TICHAFA Victor Hwacha, a deputy director with the Counter Intelligence unit of the Central Intelligence Organisation was fired on Wednesday this week for allegedly working with a cartel in the gold sector and undermining the First Family, The NewsHawks can reveal.
Hwacha is a relative of the President and hails from Shurugwi. He is understood to be linked to a syndicate of gold dealers and influential officers in the Prosecutor-General’s office.
The top spy, sources said, is also said to be linked to suspended Criminal Investigation Department boss Crispen Charumbira.
Last month, Charumbira was charged with defeating the course of justice after he allegedly ordered the release of an illegal gold dealer.
However, other sources said Hwacha was sacked for talking bad things about the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and her son in the ongoing gold scandal involving Zimbabwe Miners’ Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya.
“The naturally overzealous CIO operative was dismissed for being the brains behind the soiling of the First Family’s name in the Rushwaya gold smuggling saga. The vocal senior officer was caught pants down bashing the First Lady and her children in an unguarded speech scenario,” a source told The NewsHawks.
Rushwaya is facing a charge of attempting to smuggle six kilogrammes of the precious metal to Dubai via Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.
Allegations against Charumbira are that sometime in June 2019 detectives from the minerals unit arrested one David Mucheche in Mutare for contravening a section of the Gold Trade Act after he was found in possession of gold without a licence.
Court papers show that the detectives allegedly escorted Mucheche to Mutare Central Police Station and on arrival the detectives briefed their officer-in-charge, Inspector Felix Machaka, about the arrest.
While briefing Machaka, the court papers further show gold dealer David Crobsy entered the office talking on the phone and he handed it to Machaka advising him that Charumbira wanted to talk to him.
Prosecutors alleged that Charumbira unlawfully directed Machaka to release Mucheche without confirmation of the existence of a licence, recording the exhibit in any official book and without pressing any changes against him as well as not ordering the return of the gold to Mucheche.
It is alleged that Machaka complied with the order and the suspect was released. Charumbira’s instructions were allegedly unlawful, according to the state.
The CID boss was first arrested by the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) in September after his subordinates alleged he was interfering with their duties by protecting drug and gold dealers after accepting bribes.
WHEN Ms Enivareta Mapara joined Doves Funeral Services 12 years ago, as a security guard, she never imagined that someday she would play centre stage at arguably one of the country’s most unforgettable funerals.
Back then, her job oscillated around the mundane — maintaining security at the funeral home.
But through years of hard work and perseverance, she was eventually promoted to the role of funeral assistant.
When the announcement came to her office that Doves would handle the funeral of late socialite Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure, it never crossed Ms Mapara’s mind that she would be chosen to steer proceedings leading to the burial of the popular business mogul.
Her manager had no hesitation in picking the 40-year-old ahead of her peers.
For her, it was the gig of a lifetime — driving one of Zimbabwe’s most recognisable celebrities, who in life was known for his taste for fast and fancy cars — to his final resting place.
“In my line of work, when we receive news that we are handling the body of a deceased person, management nominates a driver to collect the body along with an ambulance assistant,” she told The Sunday Mail last week.
“Along with the family of the deceased, we process all the papers at the mortuary while the relatives handle the processing of the burial order.
“At the hospital mortuary we ask the family to identify the body before we collect it.
“We then take the body back to our parlour and place it in a cold room.”
While millions were following the frenzied coverage of Ginimbi’s funeral on multiple media platforms, it was Ms Mapara who was occupying the front seat and leading all the formal processes.
From collecting Kadungure’s body from the mortuary, up to the hour of his interment at his sprawling Domboshava mansion, Ms Mapara was the woman-in-charge.
From the thousands of pictures taken at the event, some may have noticed Ms Mapara, the tall and well-built woman, whose physical outlook seemed to match up with the challenges of her occupation, who stood next to Ginimbi’s gold-plated coffin.
She was praying for a seamless process, much unlike the incident-filled spectacles that usually mar such high-profile funerals.
“Most times unsavoury things happen during such high profile funerals.
“There may be complaints from the family, so one needs to be careful.
“So the night before the burial, I prayed that all would go well.
“I knew that having been nominated to handle such a responsibility meant that the company had trust in my ability to handle such a high profile job.”
For Ms Mapara, the most challenging task during the funeral was leading Ginimbi’s funeral procession from Doves’ funeral parlour in the Central Business District through his famous night club — Dreams — before proceeding to his Domboshava mansion.
The assignment demanded inner strength and patience, she said.
Thousands of mourners had already lined the streets of Harare to catch a glimpse of the flamboyant funeral cortège bringing parts of the CBD to a virtual standstill.
Many roads, including Liberation Legacy Way (Borrowdale Road), leading to Domboshava were heavily congested as thousands of people stood on roadsides to watch the spectacle as the entourage passed.
“I have handled funerals of some high profile personalities, but this one was something else; it was so crowded.
“This meant that I had to be alert.”
The only hiccup which threatened to taint the otherwise incident-free occasion was a commuter omnibus ramming into the front of the Mercedes Benz Pilato hearse carrying the coffin.
Reflecting on the occasion, Ms Mapara says she still can’t believe how well she handled the proceedings.
“I am thankful that we managed to do this work well.
“I always pray to God for help, I was praying that on this day, everything would go smoothly.”
She adds that being recognised during the vote of thanks always gives her the utmost satisfaction.
A tale of hard work paying off
Ms Mapara’s rise from the modest charge of manning office entrances to the zenith of overseeing what may well be Zimbabwe’s funeral of the decade, was not without incident.
It is a tale of perseverance, shrewdness and hard work. For four years she toiled as a security guard, but through determination and an unflinching yearning to rise, she decided to get a driver’s licence.
Using her meagre salary to pay for driving lessons and the road test, she successfully acquired a Class Four driver’s licence.
It was about three years after getting her driver’s licence that she gathered the courage to apply for a job in her firm’s transport department.
There she worked as an ambulance assistant before being promoted to ambulance driver.
She then rose to take her current post of funeral assistant.
THE late socialite and businessman, Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure, did not register a will to determine how his estate will be distributed, his lawyers said yesterday.
According to Mr Brighton Pabwe of Venturas and Samukange — who were Ginimbi’s long-time legal representatives, there was no inheritance document deposited with any attorneys or with the Master of High Court.
A person can write a will and then lodge it with their lawyers, executor, or the Master of High Court.
“We are not aware of any will that was prepared by the late Kadungure. That document does not exist at the moment,” Mr Pabwe told The Sunday Mail yesterday.
As a way forward, he said, the Master of High Court, Mr Eldard Mutasa, had called for a meeting with the Kadungure family, creditors, and beneficiaries in Harare on Wednesday at 10.30am.
Mr Mutasa could not be reached for comment as his mobile phone was unreachable.
Inheritance law experts explained that it was likely that at the Wednesday meeting, the Kadungures will register Ginimbi’s estate.
The Master of High Court will then determine whether the estate should be distributed through a will or an estate executor.
In the event that an executor is appointed, he/she will then list all the properties, vehicles, creditors in the Kadungure estate and then, later on, agree with the beneficiaries on how the estate would be partitioned.
Mr Pabwe said a clear position on the fate of Ginimbi’s wealth will be determined on Wednesday.
Last week, Ginimbi’s close friend, Mr Nomatter Zinyengere, popularly known as “Sophisticated Hustler” or “Kit Kat”, failed to push through an unsigned will at the Master of High Court.
In the unsigned will, Kit Kat was named the heir to Ginimbi’s Lamborghini Aventador S Roadster while the late socialite’s father, Mr Anderson Kadungure, and his sisters Juliet and Nelia, were listed as possible beneficiaries of the estate.
Repeated efforts to get a comment from Kit Kat were futile as his mobile phone went unanswered. He did not respond to a request for an interview via WhatsApp.
But Ginimbi’s lawyers insisted there was no registered will.
Family spokesman, Mr Darlington Kadungure distanced the family from the purported will and declined to further discuss the matter.
He said a family meeting would be held today at Ginimbi’s Domboshava mansion to chart the way forward.
“For now, we don’t want to say much as a family. We are meeting tomorrow (today) and that is when we will decide what to do with our brother’s estate,” said Darlington.
Information gathered by The Sunday Mail indicates that some of the properties that make up Ginimbi’s estate include the Domboshava mansion, a plush holiday home in Dubai and a mansion in Phakalane Golf Estate in Gaborone, Botswana — a luxury suburb said to be a version of Harare’s Borrowdale Brooke.
Investigations by this paper show that his companies include Pioneer Gases (Zimbabwe), Quick Gases (Botswana), and 27×40 000-litre fuel tankers in South Africa — all under Piko Trading — the holding company of his business ventures.
Ginimbi owned an undisclosed number of top-of-the-range vehicles such as Lamborghini, Ferrari, Rolls Royce, Range Rovers and Bentleys — all worth millions of United States dollars.
Although it is not legally stated as to what will happen to the 10-bedroomed Domboshava mansion, close family associates claim that it will be turned into a high-end hotel while some of the vehicles will be used as shuttle cars for guests.
THREE men from Kwekwe have been arrested after they refused to remove their car from the road to pave way for President Mnangagwa’s motorcade before speeding off in the direction the convoy was coming from.
Before speeding off towards the direction where the President’s convoy was coming from, the trio told a police officer who had instructed them to drive off from the road to “leave us alone as we are also bosses.”
While fleeing they also sped through a red robot but their luck ran out when two officers on motorbikes, who were part of the convoy gave chase and blocked them.
The incident happened on Friday in Kwekwe when the President was on his way from Gweru where he had officiated at Midlands State University (MSU) graduation ceremony heading to his Sherwood Farm just outside Kwekwe.
The trio, Tadzoka Nago (42), Stanley Zibako (37) and Honest Diura (47) yesterday appeared before Kwekwe magistrate Mrs Samukelisiwe Gumbo facing charges of contravening the Road Traffic Act and assaulting a police officer.
They were released on $2 000 bail each and will be back in court for trial on 9 December.
The State led by prosecutor Mr Kudakwashe Mazoredze has it that on 20 November, President Mnangagwa’s motorcade was coming from Gweru where he officiated at MSU graduation ceremony heading to his Sherwood farm just outside Kwekwe while the trio was at OK Supermarket main entrance.
The court was told that the trio was approached by a police officer, Clemence Mande who ordered them to drive their vehicle, an unregistered Honda CRV off the road to pave way for the Presidential motorcade. The three, however, responded by telling the police officer that “nesuwo tiri mashefu” loosely translated to “we are also bosses.”
When the police offcer tried to effect arrest on the trio, they allegedly sped off towards ED Mnangagwa Way, where the Presidential motorcade was supposed to pass through. They headed towards Senderai roundabout and towards Industrial Road. Two of the Presidential motorbikes then gave chase and the trio sped through a red robot as they tried to flee. They were however, intercepted and arrested along Industrial Road. They were represented in court by Mr Charles Chigomere of Mutatu and Partners Legal Practitioners.
THE late socialite and businessman Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure did not write a will to determine how his estate will be distributed, his lawyers said yesterday.
According to Mr Brighton Pabwe of Venturas and Samukange — who were Ginimbi’s long-time legal representatives, there was no inheritance document deposited with any attorneys or with the Master of High Court. A person can write a will which can only be kept by his lawyers or by the Master of High Court.
Mr Pabwe told our Harare Bureau yesterday that, “We are not aware of any will that was prepared by the late Kadungure. That document does not exist at the moment.”
As a way forward, Mr Pabwe said the Master of High Court Mr Eldard Mutasa has called for a meeting of the Kadungure family, creditors and beneficiaries on Wednesday at 10.30AM.
Mr Mutasa could not be reached for comment as his mobile phone was unreachable.
Inheritance law experts explained that it was likely that at the Wednesday meeting, the Kadungures will register Ginimbi’s estate.
The Master of High Court will then determine whether the estate should be distributed through a will or an estate executor.
In the event that an executor is appointed, he/she will then list all the properties, vehicles, creditors in the Kadungure estate and then later on agree with the beneficiaries on how the estate will be partitioned.
Mr Pabwe said a clear position to the fate of Ginimbi’s wealth will be determined on Wednesday.
Last week, Ginimbi’s friend Mr Nommater Zinyengere popularly known as “Sophisticated Hustler” or “Kit Kat” failed to push through an unsigned will at the Master of High Court.
In the unsigned will, Kit Kat was named the heir to Ginimbi’s Lamborghini Aventador S Roadster while the late socialite’s father, Anderson Kadungure and his sisters Juliet and Neria were listed as possible beneficiaries of the estate.
Repeated efforts to get a comment from Kit Kat were futile as his mobile phone went unanswered. He did not respond to a request for an interview via WhatsApp.
But Ginimbi’s lawyers insisted there was no registered will.
Family spokesman Mr Darlington Kadungure also distanced the family from the purported will although he declined to further discuss the matter.
He said a family meeting will be held today at Ginimbi’s Domboshava mansion to chart the way forward.
“For now, we don’t want to say much as a family. We are meeting tomorrow (today) and that is when we will decide what we will do with our brother’s estate,” said Mr Kadungure.
Information gathered by our Harare Bureau indicates that some of the properties that make up Ginimbi’s estate include the Domboshava mansion, a plush holiday home in Dubai and a mansion in Phakalani Golf Estate in Gaborone, Botswana – a luxury suburb said to be that country’s version of Harare’s Borrowdale Brooke.
Investigations by this paper also show that his companies include Pioneer Gases (Zimbabwe), Quick Gases (Botswana) and 27, 40 000 litre fuel tankers in South Africa – all under Piko Trading – the holding company of his business ventures.
Ginimbi also owned an undisclosed number of top-of-the-range vehicles such as Lamborghini, Ferrari, Range Rovers and Bentleys — all worth millions of United States dollars.
Although it is not legally stated as to what will happen to the 10-bedroom Domboshava villa, close family associates claim that it will be turned into a high-end hotel while some of vehicles will be used as shuttle cars.
IN a chilling incident, a man was attacked by yet to be identified assailants who cut open his head and removed the brain, gouged his eyes, slashed off his right ear and stabbed him all over the body before dumping his naked body near a house in Mzilikazi in Bulawayo.
The naked and heavily mutilated body of the man was discovered near Mashumba shops opposite Happy Valley Tavern yesterday morning.
A portion of the man’s brain was found in a bushy area close to a stream and vegetable garden approximately 65 metres away from where the body was lying. It is also suspected that the assailants washed the body in a sewer stream near the scene before dumping the body near a house in the area. Police also identified three bloodied stones which are believed to have been used to crush the man’s head.
ZRP National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said police were investigating a case of murder.
“The body seems to have been dragged and dumped away from the murder scene. The deceased is yet to be identified and the motive is not yet known. There are no suspects at the moment,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.
When Sunday News arrived at the scene at around 8am yesterday, the body had not yet been removed with hundreds of people milling around. There were signs of struggle and blood in the area close to where some body parts were found while the corpse did not have any traces of blood and it is suspected the murderers could have washed the body in a nearby stream before dumping it.
Miss Fatima Tembo, who stays at the house where the body was dumped, said she was alerted by neighbours at around 6am that there was someone lying naked outside her yard.
“I was told there is someone lying naked outside and when we investigated, we saw that he was dead and I went to report to the police. I did not hear any noise during the night or any struggle. Our neighbours, however, told us they heard their dog barking at around 2am but they did not bother waking up to go and find out what was happening as they thought it could be barking at people passing by from a nearby drinking spot,” she said.
Her neighbour, Miss Jeanna Mpofu said she was alerted by a passerby that someone was sleeping naked as she was fetching water from the tap. She also said she did not hear any movements during the night.
“We were shocked to realise that his head had been severed and later realised that his brain was found in the bush along with what is suspected to be his eyes and clothes in a black plastic bag. He could have been bathed at that stream where there is a lot of blood around the area,” said Mpofu.
A police officer said the man is likely to have been assaulted, with three bloodied stones being the weapons and had his scalp missing. The source said there was blood all over the garden area where the brain was found.
“He had three stab wounds on the face while his right ear was cut into two pieces, his eyes were not visible and his scalp was missing.
“He also had injuries all over the body. He was naked and his clothes are yet to be found. He did not have any form of identification on him, so we don’t know who he is,” said the police officer.
FIVE people were injured yesterday when they were hit by a double-cab Nissan Navara that had veered off the road and climbed onto the pavement after colliding with a Nissan Tilda at the robot-controlled intersection near the Bulawayo Main Post Office.
The five, that included a child, a man and three women, were walking on the pavement near a bank when they were hit by the vehicle.
Acting Bulawayo police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele said police were still investigating the matter. Bulawayo chief fire officer Mr Linos Phiri confirmed that three ambulances ferried five victims from the scene of the accident to hospitals.
Witnesses told Sunday News that the Navara was allegedly speeding and went through a red robot at the intersection of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street and Leopold Takawira Avenue before colliding with the other car. Mr Munashe Munyoro, a vendor, who witnessed the accident said he heard a bang as the two vehicles collided, then saw the Navara lurching onto the pavement hitting screaming pedestrians and people in the bank queue.
“I was standing here (close to the sanitary lane) and heard a bang and when I turned my head, I saw the car on the pavement as it ploughed into people walking on the pavement. One of the women was under the car after it had stopped and had to be removed by people. From what I realised, the driver of the Navara failed to stop at the robots as he was facing the red lights but the other car, which had the right of way, had already got into the intersection resulting in the crash,” he said.
The women were rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital for treatment with two of them suspected to have suffered fractures.
Mpilo acting director clinical services Dr Xolani Ndlovu said the hospital received two patients from the accident scene while the rest were most likely taken to the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UHB).
“We received a 21-year-old female who suffered fractured teeth while a male was admitted for observation overnight,” he said.
By Farai Maguwu| 12 Zimbabwean artisanal gold miners could have been murdered by a Belarus company, JZ Investments, which teamed up with Chinese nationals, at Premier Estate outside Mutare.
Only 2 bodies have been recovered and no rescue efforts are underway to recover the 10 missing artisanal miners.
Government has cooked up a story of mine collapse. This is a lie.
The truth of the matter is NO mine collapsed. Foreign criminals were given a political license to kill Zimbabweans in their own country…. with impunity. They deliberately filled the shaft entrance with earth, fully aware there were people underground, thereby suffocating the artisanal miners to death. The heinous crime was overseen by armed Zimbabwe Republic Police officers. The government of Zimbabwe, acting in partnership with foreign criminals masquerading as investors, murdered innocent Zimbabweans whose only crime is perhaps being Zimbabwean and poor.
I visited Premier this morning and spoke to a number of artisanal miners who confirmed that indeed 13 artisanal miners went underground but one immediately went out having realized his torch batteries had no power. When he returned to the shaft he saw dozers filling the entrance and he immediately notified them of the presence of 12 artisanal miners underground. No one listened. Instead he was heavily assaulted by Police. He notified other artisanal miners and as concern grew over the safety of the trapped miners, a half hearted rescue operation was carried out resulting in the retrieval of 2 bodies.
I saw clothes on the surface believed to belong to the now-presumed dead artisanal miners. Some artisanal miners claimed their colleagues have cell phones of the 10 missing artisanal miners, which is evidence they never returned to the surface. Most artisanal miners leave cell phones with friends on the surface and they wear torn clothes underground.
The company spokes said one of the two recovered bodies was already decomposing. He then tried to convince us the guy could have died several days earlier due to shaft collapse which might have happened before the excavators covered the shaft entrance. Lets assume its true, so how do we explain the other body which was not decomposing? Was this other deceased guy staying with a dead body underground? For what purpose?
Because of criminalization of artisanal mining, there is no collaboration between government and artisanal miners in identifying those who are missing. Rescue operations have been suspended. Their families might never know what happened to their loved ones as government efforts seem to be at concealing evidence instead of unearthing the truth. Artisanal miners do not use their real names. This means their identity can only be known through close collaboration with the survivor who has since fled the scene after Police assaulted him. Alternatively government need to find a way to gather artisanal miners in the area. But first they need to convince them they won’t be arrested. This will be a mammoth task.
In another bizarre claim, we were told by the Public Relations Official of JZ Investments that the Belarus company which was originally brought in to do riverbed mining is now reclaiming the land to venture into farming following government directive to ban riverbed mining! Are they still using their mining title, if at all they have one, or have they acquired a farming lease under A2? Ok, lets assume they want to venture into farming, do they have the relevant farming skills? If its a real mining company, how can they suddenly change their trade from mining to something completely different?
I saw armed ZRPolice officers at the site. Is this a government project which must be given State security? Why must ZRP protect a private enterprise? Don’t they have money to hire private security guards?
What is the purpose of criminalizing artisanal gold mining, kill your own people who are trying to earn an honest living and bring artisanal gold diggers all the way from Belarus to do exactly what you won’t tolerate when done by those who look like you. We saw deep tunnels and were told the tunnels criss-crossed underground, (something which they hinted affected rescue efforts). Isn’t this enough evidence that our own are well capable and they only need political support to produce on a bigger scale?
The ruling Zanu PF has confirmed that its National Commissar Victor Matemadanda was ill but remained mum on the cause of his illness, in what confirms that all is not well in the ruling party.
The party’s Acting Secretary for Information and Publicity, Patrick Chinamasa, in a statement last night said Matemadanda has been unwell since 14 November.
