zimra lays bare the need for policy consistency,” CZR president Denford Mutashu said in a statement yesterday.
“Zimra was quiet for three years, not indicating that VAT was to be collected on rice. It is only recently that it has sought to collect the VAT which was previously and still is exempt. We wish to point out that it is an established principle of law that no tax can be imposed on a party, unless the same is clearly set out in legislation. At present, the law is that rice is exempt from VAT and even the Zimra system has not been and is presently not charging VAT,” Mutashu said.
He said the decision violated property rights and would affect business confidence.
“We believe that for this economy to attract both local and foreign investment there is a need to have respect for the rule of law and policy consistency,” he said.
“As CZR, we state unequivocally that the VAT directive undermines His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s pro-business stance enunciated by the Zimbabwe is open for business mantra.
“It is also important to note that it is illegal for Zimra to enforce collection of VAT on rice in retrospect and as well as currently as the laws do not provide for it. More importantly it is morally incorrect to attempt to charge VAT when rice is a staple food and we believe that charging will increase the price of this staple food which will affect low income families,” Mutashu said.
He said dialogue between CZR and the government should continue on the issue.
The Standard reported on Sunday that tough times lay ahead for some players in the rice supply chain as government was insisting on collecting a 15% VAT backdated to February 2017.
The payment of VAT running into millions of United States dollars could leave some players in financial distress or out of business altogether.
Earlier appeals by dealers for government to reconsider the VAT demand were rejected by Finance secretary George Guvamatanga.
In a September 23 letter, Guvamatanga said while Treasury noted the justification given for failure to charge and remit VAT as well as industry concerns over the financial burden that may result from collection of the outstanding taxes, the request for exemption could not be entertained.-newsday
By A Correspondent- Mines minister Winston Chitando was yesterday kicked out of Parliament by angry MPs after he came late to give oral evidence.
Chitando had been invited to appear before the Edmond Mkaratigwa-led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines to speak on the ministry’s action plan in response to mining disasters.
An invite from the Parliament of Zimbabwe read: “The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines will be meeting with the Minister of Mines and Mining Development at 1100 hours at Parliament Building to discuss the follow up on the ministry’s action plan concerning mine disasters.”
MPs waited for Chitando to appear before them, but he was late. He arrived more than an hour late, which irked the legislators.
However, Chitando’s deputy Polite Kambamura arrived on time for the meeting, but he refused to give oral evidence on behalf of his superior.
Kambamura told MPs that Chitando was stuck in traffic in the central business district.
“We are trying to call him, but we are not getting any response. The last time that we spoke to him he said he was stuck in traffic congestion,” Kambamura told MPs.
This further annoyed the MPs who vented their anger on him.
“I have already made a ruling based on the information brought to us through the deputy minister (Kambamura). MPs have been waiting patiently and because of these delays — and as you can see it is now already in the afternoon and we cannot proceed with the meeting as scheduled,” Mkaratigwa said.
“The issue at hand is a serious one and considering the mine accidents that have happened, the bodies that are buried underground and inside mine shafts and the business of retrieving presumably dead bodies now are very urgent. It should not be set aside because we have postponed this meeting several times.
“Postponing the meeting to next year gives the ministry ample time to run around in conjunction with the efforts that have already been initiated by this portfolio committee whereupon we set up some sub-committees specifically for the Esigodini issue and another one in Chegutu,” he said.
When Chitando later arrived for the meeting, MPs did not entertain him, they turned him away.
In an address to journalists after he was kicked out of Parliament, Chitando said his ministry was working with the Department of Civil Protection (DCP) to co-ordinate rescue operations at the affected mines.
“There is actually activity that is taking place and rescue operations are being co-ordinated by the DCP in Esigodini and also there is mobilisation taking place for Chegutu. So, by January 11 a lot of developments would have been covered,” Chitando said.
Mine disasters have affected the country in the past few months, with several artisanal miners having been buried alive after mine shafts collapsed.
The incidents happened in Bindura, Esigodini, Chegutu and several other places. Chitando is set to appear before the committee on January 11 next year after MPs agreed to postpone the hearing.-newsday
THE drama with late Michelle “Moana” Amuli’s parents appears far from over as the pair clashed heavily early on Saturday morning.
This time the feud is over who should take charge of their granddaughter.
A delegation for Moana’s mother, Yolanda Kuvaoga allegedly stormed Ishmael Amuli’s Domboshava home at around 3am demanding Moana’s daughter.
Her father, Lloyd Chipomho, is said to have taken her to Amuli for her to get used to Domboshava.
A lady, understood to be a friend of Moana, within the team allegedly knocked down Amuli’s door in the ensuing melee and was later arrested for her troubles.
Amuli said they came in a kombi at around 3am:
“There is a girl who was claiming to be from the Daily News and claimed she had a hamper for my granddaughter. I asked why she would be bring a hamper for such a young child at 3am.
“My wife advised me not to open for them because she suspected they were up to no good as a genuine visit to get my granddaughter would have been during day. She feared they wanted to kidnap the child and people would in turn accuse or blame us if anything bad happened to the child.
“When I wanted to engage them I discovered they wanted to be violent. My wife then dragged me inside, locked the door and hid the keys. That is when this girl, who claimed to be from a newspaper then broke the door. I got out of the house through the broken down door to find out why they were even accusing me of stealing the child when her father brought her.
“The father brought the child and said she should at least get used to my place as well as his home in Kuwadzana and I was grateful to my son-in-law. Now they accuse me of going to Kuwadzana and kidnapping my grandchild.”
He said, even though they have capacity to hit back, they would let the law take its course.
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By A Correspondent- A group of thugs attempted to kidnap Michelle “Moana” Amuli’s daughter in the wee hours on Saturday at her grandfather Ishmael Amuli’s Domboshava home.
Amuli told H-Metro that the father of Moana’s daughter, Lloyd Chipomho, had taken the little girl to its grandfather Amuli so that she could get used to Domboshava.
Said Amuli:
There is a girl who was claiming to be from the Daily News and claimed she had a hamper for my granddaughter. I asked why she would bring a hamper for such a young child at 3 am.
My wife advised me not to open for them because she suspected they were up to no good as a genuine visit to get my granddaughter would have been during the day.
She feared they wanted to kidnap the child and people would in turn accuse or blame us if anything bad happened to the child.
When I wanted to engage them I discovered they wanted to be violent. My wife then dragged me inside, locked the door and hid the keys. That is when this girl, who claimed to be from a newspaper then broke the door. I got out of the house through then broken down the door to find out why they were even accusing me of stealing the child when her father brought her.
The father brought the child and said she should at least get used to my place as well as his home in Kuwadzana and I was grateful to my son-in-law. Now they accuse me of going to Kuwadzana and kidnapping my grandchild.
Kuvaoga’s envoy drove to Domboshava in a kombi and a lady, understood to be a friend of Moana, within the team, was later arrested for knocking down Amuli’s door.-BMetro
By A Correspondent- The Shamva mine wrangle pitting miner John Maungwa against Chantelle Chikafu, who once masqueraded as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s daughter, has claimed the scalp of Mashonaland Central provincial police commander, Commissioner David Mahoya, who was transferred for “ignoring” his bosses’ directives.
