PARENTS have given the government a seven-day ultimatum to resolve the salary impasse with teachers, saying the strike was violating children’s right to education.
A Bulawayo parent Patrick Sande told NewsDay in an interview that due to the impasse, a group of parents had decided to petition the Primary and Secondary Education ministry to press for payment of a living wage to teachers.
He said parents wanted President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to use the country’s mineral resources to improve teachers’ salaries.
Sande said 295 parents had signed the petition, but they were still soliciting for more signatures to force government to resolve the impasse.
“We are petitioning the Primary and Secondary Education ministry for violating our children’s right to education under section 86 of the Constitution. We know that there are some labour issues between the employer and the employee but the impact is now violating our children’s rights,” Sande said.
“The government is not budging and does not want to pay what is being demanded by the teachers. The end result is that our children are not learning. That is a violation of the Constitution. The government should simply pay the teachers as the examinations are by the corner. What will our children write?”
Sande said parents would not tolerate any claims by the government that they were incapacitated in terms of financial resources to pay teachers.
“Zimbabwe has plenty of minerals; the government should prioritise where to allocate resources. If they do not prioritise the education sector, they are violating section 86 of the Constitution,” he said.
“The Primary and Secondary Education ministry and the President Emmerson Mnangagwa should ensure that the right to education is not violated.”
He added: “As parents, we do not care about their fights, but all we want is to see our children being taught at school. We also wonder what criterion is being used in setting the exams by the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) when children have not been learning.”
National Association of Schools Development Committees acting president Maxwell Mkandla said the government should close schools for now and open them next year after recruiting teachers.
“Government should just close schools. There are no teachers. The teachers are also to blame because every month they are getting their salaries but are not teaching,” Mkandla said.
By Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria | Zimbabwe will be a poorer country when the pandemic finally recedes.
It will be in be debt-distressed and consequentially will lose some of its sovereignty to its lenders. The penury will bear dissent and restlessness.
How will it ( government) respond to these challenges?
When the State sovereignty is lost the government becomes suspitable to capture. State capture in every aspect destroy democracy and majoritarianism.
After the pandemic when it (Zimbabwe) looks at itself in the mirror it will see the country it once hoped to become. In the gap between its real face and the phantom in the mirror a difficult politics may arise.
Zimbabwe’s 1980 democratic dispensation pledge was built on a simple proposition.Equality for all (gutsaruzhinji). It’s political leaders then Joshua Nkomo, Josiah Tongogara and Robert Mugabe believed in the mantra and preached it. Years later the pledge is seemingly extinct. Gutsaruzhinji is now gutsavashoma as MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa once said.
Zimbabwe has vastly changed ,from the jewel of Africa that Julius Nyerere saw. Growth slowed. Unemployment rose. It is worrying that in a democratic era significant numbers of Zimbabweans have stopped getting better off.
Zanu PF’s second republic is slowly getting us to the worst. Our democracy is under siege. Events that have taken place since it came into force is a clear testimony of an uneasy journey ahead.
What happens when the democratic era’s foundational covenant breaks?
What happens when it becomes apparent that the next generation will be worse off than the last?
The gilt on the second republic is fading. What it offered — a glittering global economy and respectability among global power. For that connection rests on the promise of an ascent into a future that grows better all the time.
It is the sort of politics that kept the presidency of Mugabe abay. Mugabe’s cronyism and elite corruption had given up entirely on the future. It consisted in the establishment of an alliance that aimed to pillage what it could from the present.
Covid 19 pandemic lockdown has again offered the platform. The gluttonous state is devouring the little the economy can offer while completely ignoring it’s citizens.
When the government fails to deliver to it’s citizens it suffocates them from rising up against it. The lockdown has seen the introduction of measures that water down democracy and press life out of the democratic systems that Zimbabwe was found on.
It’s seems we are headed for a disastrous crash at the end of the pandemic lockdown.
Our democracy depends on institutions. And these institutions are continuously being securitized. Voting alone does not point to democracy. Autocratic leaders go to votes and emerge as winners with over 90% majority.
Are our institutions safe? Do they offer lifeblood to democracy? The answers might be debatable.
Maybe Zimbabwe need to ask why deep inside pandemic lockdown Mnangagwa decided to fast track public hearings on 27 bills that are being reformed?
Why were they rushing,who was it benefitting?
Zimbabwe might need to ask the relevance of supreme Court judgement on MDC fightings ahead of all corruption cases that are piled up in the Courts.
Maybe it’s time to ask why the Gwanda solar project is not working out.
People might be interested to know why nurses and doctors are now supposed to be employed via the ministry of defense?
Why more and more military personnel are retiring and subsquently reemployed in other civilian portfolios?
The Patriotic Act why? What’s it’s significance in a comatose economy.
ED’s politics is inevitably winning the day. While we are well alive to the danger and from whence it is coming we remain somehow apathetic and subdued.
The heightened role the security forces have come to play since the onset of the pandemic. When the maintenance of public order becomes a feature of everyday life, the army and police take on a political valence they did not have before.
The idea that order is constantly under threat and that force is constantly needed to keep disorder at bay can turn very fast into a lethal political tool.
Protests from those outside the second republic and it’s allies are banned. On many occasions Mnangagwa has threatened to escalate the paramilitary policing of the country. He has proffered different reasons for doing so. But it is clear the motive is embedded, for it promises to become a resource for those who wish him ill.
But perhaps the most important weapon against the onset of a dark politics is honesty. Zimbabwe cannot and must not pretend to be the country were promised it would become in both 1980 and in the 2 weeks of November 2017.
It needs to be redescribed more modestly, as painful as that may be. Citizens ought to boldly tell the New Dispensation something awful has happened, and that life may well not get better for a time.
Zimbabwe needs to pause and take stock. It is going too fast in the wrong direction and at a snail’s pace in the right direction.
Democracy is dying. And the pandemic lockdown has offered the excuse for it’s decimation.
It is painful that while we think that democracy die under the hail of gunfire this is not the kind of death our democracy is facing.
According to Steven Levitsky in his book How Democracies Die, the primary way in which democracies have died since the end of the Cold War, over the last 30 years or so, is at the hands of elected leaders, at the hands of governments that were often freely or close to freely elected, who then use democratic institutions to weaken or destroy democracy.
And we’re very hopeful that Zimbabwe’s democratic institutions will survive this process. But if we were to fall into some kind of crisis, surely it would take that form.
“Electoral authoritarians come to power democratically. They often have democratic legitimacy as a result of being elected”,
“And there’s a kind of gradual chipping away at democratic institutions, kind of tilting of the playing field to the advantage of the incumbent, so it becomes harder and harder to dislodge the incumbent through democratic means” he wrote.
Fateful Alliances
Using the lee of Covid 19 pandemic lockdown Mnangagwa handed down a supreme Court judgement which many concluded that it was aimed to decimate the MDC Alliance and prop up his ally Thokozani Khupe.
By so doing he is panning an alliance similar to the one Mussolini did in Italy by putting on a party list by a leading liberal statesman Giovanni Giolitti, who included him on his party’s list.He gained in legitimacy.
Mnangagwa seems to be repeating the same script by smuggling Khupe to the Parliament.Reports are rife that an official position of the Leader of Opposition will be established.
The developments on the political arena so far points to the death of Zimbabwe’s democracy. It’s very likely that at the end of the pandemic lockdown this country will be a ‘new’ something.
GOVERNMENT has resolved to deploy military medical personnel at all State hospitals to avoid disruptions caused by striking civilian nurses and doctors.
BY BLESSED MHLANGA
The move, which is widely viewed as Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s attempts to militarise hospitals in order to deal with striking health personnel, comes at a time the Health ministry announced that there were no vacant posts for doctors at government hospitals and, therefore, graduates seeking employment should consider joining the army and the Zimbabwe Republic Police as clinicians.
In a post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said government would now replace striking nurses with medical professionals from uniformed
forces.
“Government resolved that nursing services be restructured to be supported by three pillars namely contract workers, health services permanent workers and secondment from the uniformed forces,” Mutsvangwa said.
“Cabinet was briefed by VP Chiwenga, as the Minister of Health and Child Care, on the withdrawal of labour by nurses. At its 38th meeting held on October 28, 2020, Cabinet was informed that the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) openly challenged the Cabinet decision on the cancellation of the flexi-working arrangement and defied the secretary for Health and Child Care directive for the association to reverse its statement.
“Cabinet resolved to cancel the flexi hours arrangement and that nurses who fail to report for duty be subjected to disciplinary processes, that daily attendance registers for nurses be submitted to the Health Service Board (HSB) and the Ministry of Health and Child Care head office, and that nursing services be restructured to be supported by three pillars, namely contract workers, health service permanent workers, and secondment from the uniformed forces,” she said.
Mutsvangwa said some nurses had continued to defy the government directive banning the flexi hours regime.
“The various nurses’ labour organisations comprising the Zimbabwe Nurses Association, Confederation of Nurses Association, Theatre Nurses Association and the Nurses Educators Association met with the Health Services Board and resolved to comply with the government directive, save for the Zimbabwe Nurses Association. A total of 1 280 nurses failed to heed to the call to return to normal working hours,” she said.
As a result, Mutsvangwa said the HSB has started instituting disciplinary hearings for the defiant nurses.
Nurses have been engaged in strike action since 2018 demanding a living wage.
Their job action was followed by a strike by doctors who demanded an improvement in wages, conditions of service, as well as equipment and other medical materials to ensure safety while performing their duties.
Chiwenga was in September deployed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to take over from fired former Health minister Obadiah Moyo.
Soon after his deployment, Chiwenga promised to deal with the rot in the health sector, but his ministry continues to be riddled with corruption, with recent allegations that his deputy John Mangwiro was involved in a US$6 million COVID-19 procurement scam.
In 2018, Chiwenga fired 16 000 striking nurses and said they would be replaced by newly-trained and retired staff.
At that time, Chiwenga dismissed the nurses in his capacity as the supervisor of the social services cluster.
He described the strike by the nurses as “politically motivated” and as actions that were beyond issues of conditions of service and welfare.
Fox News has called Arizona for Joe Biden, which would significantly bolster the Democrat’s chances of victory.
Again, the Guardian is not yet calling Arizona because the AP has not declared a winner in the race.
However, if Biden wins Arizona, it gives him multiple paths to victory because he could afford to lose Pennsylvania and still win the presidential race if he won Michigan, Wisconsin and the stray electoral votes in Nebraska and Maine.
It may be a long election week, now that it appears the presidential race will come down to the midwest.
Election officials in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have said they will not be announcing the winners of their states tonight.
Vivian Ho reports from Chandler, Arizona:
At a Republican watch party in Chandler, Arizona, where dozens gathered in seats under stringed lights, the group cheered as Fox News read off the early numbers in Georgia and North Carolina in favor of Donald Trump.
“It’s 2016 all over again,” whooped Kenneth, a Chandler resident who declined to give his last name.
Kenneth, 43, said he voted for Trump again not just because his tax plan helped him as a laborer, but because “it seems like the Democratic party is the party of anger”. “They’re burning stuff down, they’re starting fights, riots, looting, shooting,” he said, a Keep America Great sign in his hands.
The switch to the Republican party was a recent change for him. “I’ve been a Democrat my entire life up until 2016,” said Kenneth, a Black man. “I’ve always thought Republicans were racist but in 2016, I was done.”
“You don’t think Trump is racist?” I asked.
“OK, if he is, would he be the first president? No,” Kenneth said. “But look, this is the thing: The only reason why everybody is saying Trump is racist is because you have the news media, Facebook, Twitter, favorite rappers and celebrities and singers saying it.
“Nobody would believe that if they didn’t have all this outside influence. It’s like the news media and social media has people believing all sorts of stuff. They thought tonight was going to be a blowout. Biden was supposed to blow Trump out in Florida. The media has been lying to everybody the whole time!”
Again, the Guardian is not yet calling Florida because it goes by the AP’s calls, but a Florida win for Trump (which seems very likely) would be crucial for the president.
Biden picks up three states, Trump wins Idaho
Polls just closed in four western states, but all of them have already been called by the AP.
Joe Biden has won California, Oregon and Washington state, while Donald Trump has won Idaho.
With those four states in, the electoral college count stands at 209 votes for Biden and 112 votes for Trump. The magic number to hit is 270.
It seems everything will come down to the midwest.
Polls close in four more states
It is 11pm ET, so polls have now closed in four more states – California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington.
Biden wins New Hampshire
Joe Biden has won New Hampshire, a state where he came in fifth in the Democratic primary.
The Republican congressman Doug Collin has conceded in the special Senate election in Georgia.
The race will proceed to a January runoff between Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed to the seat, and the Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock.
With Donald Trump’s numbers looking good in Georgia and North Carolina, Joe Biden is now relying on the midwest to come through for him.
But even if Biden were to lose in Pennsylvania, he could still theoretically pull off a victory if he wins Arizona and one electoral vote each from congressional districts in Nebraska and Maine.
Democrat Roy Cooper has won another term as the governor of North Carolina, the AP just announced.
Cooper is running ahead of Joe Biden and Senate candidate Cal Cunningham in North Carolina.
With 92% of the vote in, Cooper is leading by about 5 points, while Biden is trailing by 1 point and Cunningham is trailing by 1.4 points.
Richard Luscombe reports from Miami:
Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, a solid Trump ally, is getting miffed that none of the major news networks are calling his state for the president yet, more than two hours after polls closed.
“President @realDonaldTrump is up in Florida by almost 400,000 votes with more than 90% of precincts reporting,” DeSantis fumed in a tweet. “Why haven’t networks called the race? It’s a done deal and the refusal to recognize the obvious speaks volumes about the (lack of) objectivity of these outlets.”
Trump needs Florida’s 29 electoral college votes to win back the White House, while Joe Bidenstill has a pathway without it. With less than 10% of Florida’s votes outstanding, the indications are that Trump will significantly increase the 1.2% majority by which he won the state from Hilary Clinton in 2016.
Trump wins Missouri
Donald Trump has won Missouri and its 10 electoral college votes, the AP just announced.
The electoral college count currently stands at 131 votes for Joe Biden and 108 votes for Trump.
Again, all of the battleground states remain up for grabs, so this race is far from over.
Ohio is shaping up to be one of the most intriguing states of the night so far, with Donald Trump now surging past Joe Biden’s early lead.
Trump was almost four points up at 10.20pm ET, a return to something approaching what people had expected – he won here by eight points in 2016.
The silver lining for Biden is that some of Ohio’s biggest counties, which include cities such as Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, where Biden is winning, haven’t reported all their votes yet. Biden is doing far better than Hillary Clinton in those areas, which each have about a third of their votes yet to come in.
The other silver lining for Biden is that even if the current result stands, and he loses by about four points, that’s a big inroad for him compared to how Trump did in 2016… and could indicate a strong Democratic performance in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Republicans pick up Senate seat in Alabama
Republican Tommy Tuberville has been declared the winner of the Alabama Senate race, defeating Democratic incumbent Doug Jones.
Jones had been widely expected to lose his race, after narrowly winning the seat in a 2017 special election.
Combined with Democrats flipping Cory Gardner’s seat in Colorado, the two parties have canceled out their Senate gains so far tonight.
Biden underperforming in Florida and Georgia compared to polls
We still have a long night ahead of us, but the results so far indicate Joe Biden has underperformed in Florida and Georgia in comparison to his polling there.
With about 91% of the Florida vote in, Donald Trump leads Biden by about 3 points, 51%-48%.
In Georgia, where 54% of the vote is in, Trump leads by 13 points, 56%-43%.
Florida was seen as a toss-up, although a recent poll showed Biden ahead there by 5 points. The Democratic nominee was also seen as slightly favored to win Georgia.
It’s important to remember Biden did not absolutely need to win Florida or Georgia. If he can win in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, he will still capture the White House.
However, Biden wins in Florida or Georgia would have almost certainly eliminated any chance of a Trump victory. That does not seem to be the case tonight.
Instead, we will likely have to wait for results from the Midwestern battlegrounds to determine the winner of the presidential race.
Cornyn wins Senate race in Texas
The AP has confirmed that Senator John Cornyn has won another Senate term in Texas, defeating Democratic candidate MJ Hegar.
Earlier reports indicated that Hegar had already called Cornyn to concede.
Trump wins Kansas
Donald Trump has won Kansas and its 6 electoral votes, the AP just announced.
With 69% of the Kansas vote in, Trump leads Joe Bidenby about 6 points, 52%-46%.
The electoral college vote count currently stands at 131 votes for Biden and 98 votes for Trump. Again, a candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the election.
Lindsey Graham wins re-election
Lindsey Graham has won re-election in South Carolina, the AP just announced.
Democrats believed they had a real chance of flipping the state with Jaime Harrison, who raised massive sums of money in the final weeks before election day.
But with 39% of the vote in, Graham is leading Harrison by about 10 points.
Chitungwiza Mayor Lovemore Maiko taken to court by detectives.
Chitungwiza Mayor Lovemore Maiko allegedly recommended the demotion of the council’s district officer who had been seconded to a ministerial taskforce, which was investigating the misappropriation of State and council land.
Tendai Chinganga, the district officer for Zengeza district, was reportedly reassigned to a non-existing post of revamping council libraries and halls, after Maiko presided over a meeting that recommended the reassignment, without following procedure.
Further to that, the State alleged that Maiko caused the elevation of Alex Mukwewa from being a housing administrator to housing manager, a post which had been frozen.
Mukwewa has a pending criminal abuse of duty as a public officer charge and should have been on suspension.
Maiko yesterday appeared in court before regional magistrate, Ms Estere Chivasa, charged with criminal abuse of duty.
He was remanded in custody to today for bail application.
Mr Alec Muchadehama is acting on his behalf, while Mr George Manokore is representing the State.
Allegations are that on October 27, Maiko learnt that the Chitungwiza Municipality public works committee had resolved to refer the re-assignment of Tendai Chinganga to a non-existing post of revamping council libraries and halls.