“Cde Victor Matemadanda’s sudden illness was accompanied by itchiness of eyes, sweating profusely, swelling of the body and vomiting badly, resulting in him rushing for medial attendance. He has since been attended to and is recovering well as other symptoms have disappeared except itchiness of eyes which is still persisting. Medical tests are being carried out and the doctors are examining the situation to establish what could have caused the illness,” he said.
Why is Zanu PF and state media afraid of confirming Matemadanda’s poisoning incident?
COVID-19 is ripping through educational institutions in the country with latest statistics showing that more than 150 learners and teachers at schools and colleges have tested positive.
Sunday News has gathered that 145 pupils and their teachers in schools in Bulawayo, Harare and Matabeleland North have tested positive while 10 cases have been reported at polytechnic colleges. John Tallach High School in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North leads the pack with 140 pupils and four teachers having tested positive resulting in the school being cordoned off.
Wise Owl Primary in Harare has recorded three cases while Emakhandeni Primary School in Bulawayo has recorded two cases. It is also understood that six positive cases were recorded at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic in Gwanda and while four others were reported at Kwekwe Polytechnic recently.
Director of Communications and Advocacy in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Mr Taungana Ndoro told Sunday News yesterday that of the affected schools, John Tallach in Matabeleland North was the most ‘surprising’ looking at the figures.
“Only few schools out of 9 625 schools in Zimbabwe have learners who tested positive for the virus which are John Tallach, Wise Owl (3) and Emakhandeni Primary School (2). John Tallach is a unique case and we are actually surprised as to what happened.
“The rest of the schools in the country are observing Standard Operating Procedures to the book, go to places like Manicaland, Masvingo and the Midlands there are no cases of Covid-19 in schools. Out of the schools that have incidents of Covid-19, some cases really have nothing to do with the schools mentioned, like a teacher at a school in Bulawayo who tested positive for the virus but was actually not attending classes as she claimed she was incapacitated, so it had nothing to do with learners, the school and the education system,” he said.
Mr Ndoro said since the outbreak of Covid-19, schools in the country have intensified precautions. He dismissed rumours that learners at Prince Edward in Harare had been infected by the virus. He also dismissed death rumours at John Tallach that were being spread on social media. Asked on the way forward, Mr Ndoro said learners at John Tallach will be kept in the school until further notice.
“Learners are asymptomatic and stable and are quarantined in order to protect their family members because if you take these infected students back to their homes it may become an explosion. A child belongs to a family and going back there may see the family getting infected,” added Mr Ndoro.
Matabeleland North Provincial Medical Director Dr Munekai Padingani said the number of Covid-19 cases at John Tallach increased from the initial 100 that were reported last week. He said learners were on the road to recovery and were stable. “In terms of cases, they are now 140 pupils and four teachers that have been infected. They are put in cohorts, according to dates they were tested and whether they are asymptomatic or not. Some are positive without being sick and some are sick and are being treated on site,” he said.
Asked on outcomes of preliminary investigations at John Tallach, Dr Padingani said it was difficult to single out a pupil who travelled to South Africa for a funeral who is suspected to have brought the virus.
“It is difficult to answer because we have many cases reported in Bulawayo and we have many students here who tested positive and reside in Bulawayo so we cannot incriminate that one who went to South Africa. We know that people move up and down so we cannot say it is that student. Investigations are still going on and I cannot say much for now,” he said.
The spike in cases at schools comes when public examinations are expected to start next week. However, Mr Ndoro said Government has made sure there was adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at schools in the form of sanitisers, face masks and washing areas, saying that only a few schools were affected as they had no water supply but Government has assisted in rehabilitating boreholes in schools to ensure there is water in all of them.
Bulawayo has continued witnessing a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases over the past few weeks jolting officials to consider re-introducing a ‘specialised’ lockdown. Of the 74 new cases that the country reported on Friday, 48 were from Bulawayo, according to the Ministry of Health and Child Care statistics.
Bulawayo City Council Director of Health Services Dr Edwin Sibanda said the province was testing people every day and hence the numbers being reported while encouraging the public to be vigilant.
“Our cases in Bulawayo are more local transmission than anything, but once in a while you may get an outsider coming in and infecting a number of people,” he said.
He said a lockdown for Bulawayo was imminent if there was no change of behaviour.
“A lockdown is okay on one side but we also have to worry about its effects socially and economically but it might become necessary at some point. We have no bigger message but to encourage people to stick to the basics, ensure social distancing, use face masks, sanitise all the time and avoid gatherings. If we stop moving around, the virus also stops moving around,” he said.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyati said there was a shebeen and nightclub notoriety in Bulawayo.
“We are concerned, there was a person who lost his car while coming out of a shebeen/brothel at around 3am. We have made arrests of people operating brothels and shebeens. We will continue to make the arrests but we want to send a warning to people who think they are now a law unto themselves. They should not cry foul if stern measures are taken against them. It is also sad that we have recorded some murder cases at some of these spots and shebeens in Harare and Bulawayo and this is a fact,” he said.
Meanwhile, our Harare Bureau reports that the Government will today roll out a nationwide community-based Covid-19 testing study that will accurately pinpoint coronavirus hotspots in order to inform the deployment of tailor-made response strategies for specified communities, as part of a coterie of measures to respond to a possible second wave of the pandemic.
Individuals in more than 7 000 households will be screened for the virus in all 54 districts under the National Sero-Prevalence Survey for Covid-19, which runs up to December 30. The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) will test nearly 4 600 individuals in rural households, while the rest of the study samples will be drawn from urban communities.
NIHR director Professor Nicholas Midzi told our Harare Bureau that only an individual will be tested per household. In Harare Metropolitan province, 1250 people will be tested in 50 communities, while 975 individuals in Manicaland province will be screened in 32 rural communities and seven urban areas. In the Midlands province, 850 people will be tested while 800 tests are set to be administered in Masvingo province. Over 400 individuals will be tested in Bulawayo Metropolitan province, while Matabeleland North and South will each have 375 tests. Mashonaland Central will have 625 people screened, while a further 773 will be tested in Mashonaland East. In Mashonaland West, 800 people will receive the test.
Chief Co-ordinator for the National Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Dr Agnes Mahomva, said a recent Government survey showed that most communities were no longer adhering to standard Covid-19 preventative guidelines.
COVID-19 is ripping through educational institutions in the country with latest statistics showing that more than 150 learners and teachers at schools and colleges have tested positive.
Sunday News has gathered that 145 pupils and their teachers in schools in Bulawayo, Harare and Matabeleland North have tested positive while 10 cases have been reported at polytechnic colleges. John Tallach High School in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North leads the pack with 140 pupils and four teachers having tested positive resulting in the school being cordoned off.
Wise Owl Primary in Harare has recorded three cases while Emakhandeni Primary School in Bulawayo has recorded two cases. It is also understood that six positive cases were recorded at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic in Gwanda and while four others were reported at Kwekwe Polytechnic recently.
Director of Communications and Advocacy in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Mr Taungana Ndoro told Sunday News yesterday that of the affected schools, John Tallach in Matabeleland North was the most ‘surprising’ looking at the figures.
“Only few schools out of 9 625 schools in Zimbabwe have learners who tested positive for the virus which are John Tallach, Wise Owl (3) and Emakhandeni Primary School (2). John Tallach is a unique case and we are actually surprised as to what happened.
“The rest of the schools in the country are observing Standard Operating Procedures to the book, go to places like Manicaland, Masvingo and the Midlands there are no cases of Covid-19 in schools.
Out of the schools that have incidents of Covid-19, some cases really have nothing to do with the schools mentioned, like a teacher at a school in Bulawayo who tested positive for the virus but was actually not attending classes as she claimed she was incapacitated, so it had nothing to do with learners, the school and the education system,” he said.-The Sunday News
IN a chilling incident, a man was attacked by yet to be identified assailants who cut open his head and removed the brain, gouged his eyes, slashed off his right ear and stabbed him all over the body before dumping his naked body near a house in Mzilikazi in Bulawayo.
The naked and heavily mutilated body of the man was discovered near Mashumba shops opposite Happy Valley Tavern yesterday morning.
A portion of the man’s brain was found in a bushy area close to a stream and vegetable garden approximately 65 metres away from where the body was lying. It is also suspected that the assailants washed the body in a sewer stream near the scene before dumping the body near a house in the area. Police also identified three bloodied stones which are believed to have been used to crush the man’s head.
ZRP National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said police were investigating a case of murder.
“The body seems to have been dragged and dumped away from the murder scene. The deceased is yet to be identified and the motive is not yet known.
There are no suspects at the moment,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.-Soccer 24
AS cases of child killings and kidnappings continue to rise, police have arrested a 38-year-old man from Rusape for allegedly killing his epileptic son.
National Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident saying the suspect, Daniel Sarapo, is assisting police with investigations.
He said the alleged murder occurred on September 22 at Kanyangira village, Chief Makoni, Rusape.
“On the day the grandmother of the victim visited the suspect, Daniel Sarapo (38), to inform him that his son was no longer going to school as he was now epileptic,” said Asst Comm Nyathi, “The suspect then allegedly heated some water and tried to force the victim, Devine Sarapo (10), to a bath. He assaulted the victim using a plank and the grandmother who had gone out, later came back and found Devine Sarapo dead.”
The suspect is alleged to have secretly buried the body in a forest in the company of 10 other people without observing the usual cultural rites.
“The matter came to light when the grandmother of the victim visited her other son in Kuwadzana, Harare who directed her to report the matter to the police,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.
“Investigations into the matter are now in progress.”
The news of Sarapo’s death follows the recent beheading of four minors in Chivhu by their mother.-The Sunday Mail
Civil servants’ salaries will, by June 2021, be restored to the United States dollar value that they stood at during the multi-currency era as Government continues to reform and grow the economy, a Cabinet Minister has said.
In his presentation at the Parliamentary Pre-Budget seminar in Harare yesterday, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Professor Paul Mavima said Government had agreed a roadmap with the civil servants representative body, the Apex Council, to continuously improve wages in line with workers’ demands.
Civil servants are demanding a salary equivalent to US$520 which they earned before the country abandoned the multi-currency system in 2019. Prof Mavhima said Government was amenable to meeting this demand.
“We have made a lot of progress with civil servants. When we started this year civil servants were complaining that they were earning something like $30 to $40 equivalent in US dollar terms.
“But if you look at where we are today, using the auction rate, we have reached the US$200 level which is a very big improvement. We have signed an agreement with the Apex Council accepting that level, but we have also in that agreement come up with a road map to continuously improve the conditions of service for civil servants to where maybe by June or July next year we may have clawed back to the levels they are demanding of July-August 2018.”
Prof Mavima implored civil servants to be patient saying meeting the workers’ salary demands was achievable.
“It’s a process. I think it’s important for civil servants to understand that. It depends much on the performance of the economy and if we continue to build on the progress we have made so far we will reach the levels they demand. The truth is that the Government is not in a position to pay the 2018 salaries right now because there is no money.”
Government has maintained that it could afford a minimum teacher’s salary of ZWL$18 000 a month. Last week, civil servants accepted Government’s offer of a 41 percent salary increase and a bonus whose payment will be staggered from this month to December. The increment will see the least paid civil servant earning a salary of $14 524. The deal also saw striking teachers return to work. -Sunday News
Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure’s death in a horrific accident on November 8 pierced a veil that shrouded his personal life, business empire, estate and fabulous wealth.
Always the one to capture his life in digital frames which he shared with his adorable fans, through pictures and short video clips on social media sites, the finer details of his personal life and businesses, however, remained largely inscrutable or opaque.
Eulogies and testimonies from his close friends, associates and relatives have helped to put together pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that were his life.
But no one could possibly claim to have known him better other than his wife of six years, Zodwa Mkandla, who is nicknamed “Zozo”.
“I met him when he was 23 and it was in 2006. We were just friends then but he later on asked me out and we started dating in 2009; this was after three years of friendship,” she opened up to The Sunday Mail last week.
The couple’s relationship blossomed into marriage and they lived together at the plushy and palatial 10-bedroomed mansion in Domboshava.
However, their marriage hit the rocks in 2018. They duly shared assets and parted ways. It became a closed chapter.
Despite the break-up, the power couple remained in good books as the two were often spotted together at various parties in and outside the country.
An equally accomplished businesswoman, Mkandla reminisced about the hitherto unknown habits of the late socialite, whom many believe had a taste for the finer things in life.
She said: “He was a very traditional man who didn’t enjoy things like pizza; he was a sadza man served with mabhonzo and matumbu (beef bones and offals). During weekends, he would enjoy hosting his friends at our home in Domboshava.”
But how the 36-year-old businessman, with only one Ordinary Level subject (Agriculture) to his name, successfully transformed his life from the seeming backwater of Nyamande Village, to a cash-flush entrepreneur who flaunted his wealth through high-end sports cars such as his recently acquired Ferrari and Lamborghini has been the subject of inquiry over the past two weeks.
Some speculated, as they often do, that the meteoric rise of Ginimbi was driven by black magic. Ms Mkandla claims the only “black magic” she knew the youthful businessman practiced was burning the candle from both ends.
“When we first met, Genius had nothing to his name — anga asina chinhu — but the man was such a hard worker. He would wake up at 5am to do his gas business. He continued to work hard throughout his life until he made it to the top,” she said.
“I was the first in business, hence I was wiser. Genius had bigger business ideas but I always helped him with the wisdom. Likewise, I would go to him for business advice. “What I can say without any shadow of doubt is that Ginimbi was a go-getter and never used juju.
“If there are snakes which vomit money, why can’t people get them and be rich? I watched Genius grow from nothing to a millionaire through sheer hard work.”
Kadungure started off in the gas business, where he established Pioneer Gas before spreading his tentacles to neighbouring Botswana through Quick Gases, which he acquired when it was about to go under.
Although it made him rich, he hit the mother lode when he ventured into the fuel business through multimillion-rand tenders to supply diesel to mining conglomerates in Botswana and South Africa.
His lifestyle and tastes ultimately changed. He began investing in properties such as the ostentatious Domboshava home and high-end vehicles. But he partied as hard as he worked.
It was his penchant for all-white parties that put him in the limelight. However, they set Harare’s rumour mill on overdrive as some speculated that they were rituals associated with his ventures.
“We all have our colours and his theme was white; what has that to do with mushonga (rituals)? I lived with Genius and I never saw any juju or rituals. The parties were just him having fun. Anga arimunhu aida zvekunakirwa hake,” said Ms Mkandla.
Recently, Ginimbi’s friends spoke of how the man would binge on bottles of Lion Lager and danced the night away at sungura maestro Alick Macheso’s shows.
It is believed that his favourite music was rhumba and was biased towards international stars like Fally Ipupa and Koffi “Mopao Mokonzi” Olomide.
Ms Mkandla, said she has nothing to do with Genius’ estate as that will be handled by his lawyers and family.
She, however, hinted that the Domboshava mansion would likely be turned into a hotel, while some of the luxury vehicles will be used as shuttle cars for clients.
“Genius was a very organised man; he obviously left a will. I will only work with the family to help them run the hotel and the transport business since I am already in the hospitality industry through Traverse Travel Agent. I have the clientele which can occupy the hotel and generate money for the business.”
Ginimbi, who seems to have had a huge following both in real life and on social media, brought Harare and Domboshava to a standstill during his burial a week ago, as multitudes graced his send-off.
His transformation from an ambitious pauper to a poster boy endeared him to many. Few, however, knew that he was once a family man.
Even as his lifeless body lay along Legacy Way (former Borrowdale Road) on that ill-fated Sunday morning, Zozo, his former life partner, closely stood by calling for help.
The young socialite might be dead, but his story remains very much alive. -Sunday Mail
AS cases of child killings and kidnappings continue to rise, police have arrested a 38-year-old man from Rusape for allegedly killing his epileptic son.
National Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident saying the suspect, Daniel Sarapo, is assisting police with investigations.
He said the alleged murder occurred on September 22 at Kanyangira village, Chief Makoni, Rusape.
“On the day the grandmother of the victim visited the suspect, Daniel Sarapo (38), to inform him that his son was no longer going to school as he was now epileptic,” said Asst Comm Nyathi, “The suspect then allegedly heated some water and tried to force the victim, Devine Sarapo (10), to a bath. He assaulted the victim using a plank and the grandmother who had gone out, later came back and found Devine Sarapo dead.”
The suspect is alleged to have secretly buried the body in a forest in the company of 10 other people without observing the usual cultural rites.
“The matter came to light when the grandmother of the victim visited her other son in Kuwadzana, Harare who directed her to report the matter to the police,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.
“Investigations into the matter are now in progress.”
The news of Sarapo’s death follows the recent beheading of four minors in Chivhu by their mother.-The Sunday Mail
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) received with great disappointment, the correspondence from COSAFA to the effect that our Under 17 team has been disqualified from 2020 edition after one of the players failed a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test.
This is indeed surprising and questionable since we carried out similar tests on the boys and disqualified six (6) for failing to satisfy the bone fusion criteria, taking only those determined to be of the correct age.
ZIFA does not condone age cheating and will conduct further investigations on how the six (6) who were dropped failed the tests.
All the boys that travelled for the tournament were tested at a reputable MRI centre in Harare prior to their departure and the centre used a fairly powerful 1.5 T machine.
The MRI results were also reviewed by a Specialist Radiologist, Dr Z Sirdar.
Our Chief Medical Officer Dr Edward Chagonda is also a CAF certified medical officer.
Our team doctor Dr Rabson Zhou who travelled with the team has all the test results with him as proof.
The Zimbabwe Football Association is challenging the decision to disqualify our team and has requested COSAFA to avail the name of the player who is alleged to be over the required age.
We have appealed against the CAF and COSAFA decision and we are confident that we did not deliberately breach regulations governing the U17 tournament.
Emmerson Mnangagwa last month made drastic changes to his security team after nearly 20 soldiers from the Presidential Guard Brigade, including some that were deployed to his motorcade, tested positive for Covid-19 a few days before the arrival of his visiting Malawian counterpart Lazarus Chakwera, The NewsHawks can reveal.
Zimbabwe has in the past few weeks recorded a surge in deaths related to the respiratory disease after the authorities in Harare eased regulations to contain the pandemic at a time some countries in the West have reintroduced lockdowns. Most of these fatalities have been recorded in the country’s second largest city, Bulawayo.
Sources told The NewsHawks that soldiers from the 1 Presidential Guard Barracks, which is located next to State House along Josiah Chinamano Avenue in Harare, last month tested positive for the coronavirus, prompting their commanders to deploy security personnel from 2 Presidential Guard Barracks in Dzivaresekwa.
Mnangagwa’s security includes the Central Intelligence Organisation, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (VVIP Police Protection Unit) and the military which includes the Presidential Guard and the Special Air Services.
Soldiers from the barracks where cases of Covid-19 were recorded, sources said, are responsible for Mnangagwa’s security in around the capital.
The yellow beret military personnel from Dzivaresekwa provide security to the head of state when he travels outside the capital to places such as his Sherwood Farm in Kwekwe.
“Some officers who form part of the team, including the dreaded rifle-wielding soldiers in the Land Cruisers, tested positive. This posed a big risk to everyone on the motorcade. To deal with the situation, 2PG (2 Presidential Guard) had to provide security,” a source from the Health ministry told The NewsHawks.
The drastic security changes came less than three years after Mnangagwa rotated the security personnel in the Presidential Guard Brigade after the 2017 coup.-The NewsHawks
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said a return to legitimacy is the only solution to the country’s deepening political crisis.
Addressing journalists in Harare on Friday, President Chamisa described the persecution of veteran journalist Hopewell Chin’ono as a desperate attempt by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to muzzle alternative voices.
“Zimbabwe is in a deep crisis.Journalism is not a crime.The persecution of Hopewell Chin’ono indicates that Zimbabwe is a Banana Republic in which journalists are harassed for exposing corruption,” said President Chamisa.
He added:”Our offices are in the minds and hearts of the people of Zimbabwe.We do not need physical offices to push for freedom. The people’s party has its headquarters in the people’s minds.Nobody can stop the people’s struggle.”
Respected scholar and Roman Catholic Priest, Fr Kennedy Makamure has written an article drawing parallels between the Bible and Moana’s birthday party that went wrong resulting in the cruel death of four people including herself and popular socialite and millionaire Genius Kadungure (Ginimbi).
The article is thorough with Biblical examples of birthday parties that went awry.
However, the suspense in the article is that Fr Makamure does not conclusively say whether birthday parties are right or wrong for Christians although he gives four examples of prominent parties that went wrong; resulting in murder, dethronement of powerful kings and natural disasters.
Fr Makamure, a lecturer at Arrupe Jesuit University warns his readers that if they overstep, which he says is common at parties, God will react and he says Ginimbi and Moana died because they overstepped, not once, not twice; it could be many times.
Ginimbi died in a road accident after the party and his three colleagues in the trendy Rolls-Royce Wraith were burnt beyond recognition after the vehicle burst into flames.
Fr Makamure dismisses beliefs widely held on social media that Ginimbi met his death because he belonged to one occult or another. He says Ginimbi and Moana clearly disregarded God.