Reports from Bindura yesterday indicated that Mahoya was forced out of the province with immediate effect after his bosses were riled by his defiance to implement their directive to obey a court order giving unfettered mining rights to Maungwa of Wickman 23 gold claim which had been invaded by Chikafu and Shamva North legislator Oscar Gorerino.
Mahoya has been reportedly siding with Chikafu and Gorerino in defying court orders granted by the High Court directing that should Maungwa resume mining operations without interference.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) legal services acting director wrote a letter dated December 4 to Mahoya, which is in the possession of NewsDay, advising him to obey the court orders and allow Maungwa access to his mine.
But the provincial police boss reportedly clandestinely allowed Chikafu and Gorerino’s gangs to mine at Maungwa’s mine.
He was transferred to Masvingo province as the provincial commander and will be replaced by Commissioner Priscilla Makotose from Mashonaland West provincial headquarters.
National police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the transfer of Mahoya together with 83 other senior cops nationwide, saying the transfers were necessitated by recent promotions.
However, sources in the police force said Mahoya’s transfer was directly linked to the way he handled the Shamva mine wrangle.
“When there have been promotions, there are transfers to fill in the gaps that would have been left either by death or the need for job rotation so that the organisation benefits from the expertise that certain officers have,” Nyathi said.
Chikafu was recently ordered off the mine by the High Court, which ruled that Maungwa had a legal right to the property. Despite the ruling, Chikafu has remained on the ground, claiming she enjoyed protection from Sibanda and Ncube.
High Court judge Justice Jacob Manzunzu in his order on April 29 directed that Maungwa be restored possession of Wickman 23 Mine, which Chikafu and some Zanu PF youths invaded and illegally occupied on April 17.
This was followed up by another order by Justice Tawanda Chitapi on November 25 giving exclusive mining rights to Maungwa, which Mahoya also reportedly defied.
By A Correspondent- The opposition Zapu party has claimed that the late former President Robert Mugabe forced the late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo to sacrifice his party Zapu resulting in it being swallowed by Zanu PF in order to stop the 1980s Matabeleland genocide.
Addressing an event to commemorate the Unity Day which was born out of the Unity Accord signed by Mugabe and Nkomo in 1987, Zapu spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa claimed the accord was only to end the Gukurahundi massacres which human right groups say claimed 20 000 lives from Matabeleland and Midlands.
“Zanu PF only had one condition that it wanted met in order to stop the madness, and it was that PF Zapu must be swallowed by Zanu PF and cease to be an opposition party. This was the condition that summed up what is now known as the Unity Accord Agreement document,” Maphosa said.
“The 1987 Unity Accord document is quite weird and makes for sorry reading. There is nothing about unity discernible in any of its clauses. It is just a requirement that PF Zapu surrenders to the British Conservative Party project of 1963 with Mugabe as its leader in perpetuity,” he said.
He said for Zimbabweans, the 1987 Unity Accord document meant PF Zapu ceding all its rights to existence to Zanu.
“The party then and now uses ethnic lenses in deciding every aspect of national policy. To them, anybody and anything that was not Zanu at that time represented the enemy, hence the use of the toxic reference to dissidents equating PF Zapu and the Ndebele speaking people alone with that term. It is a tribalist mindset,” he said.
Maphosa said it was sad that for 34 years Zimbabwe had been celebrating what is disguised as unity day after the loss of thousands of lives in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces.-newsday
By A Correspondent- Police in riot gear on Saturday accidentally struck a baby with a truncheon in Chiredzi barely two days after the world commemorated Human Rights Day on Thursday last week.
The 11-month-old baby was struck by the police while strapped on its mother’s back.
The mother was trying to gain entry into Tshovani Stadium to attend a wedding when the incident happened.
This was after thousands of people thronged the stadium to witness the wedding of Chiredzi-born self-styled comedian Douglas Zvarevashe, who tied the knot with Noria Mutepfu.
The wedding was organised by Zanu PF bigwigs, including Chiredzi West MP Farai Musikavanhu, and was sponsored by businessman James Charumbira.
The mob that was being targeted by the police witnessed one of the officers accidentally striking the baby with a baton.
As a result, they started throwing stones, accusing the police of lacking professionalism.
This led to running battles between the police and the mob, which left several people nursing injuries.
The event attracted thousands of people who crammed the stadium, violating COVID-19 regulations which stipulate that a wedding should not be attended by people exceeding 100.
This led the organisers to seek the assistance of police to disperse the crowd.
When this reporter arrived at the venue, the police threatened to beat him up, before barring him from entering the stadium.
He was only released after the intervention of the ZRP press and liaison officer, Assistant Inspector Tawanda Siziba.
The woman, whose baby was beaten, was whisked away by the police.
Chiredzi ZRP Chief Superintendent Shengedzani Muleya said the police must act professionally, adding that the public should not disturb the law enforcement agents whenever they are performing their duties.
“As police in Chiredzi, we have a good working relationship with journalists and such overzealous behaviour should be condemned,” she said.
National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said he was yet to receive such a report.
The condition of the baby could not be established by the time of going to print last night as efforts to locate the woman and her baby proved fruitless.
-newsday
By A Correspondent- Prosecutor Tapiwa Kasema (45), who is facing allegations of criminal abuse of office, will spend another night in custody after Harare Magistrate Ngoni Nduna set his bail ruling for Wednesday.
Kasema was arrested for consenting to bail in a case involving four armed serial robbers.
He works at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) as a principal law officer.
It is alleged that on August 24, armed robbers Musa Taj Abdul, Tapiwa Rudolf, Godfrey Mupanhanga and accomplices were arrested in Beitbridge over a spate of murders and armed robbery cases committed in and around Zimbabwe.
On August 25, they were taken to court facing 53 counts of armed robbery, where they were denied bail and remanded in custody.
Sometime this month, Abdul applied for bail and the NPA assigned Kasema together with two other officers to oppose the application.
On December 8, Kasema allegedly consented to the granting of bail without following laid down procedures.
The court heard that the offence came to light after the CID Homicide queried the release of the accused on bail by the High Court on December 11, 2020, and it came out that Kasema had unlawfully consented to the release of the applicants.
A report was then made to the police leading to the arrest of Kasema.
He will spend another night in custody after Nduna postponed the hearing to tomorrow.
-dailynews
Today marks 33 years since the signing of the Unity Accord and the coming together of the two revolutionary parties in 1987.
Decades have passed since that historic event of our Unity Accord.However,its conceptualization must now go beyond narrow interpretation.
Therefore today as we remember and celebrate Unity Day,let us re-commit ourselves to the important virtues that bind us as a people and equally incorporate the importance of our Unity within the transformative national economic agenda.
Peace-building, conflict-resolution and management must remain a binding feature of our national development agenda.
Where there are differences, we must aim to settle and resolve them through dialogue and engagement.
Further guided by our national Constitution, heritage and traditional value systems; toxic politics and divisive tendencies have no room in our society. By and large, we are a peaceful people and nation.T
he common goal for every Zimbabwean is to continue strengthening the unitary State that is Zimbabwe and which is home to multitude cultures, all co-existing in harmony under one flag and one national anthem.Individually and collectively, we bear the responsibility to bequeath present and future generations, an economically developed, modern and prosperous country.