On the same date, the State alleged that Maiko disregarded the need for the general purpose committee to deliberate on the matter and hurriedly arranged for a special council meeting without the support of a third of full council or receiving in writing from at least six councillors the urgent need for such meeting knowingly and intentionally disregarding a section of the Urban Council’s Act.
He then directed Mr Godwin Mvere, the chief security officer, to place a notice for the meeting with only two items listed on the agenda.
It is alleged that the following day and a few hours before commencement of the meeting, Maiko directed Mvere to come up with a supplementary agenda where he directed that although not appearing on the agenda, as provided in notice for meeting, the reassignment of Chinganga should top the list of urgent items for discussion in the special council meeting.
He further directed Mvere to include, among other things, the elevation of Mukwewa from the post of housing administrator to housing manager.
Maiko knew that Mukwewa was on trial at the court on a charge of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer. He had allegedly committed the offence while he was the acting housing director of the Chitungwiza Municipality.
By adding matters for discussion in the meeting, Maiko disregarded section 83 (4) of Urban Councils Act chapter 29:15.
He allegedly presided over the meeting and went on to recommend the reassignment of Chinganga and promoted Mukwewa to an already frozen position of housing manager.
According to the State, Maiko’s actions were a deliberate effort meant to disfavour Chinganga who had been seconded by the Chitungwiza Municipality into a ministerial taskforce which was investigating the misappropriation of State and council land.
In addition, he favoured Mukwewa who should have been on suspension pending hearing before the courts.
It was not his duty to unfreeze the post, the court heard.
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has removed 1 032 defiant nurses from its pay sheets after they declined to resume normal working hours and insisted on either not working or working sharply reduced hours.
Besides not paying those who are not working, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said after yesterday’s Cabinet meeting that the board was now instituting disciplinary hearings for at least 1 280 nurses, who have defied the call to return to normal duties.
While a variety of penalties are possible in such hearings depending on charges and circumstances, including dismissal, there have been suggestions that some of these nurses could be placed on fixed-term contracts if they return as part of a proposed restructuring of the public health sector.
It is understood the board has between 16 000 and 18 000 nurses in its employ, all those in the public sector, implying that less than 8 percent of the nursing staff will be affected by the twin developments.
HSB chairman Dr Paulinus Sikosana last night confirmed the move not to pay nurses who are not working and the start of disciplinary proceedings. Most of the affected nurses were on the staff of central hospitals.
“We have removed 1 032 nurses from the pay sheet. They defied a Government directive and we were left with no option,” said Dr Sikosana.
Nurses had crafted a working schedule where they worked for a few hours a week, but the arrangement proved unsustainable, especially with the threat of Covid-19 continuing to hover over the country, resulting in Government cancelling the plan and ordering a return to normal duty rosters.
Many nurses heeded Government’s call, but others have been using their defiance to push for salary increments during ongoing negotiations between nurses’ representatives and Government.
The resistance has largely been confined to central and provincial hospitals, though very low numbers have not returned to normal duty at provincial level.
Minister Mutsvangwa told journalists last night: “A total of 1 280 nurses failed to heed to the call to return to normal working hours. The Health Services Board has started instituting disciplinary hearings for the defiant nurses.”
The restructuring of the nursing services being designed by the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, which was reported by The Herald last week, was also confirmed.
It was reported that nurses in the public sector are to be held to high professional standards, with those who strike likely to be moved from the permanent staff and having to reapply for fixed-term contracts should they wish to resume work under a revamped nursing service.
“Nursing services be restructured to be supported by three pillars, namely contract workers, Health Service Permanent Workers, and Secondment from the Uniformed Forces,” said minister Mutsvangwa.
Under the exercise, the ministry is looking at having around two-thirds of its nurses as permanent full-time staff, while the other third will be on fixed-term contracts that can be renewed.
The new structure is expected to bring efficiency and encourage nurses to meet and uphold the highest professional standards in the newly-streamlined Health and Child Care portfolio now held by Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga.
Nurses that have been refusing to report for work, pressing for salary increments, will be affected by this development.
Minister Mutsvangwa said Cabinet was briefed by Minister of Health and Child Care Vice President Dr Chiwenga, who gave a report on the withdrawal of labour by nurses.
“At its 38th meeting (of this year) held on 28 October 2020, Cabinet was informed that the Zimbabwe Nurses Association openly challenged the Cabinet decision on the cancellation of the flexi-working arrangement and defied the Secretary for Health and Child Care’s directive for the association to reverse its statement.
“Cabinet resolved to cancel the flexi-hours arrangement, that nurses who fail to report for duty be subjected to disciplinary processes, and that daily attendance registers for nurses be submitted to the Health Services Board and the Ministry of Health and Child Care head office,” she said.
Minister Mutsvangwa said some nurses continued to defy Government directive banning the flexi hours system although the Confederation of Nurses Association, Theatre Nurses Association and the Nurses Educators Association had all complied.
However, the Zimbabwe Nurses Association has defied Government’s directive which has left authorities with no option, but to take corrective measures on the delinquent nurses.
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s neice, Henrietta Rushwaya who was found out by ZimEye busy walking the streets of Harare at a time when police were claiming she is under arrest, is now stating that she picked up the wrong bag with four gold bars weighing 6kg, instead of a similar bag with her clothes when she went to the airport over a week ago and that her arrest was being used for political expedience aimed at “soiling’’ the name of the First Family.
Audio – Clear Evidence That Henrietta Rushwaya Was Never Arrested | WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ED?
Although she acknowledged owning the gold in question, Rushwaya told the court that there was a “mix-up’’ of bags when she left home for the airport ending with her picking the wrong bag containing gold instead of the one with her clothes.
Through her lawyer Mr Tapson Dzvetero, Rushwaya said the handbag containing gold was loaded into her car instead of a similar handbag containing the clothes she intended to travel with.
Mr Dzvetero said this was brought to the attention of the investigating officer, who initially handled the matter upon Rushwaya’s arrest at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on October 26.
He said this while cross-examining the investigating officer, Detective Chief Inspector Michael Chibaya, during Rushwaya’s bail application.
Rushwaya is appearing before Harare regional magistrate Mr Ngoni Nduna along with Pakistani business tycoon Ali Muhamad, State security agents Stephen Tserai and Raphios Mufandauya, and miner Gift Karanda.
They are facing allegations in various groups of smuggling, illegal possession of gold, criminal abuse of office and obstructing the course of justice.
“The bag was similar to another bag which she was about to carry out of the country. The wrong bag was put into her vehicle and she did not have the knowledge of the contents that she took to the RGM Airport and she realised this at the point the scanners revealed that there was gold. Will you dispute that the investigating officer, one Bruno Chiketo, captured this aspect which is critical to her defence when she interviewed first accused (Rushwaya) upon her arrest at airport,” asked Mr Dzvetero.
Detective chief inspector Chibaya could not dispute the averments saying: “Yes, she could have indicated that.”
Mr Dzvetero went on to say that Rushwaya’s arrest has since been politicised.
“My client is now being played a political victim which explains why once a simple matter was transferred to Law and Order. We hear of name dropping of the First Family and it has now political connotations,” he said.
Mr Dzvetero distanced Rushwaya from the commercial invoice bearing the name of Ali Muhamad’s company, Ali Japan 786 Limited, that the State says was found in possession of Rushwaya upon her arrest at the airport.
He said the document was manufactured.
“She denies ever having given anyone a document that was said to belong to Ali. Without you having seen it you are uncertain to tell the court whether it forms the exhibit. The commercial invoice is a cooked up document which is being used for political expedience,” said Dzvetero.
Detective chief inspector Chibaya in his response said police compiled facts from witnesses’ statements which pointed out that the documents were recovered from Rushwaya upon her arrest.
“There are many witnesses we recorded statements from. There are some police officers arrested for having connived with accused persons to alter some information to the advantage of the accused persons. It was like we were starting investigations. I interviewed first investigations officer (Bruno Chiketo) when she (Rushwaya) indicated that the gold was not hers and it belonged to Ali which was further supported by documents in Ali’s name,” he said.
Answering to why the matter was being handled at the Law and Order unit instead of the Minerals Flora and Fauna Unit and whether her permit was of importance to the case of illegal possession of gold, Detec Chief Insp Chibaya said: “That is an administrative question that should be dealt with at Police General Headquarters.
“I feel this document (commercial invoice) will be of no importance to Rushwaya because there are conditions set and given by the issuing authority as to how the holder should deal with the gold.
“I have never seen where it is written giving permission for one to take it for export without RBZ authority taking into cognisance the place where she was arrested.”
The hearing continues today.
Meanwhile, two police officers, Douglas Shoko and Paul Chimungu, who are being accused of failing to arrest Ali Muhamad and altering his statements that implicated him in the smuggling deal, were denied bail.
Deputy chief magistrate Mrs Bianca Makwande denied the duo bail saying they were likely to interfere with witnesses. They are expected to appear in court on November 16 for routine remand.
Shoko and Chimungu are charged with criminal abuse of office.
POST CABINET PRESS BRIEFING: THIRTY-NINTH MEETING: 3RD NOVEMBER, 2020 1.0 PROPOSED ZIMBABWE NATIONAL HUMAN SETTLEMENTS POLICY
Cabinet considered and approved the Zimbabwe National Human Settlements Policy as presented by Vice President Honourable K.C.D. Mohadi, as Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Social Services and Poverty Eradication. The policy is guided by and seeks to inform implementation of the relevant aspects of Agenda 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals), the African Union Agenda 2063, Zimbabwe’s Vision 2030, the national Constitution and national and international resilience frameworks.
The policy will introduce a raft of changes that will ensure that planning, development and management of settlements is in line with national and international disaster risk reduction frameworks, and with environmental and climate change policies, laws and standards. This will help address huge housing and social amenities backlog as well as widening disparities between rural and urban areas. It is also expected to reduce the high costs of building materials and housing finance.
The Policy will provide for, among others, the following:
disaster risk assessments and mapping; environmental impact assessments and mitigation, and integrating implications of climate change into aspects of rural and urban settlement planning, development and management. All state land earmarked for human settlements shall be managed through the Ministry responsible for National Housing and Social Amenities and the respective Local Authorities for ease of co-ordination and for accountability. All Local Authorities will be expected to have Spatial Planning Units manned by registered spatial planners. This Committee and the sub-Council structures will be responsible for development planning, control and facilitation in each local planning area.
Cognisant that land is a finite resource, all productive agricultural land will be preserved as such. To curb settlement sprawl, forty per cent of land for human settlements development will be reserved for the construction of high-rise flats/buildings. Densification of settlements will be promoted. Cabinet approved the Policy and resolved that:
social housing for the destitute as well as social institutions for orphans and the aged should be incorporated whenever human settlements are being planned; there be a provision for the relocating household displaced by natural disasters to planned settlements, e.g. Cyclone Idai victims; title deeds be provided, where appropriate, for houses on agro-plots; partnerships for financing models be incorporated; social amenities provision encompassing swimming pools, play centres, youth centres and women’s clubs and libraries be incorporated in the Policy and that a Committee comprising of Ministers of National Housing and Social Amenities; Finance and Economic Development, and Local Government and Public Works come up with an appropriate financing model to operationalise the Policy. 2.0 PRINCIPLES FOR THE ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT COMPLAINTS COMMISSION BILL
Cabinet considered and approved the Principles for the Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission Bill as presented by the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs. The objective is to provide for the establishment and functions of the Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission thereby operationalising section 210 of the Zimbabwe Constitution which says an “Act of Parliament must provide an effective and independent mechanism for the receiving and investigating complaints from members of the public about misconduct on the part of members of the security services, and for remedying any harm caused by such conduct”. The Commission will among other responsibilities investigate complaints by the public against members of the security services.
3.0 ZIMBABWE’S RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
Cabinet received anupdate on the COVID-19 pandemic from the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, Honourable O.C.Z. Muchinguri-Kashiri, Chairperson of the Ad- HocInter-Ministerial Task Force on the Covid-19 Outbreak.
The country has now recorded eight thousand three hundred and sixty-two (8 362) confirmed COVID-19 cases compared to the eight thousand two hundred and fifty-seven (8 257) reported last week. The recovery rate is 94 per cent with a total of seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-four (7 884) persons having recovered from the virus compared to the seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-one (7 771) recoveries that were reported last week. New cases for week 43 stood at 105, compared to 158 in week 42. The total number of infected health care workers remains at 653, all of whom have since recovered as of today. To date, a total of 242 deaths have been recorded.
A total of five thousand four hundred and fifty-seven (5 457) PCR tests were conducted during the reporting period compared to five thousand four hundred and seventy (5 470) tests carried out the previous week. Deliberate efforts are being made to stockpile testing consumables in preparation for the re-opening of the ports of entry and exit as well as the festive season.
A total of eighty-five (85) new boreholes were drilled, while one hundred and twenty-three (123) others were rehabilitated by Government and partners during the reporting period. This brings the total number of drilled and rehabilitated boreholes to 4 580 since the beginning of the campaign against COVID-19. Water production in the City of Harare, currently stands at the rate of 200 megalitres per day. Furthermore, water purification equipment, valued at about US$ 9.3 million, purchased from Germany by Government has started arriving in the country and is expected to significantly boost the pumping capacity and water pressure at several Harare pump stations, including Alexandra Park, Letombo and Waterfalls.
Regarding primary and secondary education, Cabinet was informed that grade 6, form 3 and lower 6th classes resumed on 26 October 2020, under Phase 2 of the re-opening of schools. The overall learner attendance rate for Phase 2 was 32.02%, with the highest attendance rate being recorded in Masvingo province (54.95%) while Matebeleland North and South had the lowest, with 7.10% and 13%, respectively. The overall teacher attendance rate for the week was 27.16%, representing a 5,71% increase from the 21.45% recorded last week.
Cabinet resolved that an outreach exercise be undertaken by the Inter-Ministerial Taskforce to all provinces to remind and raise awareness among the citizenry and local leadership of the threat of COVID-19 spike during the impending rainy season. Cabinet reiterates the need for the public not to lose vigilance through complacency. The Task Force is currently engaging with their South African counterparts in order to ensure smooth flow of vehicular traffic at the Beitbridge Border Post.
UPDATE ON HEALTH ISSUES: WITHDRAWAL OF LABOUR BY NURSES Cabinet was briefed by Vice President Honourable C.G.D.N. Chiwenga, as the Minister of Health and Child Care, on the Withdrawal of Labour by Nurses. At its 38th Meeting held on 28 October, 2020 Cabinet was informed that the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) openly challenged the Cabinet decision on the cancellation of the flexi-working arrangement and defied the Secretary for Health and Child Care’s directive for the Association to reverse its statement. Cabinet resolved to cancel the flexi hours arrangement and that nurses who fail to report for duty be subjected to disciplinary processes, that daily attendance registers for nurses be submitted to the Health Services Board and the Ministry of Health and Child Care Head Office; and that nursing services be restructured to be supported by three pillars; namely contract workers; Health Service Permanent Workers; and Secondment from the Uniformed Forces.
Unfortunately, some nurses, have continued to defy the Government directive banning the ‘Flexi Hours’ regime. The various nurses’ labour organizations comprising the Zimbabwe Nurses Association; Confederation of Nurses Association; Theatre Nurses Association and the Nurses Educators Association met with the Health Services Board and resolved to comply with the Government directive save for the Zimbabwe Nurses Association. A total of 1 280 nurses failed to heed to the call to return to normal working hours.
The Health Services Board has started instituting disciplinary hearings for the defiant nurses.
5.0. ENHANCEMENT OF STATE ENTERPRISES AND PARASTATALS PERFORMANCE
Cabinet deliberated at length on the ways of enhancing parastatal performance. From the ensuing wide-ranging discussion, it was agreed that an Inter-Ministerial Committee be established to consider the matter further and profer concrete recommendations that takes into consideration the structure; performance; accountability and governance of the State Enterprises.
About 300 nurses from the two Bulawayo Central Hospitals, Mpilo Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals have been suspended from work after failing to comply to orders issued by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga who is also the Minister of Health and Child Care.
The nurses reportedly failed to report for duty following the re-introduction of 40 hour shifts by Chiwenga.
More than 3,000 cases of diarrhoea have been reported in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second city, in the last two months, as residents struggle with water shortages.
Low rainfall and an inability to keep up with the demands of a growing population in a depressed economic environment have left many of Bulawayo’s 1.5 million residents in the grip of water shortages and often having to obtain water from unprotected sources.
The country has been maintaining an average of 250 active Covid-19 cases, with the bulk, 123 of them in Bulawayo.
A total of 57 people succumbed to the global pandemic in the province and 18 of the deaths were recorded in the last two weeks.
In a recent order, Chiwenga ordered all nurses to revert back to the 40-hour working week system after scrapping their flexible working hours system which was introduced over a year ago to allow nurses to manage transport costs to get to work.
Mpilo Hospital got rid of about 200 nurses whilevthe United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) had suspended about 90 nurses.
The suspended nurses will be subjected to a disciplinary hearings where they will either be reinstated or dismissed depending on their individual cases.
The Zimbabwe Nurses Association, ZINA, declined Chiwenga’s instruction insisting that their members will continue with the flexi working system until the government reviews their salaries.
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Secretary General, Charlton Hwende has said the defection of Tongai Matutu to Zanu PF is a non-event.
Matutu crossed the great divide on Monday and he told reporters he made a personal and bold decision to leave the MDC Alliance.
Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputies Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi literally went into ecstatic frenzy as they embraced Matutu.
Hwende wrote on Twitter : Shocked by this level of desperation shown by @ZANUPF_Official leadership. A whole President and 2 Deputies receiving such a low key new Member. Mr Matutu resigned from the MDC A when he lost to Chair Gumbi @2019 Congress…”
He also took a swipe at Douglas Mwonzora describing the MDC Alliance as a G-40 project.
“Mwonzora always lies about G40 involvement in MDC Alliance affairs.
This is a narrative that he got from @edmnangagwa it’s meant to justify the crackdown on us by State Agents and MID operatives.