He says that God has been watching their transgressions and quotes Psalm 50 verse 16 to 22 which gives serious warning against the kind of behavior that obtained at a nightclub in Harare.
Verse 21 in particular says; “These things you have done I have been silent; you thought I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
“Mark this then you who forget God, lest I tear you apart and there be none to deliver!”
He says the beheading of John the Baptist took place at a birthday party.
In Matthew 14:3-11 Herod the Tetrarch held his birthday party and after getting drunk he got overexcited with the dancing moves of his daughter. Under oath, he promises the daughter anything she wanted and after consulting her mother, the daughter demands the head of John the Baptist.
Fr Makamure says the goings-on at Moana’s birthday could not please God and what lessons were people going to draw from such a party if God had not acted.
Moana’s birthday cake was in the shape of a woman; nude except for a bra and a stripper’s undergarment. Moana licked the cake in what Fr Makamure says is an open endorsement of disguised ‘cannibalism’ and promotion of illicit sex.
“What was the meaning of this? A human body cake? What influence was this going to leave in people if everything had gone well without a glitch?
“When people continue to openly promote sin and greed, how is God supposed to react? When people involve themselves in wild parties, is God supposed to be blind and deaf to such things,” asked Fr Makamure in the article.
Even Moana’s young sister Tatenda while giving an interview to a local media house said she was shocked to see her sister licking the breasts of a cake made in a human form. The act made her cringe inside. She had no doubt that this was Satanic.
Fr Makamure says that the behavior at the party was unchristian and quotes 2 Peter 2:14; “With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed; an accursed brood”.
He says many parties in the Bible ended in fatalities because they had an underlying element of defying God. The other examples of parties that ended tragically are Job 1:13, 18-19. Job lost all his 10 children after a strong wind hit the house where they were having a party. Job as a result cursed his own party.
In Daniel 5; 1-5, 22-28, the Great Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon got intoxicated at a party and ordered gold and silver wares that belonged to God to be brought out and be used for personal and selfish ends. The Great King lost his Kingdom to the Persians.
In Genesis 40:20-22 King Pharaoh had a birthday party and after feasting and drinking he got excited and killed a chief baker by hanging him from a tree.
Fr Makamure says many people are counting their losses after parties; some have lost dignity, virginity, some got pregnant and others are infected with disease.
He urged Christians to take particular interest in the parties that their children go to as some have become exclusive alcohol-sex parties.
Partying and godliness are two opposing sides and the consequences are always there for all to see, concludes Fr Makamure.
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa has described the late former President of the Republic of Ghana, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings as a man who worked tirelessly to end military rule in his country.
On Friday President Chamisa signed the condolence book for His Excellency Jerry Rawlings at the Embassy of the Republic of Ghana.
Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings died on November 12.
Below is President Chamisa’s statement:
Today(Friday ) I signed the Condolence Book for His Excellency, President Jerry John Rawlings of Ghana at the local Embassy.
I underscored the special relationship between Zimbabwe and Ghana and hailed Rawlings’ contribution in ending military rule in Ghana.
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa has described the late former President of the Republic of Ghana, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings as a man who worked tirelessly to end military rule in his country.
On Friday President Chamisa signed the condolence book for His Excellency Jerry Rawlings at the Embassy of the Republic of Ghana.
Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings died on November 12.
Below is President Chamisa’s statement:
Today(Friday ) I signed the Condolence Book for His Excellency, President Jerry John Rawlings of Ghana at the local Embassy.
I underscored the special relationship between Zimbabwe and Ghana and hailed Rawlings’ contribution in ending military rule in Ghana.
While the decision to license more television stations is a welcome development, MISA Zimbabwe is worried at the lack of diversity in the granting of the TV licences.
The new TV licence holders either already hold print or broadcasting licences or are linked to the government or the governing party.
With this scenario, the country risks having a homogeneity of news and views, an anathema to democracy.
If Zimbabwe is to have a truly diverse media, there is a need for more players from different backgrounds to be granted licences.
MISA Zimbabwe notes that the BAZ will soon start the process of licensing community radio stations and is worried that if this trend continues, only players with links to the government will be granted licences, yet again.
MISA Zimbabwe, therefore, calls for the genuine liberalisation of the airwaves, where diversity and pluralism are the guiding principles in the granting of licences.
MATEMADANDA POISONING: ZANU PF finally confirms ZimEye investigation on the commissar's poisoning last week. The ruling party does not at all speak of the notorious attack which happened in Marondera last week. FULL STORY ON https://t.co/eY98GsdO0apic.twitter.com/AOnfP5Ossi
MATEMADANDA POISONING: ZBC finally confirms ZimEye investigation on the commissar's poisoning last week. The state media does not at all touch on notorious attack which happened in Marondera last week. FULL STORY ON https://t.co/RMz9FsvEJWpic.twitter.com/r0gzsaFeHv
By A Correspondent | ZANU PF’s most powerful person, next to Emmerson Mnangagwa, the national commissar Victor Matemadanda has been poisoned.
Matemadanda has revealed that he was poisoned during last week’s Provincial Coordinating Committee meeting in Marondera which was also attended by the party leader, Mnangagwa.
Victor Matemadanda on Friday 20th Nov
During the function and immediately just after Mnangagwa had flown off in his military helicopter, a suspected assailant whose identity could not be established at the time of writing, walked over to the place where the commissar was sitting down, and released a powder which made Matemafanda instantly dizzy, confused and then eventually seriously ill.
The assailant, who the man says he cannot remember as he, Matemadanda became instantly confused, and lost memory, had pretended to be assisting the commissar, saying “there is something on your cap let me help you.”
“While they ( the assailant) were doing this, a smelly powder was released from their hands, and immediately I became dizzy,” said Cde Matemadanda.
“The powder I inhaled disturbed me until I had to tell people I am now going to the car.
” As I sat inside the car I suddenly became very hungry and began sweating heavily;
” Then I told the boys I was with, let’s to go OK supermarket to buy some food; when we got there I couldn’t eat and wanted to vomit.
“That was on Saturday, and on Sunday I spent the whole day feeling like vomiting, and feeling a certain bitter taste in the mouth; I did not suspect anything at the time.
“In the evening on Sunday, that’s when I began vomiting, in fact Saturday I vomited 3 times in the night, in the afternoon I had vomited 2 times. On Sunday night I spent the whole night vomiting; this happening 5 times.
“From the morning, I started feeling a swelling at the throat; then I said let’s go to work, but soon after that I started feeling twitching in the eyes and I began rubbing my eyes.
“My body started reacting and my face started swelling.
“I then approached a doctor who then attended to me.
” I think from the experience I once got in 2016, I then obtained the same treatment I once got back then,” he concluded.
Pictures seen by ZimEye show Matemadanda’s face still swollen and sweaty as at Friday the 20th November 2020.
The incident has left questions regarding who could have motives to poison Matemadanda. The attacker could be reacting to their disappointment over their failure during the ongoing district elections, which are happening around the country.
Commenting on the developmemt, analyst, Dr Masimba Mavaza, said he, Matemadanda. is now feeling better. ”
He was asked over the possibility that the man might be suffering from covid-19, to which ZimEye was told, “he was tested and was found to be COVID negative.”
Since independence 1980, every other political commissar has suffered either an assassination, or a humiliating ouster. The list of victims includes:
Mayor Urimbo,
Maurice Nyagumbo,
Movern Mahachi,
Border Gezi,
Elliot Manyika,
Webster Shamu
Engelbert Rugeje – who served after the 2017 coup, and was given a humiliating removal, and a few weeks ago had his house attacked by a 7 armed gang, one of whom found with a ZANU PF card.
Engelbert Rugeje’s immediate predecessor Saviour Kasukuwere fled Zimbabwe after his house was pounced on by skilled snipers.
– this is a developing story refresh this page for more.
By A Correspondent- Zanu-PF youth who allegedly kidnapped and raped a 14-year-old girl was last week arrested in a movie-style after he attempted to flee from armed police.
Son to the late Zanu-PF vice-chairperson Richard Chanda, Kuda (28) surrendered after several shots were fired on his BMW car after a long Chase.
He tried to bribe the police with US$20 as he lifted the money in his hands while surrendering to the chase but the police had non of it and arrested him.
Chanda appeared before Bindura regional magistrate Ethel Chichera on Thursday and was remanded in custody to December 3.
Prosecutor Carol Mupazviriwo alleged on November 11 Chanda met the complainant who was sent to buy vegetables by her mother at the market place in Mvurwi.
He kidnapped her and went to a food outlet where he met his friends and bought food.
He ate and never gave the complainant food.
He relaxed with his friends for a while at his place of residence and subsequently raped the complainant after his friends had gone.
He released the minor the following day who narrated the case to her mother before filing a police report.
Meanwhile, Chanda once did the same modus operandi and his case was not properly heard before the courts.
By A Correspondent- A Salvation Army pastor based in Centenary was arrested last week for allegedly sodomizing a congregant.
The matter came to light at Bindura magistrates courts where Aron Vhezha pleaded not guilty before Bindura magistrate Ethel Chichera.
He was remanded in custody to December 4.
Prosecutor Carol Mupazviriwo told the court that on September 22 around 11pm the man of the cloth went to the complainant’s place and found him sleeping as he lives alone.
Vheza forcibly entered the room and demanded sex from the complainant but he refused.
The suspect then pinned the complainant and sodomized him.
Vhezha threatened the complainant not to tell anyone but he reported the matter to the police leading to his arrest.
By A Correspondent- Politicians who are well known in Manicaland are reportedly selling branded maize-meal from donor agencies meant for underprivileged members of the community.
The maize meal is being sold at the prevailing retail price by unscrupulous shop owners across the province who get the product from vehicles owned by known politicians.
USAID Zimbabwe Development Outreach and Communication Specialist Dorothy Hove said they have since launched full-scale investigations into the matter.
In Chingome Village in Marange, a 10kg bag of maize-meal is going for US$5 while a shop owner in Mashukashuka Village, Luston Mutsaru, said they buy the mealie-meal at US$3.70 ‘from passer-bys’ and sell it US$4.50 per 10kg bag.
Abigail Sithole of Chingome Village in Marange said they are buying the donated maize-meal for US$5.
She said:
That is the same price for other brands of maize-meal. We have seen various trucks delivering the commodity to the shops. Some of the vehicles are owned by known politicians.
Manicaland Province Development Coordinator, who also heads the provincial Civil Protection Unit, Edgars Seenza, said he was not aware of the development.
Manicaland, like all the other provinces in Zimbabwe, was affected by a severe drought its food challenges were compounded by Cyclone ldai.
By Correspondent- Manicaland Province has recorded over 100 deaths from malaria since the beginning of the year, while thousands have been affected.
According to Manicaland Provincial Medical Director Simon Nyadundu, the province has been recording between 800 and 1 000 malaria cases every week for the past three weeks.
He said:
Manicaland has districts with the highest incidence for malaria nationally. To date, we have lost more than 100 people to malaria, which is a big number compared to around 80 at the same time last year.
Most of the deaths happened during the peak season around March and April. We have already exceeded the total for last year and the figures will definitely be higher by end of the year.
Nyadundu said most of the deaths were a result of delays in seeking medical attention.
Manicaland province is among the country’s malaria hotspots, with three out of its seven districts (Nyanga, Mutasa and Mutare) among the top 10 districts with the highest burden countrywide.
NOVEMBER 21, 2020 The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) in a statement this Saturday said they have appealed against the CAF and COSAFA decision to boot the Under-17 team from the regional tournament after an unnamed player failed an age-cheating test.
ZIFA said it was surprised and equally disappointed by the alleged age-cheating results after it conducted similar Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tests on the players in Harare before their departure for the tournament. The statement read:
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) received with great disappointment, the correspondence from COSAFA to the effect that our Under 17 team has been disqualified from 2020 edition after one of the players failed a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test.
This is indeed surprising and questionable since we carried out similar tests on the boys and disqualified six (6) for failing to satisfy the bone fusion criteria, taking only those determined to be of the correct age.
ZIFA does not condone age cheating and will conduct further investigations on how the six (6) who were dropped failed the tests.
All the boys that travelled for the tournament were tested at a reputable MRI centre in Harare prior to their departure and the centre used a fairly powerful 1.5 T machine.
The MRI results were also reviewed by a Specialist Radiologist, Dr Z Sirdar.
Our Chief Medical Officer Dr Edward Chagonda is also a CAF certified medical officer.
Our team doctor Dr Rabson Zhou who travelled with the team has all the test results with him as proof.
The Zimbabwe Football Association is challenging the decision to disqualify our team and has requested COSAFA to avail the name of the player who is alleged to be over the required age.
We have appealed against the CAF and COSAFA decision and we are confident that we did not deliberately breach regulations governing the U17 tournament.
THE government ministries and departments have tabled 2021 budget proposals worth $1,1 trillion, with treasury promising adjustments to balance revenue inflows and spending.
Responding to issues raised and budget requests, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube said treasury will review the proposals taking into account the size of the economy.
The treasury chief said while the government is committed to ensuring adequate allocation of resources, there is, however, need to balance revenue inflows and spending.
“Resources will not be adequate but we remain committed to seeing to it that we can sail through and moving on to a budget that meets the needs of all. ”
Professor Mthuli Ncube said the government is focusing on increased revenue inflows.
Proposals raised at the meeting include civil service reforms, support to productive sectors, increased devolution allocations, review of tax-free thresholds, support to energy supplies and covid-19 relief packages.
Others include increased allocations to the health and education sectors, review of government fees, tax concessions and favourable taxation systems, among others.
Botswana Police have reportedly killed about 22 Zimbabweans over alleged poaching.
Studio7 reports that the number is an estimate, it could be higher or lower.
Meanwhile Zimbabwean ambassador to Botswana, Batsiraishe Mukonoweshuro, said Zimbabwe cannot investigate the allegations since Botswana is a sovereign and independent state.
It is believed about 52 people including the estimated 22 Zimbabweans, over 30 Motswanas, Zambians and Namibians were killed in the operation.
Mozambican Alisha Adamu was burnt beyond recognition in a road accident that claimed car owner Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure, Michelle “Moana” Amuli and Malawian Limumba Karim Her relatives, led by her father, are in the country and yesterday they collected the body from Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals’ mortuary to a local parlour.
H-Metro established that Alisha’s body would be met by other relatives at Forbes border post where it will be taken to Maputo by air. Burial is set for Matola.
However, the family is angry at the treatment they allegedly received from Ginimbi’s friends. It is claimed that they promised to help Alisha’s family and relatives but have not been reachable since then.
“We are disappointed by Rimo and the other person who came to dump my daughter’s belongings at the hotel promising to assist but they never showed up ever since,” said a member of the delegation.
It is believed that Ginimbi’s friends committed themselves to helping out families of the three accident victims as a way of facilitating smooth burial of their hero. Once that was done, they reneged on all promises and pledges.
Ginimbi, who escaped the fire that engulfed his Rolls Royce but died on the grass where a good Samaritan had put him, was laid to rest at his Domboshava mansion last week on Saturday.
There were complications with bodies of the others who were burnt beyond recognition and DNA tests had to be carried out to make sure, hence the delays in burials.
Earlier in the week, a Kadungure family spokesman told H-Metro that Moana’s mother had sent them a bill of about US$5000 to cover funeral expenses.
Darlington Kadungure said they do not have money to foot the bill presented.
“We are here to represent the Kadungure family and we have a list of what they expect us to settle for the burial of Moana.
“The list includes payment for the metal coffin they want and other things.
“We do not have enough of what they are expecting from us since the person who had the money (Ginimbi) perished in the same accident that claimed Moana.
“We met as a family and collected something we are sure they will accept since it does not add to what they expected us to pay.
“We are sorry about the tragedy that claimed Moana, two others and our brother Genius. We still believe this mishap robbed us important people to the four families at one time,” he said. HMetro.
By Isheanesu Mutyambizi I A car accident occurred along Steppes road in Harare, trapping three females who were quickly saved by two passerbys.
One of the rescuers, Mr Gugulethu Gumpo (pictured below)
One of the rescuers Mr Gugulethu Gumpo
managed to save the victims before the car started to burn after it had hit a tree.
The Greendale fire bigrade was quick onto the scene and managed to put out the flames, and the Harare ambulance services responded early providing treatment.
The victims were three young girls, with the eldest 18 years old and they didn’t suffer any major injuries.
This incident might put to rest the conspiracy theories about the late businessman, Genius Kadangure also known as Ginimbi of assassination.
Mr Gumpo spoke to Zimeye in the following interview
“There is a gentlemen we assisted and I only realised when we had done that we assisted to get one of the three ladies out so I need to get those facts clearly so that when you are now giving the story its straight forward and its clear and the exact truth of what happened.
“I pulled two out of three …. There were three passengers… I pulled out the driver and one the people should have been the young sister or the brother I don’t even remember. “They were young, one of them, I can say at least two of them were minors, the third one, I am not sure, the older one who was driving, I wouldn’t be sure I cant say she older than 18, definitely, I will be surprised if she is over 18. “The one had issues with her angle, well I am not sure, I am not a doctor, I wouldn’t be sure if it was a dislocation or what I am not sure, the other one was complaining of the knee and some scars on the head and I guess a concussion I am not sure because I then performed first on them but this is what I can tell you. “When it happened there was, you know you can a smell that there is smoke here and any moment this thing…. “I can put at around 10 minutes I can say this accident happened kuma to 5, lets put it at 20 to 5”
Zimbabwe have been disqualified from the COSAFA U17 Men’s Championship, currently underway in South Africa, for age cheating.
The Young Warriors had started the campaign on Thursday, playing in the tournament opener against Angola. They drew the match 1-1 and were scheduled to play South Africa on Saturday in the other Group A game before rounding-up the first round against Eswatini.
However, they will not be able to continue after Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tests found that a couple of players in the squad have falsely presented their age.
Eswatini, Comoros and Botswana were also found guilty and have been sent home.
The disqualification means the Young Warriors are also out of the 2021 Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations scheduled for Morocco.
The COSAFA tournament is being used as the qualifying campaign for the continental event.
In confirming the developments, COSAFA said: “The Confederation of African Football (CAF) Youth Competitions Committee made the decision to disqualify the teams from the zonal qualifier tournament for the 2021 Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations on Friday.
“The quartet all had at least one player fail their magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that were conducted in the Host Country prior to the start of the competition.”
Meanwhile, revised fixtures will start on Sunday as a four-team tournament and will be played on a round-robin basis, with the top two teams advancing to a final on November 29.
Angola and Zambia do battle in an early kick-off before hosts South Africa play against Malawi at 3 pm.-Soccer 24
FC Platinum have announced the appointment of Norman Mapeza as the replacement of head coch Pieter De Jongh who has parted way with the club.
Mapeza agreed to return to Mandava just over a year after leaving.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Platinum Boys confirmed the appointment saying: “We are pleased to announce the return of Norma Mapeza to take the team forward.
“Coach Mapeza has a proven record of success with the club having won two PSL titles in adition to leading the CAF hampions League charge.
“Mapeza takes the team fully aware of the club’s vision which he has taken part in building and now seeks to attain in a fresh challenge, he comes in ready to go.”
The former Warriors coach was unattached to any side since his departure at South African team Chippa United in February. His move to TTM in September fell through on the eleventh hour after disagreements with the executive.
Meanwhile, Mapeza’s former assistant Lizwe Sweswe was also in the picture as the club was considering him as another option to replace De Jongh.
Sweswe left Mandava last month and has since joined Zifa Central Region Division One side Trukumb Mine.-Soccer 24
Our problem now is, if a person steals this aid, comes out on social media holding parties and taunting the poor, splashing money, dolling some of it to women to twerk for his sexual pleasure a number of struggling Zimbabweans will come out cheering him & worshiping him, giving him names like Mbinga. They will hate any suggestion that this money has no trace of source & the behaviour of the one spending it betrays how it must have been obtained questionably. Unonzwa voti godo!
Any man who works for his money doesn’t dish it out openly to girls to twerk for him, since he knows his workers will also be watching & seeing the money they work so hard for being wasted.
Somehow, accountability has become an enemy to our society in many ways.– Give more Madzudzo.
Ray Bande | Manicapost | BRANDED maize-meal from donor agencies meant for under-privileged members of the community is being sold at the prevailing retail price by unscrupulous shop owners across the province, The Manica Post has established.
Though USAID neither confirmed nor denied the sale of donated maize-meal, the organisation has since launched full-scale investigations into the matter after this publication sent questions on the matter.
“We will give a comprehensive comment after thorough investigations into the issue are concluded,” said Ms Dorothy Hove, the USAID Zimbabwe Development Outreach and Communication Specialist.
With visible donor agencies’ names and logos, the maize-meal is being displayed on shop shelves in Marange, Chimanimani, Buhera, Nyanga and Chipinge in broad daylight. In Chingome Village in Marange, a 10kg bag of maize-meal is going for US$5 at a shop inscribed ‘Bie’ that is said to be owned by one Mr Brian Kaisa.
When The Manica Post visited the area early this week, a female shopkeeper at the shop said she did not know the source of the maize-meal.
“My job is to sell the product and it costs US$5. That is all I can tell you and if you want to buy you can go ahead,” she said curtly and declined to be named.
Efforts to get a comment from Mr Kaisa
were fruitless as he was not at his shop, while his mobile phone was unreachable.