By A Correspondent- MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe and acting secretary general faced off in a stormy meeting yesterday to resolve the dispute over the voters roll to be used at the party’s extraordinary meeting slated for this weekend.
The opposition party postponed its congress last weekend to this Sunday after the principals failed to agree on a voters roll to be used.
Mwonzora allegedly tried to sneak in a doctored voters roll staffed with names of his backers who were not part of the 2014 structures, that according to the Supreme Court ruling in March, have to convene the elective congress to replace the late founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
The party was also forced to hold a national council meeting at deputy national chairman Elias Mudzuri’s home where they resolved to audit the voters roll.
At a meeting yesterday, Mwonzora allegedly struggled to produce his version of the voters roll which he claimed represented the party’s 2014 structures.
Khupe was said to be armed with a copy of the 2014 structures favoured to the party by suspended organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe.
The meeting was attended by all the candidates that include Mudzuri and acting chairman Morgen Komichi.
Also in attendance was Gift Chimanikire, who was the deputy organizing secretary and Gandi Mudzingwa, the secretary for elections.
Each of the four presidential candidates was accompanied by two election agents.
“The meeting was stormy and it was resolved that the party uses Bhebhe’s list of the 2014 structures. Mwonzora struggled to produce his roll,” an insider said.
“As we speak (yesterday evening) the eight election agents are in a meeting verifying the structures under the supervision of Mudzingwa and Chimanikire. They are comparing Mwonzora’s roll and the one supplied by Bhebhe.
“On Wednesday, provincial structures represented by the provincial chairman, organizing secretary and secretary general will come and verify the provincial structures. The voters roll will now be presented to the national standing committee for approval for use at the congress.”
All the teams report to Komichi who was given the role to oversee the verification process.
The insider said the party was contemplating using a printed roll fearing that a soft copy could be hacked and manipulated.
At the national council meeting held on Saturday, Komichi accused Mwonzora of hacking computers at the party headquarters.
Komichi wrote on his Twitter handle last night that:
“The legacy of president Dr Richard Morgan Tsvangirai can only be restored by the 2014 congress delegates. So all the 2014 congress delegates are welcome to the EOC [extraordinary congress] to elect a genuine replacement of our beloved late president on 27th December 2020.”
Mashakada was not reachable for comment yesterday.
-newsday
By A Correspondent- Property mogul Ken Sharpe’s Augur Investments is demanding USS1 million defamatory damages from the MDC Alliance and its vice president Tendai Biti for allegedly slandering his company on social media.
In summons filed before the High Court, the applicants are Augur Investments and Tatiana Aleshina, who are alleging that Biti and the opposition party scandalised their good standing over the Harare Airport Road tender through Twitter posts.
Aleshina is also the complainant in a criminal case in which Biti is accused of assaulting her outside the Harare Magistrates’ Courts earlier this month.
In the defamation case, Biti and the MDC Alliance have both been cited as respondents because the purported libellous message allegedly appeared on their official Twitter pages.
Augur and Aleshina want an order for removal of the tweets posted on December 4 and 13 implicating them in the Harare Airport Road scandal and for the defendants to print a retraction and apology in three widely circulating newspapers.
In one of the tweets, Biti allegedly wrote:
“I have been at CID Law and Order since I am being charged with the most spurious, the most desperate of all charges. It is said that I called someone an idiot and that is said to be an assault.
“No amount of harassment will prevent us from fighting and exposing corruption. The Harare Airport Road Project was a total sink where thousands of hectares of land were illegally and fraudulently transferred to Augur Investments and its shelf companies. The land must be returned to the city and it citizens.”
Augur argued that the tweets portrayed them in bad light as they alleged that they were involved in fraudulent transactions and stole land from the City of Harare. They further argue that the MDC Alliance and Biti’s Twitter handles have a huge following locally and abroad such that the Tweets were widely read.
“The plaintiffs never committed the acts that the first defendant attributes to them. The comments are false, frivolous and vexatious. The plaintiffs’ conduct regarding the subject matter concerned has always gal and in good the parties con reads the summons.
Biti and his party yet to respond to the suit.
-online
At least five countries have suspended flights from South Africa after a coronavirus variant was recently discovered in the country.
Germany, Turkey, Israel, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia are among the countries that have announced the banning of such flights to prevent the spread of a variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus currently termed 501.V2 Variant.
The ban was coming into effect on Monday in most of these countries.
Germany was one of the first nations to announce the ban.
“Because of the reported coronavirus mutation, the federal government intends to restrict travel options between Germany and Great Britain and South Africa,” said Government Spokesperson Martina Fietz.
Israel also banned the flights on Sunday, saying that its citizens returning from South Africa would be required to undergo a 30-day mandatory quarantine on their return.
The new variant was discovered in the Eastern Cape and also affects Kwazulu-Natal and the Western Cape.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said his department has been observing a huge number of young people with no illness testing positive lately.
“The evidence that has been collated, therefore, strongly suggests that the current second wave we are experiencing is being driven by this new variant,” he said.
A number of countries have also added Britain to their list of banned flights following the discovery of a COVID-19 variant there.
(ANI/Xinhua)
Standard
WARRIORS captain Knowledge Musona is in the midst of a Covid-19 crisis at his Belgian top-flight club KAS Eupen after 17 players and five officials at the club reportedly tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Although Standardsport could not establish if the Zimbabwe international is among the players who tested positive for Covid-19, KAS Eupen last week confirmed that they were battling to contain the spread of the virus within their camp.
The club, however, did not disclose the identity of infected players “out of respect for their private life”.
On Thursday, Eupen released a statement confirming the postponement of their match against Musona’s former team KV Oostende, which was scheduled for yesterday, having been granted permission to defer their last three matches by the Royal Belgian Football Association.
“Due to the numerous Covid infections in the KAS Eupen A-squad, the Pro League cancelled the KAS Eupen championship game at KV Oostende that was scheduled for next Saturday. 17 players from the KAS Eupen senior squad are currently infected with Covid. The home games against Zulte Waregem and KRC Genk had previously been cancelled. Replacement dates have not yet been set,” the club said in a statement.
KAS Eupen’s sporting director Jordi Condom, however, revealed that none of the players and officials who had tested positive was currently hospitalised.
“Seventeen players are affected, as well as five members of the staff and collaborators. We had everything in place, with our doctors, but also in consultation with the specialists of the Pro League. “We did everything to avoid this situation, but it is clear that something did not work,” Condom said in an interview with the Belgian newspaper L’Avenir.
“Fortunately, nobody is hospitalised, so in this serious situation, it is something positive. “Some have symptoms, others have none at all. ”
The Belgian club is worried of the possibility of having a heavily congested schedule and the impact it could have on their players when they are finally granted permission to compete in the league probably in January.
“We really hope that everything will be over to resume in good conditions in January. You have to think about the physical, but also the psychological after-effects on the players,” KAS Eupen coach Beñat San José said.
KAS Eupen have not featured in the Jupiler Pro League since December 6 when they beat Beerschot VA 1-0 away at the Olympisch Stadion Antwerp to extend their unbeaten run in the league to five matches.