We have nothing to do with G40 we only take instructions from our Members.”
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Secretary General, Charlton Hwende has said the defection of Tongai Matutu to Zanu PF is a non-event.
Matutu crossed the great divide on Monday and he told reporters he made a personal and bold decision to leave the MDC Alliance.
Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputies Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi literally went into ecstatic frenzy as they embraced Matutu.
Hwende wrote on Twitter : Shocked by this level of desperation shown by @ZANUPF_Official leadership. A whole President and 2 Deputies receiving such a low key new Member. Mr Matutu resigned from the MDC A when he lost to Chair Gumbi @2019 Congress…”
He also took a swipe at Douglas Mwonzora describing the MDC Alliance as a G-40 project.
“Mwonzora always lies about G40 involvement in MDC Alliance affairs.
This is a narrative that he got from @edmnangagwa it’s meant to justify the crackdown on us by State Agents and MID operatives.
We have nothing to do with G40 we only take instructions from our Members.”
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Secretary General, Charlton Hwende has said the defection of Tongai Matutu to Zanu PF is a non-event.
Matutu crossed the great divide on Monday and he told reporters he made a personal and bold decision to leave the MDC Alliance.
Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputies Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi literally went into ecstatic frenzy as they embraced Matutu.
Hwende wrote on Twitter : Shocked by this level of desperation shown by @ZANUPF_Official leadership. A whole President and 2 Deputies receiving such a low key new Member. Mr Matutu resigned from the MDC A when he lost to Chair Gumbi @2019 Congress…”
He also took a swipe at Douglas Mwonzora describing the MDC Alliance as a G-40 project.
“Mwonzora always lies about G40 involvement in MDC Alliance affairs.
This is a narrative that he got from @edmnangagwa it’s meant to justify the crackdown on us by State Agents and MID operatives.
We have nothing to do with G40 we only take instructions from our Members.”
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC -T Secretary General, Douglas Togaraseyi Mwonzora on Monday embarrassed himself after admitting that MDC Alliance is a political party.
Prior to issuing the statement, Mwonzora has always argued the MDC Alliance is a “coalition not a political party.”
However, in his statement yesterday Mwonzora referred to the MDC Alliance as a political party.
See part of Mwonzora’s statement below:
We have instructed our youths not to fight with these people but to call the police in order to minimize personal injury that will come from fighting.
The MDC Alliance Party has now resorted to sacrificing the youths by inciting them to engage in acts of anarchy and lawlessness.
They take advantage of the poverty of these youths and pay them ridiculously low sums of money and cheap liquor to engage in violence.
These youths are drawn from Mbare and similarly poor neighborhoods were poverty is rife.”
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa remains the people’s hope despite attempts by Zanu PF to soil his image, an MDC Alliance official has said.
Speaking in an interview with ZimEye.com, MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson, Clifford Hlatywayo said people have confidence in the leadership of President Chamisa.Hlatywayo was commenting on Tongai Matutu’s defection to Zanu PF.
Hlatywayo also said it was sad to note that Matutu elected to join the collapsing Zanu PF House.
“It’s his democratic right to join any political formation of his choice at his own time.
The MDCA is a leading party in the country. We are the government in waiting that won the 2018 Presidential election vote by more than 2.6million.
People have confidence in the leadership of President Nelson Chamisa. He is the people’s Hope and he is ready to lead Zimbabwe to the promised land. Zimbabwe need a People’s Government urgently to resolve the crisis we are facing as a people,” said Hlatywayo.
“It’s very unfortunate that Tongai Matutu joined a collapsing house.
It is an understatement to say that ZANU pf is dead but it is at its later stages of decomposition.
ZANU pf is stinking, that’s where our brother has decided to go. Obvious he is motivated by certain things.
But the things we know in ZANU pf is corruption, abductions, violence, abuse of the people’s rights, intimidation, bleeding the nation, smuggling minerals including gold and diamonds among others. This is the ship where Mututu is joining.
It’s regrettable and unthinkable to find a young person of his stature joining an organization that terrorize the ordinary people.
In politics you must be guided by principles and values. This move is a clear testimony that his values has changed because of lack of principles.
MDCA is solid and focused on the goal that is to win Zimbabwe for change and install a People’s Government.”
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa remains the people’s hope despite attempts by Zanu PF to soil his image, an MDC Alliance official has said.
Speaking in an interview with ZimEye.com, MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson, Clifford Hlatywayo said people have confidence in the leadership of President Chamisa.Hlatywayo was commenting on Tongai Matutu’s defection to Zanu PF.
Hlatywayo also said it was sad to note that Matutu elected to join the collapsing Zanu PF House.
“It’s his democratic right to join any political formation of his choice at his own time.
The MDCA is a leading party in the country. We are the government in waiting that won the 2018 Presidential election vote by more than 2.6million.
People have confidence in the leadership of President Nelson Chamisa. He is the people’s Hope and he is ready to lead Zimbabwe to the promised land. Zimbabwe need a People’s Government urgently to resolve the crisis we are facing as a people,” said Hlatywayo.
“It’s very unfortunate that Tongai Matutu joined a collapsing house.
It is an understatement to say that ZANU pf is dead but it is at its later stages of decomposition.
ZANU pf is stinking, that’s where our brother has decided to go. Obvious he is motivated by certain things.
But the things we know in ZANU pf is corruption, abductions, violence, abuse of the people’s rights, intimidation, bleeding the nation, smuggling minerals including gold and diamonds among others. This is the ship where Mututu is joining.
It’s regrettable and unthinkable to find a young person of his stature joining an organization that terrorize the ordinary people.
In politics you must be guided by principles and values. This move is a clear testimony that his values has changed because of lack of principles.
MDCA is solid and focused on the goal that is to win Zimbabwe for change and install a People’s Government.”
Tinashe Sambiri| The self confessed killer of the slain MUREHWA 7 year old boy, Tapiwa Makore, Tafadzwa Shamba, was seen carrying what likely body parts wrapped inside a towel to Harare, an impeccable source has revealed.
The latest details link well with those of a n’anga who alleged Tapiwa’s head was taken to Harare’s Dzivarasekwa Surbub, near ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa’s main house since independence 1980.
Last week ZimEye.com carried a lengthy news analysis and investigation exploring this murder and many others that ever happened since 1983.
The latest grisly details concerning the state in which the toddler’s body was found severally dismembered on 17th of September, were narrated on Tete Tilda’s program Tuesday morning.
Another woman who was arrested by the police last week, called Maud Hunidzarira, has the latest trail of detail concerning what happened to the body remains, as alleged.
The Makore family spokesperson, one, Gogo Beaulah, speaking from Murehwa announced saying:
“This Maud Hunidzarira is a resident of the area, at the place where Tapiwa snr and the self confessed killer, Tafadzwa buy Kachasu (dangerous Afro-whisky)beer”
She continued saying, “this is the woman who was taken by police officers yesterday.
“Her relationship with Tapiwa Makore senior, is not known at present,” she added.
“Maud Hunidzarira was arrested in Budiriro, Harare after residents alerted the police when they witnessed her washing a carpet full of blood, that is what she was caught washing.
“Two, others are saying they witnessed the man Tafadzwa being given a towel which Tafadzwa has said he used to carry the slain child.”
This statement correlates well with Tafadzwa Shamba’s own witness statement in which he says he carried the slain toddler in a towel.
Gogo Beaulah continued saying, “so people were seeing these things, so they are the ones who informed the police alerting them that this woman might have something to do with the murder of Tapiwa, so of the police then arrested her.
The development likely means that the killers took the carpet all the way to Harare where they would wash it.
“This is what it means,” Gogo Beaulah said.
Maud brews Kachasu beer and is a Murehwa resident, she is the same also called Mai Katsande who the killer says travelled to to buy Kachasu from after feeding the lad, still alive at that time with sadza meal and fish.
“We continue to thank the police because they are continuing to do their work we know that the truth will come out in the end,” Gogo Beaulah said.
On the whereabouts of the remains, she continued saying,
“We will continue talking until all the body parts have been found.
“The hands are missing, the private parts and the head, are all missing. We are not going to rest until the child has rested,” said the source only identified as Gogo Beula.
On the delay in burial, Gogo Beaulah said:
“What has delayed the burial at the results of DNA, at the same time the police are still conducting their investigations we are still waiting for the police to give word,” she said.
Tinashe Sambiri| The self confessed killer of the slain MUREHWA 7 year old boy, Tapiwa Makore, Tafadzwa Shamba, was seen carrying what likely body parts wrapped inside a towel to Harare, an impeccable source has revealed.
The latest details link well with those of a n’anga who alleged Tapiwa’s head was taken to Harare’s Dzivarasekwa Surbub, near ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa’s main house since independence 1980.
Last week ZimEye.com carried a lengthy news analysis and investigation exploring this murder and many others that ever happened since 1983.
The latest grissly details concerning the state in which the toddler’s body was found severally dismembered on 17th of September, were narrated on Tete Tilda’s program Tuesday morning.
Another woman who was arrested by the police last week, called Maud Hunidzarira, has the latest trail of detail concerning what happened to the body remains, as alleged.
The Makore family spokesperson, one, Gogo Beaulah, speaking from Murehwa announced saying:
“This Maud Hunidzarira is a resident of the area, at the place where Tapiwa snr and the self confessed killer, Tafadzwa buy Kachasu (dangerous Afro-whisky)beer”
She continued saying, “this is the woman who was taken by police officers yesterday.
“Her relationship with Tapiwa Makore senior, is not known at present,” she added.
“Maud Hunidzarira was arrested in Budiriro, Harare after residents alerted the police when they witnessed her washing a carpet full of blood, that is what she was caught washing.
“Two, others are saying they witnessed the man Tafadzwa being given a towel which Tafadzwa has said he used to carry the slain child.”
This statement correlates well with Tafadzwa Shamba’s own witness statement in which he says he carried the slain toddler in a towel.
Gogo Beaulah continued saying, “so people were seeing these things, so they are the ones who informed the police alerting them that this woman might have something to do with the murder of Tapiwa, so of the police then arrested her.
The development likely means that the killers took the carpet all the way to Harare where they would wash it.
“This is what it means,” Gogo Beaulah said.
Maud brews Kachasu beer and is a Murehwa resident, she is the same also called Mai Katsande who the killer says travelled to to buy Kachasu from after feeding the lad, still alive at that time with sadza meal and fish.
“We continue to thank the police because they are continuing to do their work we know that the truth will come out in the end,” Gogo Beaulah said.
On the whereabouts of the remains, she continued saying,
“We will continue talking until all the body parts have been found.
“The hands are missing, the private parts and the head, are all missing. We are not going to rest until the child has rested,” said the source only identified as Gogo Beula.
On the delay in burial, Gogo Beaulah said:
“What has delayed the burial at the results of DNA, at the same time the police are still conducting their investigations we are still waiting for the police to give word,” she said.
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus late Sunday announced that he was going into self-isolation after his contact had tested positive for coronavirus.
Ghebreyesus wrote on Twitter saying he was “well and without symptoms” adding that he will, however, go into self-quarantine in “coming days, in line with WHO protocols, and work from home.”
Following the report about the WHO chief going into quarantine, reports flooded social media claiming that Ghebreyesus had contracted the virus.
The U.N. health agency had to write this Monday dispelling misinformation about Tedros’ self-isolation, writing on Twitter that “contrary to some incorrect reports,” he has not tested positive himself.
It is not known who among Ghebreyesus’ contacts had been infected.
The John Hopkins University says over 46.6 million people have so far been infected by the novel virus while over 1.2 million fatalities linked to the virus have been recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic in December 2019 in China.-State media
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Senator Larry Mavima has gone into self-isolation after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Mavima told The Herald in a telephone interview from his home this Monday that he does not have the symptoms of the virus. He said:
I can confirm that I have tested positive to Covid-19 and am self-isolating at home. I would like to quickly inform the entire province and the nation at large that I am not in any immediate danger. I am grateful to a wonderful team of local specialist doctors who have been monitoring my situation. I don’t have any other symptoms.
I am in isolation but in high spirits for there is no stigma to this pandemic as everyone is at risk of contracting it. I am also banking on prayers from all corners.
He joins a growing list of senior government officials and political elites to contract the novel virus. Some of them including the former minister of Agriculture, Perrance Shiri have since died.
Meanwhile, coronavirus cases in the country have been going down in the most recent weeks prompting the government to take steps towards easing lockdown restrictions.-The Herald
England-based Zimbabwean preacher Uebert Angel has urged all “well-meaning” Christians around the world to stand with detained fellow preacher Shepherd Bushiri who was recently arrested in South Africa together with his wife.
Angel called on the followers of the duo arrested together with another couple over the alleged involvement in an R102 Million money laundering scheme to post pictures of them on social media platforms everyday.
Angel said:
I come before all of you well-meaning Christians around the world who are well versed in the revelation of the times we are in which are the END OF DAYS – I come to you followers, members and partners of ECG Church and all those who at one time or the other were and are still know the impact of Prophet Bushiri’s contribution to Christendom.
I come before you as a Christian, a teacher of the word and a prophet – I come to you with a very simple instruction.
It is the duty of every son and daughter to tell the story of their family and their home. To share with the world the miracles that God has wrought in their lives through his servants Major 1 & Prophetess Mary Bushiri.
The old adage says ‘evil triumphs when good men do nothing.’ I am personally challenging every single one of you to post 5 pictures of Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and Prophetess Mary Bushiri everyday for the next week.
Starting today. Post a picture of the two of them. Tell me, tell us, tell the world how those two changed your lives and the lives of those around you.
Do it, to show that you stand with them, you stand for them, and you stand for justice!
PARIS – Europe passed a grim milestone after reporting more than 11 million coronavirus cases, as Austria and Greece became the latest countries on the continent to impose shutdowns.
Still reeling from a deadly shooting spree in the streets of Vienna on Monday evening, Austria went into partial lockdown while Greece shut down major cities.
They joined Belgium, France, Germany and Ireland in re-imposing tough curbs on people’s lives in an echo of last spring as the virus that first emerged in China at the end of 2019 shows no sign of abating.
Europe has now registered 11,008,465 infections and almost 285,000 deaths according to an AFP tally of official sources on Tuesday.
The stringent new measures that are also set to hit England this week have caused exasperation and anger as experts say Europe risks being hit with further waves of infections next year if no effective vaccine is found.
Underscoring the pernicious effect of restrictions on economies and livelihoods, Spain — where tourism accounts for some 13 percent of employment — said the number of foreign visitors plunged by 75 percent during the first nine months of the year.
As a result, countries are seeking desperately for alternatives to lockdowns.
The British government has decided to roll out coronavirus tests for the entire population of its hard-hit, 500,000-strong city of Liverpool in a pilot scheme that could be scaled up nationwide.
In Belgium, which has one of the highest number of deaths compared to its population, authorities might have shut down the country but have nonetheless decided to keep book stores open for the sake of people’s mental wellbeing.
In Greece, cafes, restaurants, bars, gyms, cinemas and theatres and most non-essential businesses shut down in Athens and in the northern cities of Thessaloniki and Serres, which went under even harsher lockdowns.
The measures have drawn concern among business owners and employees in a country that only recently emerged from a crippling financial crisis that began in 2010.
A French hospitals federation said the pressure was such that authorities were planning to transfer COVID-19 patients to Germany for treatment — as Belgium is already doing.
Germany should postpone non-urgent surgeries to free up beds and staff, advised Uwe Janssens, president of Germany’s Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine.
Speaking at a press conference alongside Health Minister Jens Spahn, he said Germany had enough beds and ventilators for now.
Amid the uncertainty in the world, where the virus has killed more than 1.2 million people, drug companies are rushing to produce what has become the sector’s holy grail — a viable vaccine.
The World Health Organization has identified at least nine candidate vaccines at the most advanced phase-three stage, in which a vaccine’s effectiveness is tested on a large scale.
Police and family of a newborn who was abducted at a shopping centre in Harare’s Avenues area last week has reported that the baby has been found alive.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided the home in Murombedzi, about 100 kilometres from Harare and discovered Tamiranashe Chadwick.
Police report that the suspect escaped, and her husband is “assisting police with investigations”.
Civil servants have rejected Government’s salary adjustment offer which would have seen the least-paid earn ZW$13 590 (US$167).
Grade C5 was offered ZW$14 105 (US$174), grade D1 $15 077 (US$186) and grade E1 $16 430 (US $201).
The offer was tabled and rejected during salary negotiations in the capital, Harare, on Tuesday. Instead, the civil servants want the least-paid to get US$520 or the equivalent in Zimbabwe dollars.
In a communiqué after the meeting, their representatives said, “The workers side flatly rejected the offer for falling short of addressing the incapacitation of civil servants.”
The Government side could not be reached immediately for comment. Talks are expected to continue this week
Hopewell Chin’ono, journalist and anti-corruption campaigner has has been rearrested for allegedly breaking bail conditions.
Police and state security officials took Chin’ono from his home in the capital, Harare, on Tuesday evening.
His lawyers said he had been charged with contempt of court relating to an alleged breach of bail conditions, an allegation that they described as “nonsense”.
Chin’ono was first arrested in July after publishing a series of investigations into corruption in Zimbabwe. He was held at Chikurubi Prison for six weeks pending trial on charges of inciting violence.
On his release, Chin’ono was effectively banned from using social media for anything that could be seen as critical of the ruling Zanu-PF government.
The new arrest is thought to have been prompted by a tweet sent five days ago suggesting the chief justice of Zimbabwe, Luke Malaba, had intervened to deny Chin’ono bail.
Malaba, who was appointed by the former ruler Robert Mugabe and is seen as a government loyalist, has been the centre of an intense row over judicial independence in Zimbabwe, with judges accusing him of systematic efforts to influence their decisions and restrict their autonomy.
Earlier this year, Malaba was forced to withdraw a directive telling Zimbabwean judges that their judgments needed to be approved before being handed down.