However, investigations by this publication revealed that unscrupulous shop owners are securing the commodity from corrupt elements within the conveyance chain.
Sources revealed that the well knit syndicate includes some corrupt Government officials and politicians.
A shop owner in Mashukashuka Village, Mr Luston Mutsaru, confirmed that he buys the commodity from “passersby who ferry the maize-meal in a minibus”.
“We have bought that maize-meal on a number of occasions. They sell it at US$3.70. We then sell it at US$4.50 per 10kg bag. I have never bothered to ask our suppliers about their identity because l am only concerned in conducting business.
“They actually tried calling me last nigh t(Wednesday), but I missed the call as I was asleep. I think they wanted to bring another consignment. They usually drop the maize-meal and come back to collect the money later,” said Mr Mutsaru.
Mr Joseph Dzvairo, a Mashukashuka villager, said the diversion of food aid from the less privileged to shop shelves has been going on for quite some time.
“We wonder why these people are so heartless,” said Mr Dzvairo.
Ms Abigail Sithole of Chingome Village in Marange said they are buying the donated maize-meal for US$5.
“That is the same price for other brands of maize-meal. We have seen various trucks delivering the commodity to the shops. Some of the vehicles are owned by known politicians,” she said.
Manicaland Province Development Coordinator, who also heads the provincial Civil Protection Unit, Mr Edgars Seenza, said he was not aware of the development.
“This is actually news to me. I have not received any report to that effect. I will assemble a team to investigate the matter and l will duly avail the details after getting on the ground,” said Mr Seenza.
Donor agencies have scaled up their intervention programmes in Zimbabwe following persistent droughts that have left some communities food insecure.
Zimbabwe is in the grip of a drought, aggravated by Cyclone ldai which hit parts of Manicaland and Masvingo provinces. The drought caused massive national crop failure, while the freak cyclone washed away remaining crops and livelihoods in the affected districts.
According to United Nations report, Zimbabwe’s food insecure population is expected to peak at just over 5 million, with 700 000 of them in Manicaland.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said a return to legitimacy is the only solution to the country’s deepening political crisis.
Addressing journalists in Harare on Friday, President Chamisa described the persecution of veteran journalist Hopewell Chin’ono as a desperate attempt by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to muzzle alternative voices.
“Zimbabwe is in a deep crisis.Journalism is not a crime.The persecution of Hopewell Chin’ono indicates that Zimbabwe is a Banana Republic in which journalists are harassed for exposing corruption,” said President Chamisa.
He added:”Our offices are in the minds and hearts of the people of Zimbabwe.We do not need physical offices to push for freedom. The people’s party has its headquarters in the people’s minds.Nobody can stop the people’s struggle.”
Respected scholar and Roman Catholic Priest, Fr Kennedy Makamure has written an article drawing parallels between the Bible and Moana’s birthday party that went wrong resulting in the cruel death of four people including herself and popular socialite and millionaire Genius Kadungure (Ginimbi).
The article is thorough with Biblical examples of birthday parties that went awry.
However, the suspense in the article is that Fr Makamure does not conclusively say whether birthday parties are right or wrong for Christians although he gives four examples of prominent parties that went wrong; resulting in murder, dethronement of powerful kings and natural disasters.
Fr Makamure, a lecturer at Arrupe Jesuit University warns his readers that if they overstep, which he says is common at parties, God will react and he says Ginimbi and Moana died because they overstepped, not once, not twice; it could be many times.
Ginimbi died in a road accident after the party and his three colleagues in the trendy Rolls-Royce Wraith were burnt beyond recognition after the vehicle burst into flames.
Fr Makamure dismisses beliefs widely held on social media that Ginimbi met his death because he belonged to one occult or another. He says Ginimbi and Moana clearly disregarded God.
He says that God has been watching their transgressions and quotes Psalm 50 verse 16 to 22 which gives serious warning against the kind of behavior that obtained at a nightclub in Harare.
Verse 21 in particular says; “These things you have done I have been silent; you thought I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
“Mark this then you who forget God, lest I tear you apart and there be none to deliver!”
He says the beheading of John the Baptist took place at a birthday party.
In Matthew 14:3-11 Herod the Tetrarch held his birthday party and after getting drunk he got overexcited with the dancing moves of his daughter. Under oath, he promises the daughter anything she wanted and after consulting her mother, the daughter demands the head of John the Baptist.
Fr Makamure says the goings-on at Moana’s birthday could not please God and what lessons were people going to draw from such a party if God had not acted.
Moana’s birthday cake was in the shape of a woman; nude except for a bra and a stripper’s undergarment. Moana licked the cake in what Fr Makamure says is an open endorsement of disguised ‘cannibalism’ and promotion of illicit sex.
“What was the meaning of this? A human body cake? What influence was this going to leave in people if everything had gone well without a glitch?
“When people continue to openly promote sin and greed, how is God supposed to react? When people involve themselves in wild parties, is God supposed to be blind and deaf to such things,” asked Fr Makamure in the article.
Even Moana’s young sister Tatenda while giving an interview to a local media house said she was shocked to see her sister licking the breasts of a cake made in a human form. The act made her cringe inside. She had no doubt that this was Satanic.
Fr Makamure says that the behavior at the party was unchristian and quotes 2 Peter 2:14; “With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed; an accursed brood”.
He says many parties in the Bible ended in fatalities because they had an underlying element of defying God. The other examples of parties that ended tragically are Job 1:13, 18-19. Job lost all his 10 children after a strong wind hit the house where they were having a party. Job as a result cursed his own party.
In Daniel 5; 1-5, 22-28, the Great Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon got intoxicated at a party and ordered gold and silver wares that belonged to God to be brought out and be used for personal and selfish ends. The Great King lost his Kingdom to the Persians.
In Genesis 40:20-22 King Pharaoh had a birthday party and after feasting and drinking he got excited and killed a chief baker by hanging him from a tree.
Fr Makamure says many people are counting their losses after parties; some have lost dignity, virginity, some got pregnant and others are infected with disease.
He urged Christians to take particular interest in the parties that their children go to as some have become exclusive alcohol-sex parties.
Partying and godliness are two opposing sides and the consequences are always there for all to see, concludes Fr Makamure.
WHO‘s Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer, launched today, outlines three key steps: vaccination, screening and treatment. Successful implementation of all three could reduce more than 40% of new cases of the disease and 5 million related deaths by 2050.
Today’s development represents a historic milestone because it marks the first time that 194 countries commit to eliminating cancer – following adoption of a resolution at this year’s World Health Assembly.
Meeting the following targets by 2030 will place all countries on the path toward elimination:
90% of girls fully vaccinated with the HPV vaccine by 15 years of age70% of women screened using a high-performance test by age 35 and again by 4590% of women identified with cervical disease receive treatment (90% of women with pre-cancer treated and 90% of women with invasive cancer managed).
The strategy also stresses that investing in the interventions to meet these targets can generate substantial economic and societal returns.
An estimated US$ 3.20 will be returned to the economy for every dollar invested through 2050 and beyond, owing to increases in women’s workforce participation. The figure rises to US$ 26.00 when the benefits of women’s improved health on families, communities and societies are considered.
“Eliminating any cancer would have once seemed an impossible dream, but we now have the cost-effective, evidence-based tools to make that dream a reality,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “But we can only eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem if we match the power of the tools we have with unrelenting determination to scale up their use globally.”
Cervical cancer is a preventable disease. It is also curable if detected early and adequately treated.
Yet it is the fourth most common cancer among women globally. Without taking additional action, the annual number of new cases of cervical cancer is expected to increase from 570 000 to 700 000 between 2018 and 2030, while the annual number of deaths is projected to rise from 311 000 to 400 000. In low- and middle-income countries, its incidence is nearly twice as high and its death rates three times as high as those in high-income countries.
“The huge burden of mortality related to cervical cancer is a consequence of decades of neglect by the global health community. However, the script can be rewritten,” says WHO Assistant Director-General Dr Princess Nothemba (Nono) Simelela.
“Critical developments include the availability of prophylactic vaccines; low-cost approaches to screening and treating cervical cancer precursors; and novel approaches to surgical training. Through a shared global commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals and leaving no-one behind, the countries of the world are forging a new path to ending cervical cancer. “
The strategy is launched at a challenging time, however.
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to preventing deaths due to cancer, including the interruption of vaccination, screening and treatment services; border closures that reduced the availability of supplies and that prevent the transit of skilled biomedical engineers to maintain equipment; new barriers preventing women in rural areas from travelling to referral centres for treatment; and school closures that interrupt school vaccine programmes. To the extent possible, however, WHO urges all countries to ensure that vaccination, screening and treatment can continue safely, with all necessary precautions.
“The fight against cervical cancer is also a fight for women’s rights: the unnecessary suffering caused by this preventable disease reflects the injustices that uniquely affect women’s health around the world,” says Dr Princess Nothemba Simelela. “Together, we can make history to ensure a cervical cancer-free future.”
The launch is being celebrated with a day of action across the globe, as ministries of health, partners, and cancer advocates engage in activities to improve access to cancer prevention and treatment for girls and women.
Around the world, monuments are being illuminated in the cervical teal, from Niagara Falls in North America to The Dubai Frame, to city skylines across Australia. (More information about the events in countries around the world and monument lightings will be posted on WHO’s event site:
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa has described the late former President of the Republic of Ghana, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings as a man who worked tirelessly to end military rule in his country.
On Friday President Chamisa signed the condolence book for His Excellency Jerry Rawlings at the Embassy of the Republic of Ghana.
Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings died on November 12.
Below is President Chamisa’s statement:
Today(Friday ) I signed the Condolence Book for His Excellency, President Jerry John Rawlings of Ghana at the local Embassy.
I underscored the special relationship between Zimbabwe and Ghana and hailed Rawlings’ contribution in ending military rule in Ghana.
By Jane Mlambo| Deputy Chief Secretary in the office of the president and cabinet, George Charamba has warned the late socialite, Moana’s father, Ishmael Amuli against being carried away saying sympathy he has been getting since the beginning of the feud with his ex-wife will soon vanish.
Charamba was commenting on a video in which Moana’s father accused Jah Prayzah of not consoling him over the loss of his daughter despite her daughter featuring in his video.
“The old man is beginning to get carried away; the less said, the more sympathy given!!!!” said Charamba.
The dispute over the body of Moana has stalled burial arrangements as both mother and father seek to have control over funeral programme.
Moana died in a car accident that has claimed Genius Kadungure popularly known as Ginimbi in social circles.
Police on Thursday returned to Mr Thanks Makore’s residence in Damofalls and continued digging in search of the head of his nephew, Tapiwa Makore (Junior), who was the victim of a suspected ritual murder in Nyamutumbu Village, Murehwa, on September 17.
The body of Tapiwa Makore, who was aged seven, is still to be buried as his head is still missing, two months after the horrific murder.
The boy’s uncle, Tapiwa Makore (Senior) (57), is accused of murdering his brother’s child with the help of his herdsman, Tafadzwa Shamba.
Damofalls residents gathered from a distance as they awaited the outcome of the search which police confirmed ultimately yielded nothing.
Thanks Makore, an uncle to the late Tapiwa Makore (Junior), is jointly charged with his twin brother Tapiwa (Senior) for their nephew’s murder.
The two, together with three other suspects, are in remand prison pending the murder trial.
Some residents who spoke to The Herald said they were hoping that the head would be found to allow the body to be given a befitting burial.
“We remain optimistic. What happened to Tapiwa is wrong. Our prayers are that the head is found,” said on resident who declined to be named.
Another resident who also spoke on condition of anonymity said: “Police are making progress. I believe in our police officers and they are the best. It might take time but they will make a breakthrough. All that we want is for justice to prevail.”
To date police have so far secured the torso, legs and arms of Tapiwa with the majority of the body parts being recovered in the Murehwa area.
When The Herald visited Mr Thanks Makore’s residence on Thursday, police had cordoned off the house near Cream Shopping Centre in Ruwa to enable an uninterrupted search.
Police officers were still protecting the house from the rowdy residents. Journalists were again barred from entering the yard as was the case on Wednesday.
By Jane Mlambo| Deputy Chief Secretary in the office of the president and cabinet, George Charamba has warned the late socialite, Moana’s father, Ishmael Amuli against being carried away saying sympathy he has been getting since the beginning of the feud with his ex-wife will soon vanish.
Charamba was commenting on a video in which Moana’s father accused Jah Prayzah of not consoling him over the loss of his daughter despite her daughter featuring in his video.
“The old man is beginning to get carried away; the less said, the more sympathy given!!!!” said Charamba.
The dispute over the body of Moana has stalled burial arrangements as both mother and father seek to have control over funeral programme.
Moana died in a car accident that has claimed Genius Kadungure popularly known as Ginimbi in social circles.
A man was robbed of his US$48 000 in a fake Nostro transfer deal by two bogus police officers in the Avenues area, Harare.
The suspects, Nokhuthula Sadomba(27) and Patson Mudube (37) appeared before Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga on Friday facing robbery charges.
They were remanded in custody to Monday for their bail application.
The robbery victim was looking for a transfer deal to swop his US dollars in cash for US dollars in his Nostro account.
It is alleged that the accomplices of the two accused approached the man pretending as if they had funds for a Nostro transfer and needed cash.
They allegedly accompanied the complainant to Avondale to do the transaction. After they had boarded the complainant’s vehicle to do the transaction, they were pounced on by Sadomba and Mudumbe.
The two identified themselves as police officers and told the complainant that he was under arrest for illegal dealing in foreign currency.
The victim was handcuffed and as they drove to “the police station”, around the Avenues, the robbers threatened the complainant before jumping into their getaway car and speeding off with the US$48 000 in cash.
By A Correspondent- The late socialite Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure’s posh US$500 000 Rolls-Royce Wraith was not insured, police have said.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday said Ginimbi’s vehicle had not been insured and did not have a Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) licence.
“Records obtained by the police in the on-going investigations into the fatal road traffic accident show that the vehicle had been registered through Central Vehicle Registry and obtained personalised number plates,” he said.
“The records also indicate that the vehicle had not been insured or obtained a Zinara licence. The police is still conducting investigations into the fatal road traffic accident.”
Ginimbi died in the horror car crash, which also claimed his friends fitness trainer-turnedvideo vixen Michelle “Mimi Moana” Amuli, Malawian fugitive Limumba Karim and Mozambican model and socialite Alichia Adams, two weeks ago. The accident occurred along Borrowdale Road in Harare in the early hours of November 8, when a speeding Ginimbi overtook two cars before ramming into Lucky Chikwanda’s car.
The Rolls-Royce Wraith skidded off the road and crashed into a tree before bursting into a ball of flames, and consuming all Ginimbi’s friends.
Ginimbi was last Saturday buried at his multimillion-dollar mansion in Domboshava at a funeral one could mistake for a party.
Now the driver of the Honda Fit involved in the accident with Ginimbi’s car, Lucky Chikwanda wants to claim damages. Lawyers say he is entitled to institute claims for damages that include his smashed vehicle and medical expenses. Chikwanda, who was left counting losses, told NewsDay Weekender Life & Style that he had paid his medical bills, but was worried about how he would get his damaged car back on the road again.
“Police are saying Ginimbi had no insurance and my car was on third part and not full cover,” he said.
“The car’s front was badly damaged, the engine splintered and buying a new car will be the best.”
Chikwanda said it was a miracle that he came out alive after the accident.
“I still cannot believe that I am alive, but God is amazing, He saved me. After seeing the damage done to the cars, I am still failing to convince myself that I am not a ghost,” he said.
“I was on my way from Hatcliffe when it (accident) took place and he (Ginimbi) was coming from the city centre trying to overtake two cars in front of him, but he failed to do it and by the time he tried to return to his lane, it was too late.”
“He (Ginimbi) was speeding and when I saw his car right in front of me, all I did was to scream. On impact, my car was forced to spin and face the direction we were coming from, while Ginimbi’s car went on to hit a tree about 20 to 30 meters away from the point of impact,” he said.
Chikwanda said on the fateful day, he was in the company of a friend, Artwell Kamisara, who sustained minor injuries. Respected lawyer and former Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda said at law, no one was a “lesser mortal” and under such circumstances, the victims’ rights should be observed.
“Needless to say, it is incumbent on society to bring to a long overdue end the almost endemic and mind boggling attitude, with total impunity, on the part of the so-called social and political celebrities, who behave as if the rights and/or lives of the supposedly lesser mortals don’t matter,” he said.
“The question of culpability in this case is likely to turn on which party will be found to have been negligent and, therefore, should bedeemed, on a balance of probabilities, to have been the proximate cause of the road traffic accident.”
Masunda said the law requires drivers to exercise reasonable care when encountering anyone while they are on the road be they pedestrians as well as passengers or fellow motorists.
“The prima facie indications are that unless there is compelling evidence to the contrary, the proximate cause of the road traffic accident could have been the late Genius Kadungure in that he: drove his Rolls Royce at an excessive speed in the circumstances, failed to keep a proper lookout, drove without due care and attention, failed to stop his motor vehicle when an accident seemed imminent,” he said, adding that in the aftermath of the recent carnage that “needlessly” cost the lives of the four, there was need to “spare a thought” for the Honda Fit driver. Masunda said he was prepared to give legal advice to Chikwanda.
“He was an innocent and bona fide road user whose life was changed forever in just a split second. He definitely needs to be helped legally with regard to the damage caused to his car, the medical expenses which he incurred as a result of the injuries that he sustained, the necessary post-trauma counselling therapy together with the related costs,” he said.
Showbiz Reporter| The below video is of the late Businesman Genius Kadungure when he was lured by someone he thought was a young girl only to discover that “she” is a young man. The trick is usually used by law enforcement agents in Europe to trap paedophiles, and many are languishing in prison cells over this.
This was not the first time of such happening. In another engagement, he flirted with a well known young Zimbabwean teenager who is based in the United Kingdom, and the latter is heard on video screaming that she is scared her father will discover.
By A Correspondent- President Mnangagwa yesterday capped 3 507 graduates at Midlands State University (MSU)’s 21st graduation ceremony held at its main campus in Gweru.
Due to Covid-19-induced restrictions, 3 397 had their degrees and awards conferred virtually and 110 physically.
A total of 2 670 graduated with Bachelor’s degrees, 837 with Master’s degrees and 11 with Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
Presenting the graduands to the President, who is also the Chancellor of the University, MSU Vice Chancellor Professor Victor Muzvidziwa said 51,8 percent of the graduands were females.
“Your Excellency and Chancellor, we are presenting to you a total of 3 507 graduands, 51,8 percent of whom are females and 48,2 percent are males. Of these, 2 670 are graduating with Bachelor’s degrees and 837 with Master’s degrees. A total of 11 will today graduate with Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Your Excellency and Chancellor, against the Covid-19 background, 3 397 will have their degrees and awards conferred virtually and 110 are physically here today,” he said.
Prof Muzvidziwa said the university’s international student community was highly diversified with 13 nationalities representing Botswana, Cameroon, China, DRC, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, UK and Zambia.
“Sixteen international students are graduating today. Nine of them are South Sudanese and seven are from Eswatini,” he said.
Prof Muzvidziwa said he was happy to report a 100 percent Covid-19 free on the part of their international students who have been able to continue with their studies.
He said despite the disruptions caused by Covid -19, they managed to teach, research, innovate and learn to be social and human in a virtual world.
“We were able to carry on with our research and teaching using digital methodologies, we taught in google classrooms. We have forged ahead by redefining and shaping this moment. In fact, the Covid-19 pandemic has leap-frogged us into the ICT-driven world. We have realised that a significant part of our work can now be done virtually,” he said.
Prof Muzvidziwa said the university was moving away from churning out academic professionals to more practical and innovative graduates in line with the expectations of the Second Republic.
He said MSU has been awarded by the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (Aripo), a patent titled “Method for Coal Tar Modification Using Nano Particles for Road Surfacing”.
“We celebrate a truly groundbreaking modified coal tar technology that will immensely impact road infrastructure construction and has potential to be commercially successful. This invention by Mr Actor Zonde, Dr Gift Mehlana, Dr Tafadzwa Wendy Murinzi and Dr Upenyu Guyo is a new method of producing a tar product with enhanced mechanical and thermal properties recommended for use in the sub-Saharan climate. This patent now awaits commercial exploitation,” he said.
Prof Muzvidziwa said three utility models filed with Aripo are at an advanced stage of examination.
He said the university has a thriving industrial hub which was mass producing face masks and certified hand sanitisers for the market as the institution takes a leading role in the fight against the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
“When Covid-19 struck, MSU rose to the challenge in many ways, Covid -19 drove a national demand for cleaning and sanitisation chemicals. With the seed capital from the Government, we set up a sanitiser production plant and repurposed our garment making factory to start producing masks. Our sanitiser is certified by the Standards Association of Zimbabwe and we have contributed to ensuring that there is no shortage in the supply chain. The sanitiser project has been a catalyst in our innovation and industrialisation ecosystem,” he said.
Prof Muzvidziwa said the university has also partnered various international universities in conducting research in line with the modern demands.
“Your Excellency and Chancellor, I am glad to report that MSU is collaborating with Kumba LLC of New Mexico, USA. The collaboration enables research and development of cannabis products for medical treatments such as cancer, pain alleviation and eating disorders among others,” he said.