Their last three matches against Zulte Waregem (December 6), KRC Genk (December 15) and yesterday’s encounter against KV Oostende were postponed as they battle a Covid-19 outbreak.
The Qatar government-owned club, which is based in the German-speaking city of Eupen in Belgium’s province of Liège, has been on a good run of form in the Jupiler Pro League after enduring a difficult start to the season.
Musona has played a pivotal role in the club’s recent success having featured in all the club’s 15 Jupiler Pro League matches this season while managing two goals and as many assists.
The 30-year-old Zimbabwe international, who is in his second loan spell at Eupen, has flourished after being redeployed to an unfamiliar central midfield role by Eupen’s Spanish manager Beñat San José this season.
Musona also led from the front during the Warriors’ back-to-back 2021 Afcon qualifiers against Algeria, scoring a spectacular freekick during the 2-2 draw at the National Sports Stadium on November 16.
Augur Investments is demanding US$1 million defamatory damages from the MDC Alliance and Harare lawyer Tendai Biti for allegedly slandering the company on social media.
Biti and the MDC Alliance have both been cited as respondents because they allegedly posted libellous messages on their official Twitter pages.
In summons filed before the High Court, the applicants are Augur Investments, owned by Ken Sharpe, and Russian national Tatiana Aleshina.
They allege that Biti, who is the MDC Alliance vice president, and his party scandalised their good standing over Harare Airport Road tender through tweets.
Augur and Aleshina want an order for the removal of the tweets posted on December 4 and 13 implicating them in the Harare Airport Road scandal and for the defendants to print a retraction and apology in three widely circulating newspapers.
Augur argued that the tweets portrayed them in a bad light as they alleged that they were involved in fraudulent transactions and stole land from the City of Harare.
– Daily News –
THE Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has expressed concern over the state of roads in Bulawayo which are littered with potholes.
This has prompted the civic society group to petition the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) demanding that it should fix the roads as the potholes had worsened due to the rains.
In the petition sent to the BCC yesterday, the MIHR said people were not happy about the dilapidated state of the roads and wanted prompted action from the local authority as the potholes were now a menace.
“As Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights we urge the local authority to quickly move in and close these potholes before people die because of them. We also urge the Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) to disburse funding to local authorities for them to be able to maintain roads.
“Zinara is collecting funds from cars through taxes every quarter and if that money is not returned to fix the roads, why should motorists continue paying? It will reach a point where motorists will refuse to pay because it seems by paying Zinara, they are actually funding the damage of their vehicles,” part of the petition read.
The human rights group said the road network in the city should not be a death trap because of failure by the authorities to fix the roads, adding that the loss of life on unmaintained roads is a human rights violation.
It said the most affected roads are Khami Road, Luveve Road, Joshua Nkomo Road and Plumtree Road to the city centre, while roads in high-density suburbs such as Pumula, Njube, Magwegwe, among others were in a sorry state.
In the low-density areas they said the worst roads were in Paddonhurst’s Netherby Road, Dillon Road in Parklands and Hillside suburbs.
Recently the BCC indicated that $20,7 million will be disbursed under the Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers Programme to fund the completion of road construction works to gravel standard.
“The contract awarded to Bitumen World for the surfacing of several sections did not commence, as such the said sections now require re-formation before the surfacing can be applied.
The roads in question were Maduna between Intemba Road and Ngwenya shops, Murchison between Scone and Adair, Luveve Road and Nkulumane Road,” the council’s latest minutes read.
The minutes also stated that the 2020 Zinara allocation was $16,4 million for road maintenance and Zinara disbursed the balance of $10,3 million during the first week of October for routine maintenance.
The council said focus was on pothole patching for the listed roads and the reconstruction of Wingrove, Woodstock and Walsall roads in the vicinity of Renkini country bus terminus.
The BCC minutes also revealed that the $11 million budget which was meant for the rehabilitation of Masiyephambili Road from Emakhandeni flyover to Luveve Road was now inadequate, prompting the local authority to suspend the programme and carry it forward to next year.
“Zimdollars were no longer adequate to carry out the work. It was planned that the reconstruction works suspended last year would be funded by Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers this calendar year.”
State Media
THE Second Republic has the political will and boldness to confront the past so as to ensure national healing and closure, President Mnangagwa has said.
In his speech on the occasion to mark the signing of the historic Unity Accord that was signed on this day by the revolutionary parties, ZANU and ZAPU, in 1987—the President said the Accord brought about peace which must forever remain a key feature of national development.
“Peace-building, conflict-resolution and management must remain a binding feature of our national development agenda. Where there are differences, we must aim to settle and resolve them through dialogue and engagement. Further guided by our national Constitution, heritage and traditional value systems; toxic politics and divisive tendencies have no room in our society. By and large, we are a peaceful people and nation.
“My administration has the political will and boldness to confront the past and bring about healing and closure”.
“I am encouraged by the success we are scoring towards building greater national cohesion and singleness of purpose informed by lessons from the disturbances which characterised the early years of independence. To date, a concrete course of action has been drawn out following inclusive interventions and meetings held with traditional leadership and stakeholders of Matabeleland Provinces and parts of Midlands Province,” he said.
The President described unity as the bedrock of national stability which must be entrenched through the full participation of all Zimbabweans through policies such as Devolution.
“Decades have passed since that historic event of our Unity Accord. However, its conceptualisation must now go beyond narrow interpretation. Therefore, today as we remember and celebrate Unity Day, let us re-commit ourselves to the important virtues that bind us as a people and equally incorporate the importance of our unity within the transformative national economic agenda”.
The President said the common goal for every Zimbabwean is to continue strengthening the unitary State that is Zimbabwe and which is home to multiple cultures, “all co-existing in harmony under one flag and one national anthem. Individually and collectively, we bear the responsibility to bequeath present and future generations, an economically developed, modern and prosperous country”.
Zimbabwe is one of the most peaceful nations in Africa and a destination of choice for tourists thanks to the Unity Accord, which remains key to driving the country’s development agenda towards Vision 2030, to become a middle class economy.
“As we focus on the future and inspired by the new national trajectory of economic development; I challenge us all to draw from the fundamental principles of the Accord to unify and collate our national capabilities, competencies and skills for the attainment of Vision 2030.
“On its part, my administration remains decisive in ensuring that all Zimbabweans have a sense of belonging and that they flourish and prosper leveraging on their potential and abundant natural resource endowments. This is indeed what our Founding Fathers envisaged when they committed to entrench unity as a critical pillar of our great nation”.
And towards equalisation and development that leaves no one behind, under the Second Republic budgeting, administration and the execution of development projects is being done in a way to give a voice to communities.
Zanu PF has hailed founding fathers — Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo — for selflessly putting the country’s interest ahead of their own through the signing of the Unity Accord.
Today, Zimbabwe marks 33 years since the signing of the Unity Accord between liberation parties ZANU and ZAPU to form Zanu PF.
In a statement, Zanu PF acting secretary for Information and Publicity Patrick Chinamasa thanked the show of selflessness by the late former leaders.
“After years of internal instability and disturbances in the southern provinces and parts of Midlands, on 22 December 1987, our founding fathers led by the late national heroes Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe and Cde Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo took the selfless giant step to bury our differences bring about unity, peace, stability, harmony and tranquillity.”