Judges last week complained in an open letter that many “are now so afraid of their own jobs that they consciously and subconsciously make decisions that they consider ‘safe’, even if these do not accord with the law”.
THE Zimbabwe dollar moved marginally against the United States dollar at the weekly Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe foreign currency auction to trade at 81,67 compared to last week’s 81,35.
Data released by the central bank after this Tuesday’s auction reveals that the local currency unit is maintaining its stability against the United states dollar.
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe monetary policy committee member, Mr Eddie Cross spoke on the impact of the auction system on overall economic development.
“We are all surprised by the performance of the auction and we hope it will continue to play an important role,” he said.
Industrialist, Mr Davison Norupiri said stability arising from the auction had also improved business confidence levels.
“At least one can plan and we can focus on the future as firms,” he said.
A total of 28 million United States dollars from the latest auction was allocated to key productive sectors of the economy.
The central bank information showed that the highest bid on the main auction was 90 dollars with the lowest being pegged at 80. On the SMEs platform, the highest bid was at 86 dollars and the lowest at 79.
MDC-Alliance Chitungwiza Mayor Lovemore Maiko has been arrested and charged with criminal abuse of office after he allegedly demoted a senior manager at the local authority and appointed his friend to the post.
National Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest.
He said that Maiko allegedly breached his contract by demoting a district officer to a library post and replaced him with his friend, who reportedly does not have proper qualifications or is fit for the job.
The state run Herald claims to be in possession of a letter in which a supplementary item was added to the main agenda of a special full council meeting chaired by Maiko.
The subject of the letter signed by acting chamber secretary Raymond Wenyeve was the consideration for reassignment of Mr T. Chinganga to revamp council libraries and community hall.
Ordinarily, Maiko, who is a ceremonial mayor and other councillors should not interfere with staff directly except for the Human Resources Committee.
Maiko was arrest after he handed himself at Harare Central Police station after being summoned.
A source said last week Maiko facilitated the convening of an illegal special council meeting to consider the demotion and reassignment of workers that have been assisting state security agencies with evidence on corruption bedevilling Chitungwiza.
Mr Chinganga, who is a senior council manager and was assisting the PDC appointed the task force and ZACC with illegal land dealings in Chitungwiza was allegedly demoted after being harassed by some councillors for contributing information leading to several arrests.
In line with Section 311 (12) of the Urban Council’s Act, Maiko is facing criminal charges of interference with ongoing investigations.
Mr Chinganga’s demotion comes at a time when another council employee, who is out on bail was reportedly promoted during the same meeting without adherence to city by-laws and Urban Council’s Act.
Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi.
Police in Beitbridge have launched a manhunt for 10 armed robbers who attacked eight motorists last week in separate incidents in the border town, after blocking a section of the Beitbridge-Dite Road at night using stones.
The robbers ransacked the vehicles and got away with cash, groceries, cellphones and many other items.
In one of the incidents, a man who was driving a Nissan Caravan with one passenger on board, found the road blocked with large stones at the 10km peg along the road.
When he got out to remove the stones, he was confronted by 10 robbers wearing face masks and balaclavas.
The robbers were armed with a pistol and rifles, and fired shots before attacking the victims.
Another motorist later arrived at the scene and again, the robbers fired shots towards his vehicle, puncturing his front tyres.
The motorist abandoned the vehicle and fled the scene to seek assistance.
National police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, yesterday said other motorists arrived and were also attacked by the armed robbers.
He said the motorists abandoned two Toyota Granvia vehicles, two Nissan Caravan vehicles and an Isuzu Como coach.
Police are appealing to anyone with information that might assist them in their investigations to contact any nearest police station.
In Matabeleland South, police are investigating a case of public violence where a group of nine suspects connived and proceeded to a local mine where they attacked the mine owner, his workers and some security personnel who had just been deployed on duty.
The suspects got away with a firearm, which was later recovered by police. Some of the suspects have since been arrested as investigations continue.
Police in Zvishavane have arrested five men following a case of kidnapping where they forced a 34-year-old man into their vehicle and took him to a mine in the area.
The five suspects are reported to have been looking for the victim’s uncle. Police arrested the five near Filabusi Turn-off.
As Ex-Chikurubi Maximum Prison Political Detainees Association, myself and my brother @jngarivhume will address the press conference, tomorrow the 4th of November at Media Center at 1300hrs in full strength solidarity with our arrested colleague Hopewell Chin'ono on fresh charges pic.twitter.com/eybF3Mxn6B
Speedster Blessing Muzarabani grabbed a five-for in the regulation play and scalped two more wickets in the Super Over to help Zimbabwe stun Pakistan in the third and final ODI here on Tuesday.
It was Zimbabwe’s first win over Pakistan since 2015. The home team has already clinched the three-match ODI series, having won the earlier two matches.
Pakistan and Zimbabwe now play a three-match T20I series, starting on Saturday here.
In a high-scoring match, the 24-year old Muzarabani overshadowed centuries from his team-mate Sean Williams (118 not out from 135 balls) and Pakistan captain Babar Azam (125 off 125 balls) and a five-for from 20-year-old fast bowler Muhammad Hasnain (5 for 26).
Muzarabani returned with figures of 5 for 49 in the home side’s run-chase and then took two more wickets in the super over in which Pakistan could only manage two runs.
Requiring just three runs to win in the Super Over, Zimbabwe wrapped up the match in three balls.
Chasing 279 for a win, Babar Azam produced a captain’s innings to score his 12th ODI century but was dismissed in the 49th over by a sharp rising ball from Muzarabani to set up a thrilling finish.
Pakistan appeared to have recovered from 3 for 20 and 6 for 151 when Babar featured in a century stand with Wahab Riaz (52 from 56 balls). But Wahab fell at 251 in the 47th over and Pakistan lost two wickets in the penultimate over to give Zimbabwe a rare win.
Babar combined for a fighting century partnership with Wahab Riaz after Pakistan were reeling on 151 for 6 in the 31st over with pacers Muzarabani, Ngarava and Tiripano picking up two wickets apiece to derail the home side’s run chase.
The Pakistan captain faced 125 balls from which he hit 13 fours and a six.
Earlier, Zimbabwe made a great recovery after being three down for 22 runs as Hasnain ran amok, dismissing captain Chamu Chibhabha, Craig Ervine and Brian Chari in quick succession.
The experienced duo of Brendon Taylor (56) and Williams then teamed up for a 84-runs partnership. Later, Wesley Madhevere (33 from 31 balls) and Sikander Raza (45 from 36 balls) also provided good support as the left-handed Williams resurrected the Zimbabwe innings.
Taylor fell to Hasnain while Madhevere was also caught and bowled by the young fast bowler.
Williams remained unbeaten on 118, hitting 13 fours and one six.
Argentina legend Diego Maradona is recovering well after being admitted to hospital, his doctor has said.
Maradona, 60, is still having tests and was anaemic and dehydrated but his condition is not related to Covid-19.
He was admitted to hospital in Argentina on Monday – doctor Leopoldo Luque said at the time that Maradona’s physical health was impacted because he was “not well psychologically”.
“He is evolving as we wanted,” Luque said on Tuesday.
“I hope he will want to stay until tomorrow. He will have to do long-term treatment.”
Maradona at 60: In search of the real Diego – Guillem Balague column Maradona, who won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986, is expected to be under observation for at least three days.
He now coaches Gimnasia y Esgrima in Argentina’s top flight and attended the side’s game against Patronato on Friday, his 60th birthday.
Roselyn Hanzi the Executive Director at the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights who have immediately gone into action following the arrest of journalist Hopewell Chinono says that the renowned scribe has been arrested for contempt of court following statements he made on social media when he was released on bail after his first arrest.
“Hopewell Chinono is charged with violating sec 182(1)(a) or (b) of Criminal Code. Allegation is he tweeted ‘On day of bail hearing CJ was seen leaving court in light of what has been said by judges what does this say’ said Hanzi.
Reports that authorities have again arrested @daddyhope for speaking out against corruption and defending fundamental freedoms raise serious concerns. #EndImpunityhttps://t.co/SAL38nKPkd
Getting sad reports that my friend @daddyhope has been arrested. I had a long tele conversation with him, yesterday about intelligence reports I obtained that the system was listening to all our conversations and entering into our Whatsapp data conversations. I am really angry pic.twitter.com/FToKdWwDJe
Information just in indicates that journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has been arrested, again.
The development was announced by Alex Tawanda Magaisa the former Chief of Staff in the office of the late former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai.
Posting on Twitter, Magaisa said:
*ARREST ALERT*
Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope has just been arrested again in Harare.
Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope was arrested at his home this evening. I’m advised some of the officers claimed to be from the President’s office. One of the officers filmed the arrest. The arrest is allegedly in connection with tweets regarding the conduct of Chief Justice Malaba.
PUBLIC Service Minister Paul Mavhima, has dissolved the entire NSSA Board with immediate effect.
The National Social Security Authority board chaired by Cuthbert Chidoori was appointed by the then Public Service Minister Sekai Nzenza in February 2019.
Other board members were; Priscilla Mujuru, Mufaro Moyo, Cecilia Alexander, and Arthur Manase.
Mavhima said the move to fire the board is a response to “emerging issues in the world of work”.
“The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) is currently engaged in a strategic reorganisation and restructuring exercise which has been necessitated by the need to respond to emerging issues in the world of work and align its mandate with the national development agenda,” Mavhima said.
“Accordingly, the NSSA board has been dissolved with immediate effect to pave way for this transformation. The Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare wishes to express its most sincere gratitude to members of the outgoing board for their contribution to NSSA during their term of office.”
“In the meantime, a three-member interim board will oversee the administration of the authority while a substantive board will be constituted within three months.”
Mavhima did not mention the names of the three interim board members.
ZIMBABWE has reportedly lost between 30 and 34 tonnes of gold which was smuggled to South Africa last year in a new wave of illicit financial flows (IFFs) that are affecting the country, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has said.
In a recent report on IFFs, Zimcodd said the bulk of capital flight currently affecting Zimbabwe was happening in the gold mining sector.
The revelations also come at a time suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya is in custody following her arrest last week at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on charges of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold to Dubai.
Zimcodd said a recent study by the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development estimated that between the period of 2009 and 2013, Zimbabwe also lost US$2,83 billion through IFFs, which translates to an annual average of US$570,75 million.
It said this was the number one cause for the country’s loss of money, which has led to underdevelopment.
“Of the cumulative outflows, 97,88% of US$6 billion IFFs were in the mining sector. In 2019, the Minister of Finance and Economic Development (Mthuli Ncube) is quoted to have said that Zimbabwe may have lost between 30 tonnes and 34 tonnes of gold to smuggling in the neighbouring South Africa,” Zimcodd said.
“During this week, both mainstream and social media platforms were awash with stories of the arrest of Rushwaya at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport while trying to smuggle 6kg of gold to Dubai in contravention of section 182 of the Customs and Excise Act, which sets out penalties for any person found smuggling goods into or outside the country.
“The attempt by Rushwaya to smuggle gold with an estimated worth of US$333 000 is only a microcosm of the macrocosm of the huge sums of gold and other precious minerals smuggled out of the country. If the figure is anything to go by, if sold officially, the amount from the gold would go a long way in covering the financial gap existing in the public service delivery sector.”
The debt watchdog said government must now consider an upward review of the foreign currency retention threshold in the gold sector to motivate gold producers to sell their gold through the formal market in order to curb gold leakages.
“Lack of political will and political interference in the operations of the anti-corruption institutions undermines the effectiveness of institutions and legislation responsible for combating illicit financial flows. There is need for the government to demonstrate political will to arrest and prosecute perpetrators and guarantee the independence of the responsible institutions,” Zimcodd said, adding that government should invest in information communication technologies to curb under declarations of minerals.
As reported by ZimEye.com on Monday, Tollgate fees will be going up by about 300 percent after the ministry of transport said the old fees had been shrivelled by inflation.
Light motor vehicles will now pay Z$120 to go through tollgates, up from Z$45.
Minibuses will pay Z$180 from the previous Z$70; buses Z$240 up from Z$90 and heavy vehicles with a carrying capacity of more than 3 tonnes but less than 10 tonnes are to pay Z$300 which has been reviewed from Z$115.
Haulage trucks will pay Z$590 from Z$225 previously while motorists who live near tollgates will pay a daily return fee of Z$50 or Z$3,000 per month before discounts.
The new tollgate fees are contained in Toll Roads (National Road Network) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (No. 11) to be gazetted on Friday after they were approved by the finance ministry.
Transport and Infrastructural Development Permanent Secretary Amos Marahwa told Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development on Monday that the old tollgate fees were no longer fit for purpose.
“The ministry of finance has now come to the table allowing us to review some of the user fees. Remember we used to charge US$2 for small cars as toll fees,” Marahwa said, adding that the increases were necessary to fund road maintenance.
Marahwa said they were also considering forcing foreign-registered vehicles to pay tollgate fees in foreign currency.
POLICE have launched an investigation into the Fidelity Printers and Refiners, the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe and security agents stationed at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport as they cast their net wider to fish out suspected members of the alleged gold smuggling syndicate that was busted after Henrietta Rushwaya was caught trying to smuggle 6kg of gold to Dubai on October 26.
Her arrest also led to businessman Ali Muhamad, two State security agents and two top policemen.
Detective Chief Inspector Michael Chibaya today told the court that they want to establish how Rushwaya and her accomplices got the 99.99 percent purified gold, which can only be obtained from Fidelity Printers and Refiners in the country.
He also said they wanted to establish how the closed circuit television (CCTV) was switched off during the attempt to smuggle out the 6kg of gold to Dubai by officials at the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe who are the custodians of the said CCTV at the airport.
He said those suspected to have played a role during investigations will be arrested.
“Investigations are still underway and more arrests are to be made.
“The gold which was recovered had a purity of 99 percent and can be done by a reputable refinery and in Zimbabwe, it is Fidelity Printers.
“When Rushwaya was arrested, amongst the documents she produced was a gold dealing agent permit issued to Ali Japan 786 Limited where Ali is one of the directors. Investigations are called to determine whether there is a relationship between Rushwaya, Ali Japan and the gold recovered.
“At the RGM Airport, the responsible authorities manning the CCTV are indicating that there was no ZESA between 10am and 2pm.
“Investigations have revealed that there was just a power cut for between 10 to 20 minutes.
“This led to the digital CCTV being tempered with, which we feel was made to conceal the crime. There are chances that there might be a syndicate and chances are high that Steven Tserayi and Raphious Mufandauya had influence on switching off the CCTV.
“Investigations are zeroing on Fidelity Printers and Refinery, security agents at airport and the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe security who are the custodians of the CCTV.”
Chibaya said this before magistrate Mr Ngoni Nduna and the State is opposing granting of bail to the five.
“Mufandauya is the officer in charge at airport and also a team leader responsible for operations at the airport. They do work closely with CAAZ and also I had the pleasure to watch the CCTV which shows when Rushwaya, Tserayi and Mufandauya arrive at the airport. They were received at the departures which shows that they were in communication,” he said.
Barcelona are reportedly facing bankruptcy if they don’t cut their wage bill by £171m (US$221m) before the end of this week.
According to Catalan radio station, RAC1, the squad must agree to a pay cut of 30 per cent by Thursday to avoid the risk of going bankrupt in January. Negotiations to reduce the wage bill began on Friday with a meeting between lawyers representing the club and the players.
Barca’s finances were affected by the coronavirus pandemic as their official club stores and museums were forced to close. They announced an £88m (US$114m)-loss at the start of October, and this came despite players accepting another pay cut.
Another factor that could further worsen the crisis at Nou Camp is Lionel Messi’s contract situation.
If the Argentine superstar decides against signing an extension, the club will have to pay him a bonus for reaching the end of his contract in June next year.-Soccer 24
By A Correspondent | The self confessed killer of the slain MUREHWA 7 year old boy, Tapiwa Makore, Tafadzwa Shamba, was seen carrying likely body parts wrapped inside a towel to Harare.
The latest details link well with those of a n’anga who alleges Tapiwa’s head was taken to Harare’s Dzivarasekwa Surbub, near ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa’s main house since independence 1980.
Last week ZimEye.com carried a lengthy news analysis and investigation exploring this murder and many others that ever happened since 1983.
The latest grissly details concerning the state in which the toddler’s body was found severally dismembered on 17th of September, were narrated on Tete Tilda’s program Tuesday morning.
Another woman who was arrested by the police last week, called Maud Hunidzarira, has the latest trail of detail concerning what happened to the body remains, as alleged.
The Makore family spokesperson, one, Gogo Beaulah, speaking from Murehwa announced saying:
“This Maud Hunidzarira is a resident of the area, at the place where Tapiwa snr and the self confessed killer, Tafadzwa buy Kachasu (dangerous Afro-whisky)beer”
She continued saying, “this is the woman who was taken by police officers yesterday.
“Her relationship with Tapiwa Makore senior, is not known at present,” she added.
“Maud Hunidzarira was arrested in Budiriro, Harare after residents alerted the police when they witnessed her washing a carpet full of blood, that is what she was caught washing.
“Two, others are saying they witnessed the man Tafadzwa being given a towel which Tafadzwa has said he used to carry the slain child.”
This statement correlates well with Tafadzwa Shamba’s own witness statement in which he says he carried the slain toddler in a towel.
Gogo Beaulah continued saying, “so people were seeing these things, so they are the ones who informed the police alerting them that this woman might have something to do with the murder of Tapiwa, so of the police then arrested her.
The development likely means that the killers took the carpet all the way to Harare where they would wash it.
“This is what it means,” Gogo Beaulah said.
Maud brews Kachasu beer and is a Murehwa resident, she is the same also called Mai Katsande who the killer says travelled to to buy Kachasu from after feeding the lad, still alive at that time with sadza meal and fish.
“We continue to thank the police because they are continuing to do their work we know that the truth will come out in the end,” Gogo Beaulah said.
On the whereabouts of the remains, she continued saying,
“We will continue talking until all the body parts have been found.