Meanwhile, President Mnangagwa who had a busy day in Gweru, commissioned a textile factory at MSU Industrial Park Complex in the heavy Industrial area after the graduation ceremony.
The Industrial Park has been central in the manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers in the province.
The President also commissioned a million-dollar state-of-the art new lecture complex built by the University at the Commercial block at TelOne Campus named after the former and late Midlands provincial Governor and national hero Cde Cephas Msipa.
Education, Science and Technology Development Minister, Professor Amon Murwira and State Security Minister, Owen Ncube were among senior Government officials who were accompanying the President.
By A Correspondent- The late former President Robert Mugabe is posthumously set to square off with his ex-general manager, Stanley Nhari, after the Supreme Court rolled the matter back to the High Court for the issue of the $588 000 delictual damages to be resolved.
The Supreme Court bench led by Justice Paddington Garwe partially upheld Nhari’s appeal saying the high Court was correct in declining jurisdiction of a labour matter but erred when it entirely dismissed Nhari’s claim without taking into consideration the issue of delictual damages.
Initially, Nhari had approached the High Court claiming $756 401 in terminal benefits and damages but his claim was dismissed, prompting him to approach the Supreme Court on appeal.
The Supreme Court said part of Nhari’s claim borders on labour issues and as such the High Court would not have dealt with such matters.
“Section 13 of the Labour Act makes it clear that whenever any person’s employment is terminated, such person shall be entitled to the wages and benefits due to him up to the time of such termination, including benefits with respect to outstanding vacation and notice period.
“An employer shall pay such benefits as soon as is reasonably practical and failure to do so shall constitute unfair labour practice,” the court ruled.
“The first three claims were matters that should have been handled by a labour officer in terms of section 93.
“Clearly the high Court was correct in holding that it had no jurisdiction to deal with these three claims. It was however wrong, in upholding the plea in bar in respect of the last claim.
“I am inclined to agree with the appellant (Stanley Nhari) that the order dismissing the claim was, in the circumstances, improper. The court had found that it had no jurisdiction to entertain the claims because such claims lay in the province of labour.
“having so determined there was, therefore, nothing that remained before the court. There was nothing further to dismiss,” the judge said, adding; “the claim of $588 000 delictual damages is remitted to the court aquo to be handled in terms of the rules of that court.”
Sometime in 2018, Nhari, who is being represented by Advocate Thabani Mpofu, took the former First Family to court accusing it of breaching terms of his employment contract together with their business, Gushungo holdings (Pvt) Ltd.
In his claim, Nhari said the exPresident and his wife, Grace, used illegitimate influence and force to relinquish his position in October 2015 before ordering him to continue working for no outlay until November of the same year.
This then prompted Nhari to sue the Mugabes for allegedly “breaching the terms governing the relationship between the parties, by use of illegitimate influence, force and might”.
But, when the matter was brought before Justice Benjamin Chikowero, the latter determined that the lawsuit was not in any way a case to be adjudicated by the High Court.
By A Correspondent- Nearly 20 soldiers from the Presidential Guard Brigade, including some that were deployed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s motorcade, reportedly tested positive for coronavirus last month.
The positive cases were detected a few days before the arrival of the President’s visiting Malawian counterpart Lazarus Chakwera.
According to The NewsHawks, soldiers from the 1 Presidential Guard Barracks, which is located next to State House along the Josiah Chinamano Avenue in Harare, last month tested positive for the coronavirus.
This prompted their commanders to deploy security personnel from 2 Presidential Guard Barracks in Dzivaresekwa. The NewsHawks reported a source from the Health ministry saying:
Some officers who form part of the team, including the dreaded rifle-wielding soldiers in the Land Cruisers, tested positive. This posed a big risk to everyone on the motorcade. To deal with the situation, 2PG (2 Presidential Guard) had to provide security.
Coronavirus cases have reportedly been detected at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe School of Intelligence in Msasa Park, Harare, where over 50 security service personnel tested positive.
By Nomusa Garikai- Three years ago at 04.00 hours local time on 15th November 2017 Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) spokesman, Major General Sibusiso Moyo, addressed the nation and the world at large, live on Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation Television.
“Fellow Zimbabweans, following the address we made on 13 November 2017 which we believe our main broadcaster, ZBC and The Herald, were directed not to publicise, the situation in our country has moved to another level,” he announced.
“Firstly, we wish to assure the nation that His Excellency, The President, of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Head of State and Government and Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Cde R.G Mugabe and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed. We are only targeting criminals around him who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice. As soon as we have accomplished our mission we expect that the situation will return to normalcy.
“To both our people and the world beyond our borders: We wish to make it abundantly clear that this is not a military takeover of Government. What the Zimbabwe Defence Forces is doing is to pacify a degenerating political, social and economic situation in our country which if not addressed may result in violent conflict.”
Fast forward to today, three years latter, it is common cause to say the “degenerating political, social and economic situation” has continued and the threat of social unrest or worse is as real now as it was in 2017. A situation that has not gone unnoticed by some of those like former ministers Professor Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, etc. G40 leaders, the targeted “criminal around Mugabe who are committing crimes”. The G40 leaders are answering back with growing confidence.
“Either we organise or we agonise. If we continue looking at the situation as it is and expect that on its own, it will resolve itself, I think that won’t just happen like that,” argued Kasukuwere in a public discussion dubbed “Operation Restore Legacy, Unpacking the Democratic Transition in Zimbabwe”.
“The situation we find ourselves in as Zimbabwe is not the first time in the world over or in Africa.
“You recall we had such a situation in Nigeria. There was serious persecution of journalists, politicians and this all has to do with the role of the military at any given point when they take on the political platform and basically try to start directing the political affairs of any given country.
“In our situation, in Zimbabwe, we appear like we are in a political cul-de-sac. There is no defined pathway on how to proceed… Let’s take up the battle straight to the administration each and every day they must start to understand that the pain in our society is now unattainable.
“I believe the collective aspiration of the people of Zimbabwe will be much greater a force than any other thing that we have. Whether there are guns, whether they arrest us.
What is lacking in my view is a concerted push to change our situation.”
Three years ago the people of Zimbabwe came out in strong support of the military coup and poured in the streets in their thousands to demonstrate their support. After 37 years of Mugabe rule they wanted “to give Mnangagwa a chance”.
Now, three years latter, the talk is “Mugabe was better than Mnangagwa”! Kasukuwere and company are growing confident of staging a political comeback in the coming elections in 2023.
The truth is the November 2017 military coup was nothing but a musical chairs, Mugabe and a few around him were eliminated but those who remained were just as corrupt, incompetent, tyrannical, etc. All talk of “Second Republic and New Dispensation” was just a marketing gimmick to give the impression Zimbabwe had changed when in reality nothing of substance had changed.
Kasukuwere et al have targeted the military as the root cause of the rot in Zimbabwe just as the November 2017 coup had targeted his and his colleagues, most of whom are now in exile. This is just nonsense because the military has always played a major role in Zimbabwe politics. We have all heard of the Joint Operation Command, a junta, comprising the top brass in the Police, CIO, Army and Prison Services plus a few select individuals from the party head by Mugabe with Mnangagwa as his deputy.
The Police and CIO’s top brass belonged to the Mugabe and G40 faction whilst the Army belonged to the Mnangagwa and Lacoste faction. Former Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuru played no part in the coup and in being hounded because he was in “the wrong basket”, as Mugabe would put it.
Mnangagwa offered musical chairs Zanu PF, Kasukuwere et al are offering revolved door Zanu PF. Those who are now supporting Kasukuwere are as naive and gullible as those who supported Mnangagwa three years go. There is no difference between Mnangagwa and Kasukuwere in so far as that both are corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and power hungry thugs. There is no difference between a viper and a cobra in being deadly snakes especially to a mouse; to these Zanu PF thugs we are mice!
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made several “forced” changes to his Presidential Guard (PG) Brigade in a move analysts view as a coup-proofing strategy.
The PG’s second-in-command, Colonel David Nyasha, was recently replaced by Mnangagwa’s former aide-de-camp, Never-Jones Makuyana, while Nyasha is understood to have been posted to army headquarters.
The NewsHawks cited security sources saying Nyasha opted out of the yellow beret unit after he clashed with his superior, Brigadier-General Fidelis Mhonda.
Makuyana, who at the time was a lieutenant-colonel, was deployed to army headquarters after Mnangagwa changed his security team in the aftermath of the White City Stadium explosion in Bulawayo in 2018.
The suspected grenade attack claimed the lives of some security personnel and injured several high-ranking government officials and Makuyana, who is now PG second-in-commander, survived without a scratch but had his service pistol damaged by shrapnel.
Mhonda replaced Anselem Sanyatwe, who was briefly promoted to Major-General before being posted to diplomatic service in Tanzania.
The former officer commanding 1 Presidential Guard, Samson Murombo, who later became one of Mnangagwa’s aides-de-camp, was deployed to the Nyanga-based All Arms Battle School.
This came after he clashed with Auxillia Mnangagwa, the President’s wife, who accused him of spying on him.
Lt-Col Mangezi took over as 1PG commander, while Lt-Col Arison Chicha took the reigns at 2PG.
Before taking charge of 1 Presidential Guard Battalion, which is next to Mnangagwa’s official residence, Murombo was in charge of 2 Presidential Guard in Dzivaresekwa.
The PG is responsible for providing protection to the President and his deputies and securing Harare district.
It is a force trained to fight in built-up areas such as cities and towns.
The unit is also part of Mnangagwa’s forceful presidential motorcade.
In November 2017, the unit played a major role during coup codenamed Operation Restore Legacy.
On August 2018, it crushed election-related protests in central Harare, killing 6 civilians and injuring dozens.
By Wilbert Mukori- “Zanu-PF has a constitution and under that constitution, we sit as a congress to elect our president,” said Zanu PF acting national spokes-person Patrick Chinamasa.
“In 1977, a lot of the leaders had fallen by the wayside. The most senior person in rank remaining was (the late) Cde Robert Mugabe and at the congress in Chimoio, he was elected president of Zanu then,” Chinamasa said.
“In November (2017), exactly on the basis of the precedence of 1977, exactly that is what happened when it became very clear that our constitution was being trampled upon by the G40 cabal and that they were threatening the stability of the nation, the party moved in and we elected, at our December congress, President (Emmerson) Mnangagwa as leader of Zanu-PF.”
Zanu PF is a party of ruthless thugs with no regard to rule of law and the constitution much less the truth, not even historic facts.
Zanu PF is a party of ruthless thugs whose greed for absolute power and wealth is insatiable. They have ridden roughshod over the ordinary people denying them their freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful elections and even the right to life.
Mugabe was able to hold the party together for the first 30 years after independence only because there was a lot of wealth, loot he then dolled out to the party leaders to feed their ever growing appetites. The power and loot was the glue that held Zanu PF together.
The Zanu PF thugs’ are corrupt, incompetent and wasteful and with time their appetites for loot grew exponentially, by the late 1990s the Zimbabwe economy was in serious trouble.
Mugabe seized white-owned farms, the only other asset of value left, to give his very demanding and wasteful cronies. The farm seizures resulted in the collapse of the agricultural sector and with it the economy.
To make matters worse, Zanu PF started printing money fuelling the hyperinflation which, by 2008, reached the nauseating heights of 500 billion percent! Zimbabwe’s economy completely collapsed, and has never ever recovered; trigging the dog-eat-dog for the scraps amongst the Zanu PF thugs.
Chinamasa contradicted his early claim that Zanu PF an orderly party that respected the rule of law and the constitution. Mnangagwa’s 2017 succession was not a smooth transition but a messy and ruthless affair culminating in the bloody November 2017 military coup.
“Behind the scenes, a lot took place, but it is too early to say. The further from November 2017, the more likely we are going to tell you,” confessed Chinamasa.
“We are yet to heal. Those were the worst ever days in the chapter of the life of our President, Cde ED Mnangagwa, worse than the hanging sentence because then, it was the enemy he had chosen to fight against notwithstanding any consequences.”
Mnangagwa’s clarion cry following the November 2017 coup was “Zimbabwe is open for business!” He was cocksure it would revive the economy generating the much need loot to doll out to his restless Zanu PF cronies. The expected flood of investors and lenders in answer to his call has never materialised. “Zimbabwe is open for business!” is dead in the water and Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is even worse than before the coup.
Chimanasa said the succession in Zanu-PF was a straitjacket and while it allowed everyone to manoeuvre “within the straitjacket, no one could manoeuvre outside it”.
Mnangagwa knows that his position as leader of Zanu PF and government is not secure. He is reportedly building a bunker complex, such is his fear of another military coup. In the November 2017 coup Mugabe lost the crown, that is as much wriggle room as he got! Mnangagwa may got get even that much wriggle room in the straitjacket he is wearing; he may well lose his head and the crown upon it!
Mnangagwa got Justice George Chiweshe to rule the November 2017 coup “was legal, justified and constitutional”. The judgement has comeback to haunt him. Everyone knows that Zanu PF party elections are rigged and that leaves a military coup as the short cut to power and glory, particularly now there is a legal precedence too.
As for the ordinary people, there really is no wriggle room, full stop. Zanu PF thugs have become addicted to the absolute power and the loot it has brought them over the last four decades. It is bad enough they are not having their fill because of the economic meltdown; they are not going to risk losing the scraps too by risking losing power in a free, fair and credible elections. No way!
When Mnangagwa got into power following the November 2017 military coup, he promised, amongst many other things, to hold free, fair and credible elections. He did not implement even one token democratic reform. Not one!
Whilst everyone who observed Zimbabwe’s July 2018 elections condemn the election as a farce. “The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” stated the EU Observer Mission final report.
“As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”
Indeed, it was impossible to trace and verify anything given ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll; a legal and common sense requirement. Why all Zimbabwe’s opposition parties, all 130 of them, participated in the July 2018 elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging the elections is only a mystery to those who do not know just know corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders are.
During the 2008 to 2013 GNU Zimbabwe had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms which, implemented, would have ended the curse of rigged elections and bad governance once and once for all.
The task of implementing the reforms fall to Morgan Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders. They failed to implement even one token reform because Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office, the ministerial limos, the generous salaries, the US$ 4 million mansion for Tsvangirai, etc. The MDC leaders had the snout in the feeding trough and forgot about the reforms for next five years!
Ever since the failure to implement the reforms MDC and the rest of the opposition camp have participated in the elections knowing fully well with no reforms Zanu PF would rig the elections. They did so because they also knew that Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats, bait, to entice the opposition to participate regardless. It has worked!
Nelson Chamisa has been making the usual noise, demanding the implementation of “comprehensive reforms to end the culture of disputed elections”! Zanu PF know when push comes to shove, Chamisa and his MDC A friends will be filing their nomination papers even with no verified voters’ roll!
“As far as we are concerned 2023 election is a forgone conclusion. In fact it is over before the people have vote.” Chinamasa declared with the confidence of one who knows exactly what he talking about. Confidence born out of 40 years of rightly predicting a landslide Zanu PF election victory every time without failure.
Mugabe survived as Zanu PF top dog and head of state for 37 years because he had loot to buy blind loyalty and could bend and even break the party rules to suit his selfish megalomania needs. The country’s economic meltdown changed all that; without the loot down payment blind loyalty evaporated like the morning mist under the African sun.
Mnangagwa has no loot with which to buy blind loyalty and so his hold on power is tenuous the more so that military coup is now “legal, justified and constitutional!”
Anyone outside of Zanu PF cannot aspire to govern Zimbabwe, as long as Zanu PF retains the carte blanche dictatorial powers to rig elections, thanks to MDC leaders who have all but sold-out on the fight for free, fair and credible election.
Zanu PF is a party of corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs. Zimbabwe’s economy under Zanu PF stewardship was doomed to collapse because no economy can sustain for long the criminal waste of human and material resources; 40 years of Zanu PF misrule has left the Zimbabwe economy in ruins.
Zanu PF itself was doomed to implode. With the economy in meltdown, Zanu PF thugs were going to fight each other to the death over the scraps; the centre will not hold and the party will implode.
Zanu PF is sinking into the abyss under it own dead weight. But as long as Zanu PF remain in power, the governing party, the party will drag the whole nation into the abyss with it. It is for the people to end Zanu PF’s strangle hold on the nation or suffer and dead the consequence of continue Zanu PF tyrannical rule.
The people can end Zanu PF rule by demanding the implementation of the democratic reforms to ensure the next elections are free, fair and credible. Just because MDC leaders have sold-out on free and fair elections does not mean we too must throw in the towel!
A Mberengwa man was recently jailed for 10 years after he chopped off his lover’s ring finger with a machete to ensure that she will not wear any other suitor’s ring.
The victim, Linnet Chihora, 25, had told her lover Promise Moyo, 27, that she was ending their courtship when she was attacked on her finger and palm.
Moyo allegedly attempted to chop off the palm of Chihora hand as well. He appeared before Regional Magistrate Phathekile Msipa facing a murder charge.
Moyo will, however, serve an effective seven years after three years of the sentence were conditionally suspended.
Prosecuting, Talent Tadenyika said the incident occurred on 10 February 2020 after Moyo, Chihora and a neighbour Sibusisiwe Nyoni went to see the village head to discuss issues concerning the strained relationship.
Apparently, the village head was not able to reconcile two because on their from his residence around midnight, Moyo attacked Chihora with a machete.
Nyoni managed to stop Moyo from further assaulting Chihora and took her to the hospital.
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga who doubles up as. the Health and Child Care minister has suffered an embarrassing legal defeat after the High Court barred him from forcing nurses to return to full-time shift work.
Nurses in public hospitals and clinics early this month approached the High Court through the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) seeking an interdict against Chiwenga’s directive for the removal of their flexible working hours, commonly referred to as flexitime.
Flexitime was introduced as a result of a collective bargaining agreement in January 2019 to allow nurses and doctors to report for duty two or three times per week in view of their low remuneration, but Chiwenga, upon assuming the position of Health minister, scrapped the arrangement, prompting the nurses to seek legal recourse.
High Court judge Justice Martin Mafusire yesterday agreed that the nurses had raised valid concerns relating to incapacitation and lack of personal protective equipment for COVID-19.
The judge hit out at Chiwenga saying he acted against the spirit of fair negotiation by unilaterally ordering an end to flexitime.
Justice Mafusire, however, said the ruling did not serve as a final solution to the impasse and stressed that dialogue was the way to go.
In arriving at the ruling, Justice Mafusire noted that government had not made any significant improvements in the working conditions of nurses to warrant the removal of flexitime.
Flexitime would have ordinarily lapsed in April 2019 had government reviewed upwardly the nurses’ salaries.
“It is common cause that no review of remuneration was carried out in April 2019 as had been envisioned or at any time thereafter,” part of Justice Mafusire’s ruling read.
“Instead, in August 2019, government made a cost of living adjustment on nurses’ basic salaries and an allowance of between 50% and 76% on a sliding scale effective August 1, 2019. There was another BNP [Bipartite Negotiating Panel] agreement 28 August 2019. On flexitime, the agreement was inconclusive.”
After these developments, the court noted that there were two other attempts by government to end flexitime which ended in deadlocks, only for Chiwenga to thereafter issue a unilateral order bringing an end to the arrangement.
In the court’s eyes, this was unfair.
“The next development (after the two deadlocked attempts) was a directive by the third respondent (Chiwenga).
“It is one development that sparked the legal confrontation. The spirit of negotiation and compromise only seemed broken by the third respondent’s directive on October 19 2020.
“That directive seemed incongruous to what had prevailed before. The applicant (Zina) cannot be accused of inaction. It called for dialogue. That seemed quite in line with precedent.
“It was in line with the spirit and letter of the law. Only after a deadlock or an impasse had manifested did the applicant come to court. Any reasonable person can see that it was time to act,” the judge noted, adding that after assessing the merits of the case, he was left with no choice but to grant the applicants the relief they sought.
“In case, respondents undoubtedly find themselves between a hard place and a rock. They are in an invidious position.
“Having analysed the BNP agreements at length, as I have done above, I come to the conclusion that applicant’s main case is not without merit. The application succeeds. An order is hereby granted in in terms of the draft,” Justice Mafusire ruled.
He, however, urged the disputants to go back to the drawing board and solve their problems through dialogue.
“An urgent chamber application is generally an unsatisfactory method of solving disputes. It is disruptive,” the judge said.
FOUR people were injured this morning when a double cab Nissan Navara collied with a Nissan Tiida and veered onto the pavement at the Main Post Office at the corner of Joshua Mqabuko and Leopold Takawira Street in Bulawayo.
Witnesses said the Navara was travelling along Leopold Takawira, heading towards Tredgold and the driver failed to stop at the robot-controlled intersection resulting in the collision.
It veered into the pavement where people were queuing to withdraw money from the bank.
Three women and a child were ferried to hospital by ambulance
By A Correspondent | ZANU PF’s most powerful person, next to Emmerson Mnangagwa, the national commissar Victor Matemadanda has been poisoned.
Matemadanda has revealed that he was poisoned during last week’s Provincial Coordinating Committee meeting in Marondera which was also attended by the party leader, Mnangagwa.