Zanu PF applauded President Mnangagwa for continuing on the path of entrenching the ideals of unity through bringing opposition parties together to contribute to nation building.
A platform for opposition parties to interface with the ruling party was created through the formulation of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad).
“Zanu PF congratulates the President and First Secretary of the party His Excellency Cde ED Mnangagwa for his continued resilience in consolidating the gains of the Unity Accord and fostering the spirit of unity and dialogue through the creation of the POLAD platform to ensure that dialogue becomes the cornerstone of democracy.”
In the statement, Zanu PF also commended the President for the formulation of the healing processes to bring closure to the Gukurahundi issue.
“As the Unity Day marked the end of regrettable disturbances which were unfolding in the southern provinces, Zanu PF commends President ED Mnangagwa and his Government for tireless efforts and bravery in engaging the Matabeleland collective groups: chiefs, churches, civic society, affected individual families and youths in order to bring finality on the emotive Gukurahundi issue.
“Zanu PF applauds the President for creating platforms for open discussions on this issue as part of the national healing process.
“This gesture of statesmanship by the President is indeed in fulfilment of the spirit of the Unity Accord and the aspirations of our founding fathers.”
Paul Nyathi
One of the Zimbabwean men arrested at a lodge in Polokwane for dealing in illicit cigarettes earlier in the year, appeared before the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Walter Madhongi (25) was arrested on 20 October by the Directorate of Priority Crimes’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation members.
According to a statement by Hawks Limpopo Spokesperson, Capt Matimba Maluleke, a tip-off about people selling illicit cigarettes at a lodge in Polokwane was received and followed up.
“The team proceeded to the said lodge and found 330 cartons of Remington Gold cigarettes hidden in one of the rooms. The cigarettes, to the value of R87 000, were seized and Madhongi and a 42-year-old man were arrested,” Maluleke explained.
The accused appeared in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court.
“Madhongi pleaded guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of R40 000 or three years’ imprisonment, of which half is suspended. He should also pay a defects fine of R5 000,” Maluleke explained.
Maluleke said that the case against Madhongi’s co-accussed was “withdrawn by the court as Madhongi admitted to be the sole owner of the cigarettes”.
Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) coronavirus/COVID-19 situation report as of 21 December 2020:
New cases: 97
Locals: 97
Returnees: 0
Deaths: 2
Recoveries: 88
PCR Tests Done: 1 205
National Recovery Rate: 81.4%
Active Cases: 1 988
Total Cumulative Cases: 12 422
Total Recoveries: 10 112
Total Deaths: 322
THE drama with late Michelle “Moana” Amuli’s parents appears far from over as the pair clashed heavily early on Saturday morning.
This time the feud is over who should take charge of their granddaughter.
A delegation for Moana’s mother, Yolanda Kuvaoga allegedly stormed Ishmael Amuli’s Domboshava home at around 3am demanding Moana’s daughter.
Her father, Lloyd Chipomho, is said to have taken her to Amuli for her to get used to Domboshava.
A lady, understood to be a friend of Moana, within the team allegedly knocked down Amuli’s door in the ensuing melee and was later arrested for her troubles.
Amuli said they came in a kombi at around 3am:
“There is a girl who was claiming to be from the Daily News and claimed she had a hamper for my granddaughter. I asked why she would be bring a hamper for such a young child at 3am.
“My wife advised me not to open for them because she suspected they were up to no good as a genuine visit to get my granddaughter would have been during day. She feared they wanted to kidnap the child and people would in turn accuse or blame us if anything bad happened to the child.
“When I wanted to engage them I discovered they wanted to be violent. My wife then dragged me inside, locked the door and hid the keys. That is when this girl, who claimed to be from a newspaper then broke the door. I got out of the house through the broken down door to find out why they were even accusing me of stealing the child when her father brought her.
“The father brought the child and said she should at least get used to my place as well as his home in Kuwadzana and I was grateful to my son-in-law. Now they accuse me of going to Kuwadzana and kidnapping my grandchild.”
He said, even though they have capacity to hit back, they would let the law take its course.
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Congestion persisted at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday, with large numbers of Zimbabweans driving north and hoping to be home for Christmas and New Year, although the surge is only a third as large as the normal year end rush.
But curfews and health checks are delaying processing at the border post.
Traffic at Chirundu and Kariba border posts is also significantly lower compared to the same period last year, but there is no real surge as there are few people on either side trying to get home for Christmas.
South Africa is different as many Zimbabweans work or live there and besides the normal festive season surge in traffic, many of these have been unable to come home and return to work since the start of Covid-19 lockdowns on both sides of the border.
Until December 1, only commercial cargo, bodies for burial, returnees and diplomats on Government business were allowed into either country.
And while Zimbabweans in South Africa had an absolute right to come home, it was a one-way trip until the lockdowns were lifted as they would not be able to get back to South Africa.
Zimbabwe opened its land borders, including Beitbridge, at the beginning of this month, with private motorists and pedestrians now travelling under strict regulations to manage the risk of Covid-19.
Implementation of the curfew on the South African side of the border runs between 10pm and 4am coupled with strict Covid-19 screening, which is slowing down the movement of traffic.
After 10pm only commercial cargo is allowed to travel through Beitbridge Border Post, resulting in vehicles piling up on both sides of the border.
Travellers continue to need at least 48 hours to pass through Sadc’s busiest inland port of entry once time in the queues is taken into account
Although, there appears to be many people at the border, official statistics show that less than one-third of the usual volume of traffic during peak periods, is using the border.
“Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the border used to handle at least 30 000 travellers per day and currently, the average figure is 6 500. The issue of implementing curfew regulations and slow Covid-19 screening has caused a lot of delays,” said one border official.
According to a cross-border transporter, Mr Trust Ndlovu, the slow movement of traffic at the border was likely to see some families having a dull festive season.
“Something has to be done about the situation here. Imagine I haven’t moved for 1km since arriving at the border at 5am,” said Mr Ndlovu.
“When the Government reopened the land borders, most of us were happy that we would be able to transport groceries and all the basic commodities we have failed to move at the peak of the lockdown.
“If we look at the rate at which things are moving here, we won’t manage to make deliveries to all our clients.”
Mr Albert Pinjisi who was travelling from South Africa said he had spent more than six hours to cross from South Africa to Zimbabwe due to long queues.
Another motorist, Mr Brian Tshabangu said: “We have a crisis here. We don’t know if we will be able to cross over to South Africa today. We have cleared everything on the Zimbabwean side and have been waiting in this queue for a very long time.”
Security staff are strictly screening travellers for valid documents which included passports and Covid-19 clearance certificates. It is understood that a total of 1 015 people have since December 10, been arrested at the border for violating immigration laws.
Authorities at Chirundu Border Post are handling between 400 and 500 travellers a day compared to around 1 500 during the same period in years gone by.
Regional Immigration officer Mr Joshua Chibundu said most of the people being cleared at the border were truck drivers.
“We are mostly clearing truck drivers who have been travelling even during the Covid-19 restrictions. There has been a marginal increase in the volume of traffic in recent days but it still falls far short of the numbers during normal times,” said Mr Chibundu.