“The hands are missing, the private parts and the head, are all missing. We are not going to rest until the child has rested,” said the source only identified as Gogo Beula.
On the delay in burial, Gogo Beaulah said: “What has delayed the burial at the results of DNA, at the same time the police are still conducting their investigations we are still waiting for the police to give word,” she said.
Dynamos forward King Nadolo says the fact he hasn’t played competitive football will not hinder his quest to take part in the Algeria battle and he is ready for it.
Nadolo is the only locally-based player to be named in the provisional 24-member Warriors squad for the crucial double-header against the defending African champions slated for later this month.
Despite not playing competitive football for over eight months as the 2020 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League has been brought a halt due to the Covid-19 crisis, Nadolo says he is up for the task.
“I’m fit since I have been working hard. I got training programmes from Dynamos which I have been following religiously. I also have personal trainers I have been working with, so I feel fit and ready,” he told NewsDay Sport.
“I’m ready to compete against all of them for a place in the team and also learn from them,” added the former TelOne man.
Warriors coach Zdravko Logarušić justified the inclusion of Nadolo saying he was preparing him for CHAN hence there was need for him to feel comfortable but insiders also say the stylish forward impressed the Croat during the Malawi friendly.-Soccer 24
Michelle Katsvairo has crossed to Botswana to join top-flight side and former league champions Township Rollers.
The midfielder was in the books of Highlanders since February but did not manage to play as football was suspended in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic before the season started.
In a statement confirming the arrival of the 30-year old, Rollers said: “Township Rollers is pleased to announce the signing of Zimbabwean forward Michelle Katsvairo, who joins the club from Zimbabwe Premier League giants Highlanders.
“In the past the experienced forward played for Kaizer Chiefs and Free State Stars in the South African PSL and earned senior caps with the Zimbabwean national team, the Warriors.”
Katsvairo’s other former clubs include Gunners (Zimbabwe), FC Platinum (Zimbabwe), Chicken Inn (Zimbabwe), Kaizer Chiefs (South Africa), Singida United (Tanzania) and Free State Stars (South Africa).-Soccer 24
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa remains the people’s hope despite attempts by Zanu PF to soil his image, an MDC Alliance official has said.
Speaking in an interview with ZimEye.com, MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson, Clifford Hlatywayo said people have confidence in the leadership of President Chamisa.Hlatywayo was commenting on Tongai Matutu’s defection to Zanu PF.
Hlatywayo also said it was sad to note that Matutu elected to join the collapsing Zanu PF House.
“It’s his democratic right to join any political formation of his choice at his own time.
The MDCA is a leading party in the country. We are the government in waiting that won the 2018 Presidential election vote by more than 2.6million.
People have confidence in the leadership of President Nelson Chamisa. He is the people’s Hope and he is ready to lead Zimbabwe to the promised land. Zimbabwe need a People’s Government urgently to resolve the crisis we are facing as a people,” said Hlatywayo.
“It’s very unfortunate that Tongai Matutu joined a collapsing house.
It is an understatement to say that ZANU pf is dead but it is at its later stages of decomposition.
ZANU pf is stinking, that’s where our brother has decided to go. Obvious he is motivated by certain things.
But the things we know in ZANU pf is corruption, abductions, violence, abuse of the people’s rights, intimidation, bleeding the nation, smuggling minerals including gold and diamonds among others. This is the ship where Mututu is joining.
It’s regrettable and unthinkable to find a young person of his stature joining an organization that terrorize the ordinary people.
In politics you must be guided by principles and values. This move is a clear testimony that his values has changed because of lack of principles.
MDCA is solid and focused on the goal that is to win Zimbabwe for change and install a People’s Government.”
The Warriors quartet of midfielder Marvelous Nakamba, defenders Tendayi Darikwa, Adam Chicksen and Jordan Zemura’s availability for the blockbuster Algeria double-header has been cast in doubt following a stay at home order announced by British Prime Minister Borris Johnson amid a spike in Covid-19 cases.
The four, who turn out for Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, Notts County and Bournemouth respectively, are part of the Warriors squad for the back to back AFCON qualifiers slated for later this month.
England has experienced a spike in Covid-19 cases, leaving the government with no choice but to enforce new lockdown measures to try and curb the novel pandemic.
Johnson announced that starting on Thursday, restaurants, gyms, nonessential shops and places of worship would be closed.
In addition, outbound international travel will be prohibited, except for work, while schools and universities will remain open, with government expected to reevaluate the lockdown measures in early December.
The Warriors technical department admitted that the new lockdown measures in Britain might affect their preparations for the clashes.
If players are not allowed to travel from England to Africa however, the Desert Foxes will also affected as they have a host of players plying their trade there.-Soccer 24
For medicines to work safely, it’s vital to have strong systems in place to report any undesired side effects or “adverse drug reactions“.
The most important aspect of drug safety monitoring is reliable, real-time information. Health-care professionals (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, dentists) are best placed to report suspected adverse reactions as part of patient care. Patients also have a critical role in getting the right information to authorities and should refer to their medical practitioner as soon as they detect unwanted symptoms or reactions. Both health professionals and patients should report these even if they are doubtful about the precise relationship between the given drug and the reaction.
Most adverse reactions are preventable
Many undesired drug reactions may be due to factors independent of the medicine. For example:
incorrect diagnosis of the patient’s medical condition;prescription of an inappropriate drug or incorrect dosage of the appropriate drug;an undetected medical, genetic or allergic condition that may cause a patient reaction;self-medication with prescription medicines;not following instructions for taking the medication;interactions with other drugs (including traditional medicines) and certain foods.
But s risks may also occur because a medicine’s composition and ingredients do not meet required standards, causing them to be ineffective and even hazardous; or because the medicine is counterfeit, with no active ingredients or inappropriate ingredients.
Assessing medicines before and after they reach patients
Before medicines or vaccines are made widely available in countries, they are rigorously tested in patient and healthy volunteers respectively to discover how well they work for a defined disease and how safe they are. But to get a comprehensive picture of a product’s safety, it is important to keep watching how it works once it is widely used in a population.
This requires careful patient monitoring and further scientific data collection by organized local, national and international agencies.
Drug safety during the COVID-19 pandemic
International drug safety monitoring is particularly important during global epidemics such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, and even more so when there are no proven vaccines or medicines for the disease. As new COVID-19 vaccines and treatments become available, health-care professionals and patients will need to be actively engaged in monitoring the effects of these novel products and reporting any potential adverse reaction. By analyzing reported reactions, national medicines authorities can take the necessary measures for safer use of the drugs, scientists can assess the data and, if needed, international networks can be activated to address the problem.
WHO’s role in making medicines safer
WHO promotes global drug safety through its Programme for International Drug Monitoring, which supports countries to develop sound pharmacovigilance policies, organizes hands-on training and workshops, and establishes networks for information sharing.
An important role of the programme is to strengthen national reporting systems and their contribution to VigiBase, the global WHO database for adverse drug reactions, managed by Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Sweden, and to identify possible links between the use of a drug and adverse reactions. When signals of drug safety problems emerge through the database or other sources, WHO and Uppsala Monitoring Centre share new information on serious adverse reactions with all WHO Member States.
A recent key WHO development is the introduction of a mobile application called “Med Safety”, jointly launched in nine countries* with Uppsala Monitoring Centre and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. The app enables health-care professionals and patients to report suspected adverse reactions directly to the national authorities’ data base. WHO is preparing to roll out the app in more countries once a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.
MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA REMAINS IMPERTURBABLE AS PARADOXICAL TONGAI MATUTU RICOCHETS TO CORRUPT ZANUPF REGIME.
It is quite exhilarating to receive the fascinating news that the belly politician remigrated to the clueless Zanupf regime as a way of establishing a delightful garden manned by the corrupt illegitimate leadership in the so-called revolutionary party. The leader of the regime yesterday rolled out the red carpet for the voracious Matutu who gave a dirty look to the national democratic revolution led by the political mountain, President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. As Mdc Alliance, we absolutely appreciate the suicidal resolution from the rapacious former Mdc Masvingo Urban legislator since it is instrumental in eroding selfish politicians who masquerade as social democrats for personal aggrandisement.
Desperate Matutu was frustrated beyond recovery when he dismally failed to snatch even a single nomination to grab the Chairmanship of Masvingo Province prior to the successful Mdc Alliance elective Congress held in May 2019.
The effort to anathematise the political behemoth (Mdc Alliance) describing it as a political wilderness at the Zanupf State House epitomises his astounding defeat in the face of constitutional democracy as well his political ineptitude to fight for socio-economic transformation.
Speaking during the reunion, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was left elated beyond imagination. This was unearthed when he said, “he has come to us and he would like to ‘come back’ to his original party. We welcome him ‘back home”.
This nature of hospitality is extremely astonishing given that the former legislator pretended all these donkey years that he is a vehicle for complete change.
Moreover, the posture of our erstwhile comrade resembles politics of greedy bereft of the will of Zimbabweans who continue to endure arbitrary arrests, abductions ,torture and shrinking of democratic space in the motherland.
It becomes ironic and primitive to describe his resolve to reattain Zanupf as a national calling. As Mdc Alliance, we are really cognisant of our resounding 2.6 million votes attained by our party of excellence in 2018 harmonised elections where we were bullied and robbed by the monocratic regime. It is foolhardy to believe that the omnivorous Matutu made his adjudication to be reunited with ideologically bankrupt Zanupf is not out of an empty stomach, but national calling.
Moreso, it is a public secret that the dilapidation of our economy and infringement on the basic universal freedoms emanates from Zanupf politicians’ insatiable appetite to eat on behalf of the vulnerable citizenry therefore Matutu has displayed his determination to strategically position himself for incessant looting of state resources with impunity. Mdc Alliance Namibia’s political message is very clear, Matutu should not fool his Zanupf gods that there are multiple Mdc Alliance members who are yearning to riposte Zanupf come 2023.
Mdc Alliance party is not for the erratic and capricious people who are readily available to donate the freedom train for three pieces of silver.
Furthermore, Zanupf Acting Secretary for Information and Publicity Patrick Chinamasa said the revolutionary party welcomes Matutu with ‘joy and in the spirit of comradeship’. He further elaborated that Matutu will undergo the requisite induction with Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology so that he appreciates the party ideology on abductions, torture, human butchery, corruption, looting, smuggling, rape of social democrats and rigging of elections.
These are the popular political value systems and party ideology of repression.
It is distinct insanity to carry the conviction that the ravenous Matutu’s settlement is a clear indication that the thugocratic Zanupf is the party of the future with the interests of Zimbabweans at heart. Where is your heart when you are criminalising the audible voices against corruption and gross misgovernance in Zanupf?, echoed Mdc Alliance Namibia Rundu Branch Secretary General Simbarashe Ndoda.
In conclusion, Mdc Alliance Namibia encourages its membership around the globe to soldier on and resist political fatigue and superego in the mushrooming stomach politicians of plunder. Our economy is on a tailspin because of Zanupf misrule manifesting in rampant corruption hence hungered Matutu must be given a cold shoulder.
Mdc Alliance is a political home to those who shun and fight totalitarianism being advanced by Zanupf morons. Victory is certain with vigilance and corruption-free minds. As an external district, we are delighted that Matutu did not hide behind the Mdc name in antithesis with Khupe and Mwonzora who disguise as social democrats but serving Zanupf dictators.
Unlike Khupe, Mwonzora, Komichi, Dumbu, Mashakada and cronies, Matutu’s decree to regain his looting position in Zanupf is worth celebrating because he is standing on his own compared to Zanupf surrogates who pretend to be agents of complete transformation. We would like to you wish good luck in your fruitless journey to the political dustbin and advise the Mwonzoras to follow suit than continue as political hypocrites. It is your democratic right to associate yourself with corrupt, heartless murderers.
By A Correspondent- MDC T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora said that the MDC Alliance had now resorted to sacrificing the youths by inciting them to engage in acts of anarchy and lawlessness.
However MDC alliance rubbished the claims saying his party youths had not been to Harvest House.-DailyNews
Tinashe Sambiri|MDC -T Secretary General, Douglas Togaraseyi Mwonzora on Monday embarrassed himself after admitting that MDC Alliance is a political party.
Prior to issuing the statement, Mwonzora has always argued the MDC Alliance is a “coalition not a political party.”
However, in his statement yesterday Mwonzora referred to the MDC Alliance as a political party.
See part of Mwonzora’s statement below:
We have instructed our youths not to fight with these people but to call the police in order to minimize personal injury that will come from fighting.
The MDC Alliance Party has now resorted to sacrificing the youths by inciting them to engage in acts of anarchy and lawlessness.
They take advantage of the poverty of these youths and pay them ridiculously low sums of money and cheap liquor to engage in violence.
These youths are drawn from Mbare and similarly poor neighborhoods were poverty is rife.”
Ugandan opposition leader and popular singer Bobi Wine has been arrested just after he was certified as a candidate in next year’s presidential election, his party says.
“They [police] used a hammer and broke the windows of his vehicle and forcefully dragged him out … they bundled him into their own vehicle and took off,” Joel Senyonyi, spokesman for Wine’s NUP party, said on Tuesday.
The local NBS Television, reporting from the scene, said the singer was put into a police van amid violent scuffles between police and his supporters.
Wine, 38, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, aims to end President Yoweri Museveni’s 34 years in power, making him Africa’s third longest-ruling leader. Elections are scheduled for February next year.
Wine’s youthful age and his music have earned him a large following in the relatively young country of 42 million, rattling the governing National Resistance Movement (NRM) party and drawing a security crackdown on his supporters.
The musician, who put out a song in the early days of the pandemic encouraging people to wash their hands, has built up a following among Uganda’s younger voters – about 75 percent of the population is below 30.
Since Wine expressed his presidential ambition, police and the military have repeatedly dispersed his rallies and beaten and detained his supporters.
On Monday, Museveni, 76, warned that anyone breaking the peace would regret their actions, as he formally started his bid for another term in office.
“I am hearing … some people want to disturb our peace. Whoever tries will regret [it],” the president said after the Electoral Commission accepted his nomination papers.
“For us, we do not joke, we fought to bring peace,” he told reporters in comments broadcast on television.
Supporters have praised Museveni for bringing in investment and bolstering the economy.
But his opponents accuse him of crushing dissent and presiding over widespread corruption – charges he has repeatedly dismissed.
For medicines to work safely, it’s vital to have strong systems in place to report any undesired side effects or “adverse drug reactions“.
The most important aspect of drug safety monitoring is reliable, real-time information. Health-care professionals (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, dentists) are best placed to report suspected adverse reactions as part of patient care. Patients also have a critical role in getting the right information to authorities and should refer to their medical practitioner as soon as they detect unwanted symptoms or reactions. Both health professionals and patients should report these even if they are doubtful about the precise relationship between the given drug and the reaction.
Most adverse reactions are preventable
Many undesired drug reactions may be due to factors independent of the medicine. For example:
incorrect diagnosis of the patient’s medical condition;prescription of an inappropriate drug or incorrect dosage of the appropriate drug;an undetected medical, genetic or allergic condition that may cause a patient reaction;self-medication with prescription medicines;not following instructions for taking the medication;interactions with other drugs (including traditional medicines) and certain foods.
But s risks may also occur because a medicine’s composition and ingredients do not meet required standards, causing them to be ineffective and even hazardous; or because the medicine is counterfeit, with no active ingredients or inappropriate ingredients.
Assessing medicines before and after they reach patients
Before medicines or vaccines are made widely available in countries, they are rigorously tested in patient and healthy volunteers respectively to discover how well they work for a defined disease and how safe they are. But to get a comprehensive picture of a product’s safety, it is important to keep watching how it works once it is widely used in a population.
This requires careful patient monitoring and further scientific data collection by organized local, national and international agencies.
Drug safety during the COVID-19 pandemic
International drug safety monitoring is particularly important during global epidemics such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, and even more so when there are no proven vaccines or medicines for the disease. As new COVID-19 vaccines and treatments become available, health-care professionals and patients will need to be actively engaged in monitoring the effects of these novel products and reporting any potential adverse reaction. By analyzing reported reactions, national medicines authorities can take the necessary measures for safer use of the drugs, scientists can assess the data and, if needed, international networks can be activated to address the problem.
WHO’s role in making medicines safer
WHO promotes global drug safety through its Programme for International Drug Monitoring, which supports countries to develop sound pharmacovigilance policies, organizes hands-on training and workshops, and establishes networks for information sharing.
An important role of the programme is to strengthen national reporting systems and their contribution to VigiBase, the global WHO database for adverse drug reactions, managed by Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Sweden, and to identify possible links between the use of a drug and adverse reactions. When signals of drug safety problems emerge through the database or other sources, WHO and Uppsala Monitoring Centre share new information on serious adverse reactions with all WHO Member States.
A recent key WHO development is the introduction of a mobile application called “Med Safety”, jointly launched in nine countries* with Uppsala Monitoring Centre and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. The app enables health-care professionals and patients to report suspected adverse reactions directly to the national authorities’ data base. WHO is preparing to roll out the app in more countries once a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.
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Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Secretary General, Charlton Hwende has said the defection of Tongai Matutu to Zanu PF is a non-event.
Matutu crossed the great divide on Monday and he told reporters he made a personal and bold decision to leave the MDC Alliance.
Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputies Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi literally went into ecstatic frenzy as they embraced Matutu.
Hwende wrote on Twitter : Shocked by this level of desperation shown by @ZANUPF_Official leadership. A whole President and 2 Deputies receiving such a low key new Member. Mr Matutu resigned from the MDC A when he lost to Chair Gumbi @2019 Congress…”
He also took a swipe at Douglas Mwonzora describing the MDC Alliance as a G-40 project.
“Mwonzora always lies about G40 involvement in MDC Alliance affairs.
This is a narrative that he got from @edmnangagwa it’s meant to justify the crackdown on us by State Agents and MID operatives.
We have nothing to do with G40 we only take instructions from our Members.”