Victor Matemadanda on Friday 20th Nov
During the function and immediately just after Mnangagwa had flown off in his military helicopter, a suspected assailant whose identity could not be established at the time of writing, walked over to the place where the commissar was sitting down, and released a powder which made Matemafanda instantly dizzy, confused and then eventually seriously ill.
The assailant, who the man says he cannot remember as he, Matemadanda became instantly confused, and lost memory, had pretended to be assisting the commissar, saying “there is something on your cap let me help you.”
“While they ( the assailant) were doing this, a smelly powder was released from their hands, and immediately I became dizzy,” said Cde Matemadanda.
“The powder I inhaled disturbed me until I had to tell people I am now going to the car.
” As I sat inside the car I suddenly became very hungry and began sweating heavily;
” Then I told the boys I was with, let’s to go OK supermarket to buy some food; when we got there I couldn’t eat and wanted to vomit.
“That was on Saturday, and on Sunday I spent the whole day feeling like vomiting, and feeling a certain bitter taste in the mouth; I did not suspect anything at the time.
“In the evening on Sunday, that’s when I began vomiting, in fact Saturday I vomited 3 times in the night, in the afternoon I had vomited 2 times. On Sunday night I spent the whole night vomiting; this happening 5 times.
“From the morning, I started feeling a swelling at the throat; then I said let’s go to work, but soon after that I started feeling twitching in the eyes and I began rubbing my eyes.
“My body started reacting and my face started swelling.
“I then approached a doctor who then attended to me.
” I think from the experience I once got in 2016, I then obtained the same treatment I once got back then,” he concluded.
Pictures seen by ZimEye show Matemadanda’s face still swollen and sweaty as at Friday the 20th November 2020.
The incident has left questions regarding who could have motives to poison Matemadanda. The attacker could be reacting to their disappointment over their failure during the ongoing district elections, which are happening around the country.
Commenting on the developmemt, analyst, Dr Masimba Mavaza, said he, Matemadanda. is now feeling better. ”
He was asked over the possibility that the man might be suffering from covid-19, to which ZimEye was told, “he was tested and was found to be COVID negative.”
Since independence 1980, every other political commissar has suffered either an assassination, or a humiliating ouster. The list of victims includes:
Mayor Urimbo,
Maurice Nyagumbo,
Movern Mahachi,
Border Gezi,
Elliot Manyika,
Webster Shamu
Engelbert Rugeje – who served after the 2017 coup, and was given a humiliating removal, and a few weeks ago had his house attacked by a 7 armed gang, one of whom found with a ZANU PF card.
Engelbert Rugeje’s immediate predecessor Saviour Kasukuwere fled Zimbabwe after his house was pounced on by skilled snipers.
– this is a developing story refresh this page for more.
THE Young Warriors have been disqualified from the 2929 COSAFA Men’s Under-17 Championships for having an over-aged player in the tournament which got underway in South Africa this week.
This means the team cannot fight for a place at the African Under-17 Championships given the top two teams, from this regional tourney, would book a place at the continental finals.
The Zimbabweans had started their campaign with a 1-1 draw against Angola and were set to take on South Africa today.
However, they will return home under a cloud of humiliation following their disqualification, for cheating, together with three other countries – Botswana, Comoros and Eswatini.
Ironically, the team had sparked controversy, back home, when one of their best players was disqualified, in the tests conducted here, before their departure.
‘’The disqualification of Botswana, Comoros Islands, Eswatini and Zimbabwe from the 2020 COSAFA Men’s Under-17 Championship on the basis of fielding over-age players has forced a reset of the competition which will now start on Sunday,’’ the organisers said in a statement.
‘’The Confederation of African Football Youth Competitions Committee made the decision to disqualify the teams from the zonal qualifier tournament for the 2021 Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations on Friday.
‘’The quartet all had, at least, one player fail their magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that were conducted in the Host Country prior to the start of the competition.
‘’The tournament regulations are very clear in this instance:
8.5 An age eligibility test will be obligatory and will be performed on all participating players upon arrival in the Host City. The test will be performed by the CAF Medical Services in accordance with the protocol of the F-Marc in a health facility duly accredited in the hosting country using an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus. The cost of the MRI test will be covered by CAF.
8.6 In the event that a participating team has one or more players who do not pass the MRI test for eligibility, then the applicable team will be disqualified and will have to return home as soon as is practically possible.
‘’MRI scans are used across the world to determine whether players are eligible for Under-17 competitions in particular.
‘’Doctors look for bone fusions in the human wrist, which are highly unlikely to occur before the age of 17, with a more than 99% accuracy rate. If the fused bone can be seen on the MRI scans, then it is proof that the player is older than 17.
‘’It is certainly not an issue that affects Southern Africa alone. Guinea were disqualified from appearing at the 2019 FIFA Under-17 World Cup after being found guilty of fielding two ineligible players in the continental finals, where they finished third.
‘’Their punishment will see them miss the next two Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations, and by consequence the next FIFA Under-17 World Cup.
‘’The 2020 COSAFA Men’s Under-17 Championship will restart as a four-team tournament on Sunday and will be played on a round-robin basis, with the top two teams advancing to a final on November 29.
‘’Hosts South Africa open their campaign against Malawi (kick-off 15h30), while before that Angola and Zambia do battle at 12h30.
‘’The matches which have been played to date will be regarded as warm-up games and will have no bearing on the new tournament format.
‘’There are also fixtures on Tuesday and Thursday, before the final positions are decided next Sunday, including a third-fourth play-off.
‘’The two sides that reach the final based on their position in the group will have already achieved one ambition by qualifying for the Cup of Nations that is scheduled for Morocco in the middle of next year.’’
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, leader of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church has attributed court victory at Malawi courts this week to God.
Magistrate Viva Nyimba acquitted all charges laid against Prophet Bushiri and his wife Mary citing that their arrest in Malawi was illegal.
The arrest follows a warrant of arrest that was issued out by Interpol South Africa pertaining to the flouting of his and her wife’s bail conditions.
However, the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) have since seized his R5.5 million home and forfeited his and her wife’s R200 000 bail.
Regardless, Prophet Bushiri has since said his life is worth more than his assets, “in his ruling the Magistrate ordered that my wife and I should be released unconditionally because our arrest was illegal.
Furthermore, the Magistrate also ruled that whenever they have a case against my wife and I we should appear before Court through summon not arrest.
I am also informed that some of my assets have been confiscated by authorities to which I say my right to life is more important than any asset in this world. Whatever has happened I don’t see it as our victory neither our lawyers. God has won,” said Prophet Bushiri.
However, South Africa’s Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, has since said his department has two weeks to prepare a formal extradition process for Prophet Bushiri and his wife.
The NPA has since charged the Bushiris with money laundering and corruption which amounts to the tune of over R100 million.
Regardless, the Bushiris have maintained their innocence citing that it’s all shenanigans that are aimed at tarnishing their name.
It’s now yet to be seen whether or not the Bushiris will ever stand trial in South Africa following their fear of endangering their lives.
Socialite and fitness trainer Michelle “Moana” Amuli’s burial will not take place anytime soon until the High Court rules on the dispute between her parents over her burial.
This comes after the deceased’s mother Ms Yolander Kuvaoga, represented by her lawyer Mr Jerome Madondo, made an urgent chamber application at the High Court to nullify the burial order issued on November 18.
The application is meant to prevent her estranged husband Mr Ishmael Amuli from abnegating their prior agreement that Moana be buried at Zororo Cemetery.
She wants the court to grant an interim interdict to stop the burial until the finalisation of the matter.
High Court Judge Justice Pisirai Kwenda yesterday deferred the matter to Monday by consent of both parties’ lawyers.
The judge wants to hear the two parties’ oral evidence before making an informed decision on the dispute.
He also wants Mr Amuli’s lawyer Mr Marcus Zvirahwa to file his opposing papers.
“This matter be deferred to Monday 23rd of November 2020 at 3pm which shall be the return date for this matter,” Justice Kwenda said.
“The first respondent(Amuli) shall file his notice of opposition by 9am on Monday 23rd November 2020. The applicant and first respondent shall attend the hearing on Monday 23rd November 2020 to give oral evidence.”
In her founding affidavit, Moana’s mother said she made an agreement with Mr Amuli that their daughter be buried at Zororo Cemetery in the presence of the deceased’s relatives and friends.
She said Mr Amuli later told her that Moana would be buried according to the rights of Islam in her absence, contrary to what they had agreed earlier on.
“I have a reasonable apprehension that I, together with other female sisters, colleagues and relations would be excluded from the funeral rites which would be unconscionable,” Kuvaoga argued.
She said Mr Amuli stated that she would be excluded from the funeral gathering which in her opinion would be unacceptable as she is Moana’s mother.
Ms Kuvaoga told the court that Moana had remote ties to Islam as evidenced by her lifestyle.
Emmerson Mnangagwa visiting the Vic Falls recently
VICTORIA Falls is set to be declared a city on December 9, a day during which President Mnangagwa will be awarded the Freedom of the City in recognition of his contribution to the resort town’s transformation.
The Freedom of City will be the first such honour to be given to anyone by the municipality in the history of the town.
Freedom of the City is the highest honour bestowed by a municipality to a valuable member of the community or to a visiting dignitary and it was historically an honour granted to military organisations allowing them the privilege to freely parade the city with drums beating, colours flying and bayonets mounted.
Parliament recently approved that Victoria Falls be granted city status after recommendation by a commission set by Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo three years ago.
The city status is a milestone and prestigious achievement for Victoria Falls which becomes the first municipality to be upgraded by the Second Republic and first city in Matabeleland North.
It comes as Government has shown commitment to transform the province particularly Victoria Falls which was designated a Special Economic Zone with special focus on tourism.
Minister Moyo had a closed meeting with municipal management on Thursday evening to prepare for the proclamation.
In an interview, Minister Moyo said the President will be in Victoria Falls on December 9 to receive Freedom of City and officially proclaim the city status.
He said Victoria Falls will now compete with other tourism destinations around the world as it will be visible.
Government can now allow the local authority to take water management rights from the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa), said the minister.
“We came here to prepare for 9 December when the local authority will present Freedom of the City to President Mnangagwa. We expect the President to be making a proclamation of the city on the day. As you know, there are a lot of issues involved in becoming a city and part of this are the qualifications that are needed.
“One of the qualifications is that once the commission recommends it must be debated in Parliament and in this case, the two Houses unanimously supported that the municipality be upgraded to a city. The President is then required to make a proclamation and that is what is going to happen on the 9th of December,” said Minister Moyo.
He said becoming a city will benefit the town and make it better known throughout the world especially as a tourist destination and also benefit residents.
“Once you upgrade a municipality to a city status it also assumes prestige that is reserved for cities. Victoria Falls has been suffering because if you google for a tourist city it does not appear because it is just a municipality,” said Minister Moyo.
“We know that a municipality in some cases does not have powers that are given to cities. We think that with the proclamation that the President is making those powers will be given to the city to pump its own water and have treatment plant and reticulation,” said Minister Moyo.
He said Victoria Falls is central to Zimbabwe’s tourism hence the approval of a Development Plan by the President and Cabinet on improvement of infrastructure in the town to match world tourism destination standards as well as development the Victoria Falls-Hwange-Binga Special Economic Zone comprising Masue and Batoka satellite towns, Hwange, Mlibizi, Binga and Sijalila along the Zambezi corridor.
Government wants to make Victoria Falls its conferencing capital and plans to build a multi-purpose convention centre with top-notch facilities such as five-star hotels, medical centre, a university, a Zimbabwe Defence Forces camp and sporting facilities.
Victoria Falls residents are excited about the developments.
“Becoming a city means widening of opportunities for us. As youth we expect to grow with the city especially through capacitation and creation of both educational and job opportunities. We hope to see focus changing towards infrastructure development particularly in education where there is need for a tertiary institution. This puts us on the world map in every aspect,” said Victoria Falls junior mayor Tafadzwa Matsa.
Mr Stevenson Bafana, who operates a grocery shop at Jambezi Business Centre about 50km outside Victoria Falls, said the city will attract more business.
“As businesses we hope this will bring in more big shops and widen options for stocking goods. This will also mean a reduction of prices for people because of competition as well as creation of more job opportunities,” said Mr Bafana.
An informal trader Ms Leonorah Ncube said: “We expect infrastructure to start growing in tandem with the envisioned population growth. We will also need to upgrade our lives and businesses.”
Victoria Falls had 33 000 people in 2012 when the last census was held and population is estimated to have grown to about 40 000.
Thanks Makore (56) has approached the High Court seeking bail over his murder charges.
Makore was arrested last week on charges of masterminding the killing of seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore Jnr last September in Murewa.
Thanks Makore is an uncle to the late Tapiwa.
He is employed by the US Embassy in Harare and Friday pleaded not guilty in court since the murder took place while he was at his place of residence in Damofalls, Ruwa.
His bail appeal was heard by High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi who reserved the ruling to November 24.
However, the state opposed bail and called the investigating officer (IO) who told the court that the police intend to conduct further searches at Makore’s Warren Park residence in Harare, where his second wife resides.
The first search was carried out at his first wife’s place in Damofalls, and nothing was found.
“According to our Investigations, the applicant is the mastermind of the whole murder case and is alleged to be the one who received the missing parts of the deceased, arms and the head,” said the IO.
“The information we received is that the applicant is the one who approached accused one and two, his brother Tapiwa Makore Snr and Tafadzwa Shamba.
“The accused is the one who employed or gave the contract to these two accused or his accomplices. He promised to pay them $US$1 500 and his accomplices killed Tapiwa Makore.
“After the commission of the offence, the accused is said to have received the head and the arms of the deceased,” the IO told the court.
He said searches at Makore’s Warren Park residence are still to be conducted.
“The applicant is likely to interfere with witnesses if granted bail. So far, we are done at Damofalls where his first wife resides. We are left with Warren Park where his second wife resides,” the police officer told the court.
“We are still doing investigations and we are yet to finish searching. One of the main witnesses is related to the applicant. In fact, he is the son of the applicant’s young brother so the accused might interfere with the witness. The applicant is employed by the American Embassy, so if granted bail he might seek transfer and relocate from Zimbabwe and abscond.”
The IO said considering the gravity of the offence the accused is facing, if convicted he is likely to face a capital sentence, so if granted bail he will abscond.
“Another issue is when we were carrying out searches at his Damofalls residence, there was a mob who were looking for the applicant. In fact, they were throwing stones at his house so if granted bail he might be attacked by the mob.”
However, Makore’s lawyer said the police were merely implicating his client without any valid evidence placed before the court.
He said the accused was arrested two months down after the murder had been committed and asked how the police had concluded that Thanks Makore was the mastermind of the crime.
Makore said he wanted to be released on bail so he can fend for his family and raise legal fees for his upcoming murder trial.
Ugandan pop star and presidential candidate Bobi Wine, whose arrest this week triggered protests that led to at least 37 deaths, was released on bail on Friday after being charged with holding rallies likely to spread the coronavirus.
The violence comes as campaigns kick off ahead of January elections in the oil-rich East African nation, whose ageing leader Yoweri Musaveni is a staunch Western ally but faces accusations of corruption and nepotism at home, which he denies.
Opposition leader Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was arrested on Wednesday while campaigning in eastern Uganda for allegedly holding mass rallies in violation of restrictions imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Uganda is due to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 14, with Wine emerging as a serious threat to Museveni, 76, who aims to extend his 34-year rule.
Violence snowballed as authorities deployed the military across the capital Kampala and surrounding areas to help police forces disperse protesters they accuse of rioting and looting. Police said they used live bullets, tear gas and water cannon, and arrested nearly 600 people.
Police pathologist Moses Byaruhanga told Reuters on Friday the death toll had jumped to 37.
Witnesses said they saw university and high school students gunned down in the streets.
Journalist Jocylynne Nakibuule, who works at local station Spark TV, said she had helped a 15-year-old boy shot in the back on Thursday.
“I am a mother. When I saw the boy, my motherly instincts kicked in. I forgot all about the riots,” Nakibuule said, adding that she took him to hospital on a motorbike taxi.
“He was bleeding constantly,” Nakibuule said, sobbing. “I kept calling his name, Amos, Amos, please fight to save the pain of your mother.”
The boy’s mother told her that soldiers had shot at them as they came out of a shop, she said.
Nakibuule went back to covering the protests. On Friday morning, the hospital told her the boy had died.
Fred Mpanga said his 21-year-old nephew, Yusuf Kimuli, was also killed after going to buy milk.
“Gunmen who were not in uniform and were in a private car moving around shooting people, they shot him in the back,” Mpanga said.
Kimuli lay in the street for more than an hour bleeding to death because people were afraid to help him, Mpanga said, citing accounts from witnesses who spoke to the family.
“All the light has been snuffed out of my life.”
It remains unclear who was responsible for the bloodshed. During the protests, a witness told Reuters that men in civilian clothes were walking around carrying assault rifles.
Multiple opposition parties have previously accused the government of using non-uniformed security personnel to quell riots. The government has denied those accusations.
Police spokesman Fred Enanga blamed the protesters, saying Wine’s supporters targeted bystanders who do not support their National Unity Platform (NUP) party.
“What we have seen in the last few days, that is violence, vandalism, looting, intimidation and threats, are crimes that were being committed (against) people who are not pro-NUP,” he said. “This is not something that we can tolerate.”
NUP spokesman Joel Senyonyi told Reuters the party condemned the looting and said it had urged supporters to protest peacefully.
In a televised court appearance on Friday, Wine blamed the president for the shootings: “It is Museveni who is supposed to be in this dock for killing innocent citizens.”
Wine is popular among Ugandan youth, who often play songs in which he denounces government corruption.
Wine has said that being “born hustling and born to hustling parents, raised in the ghettos” meant he could understand the struggles of impoverished Ugandans. He has repeatedly urged Museveni to retire.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said authorities were “weaponizing” Covid-19 to suppress opposition ahead of the elections.
“This is just the beginning of the campaign season,” said Oryem Nyeko, the group’s Africa researcher. “It seems to be a sign of things to come.”
By A Correspondent | ZANU PF’s most powerful person, next to Emmerson Mnangagwa, the national commissar Victor Matemadanda has been poisoned.
Matemadanda has revealed that he was poisoned during last week’s Provincial Coordinating Committee meeting in Marondera which was also attended by the party leader, Mnangagwa.
Victor Matemadanda on Friday 20th Nov
During the function and immediately just after Mnangagwa had flown off in his military helicopter, a suspected assailant whose identity could not be established at the time of writing, walked over to the place where the commissar was sitting down, and released a powder which made Matemafanda instantly dizzy, confused and then eventually seriously ill.
The assailant, who the man says he cannot remember as he, Matemadanda became instantly confused, and lost memory, had pretended to be assisting the commissar, saying “there is something on your cap let me help you.”
“While they ( the assailant) were doing this, a smelly powder was released from their hands, and immediately I became dizzy,” said Cde Matemadanda.
“The powder I inhaled disturbed me until I had to tell people I am now going to the car.
” As I sat inside the car I suddenly became very hungry and began sweating heavily;
” Then I told the boys I was with, let’s to go OK supermarket to buy some food; when we got there I couldn’t eat and wanted to vomit.
“That was on Saturday, and on Sunday I spent the whole day feeling like vomiting, and feeling a certain bitter taste in the mouth; I did not suspect anything at the time.
“In the evening on Sunday, that’s when I began vomiting, in fact Saturday I vomited 3 times in the night, in the afternoon I had vomited 2 times. On Sunday night I spent the whole night vomiting; this happening 5 times.
“From the morning, I started feeling a swelling at the throat; then I said let’s go to work, but soon after that I started feeling twitching in the eyes and I began rubbing my eyes.
“My body started reacting and my face started swelling.
“I then approached a doctor who then attended to me.
” I think from the experience I once got in 2016, I then obtained the same treatment I once got back then,” he concluded.
Pictures seen by ZimEye show Matemadanda’s face still swollen and sweaty as at Friday the 20th November 2020.
The incident has left questions regarding who could have motives to poison Matemadanda. The attacker could be reacting to their disappointment over their failure during the ongoing district elections, which are happening around the country.
Commenting on the developmemt, analyst, Dr Masimba Mavaza, said he, Matemadanda. is now feeling better. ”
He was asked over the possibility that the man might be suffering from covid-19, to which ZimEye was told, “he was tested and was found to be COVID negative.”
Since independence 1980, every other political commissar has suffered either an assassination, or a humiliating ouster. The list of victims includes:
Mayor Urimbo,
Maurice Nyagumbo,
Movern Mahachi,
Border Gezi,
Elliot Manyika,
Webster Shamu
Engelbert Rugeje – who served after the 2017 coup, and was given a humiliating removal, and a few weeks ago had his house attacked by a 7 armed gang, one of whom found with a ZANU PF card.
Engelbert Rugeje’s immediate predecessor Saviour Kasukuwere fled Zimbabwe after his house was pounced on by skilled snipers.
– this is a developing story refresh this page for more.
By A Correspondent| Influential traditional healer, Sekuru Banda has urged the late socialite and fitness bunny Moana’s parents to stop feuding and afford their daughter a decent burial.
Moana’s mother and father have been involved in a fierce battle for the body of their daughter whose burial which was slated for Wednesday had to be postponed as they could not agree on the funeral programme, in a dispute that has also sucked their immediate and extended families.