One of the major stumbling blocks for travellers had been the sparse distribution of laboratories authorised to issue Covid-19 certificates while the 48-hour validity period had also deterred travellers.
Those who need to get tested and issued with Covid-19 certificates in Mashonaland West province have to travel to Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital.
“The certificate is valid for only 48 hours and that affects the planning of people who have to go to Zambia and conduct their business and come back within 48 hours.
“This means less time for some to conduct their business if they are coming from Harare and any other part of the country,” said a traveller at Chirundu.
The situation at Kariba Border Post had not changed with the usual low volume of traffic being the order of the day.
Traffic is expected to increase marginally as Christmas Day gets closer.
Thanks Makore, who is on remand and had been granted bail on charges of allegedly murdering his seven-year old nephew Tapiwa for suspected ritual purposes, has been rearrested by the police on allegations of defeating or obstructing the course of justice by destroying evidence.
He was arrested last Friday a few hours after being granted $10 000 bail by the High Court on the grounds that there was no evidence linking him to the killing. Two other suspects remain on remand in custody on murder charges, including Thanks’ brother Tapiwa (Senior).
Investigators now allege that when Tapiwa Makore (Snr) was arrested in September, Thanks allegedly drove to Murehwa Police Station where he asked for keys to Tapiwa Makore’s house. He then went to the house and allegedly destroyed and burnt some evidence which linked to the commissioning of the crime.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest and said investigations were still in progress.
“Thanks Makore has been rearrested by the police on allegations of defeating or obstructing the course of justice. He was arrested after being granted bail and investigations are still in progress,” he said.
On Friday night, Thanks Makore had his kitchen hut at his Murehwa homestead destroyed by fire, a few hours after being granted bail by the High Court.
A month ago, the kitchen hut of Tapiwa Makore Senior, twin brother to Thanks and the principle suspect in the killing, was also gutted by fire, giving rise to suspicion that the same person is trying to force the brothers out of the community.
By Saturday, Thanks Makore’s hut and gazebo at the homestead were totally destroyed, with a CID forensic team sifting the ashes as they conducted investigations.
Thanks Makore was given bail on the murder charges last Friday after Justice Tapiwa Chitapi said there was no evidence linking him to the offence.
The State’s case was weak as there was nothing connecting him with the offence and that police did not find anything at his house as was alleged by a police informant.
Crippling debt, lack of transparency and endemic corruption are sadly all too familiar stories in southern Africa. But now, in a landmark court ruling, Zimbabwean citizens have successfully demanded accountability from their government.
For citizens seeking truthful disclosure about exactly how much debt the country is in, the ruling made in their favour on 1 December signals a big victory in the fight for transparency. However, it stands to be seen to what extent government will comply with the ruling.
The ruling comes at a time when government has been pushing for constitutional amendments that would make the executive unaccountable to legislature regarding all foreign debts. Such an amendment would be a big blow to the quest for transparency. The government stands accused of guaranteeing loans from pan-African multilateral lender, Afreximbank, and other financiers using national resources without disclosure about the terms of the deals.
Harare North legislator Allan Norman Markham and the Community Water Alliance Trust, a civil society organisation, took finance minister Mthuli Ncube, the central bank and Afreximbank to court in September last year over the issue of full disclosure of financial agreements made by government and external lenders.
In his litigation, Markham sought the nullification of a USD500 million loan facility from Afreximbank to back the Zimbabwe currency, because it had been awarded without parliamentary approval. Zimbabwe had reportedly offered platinum production as collateral for the loan, in a move that showed lack of transparency.
Headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, Afreximbank was established in 1993 by African and non-African private and institutional investors for the purpose of financing, promoting and expanding intra-African and extra-African trade. However, most transactions between the government and Afreximbank have been made without full disclosure, in violation of section 300 (3) of the Constitution.
Zimbabwe’s finance ministry permanent secretary, George Guvamatanga, admitted, in earlier opposing papers, that the USD500 million loan should have had parliamentary approval, but argued that cancelling such loan would be a breach of contract.
Zimbabwe’s high court ruling compels finance minister Mthuli Ncube to publish all loans and guarantees entered into by government from 1 January 2019 to 1 December 2020. The finance ministry is also expected to gazette all details of the Afreximbank loans by January 2021.
The court did not grant Markham’s application to nullify the USD500 million loan facility but ruled that the terms of the agreement be made public.
Police say they will heavily deploy officers on major highways, residential areas, industrial and Central Business Districts and conduct increased foot and motorised patrols on all major and feeder roads, checking for wanted persons and those who move around with stolen property.
In a statement yesterday, police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga warned drivers not to drive while under the influence of alcohol or other substances which could affect their judgment on the roads.
He said the festive season was characterized by a lot of movements as the volume of traffic increased on the roads.
“Zimbabweans normally take this opportunity to visit relatives, friends and engage in various social activities. Of particular interest is the issue of road traffic accidents which take centre stage during this period. It is sad to note that most road traffic accidents during the festive season are caused by speeding, drunken driving, misjudgment, overtaking errors, failure to observe traffic rules and regulations and mechanical faults.
“Motorists must therefore ensure that vehicles are roadworthy before embarking on journeys and avoid using worn out tyres especially during this rainy season,” he said.
Traffic police officers mann a roadblock in Eastlea, Harare yesterday. Picture by Innocent Makawa
All defective vehicles and those not displaying number plates would be accounted for by police officers.
“We are also appealing to travellers not to board private and unregistered vehicles, especially mushikashika, as others have lost lives, property and some have been left injured after attacks by criminals using these vehicles.
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police will work together with the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ), Vehicle Examination Department (VED), ZINARA and other stakeholders to conduct awareness campaigns. This therefore entails the need for vigilance on the part of road users.
“It is paramount for all to recognise that road safety is a collective responsibility.
Besides traffic issues, police would also deploy officers to curb robbery, murder, rape, stock theft and unlawful entry cases. We urge the public to secure their premises and property during the holidays,” said Comm-Gen Matanga.
He advised the public not to move around with large sums of money or keep such amounts at home or business premises to prevent robbery cases.
The trial on charges of particpating in an illegal demonstration in May of six political activists, including MDC Alliance members Joana Mamombe, Cecelia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova has been set for January 19.
Mamombe, Chimbiri and Marova are also facing separate charges of faking their abduction after the demonstration.
Lovejoy Chitengu, Stanley Manyenga and Obey Tererai Sithole join Mamombe, Chimbiri, Marova on the demonstration trial set down for January 19 to 21.
They are charged with participating in a public gathering with intent to cause public violence.
The Sate led by Mr Tafara Chirambira yesterday furnished the six with court papers to allow them to prepare for the hearing.
It is alleged that on around noon on May 13 the six teamed up with several others and gathered at Warren Park 1 shopping centre in Harare before marching towards the Harare-Bulawayo Road.
According to the State, they displayed and waved placards, one of which was inscribed “Unlock us before we revolt”.
They were allegedly demonstrating against the extension of Covid-19 national lockdown and were intercepted and dispersed by the police.
LIONEL Messi says his failed attempt to leave Barcelona in the summer has affected his form this season.