Demonstrating its commitment to the people of Zimbabwe, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched two projects worth a combined US$78 million to provide critical HIV healthcare services for over half a million Zimbabweans.
“The United States is proud to stand with the people of Zimbabwe to address HIV,” stated USAID/Zimbabwe Mission Director, Mr. Art Brown.
“Together with our partners, USAID is ensuring that people living with HIV can start treatment early, adhere to treatment, reach viral load suppression, and live longer, healthier lives.
We are also working to reach 95 percent of the estimated 40,000 female sex workers in Zimbabwe to help reduce HIV infections, provide onsite initiation of anti-retroviral therapy (ART), and transfer clients to public sector facilities.”
Together with the Organization for Public Health Interventions and Development (OPHID), USAID will provide care and treatment services for more than half a million people living with HIV, at 700 health facilities in 24 districts, for the next five years.
OPHID will expand client-centered services in facilities and communities and train more than 12,000 healthcare workers on innovative models to increase testing, ART initiation and adherence, and viral load testing. USAID and OPHID will support the development of national level policy, strategy, and healthcare guidelines, which the Ministry of Health and Child Care will cascade to the whole country.
Through a one-year program, USAID and the Center for Sexual Health, HIV and AIDS Research (CeSHHAR) will help close the remaining gaps in HIV prevention and care for sex workers in the five hotspot districts of Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru, Mutare, and Masvingo, and three border posts with Mozambique, Botswana, and Zambia.
Working directly with female sex workers, USAID will reduce new HIV infections through increasing the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), condoms, and other emerging prevention technologies.
“PEPFAR’s efforts to fight HIV will ultimately help Zimbabwe meet critical AIDS treatment targets. Our support breaks barriers and closes remaining gaps in sustaining and accelerating HIV prevention and care,” stated Ambassador Brian A. Nichols.
Since PEPFAR’s inception in Zimbabwe in 2006, U.S. investments of more than US$1.2 billion have led to an 80 percent decline in the annual number of HIV-related deaths, with more than 1.15 million Zimbabweans currently on lifesaving antiretroviral medicines (ARVs).
Since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, the American people, through USAID, have contributed over US$3.5 billion in assistance to Zimbabwe. Current projects include initiatives to increase food security, support economic resilience, improve health systems and services, and promote a more democratic system of governance.
Issued by the Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy.
For additional information, please contact Information Officer John Hishmeh at [email protected] or Development Outreach and Communications Specialist Doreen Hove at [email protected].
MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA REMAINS IMPERTURBABLE AS PARADOXICAL TONGAI MATUTU RICOCHETS TO CORRUPT ZANUPF REGIME.
It is quite exhilarating to receive the fascinating news that the belly politician remigrated to the clueless Zanupf regime as a way of establishing a delightful garden manned by the corrupt illegitimate leadership in the so-called revolutionary party. The leader of the regime yesterday rolled out the red carpet for the voracious Matutu who gave a dirty look to the national democratic revolution led by the political mountain, President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. As Mdc Alliance, we absolutely appreciate the suicidal resolution from the rapacious former Mdc Masvingo Urban legislator since it is instrumental in eroding selfish politicians who masquerade as social democrats for personal aggrandisement.
Desperate Matutu was frustrated beyond recovery when he dismally failed to snatch even a single nomination to grab the Chairmanship of Masvingo Province prior to the successful Mdc Alliance elective Congress held in May 2019.
The effort to anathematise the political behemoth (Mdc Alliance) describing it as a political wilderness at the Zanupf State House epitomises his astounding defeat in the face of constitutional democracy as well his political ineptitude to fight for socio-economic transformation.
Speaking during the reunion, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was left elated beyond imagination. This was unearthed when he said, “he has come to us and he would like to ‘come back’ to his original party. We welcome him ‘back home”.
This nature of hospitality is extremely astonishing given that the former legislator pretended all these donkey years that he is a vehicle for complete change.
Moreover, the posture of our erstwhile comrade resembles politics of greedy bereft of the will of Zimbabweans who continue to endure arbitrary arrests, abductions ,torture and shrinking of democratic space in the motherland.
It becomes ironic and primitive to describe his resolve to reattain Zanupf as a national calling. As Mdc Alliance, we are really cognisant of our resounding 2.6 million votes attained by our party of excellence in 2018 harmonised elections where we were bullied and robbed by the monocratic regime. It is foolhardy to believe that the omnivorous Matutu made his adjudication to be reunited with ideologically bankrupt Zanupf is not out of an empty stomach, but national calling.
Moreso, it is a public secret that the dilapidation of our economy and infringement on the basic universal freedoms emanates from Zanupf politicians’ insatiable appetite to eat on behalf of the vulnerable citizenry therefore Matutu has displayed his determination to strategically position himself for incessant looting of state resources with impunity. Mdc Alliance Namibia’s political message is very clear, Matutu should not fool his Zanupf gods that there are multiple Mdc Alliance members who are yearning to riposte Zanupf come 2023.
Mdc Alliance party is not for the erratic and capricious people who are readily available to donate the freedom train for three pieces of silver.
Furthermore, Zanupf Acting Secretary for Information and Publicity Patrick Chinamasa said the revolutionary party welcomes Matutu with ‘joy and in the spirit of comradeship’. He further elaborated that Matutu will undergo the requisite induction with Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology so that he appreciates the party ideology on abductions, torture, human butchery, corruption, looting, smuggling, rape of social democrats and rigging of elections.
These are the popular political value systems and party ideology of repression. It is distinct insanity to carry the conviction that the ravenous Matutu’s settlement is a clear indication that the thugocratic Zanupf is the party of the future with the interests of Zimbabweans at heart. Where is your heart when you are criminalising the audible voices against corruption and gross misgovernance in Zanupf?, echoed Mdc Alliance Namibia Rundu Branch Secretary General Simbarashe Ndoda.
In conclusion, Mdc Alliance Namibia encourages its membership around the globe to soldier on and resist political fatigue and superego in the mushrooming stomach politicians of plunder. Our economy is on a tailspin because of Zanupf misrule manifesting in rampant corruption hence hungered Matutu must be given a cold shoulder. Mdc Alliance is a political home to those who shun and fight totalitarianism being advanced by Zanupf morons. Victory is certain with vigilance and corruption-free minds. As an external district, we are delighted that Matutu did not hide behind the Mdc name in antithesis with Khupe and Mwonzora who disguise as social democrats but serving Zanupf dictators.
Unlike Khupe, Mwonzora, Komichi, Dumbu, Mashakada and cronies, Matutu’s decree to regain his looting position in Zanupf is worth celebrating because he is standing on his own compared to Zanupf surrogates who pretend to be agents of complete transformation. We would like to you wish good luck in your fruitless journey to the political dustbin and advise the Mwonzoras to follow suit than continue as political hypocrites. It is your democratic right to associate yourself with corrupt, heartless murderers.
Police have launched an investigation into the Fidelity Printers and Refiners, the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe and security agents stationed at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport as they cast their net wider to fish out suspected members of the alleged gold smuggling syndicate that was busted after Henrietta Rushwaya was caught trying to smuggle 6kg of gold to Dubai on October 26.
Her arrest also led to businessman Ali Muhamad, two State security agents and two top policemen.
Detective Chief Inspector Michael Chibaya today told the court that they want to establish how Rushwaya and her accomplices got the 99.99 percent purified gold, which can only be obtained from Fidelity Printers and Refiners in the country.
He also said they wanted to establish how the closed circuit television (CCTV) was switched off during the attempt to smuggle out the 6kg of gold to Dubai by officials at the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe who are the custodians of the said CCTV at the airport.
He said those suspected to have played a role during investigations will be arrested.
“Investigations are still underway and more arrests are to be made.
“The gold which was recovered had a purity of 99 percent and can be done by a reputable refinery and in Zimbabwe, it is Fidelity Printers.
“When Rushwaya was arrested, amongst the documents she produced was a gold dealing agent permit issued to Ali Japan 786 Limited where Ali is one of the directors. Investigations are called to determine whether there is a relationship between Rushwaya, Ali Japan and the gold recovered.
“At the RGM Airport, the responsible authorities manning the CCTV are indicating that there was no ZESA between 10am and 2pm.
“Investigations have revealed that there was just a power cut for between 10 to 20 minutes.
“This led to the digital CCTV being tempered with, which we feel was made to conceal the crime. There are chances that there might be a syndicate and chances are high that Steven Tserayi and Raphious Mufandauya had influence on switching off the CCTV.
“Investigations are zeroing on Fidelity Printers and Refinery, security agents at airport and the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe security who are the custodians of the CCTV.”
Chibaya said this before magistrate Mr Ngoni Nduna and the State is opposing granting of bail to the five.
“Mufandauya is the officer in charge at airport and also a team leader responsible for operations at the airport. They do work closely with CAAZ and also I had the pleasure to watch the CCTV which shows when Rushwaya, Tserayi and Mufandauya arrive at the airport. They were received at the departures which shows that they were in communication,” he said.
Tinashe Sambiri|President Nelson Chamisa remains the people’s hope despite attempts by Zanu PF to soil his image, an MDC Alliance official has said.
Speaking in an interview with ZimEye.com, MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson, Clifford Hlatywayo said people have confidence in the leadership of President Chamisa.Hlatywayo was commenting on Tongai Matutu’s defection to Zanu PF.
Hlatywayo also said it was sad to note that Matutu elected to join the collapsing Zanu PF House.
“It’s his democratic right to join any political formation of his choice at his own time.
The MDCA is a leading party in the country. We are the government in waiting that won the 2018 Presidential election vote by more than 2.6million.
People have confidence in the leadership of President Nelson Chamisa. He is the people’s Hope and he is ready to lead Zimbabwe to the promised land. Zimbabwe need a People’s Government urgently to resolve the crisis we are facing as a people,” said Hlatywayo.
“It’s very unfortunate that Tongai Matutu joined a collapsing house.
It is an understatement to say that ZANU pf is dead but it is at its later stages of decomposition.
ZANU pf is stinking, that’s where our brother has decided to go. Obvious he is motivated by certain things.
But the things we know in ZANU pf is corruption, abductions, violence, abuse of the people’s rights, intimidation, bleeding the nation, smuggling minerals including gold and diamonds among others. This is the ship where Mututu is joining.
It’s regrettable and unthinkable to find a young person of his stature joining an organization that terrorize the ordinary people.
In politics you must be guided by principles and values. This move is a clear testimony that his values has changed because of lack of principles.
MDCA is solid and focused on the goal that is to win Zimbabwe for change and install a People’s Government.”
By Jane Mlambo| The opposition MDC Alliance has accused state agents of frustrating their efforts to secure alternative office space following their violent displacement by a rival faction led by Dr Thokozani Khupe.
by victimizing and threatening estate agents and land lords until they pull out of any deal.
This was revealed by MDC Alliance Secretary General Charlton Hwende who fingered the Central Intelligence Organisation and Military Intelligence Department of tracking and victimizing estate agents and land owners not to entertain them.
“Since the day the army and police took over our Offices MRT House and handed it over to @DrThoko_Khupe the CIO and MID has also followed us to every Estate Agent and land lord that has attempted to lease offices to us. They victimize and threaten them until they block my number,” said Hwende.
The MDC Alliance has been embroiled in a bitter war for the control of the party headquarters in a matter that has spilled into the High Court.
Currently the Harvest House building is in the hands of the Khupe faction who were assisted by police to regain possession after they were displaced by youths aligned to Nelson Chamisa.
By Business Reporter| A report circulated by the Zimbabwe Congress Union, ZCTU, suggests that the entire NSSA board has been fired by the current minister Prof Paul Mavima.
If the development is true, the ZCTU demands to know –
Why was it dissolved?
Why was it dissolved without consulting stakeholders?
ls this not to facilitate looting of workers pensions?
Follows up interviews are currently underway and will be updated here – refresh this page for the live updates
By A Correspondent | The self confessed killer of the slain MUREHWA 7 year old boy, Tapiwa Makore, Tafadzwa Shamba, was seen carrying likely body parts wrapped inside a towel to Harare.
The latest details link well with those of a n’anga who alleges Tapiwa’s head was taken to Harare’s Dzivarasekwa Surbub, near ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa’s main house since independence 1980.
Last week ZimEye.com carried a lengthy news analysis and investigation exploring this murder and many others that ever happened since 1983.
The latest grissly details concerning the state in which the toddler’s body was found severally dismembered on 17th of September, were narrated on Tete Tilda’s program Tuesday morning.
Another woman who was arrested by the police last week, called Maud Hunidzarira, has the latest trail of detail concerning what happened to the body remains, as alleged.
The Makore family spokesperson, one, Gogo Beaulah, speaking from Murehwa announced saying:
“This Maud Hunidzarira is a resident of the area, at the place where Tapiwa snr and the self confessed killer, Tafadzwa buy Kachasu (dangerous Afro-whisky)beer”
She continued saying, “this is the woman who was taken by police officers yesterday.
“Her relationship with Tapiwa Makore senior, is not known at present,” she added.
“Maud Hunidzarira was arrested in Budiriro, Harare after residents alerted the police when they witnessed her washing a carpet full of blood, that is what she was caught washing.
“Two, others are saying they witnessed the man Tafadzwa being given a towel which Tafadzwa has said he used to carry the slain child.”
This statement correlates well with Tafadzwa Shamba’s own witness statement in which he says he carried the slain toddler in a towel.
Gogo Beaulah continued saying, “so people were seeing these things, so they are the ones who informed the police alerting them that this woman might have something to do with the murder of Tapiwa, so of the police then arrested her.
The development likely means that the killers took the carpet all the way to Harare where they would wash it.
“This is what it means,” Gogo Beaulah said.
Maud brews Kachasu beer and is a Murehwa resident, she is the same also called Mai Katsande who the killer says travelled to to buy Kachasu from after feeding the lad, still alive at that time with sadza meal and fish.
“We continue to thank the police because they are continuing to do their work we know that the truth will come out in the end,” Gogo Beaulah said.
On the whereabouts of the remains, she continued saying,
“We will continue talking until all the body parts have been found.
“The hands are missing, the private parts and the head, are all missing. We are not going to rest until the child has rested,” said the source only identified as Gogo Beula.
On the delay in burial, Gogo Beaulah said: “What has delayed the burial at the results of DNA, at the same time the police are still conducting their investigations we are still waiting for the police to give word,” she said.
By A Correspondent- The State has opposed bail for an alleged gold syndicate, which includes Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya, businessman Ali Mohamad and CIO operatives Steven Tserayi, Raphios Mufandauya and Gift Karanda claiming they will flee the country as there is a hovering minimum five year jail sentence.
The State made the submission yesterday during the bail application hearing by the five who are facing allegations of smuggling and unlawful possession of gold.
Rushwaya is jointly charged with business partner Ali Mohammed, Central Intelligence Organisation operatives Stephen Tserayi and Raphios Mufandauya, police bosses Douglas Shoko, Edward Chimhungu and ZMF colleague Gift Karanda.
Latest details on Tapiwa Makore murder link Harare and Murehwa- file pic
…Tapiwa’s blood remains were taken to Harare on the carpet and washed off in the capital city’s Budiriro surbub…
By A Correspondent | The self confessed killer of the slain MUREHWA 7 year old boy, Tapiwa Makore, Tafadzwa Shamba, was seen carrying likely body parts wrapped inside a towel to Harare.
The latest details link well with those of a n’anga who alleges Tapiwa’s head was taken to Harare’s Dzivarasekwa Surbub, near ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa’s main house since independence 1980.
Last week ZimEye.com carried a lengthy news analysis and investigation exploring this murder and many others that ever happened since 1983.
The latest grissly details concerning the state in which the toddler’s body was found severally dismembered on 17th of September, were narrated on Tete Tilda’s program Tuesday morning.
Another woman who was arrested by the police last week, called Maud Hunidzarira, has the latest trail of detail concerning what happened to the body remains, as alleged.
The Makore family spokesperson, one, Gogo Beaulah, speaking from Murehwa announced saying:
“This Maud Hunidzarira is a resident of the area, at the place where Tapiwa snr and the self confessed killer, Tafadzwa buy Kachasu (dangerous Afro-whisky)beer”
She continued saying, “this is the woman who was taken by police officers yesterday.
“Her relationship with Tapiwa Makore senior, is not known at present,” she added.
“Maud Hunidzarira was arrested in Budiriro, Harare after residents alerted the police when they witnessed her washing a carpet full of blood, that is what she was caught washing.
“Two, others are saying they witnessed the man Tafadzwa being given a towel which Tafadzwa has said he used to carry the slain child.”
This statement correlates well with Tafadzwa Shamba’s own witness statement in which he says he carried the slain toddler in a towel.
Gogo Beaulah continued saying, “so people were seeing these things, so they are the ones who informed the police alerting them that this woman might have something to do with the murder of Tapiwa, so of the police then arrested her.
The development likely means that the killers took the carpet all the way to Harare where they would wash it.
“This is what it means,” Gogo Beaulah said.
Maud brews Kachasu beer and is a Murehwa resident, she is the same also called Mai Katsande who the killer says travelled to to buy Kachasu from after feeding the lad, still alive at that time with sadza meal and fish.
“We continue to thank the police because they are continuing to do their work we know that the truth will come out in the end,” Gogo Beaulah said.
On the whereabouts of the remains, she continued saying,
“We will continue talking until all the body parts have been found.
“The hands are missing, the private parts and the head, are all missing. We are not going to rest until the child has rested,” said the source only identified as Gogo Beula.
On the delay in burial, Gogo Beaulah said: “What has delayed the burial at the results of DNA, at the same time the police are still conducting their investigations we are still waiting for the police to give word,” she said.
It is quite exhilarating to receive the fascinating news that the belly politician remigrated to the clueless Zanupf regime as a way of establishing a delightful garden manned by the corrupt illegitimate leadership in the so-called revolutionary party. The leader of the regime yesterday rolled out the red carpet for the voracious Matutu who gave a dirty look to the national democratic revolution led by the political mountain, President Advocate Nelson Chamisa. As Mdc Alliance, we absolutely appreciate the suicidal resolution from the rapacious former Mdc Masvingo Urban legislator since it is instrumental in eroding selfish politicians who masquerade as social democrats for personal aggrandisement.