The video vixen is still at Parirenyatwa mortuary following the conclusion of the DNA tests early this week.
Sekuru Banda has appealed to both parties to find each other as their personal differences which have now gone public are not helping the situation.
“Moana’s mother should show respect to her daughter, is it necessary to take this fight to the courts, her daughter needs to rest, she suffered so much and the only way they can show her respect is to stop fighting and bury her,” said Sekuru Banda.
The philanthropic traditional healer also urged the immediate and extended families to the parents not to fuel the conflict but seek to bring them together and solve the conflict that has dominated local headlines since the announcement of burial plans by Doves.
“I wonder if there is anyone within the family or the nation who is enjoying this dispute, we are Africans and burial of our deceased relatives and friends is very important to put closure to how they died, so their immediate families should bring them together and solve this conflict, there is no difference that cannot be solved and courts may not be necessary,” he added.
Moana died in a tragic car accident following a head-on collision between the Rolls Royce belonging to popular businessman Genius Ginimbi Kadungure and a Honda Fit along Borrowdale road on the 8th of November.
The accident claimed Moana, Ginimbi and two other foreign passengers Limumba Karim (Malawi) and Alisha Adams (Mozambique).
Ginimbi was buried on Sunday last week in a burial that attracted thousands of people from all walks of life.
Police returned to Thanks Makore’s residence in Damofalls and continued digging in search of the head of his nephew, Tapiwa Makore (Junior), who was the victim of a suspected ritual murder in Nyamutumbu Village, Murehwa, on September 17.
The body of Tapiwa Makore, who was aged seven, is still to be buried as his head is still missing, two months after the horrific murder.
The boy’s uncle, Tapiwa Makore (Senior) (57), is accused of murdering his brother’s child with the help of his herdsman, Tafadzwa Shamba.
Throughout the search, Damofalls residents gathered from a distance as they awaited the outcome of the search which police confirmed ultimately yielded nothing.
Some angry residents, however, told ZimEye.com that the search might be compromised already as the police officers carrying out the search are being pampered by the accused.
The residents confirmed that the police officers were seen being fed with lots of beer inside the premises which was provided to them by the accused.
Thanks Makore, an uncle to the late Tapiwa Makore (Junior), is jointly charged with his twin brother Tapiwa (Senior) for their nephew’s murder.
The two, together with three other suspects, are in remand prison pending the murder trial.
Residents who spoke to ZimEye.com said they are doubtful that the remains will be found on the basis of the relations between the police and the accused.
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Some though remain hopeful that the head will be found.
“We remain optimistic. What happened to Tapiwa is wrong. Our prayers are that the head is found,” said on resident who declined to be named.
To date police have so far secured the torso, legs and arms of Tapiwa with the majority of the body parts being recovered in the Murehwa area.
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga who doubles up as. the Health and Child Care minister has suffered an embarrassing legal defeat after the High Court barred him from forcing nurses to return to full-time shift work.
Nurses in public hospitals and clinics early this month approached the High Court through the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) seeking an interdict against Chiwenga’s directive for the removal of their flexible working hours, commonly referred to as flexitime.
Flexitime was introduced as a result of a collective bargaining agreement in January 2019 to allow nurses and doctors to report for duty two or three times per week in view of their low remuneration, but Chiwenga, upon assuming the position of Health minister, scrapped the arrangement, prompting the nurses to seek legal recourse.
High Court judge Justice Martin Mafusire yesterday agreed that the nurses had raised valid concerns relating to incapacitation and lack of personal protective equipment for COVID-19.
The judge hit out at Chiwenga saying he acted against the spirit of fair negotiation by unilaterally ordering an end to flexitime.
Justice Mafusire, however, said the ruling did not serve as a final solution to the impasse and stressed that dialogue was the way to go.
In arriving at the ruling, Justice Mafusire noted that government had not made any significant improvements in the working conditions of nurses to warrant the removal of flexitime.
Flexitime would have ordinarily lapsed in April 2019 had government reviewed upwardly the nurses’ salaries.
“It is common cause that no review of remuneration was carried out in April 2019 as had been envisioned or at any time thereafter,” part of Justice Mafusire’s ruling read.
“Instead, in August 2019, government made a cost of living adjustment on nurses’ basic salaries and an allowance of between 50% and 76% on a sliding scale effective August 1, 2019. There was another BNP [Bipartite Negotiating Panel] agreement 28 August 2019. On flexitime, the agreement was inconclusive.”
After these developments, the court noted that there were two other attempts by government to end flexitime which ended in deadlocks, only for Chiwenga to thereafter issue a unilateral order bringing an end to the arrangement.
In the court’s eyes, this was unfair.
“The next development (after the two deadlocked attempts) was a directive by the third respondent (Chiwenga).
“It is one development that sparked the legal confrontation. The spirit of negotiation and compromise only seemed broken by the third respondent’s directive on October 19 2020.
“That directive seemed incongruous to what had prevailed before. The applicant (Zina) cannot be accused of inaction. It called for dialogue. That seemed quite in line with precedent.
“It was in line with the spirit and letter of the law. Only after a deadlock or an impasse had manifested did the applicant come to court. Any reasonable person can see that it was time to act,” the judge noted, adding that after assessing the merits of the case, he was left with no choice but to grant the applicants the relief they sought.
“In casu, respondents undoubtedly find themselves between a hard place and a rock. They are in an invidious position.
“Having analysed the BNP agreements at length, as I have done above, I come to the conclusion that applicant’s main case is not without merit. The application succeeds. An order is hereby granted in in terms of the draft,” Justice Mafusire ruled.
He, however, urged the disputants to go back to the drawing board and solve their problems through dialogue.
“An urgent chamber application is generally an unsatisfactory method of solving disputes. It is disruptive,” the judge said.
A 38-year-old Rusape man is alleged to have murdered his 10-year-old son who had become epileptic and buried his body in the forest without following the necessary cultural rites.
Daniel Sarapo of Kanyangira village under Chief Makoni is alleged to have fatally assaulted his son, Devine while trying to force him to take a bath.
The matter only came to light when the grandmother of the victim visited her other son in Kuwadzana, Harare, who directed her to report the matter to the police, national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi revealed.
The grandmother of the victim visited the suspect, Daniel Sarapo, to inform him that his son was no longer going to school as he was now epileptic.
The suspect allegedly heated some water and tried to force the victim to a bath. He assaulted the victim using a plank and the grandmother, who had gone out, came back later and found Devine Sarapo dead.
The suspect is alleged to have secretly buried the body in a forest without observing the usual cultural rites in the company of 10 other people.
Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe stepped down on November 21, 2017, bringing an end to nearly four decades of iron-fisted rule.
His resignation came days after military tanks rolled through the capital Harare. The coup was greeted with euphoria, tens of thousands pouring into the streets to celebrate.
But today, three years after his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa took over, the high hopes for change have dissipated into disaffection.
What has changed after Mugabe? –
“Nothing has changed. Things have only got worse,” said Ibbo Mandaza, head of the Harare-based Southern African Political and Economic Series.
“Look at the levels of poverty. Look at the repression. Things are much worse.”
Is the economy any better? –
On assuming power, Mnangagwa pledged to fix the country’s moribund economy which had taken a battering under Mugabe’s watch.
But the economic woes — including the foreign currency crunch which plagued Mugabe’s rule — remain, the promise of new jobs still a pipe dream for many.
While some goods which were once either scarce or inaccessible are now readily available, most of the population cannot afford basic necessities.
The UN World Food Programme, which has traditionally provided aid to the poor in rural areas, has expanded its reach to urban dwellers.
The World Bank predicts the economy will contract by 10 percent this year, while the government says it will shrink 4.5 percent due to macro-economic and Covid-19 shocks.
Mnangagwa has blamed the economic struggles on unnamed enemies.
“This battle is being fuelled by our political detractors, elite opportunists and malcontents who are bent on pushing a nefarious agenda,” he has claimed.
The ruling Zanu-PF party claimed Friday that at least 500,000 formal jobs had been created under Mnangagwa.
What about human rights? –
Mnangagwa’s government has targeted opposition figures, rights activists and lawyers in what is seen as a tactic to strike fear into a restive population.
Human rights monitoring group Zimbabwe Peace Project said that since November 2017 it has documented 7,962 cases of abuse, including abductions of around 100 activists and opposition figures by suspected state agents or pro-government supporters.
Rights abuses “are worse and more gruesome,” prominent human rights activist Jestina Mukoko said.
In 2018, six people were gunned down when soldiers deployed to quell protests over delayed election results.
Five months later 17 others were killed after the military was sent out to quell demonstrations over a fuel price hike.
Award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has been detained twice this year — once for endorsing anti-corruption protests and more recently for tweeting about plans to grant bail to a politically-connected miners chief arrested trying to smuggle gold.
Is anything new politically? –
University of Zimbabwe political scientist Eldred Masunungure said the present picture “points to a comprehensively volatile situation”.
“Nothing points to stability but I don’t want to overstate this because we have reached this crossroads many times before and the country has not collapsed. The default position in the country is one of instability. It appears like the new normal.
“It’s an exceptional case where the regime survives despite the volatility, where citizens don’t rise up despite the simmering anger. The regime staggers but does not fall. That’s the mystery of our situation.”
What are ordinary people saying? –
On the streets of Harare, resident Timothy Bhaureni said “things cannot continue this way”.
“These people should just admit they have failed.”
“Little did we know that we were swimming into a pool infested with crocodiles,” Itai Tione Wasu tweeted.
“Mugabe had to go but I regret allowing myself to endorse the coup.”
By A Correspondent | ZANU PF’s most powerful person, next to Emmerson Mnangagwa, the national commissar Victor Matemadanda has been poisoned.
Matemadanda has revealed that he was poisoned during last week’s Provincial Coordinating Committee meeting in Marondera which was also attended by the party leader, Mnangagwa.
Victor Matemadanda on Friday 20th Nov
During the function and immediately just after Mnangagwa had flown off in his military helicopter, a suspected assailant whose identity could not be established at the time of writing, walked over to the place where the commissar was sitting down, and released a powder which made Matemafanda instantly dizzy, confused and then eventually seriously ill.
The assailant, who the man says he cannot remember as he, Matemadanda became instantly confused, and lost memory, had pretended to be assisting the commissar, saying “there is something on your cap let me help you.”
“While they ( the assailant) were doing this, a smelly powder was released from their hands, and immediately I became dizzy,” said Cde Matemadanda.
“The powder I inhaled disturbed me until I had to tell people I am now going to the car.
” As I sat inside the car I suddenly became very hungry and began sweating heavily;
” Then I told the boys I was with, let’s to go OK supermarket to buy some food; when we got there I couldn’t eat and wanted to vomit.
“That was on Saturday, and on Sunday I spent the whole day feeling like vomiting, and feeling a certain bitter taste in the mouth; I did not suspect anything at the time.
“In the evening on Sunday, that’s when I began vomiting, in fact Saturday I vomited 3 times in the night, in the afternoon I had vomited 2 times. On Sunday night I spent the whole night vomiting; this happening 5 times.
“From the morning, I started feeling a swelling at the throat; then I said let’s go to work, but soon after that I started feeling twitching in the eyes and I began rubbing my eyes.
Matemadanda on Friday
“My body started reacting and my face started swelling.
“I then approached a doctor who then attended to me.
” I think from the experience I once got in 2016, I then obtained the same treatment I once got back then,” he concluded.
Pictures seen by ZimEye show Matemadanda’s face still swollen and sweaty as at Friday the 20th November 2020.
The incident has left questions regarding who could have motives to poison Matemadanda. The attacker could be reacting to their disappointment over their failure during the ongoing district elections, which are happening around the country.
Commenting on the developmemt, analyst, Dr Masimba Mavaza, said he, Matemadanda. is now feeling better. ”
He was asked over the possibility that the man might be suffering from covid-19, to which ZimEye was told, “he was tested and was found to be COVID negative.”
Since independence 1980, every other political commissar has suffered either an assassination, or a humiliating ouster. The list of victims includes:
Mayor Urimbo,
Maurice Nyagumbo,
Movern Mahachi,
Border Gezi,
Elliot Manyika,
Webster Shamu
Engelbert Rugeje – who served after the 2018 coup, and was given a humiliating removal, and a few weeks ago had his house attacked by a 7 armed gang, one of whom found with a ZANU PF card.
Engelbert Rugeje’s immediate predecessor Saviour Kasukuwere fled Zimbabwe after his house was pounced on by skilled snipers.
– this is a developing story refresh this page for more.
This man couldn’t have been in his 30s, no way. Look at his face and then start honouring those who wanted to bury him at the Heroes Acre, they must have known something we don’t know – his real date of birth!
It is illegal for Harare City Council to clamp and tow away vehicles parked in the city centre without displaying parking discs, the Supreme Court has ruled.
However, council can fine offenders under its 1983 regulations and if they do not pay within four days, it should have them prosecuted in court.
The Supreme Court made the ruling after a Harare motorist, Ms Melody Muza, challenged the municipality for clamping and towing her car for failing to display a parking disc while she was parked in a council bay along Park Street in May last year.
Justices Elizabeth Gwaunza, Tendai Uchena and Lavender Makoni, sitting at the Supreme Court, made the ruling on October 14, stating that council could only legally act under the Harare Traffic By-Laws of 1983.
On May 3 last year, Ms Muza parked her car along Park Street in the capital at around 12.30pm.
Municipal police clamped her car saying she had failed to display a parking disc during the time she was parked. Ms Muza was then fined $57 which was supposed to be paid at City of Harare offices at Cleveland House.
Before proceeding to pay the penalty, Ms Muza tried in vain to negotiate with municipal police who insisted on her paying the money reflected on her ticket.
Ms Muza sought legal advice and was told that it was illegal for municipal police to clamp and tow away the vehicle for any crime other than those provided in the First Schedule of the Harare Traffic By-Laws of 1983.
Ms Muza then decided to institute legal action against City of Harare arguing that the circumstances under which her car was clamped and towed were not covered.
She also argued that she was supposed to be given four days to pay the penalty before her car was towed and the City of Harare was supposed to take her for prosecution in the event that she failed to settle the penalty fee.
Through her lawyer, Mr Stansilous Tapiwa Mutema of Stansilous and Associates, Ms Muza filed an urgent chamber application for spoliation at the High Court, that is a temporary order that restores possession of property to a holder while the main legal action continues.
In the application, Ms Muza wanted an order that Statutory Instrument 104 of 2005 outlawed clamping and towing of vehicles within Harare’s municipality jurisdiction whenever the crime committed was outside the First Schedule of SI357 OF 1983.
She also wanted the High Court to order council to reimburse the money she paid in penalties.
In its response, Harare City Council, which was being represented by Mr Jeremiah Bamu, said Ms Muza was not candid with the court as the towing only occurred four hours after her car was clamped.
Council said her car was towed after she had refused to pay the penalty fees as was required by the city’s by-laws. High Court Justice Owen Tagu dismissed the application saying it was not urgent.
Ms Muza, through Mr Mutema, appealed against the High Court decision at the Supreme Court where the spoliation order was granted.
Justice Gwaunza, sitting with Justice Uchena and Justice Makoni, ruled that it was illegal for municipal police to clamp and tow away cars in the CBD.
By Dr Masimba Mavaza | Cde Victor Matemadanda who is the National Political Commissair survived poisoning at the hands of unknown killers. Cde Matemadanda inhaled some substances which turned out to be poisonous. Cde Matemadanda narrated how a man came to him soon after they had seen the president off from Marondera, a man pretended to be removing something from Cde Matemadanda’s cap. It was at that moment that cde Matemadanda smelt a horrible stench which almost suddenly made him feel dizzy and sick.
Victor Matemadanda
The horror of the attempt on the National Political Commissair’s life was, of course, in the main the ordinary human manner of assassination.
This is always deepened when the victim is assailed at his post, and when the post is a conspicuous one, and when death seems to come because he has been faithful to his duty. Society has more than usual tenderness for what may be called its sentinels, — that is, for the persons who expose themselves in its service, — and the more responsibility it puts on them the greater the tenderness becomes. There are people within the party who are as much impressed by the tragedy as the opposition and the reason was that all felt that it was holding a high place in the party which had made him the victim. Sympathy of this kind, too, was not confined to the NPC It was felt all over the party Structures felt by millions, probably, who knew little or nothing of the NPC’s career, and knew as little of his duties or responsibilities They did know, however, that the President has raised him to great eminence, and that it was because he was eminent that the evil hand with poison was leveled against him; and they felt for him, accordingly, that sorrow which has become almost instinctive with the civilized man, for the misfortunes of those who keep watch and ward while others sow or reap, and spin or weave. But no one who observed the expressions of popular feeling could help seeing that there is no general indignation and regret a good deal of mortification and humiliation. Those who meant to kill him are those who always block the breathing space for the president. They always stay at the president’s farm or office. One wonders when will they ever do their own work. They are the ones who wish to see the Commissar dead.
It had been feared from the day on which he was appointed He acknowledged the existence of the danger himself, in his simple way, when he put the party business ahead of his life. Matemadanda is hated for his stance for the president. He is a well known fighter who stands for his principal. Matemadanda is known for his fearless stand against party violence and he broods no nonsense. He stands against Those familiar with deeds of violence.His diplomatic approach has seen tens of thousands, during the previous five years, come to party without represented aggression, lawlessness, conquest, and oppression. When one reads, in fact, of the ferocious language towards him, and towards those who believe in him. the readiness of the enemy’s mind at that period to think of the killing of a hard worker even in cold blood as, somehow, not murder, the wonder is that whose interest are these murderous serving.
The generation of those who began the war had never known to refuse to accept a previous quarrel as justification of a homicide, or, in other words, had never seen malice prepense treated as of the essence of blood-guiltiness. ZANU PF does not need these malicious blood sucking vampires pretending to be patriots.
When Matemadanda was appointed however, the peaceful habit of mind was probably more widely diffused through the country than it had been since the foundation of the government. There have been poisoning enough, Heaven knows, during the past five years, but there never has been, heretofore, the dislike of bloodshed as a remedy for private wrongs which now exists in all structures of the Party. There are unmistakable sign of the growth of a public opinion hostile to dueling, and a fortiori hostile to all violent modes of redress for either real or fancied wrongs. No NPC had as much reason to think himself safe or less reason to suppose that it would be prudent to make access to him more difficult.
There had been no known dispute about his appointment. His appointment was at the pleasure of the president Matemadanda is a man of singularly genial temper. There was nothing in his career to excite envy, hatred, or malice. He had won his way to prominence by arts which nearly every Zimbabwean admires, and there was a large element of pathos, which everybody felt, in his final triumph. Matemadanda stood against Mugabe publicly and this earned him some nights in prison. He was embarrassed but he stood resolute. He is never petty his focus is to serve the Party the nation and the President. It is his resolve which has created such enmity.
Not only, then, did he seem, in the popular eye, to be protected by the protection which Senior officials as distinguished from sovereigns, are supposed to enjoy, but by the peculiar immunity which in the Party is always enjoyed by the poor boy who fights his way up to distinction, and is not ashamed of his beginnings.
The attempt on Matemadanda’s life was done by those who have formed a clique around the president and are lining up their own support to enhance themselves as demigods. These are the ones Matemadanda faced head on to free the president from the dead wood. For his part he puts his life in the path of danger. Matemadanda represented a system which existed, to all outward appearance, for the benefit of the nation the party and the principal, and to destroy the idea Matemadanda stands for was to shake the system. Matemadanda may be in the office for a short period during which those who think he has wronged them know there will be no am peal from him, and that all men in power will make it their duty to question the justice of his decrees. In fact, it needs no deep examination of the nature and function of royalty to see that some of its traits must readily suggest assassination to men with a grievance, and either not afraid of death, or very confident of the efficacy of their means of escape. The sentiment of loyalty is the one moral defense which it possesses which the presidency does not; but this is comparatively feeble in our time, and never was strong in more than a very small circle. It has a dangerous tendency to rouse a sort of reactionary hatred among persons who do not feel it, and yet are called on to acknowledge it as a political agency.
The very idea of a man raised above the law, and claiming reverence without regard to his personal merits, has become to hundreds of thousands, in our day, a highly inflammatory idea, which kindles fanaticism of protest, before which loyalty, even in its best days, would have to pale its ineffectual fires. but there has probably never been a time when so many fairly moral and rational men would think so little of killing a man as a means of promoting a much desired political change.
There is no doubt that we must owe our safety, such as it is, far more to the growth of belief in the possibility of bringing about desired political changes by peaceable means than to increased mildness of manners or increased horror of assassination. The NPC’s office is not hereditary; it can only be filled by a man whom, whether worthy or not, the majority thinks worthy. It is elective, and nobody can enter on it with any glamour of divine light about him, or with any special claim to “the grace of God.”
The President is always a man who appoints one from the people, and destined to return to the ranks of the people as one of themselves. The term of the NPC is short. Even the most impatient of his enemies has not long to wait before seeing another person gracing the office. So trying to kill him does not help. Everybody whom he offends has the relief, and indeed luxury, of abusing him. The law puts no restraint on the terms in which he may be assailed, and even lying about him has in practice an impunity which does not attend it in the case of any other man in the country.