In August the Argentina forward said he wanted to exercise a clause in his contract which he said allowed him to leave on a free transfer.
But Barcelona refused, saying his €700 million release clause had to be met.
“I dragged everything into the start of the season a bit,” Messi (33) told Spanish television channel La Sexta.
“The truth is right now I’m feeling fine, but in the summer I had a very bad time.”
Messi equalled Brazil legend Pele’s record of 643 goals for a club by scoring for Barcelona in Saturday’s draw against Valencia.
It was Messi’s ninth goal in 17 appearances this season for Barcelona, who are fifth in La Liga.
Messi, who can leave Barcelona for free when his contract runs out at the end of the season, is able to negotiate with other clubs from January 1.
Barcelona interim president Carlos Tusquets, who took over until elections in January after Josep Maria Bartomeu resigned in October, has said that “economically speaking” Messi should have been sold in the summer.
Barcelona’s players agreed to wage cuts in November that will save the 26-time La Liga champions €122 million.-Chronicle
CLAIM: Talent Chiwenga says he is the only person who speaks genuinely for God, implying the only accurate voice of thought in Zimbabwe.
“The govt was supposed to invite the church, us, and me in particular, because I happen to be the only voice in Zimbabwe that speaks genuinely for God. (Video below inside article).
Is this true?
By Religion Reporter| Where are the two coffins? What happened to the 90 days of back November 2018 ? And where is Joab, where is Adonijah? – After failing to predict the Coronavirus and other plagues, the preacher who once claimed ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa did not send soldiers to shoot people on the 1st of August 2018 (saying that God told him so, contradicting several LIVE video broadcasts of Mnangagwa literally doing it), Talent Chiwenga has said he is the only voice of God in the country.
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Below was his statement in full:
“The government was supposed to invite the church, us, and me in particular, because I happen to be the only voice in Zimbabwe that speaks genuinely for God. (Video)
“You may hate me for all I care, but this is the truth.
“When they invite these people that they call prophets, men of God, bishops, they invite them to ratify the ungodly acts they are doing against the citizens and these so called men of God, the bishops , the prophets, they do not have the voice of God in them they have not heard from God.” – Talent Chiwenga
Meanwhile, the people of Kuwadzana, Harare were the worst brutalised by soldiers in August 2018 when Emmerson Mnangagwa deployed the army to kill many while changing election results, and on the 4th August local clinics told ZimEye.com of how military trucks would arrive at night and officers begin assaulting residents. Being reminded of these atrocities could not be any more hurting.
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VOICE 1 (Talent Chiwenga)- Izvozvi ndichitaura zvandirikuita izvi, havasirivo vaMnangagwa vakatuma ma soldier kupfura vanhu. Nyaya iyoyo irikutovanetsawo but havasikuziva kuti voita sei nayo. … Asi izvozvi zvandirikutaura izvi Mwari vakandiudza kuti havana kumbotuma vanhu.
VOICE 2 (ED) – Asiyo Ka. Deno taiziva kuti vanhu vekuKuwadzana vasingadi kuti mvura inaye, aaah, taingoti army kombai tirove.
Wanzwa here kutapira kunoita izwi raApostle Chiwenga achishandisa bhuku dzvene Bible achinyepera ruzhinji, zvekare achitoshandisa zita raMwari? Zvinoreva chii izvi?
FINDING: Judging the evidence over a 2 year period, we found this claim by Mr Talent Chiwenga misleading.
At least 10 000 suspected ghost workers have been struck off the Government payroll after a biometric registration exercise as the Second Republic walks the talk on its reforms aimed at restoring order in the civil service.
The eliminated names are of those whose biometric data was non-compliant under the exercise that was assisted by the World Bank.
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has also reassured its workers that their welfare remains a top priority in the coming year promising continued engagement on sustainable salaries while new non-monetary incentives, including another 120 buses to boost the fleet that brings civil servants to and from work, are being worked out.
Other existing non-monetary incentives such as affording civil servants housing schemes and duty rebate on vehicle imports will also be retained in 2021.
During last week’s workshop for the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Service Labour and Social Welfare, the PSC and the Apex Council grouping staff associations, PSC head of human capital development and management, Mr Moses Mhike, said the exercise of flushing out ghost workers was continuous.
“Ghost workers are no longer an issue. We have managed to account for those on the Salary Service Bureau,” he said.
“We conducted a biometric exercise to get the data of all civil servants and comparing with the Registrar’s office. We realised that about 10 000 were not biometric compliant and traced them at each and every work station.”
PSC Secretary Ambassador Jonathan Wutawunashe said the PSC simply eliminated ghost workers by withdrawing salaries to those who were non-complaint to the biometric exercise.
“We made sure that we stopped paying those non complaint and only the legitimate ones came forward. However, the exercise should be an ongoing thing,” he said.
The biometric registration was implemented with the assistance of the World Bank as part of efforts to weed out ghost workers and modernise management of the civil service.-The Herald
3 boys aged 10 and 11 reportedly drowned in a disused shaft they were swimming in Kuwadza in Harare over the weekend.
The shaft was left open by the Harare City Council, and it was filled with rainwater in which the boys were swimming when tragedy struck.
The incident was confirmed by ZRP National Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi who told the publication that:
The trio was playing in the shaft allegedly left by Harare City Council in Kuwadzana 5, in the Paddocks area. The shaft is filled with water. Reports are that at first they would go in the shaft one at a time. But they decided to jump in all of them, that is when they drowned.
The trio was playing in the shaft allegedly left by Harare City Council in Kuwadzana 5, in the Paddocks area. The shaft is filled with water. Reports are that at first they would go in the shaft one at a time. But they decided to jump in all of them, that is when they drowned.
Their parents started looking for them the whole night, but could not locate them. The following day, a Harare City Council employee found some clothes at the scene and also one of the bodies was floating.
ZRP Urged people to avoid water bodies.-The Herald
A lecturer at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) has filed a $3 million defamation lawsuit against a female student who claimed that he failed her last year as punishment for spurning his love advances.
Three independent examiners brought in the university remarked her module and all agreed she had failed sport science.
Dr Tapiwa Mudyahoto, a holder of a PhD from Fort Hare University, wants Nomsa Mwashita, a Bachelor of Education student at GZU, to compensate him for tarnishing his image through making what he called “baseless and false” allegations.
In summons dated December 12 filed by Dr Mudyahoto at the Masvingo Civil Court, which have since been served on Mwashita through Chihambakwe Law Chambers, Dr Mudyahoto wants the student to pay defamation damages and costs of the suit.
He also gave Mwashita seven days to respond to the suit. In his application, Dr Mudyahoto said that Mwashita was one of 24 students part one students that were doing a module in sport science that he taught in the second semester.
After results came out, Dr Mudyahoto alleged that Mwashita upon noticing that she had failed the module made allegations that she was being punished for turning down his advances. Yet Dr Mudyahoto said he was cleared of any wrongdoing after the engagement of independent examiners who remarked Mwashita’s work.
He further alleged that Mwashita made a second “malicious” allegation against him by claiming that while in his office he had showed his manhood to her but then abandoned her case midway after being asked to prove her allegation against him by university authorities.