Desperate Matutu was frustrated beyond recovery when he dismally failed to snatch even a single nomination to grab the Chairmanship of Masvingo Province prior to the successful Mdc Alliance elective Congress held in May 2019. The effort to anathematise the political behemoth (Mdc Alliance) describing it as a political wilderness at the Zanupf State House epitomises his astounding defeat in the face of constitutional democracy as well his political ineptitude to fight for socio-economic transformation. Speaking during the reunion, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was left elated beyond imagination. This was unearthed when he said, “he has come to us and he would like to ‘come back’ to his original party. We welcome him ‘back home”. This nature of hospitality is extremely astonishing given that the former legislator pretended all these donkey years that he is a vehicle for complete change.
Moreover, the posture of our erstwhile comrade resembles politics of greedy bereft of the will of Zimbabweans who continue to endure arbitrary arrests, abductions ,torture and shrinking of democratic space in the motherland. It becomes ironic and primitive to describe his resolve to reattain Zanupf as a national calling. As Mdc Alliance, we are really cognisant of our resounding 2.6 million votes attained by our party of excellence in 2018 harmonised elections where we were bullied and robbed by the monocratic regime. It is foolhardy to believe that the omnivorous Matutu made his adjudication to be reunited with ideologically bankrupt Zanupf is not out of an empty stomach, but national calling.
Moreso, it is a public secret that the dilapidation of our economy and infringement on the basic universal freedoms emanates from Zanupf politicians’ insatiable appetite to eat on behalf of the vulnerable citizenry therefore Matutu has displayed his determination to strategically position himself for incessant looting of state resources with impunity. Mdc Alliance Namibia’s political message is very clear, Matutu should not fool his Zanupf gods that there are multiple Mdc Alliance members who are yearning to riposte Zanupf come 2023. Mdc Alliance party is not for the erratic and capricious people who are readily available to donate the freedom train for three pieces of silver.
Furthermore, Zanupf Acting Secretary for Information and Publicity Patrick Chinamasa said the revolutionary party welcomes Matutu with ‘joy and in the spirit of comradeship’. He further elaborated that Matutu will undergo the requisite induction with Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology so that he appreciates the party ideology on abductions, torture, human butchery, corruption, looting, smuggling, rape of social democrats and rigging of elections. These are the popular political value systems and party ideology of repression. It is distinct insanity to carry the conviction that the ravenous Matutu’s settlement is a clear indication that the thugocratic Zanupf is the party of the future with the interests of Zimbabweans at heart. Where is your heart when you are criminalising the audible voices against corruption and gross misgovernance in Zanupf?, echoed Mdc Alliance Namibia Rundu Branch Secretary General Simbarashe Ndoda.
In conclusion, Mdc Alliance Namibia encourages its membership around the globe to soldier on and resist political fatigue and superego in the mushrooming stomach politicians of plunder. Our economy is on a tailspin because of Zanupf misrule manifesting in rampant corruption hence hungered Matutu must be given a cold shoulder. Mdc Alliance is a political home to those who shun and fight totalitarianism being advanced by Zanupf morons. Victory is certain with vigilance and corruption-free minds. As an external district, we are delighted that Matutu did not hide behind the Mdc name in antithesis with Khupe and Mwonzora who disguise as social democrats but serving Zanupf dictators.
Unlike Khupe, Mwonzora, Komichi, Dumbu, Mashakada and cronies, Matutu’s decree to regain his looting position in Zanupf is worth celebrating because he is standing on his own compared to Zanupf surrogates who pretend to be agents of complete transformation. We would like to you wish good luck in your fruitless journey to the political dustbin and advise the Mwonzoras to follow suit than continue as political hypocrites. It is your democratic right to associate yourself with corrupt, heartless murderers.
By A Correspondent- Gogo Beaular, a relative to the murdered 7year old Murehwa boy has revealed that a family from their neighborhood bought and ate human flesh from one of the implicated murderers.
The flesh, believed to be from the murdered boy Tapiwa Makore was reportedly cut from his thighs and legs.
Said Gogo Beaular in an interview with Tilda:
“…the family initially refused to disclose the matter and a whistleblower told us. We notified the police and they came to investigate. …it could be true that they ate human flesh because the buttocks, thighs and legs had been cut and the flesh removed..it was just bone confirming our worst fears.”
She revealed that the family bought the meat from Tafadzwa Shamba the morning after the murderers had killed the boy.
This is a developing story. Refresh this page for latest updates…
Different media organisations yesterday condemned the expulsion of a freelance journalist Nunurayi Jena by Zanu-PF members at a Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) function at the weekend.
Jena, a NewsDay correspondent, was ejected from a Zanu-PF provincial co-ordinating committee meeting at CUT, where only State controlled media journalists were allowed to cover the event.
This was despite the fact that he produced a valid Press card issued by the Zimbabwe Media Commission.
Zimbabwe National Editors Forum (Zinef) national co-ordinator Njabulo Ncube castigated the ejection of Jena, saying journalists should be allowed to do their work freely.
“Zinef condemns in the strongest terms the victimisation of journalists covering events that are of public interest. We, therefore, call upon political parties and public institutions to respect the media that have a constitutional right as the fourth estate to cover events,” Ncube said.
Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa)-Zimbabwe executive director Tabani Moyo said: “The targeting of independent media journalists, while doing their work is unfortunate and deplorable. As Misa-Zimbabwe, we urge members of the public, political parties and any other players where the Zimbabwe story is told to allow journalists to work without undue interference.”
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson Ziyambi Ziyambi said he was unaware of the incident.
“I am not aware of that (Jena expulsion) and please don’t accuse me of victimising him as I never did that to him,” Ziyambi said.
Jena’s harassment coincides with commemorations of the International Day to end impunity on Crimes against Journalists which is celebrated on November 2 each year.
Six armed robbers pounced on two security guards delivering cash at Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ) 8th Avenue branch in Bulawayo, disarmed them, hijacked their armoured vehicle before getting away with an undisclosed amount of money yesterday morning.
The robbery happened at around 8AM, in the full view of some people, who were oblivious of the drama unfolding in the sanitary lane along 8th Avenue, between Jason Moyo and Joshua Mqabuko Streets.
Like a scene from a Hollywood blockbuster, the suspects are said to have first hijacked a Mercedes Benz in Selbourne Park suburb at around 7AM and used it to commit the bank robbery. The driver of the hijacked Mercedes Benz is recovering in hospital.
After the robbery at the bank, the gang drove the armoured vehicle to Woodlands suburb where they dumped it before hijacking another car, this time a Nissan Hardbody which they used as a getaway car before dumping it again.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the robbery saying the cash belonged to Zupco.
“Police are investigating a case where a robbery occurred at a local financial institution in Bulawayo in the morning.
Fawcett cash-in-transit team was delivering cash from Zupco which was money from transactions conducted over the weekend. The Fawcett team arrived at the sanitary lane behind CBZ, corner Jason Moyo and 8th with about nine trunks. When they were taking in one of the trucks into the bank, a Mercedes Benz which we are told was hijacked from a complainant earlier on, drove behind them,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.
Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi
He said about six suspects who were armed attacked the Fawcett driver, took away a firearm that was on the dashboard and then turned on the other guard who was guarding the other trucks and again attacked him before driving off with the armoured vehicle and cash.
Ass Comm Nyathi said the robbers later dumped three empty trunks while driving towards Woodlands Shopping Centre.
He said the armed robbers later hijacked a Nissan Hardbody and transferred the remaining five trunks with cash into the vehicle before dumping the armoured vehicle. The Nissan Hardbody was later found dumped again together with five empty trunks.
“Police are conducting investigations and we are appealing to people that might have information leading to the arrest of the suspects to contact any nearest police station,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.
Fawcett managing director Mr Andy Laing, also confirmed the robbery.
“In a nutshell our vehicle was attacked when they were delivering cash at CBZ in Bulawayo 8th Avenue branch. I’m not sure how many armed robbers were there but they were several, at least four. There were two getaway cars, one of which was stolen in Bulawayo,” said Mr Laing.
“They disarmed two of our men, they offloaded tin boxes into their two vehicles and they couldn’t fit all the boxes into the vehicles and then they decided to take our vehicle.
“They drove to a house close to Woodlands Service Station in Ilanda suburb. Outside the house they stole a Nissan Pickup truck and dumped our vehicle there. I think the pickup truck has been recovered and our vehicle has also been recovered and we have located the empty boxes around the suburbs,” said Mr Laing.
He could not say how much was stolen.
“We had already made some deliveries during the day. At the time of robbery, it was one vehicle but other deliveries had been made earlier,” said Mr Laing.
“Our driver who was attacked, was treated and discharged. He was beaten at the back of the head with either the butt of a pistol or a baton. We hope they catch these guys,” he said.
CBZ regional manager Mr Abisha Gweshe, referred all questions to police as the matter was under investigation.
By A Correspondent- A relative of the 7 year old boy from Murehwa, Tapiwa Makore has revealed that a Murehwa family ate human flesh after one of the murderers implicated in case sold meat to the family a day after the murder.
This was revealed by Gogo Beaular in an interview with Tilda Moyo Tuesday:
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The Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T’s extra-ordinary congress is now hanging in the balance after police blocked the Matebeleland North provincial council meeting which is party of processes leading to the big event.
The MDC-T had applied to police to have its meeting last month but police said it violated the COVID-19 rules and regulations which bars gathering of over 100 people.
Below is the police letter blocking the planned provincial council meeting.
By Patrick Guramatunhu- “The achievements scored so far by President Emerson Mnangagwa’s New Dispensation have raised a ray of hope that Vision 2030 is indeed possible, more so if unity of purpose prevails in the country,” claimed Grace Chekai in a Bulawayo 24 article.
“Inaugurated as the President of Zimbabwe on 24 November 2017 after the late former President Robert Mugabe had stepped down, President Mnangagwa promised Zimbabweans that brick by brick and stone upon stone, the New Dispensation would rebuild the country which had been in the doldrums for almost two decades.”
Zimbabwe’s economy is not emerging from the doldrums and is, instead, sinking even deeper and deeper into the abyss.
When Mnangagwa got into power after the 2017 military coup, he was right in focusing all his regime’s effort in attracting foreign investors and lenders as the only way the country would revive its comatose economy. “Zimbabwe is open for business!” was the New Dispensation’s clarion call and its flagship policy.
Come 15 November 20202, it will be exactly three years since the military coup, and the expected flood of investors has not happened. “Zimbabwe is open for business!’” is well and truly dead in the water. If the truth be told, the policy was doomed to fail because it was based on the lie the New Dispensation was opening the country for business when it was doing no such thing.
Mnangagwa promised the New Dispensation will end the scourge corruption; he did not. He promised to hold free and fair elections, yet stubbornly refused to implement even one token reform and went on to blatantly rig the July 2018 elections.
Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs; just as it was during Mugabe’s days. All this talk of New Dispensation is just empty rhetoric. And investors and lenders are a shrewd and savvy lot, they saw through all this New Dispensation, “Zimbabwe is open for business!”, etc. for what it is – just bullshit!
True enough, Zimbabwe can bankroll its own economic recovery. The late Zimbabwe dictator, Robert Mugabe, admitted the country was “swindled out of US$15 billion in diamond revenue alone!” He never arrested any of the swindlers nor recover one swindled dollar. Mnangagwa has not done any better either.
“Let me be very clear. If you engage in or promote corruption, you will be arrested and prosecuted. There are no excuses for corruption. No one is above the law,” twittered Mnangagwa.
This is just another rhetorical bullshit! What law? In Zimbabwe, corruption has been institutionalised; both parliament and cabinet are aware and have approved the wholesale looting of the nation’s resources.
A 2012 parliamentary committee led by, now late, Edward Chindori Chininga shed some light on why corruption in the diamond industry was so rampant – there are no record of who the operators and their local partners are, no record of the quantity and quality of diamonds mined, no record of who bought the diamonds and how much they paid, etc., etc.
Both Mugabe and now Mnangagwa has never arrested any of the diamond swindlers because the swindlers were allowed to disregard all the laws and practices governing all other normal business operations. Zanu PF cabinet had approved looting and parliament itself has been aware of this for donkey years and has done nothing to stop it.
In Zimbabwe, corruption is rampant! It has been legalised and institutionalised, hence the reason it is now damn near impossible to uproot, at least not as long as Zanu PF remains in power.
“In the journey to an upper middle income economy, President Mnangagwa has undertaken to deal with corruption and effect institutional reforms, empowering the youths and women as well as prioritising infrastructure development among other sectors,” continue Chekai.
So after three years of the New Dispensation even a Zanu PF apologist like Grace Chekai, with the gift of seeing imaginary signs of economic recovery, had no choice but content with “Mnangagwa has undertaken to deal with corruption”. She did not dare say he had DELT much less ENDED corruption because the stake contrast with the reality on the ground would have been blindingly obvious.
Since the 2017 military coup, the Zimbabwe National Army and its Russian partners, one of the established diamond mining partnership, have signed a new agreement to mining Platinum. The same, no records kept, rules will apply.
Two months ago, former Minister of Health, Obadiah Moyo, was named in a US$60 million Drax scandal. The Minister has since lost his job. The scandals involving Zanu PF bigwigs usually come to nothing and, signs are, this too will fizzled out particularly since one of Mnangagwa’s sons has been fingered.
It is widely believed that as much as 75% of Zimbabwe’s gold is being smuggled out of the country. Last week Henrietta Rushwaya, a Zimbabwean businesswoman was arrested at the airport and accused of trying to smuggle 6 kg gold worth US$ 330 000.
Rushwaya’s alleged accomplice Gift Karanda has reportedly told the Police the gold belonged to Mnangagwa’s wife and her her son. The First Lady and the son have denied having anything to do with the case. Nothing new there!
President Mnangagwa was one of the senior Zimbabwean leaders named in the UN report accused of looting diamonds and other resources from the DRC. He denied the looting. Sadly, so far at least, he was never brought before any court of law to see if he would still deny it under oath.
However, there is no denying that corruption is as rampant under Mnangagwa as it was under Mugabe. And, as long as Zanu PF remains in power there will be no chance of ending it since those in high office are the Godfathers of corruption. To end corruption we must end Zanu PF’s iron grip on power; we must implement the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections.
Our fight for economic recovery will only start after the fight for free, fair and credible elections and good governance is won and secured. There will be no meaningful economic recovery whilst Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs. None!
By A Correspondent- Legendary comedian Lazarus Boora, also known as Gringo, is seriously ill again and has failed to raise money for medication.
The 47-year-old is suffering from intestine obstruction and experiencing discomfort in sitting, backache coupled by hearing and talking difficulties.
Gringo had appendix surgery last before he relocated to his rural home in Rusape.
He later returned to Harare and is staying in Hatfield with his wife Netsai Meki and three children.
Meki told The Herald that her husband has been unwell for a long time and they decided to return to Harare as she works at the Tobacco Auction Floors. She said:
He is in pain compared to before. On Saturday we took him to a hospital in Waterfalls because his condition was worsening. They said he was dehydrated.
He is failing to eat properly, and if he eats, he vomits and is suffering from diarrhoea.
We give him only a few spoons of porridge and he eats a morsel of sadza, which he sometimes can’t finish.
Now he is having back problems. The doctor said he might have an infection in his intestines and needs to go for a scan.
The challenge now is finances to go back to his first surgeon.
Meki appealed to well-wishers for donations so that he can be attended to by the surgeon.-statemedia
IT'S GAME ON, Zimbabweans in diaspora are in a historic teaming up at embassies around the world to form a Zim Govt in Exile. With the whole world against @ZANUPF_Official, will Mnangagwa's state capture succeed against the 7million citizens stationed in these powerful countries? pic.twitter.com/5jazjhP9Bq
This is the model used to defeat tyrannies since the 1940s, Poland used it, and the late Prime Minister Ian Smith was defeated by a near similar formation.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said by-elections will not be held this year because the government is channelling resources towards the fight against the coronavirus.
Speaking during a ZANU PF Mashonaland West provincial coordinating committee meeting in Chinhoyi over the weekend, Ziyambi said:
We cannot have by-elections this year because we are still faced with the coronavirus pandemic, so President Emmerson Mnangagwa said let’s defer by-elections.
We are simply deferring. We are not saying they will not be there, we said let’s defer, and use the resources that we have to fight the pandemic and save lives.
So we cannot risk the lives of our people and go to a by-election when we have an opportunity to do it after and save the lives of our people.
In October, Health and Childcare Minister and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga announced the indefinite suspension of elections citing the risk posed by COVID-19.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had set 5 December as the day for the by-elections before Chiwenga’s directive.
However, according to a local legal think-tank, Veritas, the decision by the government to suspend the by-elections was unconstitutional.
By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has confirmed the arrest of a third suspect in the murder of seven-year-old Murehwa boy Tapiwa Makore (Junior) in September this year.
National police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, on Monday confirmed the arrest of Moud Hunidzarira (42) in Budiriro following a tip-off by the public.
Hunidzarira is alleged to have been in Murehwa when the murder occurred and a few days later was seen by some neighbours in Harare, cleaning an item that had blood.
Ass. Comm. Nyathi said:
The ZRP has arrested a third suspect in connection with the death of Tapiwa Makore. The suspect, Moud Hunidzarira (42), has since appeared in court.
She was arrested after a tip-off. She was seen cleaning an item with blood, believed to be that of the late Tapiwa Makore in Budiriro, and this culminated in her arrest. We are still carrying out investigations.
Tapiwa Makore Sr (57), who is an older brother to the murdered boy, and his herdsman Tafadzwa Shamba, are alleged to have carried the murder.