There are people who do not give the president a chance to be the president. They always stick around the president stoping any other person to see the president. These are the ones who are clearing those who do not bow to them Their unsoundness and inability to succeed consists largely in a quality which is prominent in savages, but in them is ascribed not to insanity, but to imperfect development, — namely, want of tenacity of purpose. They seem to have done a variety of things with a certain amount of ability—small, to be sure, but still sufficient to enable him to earn a livelihood, if he had stuck to any one thing. Instability, combined with inordinate vanity, brought him to want, and want made him tricky. But until he shot the President no one thought him too insane for all share in the worlds work. When he shot him, therefore, it was not unnatural that people should listen to his explanation of his act, not as a defense, but as an elucidation of the kind of motives by which this very large class to which he belongs are acted on. That his talk was silly is nothing to the purpose.
Two thirds of the talk one hears in a bar-room, for instance, is silly. It becomes important when we remember that there are thousands of persons like him afloat, that is, persons capable of forming plans under a delusion, and pursuing them for a short period with determination, the delusion being one which a man might entertain without rendering himself thereby liable to confinement.
People who seek to assassinate others are more fanatical than the other and they belonged to the same category of unstable, flighty, and vainglorious people who seek to achieve fame by a single blow, and find all ordinary pursuits and industries too monotonous for them.
It is to be observed, too, that it is the spoils system only which makes the hostility of the the losers to the NPC a matter of eager interest to this class.
The office of the NPA is blessed with a hostile atmosphere from those who will be posturing for positions in fact, with all the inconveniences, and has none of the advantages, of a progressive party.
It ought to be a settled rule of ZANU PF polity, that no man or body of men shall profit by assassination. Nothing should pass by murder, in the shape of either dignity or emolument, to any person holding a position of any status.
These cowards who sought to kill Matemadanda do not live under law, and as long as they do not live under law they will constitute in a certain sense a dangerous class, and will be surrounded by a still more dangerous class, composed of those who would like to eliminate any threat to their positions.
Comrade Matemadanda has survived this attempt but there are lessons to be learnt. People must learn to co exist. We can mot all have one thought but we can have one goal. The party must investigate these criminals witches and wizards. They are demons and highly demonic.
The comforting thing is that Matemadanda vows to serve his President and his nation despite an attempt to his life.
ZANU PF shall never be intimidated by few malcontents.
By A Correspondent| Popular traditional healer Sekuru Banda has warned controversial clerics Passion Java and Talent Madungwe against playing with the name of God saying their recent clash over whether Ginimbi was in heaven or hell was uncalled for and unnecessary.
Passion and Madungwe have proclaimed different ‘prophecies’ over socialite Genius ‘Ginimbi’ Kadungure’s after life status.
Madungwe who has made a name for his weird imagery of heaven was at it again saying Ginimbi and Moana had failed to qualify for heaven.
Passion later made his own ‘prophecy’ saying Ginimbi was in heaven and enjoying life there.
“He is in a place I never expected him to be,” said Java during an interview a local radio.
However Sekuru Banda fumed over the two’s attention seeking antics which he said should not be allowed to go unchallenged.
“They should allow Ginimbi’s soul to rest in peace, it is blasphemous to claim to know what happens in heaven, non of them can claim to be God
“Only God knows what happens in heaven, they have been allowed to get away with their controversial and false prophecies for long,” said Sekuru Banda.
“Kana munhu achinge ashayika tinofanira kunyatsotanga kufungisisa kuti pamwe ndini pamwe ndiwe urikutewera zviii zvakanaka zvavaiyita, uchatarisana seyi na Mwari iwe uri kutamba nezvisingatambike nazvo,” added Sekuru Banda.
By A Correspondent| The late controversial businessman Genius Kadungure is believed to have registered all his assets inclusive of vehicles and properties under a trust, with his father, brother and sister set to benefit from the empire which will now be superintended by a retired army colonel, a source close to the family has revealed.
According to the source, lawyers including the seasoned Jonathan Samkange are in possession of Ginimbi’s will and will reportedly gather his family members soon to announce how his estate will be handled.
The source said Ginimbi’s father Anderson Kadungure will get 10 percent of his company shares, which will guarantee him 10 percent share of profits from the companies.
Ginimbi’s married sister who was with him when he started Sankayi Night club now Dreams will reportedly get 30 percent.
The lion’s share of 60 percent will go to his young brother who is still in university, the source told ZimEye.
As for the cars, the source said Ginimbi decided that none should be sold but used by the family for personal and business purposes.
His father is not yet aware of the contents of the will and is already preparing himself to take over the running of his businesses.
“Before Ginimbi’s burial, a retired army colonel who was managing his security company and now the overally in charge of Piko Holdings assembled all the managers running the late socialite’s companies including Dreams Night club and Pioneer Gas among others to assure them that they will continue with their current roles.
“He also took them (the managers) to the Kadungure family for introductions.
“After the CEO had introduced all the managers, Ginimbi’s father said something like, hoo saka ndo team yandinenge ndichishanda nayo iyi (so this is the team I will be working with),” said the source.
Ginimbi is believed to have clearly indicated to his lawyers that his father should only get his 10 percent share profit while at home and is not allowed to interfere in the running of his businesses.
Ginimbi and his father did not have a cordial relationship after he together with his siblings were reportedly subjected to emotional abuse when they were still young including watching their mother being forced off the bed to accommodate a girlfriend.
Ginimbi died on the 8th of November morning after his expensive Rolls-Royce Wraith collided with a Honda Fit along Borrowdale road.
Three other passengers in his car including top model Mitchell Amuli populaly known as Moana and two foreigners Limumba Karim and Alisha Adams were burnt recognition when the car caught fire after hitting a tree.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made forced cross-cutting changes to his Presidential Guard (PG) Brigade several months after his wife Auxillia clashed with one of the most senior officers in the unit, The NewsHawks can report.
The changes reflect Mnangagwa’s continued coup-proofing strategy and search for stability in the military forces which brought him to power through a coup in November 2017.
The PG, responsible for providing protection to the President and his deputies and securing Harare district, is a force trained to fight in built-up areas such as cities and towns. The unit is also part of Mnangagwa’s forceful presidential motorcade.
The changes in the PG have seen the unit’s second-in-command, Colonel David Nyasha, being recently replaced by Mnangagwa’s former aide-de-camp, Never-Jones Makuyana, while Nyasha is understood to have been posted to army headquarters.
Security sources said Nyasha opted out of the yellow beret unit after he clashed with his superior, Brigadier-General Fidelis Mhonda.
Makuyana, who at the time was a lieutenant-colonel, was deployed to army headquarters after Mnangagwa changed his security team following the White City Stadium explosion in Bulawayo in 2018 which claimed the lives of some security personnel and injured several high-ranking government officials.
“Makuyana miraculously escaped unscathed, but his service pistol was damaged by shrapnel from the blast,” a source said, adding Makuyana is now PG second-in-commander.
Mhonda took over from Anselem Sanyatwe, who was briefly promoted to Major-General before being posted to diplomatic service in Tanzania.
Military sources said Sanyatwe was retired from the army because he was seen as too loyal to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga who engineered the coup during his tenure as Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces.
The removal of Sanyatwe and other top commanders widened the political rift between Mnangagwa and Chiwenga who are now strange political bedfellows.
Following a spat with the First Lady, which went viral on social media platforms, former officer commanding 1 Presidential Guard, Samson Murombo, who later became one of Mnangagwa’s aides-de-camp, was deployed to the Nyanga-based All Arms Battle School in what sources said was a result of the clash with Mnangagwa’s wife.
Lt-Col Mangezi took over as 1PG commander, while Lt-Col Arison Chicha took the reigns at 2PG. Before taking charge of 1 Presidential Guard Battalion, which is next to Mnangagwa’s official residence, Murombo was in charge of 2 Presidential Guard in Dzivaresekwa.
Murombo was in the news last year in July after an audio recording of the enraged First Lady was leaked, showing her interference and Grace Mugabe-style political grandstanding.
Mnangagwa’s wife accused Murombo of spying on her and plotting to kill the President. Her outbursts betrayed the First Family’s paranoid disposition and concerns about their security.
“You are spying on me,” Auxillia railed at Murombo on the audio, not giving him a chance to respond to allegations even though he pleaded with her to hear him out.
Auxillia’s rantings had echoes of Grace’s shrieks of outrage against military figures.
Sources said another junior officer, identified as Captain Promise Manjoro, whom the First Lady accused of spying on her, was also redeployed to Wafa Wafa Training School. Before his latest redeployment, Manjoro was the adjutant (senior administration officer) at 2PG and before that he was part of the First Lady’s Security personnel.
The Presidential Guard unit, which played a key role in toppling former president Robert Mugabe, underwent several changes after the coup code-named Operation Restore Legacy. Two years ago, a number of low-ranking officers from 2PG were transferred to 1PG.
This, according to sources, was part of Mnangagwa’s coup-proofing strategy, while it was also calculated to contain Chiwenga. Presidential spokesperson George Charamba could not be reached for comment at the time of going to print.
By Jane Mlambo| Following his release from Chikurubi maximum prison last night after being granted bail by the High Court, journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has vowed to continue fighting against corruption saying his continued persecution renews his drive against corruption.
Posting on his Twitter account soon after release, Chin’ono hailed his legal team for securing his freedom.
He also thanked citizens for standing by him during his ‘political persecutions’.
“Thanks to my legal team of Beatrice Mtetwa, @DougColtart, Gift Mtisi assisted by Chris Mhike & @ZLHRLawyers.
I would like to thank all citizens local & beyond who stood with me during my political persecution.
Each time I am persecuted, my drive against corruption is renewed,” said Chin’ono.
He was arrested more than two weeks ago charged with obstruction.
Chin’ono had a pending case where he is being charged with inciting public violence.
CChin’ono’s bail ruling order by Justice Terrence Chitapi
MDC ALLIANCE ASSEMBLY OF WOMEN STATEMENT ON THE OUTCOME OF LEADER TENDAI MASOTSHA INQUIRY
The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women welcomes the decision of the Bulawayo Province AOW Chair, Tendai Masotsha inquiry by the Investigation Committee.
Leader Masotsha has been exonerated from the allegations that she aided Tawanda Muchehiwa’s abduction in July.
The committee found no evidence to the allegations and we are satisfied with the internal process and the brief prepared by the committee which was appointed by the National Council. The Chairlady has been cleared and she can now freely execute her duties as the Chairperson.
We also believe that the Secretary General, Hon Charlton Hwende has no personal interest in the outcome of the case and was not part of the investigation committee. He has only acted in the best interest of the collective decision by defending the National Council to appoint the Investigating Committee which comprised of experts within the party.
We are also aware that the attack on the person of SG Hwende is not aimed at him as an individual but it is a deliberate ploy to bring the MDCA into disrepute .
We continue to defend and support the party in every progressive decision made and we plead with sympathizers and supporters of the party to always dialogue with us on matters relating to the assembly in efforts to find inclusive solutions to the challenges that our party may face, we are here to listen and to serve you. Masotsha is a victim of state sponsored repression who equally deserves our support. We also demand justice for all victims of state sponsored abductions and torture including Tawanda Muchehiwa who is still recovering from gruesome torture . ZANU PF is the main culprit in the instigation of state sponsored violence and repression, so we will not be distracted by sideshows in our collective act to demand the respect of Human Rights in Zimbabwe.
We take this opportunity to wish Ldr Masotsha well in taking Bulawayo Province to greater heights in terms of mobilising women for MDC Alliance during these trying times.
We believe in the able leadership of President Nelson Chamisa as we continue to fight for a people’s government.
Monica Mukwada Secretary – MDC Alliance Assembly of Women
A MAN who was bedding a married woman in Zimbabwe and continued sex-texting her when she moved to South Africa, endured 10 hours while being hog-tied in his birthday suit in a bush after his lover’s husband allegedly kidnapped him.
After seeing the sexually-suggestive chats that Tongai Kambarami (26) exchanged with his wife only identified as Primrose (23), the husband hired two men and travelled all the way from South Africa to “deal” with Tongai.
Tongai told B-Metro that the husband used his wife’s phone to pin him down.
“Primrose’s husband pretended to be Prim and sent me sexually-suggestive messages and promised me that she is coming at the end of November. I hooked to the chats and had no reason to be suspicious,” he said.
But Tongai never knew that he was being taken for a ride.
“On 10 November while I was at home relaxing, I received a message which I presumed was from Primrose saying she had sent me a parcel with a malayitsha and I should wait at home. They (malayitsha) arrived at 10pm and told me that they forgot the parcel in town so we have to drive to town to collect it. When we got to Emagetsini a guy told me that he was Primrose’s husband and he was the one who had been communicating with me,” he said.
Tongai said fear gripped him and he became numb. Primrose’s husband and his partners in crime drove into a bushy area near Entumbane suburb.
“They were very angry and I thought they would kill me. I tried to talk to them so that they would not kill me and I gave them R500. They stripped me naked before tying my hands to the legs with a wire and leaving me in the bush,” he said.
He said that he spent 10 hours in the bush.
“At around 8.30pm a Good Samaritan who was fetching firewood came to my rescue and went to inform a police officer at Entumbane Police Station. Police officers came and untied me,” he said.
He was referred to Mpilo Central Hospital for medical examination. He was treated and has been discharged.
Bulawayo acting police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed the case and appealed for information that might lead to the arrest of the accused persons who are on the run.-B-Metro
THE Chinyika West community near Headlands was early this week plunged into mourning after three siblings from the Mabvuwa family died of suspected food poisoning which left two other minors hospitalised.
The death of Eslom (13), Rutendo (11) and Sarah (seven) who were in Grades Seven, Five and One at Mugadza Primary School has left the community disturbed.
Abraham (five) and Ndezvashe (two), who are admitted at Rusape General Hospital, are in a stable condition.
The incident occurred on Monday in Ward Eight’s Village 21, Chinyika West, in Headlands.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the Mabvuwas ate sadza with a traditional vegetable — amaranths (mowa).
But the deceased’s mother — Ms Fortunate Chivamombe (35) — denies that her children ate poisoned vegetables.
“My children did not eat mowa as alleged. I only gave them sadza and chunks. I don’t know where they could have consumed the poison since the tobacco nursery in the garden was sprayed about a month ago,” she said when The Manica Post caught up with her on Wednesday.
Ms Chivamombe attributed her children’s death to ‘evil death spirits’ haunting the family.
Manicaland provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Tavhiringwa Kakohwa confirmed the trio’s death, saying Rutendo and Sarah died on their way to Anoldine Clinic, while Eslom died a day after admission at Rusape General Hospital.-Manica Post
While the decision to license more television stations is a welcome development, MISA Zimbabwe is worried at the lack of diversity in the granting of the TV licences.
The new TV licence holders either already hold print or broadcasting licences or are linked to the government or the governing party.
With this scenario, the country risks having a homogeneity of news and views, an anathema to democracy.
If Zimbabwe is to have a truly diverse media, there is a need for more players from different backgrounds to be granted licences.
MISA Zimbabwe notes that the BAZ will soon start the process of licensing community radio stations and is worried that if this trend continues, only players with links to the government will be granted licences, yet again.
MISA Zimbabwe, therefore, calls for the genuine liberalisation of the airwaves, where diversity and pluralism are the guiding principles in the granting of licences.
FREE TO AIR NATIONAL COMMERCIAL TELEVISION BROADCASTING SERVICE LICENSING, 20 NOVEMBER 2020
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe wishes to advise members of the public of the process of licensing new Television Services ha been completed.
The Authority invited applications for the provision of Free-to-air National Commercial Television Broadcasting Service licences in February 2020 and received a total of fourteen (14) applications. The Authority processed the applications in terms of the requirements of the Broadcasting Services Act [Chapter 12:06] including conducting public inquiries to determine Applicant’s suitability to be issued with Broadcasting Service licences.
The Authority has completed the processing of the applications and the final adjudication thereof.
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe advises that the following six Applicants have been awarded Free-to-air National Commercial Television Broadcasting Services licences:
i. Jester Media (Pvt) Ltd trading as 3K TV;
ii. Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited trading as ZTN;
iii. Rusununguko Media (Psi) Ltd trading as NRTV;
iv. Acacia Media Group (Psi) Ltd trading as Kumba TV;
v. Fairtalk Communications (Psi) lid trading as Ke Yona TV; and
vi. Channel Dzianbahwe (Pvt) Ltd trading as Channel D.
The new licensees shall have eighteen (18) mouths to roll out their plans and go on air, in line with section 1117) of the Broadcasting Services Act [Chapter 12:06]. In the twist of failure to broadcast, the licences will be availed to other aspirants through a similar process. The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe would like to express appreciation to all those who showed interest and indeed the general public for actively participating in this historic process of facilitating the opening up of broadcasting airwaves for multiplicity in television services. Congratulations Zimbabwe for this milestone!
Charles Manzi Sibanda
Board Chairman
By Order of the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s Young Warriors have been disqualified from the COSAFA tournament.
The Young Warriors are among four national teams that have been disqualified from the COSAFA zonal qualifier for Total under 17 men Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2021.
They were disqualified together with Botswana, Comoros Islands and Eswatini for “age cheating.”-COSAFA
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has described the barbaric killing of innocent citizens by the authorities in Uganda as alarming and unacceptable.
According to media reports from Uganda, 28 civilians were shot dead by Ugandan security forces on Friday morning.
In a brief statement released on Friday, President Chamisa condemned the ruthless killing of civilians in Uganda.
“Disturbing news from Uganda.. All Dictators like Yoweri Museveni abuse the military to kill innocent civilians, victimize People’s leaders like Bobi Wine.
Dictators think they are invincible until they are swept away by the winds of change.
None of them learns from the debacle and tragic end of the other!The killings and political developments in Uganda are a real cause for concern. Dictatorship must go in Africa,” said President Chamisa.
Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women has accused Zanu PF of trying to cause chaos in the popular movement by soiling party Secretary General Charlton Hwende’s image.
The MDC Alliance of Women has also endorsed the outcome of the “Tendai Masotsha Inquiry” presented by the Investigation Committee.
See statement below:
MDC ALLIANCE ASSEMBLY OF WOMEN STATEMENT ON THE OUTCOME OF LEADER TENDAI MASOTSHA INQUIRY
The MDC Alliance Assembly of Women welcomes the decision of the Bulawayo Province AOW Chair, Tendai Masotsha inquiry by the Investigation Committee.
Leader Masotsha has been exonerated from the allegations that she aided Tawanda Muchehiwa’s abduction in July.
The committee found no evidence to the allegations and we are satisfied with the internal process and the brief prepared by the committee which was appointed by the National Council.
The Chairlady has been cleared and she can now freely execute her duties as the Chairperson.
We also believe that the Secretary General, Hon Charlton Hwende has no personal interest in the outcome of the case and was not part of the investigation committee.
He has only acted in the best interest of the collective decision by defending the National Council to appoint the Investigating Committee which comprised of experts within the party.
We are also aware that the attack on the person of SG Hwende is not aimed at him as an individual but it is a deliberate ploy to bring the MDCA into disrepute .
We continue to defend and support the party in every progressive decision made and we plead with sympathizers and supporters of the party to always dialogue with us on matters relating to the assembly in efforts to find inclusive solutions to the challenges that our party may face, we are here to listen and to serve you. Masotsha is a victim of state sponsored repression who equally deserves our support.
We also demand justice for all victims of state sponsored abductions and torture including Tawanda Muchehiwa who is still recovering from gruesome torture .
ZANU PF is the main culprit in the instigation of state sponsored violence and repression, so we will not be distracted by sideshows in our collective act to demand the respect of Human Rights in Zimbabwe.
We take this opportunity to wish Ldr Masotsha well in taking Bulawayo Province to greater heights in terms of mobilising women for MDC Alliance during these trying times.
We believe in the able leadership of President Nelson Chamisa as we continue to fight for a people’s government.
Monica Mukwada Secretary – MDC Alliance Assembly of Women
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said a return to legitimacy is the only solution to the country’s deepening political crisis.
Addressing journalists in Harare on Friday, President Chamisa described the persecution of veteran journalist Hopewell Chin’ono as a desperate attempt by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to muzzle alternative voices.
“Zimbabwe is in a deep crisis.Journalism is not a crime.The persecution of Hopewell Chin’ono indicates that Zimbabwe is a Banana Republic in which journalists are harassed for exposing corruption,” said President Chamisa.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said a return to legitimacy is the only solution to the country’s deepening political crisis.
Addressing journalists in Harare on Friday, President Chamisa described the persecution of veteran journalist Hopewell Chin’ono as a desperate attempt by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to muzzle alternative voices.
“Zimbabwe is in a deep crisis.Journalism is not a crime.The persecution of Hopewell Chin’ono indicates that Zimbabwe is a Banana Republic in which journalists are harassed for exposing corruption,” said President Chamisa.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader, President Nelson Chamisa has said a return to legitimacy is the only solution to the country’s deepening political crisis.
Addressing journalists in Harare on Friday, President Chamisa described the persecution of veteran journalist Hopewell Chin’ono as a desperate attempt by Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to muzzle alternative voices.
“Zimbabwe is in a deep crisis.Journalism is not a crime.The persecution of Hopewell Chin’ono indicates that Zimbabwe is a Banana Republic in which journalists are harassed for exposing corruption,” said President Chamisa.