Dr Mudyahoto said he suffered damaged equivalent to $3 million which Mwashita must pay him. Mwashita has not yet filed papers opposing the suit.-The Herald
OLD AND WORN UNITED STATES DOLLAR NOTES
It has come to the attention of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (the Bank) that some persons are refusing to accept old and worn United States dollar (U.S. dollar) notes alleging that they are old and mutilated and therefore of no value.
For the benefit of the transacting public and as already advised by the USA Embassy in Zimbabwe in its Tweet on 16 November 2020, the Bank wishes to inform and restate the position of the United States Government that U.S. dollar notes do not expire no matter their age, and that the U.S. Government does not even consider old, worn notes to be mutilated as long as more than half of the note is intact, and the value of the note is clear.
John P. Mangudya Governor
21 December 2020
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance, through its youth assembly, has intensified efforts to defeat Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF.
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson, Stephen Sarkozy Chuma, quoted by NewsDay, said the #One Million Campaign was progressing well.
“The #OneMillionCampaign is our vehicle to victory in the fight against Mnangagwa’s corrupt military dictatorship.
The campaign seeks to mobilise, educate, recruit and radicalise new one million youth voices that will take this regime head-on to solve the economic, social and political rot in the country,” Chuma told the publication.
“We are convinced the source of this decay is an illegitimate regime that stole the will of the majority who happens to be young people. We are now going village by village through the #OneMillionCampaign to coalesce young people to reclaim their stolen victory,” he added.
Thanks Makore, who is on remand and had been granted bail on charges of allegedly murdering his seven-year old nephew Tapiwa for suspected ritual purposes, has been rearrested by the police on allegations of defeating or obstructing the course of justice by destroying evidence.
He was arrested last Friday a few hours after being granted $10 000 bail by the High Court on the grounds that there was no evidence linking him to the killing. Two other suspects remain on remand in custody on murder charges, including Thanks’ brother Tapiwa (Senior).
Investigators now allege that when Tapiwa Makore (Snr) was arrested in September, Thanks allegedly drove to Murehwa Police Station where he asked for keys to Tapiwa Makore’s house. He then went to the house and allegedly destroyed and burnt some evidence which linked to the commissioning of the crime.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest and said investigations were still in progress.
“Thanks Makore has been rearrested by the police on allegations of defeating or obstructing the course of justice. He was arrested after being granted bail and investigations are still in progress,” he said.
On Friday night, Thanks Makore had his kitchen hut at his Murehwa homestead destroyed by fire, a few hours after being granted bail by the High Court.
A month ago, the kitchen hut of Tapiwa Makore Senior, twin brother to Thanks and the principle suspect in the killing, was also gutted by fire, giving rise to suspicion that the same person is trying to force the brothers out of the community.
By Saturday, Thanks Makore’s hut and gazebo at the homestead were totally destroyed, with a CID forensic team sifting the ashes as they conducted investigations.
Thanks Makore was given bail on the murder charges last Friday after Justice Tapiwa Chitapi said there was no evidence linking him to the offence.
The State’s case was weak as there was nothing connecting him with the offence and that police did not find anything at his house as was alleged by a police informant. -Herald
Zanu PF politburo member Jorum Gumbo, who was in charge of Masvingo District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections held this month has said a faction allegedly fronted by senior party member Clemence Makwarimba, former national political commissar Retired Lt Gen Engelbert Rugeje and Josaya Hungwe employed violent tactics in a desperate bid to win the elections.
The faction rallied behind Trust Mugabe for the position of Masvingo DCC chairperson but he lost dismally to Tawanda Dube.
The Makwarimbas; including Clemence’s son Phainos, Rugeje and Hungwe are alleged to have been pushing for a rerun but all was in vain as the politburo approved the results of all the seven districts of Masvingo province.
Gumbo told TellZim News that there were some centres in Masvingo and Chiredzi districts that did not vote and he recommended a re-run for those centres only.
“Generally, the elections were free and fair though there were some incidences here and there. There were five centres which failed to vote in Masvingo district and 17 in Chiredzi district.
“Masvingo district was torn between the people who supported Trust Mugabe and those who supported Tawanda Dube for the post of chairperson. It was unfortunate that the Mugabe camp was very violent and at some point I threatened to disqualify them,” said Gumbo.
“The Mugabe team was always at the provincial command centre shouting obscenities and I advised them to leave and go to the people. They chased away a team which had come from Gutu to conduct elections at one polling centre. The Gutu team ran for their lives and left ballot boxes which were later collected by the police and brought to us,” Gumbo added.
In Masvingo, there were petitions written by disgruntled members from Zaka and Masvingo districts who were pushing for a re-run of the election but the politburo, chaired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has since shut the doors on any possible re-runs in the province.
When contacted for comment over the alleged violence, Rugeje angrily said TellZim News must get comment from the very people who aligned him to the Mugabe faction.
“Why are you calling me? I am at home with my family. Get comment from the person who gave you that story. You are disturbing me I want to sleep,” said Rugeje when he was contacted for comment around past 7 in the evening.
Due to the disputed results, sources say that there is now a fierce rivalry between the Makwarimbas and the Chadzamira factions.
The Makwarimba faction is said to be the one which authored the re-run narrative saying the people were robbed of their right to democratically-elect their leadership.
Phainos, who is provincial deputy political commissar, told TellZim News that there was no factionalism in Masvingo. He said people were only asking for a chance to participate in free and fair elections.
“All people did was ask for a free and fair elections. Now they are attacking my person and my father for telling them the truth. All of a sudden they want to be more Lacoste than others. We know the history of some of them and they were not there when my father was fighting for Zanu PF,” said Makwarimba.
He added that such transgressions would cost the party come 2023 elections.
“The scariest thing is to go against Chadzamira but he should allow his people to decide. I am afraid this will cost the party come 2023 elections. I am just vocal but I will never plot against President Mnangagwa,” said Makwarimba. TellZim News
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance, through its youth assembly, has intensified efforts to defeat Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF.
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson, Stephen Sarkozy Chuma, quoted by NewsDay, said the #One Million Campaign was progressing well.
“The #OneMillionCampaign is our vehicle to victory in the fight against Mnangagwa’s corrupt military dictatorship.
The campaign seeks to mobilise, educate, recruit and radicalise new one million youth voices that will take this regime head-on to solve the economic, social and political rot in the country,” Chuma told the publication.
“We are convinced the source of this decay is an illegitimate regime that stole the will of the majority who happens to be young people. We are now going village by village through the #OneMillionCampaign to coalesce young people to reclaim their stolen victory,” he added.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance spokesperson, Advocate Fadzayi Mahere has dismissed Auxillia Mnangagwa’s so called national dress arguing cultural matters are deeper than the cloth.
Advocate Mahere also described Auxillia Mnangagwa’s controversial dress code as meaningless and divorced from ordinary citizens.
“The people must be included in all matters that affect them.
Elite-driven imposition of matters such as “dress” won’t secure buy-in.
Citizens must trust the process and understand the intended objective before they can get on board. Lessons should have been learnt from “the scarf”.
You can’t microwave culture, identity or national symbols. It’s deeper than a piece of cloth.
There are matters of social cohesion, plurality, national unity & common understanding that must precede such an endeavour,” argued Advocate Mahere.