Makore and Shamba have both appeared in court were remanded in custody.-statemedia
By A Correspondent- MDC Alliance vice-chairman and spokesperson of the 31st of July Movement, Job Sikhala has dismissed claims that he considered joining the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe.
Speaking in an interview with NewsDay senior reporter Moses Matenga, Sikhala, who turned 48 last Friday, said the MDC should not continue expending its energy on petty fights but on fighting dictatorship in Zimbabwe.
Responding to a request for his comments on allegations made recently by MDC-T national spokesperson Khalipani Phugeni that he has warmed up to joining the judicially created party, Sikhala said:
If you are following what Khalipani Phugeni (MDC-T national spokesperson) said, then you are failing to read his intentions. He was setting me up for recall by claiming an individual in a struggle. Plus, I really don’t know that man. He thinks I care about being recalled. The power is theirs. They are free to use it as and when they want.
I will not lose an iota of sleep. His statement was widely provocative, immature and grandstanding. I don’t want to play to his cheap games. I am beyond that. The faith the people of Zimbabwe have in me should not be put to waste by concentrating on the Phugenis of this world.
Our people look forward to some of us to continue driving the fight against Mnangagwa and his dictatorship, not these sideshows. I think it’s taking me and the people of Zimbabwe for granted. I am not a hater. I smile to everyone, but don’t spite my smile with false claims as it is in my nature.
I remain the vice-chairman of the MDC Alliance and the spokesperson of the broad citizens’ movement, the 31st of July Movement. What I despise is the Zanu PF regime and everything related to it.
I witnessed several splits in the MDC over years. They are no longer interesting adventures for me because they never advanced the goals of our liberation.
Our energy is expended on petty fights and in the same vein, destroys the foundation of our liberty and freedom.-statemedia
Police in Vienna are hunting at least one suspect after gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire in the heart of the Austrian capital Monday evening, as residents savored the final hours of freedom before the imposition of a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown.
The Austrian capital remains on high alert following the incident, which saw gunmen open fire at six locations, killing at least three people and injuring 15, including a police officer. One attacker was also killed by police.
During a press conference early on Tuesday morning, the Interior Minister, Karl Nehammer, said the attacker shot dead by police was wearing a fake explosive belt at the time of the attack and had been “radicalized.”
“The radicalized person is someone who is an IS sympathizer,” said Nehammer, referring to the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
He added that police had used explosives to enter the attacker’s residence and were investigating its surroundings.
It is not whether the man police shot acted alone, however, Austrian police on Tuesday said they “assume that there were more attackers.”
Armed forces have been deployed in Vienna to help secure the situation, with authorities indicating earlier in the evening that at least one gunman remains on the loose.
“It is of course a very tense security situation,” said Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Authorities warned that the gunmen are “heavily armed” and have asked the public to stay at home or in a safe place and follow the news.
“Whether it is possible to take up public life as normal tomorrow morning, that will very much depend on tonight and whether it is possible to catch or eliminate the suspects,” Kurz said.
Speaking on Austrian public broadcaster ORF on Monday, Nehammer said several suspects had assault rifles. “We are still in battle against the would-be terrorists,” he said.
View this interactive content on CNN.com The initial attack, which began around 8 p.m., was centered on the busy shopping and dining district near Vienna’s main synagogue, Seitenstettengasse Temple, which was closed.
Vienna mayor Michael Ludwig said the gunmen appeared to shoot at random, as people dined and drank outside due to the warm weather and virus concerns. A nationwide Covid-19 lockdown was set to begin at midnight.
Julia Hiermann, who lives in Vienna, was having drinks with a friend when the shooting began.
Restaurant staff told everyone to hide in the basement, she told CNN over the phone. There she and others were told that gunmen were shooting outside. Hiermann said she did not see or hear the attackers.
The police later came inside the restaurant and told diners that “we have to stay inside and wait here,” she said. “This seems unimaginable. When they said shots fired I didn’t think this was serious,” she said.
Police respond to a shooting near Vienna’s main synagogue. Police respond to a shooting near Vienna’s main synagogue.
Reaction to the attack Footage shared on social media of the shooting shows a chaotic situation, with people fleeing from the scene in all directions on foot.
Inside the Vienna Burgtheater, artistic director Martin Kusej took to the stage to announce there had been an incident nearby, while advising opera attendees to stay inside the theater.
Following reports of gunshots, armed police quickly swarmed the area, with helicopters and ambulances deployed. Police could be seen patrolling the city center, ordering people to stay inside bars and restaurants. Other areas of the city were also cordoned off while police conducted checks on cars.
Authorities on Tuesday said the attack was considered as having an “Islamist motive.”
In the aftermath of the attack, Oskar Deutsch, the head of Vienna’s Jewish community, said in a tweet that it was unclear whether the synagogue was a target, but that it was closed at the time of the shooting.
All synagogues, Jewish schools, the institutions of the IKG (Jewish Community of Vienna), and kosher restaurants and supermarkets in Vienna will be closed on Tuesday as a precaution, Deutsch said.
Authorities have since taken to social media to request that the public refrain from sharing “rumors, accusations, speculations or unconfirmed numbers of victims.”
Police cars and armed police officers in central Vienna. Police cars and armed police officers in central Vienna. In a press conference in the early hours of Tuesday, Nehammer said it was “the hardest day for Austria for many years,” adding that “those who attack one of us, attacks all of us.”
Across Europe, leaders have strongly condemned the shooting, which follows two terror attacks in France in recent weeks.
“After France, it is a friendly country that is under attack,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on Twitter.
“Europe strongly condemns this cowardly act that violates life and our human values,” the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, said on Twitter.
Other leaders have shared statements expressing their shock and sorrow, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
Migrant workers crowd outside a train station in Mumbai, India to board trains to their home state Bihar,
MUMBAI — India recorded 38,310 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, taking its tally to 8.27 million, health ministry data showed on Tuesday.
It was the 9th straight day that infections numbered fewer than 50,000, as cases have dipped from a September peak, but experts warn the current season of festivals could lead to another spike.
India becomes third country to pass 4 million coronavirus cases Deaths rose by 490, carrying the toll to 123,097, the ministry added.
Below is video evidence of the Impala Car Rental company’s agents carrying out torture attacks against Zimbabwean citizens and at the bottom on this post is the entity’s response to the serious allegations- (ALSO READHOW TO REPORTImpala )
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Impala tortured @ngadziore who is still being tortured right now, numerous journalists who also lost their devices, plus the psychological torture against @TeeMuchehiwa . On top of that psychological torture against the citizens as Impala continues to violate a High Court order.
Two villagers in Murewa have reportedly been arrested after they allegedly bought human flesh from a herd boy, Tafadzwa Shamba, who had earlier murdered seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore in September.
The two women are said to have bought the human flesh cut off from the late boy’s thigh at Katsande’s homestead during a drinking session.
Tapiwa was allegedly murdered on 24 September for ritual purposes by Shamba and the deceased’s uncle Tapiwa Makore senior.
The two suspects are in custody awaiting trial.
Information from the relatives said police ZRP over the weekend picked-up two villagers who bought Tapiwa’s flesh, which is believed to have been chucked off from the deceased’s thigh. Tapiwa’s head remains missing and he is yet to be buried.
“Police came Sunday and picked-up Mai Mungandire and Mai Katsande, and both agreed they bought meat from the killer but had no idea that it was human flesh,” Beulah Makore, the family spokesperson revealed.
“One of them initially refused until police officers told her that Tafadzwa had admitted cutting flesh from the thigh of the deceased and sold it to them.
“The two unsuspecting women actually cooked the meat and ate. So, they were taken to Murewa police station for further questioning and were also ordered to carry the pots that they used to cook Tapiwa’s flesh.”
ZIFA have rejected a crazy offer from Algeria to have the Warriors’ home 2021 AFCON qualifier against the Desert Foxes played in Algiers.
The Warriors take on the African champions away on November 12 before the two sides meet at the National Sports Stadium four days later.
But, with logistical challenges, brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic across the globe, Algeria proposed to host both legs.
The North Africans said they would foot Zimbabwe’s accommodation and other related costs.
However, ZIFA, who are celebrating the decision by CAF, to give the National Sports Stadium the greenlight to host high-profile international matches, refused to take the proposal and, instead, presented a counter-offer to the Algerians.
The country’s biggest sporting facility was banned from hosting international matches early this year after CAF inspectors flagged a number of issues at the venue.
The continent’s football governing body were unhappy with uneven turf, poor ablution facilities, the poor drainage system and the lack of a properly equipped media centre and rooms.
They also wanted bucket seats to be installed at the giant stadium, fully-equipped medical rooms, disability centre and doping rooms.
But, the Government, through the Ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation acted swiftly, pouring significant resources, taking advantage of the lull in football activities caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, to give the stadium a massive facelift.
CAF decided to give Zimbabwe a temporary reprieve and will allow the stadium to be used for the AFCON qualifier between the Warriors and the Desert Foxes.
There will be no spectators during the game.
ZIFA president, Felton Kamambo, revealed the association were given the offer by the Algerians to consider having both matches played in Algiers this month.
“We officially requested to use the same plane with the Algerians, after our first leg tie with them next week but, unfortunately, their Government plane cannot be used by non-Algerians,’’ said Kamambo.
“We will, instead, charter a flight for the mission.
“Then, the Algerians proposed to us to have both legs of the back-to-back fixtures played on their soil, with them paying for our accommodation.
“But, we have refused to take that offer. We cannot sell our soul. Look, the country is currently in a celebratory mood after the lifting of that ban of the National Sports Stadium.
“We were all worried with the ban. We would like to thank the Government, who intervened to address the issues, raised with the stadium.
“Remember, before Covid-19 forced a total blackout in all footballing activities, we were set to host Algeria on a neutral venue, maybe in South Africa or Zambia.
“It was very difficult but the Government reacted with speed and took full advantage of the break in football activities.’’
Kamambo said the Warriors have always felt at home at the giant stadium and, even though there won’t be any fans to back them, they need to be given the chance to play inside their home ground.
The ZIFA president also said, after they rejected the offer from the Algerians, they decided to provide the North Africans with a similar offer where both matches would be played at the National Sports Stadium.
Predictably, he said, the Algerians rejected the ZIFA offer.
“We are happy now that CAF has accepted to let us use the National Sports Stadium for the big game against Algeria, pending its full refurbishment,’’ said Kamambo.
“So, we cannot then accept to go and play our home game in Algeria. We want our players to feel at home when we host Algeria.
‘’Although there will be no fans to rally behind them, inside the stadium, psychologically, playing at the National Sports Stadium makes them feel very much at home.
“It’s motivating so to speak.
“So, after we turned down the offer by the Algerians to have both matches played in Algeria, we then offered them the same.
“We proposed to them that both games be played at the National Sports Stadium and we would meet their accommodation expenses but they also refused.
“So the matches will go ahead with them hosting us first before we play them at home between November 12 and 16.”
Algeria lead the standings on six points, after two rounds of fixtures, while Zimbabwe are second on four points.
Botswana, who picked their only point in the goalless draw against Zimbabwe last November, are third on the table.
Former African champions Zambia are at the foot of the table with no points.
Two teams will qualify for the rescheduled finals in Cameroon in 2022 after CAF moved the tournament by a year.
Meanwhile, Warriors midfielder, Marshall Munetsi made the SofaScore French Ligue 1 Team of the Week after helping his club, Stade Reims, beat Strasbourg 2-1 at the weekend.
The gritty midfielder is one of the stars of the Warriors team.
Munetsi was in the starting XI and helped his team to their second league win of the season and they are now in 15th place.
They have also drawn two games and lost five matches.
Two of his teammates — Belgians Thomas Foket and Wout Faes — also made the Ligue 1 Team of the Week to underline the strong all-round team performance by Stade Reims in their victory.
File: Fadzai Mahere with MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa
The MDC-Alliance appeal challenging a High Court decision that the party does not legally exist as a legal person who can sue or be sued in court, was struck off the roll after the organisation’s lawyers failed to turn up to argue the matter at the Supreme Court yesterday.
The party was challenging the whole judgment handed down by Justice Tawanda Chitapi in May this year, who also ruled that in the dispute of the MDC-T recall of legislators; the party did not have the legal footing to sue, suggesting that the affected recalled MPs would have to individually take their cases to court.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court convened to hear the appeal, but MDC-A lawyers did not show up, prompting Professor Lovemore Madhuku, acting for MDC-T, to plead with the court to stand down the matter in case the lawyers were delayed.
The court agreed and adjourned for 20 minutes, but still the lawyers did not show up.
MDC-A spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, who was present when the matter adjourned, tried to contact the lawyers to no avail. The hearing proceeded in the absence of the MDC-A lawyers and in the end, the judges decided to strike the matter off the roll after Prof Madhuku raised a preliminary point that the appeal was defective and incurable at law.
When an appeal is struck off the roll, legally it means there is no appeal before the court, but the appellant is allowed to appeal out of time.
In this case, if the MDC-A wishes to appeal it must first seek condonation and an extension of time within which to appeal.
But they need to explain why they did not appeal, why they filed a defective appeal and why they did not appear before the court.
This will be determined by a judge sitting in chambers.
In an interview after the hearing, Prof Madhuku said they initially thought they could apply for the matter to be struck off the roll, but the court advised against that because the rules did not allow.
“If you are not present when you are the appellant, the matter is determined on merits,” he said.
“You actually proceed with the appeal and the court can simply dismiss it without even hearing it.
“In this case, the court decided that they would want to hear the matter on the merits.” Prof Madhuku said in this particular case, he raised a preliminary point that the MDC-A appeal was defective, which point was accepted by the court.
“The papers that were before the court did not qualify as a notice of appeal in the number of respects that we mentioned, particularly they were failing to understand what Justice Chitapi had ordered,” said Prof Madhuku, a Constitutional law expert.
“What they (MDC-A) were asking the Supreme Court to put in place of Justice Chitapi’s order was not competent at law.”
MDC-A lead counsel in the appeal Mr Alec Muchadehama could not be reached for comment.
In his judgment in the lower court, Justice Chitapi threw out the MDC-A application, finding that the only evidence brought before the court showed that the MDC-A was an alliance of other political parties, although it had been given the status of a political party under the Electoral Act.
However, participating in elections did not make MDC-A a legal person, in the absence of other requirements such as a decision to be a legally incorporated voluntary organisation or another type of body corporate.
IN the relentless fight against corruption, Government will not be deterred by malcontents, who abuse the name of the First Family to carry out their criminal activities, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said.
Speaking at a Press briefing in Harare yesterday, Minister Mutsvangwa said there were some people who still lived in a time warp and continue to use tired tactics that resulted in corruption flourishing in the yesteryear.
“As such, on individual cases of corruption, every case will be investigated and punished in accordance with the dictates of our laws without fear or favour,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
The call comes at the back of several malicious reports that have sought to drag the name of the First Family, by alleging that it has a hand in corrupt and criminal activities.
Minister Mutsvangwa said these malicious reports that seek to link President Mnangagwa and his family to corrupt individuals are by no means a coincidence; but rather they are a well-coordinated attack on the system, which is intended to agitate Zimbabweans into demonstrations and uprising.
“Predictions by the country’s detractors to the effect that the economy would implode by year end have been shown to be wishful thinking; on the contrary, the country has achieved macroeconomic stability and tamed inflation much to the disappointment of purveyors of doom,” she said.
The goal of the Second Republic, Minister Mutsvangwa, said is to grow the economy transparently and to foster the spirit of hard work in citizens.
“It is against this background that the Government will never allow its structures to be havens of malcontents and criminals. Nor will Government turn a blind eye to those who seek to escape the wheels of justice through lies that they are connected to the First Family or other senior Government officials.
“His Excellency, the President has been very clear that there are no sacred cows in the fight against corruption and as such law enforcement agents will not be deterred by criminals who want to hoodwink them and the nation that those linked to senior Government officials are exempt from arrest,” the minister said.
From the onset, the Second Republic pronounced that it would prioritise economic growth and development, through a reform agenda that is clearly articulated in the Transitional Stabilisation Programme.
“This reform agenda, which is a deliberate shift from the yesteryear way of running Government and the country is stimulating economic growth and stabilising the macroeconomic situation.”
She further said that in his inaugural State of the Nation Address on December 20, 2017, President Mnangagwa categorically stated “Government will have a zero tolerance towards corruption”.
“This is because economic development requires a clean Government. Government has remained consistent in the fight against corruption and this has seen the establishment of a Special Anti-Corruption Unit, anti-corruption courts country wide, and the capacitation of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission. Under the New Dispensation, ZACC now has arresting powers and has the financial and human resources to carry out its duties.”
The goal of the Second Republic, Minister Mutsvangwa added, is to build a new Zimbabwe based on the crown values of honesty, transparency, accountability and hard work.
She added that measures continue to be taken to vigorously ensure that any and all criminal activities that prejudice the nation are stamped out.
Minister Mutsvangwa said such measures had resulted in the arrest and prosecution of several senior Government officials, a testimony to President Mnangagwa’s stance that there are no sacred cows in the fight against corruption.
“Prior to the New Dispensation, corruption had spread unchecked, negatively affecting the social and moral fabric of the nation, as rent-seeking behaviours raised the cost of doing business, and posed hardships for the unconnected majority who constitute the generality of the public. This criminality gave rise to persons in the public and private sector accruing wealth corruptly at the expense of the nation at large.”
Further she said bribery, embezzlement of public assets, fraud, smuggling, abuse of office for personal gain, extortion, misrepresentation, and other corrupt activities stall economic development and ultimately rob citizens of decent livelihoods.
As such, she called upon the media fraternity to introspect on their role in nation building and development.
Further to this, she said room must be given for due constitutional processes in criminal investigation, trial and judgment to be done without interference.
“Additionally, I urge each and every one of us to continue supporting the fight against corruption by using several platforms that include the whistle-blowers application to report fraud and corruption. The long arm of the law will catch up with any and all individuals who seek to criminally enrich themselves at the expense of the nation,” said Minister Mutsvangwa.
